[[Wikipedia:Cite your sources]]
If one has a citation and the other doesn't, then the uncited one is likely to be correct. If neither has one, then the item probably ought to be removed. There would be a citation somewhere about the correct answer to the dispute, and this ought to be displayed.
It doesn't matter how right your reverts are, if you break the 3RR, you get blocked. Period.
Smoddy
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:21:39 -0000 (GMT), Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Robert said:
In practice very often we cannot easilly get someone else to help us revert or edit, at least not for a few days. I've asked for help on articles, only to have other editors say "I don't know enough about the topic; I can't do anything." JayJG points out this same issue.
if out of the thousands of Wikipedia editors you cannot find one single person qualified to examine an article and spot editing so seriously bad that it would justify your asking for us to set aside the three-revert rule, your subject must be very arcane indeed. How are we to tell which of the two people editing the article is right? What if *he* petitions for the 3RR to be relaxed so that he can out-revert *you*? How would we know which was which? You say "at least not for a few days", but you are allowed to perform three reverts per day, so you don't have to wait for a few days to continue with your precious edit-war.
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