Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring

Welcome to the edit warring noticeboard

Shortcuts

This page is for reporting active edit warriors and recent violations of restrictions like the three-revert rule.

See this guide for instructions on creating diffs for this report.
If you see that a user may be about to violate the three-revert rule, consider warning them by placing {{subst:uw-3rr}} on their user talk page.

Update this page

You must notify any user you have reported.

You may use {{subst:An3-notice}} ~~~~ to do so.

You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

Additional notes

When reporting a user here, your own behavior will also be scrutinized. Be sure you understand WP:REVERT and the definitions below first.
The format and contents of a 3RR/1RR report are important, use the "Click here to create a new report" button below to have a report template with the necessary fields to work from.
Possible alternatives to filing here are dispute resolution, or a request for page protection.
Violations of other restrictions, like WP:1RR violations, may also be brought here. Your report should include two reverts that occurred within a 24-hour period, and a link to where the 1RR restriction was imposed.

Definition of edit warring

Edit warring is a behavior, typically exemplified by the use of repeated edits to "win" a content dispute. It is different from a bold, revert, discuss (BRD) cycle. Reverting vandalism and banned users is not edit warring; at the same time, content disputes, even egregious point of view edits and other good-faith changes do not constitute vandalism. Administrators often must make a judgment call to identify edit warring when cooling disputes. Administrators currently use several measures to determine if a user is edit warring.

Definition of the three-revert rule (3RR)

An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Violations of this rule normally attract blocks of at least 24 hours. Any appearance of gaming the system by reverting a fourth time just outside the 24-hour slot is likely to be treated as a 3RR violation. See here for exemptions.

Sections older than 48 hours are archived by Lowercase sigmabot III.

Click here to create a new report

Noticeboard archives
Administrators' (archives, search)
357	358	359	360	361	362	363	364	365	366
367	368	369	370	371	372	373	374	375	376
Incidents (archives, search)
1188	1189	1190	1191	1192	1193	1194	1195	1196	1197
1198	1199	1200	1201	1202	1203	1204	1205	1206	1207
Edit-warring/3RR (archives, search)
483	484	485	486	487	488	489	490	491	492
493	494	495	496	497	498	499	500	501	502
Arbitration enforcement (archives)
342	343	344	345	346	347	348	349	350	351
352	353	354	355	356	357	358	359	360	361
Other links
Talk Sockpuppet investigations Backlog

User:~2025-37734-54 reported by User:Everett Millais (Result: Already blocked)

User being reported: ~2025-37734-54 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

12:00, 1 December 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1325142253 by Everett Millais (talk) I am not the same user. My revert was based on competence and quality of article."

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

12:18, 1 December 2025 (UTC) "General note: Unconstructive editing on Cera Care."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

Please take a look — the person was previously blocked for editing the page with their account, and now they’re doing the same using their IP address. Even after being warned, they keep making edits. It looks like they may have been hired by someone to update the page. Everett Millais (talk) 12:22, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Already blocked ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:33, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[[User:]] reported by User:Porfiriotorres991 (Result: Decline as malformed)

Page: Page-multi error: no page detected.
User being reported: User-multi error: no username detected (help).

Previous version reverted to: [diff preferred, link permitted] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chalker_High_School&action=history

Diffs of the user's reverts:

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [link] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JonRidinger

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [diff] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chalker_High_School

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [diff]

Comments:
This is an inappropriate use of this page and is simply BRD, not 3RR. I'm being accused of edit warring because I undid one anonymous edit (may or may not be the same user who created this) after removing a large amount of inappropriate content from the Chalker High School page yesterday that was reverted. That is not edit warring. All edits made to the Chalker High School article have had thorough explanations included which cite relevant Wikipedia and Wikipedia Schools WikiProject policies, guidelines, and precedent. I also included a place on the article's talk page to discuss them and instead get a notice of edit warring, but no reply on the article talk page. --JonRidinger (talk) 22:34, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also note, the "Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page" is something *I* posted on the article talk page, not the user accusing me of 3RR. I posted that after I restored my initial edits, which had been reverted. I also posted something similar to the anonymous user who had reverted my initial edit. No replies to the post at Talk:Chalker High School#Content before this notice was created --JonRidinger (talk) 23:21, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – malformed report. Please use the "Click here to create a new report" link at the top of this page, which gives a template report, and provide complete diffs. Daniel Case (talk) 02:18, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[[User:]] reported by User:MossOnALog (Result: No violation)

