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. See this guide for instructions on creating diffs for this report. If you see that a user may be about to violate the three-revert rule, consider warning them by placing {{subst:uw-3rr}} on their user talk page. You must notify any user you have reported. You may use {{subst:An3-notice}} ~~~~ to do so. You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format. Additional notes When reporting a user here, your own behavior will also be scrutinized. Be sure you understand WP:REVERT and the definitions below first. The format and contents of a 3RR/1RR report are important, use the "Click here to create a new report" button below to have a report template with the necessary fields to work from. Possible alternatives to filing here are dispute resolution, or a request for page protection. Violations of other restrictions, like WP:1RR violations, may also be brought here. Your report should include two reverts that occurred within a 24-hour period, and a link to where the 1RR restriction was imposed. Definition of edit warring 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. Definition of the three-revert rule (3RR) 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:321sakel reported by User:Hezery99 (Result: warned)

Page: Kajang–Seremban Highway (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 321sakel (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

This user keeps on spamming the "Beams collapsed at Pajam Interchange" as if he is the reporter for that event. Even though Aiman abmajid and I as regular editors for Malaysian highway articles team up together to clean up the mess caused by 321sakel, he is still persistent to revert back the spams that he has done previously. To all admins in English Wikipedia, please do something to 321sakel to stop him from spamming the article. Thank you. - Hezery99 (talk) 07:07, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

• Warned Magog the Ogre (talk) 07:21, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
  • Er, sorry to cross wires Magog, but I blocked him as a sock of Lekas123 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who has already been indef blocked for disruptive editing. --Spike Wilbury (talk) 07:23, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
• Sorry? You cross wires with me and can only say sorry?... (Just kidding, hope I got you...) Magog the Ogre (talk) 07:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
• Anyway, thanks a lot to the admins on duty for helping me out with this issue. Anyway, I've just realized that 321sakel is actually a sock puppet of Lekas123, the original vandal, from the spelling of his name. I have reverted the article to what it used to be and, hopefully, there won't be any more vandal for that article. Thanks a lot to all admins in duty, I really appreciate that. - Hezery99 (talk) 15:37, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Nowayjoesay reported by User:Tbhotch

• Page: The Fame Monster
• Nowayjoesay (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

I do not need to give link, his action act for himself, at least he started to discuss, but never gave up edit warning. Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 23:55, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of 72 hours Four reversions. I've gone for longer than 24 hours due to personal attacks (albeit on the mild side) and the threats of further reversions indicating no attempt to edit collaboratively.[1] Hopefully three days out of action might change that. Mkativerata (talk) 00:04, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, but I don't really think that (s)he'll stop doing it, I gave him(her) many reasons and continue with "I am right you are wrong and have a nice day". Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 00:06, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

He does have constructive contributions on his record, so we'll just have to hope for the best. --Mkativerata (talk) 00:11, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Harrypotter reported by User:Trust Is All You Need (Result:declined)

• Pages: Council of People's Commissars, the People's Commissariat for Finance, the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union) and the Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union).
• Harrypotter (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) he is creating two articldes on the same topic; the People's Commissariat for Finance and the Ministry of Finance of the USSR, and all other commissariat and ministrial articles on the topic of the USSR. The organizations are the name, sources say so, these organizations were renamed. At the same time, the organisations' structure and its duties and responsibilities stayed the same after ther renaming process. Creating TWO articles ON THE SAME topic is ludicrous. Also he is copying material that i wrote on the ministry pages on the people's commissariat pages, so the pages become redundant. TIAYN (talk) 07:22, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

List of examples:

• • see his talk page, he is unwilling to discuss a solution
  • See the pages of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and People's Commissariat for Finance revision history, he is creating articles which has copied material from the ministry articles' i wrote. See his recent edit on the Council of People's Commissars. Sources say it was renamed, Soviet sources from the renaming process says it was reorganised, I don't really give a dam about the reorganisation process seeing these organisation had very little effect on the basic structures on these ministries. --TIAYN (talk) 07:22, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
• Declined I see no evidence of edit warring, rather just a dispute. I have warned the editor for cut-and-paste moves. I see no further action necessary other than following proper dispute resolution channels. Otherwise, this is a malformed report, and there's no way any administrator can figure out who's responsible for what and where. Please follow the instructions for filing a complete report if there is extensive edit warring on the same page. If on different pages, again, try dispute resolution or WP:ANI. Magog the Ogre (talk) 09:17, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Gyrobo reported by User:FleetCommand (Result:no action)

Page: WebP (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Gyrobo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [2] 3 October 2010; Edit summary: (Huge ref fix, removed a ton of duplicates.)

• 1st revert: [3] 6 October 2010; Edit summary: MINOR EDIT (Undid revision 389155743 by FleetCommand (talk) The discussion is not over.)
• Important event: 8 October 2010: A Third opinion is requested and received
• 2nd revert: [4] 10 October 2010; Edit summary: (Changing dates per Talk:WebP#Date format.)
• 3rd revert: [5] 12 October 2010; Edit summary: (Changing dates per concensus, see Talk:WebP#Date format.)
• 4th revert: [6] 13 October 2010; Edit summary: (Reverted good faith edits by FleetCommand; Reverted per DATERET, see talk page. (TW))

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: User_talk:Gyrobo#Your_edit_warring_in_WebP

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: format

Comments:
The following are important highlights of this case:

1. Roots of the dispute: On 1 October 2010, I tried to unify the date style of the article to one of two that WP:MOSDATES recommends, i.e. DD MMM YYYY format. On the same day, Gyrobo changed the article date format to YYYY-MM-DD format; a bold violation of policy to which I responded per R part of WP:BRD. ([7]). I sent him a BRD notice which he later transferred to talk page, where you can presently find. I did not included these diffs above because they were not part of an edit war; they can be justified per WP:BRD. (But after all, one cannot say that I tried to hid these diffs; they are here after all!)
2. Third opinion: Gyrobo reverted the article in his own favor twice – on 3 and 6 October 2010 (see diffs above) – before he called for a WP:3O while there was obviously no consensus. On 8 October 2010, a third opinion is requested. User:Macwhiz responded (you may observe it in talk page) as follows.
   • Okay, so here's what I think: This article had already established day-before-month as its date format, both in the body and in the citations. There was no consensus reached to change it on the talk page; indeed, I would hesitate to characterize this discussion as even approaching the concept of "consensus building." I hate to bring up WP:IDONTLIKEIT, but this discussion seems to be heading that way. Unless and until a clear consensus is formed here, the article, and its references, should continue to use day-before-month.
3. Persistence in edit warring: Even after having received the aforementioned third opinion, Gyrobo continued to revert article in his own favor by leveraging the following two personal opinion from User:Macwhiz and User:Waldir and asserting that the majority are in favor of YYYY-MM-DD. He ignored WP:NOTVOTE. (Perhaps if he hadn't done so, I had been successfully persuaded.)
   • That said, I personally do think that ISO 8601 makes more sense in citations, and I would encourage Fleet Command [~sic~] to consider agreeing to using it in the citations. — Macwhiz
   • I too think that YDM/ISO is a reasonable choice for the references, for they are lists indeed, and would thus benefit of the very advantages for lists the MoS refers to (conciseness). — Waldir
4. One complication: During the course of discussion, I inadvertently committed a misconduct (although in good faith) that when I realized it, I tried to compensate. Here is the details:
   1. On 7 October 2010, Gyrobo said in Talk page: "Not only are the admins who attend EW cases fools, they're dancing fools." I mistakenly took this sentence literally and thought it to be an obscene indiscriminate insult to 215 (am I correct about the number?) administrators of Wikipedia who attend Administrators' Noticeboard. Subsequently, my tone became inadvertently less civil. I never offended him directly but the assumed bad faith in him, the effect of which is apparent in my subsequent writings. I admit that it is very difficult to remain polite with person who insults a whole community. On 10 October 2010, Gyrobo told me that dancing fool is not an insult, but I did not believe him until he later edited his post and supplied a dictionary definition.
   2. On 13 October 2010, I tried to compensate by apologizing, refraining from promptly reporting him to noticeboard and by offering him a shortcut to resolve the dispute quickly: I recommended Gyrobo to seek the opinion of User:ESkog a very respected Wikipedia Administrator; if ESkog's opinion was in favor of YYYY-MM-DD, I (Fleet Command) would stand down the discussion unconditionally; but if the ESkog's opinion was not in favor of YYYY-MM-DD, Gyrobo could ignore it at will freely continue the chain of dispute resolution. My only condition was: Don't revert the article anymore!. Unfortunately, on 13 October 2010, Gyrobo disregarded this offer and reverted the article one again for the fifth time in his own favor.

