On 06/10/05, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney(a)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(a)dunelm.org.uk