[WikiEN-l] Wheel warring

[Ray Saintonge]

Stephen Bain wrote:

>On 4/23/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>So, clearly a definition of "reverting any administrative action counts
>>as wheel-warring" doesn't work.
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>It's because it focuses on the "what" - it needs to look at the "why".
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>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.
>
I would expect B to give a brief explanation of why he unblocked.  But 
nuance the issue a bit more: A blocks for 1 week; B reduces the block to 
24 hours.  Do you consider that to be a revert?

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