[WikiEN-l] Re: 3RR

Tue Oct 4 02:21:43 UTC 2005

> From: steve v <vertigosteve at yahoo.com>
>
> Easy to say. You dont have right-wing nutcases tag
> team reverting your rewrites.

That's a difficult problem, maybe impossible.

But it can't be solved by Wikilawyering the number of reverts  
complaining about what computer programmers call "fencepost errors"  
in counting reverts, or when 24 hours begins, or whether you get an  
extra hour if the change from Daylight Savings to standard time  
happens during the 24 hours... or anything like that.

Although Wikipedia is not supposed to be majoritarian, if you have a  
garden-variety revert war between one person and many, yes, the many  
can effectively impose their will. As far as I know, the only remedy  
is to patiently conduct discussions, gain consensus, and then ask for  
help when you can show that people are reverting against consensus.

That may not work, either.

All I can say is that fussing about how many reverts you get to make  
and whether some sysop counted them properly isn't going to help.

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