Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring
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This page is for reporting active edit warriors and recent violations of restrictions like the three-revert rule.
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Edit warring is a behavior, typically exemplified by the use of repeated edits to "win" a content dispute. It is different from a bold, revert, discuss (BRD) cycle. Reverting vandalism and banned users is not edit warring; at the same time, content disputes, even egregious point of view edits and other good-faith changes do not constitute vandalism. Administrators often must make a judgment call to identify edit warring when cooling disputes. Administrators currently use several measures to determine if a user is edit warring.
An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Violations of this rule normally attract blocks of at least 24 hours. Any appearance of gaming the system by reverting a fourth time just outside the 24-hour slot is likely to be treated as a 3RR violation. See here for exemptions.
Sections older than 48 hours are archived by Lowercase sigmabot III.
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User:102.67.77.85 reported by User:Czello (Result: /27 blocked for a month)
[edit]Page: Liv Morgan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 102.67.77.85 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Previous version reverted to:
Diffs of the user's reverts:
- 20:01, 23 July 2024 (UTC) ""
- 19:03, 23 July 2024 (UTC) ""
- 18:56, 23 July 2024 (UTC) ""
- 16:19, 23 July 2024 (UTC) ""
Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:
- 19:07, 23 July 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule on Liv Morgan."
- 20:31, 23 July 2024 (UTC) "/* July 2024 */ Reply"
Comments:
Persistent addition of an unreliable source which has been flagged to the user. — Czello (music) 20:35, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Blocked – for a period of one month Per the SPI investigation I have blocked 102.67.77.64/27 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial)) Daniel Case (talk) 19:07, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Another IP 102.67.77.154 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) return to similar edit on the same page. Change with 102.67.77.0/22 to block. AmritR012 (talk) 12:54, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
User:HazzelDazzleDoDah reported by User:Viewmont Viking (Result: Blocked from article 72 hours)
[edit]Page: Richmond, North Yorkshire (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: HazzelDazzleDoDah (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Previous version reverted to: [diff preferred, link permitted]
Diffs of the user's reverts:
Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [6]
Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: User Talk:HazzelDazzleDoDah
Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [7]
Comments:
- I was one of the editors who reverted HazzelDazzleDoDah's edit. I reverted that edit because it cited Wikipedia. But looking at the dispute, I think the disputed parts should be temporarily removed from the article until consensus can be reached through dispute resolution. Warning HazzelDazzleDoDah about 3RR should be enough. Kovcszaln6 (talk) 15:59, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- I am the editor that this user is most in conflict with. I have tried to explain my reasoning and policy on their talk page, but I couldn't word it properly (sorry). There have been personal attacks, but what is bothering me is the non-adherence to policy which I have linked to, specifically the rule about edit warring, and the response afterwards was
I'm not interested in being right, only getting it right. I don't care for an edit war or whatever you think is going on here.
I am more than happy with Kovcszaln6's suggestion about consensus regarding the content - my issue was its removal when it has been properly cited without a sensible reason for its removal. Thanks. The joy of all things (talk) 18:11, 25 July 2024 (UTC) - I am okay with following Kovcszaln6 recommendation of a Warning, however there is the concern of the Uncivil comments as well"...I don't know how to teach you critical thinking skills.", "You are contributing to ignoranc, whether you mean to or not" which is technically out of scope here, but shows along with this comment "Otherwise I will continue to remove your edit. That the editor is not really here to collaborate with other editors.--VVikingTalkEdits 18:26, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Blocked – for a period of 72 hours from article per above. Daniel Case (talk) 20:34, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
User:Curious man123 reported by User:PadFoot2008 (Result: No violation)
[edit]Page: Mughal Empire (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Curious man123 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Previous version reverted to: [diff preferred, link permitted]
Diffs of the user's reverts:
Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [10]
Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [11]
Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [12]
Comments:
- Not a violation of WP:3RR, but the user has been engaging in an edit war to change British Raj to Company rule in India even though there exists a consensus in the talk page to include only British Raj in the succession list in the infobox. PadFoot (talk) 12:47, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
No violation. Also stale. Bbb23 (talk) 12:54, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
User:Legobro99 reported by User:Untamed1910 (Result: Blocked 72 hours)
[edit]Page: Transformers One (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Legobro99 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Previous version reverted to:
Diffs of the user's reverts:
- 19:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1236835164 by Catalyst GP real (talk)"
- 19:53, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1236834902 by Catalyst GP real (talk) Please stop vandalising."