Fleet Command (talk) 08:07, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

There are a few things I would like to point out here:

1. FleetCommand issued his edit warring notice at the same time that he posted here.
2. My four contentious edits were done over a period of two weeks, not 24 hours. Other editors involved in the dispute on Talk:WebP#Date format have stated that they would not characterize my actions as edit warring. FleetCommand has accused me of edit warring in the past for making a single edit. I urge all admin involved in this case to read the full text of Talk:WebP#Date format.
3. Later on in the discussion, Macwhiz changed his opinion to support YMD dates within the references. I pointed this out to FleetCommand several times.
4. I did not edit my post to provide a dictionary definition, I added that definition in a new reply, and referred to that reply when FleetCommand continued to insist that I had insulted other editors. He has also refused to refute points brought up by other editors, dismissing them as personal opinion.

--Gyrobo (talk) 16:38, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

First, the notice you are talking about is ANI-case notice not edit warring notice; You received your edit warring notice once in your talk page and times and again in article talk page. You did not cease. You kept reverting on pretext of "reverting in good faith is not edit warring" (which is wrong) and "we have a consensus" (which is wrong again).

Second, 24 hours limits is only for 3RR. You are charged with edit warring not 3RR.

Third, Macwhiz never changed his opinion. His personal opinion and his 'interpretation of the policy was always separate. From the very beginning, he said:

• "Are ISO 8601 dates allowable in references? Yes, generally."
• "I personally do think that ISO 8601 makes more sense in citations"
• "the article, and its references, should continue to use day-before-month"

He said all of these in the same post. But all of these said, none of these sanction syour constant reversal of the article in your own favor.

Fourth, don't play with words: Maybe I am in error and the dictionary definition has always been there (though I don't think so); the important point is that I realized my error, appologized for my it and offered you a win-without-lose way of ending the discussion in your favor without edit warring. You disregarded and edit warred one last time.

Fifth, don't bring the talk page here: We're not here to see whether I'm wrong or you are right; we are here because you kept reverting the article in your own favor – even though you may have been completely right.

Fleet Command (talk) 17:35, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

• User Gyrobo accurately characterizes my opinion; user FleetCommand does not. Yes, at first I agreed with retaining MDY dates, but upon further investigation I found that ISO format dates had been used first in citations, and that therefore under WP:CITE#HOW and WP:DATERET, that style should be retained. None of the cases that would warrant a format change are applicable. Having been involved in the situation as a third party, I feel Gyrobo has not edit-warred here; I think he was making good-faith edits based upon Wikipedia guidelines and talk-page consensus. Fleet, however, has shown a pattern of misrepresenting the statements of others, using ad hominem attacks, and general tendentiousness. I think this AN3 report is a case of WP:DEADHORSE as a result of WP:JDLI and WP:IDHT, frankly. // ⌘macwhiz (talk) 17:55, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
• Not blocked Certainly no 3RR violation, and as far as edit-warring generally, there are ongoing reversions from both sides. Please continue to work on the talk page to resolve the dispute and engage in other dispute resolution mechanisms if need be (some of which have already been suggested on the talk page). Mkativerata (talk) 18:56, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Radiopathy reported by User:Piriczki (Result:No action)

Page: Eagles (band) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Radiopathy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [8]

• 1st revert: [9]
• 2nd revert: [10]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [11]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [12]

Comments: Although Radiopathy has not yet exceeded 3RR on the article in question, he shows a pattern of similar disruptive edits here and here. I have repeatedly attempted to explain my edits but my explanations are summarily dismissed or ignored without the user providing any cogent opposing argument or sources to support his position. It should be noted that this user makes no attempt to "correct" any other plural verbs throughout any of these articles, but only changes one word in the first sentence and appears to only target certain articles which is why I view this as purposeful disruption, not to mention his history of edit warring and disruption. User:Radiopathy has been blocked 8 times in less than 15 months. Piriczki (talk) 14:42, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Radiopathy also reverted my constructive edits here and here where I had undone unexplained and inaccurate changes to long stable articles. I suspect he had no regard for the accuracy of the articles or bothered to check his facts, and only intended to disrupt and antagonize. Piriczki (talk) 15:28, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

• No violation Reversions by both parties across multiple articles, none of which come close to 3RR breaches. Please try to resolve your dispute on talk pages (seeking a third opinion would be a good step) without further reversions. Mkativerata (talk) 19:03, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

User:124.214.234.26 reported by User:Bagumba (Result: 72h)

Page: Yao Ming (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 124.214.234.26 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [13]

• 1st revert: 04:00, 9 October 2010
• 2nd revert: 18:25, 12 October 2010
• 3rd revert: 16:03, 14 October 2010

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [14]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [diff]

Comments: I am not personally involved in this edit war to date. Other editors in their change comments have stated that the content in question is inappropriate (non-awards being added) [15][16] and moreover no references are being provided [17].

