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:2600:8803:2A00:9A00:A86E:3E75:DC3:B01B reported by User:Wikiacc (Result: Blocked for 1 week)

Page

List of Presidents of Venezuela (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported

2600:8803:2A00:9A00:A86E:3E75:DC3:B01B (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to

Diffs of the user's reverts

1. 23:22, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904703436 by LightandDark2000 (talk)"
2. 23:06, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904697517 by Wikiacc (talk)"
3. 21:29, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904689548 by Wikiacc (talk)"
4. 20:16, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904684457 by MJL (talk)"
5. 20:07, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904680002 by MJL (talk)"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning

1. 21:02, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Caution: Removal of content, blanking. (TW)"
2. 22:10, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule on List of Presidents of Venezuela. (TW)"

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page

1. 22:07, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Continued removal of Guaido */ new section"

Comments:

IP removed Guaido from the list; this was discussed previously (see talk and protection log). Rather than engaging in discussion, has continued to revert: five reverts in the past five hours. Requesting a temporary block under 3RR. Wikiacc (¶) 23:34, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Just saw that User:LightandDark2000 reported the same behavior at WP:AIV. Wikiacc (¶) 23:39, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Blocked – for a period of 1 week ST47 (talk) 23:59, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Ajñavidya reported by User:Wallyfromdilbert (Result: 31 hours)

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

Previous version reverted to: [1]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [2]
2. [3]
3. [4]
4. [5]
5. [6]
6. [7]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [8] (another user)

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [9]

Comments:

User has repeatedly engaged in tendentious editing on several pages. His views have not been supported by others on the talk page, and he has been reinserting the same information again today now seven times. Wallyfromdilbert (talk) 23:38, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Blocked ST47 (talk) 00:06, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

(edit clash) I regard Ajñavidya's edits as highly tendentious with a very obvious political POV. They are very unwilling to drop their preferred sticks. I have just had to give them warnings for blanking valid content which, in addition to being wrong it itself, was also a 3RR violation. I do feel that this is bordering on a WP:NOTHERE situation. They just got a short block (see above) as I was typing this comment. If this works then that is fair enough but I would not be at all surprised to see us back here in a few days. If so, the question will be whether to attempt a topic ban or just to show them the door. --DanielRigal (talk) 00:11, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Alizabeth blon reported by User:MPS1992 (Result: blocked 72 hours)

Page

Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported

Alizabeth blon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to

Diffs of the user's reverts

1. 23:39, 3 July 2019 (UTC) ""
2. 20:10, 3 July 2019 (UTC) ""
3. 14:47, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Pregnancy and children */"
4. 02:30, 3 July 2019 (UTC) ""
5. and this one as well. And maybe others

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page

Comments:

warned about edit warring here MPS1992 (talk) 23:45, 3 July 2019 (UTC) See also WP:BLP. MPS1992 (talk) 23:58, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Blocked ST47 (talk) 00:08, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Jtfolden reported by User:11 west (Result: No violation)

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

Previous version reverted to: [10]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [11]
2. [12]
3. [diff]
4. [diff]

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

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [13]

Comments:

The user jtfolden is reverting wholesale all the detailed and well documented changes I have made without due consultation, and despite me providing clearly referenced original sources. I maintain that despite I am being the only user quoting widely acclaimed primary sources, user jtfolden has been making changes and assumptions based on secondary sources and his personal agenda, while rejecting mine. I can prove this with a well documented series of factual errors and misquotations, including the changing of dates and the ommission of key words to demonstrate arbitrary facts that is part of his personal agenda, while in the meantime he is ignoring or diminishing other viewpoints on the subject 11 west (talk) 01:58, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

No violation. You need four reverts to violate 3RR. Anyway, did you read what I wrote on your talk page? El_C 02:01, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Roxy the dog reported by User:Elizium23 (Result: Woof)

Page: Swanmore College (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Roxy the dog (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [14]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [15]
2. [16]
3. [17]
4. [18]
5. [19]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [20]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [21]

Comments:

