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:2003:DF:7F2D:6F00:7945:3AF3:B209:4C04 reported by User:CurryTime7-24 (Result: /64 blocked 36 hours)

Page: Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: 2003:DF:7F2D:6F00:7945:3AF3:B209:4C04 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 03:43, 10 October 2024 (UTC) "AUTOMATED CONTROL ON YOUR PART !!! SHAMEFUL !!!"
2. 03:37, 10 October 2024 (UTC) "Provide a REASON when undoing people's work!"
3. 05:56, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "Hey, twinkle guy, I think it is!"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 18:05, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule on Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments: German IP user has sporadically been reverting to their preferred version of the lead since June 2022. In the last day, however, they took to edit warring, which began with this edit made by a different German-based IP. I've explained to them in the custom message appended to the warning that their choice of lead contains original research and subjective language. In the same message, I also invited them to discuss the problem on the article talk page, as well as seek help from WP:TEAHOUSE if needed. However, they either did not read my messages or chose to ignore them. CurryTime7-24 (talk) 04:06, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

I also requested page protection earlier due to IP-hopping and false claims of vandalism. Mellk (talk) 08:54, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Blocked – for a period of 36 hours Daniel Case (talk) 21:13, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Laurent Jack reported by User:Zendrago X (Result: Blocked 72 hours)

Page: Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. Consecutive edits made from 14:51, 9 October 2024 (UTC) to 14:52, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
   1. 14:51, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "/* Strength in legislative assemblies */Now i have updated the total seats composition of The parities of I.N.D.I. Alliance. I have taken the data from the updated wikipedia article of each legislative assembly."
   2. 14:52, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "Updated"
2. Consecutive edits made from 12:36, 9 October 2024 (UTC) to 12:37, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
   1. 12:36, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "Updated."
   2. 12:37, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "/* Strength in legislative assemblies */Updated"
3. Consecutive edits made from 10:27, 9 October 2024 (UTC) to 10:36, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
   1. 10:27, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "Updated the State legislative assembly seats."
   2. 10:31, 9 October 2024 (UTC) ""
   3. 10:34, 9 October 2024 (UTC) ""
   4. 10:36, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "I.N.D.I.A have 236 Mp In loksabha. So i updated the numbers according to the loksabha website."

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 13:33, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "General note: Unconstructive editing."
2. 13:35, 9 October 2024 (UTC) "/* October 2024 */"

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on talk page:

1. 13:43, 9 October 2024 (UTC) on User talk:Zendrago X "/* Note */ Reply"

Comments:

Continually reverting edits back to their preferred version. The number of MLAs and MPs is already provided on the page, but the user is changing it to random numbers to make it look less accurate. Since the state-wise data is already given on page for every party, there’s discussion needed on where they’re adding it. Even after replying them on their talk page, they did not respond and restored different random number, their every edit has random number of seats in state seats count which clearly shows vandalism. ZDX _{(User) | (Contact)} 12:13, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

• Blocked – for a period of 72 hours ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:44, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

User:2A0A:EF40:2A0:A901:5061:6C04:E201:E044 reported by User:Mutt Lunker (Result: Already blocked)

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

User being reported: 2A0A:EF40:2A0:A901:5061:6C04:E201:E044 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

Return to warring, against consensus. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

• Already blocked ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:18, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

User:2603:8080:13F0:7C90:CC2A:BC1E:2322:A3B6 reported by User:Peaceray (Result: /64 range blocked one week)

Page:

• Alexandr Wang (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

• Scale AI (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

• Theranos (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  

User being reported: 2603:8080:13F0:7C90:CC2A:BC1E:2322:A3B6 (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:

• Alexandr Wang

1. diff
2. diff
3. diff

• Scale AI

1. diff
2. diff
3. diff
4. diff
5. diff
6. diff
7. diff

• Theranos

1. diff
2. diff
3. diff

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: Warned with this diff that states:

Please stop your disruptive editing.

• If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
• If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Theranos, you may be blocked from editing. You added unrelated & material unverified by a reliable source.

