[Air-l] wikipedia video unlikely in real wikilife

[Barry Wellman]

Some one was asking about a video showing an edit war on Wikipedia.

I think it is not likely in real Wikipedia life because of the
Three-Revert Rule:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Three-revert_rule

Which basically says don't revert an article three times in a 24 hour
period. This is an official Wikipolicy. And the norm is that you can't use
meatpuppets or sockpuppets to evade.

OTOH, as best as I can glean, it is not automatic in that the software
doesn't ban you if you go over 3. But I've seen multiple cases of a person
complaining (often the other you're editing) to an admin who then blocks
the 3-reverter for 24 hours or more.

I know I've been tempted to do multiple reverts in one article (the other
person is always wrong, eh?), but decided I didn't want to be in edit war
hell.

And no, I am not doing systematic research on Wikipee. Just a Wikiuser.
 Barry Wellman
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