User:BlankVerse/Vandal reverts

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One of the weirder phenomenum that I've noticed on the Wikipedia is anonymous editors (IPs only) who do some vandalism and then revert themselves—often within minutes of their vandalism. Just for the fun of it, I've decided to keep track of some examples of that. Other Wikipedia editors are also welcome to add to this list if they want to.

• At 16:39, 26 May 2005 anon 24.225.202.240 (talk · contribs) edited Charles Darwin, and two minutes later at 16:41, they reverted their changes. They changed Charles Darwin to Ran Cheng], null diff]. 24.225.202.240 = host-24-225-202-240.patmedia.net, PATRIOT MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS PATRIOT-MEDIA-HILLSBOROUGH, PATRIOT MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS, 100 Randolph Rd, Somerset, NJ

• [1] Philo Farnsworth "couldn't go through with it"
• [2] Taco Bell
• [3] California

• [4] Abraham Lincoln
• [5] Donald Knuth
• [6] Inverse_quadratic_interpolation
• [7] Stress (medicine)
• [8] Dreyfus_affair same vandal as the next entry, who also did other vandalism they didn't revert
• [9] Iron(III)_chloride
• [10] Três Fronteiras
• [11] Chief (passenger train)
• [12] Charles Darwin
• [13] Charles Darwin
• [14] Louis Pasteur