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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:71.115.78.70 reported by User:Toast1454 (Result: Already blocked)

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    Page: F1NN5TER (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

    User being reported: 71.115.78.70 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 13:08, 20 May 2025 (UTC) "🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕"
    2. 13:06, 20 May 2025 (UTC) "🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕"
    3. 13:01, 20 May 2025 (UTC) ""
    4. Consecutive edits made from 13:00, 20 May 2025 (UTC) to 13:00, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
      1. 13:00, 20 May 2025 (UTC) ""
      2. 13:00, 20 May 2025 (UTC) ""

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

    1. 13:02, 20 May 2025 (UTC) "Message about your edit on F1NN5TER (level 2) (AV)"
    2. 13:09, 20 May 2025 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring."

    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:


    Comments:

    User:Koppite1 reported by User:HorrorLover555 (Result: Both blocked)

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    Page: Cowboy Carter Tour (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: Koppite1 (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:HorrorLover555 reported by Koppite1 for edit warring

    Page: Cowboy Carter Tour (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

    Constantly reverting longstanding edits without consensus. Rather than responding to my questions on the article's talk page (asking why a factual statement is deemed puffery), HorrorLover555 was rather make this report prematurely (as i had already stopped reverting and have actually joined the discussion of the article's talk page BEFORE this whole issue was referred to this notice board)

    Koppite1 (talk) 16:52, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Combining with the above section. Both users blocked for 24 hours. EvergreenFir (talk) 17:29, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    And they are lucky you made the block and not me. I usually block users for longer for this kind of runaway edit warring that long ago blew past 3RR. Daniel Case (talk) 17:32, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Homecow reported by User:Toddy1 (Result: Blocked indefinitely)

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    Page: 1999 East Timorese crisis (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: Homecow (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
    User being reported: 103.130.130.115 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to: 00:56, 14 May 2025 (UTC) by 103.130.130.115

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 16:19, 16 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Pineapplethen
    2. 16:50, 16 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Pineapplethen
    3. 02:31, 17 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Pineapplethen
    4. 03:48, 17 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Pineapplethen
    5. 04:15, 17 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Pineapplethen
    6. 05:03, 17 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Pineapplethen
    7. 06:34, 17 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Pineapplethen
    8. 06:47, 17 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Opm581
    9. 11:02, 17 May 2025 (UTC) Homecow reverted Opm581
    10. 23:15, 19 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Melbguy05
    11. 10:04, 20 May 2025 (UTC) 103.130.130.115 reverted Melbguy05
    12. 11:12, 20 May 2025 (UTC) Homecow reverted Chipmunkdavis and Less Unless
    13. 11:53, 20 May 2025 (UTC) Homecow reverted Melbguy05
    14. 14:38, 20 May 2025 (UTC) Homecow reverted Chipmunkdavis
    15. 17:03, 20 May 2025 (UTC) Homecow reverted Toddy1

    103.130.130.115 was blocked for disruptive editing on this page at 06:57, 17 May 2025 (UTC) for 31 hours, and again at 10:45, 20 May 2025 (UTC) indefinitely. But as you can see, Homecow simply carried on the edit war.


    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: 16:26, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:
    User talk:103.130.130.115 06:42, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    User talk:Homecow 11:47, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: 18:17, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Comments:

    User:Luke.haddad120 reported by User:Mitch minty (Result: Both indefinitely pblocked)

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    Page: Centre des Archives Nationales (Lebanon) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: Luke.haddad120 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to: [9]

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. [10]
    2. [11]
    3. [12]
    4. [13]
    5. [14]

    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [15]

    Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [16]

    Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [17]

    Comments:

    • Both indefinitely pblocked from editing the article. The two have been edit-warring for months, and it would appear that for both it's the only article they're interested in.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:47, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    How to get someone else to look? Is a low traffic article. Other user seems to be using to promote someone with unreliable backdated source. Now I can't revert that even though I follow rules about talk page. Mitch minty (talk) 23:56, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Lemonademan22 reported by User:NJZombie (Result: Warned user(s))

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    Page: Sabu (wrestler) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: Lemonademan22 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to: [18]

    Diffs of the user's reverts: May 11 Death date reverts

    1. [19]
    2. [20]
    3. [21]

    May 12

    1. [22]
    2. [23]
    3. [24]
    4. [25]

    May 13 At this point the reverts switched to birth date reverts

    1. [26]
    2. [27]

    May 14

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

    May 15 At this point, they're reverting the death date again, along with reverting the birth year due to once source questioning the year of birth.

