[WikiEN-l] Autoblocking, reverts, and verifiability

Sat Oct 8 13:32:42 UTC 2005

On 06/10/05, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> quoted:

> According to baseball rules, if one has "more than 2 strikes" called
> against him while at bat, that player will be called "out." In other
> words, each batter is "entitled" to 2 strikes before being called
> "out." According to Wikipedia rules, if one edits a page "more than
> three times" in a 24 hour period, he is subject to being blocked. How
> is it, then, that that rule does NOT "entitle" an editor to "three
> reverts" without being called out? (...)

My personal solution would be to edit WP:3RR such that it says
something like "Administrators may, at their discretion, block people
for aggressive reverting in accordance with the _spirit_ of this rule,
not the letter; this is considered acceptable, even if less than three
reverts have been made to any one page in a 24-hour period".

However, this would not - to put it mildly - go down very well if
suggested. (despite the fact that 98% of editors with common sense
would never notice the difference)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk