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There's currently a thread at WP:AN: Users playing "Get to Philosophy" game to the detriment of Wikipedia. In the thread, someone brought up what the position should be regarding the three revert rule and people who modify links to play games like "Get to Philosophy" or so on. They aren't necessarily obvious vandalism but they are bad faith edits that don't help in the encyclopedic mission: exempting reverts of those kind of edits from 3RR seems like a good idea as such 'game playing' can pop up anywhere and it may only be one editor who is watchlisting the article and reverting the disruptive editing in pursuit of silly games. — Tom Morris ( talk) 19:42, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
I watch a number of lists and revert any non-notable entries which are almost added daily, mostly by IPs and newbies. What I want to ask is that while doing such reverts, sometimes I find my self violating the 3RR. So can I ignore 3RR in such situations or not? If I can't then how should I clean up these lists. -- SMS Talk 16:06, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
It seems logical that anything not prohibited on a user's page or user talk page that has not been the subject of a community consensus to remove should, if another editor removes it, be able to be reinstated (reverting the removal) as an exception to 3RR. Is there any objection to adding such a note? -- No unique names 03:20, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
It's three strikes and you're out in baseball, hence the three strikes law legal terminology. So we should have called it the four reverts rule. Too late now! #thingsthatkeepmeupatnight Marcus Qwertyus ( talk) 23:56, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
if someone violates 3RR, Should I -as a non-moderator user- put the { {subst:Uw-3rr} } tag on his Talkpage myself, or should I inform a moderator, or is there some other procedure? plz answer me + put the answer on the main page (edit war article). thx Seraj ( talk) 10:05, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
There's currently a thread at WP:AN: Users playing "Get to Philosophy" game to the detriment of Wikipedia. In the thread, someone brought up what the position should be regarding the three revert rule and people who modify links to play games like "Get to Philosophy" or so on. They aren't necessarily obvious vandalism but they are bad faith edits that don't help in the encyclopedic mission: exempting reverts of those kind of edits from 3RR seems like a good idea as such 'game playing' can pop up anywhere and it may only be one editor who is watchlisting the article and reverting the disruptive editing in pursuit of silly games. — Tom Morris ( talk) 19:42, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
I watch a number of lists and revert any non-notable entries which are almost added daily, mostly by IPs and newbies. What I want to ask is that while doing such reverts, sometimes I find my self violating the 3RR. So can I ignore 3RR in such situations or not? If I can't then how should I clean up these lists. -- SMS Talk 16:06, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
It seems logical that anything not prohibited on a user's page or user talk page that has not been the subject of a community consensus to remove should, if another editor removes it, be able to be reinstated (reverting the removal) as an exception to 3RR. Is there any objection to adding such a note? -- No unique names 03:20, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
It's three strikes and you're out in baseball, hence the three strikes law legal terminology. So we should have called it the four reverts rule. Too late now! #thingsthatkeepmeupatnight Marcus Qwertyus ( talk) 23:56, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
if someone violates 3RR, Should I -as a non-moderator user- put the { {subst:Uw-3rr} } tag on his Talkpage myself, or should I inform a moderator, or is there some other procedure? plz answer me + put the answer on the main page (edit war article). thx Seraj ( talk) 10:05, 26 November 2012 (UTC)