For what it's worth, the user/IP has also been previously blocked for content removal in August 2010 [18] has received warnings for their October 14 section blanking on Yi Jianlian and Jeremy Lin

Bagumba (talk) 18:51, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of 72 hours Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:09, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

User:عمرو بن كلثوم reported by User:Vicky Ng (Result: warned, reporter blocked)

Page: Meir Kahane (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: عمرو بن كلثوم (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [19]

• 1st revert: [20]
• 2nd revert: [21]
• 3rd revert: [22]
• 4th revert: [23]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [24]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [25]

Comments:
I suspect that this user is User:Atubeileh's sockpuppet and already requested investigation. Atubeileh's edits should be taken into consideration as well if suspitions turn out positive. In addition, the same editor has been warned regarding personal attacks ([26]), deletion of sourced material and unfounded accusation of vandalism ([27]) and failed to engage in discussion. --Vicky Ng (talk) 21:49, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

• Warned Editor was never properly warned. If the SPI turns up positive, as currently appears likely, editor will be blocked. However, I've also given a 24 hour block the reporter (a la WP:BOOMERANG), who violated 3RR. Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:04, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Tintor2 reported by User:68.55.153.254 (Result: declined/malformed)

Page: Cloud Strife (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Tifa Lockhart (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Sephiroth (Final Fantasy) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Barret Wallace (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Vincent Valentine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Aerith Gainsborough (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Tintor2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [28]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: Talk:Cloud Strife

Comments: The majority of the issue can be found in the talk page listed above. Basically, I had found a fantasy casting article being included in several Final Fantasy 7 character articles about who should play them in a live-action movie. I believed them to non-essential to the pages, and in violation of various policies, which were brought up in the talk above. They were put back and I was asked to achieve a consensus before removing them again. Well, the discussion went on for about a week, with all other users who commented agreeing with my side of the discussion, so that makes it a consensus, and I removed them again, but the user has continually put them back up. I've even tried the dispute resolution of asking for a comment from those outside of the issue. I've put them back several times on some of the pages, and when was warned of getting too close to violating 3RR myself, I consulted the user who warned me and he suggested using this page to help resolve the matter. As of reporting this, several of the edits are still up, but I know at least the ones for Cloud and Tifa have been reverted.68.55.153.254 (talk) 01:53, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

As the discussion contined, the anon brought various issues such as crystal ball (the article says it is not happening so it is not), and being a selfpublished source (1UP is owned by UGO Entertainment and is listed as a reliable source by the video games wikiproject, so it's not). Other users brought reasonable issues such as being undue or trivia, and that's why I modified the article's sources to focus in the reception and keeping them in context with all the paragraphs. However, the anon keeps saying that a fan casting is useless and considers that there has been already a consensus although the current form from the sources do not violate any guideline. Moreover, apparently a sock kept removing the sources, while in later hours, the anon removed one from Vincent Valentine alongside another valuable source, that's why I reverted such edits.Tintor2 (talk) 02:20, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Additional comments by Sven Manguard

I was the person that added the 3RR tags to both users in this issue, and it spilled onto my talk page. User:Tintor2 is clearly at fault in this situation. I attempted to explain to him that he was acting against consensus in the matter discussed in the Cloud talk page, and he refused to even acknowledge the possibility that he might be wrong. Whereas my interactions with 68.55.153.254 have shown me that he was acting in good faith and was simply unaware of the finer points of 3RR, my interactions with Tintor2 show me the opposite. Tintor2's refusal to be reasonable in the Cloud talk page, refusal to be reasonable in my talk page, and refusal to stop posting on my talk page when I stated that I did not want the arguments in the matter to be aired in my userspace (I believe the proper place for such arguments is here at EW or the cloud talkpage where the rest of the arguments are.) demonstrate that the user does not understand how to cooperate with others or act in a rational manner in content disputes. He was blocked in June for violating 3RR as well, which leaves him no excuse as to his actions.

