Allan Crossman wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress&a...
By the way, this user is also a sysop, but should this make a difference? This is a serious question.
Is he? He fails to appear on [[Wikipedia:List_of_administrators]] or [[Special:Listadmins]].
I'd somehow associated this user's behaviour as that of a sysop. Apologies. Was Vandalism_in_progress the correct place to report users in revert wars? (As far as I remember I checked the 3RR policy and it referred me to the VIP section for this). Whether or not they did break the 3RR, I'd expect there's a penalty for censoring the VIP article.
Speaking of the 3RR. I notice different sysops are interpreting this rule differently. Some sysops have defined terms such as a "simple revert" or a "complex revert", where complex reverts are simple reverts but with additional editing. Is this a widely adopted definition of reverts now? I think the "complex revert" is a reasonable extrapolation, but I think it's important to ensure it is adequately defined, as it may be possible to define any edit as a "complex revert" otherwise.
Regards, Edmund