Wikipedia:Page Blanking

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Page Blanking is an act where someone (usually a vandal) deletes stuff from Wikipedia articles (pages). You can get blocked (stopped from changing Wikipedia) or banned.

[edit] Example:

User xxx finds a page called "angry". He deletes the contents of the page. Someone needs information for a project (a school one) so they look on "angry" and find that there is NOTHING there!

[edit] How to fix this

If no one responds(answers or deals with) to this, then follow these steps:

  1. Click on the history tab on the top of the page.
  2. Find out who did it by clicking on the date next to the name (or IP address). If the version shows up nothing, they did it.
  3. Revert their changes.
  4. Click change this page then don't type anything. However, the edit summary should be like this: revert
  5. Warn the page blanker.
  6. An article has been saved.