- 19:52, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1236833876 by Catalyst GP real (talk)"
- 18:05, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1236788182 by Catalyst GP real (talk)"
- 13:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1236777250 by HaydenTCEM (talk)"
- 11:24, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1236754090 by 2A02:C7C:DACE:F100:9D2A:D459:8459:C74F (talk)"
Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:
- 20:35, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on Transformers One."
Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:
- 20:34, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "/* Legobro99 */ new section"
Comments:
Blocked – for a period of 72 hours. Bbb23 (talk) 20:43, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Bbb23: It looks like a 3RR violation from Catalyst GP real as well. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 20:54, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Daniel Quinlan: Thanks for catching that, I don't think I scrolled down far enough. I've blocked Catalyst for 48 hours - shorter because it's a first block for them.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:04, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
User:110.78.151.114 reported by User:Closed Limelike Curves (Result: Blocked 31h)
[edit]Page: Scott Sumner (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 110.78.151.114 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Previous version reverted to:
Diffs of the user's reverts:
- 21:48, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Please discuss, before deleting over 12,000 words, written by multiple editors over years. You should go through each statement, line by line, and provide your reasons for deleting."
- 20:44, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Reverting due to a rogue editor, who continues to remove over 12,000 words, which all appear to be cited from Sumner's blog. Editor oddly claims vandalism."
- 20:38, 26 July 2024 (UTC) ""
- 20:33, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Someone continues to delete large chucnks of relevant information, including Scott's opinions on Covid. Please, do not delete statements that are properly cited. Why are you erasing over 12,000 words?"
Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:
- 20:38, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Adding original research, including unpublished syntheses of sources (UV 0.1.5)"
- 20:45, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule."
Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:
- 22:09, 26 July 2024 (UTC) "/* BLP edits */ Reply"
Comments:
Requesting topic ban for IP. IP has apparently been tendentiously reinserting the same material to a WP:BLP for 1.5 years now, despite repeatedly being reverted by many different editors. Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 22:12, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Might be even longer (getting reverted since March 2022) if they happen to be the same person as @Micahrob, which seems possible based on their edit histories. Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 22:20, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Blocked for 31 hours for disruption by ScottishFinnishRadish. We almost never topic-ban IPs, and this one would be no exception.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:22, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Got it, thanks; wasn't aware of the no topic-banning rule. Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 23:52, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
User:Be Jain reported by User:ParvatPrakash (Result: No violation)
[edit]Page: Abhinandananatha (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Be Jain (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Previous version reverted to: [diff preferred, link permitted]
Diffs of the user's reverts:
Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [20]
Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [diff]
Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [21]
Comments:
This user (alongwith myself) were banned from editing Rishabhanatha for edit warring. The said user is constantly changing images (and engaging in edit wars) without discussing. Other pages where this user has possibly engaged in edit wars are Ajitnatha and Sumatinatha. I stopped engaging in edit wars after learning about the 3RR, but I see this user engaging in edit wars with other users constantly on some specific pages. ParvatPrakash (talk) 23:53, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