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

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

Comments:

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#2603:8080:13F0:7C90:CC2A:BC1E:2322:A3B6:_WP:BLP_&_MOS:MOS_violations_&_removing_cited_material_&_citations_without_explanation

This editor has been constantly manually reverting edits that violate WP:BLP, posting uncited material, removing material without explanation that is cited along with the citations, & violating the Manual of style. Peaceray (talk) 22:23, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

• I've blocked the /64 range for one week.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:25, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Deedman22993 reported by User:LilianaUwU (Result: Indefinitely blocked)

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

User being reported: Deedman22993 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 05:58, 11 October 2024 (UTC) ""
2. 05:56, 11 October 2024 (UTC) "Even if my account gets blocked this will be still reverted"
3. 05:52, 11 October 2024 (UTC) "Never gonna stop"
4. 05:50, 11 October 2024 (UTC) "What do you mean sock? Look at this article how ruined it is"
5. 05:37, 11 October 2024 (UTC) "Previous version of the article was better"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

Basically begging to be blocked (note one of the edit summaries). Originally I reverted due to the concern it was a sock (still unsure on this, but I believe it is), but then they kept going. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 06:54, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

LilianaUwU: in an attempt at AGF I have asked for constructive feedback on the talk page, but I'm not confident. — ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email) 07:12, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

It was difficult to assume good faith when their first edit summary went along the lines of "nah it was better before". LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 08:37, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

• Indefinitely blocked for vandalism by HJ Mitchell.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:12, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Matza Pizza reported by User:KyleJoan (Result: Both blocked 48 hours)

Page: Tony Dokoupil (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Matza Pizza (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 ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [7]

Comments:
Adding undue material to a contentious BLP, with generally unreliable and/or biased sources (alongside some reliable ones that don't support their proposed material). Their edit summaries and this message clearly indicate inappropriate involvement of editorial bias. It looks like they also want to add positive PR into the article. KyleJoan^talk 09:01, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Editor who reported me has edit-warred with no less than five editors on this article in the last 48 hours or so. This editor continues to edit this article in a highly biased way, clearly violating BLP rules, reverting the numerous editors who sought to insert balance. Editor also made baseless claims against me - both above and on the page itself - of trying to "add positive PR", after I added some human-interest nugget which I discovered while bolstering sources in response to her attempting to negate the ones which were already in place, and then falsely suggested that I have a WP:COI issue. (I don't know Dikoupil from apples). This editor has removed NPOV content placed by multiple editors trying to properly balance both the page and the specific issue at hand, instead presenting a highly misleading, highly biased, one-sided, BLP-violating article bordering on slanderous.

Matza Pizza (talk) 10:15, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

In the fourth revert listed, you edited a citation by changing a word in a direct quote. Here, you complain about "the young, internal woke mob". I don't think you're in a position to reference BLP or NPOV. KyleJoan^talk 10:24, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

• Both editors blocked – for a period of 48 hours. Bbb23 (talk) 13:22, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Jeff6741 reported by User:Cordless Larry (Result: Indefinitely blocked)

Page: Human rights in China (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: Jeff6741 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [8]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

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

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

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

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

Comments:
User continues to insist on adding this material despite discussion on talk page highlighting WP:V and WP:NPOV problems. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:24, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

All the material I added is verifiable and as neutral as possible, and many words are from the source. Jeff6741 (talk) 09:30, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

See User_talk:Jeff6741#3RR,_again. Polygnotus (talk) 10:38, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

• Indefinitely blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:33, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Hope3606 reported by User:Czello (Result: Blocked 48 hours)

Page: List of professional wrestling attendance records (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: Hope3606 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 12:33, 11 October 2024 (UTC) ""
2. 01:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1250483569 by HHH Pedrigree (talk)"
3. 17:48, 10 October 2024 (UTC) "Undid revision 1250480039 by HHH Pedrigree (talk)"
4. 16:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC) ""

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 07:17, 11 October 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule on List of professional wrestling attendance records."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

Blocked – for a period of 48 hours User's edits seem timed meticulously to avoid any three reverts falling within a 24-hour period. Sorry, no sale. Another example of breaking the spirit of the rule in the hopes of claiming to be blameless for violating the letter. Daniel Case (talk) 22:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Jewishadvocacy911 reported by User:ClaudineChionh (Result: Indefinitely blocked)

Page: Ilana Glazer (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: Jewishadvocacy911 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. Consecutive edits made from 13:01, 11 October 2024 (UTC) to 13:03, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
   1. 13:01, 11 October 2024 (UTC) ""
   2. 13:03, 11 October 2024 (UTC) ""
2. 12:58, 11 October 2024 (UTC) ""
3. 12:52, 11 October 2024 (UTC) ""
4. 12:51, 11 October 2024 (UTC) ""
5. 12:33, 11 October 2024 (UTC) ""