Previous version reverted to: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nothobranchius_kirki&diff=1325231591&oldid=1314804820

Diffs of the user's reverts:

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:~2025-37843-14&diff=next&oldid=1325222005

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: -https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:~2025-37843-14&oldid=1325216661 -https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:~2025-37785-83&oldid=1325213824

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:~2025-37843-14&diff=prev&oldid=1325234172

Comments:
This user is using three different temporary accounts to engage in edit warring over the addition and removal of unsourced material, which I reported to the sockpuppet investigation board after multiple failed attempts to communicate via user talk pages. The investigation was closed but the admin who closed did confirm that they are all the same IP address. The three accounts are 1) ~2025-37843-14 [1], 2)~2025-37748-37 [2], and 3) ~2025-37785-83 [3]. Other articles where the user has used multiple accounts to edit and failed to provide sources or engage in discussion are Nothobranchius and Nothobranchiidae. I apologize in advance if anything about my handling of the situation was not ideal, this is my first time reporting here.

No violation – there must be four or more reverts within a 24 hour period for the 3-Revert Rule to apply; the links you have provided do not meet these criteria. Daniel Case (talk) 02:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:~2025-37826-67 reported by User:TarnishedPath (Result: Required to create an account)

User being reported: ~2025-37826-67 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

09:26, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "Year alone is less likely to be incorrect than full birthdate."
08:32, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "WP:ABOUTSELF presumes editors abide with common sense. Inarguable facts remain: 1. the subject is widely known to lie re a variety of subjects, discounting ABOUTSELF as a reliable source (regardless of ideological tangents), 2. a flurry of insignificant sources support an alleged birthdate, though none of them are reliable."
07:31, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "ABOUTSELF is indeed permitted for birthdates in some cases, conditionally. However, as you yourself clarify, the subject "lied very often for decades." Extrapolating only some of his statements is OR and a WP:BLP violation."
06:03, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "High-quality source required for BLP birth date / year; also rm deprecated parameter "associated_acts" from infobox."

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

09:14, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "Warning: Edit warring on Boyd Rice."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

See Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Boyd_Rice

Comments:

Temporary Account reverting past 3 reverts in a manner that seems very WP:POINTY. See discussion at BLP/N TarnishedPath^talk 09:52, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Worth noting that the bulk of the temporary account's edits have been a potentially POINTY blanket removal of birth years and ages from quite a few BLP articles. jellyfish ✉ 18:03, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This user is now ~2025-37535-40. FantasticWikiUser (talk) 18:41, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Was previously at ~2025-37827-54.

Also, they are doing this without regard for a high quality source. They removed the birth year from Michael J. Moynihan, where it is cited to an academic book! This is not about "high quality reliable sources" at all, then. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:20, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed similar activity. They're using a blanket edit summary, but I'm not convinced they're actually looking at the existing sources. It appears in some cases the birth date is not well sourced, but in others it is. That, unfortunately, creates a bit of a mess to clean up. ButlerBlog (talk) 19:25, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The constant TA hopping is also not a good sign. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:26, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Now at @~2025-37624-23. @Butlerblog @TarnishedPath @Jellyfish very snarky edit summaries. This has to be a pointy thing, and now they're edit warring at Michael J. Moynihan, where it is cited to an academic book. Could someone keep watch on this, because very clearly sourcing is not this person's goal. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:37, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm usually RC patrolling when this happens, and the edit summaries are always obviously from that user, so I'll try to keep this updated when new TAs arrive and if anything surprising comes along. FantasticWikiUser (talk) 20:07, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've just gone through and reverted all of their vandalism, which hadn't already been addressed by other editors. They appear to be edting from a IPv6 address range for anyone with the temporary account viewer perm. TarnishedPath^talk 23:44, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's time for this user to create an account, and measures are in place to ensure they either do or stop editing. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:21, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:~2025-36574-95 reported by User:FantasticWikiUser (Result: Blocked 48 hours)

Previous version reverted to: [4]

Diffs of the user's reverts:

Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [10] Not me, but someone else

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [11] Not me, but someone else

Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [12]

Comments:

Blocked – for a period of 48 hours ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:35, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Was-a-singin reported by User:Rambling Rambler (Result: Blocked indefinitely)

User being reported: Was-a-singin (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

20:51, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1325386399 by Rambling Rambler (talk) Consensus has already been established. Want to argue with United Press International? Take it up with them. December 11, 1990 is firmly established as Demie's date of birth and has been published in the mass media for years now. You're just causing trouble by challenging it."
20:27, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1325382488 by Hipal (talk) vandalism"
20:15, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "Restoriing dob which *is* reliably sourced, contrary to Hipal's lies. Hipal has been reported for vandalism."
03:43, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "Undoing Hipal's vandalism of 24 October 2025. Her age is reliably sourced and there is no argument to be made. If you remove this again the administrator's noticeboard will be notified of your vandalism Hipal."

