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Attn admins: might be a good idea to temporarily protect the article in order to prevent "funny" vandalism prompted by the grounding of "Ever Given".
Rocknrollsuicide (talk) 23:09, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You're the one who decided a constructive edit is vandalism. The 3RR policy excludes "obvious vandalism" such as "such as page blanking and adding offensive language," which this clearly is not. I am open to other language for the ship's status (e.g. "stuck," "aground," "Blocking the Suez Canal," or any number of possible options), but it is clearly not "in service" when it is unable to move or operate in any normal fashion. The fact you believe you have to right to declare anything other than your preferred language as "vandalism" is exactly why Wikipedia is so toxic to new contributors. 172.58.43.226 (talk) 23:26, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The ship has a crew on board, has not been laid up or scrapped, which means that its current status is "in service". The fact that the ship is currently grounded has nothing to do with its status as such.
It might be a good idea for you to inform yourself as to the meaning of a ship's status in this context, rather than justifying your uninformed edits with wiki legalisms. The ship's registry page (see relevant reference in table) list its status as "in operation", so that settles it. Rocknrollsuicide (talk) 00:46, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Uh? I'm not aware of "WP:ShipStatus" that lays out a registry page as somehow being the authoritative source for "status" columns. MarineTraffic.com gives the status as "Stopped". NBC News says the status is "Stranded". Given that this is an ongoing worldwide news story, it shouldn't be shocking that editors want to keep the story up to date. From the article history the first thing you cleaned up really was vandalism and after that you've just decided to be silly and stubborn. 2601:585:103:E120:357C:61E0:9035:9FA0 (talk) 03:37, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
