[WikiEN-l] Autoblocking, reverts, and verifiability

Thu Oct 6 11:59:51 UTC 2005

Yes, this is precisely why it's a 3RR rule, not a 1RR or 2RR rule :P
This kind of editing is very common and to be encouraged, you two
communicated with eachother and worked out an agreement. However, if
any of you had, instead, actually broken the 3RR there would have been
atleast 7 reverts (4 for the one who broke the rule, and 3 for the
other) of the article. That is not healthy. The 3RR is there to force
editors, just as it did with you guys, to work stuff out, outside of
the edit summaries.

Unfortunatly, not everyone has the amount of common sense you guys have :P

--gkhan

On 10/6/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
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> MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> > If the autoblocker causes so much problems for 3RR blocks, then we
> > could ask the developers to make autoblocking optional. Have a nice
> > clickable 3RR box in the block screen which switches off autoblocking
> > for 3RR blocks.
> >
> > Of course, if one would follow a 1 or 2RR this wouldn't even be an issue.
> >
>
> A few days ago, I noticed a grammatical error in an article which I
> figured must have been fixed at some point past.
>
> Sure enough, looking through the history, I found the point at which the
> change had occurred.
>
> Dubious of the factual accuracy of the change, I reverted it and left a
> note on the editor's talk page to let them know that I had done so,
> since there was no source for the claim that was being made.
>
> Within a few minutes I recieved a reply, giving a source and telling me
> that they'd reverted my change.
>
> No worries, I thought to myself, so I checked the article and sure
> enough, the grammatical error was still there.
>
> So I went and fixed it.
>
> Only in my haste, I "fixed it" in the wrong spot.
>
> Within another few minutes, the other party had corrected my change.
>
> Four edits by two parties in the space of ten minutes. We discussed our
> changes (on talk pages and in edit summaries), made one revert each, and
> ended up fixing the article.
>
> Who needs the 3RR when you have common sense?
>
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