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* Administrators should be able to monitor reported violations of the three-revert rule. (Wikipedia does this through a noticeboard.) | * Administrators should be able to monitor reported violations of the three-revert rule. (Wikipedia does this through a noticeboard.) | ||
== Wikipedia Examples == | |||
When defining the policy and the procedures for the three-revert rule, the current practices at Wikipedia might be helpful: | |||
* The user is notified of their violation of the 3RR by adding the 3rr template to their user page. | When defining the policy and the procedures for the three-revert rule, the current practices at Wikipedia might be helpful: | ||
* When a user in Wikipedia is notified that they are possibly violating the 3-revert rule, the notice they are given states: | |||
<blockquote>"''You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution''." (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Uw-3rr Template 3rr] for full Wikipedia documentation.) </blockquote> | *The user is notified of their violation of the 3RR by adding the 3rr template to their user page. | ||
*When a user in Wikipedia is notified that they are possibly violating the 3-revert rule, the notice they are given states: | |||
<blockquote>"''You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution''." (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Uw-3rr Template 3rr] for full Wikipedia documentation.)</blockquote> | |||