[WikiEN-l] Illegitimate block.

Fri Jan 7 19:17:44 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:

>JAY JG (jayjg at hotmail.com) [050108 01:29]:
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>>What if someone does 3 reverts, waits a full 24 hours, then does his "edit" 
>>again, and reverts to it 3 times - has he violated the 3RR or not?  Does 
>>the clock always start ticking *after* the first edit?
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>If it's 24h 5 min and they do it consistently, they're pretty obviously
>gaming the system. I don't see how they could stay on a reverting quest
>like this without violating other policies along the way.
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Everyking comes to mind. [[User:Johnleemk/Autobiography dispute]] has a 
list of selected edit summaries at the end where Everyking displays his 
intent to game the 3RR (but he's already demonstrated that through his 
behaviour). While arguably he may have broken our rules regarding 
ownership of articles (if we have any), these rules are so arcane and/or 
unwritten, there's no hard evidence. Everyking's successfully gamed the 
system for a long time. iMeowbot points out on [[Wikipedia:Votes for 
deletion/Autobiography promotion and publicity]] that Everyking seems to 
have been gaming VfD as well in an attempt to get his data stored by 
creating numerous subarticles in the knowledge that while we can delete 
some, we can't delete all (i.e. [[Autobiography album design]] was 
deleted, but the article on its sales and charting statistics was kept).

John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])