User:R. S. Shaw/case studies

Nucleolus
2008 Sep: Poor response to vandal deletes 2800 bytes of article

2008 Sep: Section edit (unannotated) by one-edit anon deletes entire section (5100 bytes)

2008 Sep: Vandal follows up his graffiti by deleting the entire section (1800 bytes). The next edit, hours later, is vandalism/test, and is reverted without effect on this deletion.


 * Much vandalism and repair through Sep and Oct. Includes repeated attempts to delete a major section.  Reversion gets article through this period without further significant damage.


 * The next year had much vandalism and reversion. Sep-Oct 2009 had a particularly large amount, with some vandalism staying embedded for several weeks.

The large deletions of Sep 2008 have not been restored (as of Oct09), although a bit of the material has been recovered by new writing.