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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:141.154.49.21 reported by User:Adakiko (Result: Blocked 2 weeks)

Previous version reverted to: revert by Adakiko, 12:00, 3 April

Diffs of the user's reverts:

23:23 13 April ES: Not unsourced, as I will explain in talk. By the way, when you start an edit war you're the one that needs to stop before 3 reverts
21:34, 11 April ES: Undid revision 1285127896 by Gaismagorm (talk) All of these claims are cited in the huge table below, as I said before. Claim 1 is cited by the Virginia election maps, Claims 2 and 3 are both cited by the table below.
21:22, 11 April ES: Feel free to list the exact claims that need to be cited (there really aren't any) or add citations yourself. This is simply an analysis of the Virginian election map. And if you bothered to check the citation, you'd find that it's Virginia as a whole - meaning that my claims are, in fact, cited.
21:05 11 April ES: You don't need to cite that the sky is blue. If you look at the numbers, 76% > any other of the numbers listed. Crazy, right? The other parts, namely that the south was democratic before becoming republican, is fairly well known. If you would like to add citations yourself to this widely known phenomenon, go ahead
16:53 11 April ES: The giant sourced table directly below the words is the source.

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: 03:56, 12 April

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: Talk:Page County, Virginia#Politics section edits on 11 April 2025

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: AN3 notice 04:28, 14 April

Comments:

Anon does not appear willing to discuss, just tells others they are wrong. Reverted twice by Gaismagorm (talk · contribs) and thrice by Adakiko (talk · contribs)
Anon did finally add sources here - 23:48, 13 April 2025 no ES, after their last revert, but without discussion nor any attempt to get consensus.
Some of the anon's content is sourced, other appears to be (or was) unsourced, OR, or synthesis. I find some of the anon's other edits dubious for similar issues. Adakiko (talk) 04:27, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked – for a period of 2 weeks ~ ToBeFree (talk) 10:18, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:TL9027 reported by User:Seasider53 (Result: Blocked)

Previous version reverted to: [1]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

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

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [diff] - I'm not part of the war; I asked both parties to resolve on the Glossop line talk page in this edit summary, but TL9027 ignored it

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [7]

Comments:

Blocked – for a period of 60 hours Partially blocked from Glossop line. Acroterion (talk) 23:59, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:2605:B100:B47:586B:20E2:91F5:D124:F961 reported by User:GommehGaming101 (Result: /64 blocked a week /41 blocked a year as an LTA)

User being reported: 2605:B100:B47:586B:20E2:91F5:D124:F961 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

14:50, 15 April 2025 (UTC) "NHL statistics are not updated until season at hand has completed play. The user in question has incorrectly ised the SAME CITATION three times over in the span of the same paragraph along with spacing issues. STOP IT NOW."
14:40, 15 April 2025 (UTC) "NHL statistics are not updated until season at hand has completed play. DO NOT REVERT. The information includes about Demidov's early years in Russia is also redudant"
14:36, 15 April 2025 (UTC) "NHL statistics are not updated until season at hand has completed play"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

14:38, 15 April 2025 (UTC) "General note: Removal of content, blanking on Ivan Demidov (ice hockey)."
14:53, 15 April 2025 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on Ivan Demidov (ice hockey)."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

14:44, 15 April 2025 (UTC) on Ivan Demidov (ice hockey) "Reverted 1 edit by 2605:B100:B47:586B:20E2:91F5:D124:F961 (talk): That information is not redundant- if you'd like to discuss removing it, please take it to the talk page first."

Comments:

Told them to discuss on the article's talk page if they'd like to remove content; they ignored my advice and reverted me twice. It does not matter that NHL stats are not updated until the end of the season in this case as those were not the only information the user removed. This user is probably on the verge of violating WP:3RR. Gommeh (talk/contribs) 14:56, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked – for a period of ~~one week~~ one year The range ~~2605:B100:B47:586B:0:0:0:0/64 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial))~~ 2605:B100:B00:0:0:0:0:0/41 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial)). I have extended both the range and the time since it appears this is very likely another sock of WP:LTA/HABS. Daniel Case (talk) 18:06, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Chessarole reported by User:MasterBlasterofBarterTown (Result: Blocked)

Previous version reverted to: [8]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

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

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [14]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [15]

Comments:
While this may look like two different users, its pretty obviously the same person MasterBlasterofBarterTown (talk) 20:44, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Both

Confirmed to Renamed user f035ad1deaac4978eb5af16869ff3dc8. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:57, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:58, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Somalizoro reported by User:Cookiemonster1618 (Result: Blocked)

Somalizoro (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [16]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [21]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [22]
Somalizoro continues to make disruptive edits on the Somali people article claiming the data estimates and figures are old while also changing population figures and claiming they are found on the cited sources when they are not. The user also is edit warring on that page as was shown with their recent edits. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 23:00, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked – 31 hours for disruption. The user is edit warring to insert unsourced information. EdJohnston (talk) 02:02, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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