[WikiEN-l] RE: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 10, Issue 77

Mon May 31 23:01:42 UTC 2004

Geoff Burling wrote (in reply to "Jim Kork"):
 >Also, you made 3 reversions to the [[Kemal Atatuerk]] article within 24 
hours,
 >which -- even if you had an account -- would result in having your account
 >blocked.

This is not true. Please take a look at [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:How to revert 
a page to an earlier version#Revert wars considered harmful (the three 
revert guideline)]]. Basically, it's *more* than three times, not three 
times, and the guideline is not enforced by a block (some people might like 
it to be, but as things stand it isn't, and quite a few people are against 
the idea). It used to be that reverting more than thrice could result in a 
quickpoll to block, but this is rather controversial (see 
[[Talk:Quickpolls]]), and hasn't been done in practice for over a month.

That's not to take away from the rest of your post, nor to legitimize Mr 
Kork's actions in any way (I agree that blocking him in this case was 
fine). I just wanted to comment on this one point because there's a lot of 
misinformation about this "rule" floating about.

Regards
Lee (Camembert)