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:Nelsito Maduro reported by User:HistoryofIran (Result: Blocked one week)

Page: Khanate of Bukhara (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Nelsito Maduro (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Diffs of the user's reverts:

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

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: 11 July 2024 9 December 2024

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [5]

Comments:

Mindlessly edit warring at Khanate of Bukhara, no edit summary whatsoever, attempting to replace a sourced map with their own unsourced, exaggerated, and likely copyrighted map. This is not the first time they've tried to disregarded WP:RS in favour of their own POV, as seen in this talk section back in July 2024 [6]. Seeing as they suddenly lost the ability to write a single word, I would consider this on the realm of WP:NOTHERE. --HistoryofIran (talk) 14:29, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of one week. Bbb23 (talk) 14:44, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

User:Beach00 reported by User:Muboshgu (Result: Blocked one week)

Page: Jon Stewart (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: Beach00 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [7]
2. Consecutive edits
   1. [8]
   2. [9]
   3. [10]
3. Consecutive edits
   1. [11]
   2. [12]
4. Consecutive edits
   1. [13]
   2. [14]

1. Consecutive edits made from 22:39, 9 December 2024 (UTC) to 22:40, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
   1. 22:39, 9 December 2024 (UTC) "Updated short description"
   2. 22:40, 9 December 2024 (UTC) "activism- reverting vandalism"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

• User talk:Beach00#November 2024

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

• Talk:Jon Stewart#Advocacy status

Comments:

This user was nearly blocked for edit waring on Jon Stewart in late November, but they stopped just before violating 3RR actually they did violate 3RR, but they stopped before I could report them here. Now they returned to Jon Stewart's article and vandalized my user page. This is not a 3RR violation, but it is ongoing edit warring. I can take it to ARV if that's a better venue. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:58, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of one week. Bbb23 (talk) 23:52, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

User:7amzah Alblooshi reported by User:Golikom (Result: Blocked indef and page deleted)

Page: Balush (tribe) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: 7amzah Alblooshi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 12:05, 10 December 2024 (UTC) "I am a balushi from al dhahirah do you think you know our origins more than us? I told you about the migration it’s based on the old British documents and the origins are from zahran not al zaffa"
2. 11:20, 10 December 2024 (UTC) "Bro balush are not descended from zaffa clan it’s just similar names, the stuff I upload are from British documents not from me"
3. 09:49, 10 December 2024 (UTC) ""
4. 09:23, 10 December 2024 (UTC) ""

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 12:21, 10 December 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on Balush (tribe)."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

1. 05:24, 10 December 2024 (UTC) on User talk:7amzah Alblooshi "Warning: Three-revert rule on Bani Kaab."

Comments:

additionally a lot of the text being added seems to be copyvio from here - https://www.agda.ae/en/catalogue/tna/fo/1016/313/n/288

Was also warned for edit warring by another user yesterday Golikom (talk) 12:22, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm that other user - we've seen huge problems generally with UAE family articles (in particular, funnily enough, Al Balushi) where users come in with the 'I'm an xxx from yyy and I know my history' OR arguments. This editor is bent particularly out of shape and I stepped back precisely because reverting (and explaining the reversions) the OR additions was getting us nowhere. So glad another editor has stepped in!!! Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 12:56, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Blocked indefinitely and page deleted. Daniel Case (talk) 19:56, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

User:Sobek2000 reported by User:Acolex2 (Result: No violation)

Page: List of ancient Egyptian royal consorts (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Sobek2000 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [15]
2. [16]
3. [17]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning:

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [18]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [19]

Comments:

User:Sobek2000 is reverting the page without completing the discussion on Talk:List of pharaohs.

No violation – there must be four or more reverts within a 24 hour period for the 3-Revert Rule to apply; the links you have provided do not meet these criteria. And they also seem to have started discussion. Daniel Case (talk) 19:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

User:2601:903:4000:6960:2AAA:54E:A984:6269 reported by User:QEnigma (Result: No violation)

Page: Pirates of the Caribbean (film series) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: 2601:903:4000:6960:2AAA:54E:A984:6269 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 17:26, 10 December 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1262293062 by QEnigma (talk) Again, I provided further details in the talk page. The script is the source. Please read before reverting."
2. 17:07, 10 December 2024 (UTC) "Added with further details in talk page"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 17:15, 10 December 2024 (UTC) "General note: Addition of unsourced or improperly cited material on Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

IP user. Using 2 different IPs. Edit warring and reverting. Please refer to [20] and [21]. QEnigma (talk) 19:52, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

No violation – there must be four or more reverts within a 24 hour period for the 3-Revert Rule to apply; the links you have provided do not meet these criteria. Only two reverts, and let's not call them "IP hoppers" when it's clear that, like many IPv6 users, their ISP makes use of that namespace to basically assign them a particular /64 range via dynamic IP. If they do eventually break 3RR or edit war across multiple articles (a possibility suggested by the /64's contributions, all of which focus on the PotC film franchise), then we can and will block the range. Daniel Case (talk) 20:05, 10 December 2024 (UTC)