• I recommend that 68.55.153.254 not be punished (he has modified his behavior and acted in proper form since the warning, demonstrates remorse, and has no block history)

• I recommend that Tintor2 be blocked for at least two weeks (he has not modified his behavior, demonstrates combativeness, and has a 3RR block history)

Also of note, 68.55.153.254 mentioned on my talk page that Tintor2 has been making the same edits recently. I did not check on this, other than to see that he has been editing FFVII pages, but I explicitly warned Tintor2 that he needed to stop edit warring, both by way of the template, and in my talk page where I said it in plain words to his face. If he is indeed continuing to edit war, this concerns me. Sven Manguard _Talk 02:34, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

I already accepted my mistake when first adding the sources, but when I told Sven Manguard, he just ignored me and undid my comment from his talk page, not wanting to be involved. I have already stated in the talk page of Cloud Strife about such revision, but the anon keeps calling it "useless". I already explained the reasons for the revert in Cloud and Vincent above.Tintor2 (talk) 02:37, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

No, that's not at all true. I undid one of your comments after asking for you to stop making the arguments on my page three times. The third time I explicitly stated that further postings on my page in regards to the issue would be removed. And that is exactly what I did. Your behavior in the issue wore out my patience, and I felt that the only way to get you to stop posting the arguments in my user-space was to remove them. Sven Manguard _Talk 02:50, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Comment If you seriously expect anybody to be sanctioned for edit warring here , you need to provide actual evidence of edit warring in the form of diffs. It is unlikely any admin is going to be willing to wade through all that extended back-and-forth across multiple pages. Looie496 (talk) 03:21, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Normally I'd agree, but it's literally the most recent changes in every one of the listed articles, just click on history. Do I really need to do 20 diffs for you? You don't have to dig at all. Sven Manguard _Talk 03:29, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, that explanation helps. Even so, I looked at the histories and couldn't make out what is going on -- but I'll convert my decline into a comment so that somebody else may take a look at this. Looie496 (talk) 03:37, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

TLDR version: The IP is removing fantasy castings by 1UP, per clear consensus at talk:Cloud Strife that there are several issues with having them in the articles. Every time the 1UP castings are removed, Tintor2 puts them back in. Sven Manguard _Talk 03:48, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

As I say again, I agreed consensus was right in the first time. As a result, I revised such sources to leave more in context than most of all the other sentences in reception and avoiding violation of undue and trivia, but the anon keeps saying they still violate such guidelines.Tintor2 (talk) 23:26, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

To paraphrase one of my favorite quotes, admins "are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in" the page history. This is especially true when you give us half a dozen pages. Declined – malformed report. Please use the "Click here to create a new report" link at the top of this page, which gives a template report, and provide complete diffs. T. Canens (talk) 00:42, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Chesdovi reported by User:Bali ultimate (Result: no vio, so far)

Page: Damascus (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Chesdovi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [diff preferred, link permitted] [29]

• 1st revert: [30]
• 2nd revert: [31]
• 3rd revert: [32]
• 4th revert: [33]

This is complex. Basically, Chesdovi is insisitng on inserting an unsourced and rather odd claim (that "damascus has been descrbied as one of the four holy cities of Islam") and refusing to discuss this on the Damascus talk page. It's a spillover from Hebron however. Two days ago he removed a reference from the article that Hebron is "holy to Muslims."[34]. On the talk page he briefly explained the removal by saing the only sources he could find on Muslim views of Hebron were in "travel books."[35]. I restored the info on the "holyness" of Hebron to Muslims (which is not controversial anyways -- it's the burial place of Abraham who is refered as a prophet by Muslims only behind Mohammed (1.) and Moses (2.) in importance and included the fact (with source) that in early Islam, the associatione with Abraham made Hebron "one of hte four holy cities." He sought to water this down to "considered by some" with an assertion in the edit summary that this is "contested with Damascus." [36]. He then headed off to Damascus article to make his unsourced change, apparently to bolster his case. This editor recently created an article on "Judaism and Bus stops" (deletion discussion here [37]) and freely admitted in that process that he was making edits to that article as an attempt to set precedents for other articles. He seems to be doing the same thing again.Bali ultimate (talk) 14:09, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [38] [39] Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [40]

Comments:

Note I can't see how the "1st revert" is a revert. Could you show what it is reverting? In any case I have left an unequivocal warning on the editor's talk page that any any further reversion without discussion will result in a block, regardless of whether it is a legal 3RR violation. Please feel free to contact me directly if it is necessary to follow up on this. Looie496 (talk) 16:36, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

