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    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.

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    User:HouseplantHobbyist reported by User:NebY (Result: Blocked one week)

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    Page: Lucy Letby (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 21:19, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237439917 by Gumlau (talk) Due weight and quotes have already been given to that Guardian article"
    2. Consecutive edits made from 19:13, 29 July 2024 (UTC) to 19:54, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
      1. 19:13, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "Removed from intro per Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a newspaper. This gives recent news reports, which themselves are disputed, far too much prominence in the intro"
      2. 19:52, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "Range of issues here that need to be addressed, some of these things are already undergoing on an ongoing discussion on talk. Some other problems with POV commentary and lack of sources for parts"
      3. 19:54, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "No this is still under disupte and discussion at Talk:Lucy Letby#RSEDITORIAL. It may be that it is restored but not yet"
      4. 19:54, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "Removed from intro per Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a newspaper. This gives recent news reports, which themselves are disputed, far too much prominence in the intro"
    3. 07:44, 28 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237127569 by PerSeAnd (talk) Please see WP:BLPRESTORE and WP:ONUS. Continued reversions will also mean you are in breach of WP:3RR, which I have already warned you about. There is also an ongoing talk page discussion already, so there can be no excuse for more"
    4. 07:15, 28 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237125147 by PerSeAnd (talk) Yes it is, look again"
    5. 06:28, 28 July 2024 (UTC) "See talk page discussion in which this content is currently in dispute"

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:


    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:


    Comments:

    User was warned about edit-warring on 27 May 2024[1] and 19 July 2024[2], both times about this article (the only one Houseplant Hobbyist has edited in the last 6 months). They were reported on 20 July 2024 and the article protected for 2 days.[3] They have continued to discuss at Talk:Lucy Letby, where they are in dispute with several editors, none of whom are in agreement with HouseplantHobbyist. They have made five reverts, of different material by various editors, in about two hours. They justified two of them in edit summaries as "undergoing an ongoing discussion" and "still under dispute and discussion", but this looks more like claiming to have a veto so long as they keep posting on the talk page. NebY (talk) 22:24, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:NebY, whilst you were making this report I had just updated the article to attempt to incorporate a large amount of the content that editors wanted in, just in a more appropriate and NPOV way: [4]. If you had just waited a minute, you could have worked with my reinstation of some form of the content I removed in those reversions. previous reversions. If I hadn't already done this big edit which involved multiple self-reversions, I would self-revert my own edits. But as you can see, a lot of that stuff that I reverted before I have now restored in what seems to me to be a much more NPOV way. Let me demonstrate how some of those reversions have now been restored by myself:
    1. 1 [5] "See talk page discussion in which this content is currently in dispute" - that content has now been restored in a slightly reduced way with the most recent edit: [6]
    2. 2 [7] "Undid revision 1237125147 by PerSeAnd (talk) Yes it is, look again" - see above
    3. 3 [8] "Undid revision 1237127569 by PerSeAnd (talk) Please see WP:BLPRESTORE and WP:ONUS. Continued reversions will also mean you are in breach of WP:3RR, which I have already warned you about. There is also an ongoing talk page discussion already, so there can be no excuse for more" - see above
    4. 4 [9] "No this is still under disupte and discussion at Talk:Lucy Letby#RSEDITORIAL. It may be that it is restored but not yet" - see above
    5. 5 [10] "Range of issues here that need to be addressed, some of these things are already undergoing on an ongoing discussion on talk. Some other problems with POV commentary and lack of sources for parts" - My most recent edit [11] re-incorporated some of that content, e.g. the Dr Hammond part in Private Eye, which I specifically went out to find a separate secondary source for to back up and this time added back in with that
    6. 6 These two - [12] and [13] Removed from intro per Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a newspaper. This gives recent news reports, which themselves are disputed, far too much prominence in the intro - are actually just one revert, I just had to repeat it because it got lost in the temporary rollbacking I did here: [14].
    In short, most of those reverts I did I then self-reverted as part of one big edit here: [15] that attempted to incorporate much of what those reverted edit's had expressed, but in what I thought was a much more NPOV and balanced way, with appropriate sourcing and wording. Yes I have probably done a few too many reversions, but I've also not partially self-reverted in doing that big edit incorporating a lot of the previously reverted content. HouseplantHobbyist (talk) 22:56, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yesterday, 28 July 2024, you gave a 3RR warning to another editor.[16] You should read it. NebY (talk) 22:41, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Avatar317 reported by User:VQuakr (Result: Declined)