No violation. Bbb23 (talk) 00:50, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- The said user keeps undoing edits by other users. They were warned and blocked from an article just a few days ago. They are continuing to edit war on Abhinandananatha. I thought 3RR was the only rule. Does there exist a policy I'm unaware of? ParvatPrakash (talk) 01:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- ParvatPrakash, Bbb23 is likely referring to the three-reverts-per-24-hours rule, also known as "3RR". However, independently of that rule, the policy against edit warring prohibits more than just exceeding three reverts in 24 hours. Continuing to edit war after an edit warring block, for example, is clearly an issue. I have blocked Be Jain and Rahulpalawat indefinitely for now. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:42, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oh ok, I understand that now. Thank you very much for explaining the policy. I'll keep that in mind in future. ParvatPrakash (talk) 01:58, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- ParvatPrakash, Bbb23 is likely referring to the three-reverts-per-24-hours rule, also known as "3RR". However, independently of that rule, the policy against edit warring prohibits more than just exceeding three reverts in 24 hours. Continuing to edit war after an edit warring block, for example, is clearly an issue. I have blocked Be Jain and Rahulpalawat indefinitely for now. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:42, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- The said user keeps undoing edits by other users. They were warned and blocked from an article just a few days ago. They are continuing to edit war on Abhinandananatha. I thought 3RR was the only rule. Does there exist a policy I'm unaware of? ParvatPrakash (talk) 01:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
User:216.15.48.236 reported by User:LilianaUwU (Result: Blocked 72 hours)
[edit]Page: Killing of Sonya Massey (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 216.15.48.236 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Previous version reverted to:
Diffs of the user's reverts:
- 00:52, 28 July 2024 (UTC) ""
- 00:49, 28 July 2024 (UTC) ""
- 00:33, 28 July 2024 (UTC) ""
- 21:35, 27 July 2024 (UTC) ""
- 20:53, 27 July 2024 (UTC) ""
Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:
Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:
Comments:
Repeatedly trying to insert a video (that is seemingly fake per an edit summary?) in the page. I'm not trying to assume anything, but this seems like someone who's trying to justify a police killing. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 00:53, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Reverted again as I wrote this, making this even more of a clear cut 3RR violation. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 00:55, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- And they've said that they are
going to keep changing it back
. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 01:11, 28 July 2024 (UTC)- And they are indeed continuing. I think it's up to something around 10RR now. Meters (talk) 01:18, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- And they've said that they are
Blocked – for a period of 72 hours. LilianaUwU, some of your comments on the IP's Talk page are completely inappropriate. Bbb23 (talk) 01:22, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I was directed here by my notification bell. That's not even my IP address. I have only edited from my own username, yet I received a message directing me to the talk page of an IP address I don't own. ExistentialBliss (talk) 02:58, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
User:Fred.jp reported by User:Silver seren (Result: Partially blocked 2 weeks)
[edit]Page: Yasuke (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Fred.jp (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Previous version reverted to: [22]
Diffs of the user's reverts:
Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [28]
Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: N/A
Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [29]
Comments: Editor has been edit warring in a controversy section in a historical biography with very blatant POV statements being made in their edit summaries (which probably also violate WP:BLP for the history professor they're talking about) and have been reverted by multiple editors (including myself). They were given a 3RR warning and reverted again ten minutes later, as shown in the final diff given above, with their edit summary threatening that they will take the warring to other parts of the article if they keep getting reverted. SilverserenC 02:00, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Partially blocked – for a period of 2 weeks ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:18, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
User:Bluerules reported by User:Locke Cole (Result: )
[edit]Page: Deadpool & Wolverine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Bluerules (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Previous version reverted to: 2024-07-25T09:30:42
Diffs of the user's reverts:
Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: Warning from May 2024, I also warned them after their 4th revert in this discussion where they insist they only reverted three times.
Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: I haven't actually reverted them at all, and after their 4th revert, they finally started a discussion on the talk page.
Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [30]
Comments: Worth noting that Bluerules has previously been blocked for 3RR, but it has been over a decade apparently. I wouldn't have reported it given they state no intention to continue, but they deny violating 3RR, so here we are. —Locke Cole • t • c 03:49, 28 July 2024 (UTC)