Roxy the dog has doubled down on disruption by argumentative profanity on her user talk page. I do not appreciate the incivility; without it, I would not have reported this incident here. Elizium23 (talk) 05:23, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

• Declined I think this is stale; Roxy has stopped editing the article now and moved onto other things, so I don't think any administrator action is required. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:41, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Moved on to another edit war? Yep... Elizium23 (talk) 17:01, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Ec1801011 reported by User:Ritchie92 (Result: )

Page

Identity and Democracy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported

Ec1801011 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to

Diffs of the user's reverts

1. 22:20, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904683242 by Ritchie92 (talk) I shall keep reverting until you stop your disruptive edits"
2. 19:45, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904674685 by Ritchie92 (talk) I shall keep reverting until you stop your disruptive edits."
3. 18:28, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904667275 by Ritchie92 (talk) You are right a consensus should be reached, so don't remove information until that consensus is reached."
4. 17:25, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904664994 by Ritchie92 (talk) Reverting the edits of a disruptive user who refuses to stop edit warring."
5. 16:38, 2 July 2019 (UTC) "Added back information removed by disruptive editor who continues to engage in edit warring."
6. 16:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC) "Undid revision 904491928 by Ritchie92 (talk) Have provided amble reasoning for the inclusion and yet this user has continued to edit war."

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning

1. 16:43, 2 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Edit warring on Identity and Democracy */ new section"
2. 16:43, 2 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Edit warring on Identity and Democracy */"

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page

1. 16:35, 2 July 2019 (UTC) "/* PVV seat */"
2. 17:38, 3 July 2019 (UTC) "/* PVV seat */"

Comments:

I reverted first an edit by the user which I did not think was proper. Then he started reverting back without engaging in discussion (I started the discussion in the talk page to no reply). At some point he replied but kept reverting without following the discussion. Ritchie92 (talk) 07:18, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

User:66.26.73.13 reported by User:Tgeorgescu (Result: Page semiprotected)

Page

Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported

66.26.73.13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to

Diffs of the user's reverts

1. 12:57, 4 July 2019 (UTC) ""
2. 12:53, 4 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Aftermath */"
3. 12:50, 4 July 2019 (UTC) ""
4. 12:45, 4 July 2019 (UTC) ""

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning

1. 12:47, 4 July 2019 (UTC) "General note: Unconstructive editing on Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE). (TW)"
2. 12:49, 4 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Wikipedia is a secular encyclopaedia */"
3. 12:52, 4 July 2019 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule on Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE). (TW)"

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page

1. 12:56, 4 July 2019 (UTC) "/* End of siege */ 3RR exemption"
2. 12:56, 4 July 2019 (UTC) "/* 3RR exemption */ typo"

Comments:

3RR exemption for me: Some of the reverted edits were truly vandalism, i.e. they broke off templates and/or images. Tgeorgescu (talk) 12:59, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Just by viewing past edits, the IP clearly has an WP:AGENDA. Now the IP is changing era-styles without consensus or even bothered to discuss the topic. Apparently, this has already happened before in 2018: David and twice at Gimbal. A justifiable block. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 13:21, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Yup, the IP is from the Bible Belt. Tgeorgescu (talk) 13:24, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

• Result: I have semiprotected Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) for three months. Warring on the *era* (AD vs CE) has been continuing for some time. This has included a number of moves of the article itself without discussion, so I've put move protection on the article name. Further title changes should use the WP:RM process. EdJohnston (talk) 18:39, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

User:OneColumbia reported by User:Pebblefire (Result: Filer blocked)

Page: Columbia University (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: OneColumbia (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [22]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [23]
2. [24]
3. [25]
4. [diff]

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

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [26]

Comments:

Continuously makes disruptive edits to the Columbia University page, makes claims without official primary source documentation as stated in wiki policies, does not wait for consensus and continues to make edits on the main article, has made factually inaccurate remarks and personal attacks about my characteristics which is not conducive to the collaborative, fact-based community in wikipediaPebblefire (talk) 14:35, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

