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...apologies about this, but somebody's written "I SMELL LIKE CAVE ART AND BUSHMANS" repeatedly into the preview window of this article. I'm not an expert on African history, unfortunately, and I'm massively incompetent at... just about anything, really. I don't entirely know how to revert the vandalism in question. I don't want to end up damaging the article in any way, so I've decided to post this here.
Is this just a rude form of vandalisation? Is this some sort of racial slur (Boer, perhaps?) that I'm just too unbelievably stupid to identify? Is it possible to repair the article? (I... sincerely hope there is.)
Apologies for disturbing you all, and thank you for reading this.
It's vandalism, but don't worry about it. Wikipedia is not only patrolled by its users but by bots which automatically rollback examples of vandalism such as this one. In fact, the vandalism was rolled back the very same minute but may linger in preview windows etc. for a while after. On a related note don't worry about damaging things! There's nothing you can break that can't be fixed easily. Francoisdjvr (talk) 08:43, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The vandalism is still showing up in the preview window for this article on October 29th 2019. At least it is when previewed from the Giraffe article.--63.228.126.122 (talk) 00:15, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Why is talking about Vandalism not considered racist? 105.4.5.125 (talk) 17:40, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]