    1. [31]
    2. [32]
    3. [33]
    4. [34]

    May 17 Now the reversions over whether his name is Terry or Terrence begin, along with reverts over place of birth.

    1. [35]
    2. [36]
    3. [37]
    4. [38]
    5. [39]
    6. [40]
    7. [41]

    May 18 After that last May 17 edit, I placed a 3RR warning on the user's talk page, which was ignored.

    1. [42]
    2. [43]
    3. [44]
    4. [45]
    5. [46]
    6. [47]
    7. [48]

    May 19

    1. [49]
    2. [50]
    3. [51]
    4. [52]
    5. [53]
    6. [54]



    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [55]

    Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [56]

    Comments:
    Article subject died on May 11. Since that time, Lemonademan22 has been in a consistent edit war multiple users, both anonymous and registered, over the subject's birth date, death date, place of birth, and birth name. While discussion does occur on the article's talk page, the reversions continue relentlessly with no actual consensus being reached before doing so. I have not taken part in said talk page discussions but other than one edit correcting what I thought was an age error made by a different user, and one where I made the same revert Lemonademan22 did concerning a unconfirmed death date at the time, I have not taken place in reverts. User has been warned, as have others who have taken place in the edit warring, but the warning was ignored. While I have no stake in either side of any aspect of the changes, the edit warring from all involved needs to cease. Some of those other editors have been blocked but Lemonademan22 has not, despite being the most consistent abuser of 3RR concerning this article. Most, if not all of these disagreements could have been solved with providing the best sourced info and adding a note stating that the information provided is disputed. To be clear, I'm not debating the information Lemonademan22 is adding or removing. I'm calling out the disregard for edit warring. NJZombie (talk) 01:13, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @NJZombie This is a vile misrepresentation of my work. I have done NOTHING wrong. I have been personally attacked twice: [57] [58] which Ymblanter thankfully blocked temporarily.
    I reverted original research, unsourced claims, violations of WP:SYNTH, and backed up my edits with appropriate sources, as well as follow Wikipedia's rules to the fullest. I decided to WP:IGNORE your warning for the benefit of Wikipedia, would you rather have original research, unsourced claims and nonsense ranging from "his sister knows better than the New York Times" to "Sabu's friend said this", while smoking a joint might I add? No.
    Hilariously, you didn't even sign the "warning" on my talk page, I had to do it for you: [59] did you really care about giving me the warning in the first place? Why did you say one thing and nothing else? Why are you singling me out and no one else? Also, worth noting is you never even participated in the talk page discussion.
    I have emphasized time and time again that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia ran by adults, not a fan wiki ran by children, it should be respected and should have appropriate sources, formatting, and shouldn't work on heresay. But of course, the editor that actually wants to help Wikipedia and expand it as an encyclopedia is the one getting reported? Sounds fair right? I will leave it at that. Lemonademan22 (talk) 11:04, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Lemonademan22, you are right about Wikipedia's purpose, and WP:3RRNO #7 exists. It allows you to remove, without discussion and without having to care about the number of reverts, contentious material that is libelous, biased, unsourced, or poorly sourced according to [WP:BLP].
    To
    remove.
    Not to add new material. Not to restore disputed content (WP:BLPRESTORE forbids this even for a single revert). Not even if you are 100% sure that the material is factually correct.
    Please keep this in mind in the future. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:15, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @ToBeFree I will, thank you for the warning. Lemonademan22 (talk) 18:59, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Ariadne000 reported by User:Trailblazer101 (Result: Blocked 72h)

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    Page: Gone with the Wind (film) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