No violation, but feel free to re-report if reverting continues. T. Canens (talk) 00:47, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Eman007 reported by User:Binksternet (Result: declined/stale)

Page: San Francisco (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Eman007 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [41]

• 1st revert: [42] – 07:30, October 14, 2010
• 2nd revert: [43] – 22:25, October 14, 2010
• 3rd revert: [44] – 02:26, October 15, 2010
• 4th revert: [45] – 06:02, October 15, 2010

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [46]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [47]

Comments:

The image File:FinancialNorth.jpg is the crux of this edit war. User:Eman007 has removed it four times in 24 hours. Two or three other editors oppose this removal. Binksternet (talk) 14:38, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Note The warning did not come until hours after the 4th revert. If the editor reverts again, please update this report and leave a note. In the meantime, as far as I can see it is not actionable. Looie496 (talk) 16:43, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Declined/ Stale No revert since warning. T. Canens (talk) 00:36, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Sulmues reported by User:Athenean (Result: 2 weeks/1RR 6 months)

Page: Konitsa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Sulmues (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [48], also see below

• 1st revert: [49]
• 2nd revert: [50] (changes wording slightly, but still same source and still in the same spirit as previous revert)
• 3rd revert: [51] (reverts to above version)
• 4th revert: [52]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [53], his response [54]. Also [55].

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [56]

Comments: After adding the material in the first diff of this report, Sulmues restores it after I removed it (1st revert). Another user removes it, so he re-adds it in slightly different form (2nd revert). Though he has changed the wording somewhat, he has restored the source and the spirit is the same. When another user removes the material again, Sulmues restores it again (3rd revert), and then again (4th revert). With the last revert, Sulmues has clearly crossed deep into WP:EDITWAR territory, as he is edit-warring against multiple users against consensus. Even worse, he leaves hostiles templates on the talkpage of the last user who reverted him, accusing him of "vandalism" and threatening to report him [57] [58] [59] (even though he has been warned in the strongest possible terms from calling users who merely disagree with him "vandals" [60]). Even though he discusses on the talkpage, he discusses and reverts, making a mockery of the discussion process, and is also hostile and trolling ([61] "I would expect you to jump with joy at 'wild-looking Albanians'"), calling my single revert "usual" [62].

I should note that this is an experienced user (20k+ contribs), who is careful enough to game 3RR without actually breaking it, about which I have warned him: [63]. Yesterday he was at it at Kastoria [64] (an rv back to this version [65] [66] [67] (which are reverts to this version [68]), and today this [69] (rv back to this version [70], a partial rv, as he restored "Albanian" after I had changed it to "Muslim" in accordance with the source [71]). Technically no violation but that's 4 reverts (to different versions) in 25 hours. And just a few days ago he was gaming 3RR at Theodore Kavalliotis [72] [73] [74].

Again, this is an experienced user, but with a history of disruption (edit-warring and incivility, see WP:ARBMAC sanctions log [75] and block log), and was until recently on 1R revert parole which expired at the end of June. In the last month or so, he has greatly increased the frequency with which he reverts. He really ought to know better by now. Some form of ARBMAC sanction may well be appropriate. Athenean (talk) 00:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of 2 weeks Mkativerata (talk) 00:14, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
  • With the agreement of the closing admin, and under the authority of WP:ARBMAC#Discretionary sanctions, I'm reimposing Stifle's restriction, as follows: Sulmues (talk · contribs) is limited to one revert per rolling 24-hour period on all articles relating to Balkans subjects, broadly construed, for six months, effective upon the expiration or lifting of the current 2-week block. Furthermore, they are required to discuss any reverts they do make on the talk page in a minimum of 50 words, in English, within 30 minutes of the revert. This sanction may be appealed as provided in WP:ARBMAC#Appeal of discretionary sanctions. T. Canens (talk) 00:54, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

User:140.163.254.157 reported by User:Diannaa (Result:48 hours)

Page: Cyrillic alphabet (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 140.163.254.157 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [76]

• 1st revert: [77]
• 2nd revert: [78]
• 3rd revert: [79]
• 4th revert: [80]
• 5th revert: [81]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [82]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [83]

Comments:
--Diannaa ^(Talk) 00:40, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of 48 hours Mkativerata (talk) 00:43, 16 October 2010 (UTC)