[WikiEN-l] The 3-revert rule

Tue Mar 9 17:43:27 UTC 2004

Delirium wrote:

> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> I agree that these matters need to be considered on a case-by-case 
>> basis.  A person who engages in a protracted revert war on a single 
>> article is very different from one who repeatedly does this across a 
>> broad range of articles.
>
> I guess I don't see what the problem with solving them all in the same 
> way is.  A person who engages in a protracted revert war on a single 
> article will get a single 24-hour ban, which is not really the end of 
> the world.  A person who repeatedly does this across a broad range of 
> articles will be repeatedly banned for 24-hour periods, resulting in 
> effectively a permanent ban until they decide to stop engaging in 
> revert-wars.

OK!  But if we're going to do that, it has to apply to both parties in 
an edit war, even when the dispute involves an acknowledged idiot versus 
a respected sysop. :-)   Every edit war has at least two participants.

Ec