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 Thanks. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:58, July 12, 2015 (UTC)
+:Hi! You have claimed that I have reverted, in your words on my talk page, "every single one" of your edits on this wiki. That is not true. Not counting your edits on my talk page or your user page, you have 12 edits on this wiki. I have reverted only five (two of which were done in one reversion... more on that in a bit).
+: Your edits at [[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)]], [[Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)]] and [[Night Terrors (TV story)]] were adequately explained in the edit summary. However, if you wish, I will explain my reasoning here.
+:* For ''The Shakespeare Code'', you explained away a supposed production error. However, if it's not an error, then it doesn't need to be on the page. I wasn't so much as reverting your edit as removing the entire entry, as your edit showed it was no longer necessary.
+:* For Jenny, I regularly remove info that is not relevant to a page. A long description of Osgood's status as a companion has no relevance to the Jenny page.
+:* For ''Night Terrors'', all Continuity entries must link to a story. Your entry, according to your edit, has not yet been explained in any story. Therefore, it does not belong in the Continuity section. If you want to place it somewhere on the page, it would probably fit best in Story Notes.
+:The only reversion of your edits that I have made without explanation is ''Dark Water''. The reason for the removal is that you included a plot hole/discontinuity in the production errors. On this wiki, we have a clear difference between plot holes and production errors. Plot holes and the like do '''not''' belong on the story pages. We have a separate namespace for those, partly because the back-and-forth discussion that comes from plot hole debates was way too long to include on the already very long story pages.
+:The reason I did not explain this reversion has to do with an editing tool called a "rollback" that admins have that regular users don't have. It's the ability to revert a single user's multiple edits to a single page at once. I use this when a user makes several edits to a page in succession, and makes one or more errors but then edits again, so a simple "undo" will not work. The big drawback to this rollback is that it doesn't allow for an edit summary. In your case, you added a plot hole entry to the page, '''then''' made another separate edit to the page, making it impossible to revert the incorrect edit with a simple "undo". [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 04:15, July 21, 2015 (UTC)