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 12:55, 11 October 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Not adhering to neutral point of view on Ilana Glazer."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

Violation of ARBPIA and BLP continue on user's talk page. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email) 13:29, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

• Indefinitely blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:37, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Loodog reported by User:Geogene (Result: Page protected)

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

Previous version reverted to: [15]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [16]
2. [17]
3. [18]
4. [19]

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [20]

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [21]

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [22]

Comments:

This is a selective reading of events. My friend Geogene here left one comment on the article's talk page, which I then replied to, making new suggestions and soliciting for feedback, but never received another reply. Geogene's only further actions were to revert my subsequent changes which incorporated their concerns expressed on the talk page. My last edit, reinstating my last revised edition, again entreated Geogene to bring it to the talk page and I warned Geogene to be mindful of WP:3RR. Notably, somehow my warning to Geogene is being cited above as Geogene's warning to me. Geogene did not issue any such warning.

Now, given that my second edit was a completely different change to my first, based on Geogene's concerns, I count only 2 reversions on my part, while for Geogene, I count 1, 2, 3 reversions, none of which were iterative or different, and were literally just reversions of anything I added, no matter what it was, while (seemingly) refusing any further discussion on the article's talk page. Louiedog (talk) 14:54, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

I linked to Louiedog's 3RR warning because it proves they have some level of awareness of edit warring policy. Continuing to reinstate edits that I have already opposed both in edit summary and on the talk page on grounds of primary, and undue, is edit warring. Including new changes that I'm also opposed to (moving controversy from the lead to the body) at the same time as re-adding the disputed content does not mean it's not edit warring. Demanding that I return to the talk page to repeat previously stated objections before re-reverting the disputed additions does not justify edit warring. It is just possible that Louiedog does not understand the objections I made, but that doesn't justify continuing to re-add the disputed content. Geogene (talk) 17:18, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Great! Would you please return to the talk page and write back to me so we can establish a consensus going forward on what to be included in this article, rather than carrying this out as a zero-sum debate? WP:3RR explicitly says don't rely on the edit summaries.

My latest edit that you removed was entirely different than my first, including a change to reflect your objection that the newer source only discussed Staffordshire Terriers. Further, my latest edit includes all the temperament information from the 2008 Duffy paper, both that which is favorable and unfavorable to Pit Bulls (that they are not more aggressive toward owners or strangers but that they are more aggressive toward other dogs), so this seemed neutral to me. Had you partially reverted some part of that edit to address specific concerns (as I had solicited for on the talk page), we would be making progress, but instead you wholesale removed even my revised edit. All this to say, I have been offering iterative attempts toward your concerns, rather than simply reverting to what I had earlier. Louiedog (talk) 20:15, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

• Page protected ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:17, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

User:130.113.151.234/18 reported by User:Hemiauchenia (Result: Page protected)

Page: Salim Yusuf (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
User being reported: 130.113.151.234/18 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to: [23]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. [24] 20:18, 11 October 2024
2. [25] 22:28, 11 October 2024
3. [26] 22:51, 11 October 2024
4. [27] 23:03, 11 October 2024

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [28]

Demonstration of attempt to resolve dispute: Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Salim_Yusuf

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [29]

Comments:

This user is claiming that the comments are libellous, but this is not supported by the consensus of commenters at BLPN. The IP user geolocates to where the subject works, suggesting a conflict of interest. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:08, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

• Page protected ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:20, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

User:2003:DF:7F2D:6F00:4862:A106:2B60:7045 reported by User:CurryTime7-24 (Result: )

Page: Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

User being reported: 2003:DF:7F2D:6F00:4862:A106:2B60:7045 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

1. 17:04, 12 October 2024 (UTC) "Reverted"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

1. 17:27, 12 October 2024 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

1. 21:40, 10 October 2024 (UTC) on Talk:Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich) "/* IP edits to lead, etc. */ new section"

Comments:

Persistent edit-warring from German IP user. Although they were temporarily blocked earlier this week, they returned to edit war as soon as it expired. Invitations to discuss their edits posted on the article's and their IP's talk pages have either not been seen or simply ignored. CurryTime7-24 (talk) 17:40, 12 October 2024 (UTC)