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by denton-scratch 1658 days ago
Which "policy page" were you referring to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guideli... doesn't mention reverting at all (rather surprisingly).

IME, the majority of edits on WP seem to be reverts. I don't see much evidence of reverting being discouraged.

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That passage is from here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discus...

It's an "explanatory supplement" to the Consensus policy. The problem with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines is that arguably there are so many of them that you can almost always find one that says what you want it to say. :)

And if not, WP:IAR will do the trick. That, too, is policy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules