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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.

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User:Sapphorain reported by User:ZH8000 (Result: Both blocked 48 hours)

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

Previous version reverted to

Diffs of the user's reverts

07:57, 16 December 2017 (UTC) "Undid revision 815652839 by ZH8000 (talk)"
21:48, 15 December 2017 (UTC) "Undid revision 815597375 by ZH8000 (talk)Please stop with that"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning

05:14, 16 December 2017 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule on Lausanne. (TW)"

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page

14:52, 16 December 2017 (UTC) "/* de: Lausannen */"

Comments:

This is an ongoing dispute since two months ago. ZH8000 (talk) 14:54, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Both editors blocked – for a period of 48 hours — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 15:54, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:92.228.153.156 reported by User:TastyPoutine (Result: Already blocked)

Page: Petrovsky Park (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 92.228.153.156 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), 80.171.173.13 (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: [link]

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

Comments:
Please note this is the globally banned editor Tobias Conradi. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/77.179.37.199

Already blocked by RickinBaltimore. Mz7 (talk) 04:44, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:2607:FEA8:BD20:E40:AD3F:C124:931A:58AD reported by User:Tgeorgescu (Result: Blocked 31 hours)

Page: The Exodus (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 2607:FEA8:BD20:E40:AD3F:C124:931A:58AD (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to

Diffs of the user's reverts

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning

01:34, 17 December 2017 (UTC) "3RR warning"
02:23, 17 December 2017 (UTC) "Notifying about edit warring noticeboard discussion. (TW)"

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page

02:33, 17 December 2017 (UTC) "edit war"

Comments:

The IP is acting against consensus. The matter has been discussed to death, as mentioned on talk page. The IP is jumping, a range block for 2607:FEA8:BD20:E40:: might be needed. Tgeorgescu (talk) 03:07, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The IP is now at six of these edits in under 24 hours. Alephb (talk) 04:31, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked – for a period of 31 hours I've also placed a range block on Special:Contributions/2607:fea8:bd20:e40::/64. Mz7 (talk) 04:44, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

84.176.239.161 reported by User:DrFleischman (Result: Page protected)

Previous version reverted to: [5]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [13]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [14]

Comments:

These are BLP vios. The editor wants to include content about Mr. Papadopoulos that isn't supported by the cited source. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 05:53, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The edits are not BLP violations. Not sure what you think is negative about speaking four languages or why it even requires attribution and it seems awfully petty to edit war over. Certainly, there is no BLP exemption for edit warring. --DHeyward (talk) 07:56, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Page protected — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 01:42, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:86.0.180.37 reported by User:Kansas Bear (Result: Blocked 48 hours)

Previous version reverted to: [15]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [16]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: The IP has not chosen to use the talk page instead using personal attacks.

Comments:

The IP has been edit warring since 11 Dec, issuing personal attacks like;

I believe this says it all. --Kansas Bear (talk) 22:31, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked – for a period of 48 hours — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 01:38, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:Asteriset reported by User:Kansas Bear (Result: Blocked 1 week)

Previous version reverted to: [17]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

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

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

Comments:

User:Asteriset has been edit warring on Battle of Mohi for quite some time. First stating that "Please note this book a reference work not an academical work and thus not authoritative on the subject", then "This is not for the talk page, this is not an authoritative source (nothing to do with the author), end of story", then accuses me of logging out to edit war, "None academical work, take it with the talk page if you want. This is your last warning (previous edits without username)". I have started a discussion AND added another source by Timothy May who also states "heavy casualties" at Sajo River/Mohi.--Kansas Bear (talk) 01:31, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator note @Kansas Bear: Why does it look like you're edit warring as well? Please stop, or I will be forced to block you as well. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 01:40, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked – for a period of 1 week — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 01:43, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:Sagenode reported by User:Meters (Result: )

Previous version reverted to: Not all the edits are identical, but they all involve adding various Koenigsegg cars or removing mention of a competitor's car. [26] [27]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

[28] Dec 17
[29] Dec 11
[30] Dec 11
[31] Nov 27
[32] Nov 26
[33] Nov 22
[34] Nov 22
[35] Nov 20
[36] Nov 19
[37] Nov 19
[38] Nov 19
[39] Nov 19
[40] Nov 19
[41] Nov 19
[42] Nov 19
[43] Nov 19
[44] Nov 16

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning:

[45] Nov 27 Formal EW warning
[46] Dec 13 Level 4 warning with informal EW warning after Sagenode made two more reverts. The issue of edit warring has also been mentioned in various talk page threads, and Sagenode is well aware of it since he preemtively left a malformed edit warring warning on my talk page [47] after he made yet another revert to the page [48]. This edit was undone by user:Drachentötbär, not by me.

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: There has been extensive recent talk page discussion of whether the Koenigsegg car the IP wants listed meets Wikipedia's inclusion criteria (as a production car) for this list, and whether the inclusion criteria should be tweaked to allow the inclusion of the Koenigsegg car and other similar special cases.:

This topic of the number of cars required to qualify as a production car has been repeatedly discussed previously on the article talk page, and the issue of Koenigsegg models not having enough cars produced to qualify as a production cars has been explicitly mentioned in several of those threads (2012–2015):

Comments:

Sagenode is an SPA on the topic of including Koenigsegg cars in this list. He participates in the talk page discussions, but simply refuses to accept other editors' opinions. The supposed consensus for inclusion he refers to is mainly other SPAs,including the Koenigsegg employee responsible for publicizing the Koenigsegg car and its recent speed run (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 122#Production car speed record). Multiple editors have undone his additions and multiple editors have agreed on the talk page that the Koenigsegg car does not meet the current inclusion criteria. Sagenode has been told that if the current discussions on changing the criteria are successful the Koenigsegg car will be re-evaluated. He's reverted three times since his EW warning, and his continued WP:IDHT suggests that he will not stop. Meters (talk) 07:35, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:Floating philosopher reported by User:AntanO (Result: )

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

Diffs of the user's reverts:

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

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

Comments:
I have already reported at WP:AN/I and request to talk at articles user page, and requested help too. See Talk:Islam in Sri Lanka --Antan O 07:45, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reply:
I have already read these guidelines and have attended to minority views covered in the sources. I believe my edit is justified as earlier sources contradict published scientific information. My edit is the only rational way to present these contents. I am open to debate on the talk page. User talk:Floating Philosopher —Preceding undated comment added 07:56, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User:Floating philosopher reported by User:Pharaoh of the Wizards (Result: )

Page: Sri Lankan Moors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Floating philosopher (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to

Diffs of the user's reverts

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page

Comments:

Same Edit was done even earlier Here as well Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 07:43, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reply:

My edit to this page is connected and relevant to the page "Islam in Sri Lanka". I have provided justification for this in the comments to my edit.

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