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    Page: ThorCon nuclear reactor (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

    User being reported: Avatar317 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 23:05, 26 July 2024
    2. 23:23, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237240527 by VQuakr (talk) Contested content doesn't belong in an article unless there is CONSENSUS for it to be there. AGAIN: Per WP:ONUS: "The responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.""
    3. 19:05, 28 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237214679 by VQuakr (talk) Unless an Independent Source mentions the viewpoint of UCS, the mere existence of UCS and them publishing content on their website about this reactor does NOT make it acceptable to have in this article. It WP:UNDUEly represents their opinion. Per WP:ONUS: "The responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.""

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

    1. 20:49, 28 July 2024 (UTC) "/* WP:EW */ new section"

    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

    1. 18:05, 28 July 2024 (UTC) "/* Neutrality of this article */ re"
    2. 20:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC) "/* Neutrality of this article */ re"

    Comments:

    Ongoing edit warring behavior at this and other articles. Gaming 3RR and stonewalling per edit summary at [17]. Previously warned for similar behavior at Linear no-threshold model (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Shouting. VQuakr (talk) 00:10, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    • Declined Citing WP:ONUS is not a particularly unambiguous example of gaming 3RR or stonewalling, and the previous warning alluded to above was from VQuakr after Avatar317 made a single revert to another article 10 days ago. If this issue merited a block, both of you would be subject to it, but it doesn't seem warrant that at this time. @VQuakr and Avatar317: I would highly suggest both of you cease reverting on this article until there is a consensus for or against, using WP:DR if necessary. Continued reverting may likely result in blocks, even if it is only one additional revert. - Aoidh (talk) 17:39, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Ajnh0320 reported by User:Czello (Result: Blocked 24 hours)

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    Page: Alternative for Germany (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

    User being reported: Ajnh0320 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 23:39, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "Ideology is revised to National conservatism, Social conservatism, Right-wing populism, Ultraconservatism, Russophilia, Euroscepticism, Identitarianism, Nativism, German nationalism, Reactionism, Anti-immigration, Anti-feminism, Christian nationalism, Anti-communism, Economic liberalism. Factions is revised to Neo-fascism, Neo-Nazism, Völkisch nationalism, and Pan-Germanism. Please Do not revert to the original document."
    2. 12:33, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "Ideology is revised to National conservatism, Social conservatism, Right-wing populism, Ultraconservatism, Russophilia, Euroscepticism, Identitarianism, Nativism, German nationalism, Reactionism, Anti-immigration, Anti-feminism, Christian nationalism, Anti-communism, Economic liberalism. Factions is revised to Neo-fascism, Neo-Nazism, Völkisch nationalism, and Pan-Germanism."
    3. 11:02, 29 July 2024 (UTC) ""
    4. 10:04, 29 July 2024 (UTC) ""

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

    1. 11:10, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "/* Alternative for Germany */ new section"
    2. 12:38, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule on Alternative for Germany."
    3. 19:55, 29 July 2024 (UTC) "/* Ideology warring */ new section"

    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:


    Comments:

    Ajnh0320 is a relatively new account who has a habit of mass-changing political ideoligies (WP:IDWAR) on pages. Their changes are always unsourced,[18][19][20][21] contradict existing sources,[22] delete existing sources,[23][24] and ignore comments requesting editors to get consensus before changing.[25] Despite numerous attempts at communication they've failed to respond. — Czello (music) 07:27, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    He is also in an investigation for being a sockpuppet. One of the other sockpuppets (Hidolo) with the same owner has been permanently blocked for constant edit warring (on en.wiki) Odideum (talk) 08:06, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:143.159.107.27 reported by User:Escape Orbit (Result: Blocked 24h)

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    Page: Joseph Lister (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