I'm glad you brought up edit warring because the user who reported me, Pebblefire, has been blocked from editing Wikipedia due to edit warring, is accused by other users of being a sockpuppet account and has been editing the Teachers College article since April 2016, with a very high change of having COI issues. In fact, Pebblefire and I agree that Teachers College is an affiliate but Pebblefire objects that such designation should be included in the drop-down list because it's already included in the article.--OneColumbia (talk) 16:19, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

• Result: The filer has been indefinitely blocked as a sock by User:Bbb23. EdJohnston (talk) 18:09, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Blueberry72 reported by User:DanWarpp (Result: Both users warned)

Page: Homogenic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Blueberry72 (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:

1. [27]
2. [28]
3. [29]
4. [30]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [31]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [32]

Comments:

Edit warring and refusal to discuss in talk, I've explained to them that the reason for the edits is per WP:INFOBOXREF, which is implemented in the artist's other albums. DanWarpp (talk) 16:55, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

@DanWarpp: You forgot to report yourself.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:01, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

@DanWarpp:@Bbb23: I think that I have respected Wikipedia's rules reverting DamWarpp's edits. He removed sources of music genres from the infobox and there wasn't mention of those genres in the body of the page, so they had to be sourced in the infobox. In his last edit he has cited and sourced those genres in Composition section, so I didn't revert that edit, I just fixed the text. Blueberry72 (talk) 18:02, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Neither of you "respected Wikipedia's rules". I'm glad you both think it's resolved, but your dispute should have played out on the article's Talk page, not by edit-warring in the article.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:14, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

• @DanWarpp and Blueberry72: You are both warned that edit-warring in the future may result in blocks.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:17, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

User:2605:6000:1022:2A4:98FB:3D24:5B18:41F1 reported by User:FilmandTVFan28 (Result: Blocked)

Page

Frankenweenie (1984 film) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported

2605:6000:1022:2A4:98FB:3D24:5B18:41F1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to

Diffs of the user's reverts

1. 05:30, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Plot */Take That, You Mean Old FilmandTVFan28!"
2. 05:27, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Plot */Fuck You, FilmandTVFan28!"
3. 05:24, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "How This?"
4. Consecutive edits made from 05:17, 5 July 2019 (UTC) to 05:19, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
   1. 05:17, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "How Is?"
   2. 05:19, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Plot */What Do You Think, New One?"
5. 04:09, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Plot */"
6. Consecutive edits made from 03:02, 5 July 2019 (UTC) to 03:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
   1. 03:02, 5 July 2019 (UTC) ""
   2. 03:03, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Cast */"
   3. 03:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC) ""

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning

1. 03:38, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "Warning: Creating hoaxes on For Pete's Sake (film). (TW)"

• Blocked – for a period of 48 hours.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:51, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Mian Ahmad Sulaiman reported by User:Wugapodes (Result: Indeffed)

Page

Wikipedia talk:Project namespace (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported

Mian Ahmad Sulaiman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to

Diffs of the user's reverts

1. 06:03, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Background */"
2. 05:57, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Family */"
3. 05:47, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Background */"
4. 05:20, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Family */ new section"
5. 05:17, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Born */ new section"
6. 05:13, 5 July 2019 (UTC) "/* Father Name */ new section"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning

1. [33]
2. [34]

Comments:

User keeps reinserting WP:NOTFORUM material on the talk page after two warnings from Dr.K. and is way over 3RR Wugapodes [t^hɑk] [ˈkan.ˌʧɹɪbz] 06:14, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

• Indefinitely blocked as WP:NOTHERE.--Bbb23 (talk) 06:20, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Newshunter12 reported by User:178.239.161.219 (Result: )

Page

Oldest people (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported

Newshunter12 (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:

1. [diff]
2. [diff]
3. [diff]
4. [diff]

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

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

Comments:

User keeps editing against consensus and has violated the 3RR they been warned about violating the 3RR in the past as seen on there talk page. 178.239.161.219 (talk) 10:00, 5 July 2019 (UTC)