[WikiEN-l] Wheel warring

Steve Bennett stevage at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 07:33:38 UTC 2006


On 23/04/06, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Take the example above of A blocking and B unblocking. Why did B
> unblock? Was it because the block was some sort of mistake (blocking
> the wrong range, or blocking an AOL proxy for too long, etc) or was it
> because B disagreed with A's interpretation of the user's edits? If
> there was such a disagreement, then why did B not discuss the block
> with A? It's that part which most people find problematic, the attack
> on someone's judgement, not the actual action of unblocking.

Funnily enough, my definition works here as well. Someone whose
judgment is being questioned will accuse their reverter of wheel
warring. Someone who made a mistake won't.

In other words: If the person you reverted accuses you of wheel
warring, then you wheel warred.

Steve



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