rvv

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rvv

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of revert vandalism; used in edit summaries to indicate that the editor has reverted another user's vandalism of a page.
- 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 209:
  Vandalism patrolling, though formally neither a project nor a process, is some of the most important ongoing work on ... you are reverting to make sure you're only undoing vandalism, and then add an edit summary: rvv vandalism is common.
- 2008, PaulHammond, “The Laws of Unintended Consequences”, in talk.religion.bahai‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 12 August 2018:
  The consequences of reverting a good-faith edit with a vandalism-reversion tool or "rvv" edit summary are unpredictable, and unlikely to win you friends or trust.
- 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 95:
  If so, you need only to put rvv (which stands for revert vandalism) in the edit summary.
- 2013, Jian Pei, Vincent S. Tseng, Longbing Cao, Hiroshi Motoda, Guandong Xu, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 17th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14-17, 2013, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 271:
  For each revision, we analyse its comment for keywords of “vandal” and “rvv” (revert due to vandalism), indicating the occurrence of ...
- 2016, Dan O'Sullivan, Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice?, Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:
  In such cases, the edit summaries may merely record 'revert', 'rv' or 'rvv'.