Jugurtha3
Welcome!
editHi Jugurtha3, Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for cleaning up vandalism at "Eucalyptus" and elsewhere.
In answer to your question, when vandalism occurs, it's a good idea to look through the history of an article and look at each of the most recent diffs. Sometimes a vandal does multiple entries in a row, or two different vandals may have 'struck' since the last constructive edit. Anon users, redlinked users and edits without edit summaries need the closest scrutiny but of course these may also be constructive edits. If there is multiple vandalism, select the last "good" version from the history, select edit and save that page to revert to that version. It's also good to check the contributions of the vandal to see if they have "struck " elsewhere. Check out Wikipedia:Vandalism and Help:Reverting for more details.
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