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=== 3. Use the URL with "oldid" in it === At this point, you should be looking at the article again. Indeed, if you clicked the most recent revision from the list, you are looking at ''exactly the same version'' of the article you had seen before. So what's changed? Well, for starters, the address (URL) of the page. Look at the end of it closely. It should end in "&oldid=XXXXXXXX" where the X's correspond to some numbers. This means that the address points to the specific version of the article you clicked on from the revision list. The number is called a "revision ID" and each revision ID is, in theory, unique (database errors happen, but let's just assume that's not the case because it would be a bigger issue if they started duplicating such IDs on Wikipedia...). The other difference is the little yellow box of text across the top of the page that basically explains that the address is a permanent link. [[File:Seneca_falls_convention_oldid-20200212.png|thumb|center|3. A specific revision from the history of the page I was looking at originally. Notice that the URL (address) for the page contains the text "&oldid=XXXXXXXX" where the X's correspond to some numbers. Also notice that the yellow textbox across the top of the page indicates (not quite accurately?) that the address (URL) "provides a permanent link to this version."]] Now, finally, you have a link you can trust to point to the version of the page that is exactly as you saw it when you visited.
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