    User being reported: 143.159.107.27 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 10:20, 30 July 2024 (UTC) "The National Portrait Gallery calls him English, the site Histiry Today does, the National Institute of Health does and his father on here is called English!!! His surname search on wiki puts his name as origin of English in the word box!!!"
    2. 01:39, 30 July 2024 (UTC) "his father has been called english since he was first entered on here! i can’t see what the issue is! he was born and raised here just like his father. if the surgeon Hunter is called Scottish and not british then lister should be called English. hunter originated with the saxon’s who migrated thru these isles. admins are bias and prejudice and have been in the job too long that they have gone beyond all common sense and human decency. it’s farcical and petty. no wonder people do not trust o..."
    3. 21:32, 29 July 2024 (UTC) ""
    4. 04:44, 29 July 2024 (UTC) ""

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:


    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

    1. 09:45, 25 July 2024 (UTC) on User talk:143.159.107.27 "/* Ethnicity */ new section"

    Comments:

    Has repeatedly changed nationality over the last week, mainly on the basis of the origins of his name. Attempts on their talk page, but refuses to discuss other than in edit summary rants. Escape Orbit (Talk) 11:25, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Blocked – for a period of 24 hours Daniel Case (talk) 17:54, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Daniel Case: Seems to be still at it. scope_creepTalk 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Blocked – for a period of 1 week Jauerbackdude?/dude. 22:31, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Nswix reported by User:ProdigyUpdates (Result: No violation)

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    Page: Belal Muhammad (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Page: List of UFC champions (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 20:08, 30 July 2024 (UTC) "that doesnt establish notability. dont change until a concencus is formed"
    2. 01:39, 30 July 2024 (UTC) "per MOS:ETHNICITY"
    1. 20:07, 30 July 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237643110 by ProdigyUpdates"
    2. 19:43, 30 July 2024 (UTC) "Those are that way because it is proven that they have that nationality. not because of what they choose to walkout with. this isnt politically motivated, just keep it consistent with their nationalities."

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:


    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

    1. 18:16, 30 July 2024 (UTC) on Talk:List_of_UFC_champions "Belal Muhammad's Flag: new section"

    Comments:

    Continuously changes nationality and flags on athlete's page and various UFC related pages despite consensus already being reached on various talk pages. They are also violating MOS:ETHNICITY since notability of ethnicity has been clearly established on Talk:Belal_Muhammad, 30 July 2024 (UTC) ProdigyUpdates (talk) 21:03, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Consensus on this issue has most definitely not been reached yet. Belal has been listed under the American flag on Wikipedia for over 3 years now. Rcpilot9 (talk) 21:26, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Eight years. His page has said American since it was created in 2016 Nswix (talk) 21:27, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:ProdigyUpdates reported by User:Nswix (Result: Blocked 2 weeks)

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    Page: Belal Muhammad (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Page: UFC rankings (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Page: Ultimate Fighting Championship (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    Page: List of UFC records (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: ProdigyUpdates (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. Diff
    2. Diff
    3. Diff



    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: Diff

    Comments:


    Has dug their heels in about an American athlete of Palestinian ethnicity, who ‘must be labeled as Palestinian, because they walk out with an Palestinian flag’, despite there being no evidence of Palestinian nationality and it not meeting MOS:ETHNICITY. I get its a hot topic, but we cant just keep reverting pages that have been uncontentious for years, because you decided its not right. Nswix (talk) 21:08, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    • User continues to spread misinformation. I have never used that quote. This athlete is listed by UFC and ESPN as a Palestinian fighter which is enough to establish notability. I'm afraid the user may be using their personal political motivation to discredit these obvious facts. ProdigyUpdates (talk) 21:21, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I have over 15,000 edits in the martial arts space, none of which have ever been described as politically motivated. You have 200, most in the last couple of day and all concerning one athlete. Nswix (talk) 21:25, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    All the more unfortunate that as an experienced Wikipedian, you cannot keep your personal bias aside when dealing with uncontested facts that clearly meet MOS:ETHNICITY standards and all reputable UFC and ESPN websites listing the athlete as Palestinian. ProdigyUpdates (talk) 21:29, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Jchs08 reported by User:Elijah Palmer (Result: Blocked 48 hours + another indefinitely)

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    2024 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: Jchs08 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to: [26]

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. [27]
    2. [28]
    3. [29]
    4. [30]



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

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

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

    Comments:

    User:87.252.38.14 reported by User:Ponyo (Result: Blocked one week)

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    Page: Philip Bobbitt (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: 87.252.38.14 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

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

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. [31]
    2. [32]
    3. [33]
    4. [34]
    5. [35]
    6. [36]


    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [37]

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

    Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [38]

    Comments:

    Page: Cynthia Rothrock (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

    User being reported: DragionTech007 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 13:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "Outdated image - Undid revision 1237978648 by FlightTime (talk)"
    2. 13:14, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237978177 by FlightTime (talk)"
    3. 13:08, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237429330 by FlightTime (talk)"

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

    1. 13:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "Caution: Disruption 2."
    2. 13:15, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on Cynthia Rothrock."
    3. 13:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "/* August 2024 */ + Section header"

    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:


    Comments: DragionTech007 is now engaging in very obvious WP:QUACK sockpuppetry[39]Czello (music) 15:36, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Le Blue Dude reported by User:Hornpipe2 (Result: Warning, Semi)

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

    User being reported: Le Blue Dude (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 19:26, 31 July 2024 (UTC) ""
    2. 19:18, 31 July 2024 (UTC) "Well, how about a compromise? We keep the link but put it behind a trigger warning so that people actually have a warning."
    3. 17:15, 31 July 2024 (UTC) "There is no 'sitewide' consensus about this link. There is probably no other article in this situation where the article does not mention the potential harm that could be caused by viewing the link. It is unfair to include a link that could cause harm without including a warning"

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:


    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:


    Comments:

    User persistently trying to alter the infobox to remove or alter a link to a site, despite being told repeatedly that this is not how links / infoboxes work Hornpipe2 (talk) 14:57, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    sorry I don't know how to use Twinkle I guess! I wanted to add that there is discussion on the talk page about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sinfest#Shouldn't_be_a_direct_link - but that the user continues to make changes despite being told that this isn't how it works Hornpipe2 (talk) 14:59, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    WP:Elno #2 Le Blue Dude (talk) 15:03, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    guess you missed the bolded text at the top of WP:ELNO then Hornpipe2 (talk) 15:06, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Frankly, I disagree with your assessment. In the deletion section and also in the talk page this has been discussed and the general consensus is that the link should not be included because the page does not mention the extreme anti-Semitic content of the link in question anywhere on the page. It is harmful to expose people to extreme anti-semitic content without warning. Le Blue Dude (talk) 15:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I will let an administrator weigh in on this, but ultimately the back-and-forth is out of control on that page and needs some intervention. Hornpipe2 (talk) 15:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes. This is part of why there’s been motion to delete the page. The contents of Sinfest include extreme anti-semitic content and Covid misinformation and the article provides no mention. The sooner an admin sees this and either suspends Wp:or or deletes the article the better. Le Blue Dude (talk) 15:05, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That is not the consensus of the talk page at all. — Czello (music) 15:04, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Two vs one, and in the delete page more Le Blue Dude (talk) 15:05, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    First, Wikipedia isn't a straw poll. Numbers don't mean anything, it's the arguments that matter - and the arguments are particularly weak right now. Secondly I've just waded in, so it's not even 2v1 now. Third, the arguments on the AfD are about deletion, not whether a link should be included. — Czello (music) 15:11, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    And now it's 3v2 in favour of inclusion, so that's that. — Czello (music) 15:19, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User:FlightTime reported by User:DragionTech007 (Result:Indef partial block)

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    Page: Cynthia Rothrock (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 13:16, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237978508 by DragionTech007 (talk)"
    2. 13:14, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1237977812 by DragionTech007 (talk)"

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

    1. 13:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "Caution: Disruption 2."
    2. 13:15, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on Cynthia Rothrock."
    3. 13:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC) "/* August 2024 */ + Section header"

    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:


    Comments: User: FlightTime keeps attempting to revert and insert an outdated infobox image (circa 2018) on Wikipage. Newer image (Jan 2024) has been restored.

    Any passing admin should note that this is clearly a retaliatory report for the discussion above. DragionTech007 is edit warring to insert their own photograph which clearly does not have consensus. — Czello (music) 15:29, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    OP is now engaging in very obvious WP:QUACK sockpuppetry[40]Czello (music) 15:35, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]