The solution should be to contact an admin not involved in the dispute and ask them to protect the page. Then discussion can take place to ensure that vandalism is stopped. It is, of course, up to that admin to make the decision about which version to protect, which could potentially be a problem. However, the admin should be able to use their judgement to give a sensible temporary solution - that should be one of the criterie for their selection.
If an editor has reverted a page three times in a 24 hour period, with the exception of **blatant** vandalism, they should be blocked. Period. This ensures even-handedness.
If, once a matter has been discussed and a solution reached, the change is made again, I would define this as vandalism. Thus it can be reverted and, situation dependant, the user blocked if necessary.
Smoddy
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:19:33 -0700, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
One of the problems with 3RR-policy enforcement is that admins are supposed to treat equally the editor who is inserting an unreferenced, unsubstantiated claim, and the editor who is trying to get rid of that claim. One is violating [[Wikipedia:Cite sources]] policy, while the other is trying to enforce it. Yet both are blocked.
If the editor trying to enforce policy isn't allowed to violate 3RR, then s/he must go through dispute resolution; put up an RfC (which rarely brings useful results); or apply for mediation (which can take months to arrange). Meanwhile the nonsense sits there for 24 hours; then maybe there's another brief flurry of reverts, then it sits there for another 24 hours; and this can go on for weeks, until the less determined editor backs off.
If the process takes priority over the product, that's fine. But if it's the production of an accurate encylopedia that is the priority, then this is not fine.
Surely, for this reason, when looking at 3RR violations, admins should be allowed to take into account who was violating Wikipedia's editorial content policies and who was trying to preserve them.
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