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

20:50, 2 December 2025 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule."

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

Comments:

User edit-warring on BLP article, refusing to discuss at talk page. Rambling Rambler (talk) 20:53, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's time for Was-a-singin to stop editing biographies. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:36, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked indefinitely ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:36, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:LibStar reported by User:Danners430 (Result: )

User being reported: LibStar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Previous version reverted to:

Diffs of the user's reverts:

08:53, 3 December 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1325483895 by Danners430 (talk) rv disruption to prove a WP:POINT"
08:49, 3 December 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1325482726 by Danners430 (talk) the source is https://www.omanair.com/en/expanding-our-network all verifiable"
08:35, 3 December 2025 (UTC) "References are available here List of Oman Air destinations. It is WP:POINT to remove valid destinations that the airline obviously flies to."
05:46, 3 December 2025 (UTC) "/* Passenger */"

Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

06:50, 3 December 2025 (UTC) "/* Muscat International Airport */ new section"

Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

08:53, 3 December 2025 (UTC) "/* Addition of unsourced content */ new section"

Comments: Further discussion on my own talk page - it appears the editor is aware of the discussion on the article talk page, but does not wish to engage in accordance with the dispute resolution policy. I am going along with their wishes that I stay off their talk page, aside from posting the notice of this discussion as required by policy. Danners430 _{tweaks made} 09:05, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here are 3 reverts from Danners430, [13], [14],[15]. LibStar (talk) 09:06, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Irrelevant to the edit warring report ~ ToBeFree (talk) 10:26, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It now appears to be some sort of campaign against me Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LibStar. This investigation will find nothing. LibStar (talk) 09:27, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like that other account was an LTA, blocked by @Sugar Tax - I had suspicions because it was a brand new account and the first thing they did was remove this report, but it does look like it was unrelated. In which case yes, nothing will be found. It was opened in good faith because there were suspicions, as you probably would do also if a new account reverted your reporting another user on a discussion page as their first act. Danners430 _{tweaks made} 09:30, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also note you’re still not replying on the article talk page other than to complain about me pinging you… are you going to discuss this dispute as required by policy or not? Danners430 _{tweaks made} 09:31, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disengaging would be a fine alternative. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 10:27, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

LibStar, is there something so unclear about WP:BURDEN and WP:ONUS that you need a block to stop? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 10:26, 3 December 2025 (UTC) I will add the citation https://www.omanair.com/en/expanding-our-network when I have time in next few days.LibStar (talk) 10:32, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

v t e Noticeboards
Wikipedia's centralized discussion, request, and help venues. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the dashboard. For a related set of forums which do not function as noticeboards see formal review processes.
General	Administrators Main Incidents Bots Bureaucrats Centralized discussion Closure requests Education Interface admins Main Page errors Open proxies Volunteer response team Oversight User permissions
Articles, content	Bad image list Biographies of living persons Copyrights Questions on media Problems Dispute resolution External links Fringe theories Large language models Neutral point of view Original research Pending changes Reliable sources Resource requests Scalable vector graphics Spam Blacklist Whitelist Style Titleblacklist Translation
Page handling	History merges Mergers Splits Moves Protection Importation XfD Articles Redirects Categories Templates Files Miscellany Undeletion Deletion review
User conduct	Conflict of interest Contributor copyright Edit warring and 3RR Sanctions Personal restrictions General sanctions Contentious topics Sockpuppets Usernames (Requests for comment) Vandalism
Other	Arbitration Committee noticeboard Requests Enforcement Edit filters Requested False positives Questions Help desk Teahouse Reference desk New articles Requests for comment Village pump Policy Technical Proposals Idea lab WMF Miscellaneous WikiProject proposals Discussions for discussion
Category:Wikipedia noticeboards