    User being reported: Ariadne000 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 16:35, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1291491756 by Betty Logan The Betty Logan account is bogus: 22:02, 16 February 2010 WereSpielChequers talk contribs deleted page User:Betty Logan (G10: Attack page or negative unsourced BLP) (thank) This account exists to make bad faith edits and revert other editors. It exists to make reversions and bad faith commentary on other editors."
    2. Consecutive edits made from 14:36, 21 May 2025 (UTC) to 15:04, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
      1. 14:36, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1291433663 by Betty Logan (talk) "Betty Logan" is a bogus attack account and doesn't get an opinion.."
      2. 15:04, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "edited photo sizes and captions NOTE: Precisely because GWTW is so iconic, photos are warranted."
    3. Consecutive edits made from 01:09, 21 May 2025 (UTC) to 01:46, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
      1. 01:09, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "Added photos from Wikimedia Commons with captions highlighting characterizations"
      2. 01:11, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "adjusted photo size"
      3. 01:16, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "adjusted photo size"
      4. 01:23, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "Edited caption"
      5. 01:29, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "edited photo caption"
      6. 01:39, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "edited caption"
      7. 01:46, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "edited captions"

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:


    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

    1. 16:59, 21 May 2025 (UTC) "/* Excessive number of images added to the article */ Reply"

    Comments:

    Editor is contributing in bad faith and is WP:NOTHERE to constructively build an encyclopedia civily. — Trailblazer101🔥 (discuss · contribs) 17:01, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    • I've blocked Ariadne000 for 72h, mainly for the personal attacks against Betty Logan, partly for the incompetence behind their reasoning for calling Betty Logan a "bogus account", and partly for being non-collaborative.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:19, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User:QubeChiba reported by User:Илона И (Result: )

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    Page: When Life Gives You Tangerines (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) User being reported: QubeChiba (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to: [diff preferred, link permitted] [60]

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. [61]
    2. [62]
    1. [63]
    1. [64]
    2. [65]

    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning:

    I posted warning at her User's post page without template but she deleted it

    Her undo of my edits:

    1. [66]
    2. [67]
    3. [68]
    4. [69]
    5. [70]

    Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [71] [72][73]

    Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [74] (she deleted it)

    Comments:

    Yesterday I added in Impact part of series Kim Seon-ho's smile challenge. She undo it stating it is not neutral and too detailed. She didn't open topic at Talk page or ask me to rephrase it, just deleted it. I reverted her undo, stating that WP:DUE didn't apply here. She undo it again by deleting most of it. I made Talk topic abt Impact part at series Talk page. She never answered me while editing this page whole time, I tagged her twice bcs I opned 2 Talk topics.

    Today she still didn't answer me at Talk page, later the same day I added second footnote proving popularity of Kim Seon-ho's smile challenge not only in China, but also overseas, which she yesterday edited out. She undo it stating wp:OVERKILL.

    I undo it and answering: "WP:OVERKILL didn't apply to this case it is 2 different sources, one in Korean and one in English. Read, please again what WP:OVERKILL means. Or open discussion thread at Talk page."

    Then I opend Topic abt this problem at series Talk page and went to her page and posted warning abt her WP:OWN behaviour and [WP:3RR].

    But then she again undo my edit and demanded: "You don’t need two citations for a phrase. Choose one since either summarizes that it’s popular anyway. Again, this is the extraneous and non essential details clutterj" and "No need for two citations for a phrase. Choose one since either summarizes that it’s popular anyway. Again, this is the extraneous and non essentials that gives it WP: UNDUEWEIGHT".

    So I went to report her here, I am aware that in the heat of the moment I also was participate in WP:EDITWAR and can be blocked but I can't stand such gatekeeping, bullying and WP:OWN behaviour. Yes, she is quite good editor, but she also behaves like this series page is her own and only she knows what need to be there. We have equal rights. Also, she threatened other editors while deleting their editors with wrong applied Wiki rules. My adding of 2nd footnote didn't fell under WP:OVERKILL and her own WP:DUE is quite questionable.

    She always said in her edit's note that I need to open Topic at Talk page but allowed herself deleted my edits just like that.

    She also behaved like this earlier this year for other editors, I checked Edit history.

    She makes many small edits to this page and in process coonstantly changes and delete info that other users added and transfer this page to one she wants to see. Other opinions not accepted. Илона И (talk) 10:43, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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