Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring

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This page is for reporting active edit warriors and recent violations of restrictions like the three-revert rule. See this guide for instructions on creating diffs for this report. If you see that a user may be about to violate the three-revert rule, consider warning them by placing {{subst:uw-3rr}} on their user talk page. You must notify any user you have reported. You may use {{subst:An3-notice}} ~~~~ to do so. You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format. Additional notes When reporting a user here, your own behavior will also be scrutinized. Be sure you understand WP:REVERT and the definitions below first. The format and contents of a 3RR/1RR report are important, use the "Click here to create a new report" button below to have a report template with the necessary fields to work from. Possible alternatives to filing here are dispute resolution, or a request for page protection. Violations of other restrictions, like WP:1RR violations, may also be brought here. Your report should include two reverts that occurred within a 24-hour period, and a link to where the 1RR restriction was imposed. Definition of edit warring Edit warring is a behavior, typically exemplified by the use of repeated edits to "win" a content dispute. It is different from a bold, revert, discuss (BRD) cycle. Reverting vandalism and banned users is not edit warring; at the same time, content disputes, even egregious point of view edits and other good-faith changes do not constitute vandalism. Administrators often must make a judgment call to identify edit warring when cooling disputes. Administrators currently use several measures to determine if a user is edit warring. Definition of the three-revert rule (3RR) An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Violations of this rule normally attract blocks of at least 24 hours. Any appearance of gaming the system by reverting a fourth time just outside the 24-hour slot is likely to be treated as a 3RR violation. See here for exemptions. Sections older than 48 hours are archived by Lowercase sigmabot III.
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User:Santiegomartin555 reported by User:JeffUK (Result: Blocked one week)

Page: Ulm (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: Santiegomartin555 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 12:20, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "Added content"
2. 11:06, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "Added contents"
3. 10:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "Added contect"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 12:30, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Addition of unsourced or improperly cited material on Ulm."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

User not engaging on talk page. Probably just not hearing us! JeffUK 12:39, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

They've just appeared on their talk page, as a new user I've tried to explain why what they're doing is wrong, Technically breached 3RR already but if they don't continue then this can probably be resolved without sanctions. JeffUK 12:43, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Ignore that! Just realised they edited in the random person yet again. I can't revert this time myself, it's not quite falling under the BLP exemption. JeffUK 12:51, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of one week. Bbb23 (talk) 14:33, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

User:Masataka Ohta reported by User:MrOllie (Result: Blocked 48 hours)

Page: Bit (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: Masataka Ohta (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 14:14, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "undo changes ignoring the most recent (in 2023 before my recent change) discussion on talk"
2. 13:31, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1256142515. Though I'm not sure what "secure agreement " means, my revision is basedby MrOllie (talk)"
3. 12:50, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision claiming (by talk) as if a "binary digit" is a digit and, thus, must be a decimal digit by (talk)"
4. 11:26, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "As wikipedia page on Tukey and bit (He attributed its origin to John W. Tukey, who had written a Bell Labs memo on 9 January 1947 in which he contracted "binary information digit" to simply "bit") do confirms a fact"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 13:55, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule on Bit."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

1. 12:59, 8 November 2024 (UTC) "/* Revisions to lead */ new section"

Comments:

• Blocked – for a period of 48 hours. Bbb23 (talk) 14:52, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

User:Jmjfat reported by User:Simonm223 (Result: Page protected)

Page: ABBYY (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Jmjfat (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [1]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [2]
2. [3]
3. [4]
4. [5]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [6]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [7]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [8]

Comments:

User seems to WP:OWN the page with a past history that has led to WP:COI warnings. Is insisting that court evidence is required to include a discussion of a labour dispute reported in Pravda Ukraine. Simonm223 (talk) 20:18, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

I am not insisting court evidence needs to be provided, I am disputing the reliably of sources that can all be traced back to the same anonymous testimony of a former employee. I demand that the information be either referenced by another independant source, or not mentionned in the article. Jmjfat (talk) 20:23, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

You are edit warring and acting like you own the page - you should self-revert. Simonm223 (talk) 20:25, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

We are here to present factual information, not unsubstantiated rumours. Jmjfat (talk) 20:27, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

• Page protected ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:10, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

User:176.88.165.232 reported by User:HistoryofIran (Result: Blocked 31 hours)

Page: Khwarazmian Empire (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 176.88.165.232 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [9]
2. [10]
3. [11]
4. [12]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [13]

Attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [diff]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [14]

Comments:

IP is likely a sock per my comments here [15] [16]. Edit warring is just one of the many troubles they're currently causing. --HistoryofIran (talk) 17:10, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

+1, I was seriously considering writing an ANI report because of consistent WP:IDHT and tendentious editing. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:24, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Here is my response: Everytime, I invited these two to raise their objections on the talk page. My edit came with sources, official website of a government and an academic paper in English. These two are not raising objections but just reverting. I shall report them but I have no time right now to edit codes as I am at work now. --176.88.165.232 (talk) 18:07, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

+ EXTRA: Here are the user-talk page invitations of mine where I invited the two to explain their objection (which they did not):

HistoryofIran: 1

AirshipJungleman29:2 176.88.165.232 (talk) 18:20, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of 31 hours Bishonen | tålk 18:35, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

User: HistoryofIran reported by User:176.88.165.232 (Result: Declined – malformed report)

Page:  
User being reported:

Previous version reverted to: [diff preferred, link permitted]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [17]
2. [diff]
3. [diff]
4. [diff]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [18]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [diff]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [diff]

Comments:

- if you look at his edit, he does not even specify the reason he is reverting but just threatens to report me even though my edit came with sources. On his talk page, I invited him to raise his objections but he again reverted my invitation, threatening to report me again --176.88.165.232 (talk) 17:40, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

• Declined – malformed report. Please use the "Click here to create a new report" link at the top of this page, which gives a template report, and provide complete diffs. Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

User:2001:e68:5415:ce:dd22:5629:17eb:853b reported by User:Matthewrb (Result: )

Page: The Twisted Timeline of Sammy & Raj (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 2001:e68:5415:ce:dd22:5629:17eb:853b (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (And other related IPs)

Previous version reverted to: [19]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. Special:Diff/1254876342
2. Special:Diff/1255086880
3. Special:Diff/1255343796
4. Special:Diff/1255875194
5. Special:Diff/1255890964
6. Special:Diff/1256062542
7. Special:Diff/1256322558
8. Special:Diff/1256456268
9. Special:Diff/1256481709
10. Special:Diff/1256723577
11. Special:Diff/1256791208

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: N/A - SLOWEW

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: None, dispute resolution was only done via edit summaries.

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [20]

Comments:
There appears to be a SLOWEW happening in this article, since the 1st of November. Multiple users, including @Basil2001: and @Gilo1969: have reverted but the IPs are making 2 changes or less per day. While this does not qualify as a 3rr in the traditional sense, I am bringing it here for a wider look as this is long-running and will probably continue without semi-protection . ~ Matthewrb ^{Let's connect · Here to help} 17:55, 11 November 2024 (UTC)