[WikiEN-l] The 3-revert rule

[Delirium]

Ray Saintonge wrote:

> Delirium wrote:
>
>> I guess I don't see what the problem with solving them all in the 
>> same way is.  A person who engages in a protracted revert war on a 
>> single article will get a single 24-hour ban, which is not really the 
>> end of the world.  A person who repeatedly does this across a broad 
>> range of articles will be repeatedly banned for 24-hour periods, 
>> resulting in effectively a permanent ban until they decide to stop 
>> engaging in revert-wars.
>
>
> OK!  But if we're going to do that, it has to apply to both parties in 
> an edit war, even when the dispute involves an acknowledged idiot 
> versus a respected sysop. :-)   Every edit war has at least two 
> participants. 

Yes, that's what I envisioned.  All parties who revert 3 or more times, 
anyway.

-Mark