On 06/10/05, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com quoted:
According to baseball rules, if one has "more than 2 strikes" called against him while at bat, that player will be called "out." In other words, each batter is "entitled" to 2 strikes before being called "out." According to Wikipedia rules, if one edits a page "more than three times" in a 24 hour period, he is subject to being blocked. How is it, then, that that rule does NOT "entitle" an editor to "three reverts" without being called out? (...)
My personal solution would be to edit WP:3RR such that it says something like "Administrators may, at their discretion, block people for aggressive reverting in accordance with the _spirit_ of this rule, not the letter; this is considered acceptable, even if less than three reverts have been made to any one page in a 24-hour period".
However, this would not - to put it mildly - go down very well if suggested. (despite the fact that 98% of editors with common sense would never notice the difference)
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk