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    • 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.

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    User:DangNgH6464 reported by User:Paper9oll (Result: Blocked 24 hours)

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    Page: The Odd of Love (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: DangNgH6464 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to: [1]

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. [2]
    2. [3]
    3. [4]
    4. [5]
    5. [6]
    6. [7]
    7. [8] (WP:LOUTSOCK to restore back)
    8. [9] (WP:LOUTSOCK to restore back)

    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [10]

    Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: [11] (created by Nkon21)

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

    Comments:
    To the reviewing admin, do note that this reply by DangNgH6464 claiming the last diff to be of a different person which isn't convincing given the highly coincidental timing. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 08:21, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Then check the IP, don't accuse me of things I didn't do, I won't fix it without citing a reliable source. That's all. DangNgH6464 (talk) 08:29, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Accusing this user 2001:EE0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 of being me without any evidence, look at the articles this user frequently edits, it has nothing to do with me. What are you trying to accuse me of, why are you trying to create fake evidence? DangNgH6464 (talk) 12:52, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Nathanstinehart reported by User:Butlerblog (Result: Blocked 2 weeks)

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    Page: Baptist successionism (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: Nathanstinehart (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to: [13]

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 00:25, 17 April 2025 [14]
    2. 02:56, 17 April 2025 [15]
    3. 04:26, 17 April 2025 [16]
    4. 18:10, 17 April 2025 [17]



    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning:

    1. [18]
    2. [19]
    3. [20]

    Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [21]

    Comments:

    User Nathanstinehart is POV pushing on mutliple articles, removing sourced content, using primary sources, and generally being objected to by multiple editors. On Baptist successionism, they were reverted by another editor, then replaced their original edit along with more. I reverted back to the original state and asked them to discuss on the article talk page as well as use edit summaries to explain their edits. They evidently feel that there is no need to discuss because they went up to 3RR yesterday and then came back today to reinstate their original edit again - and again with no edit summary and no willingness to justify their changes with other involved editors. ButlerBlog (talk) 18:42, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User:Tomlanes5576 reported by User:Borgenland (Result: Indefinitely blocked)

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    Page: President of Namibia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs), President of Tanzania (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs), Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: Tomlanes5576 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to: [22]

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. [23]
    2. [24]
    3. [25]
    4. [26]
    5. [27]
    6. [28]
    7. [29]
    8. [30]
    9. [31]
    10. [32]
    11. [33]
    12. [34]

    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [35]

    Diff of ANEW notice posted to user's talk page: [36]

    Comments:

    This report was made following this pending report at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Tomlanes5576. I believe that the issue mentioned is more attuned to this noticeboard. Note that said user has never responded to any call-outs, whether on their talk page or in the ANI itself. Borgenland (talk) 14:19, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User:GlowstoneUnknown reported by User:Rhobabwe (Result: Nominator indefinitely blocked)

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    Page: New Zealand First (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
    User being reported: GlowstoneUnknown (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Zealand_First&direction=prev&oldid=1278677948: [37]

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. [38]
    2. [39]
    3. [40]
    4. [41]


    Diff of edit warring / 3RR warning: [link]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_Zealand_First#Ideology_format: [diff]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:GlowstoneUnknown: [diff]

    Comments:
    This report makes absolutely no sense for multiple reasons.

    The diffs provided here are from months ago and don't even come close to a WP:3RR violation, the first one chronologically was from 6 January and was self-reverted almost immediately, the second one was from 28 January and remained in place for 38 hours, and the last two were the only ones to even occur within a 24-hour timeframe, and were directly followed up by a talk page discussion. It's also strange to me why this would be brought up during an active content dispute that I believed was about to begin the process of being solved, but it appears as if, in place of replying in the talk page discussion, Rhobabwe has opted to report me for an alleged WP:3RR violation and take this minor content dispute to WP:ARC in place of continuing the discussion

    I'd like to point out that there is a stronger case against Rhobabwe in terms of WP:3RR, as although they haven't performed more than 3 edits within a 24-hour timeframe, the following diffs show them restoring the same edit 4 times within the span of just over 32 hours (as [[WP:3RR WP:3RR says, Fourth reverts just outside the 24-hour period will usually also be considered edit warring) and note how Rhobabwe only going went to the article's talk page after 1) being prompted and 2) restoring their contentious edit (notice how their first edit on the talk page was made after restoring their edit):

    [42]

    [43]

    [44]

    [45]

    I'd also like to bring up the fact that Rhobabwe was recently indefinitely blocked and only unblocked on a WP:ROPE just over 2 months ago with the warning that [...] you should understand that any further violations will result in an immediate re-block without further notice. – GlowstoneUnknown (Talk) 23:38, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User:2604:3D08:5E7A:6A00:DD4A:13BF:B6EC:FFFD reported by User:McSly (Result: Blocked 1 year)

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    Page: Talk:2025 Canadian federal election (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)

    User being reported: 2604:3D08:5E7A:6A00:DD4A:13BF:B6EC:FFFD (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

    Previous version reverted to:

    Diffs of the user's reverts:

    1. 01:02, 20 April 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1286455097 by Masterhatch (talk) please discuss ur reverts"
    2. 00:55, 20 April 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1286453918 by Masterhatch (talk) discuss ur reverts"
    3. 00:39, 20 April 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1286452623 by McSly (talk) please discuss"
    4. 00:26, 20 April 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1286434084 by Masterhatch (talk) please discuss before reverting"

    Diffs of edit warring / 3RR warning:

    1. 00:40, 20 April 2025 (UTC) "Caution: Using talk page as forum."
    2. 00:55, 20 April 2025 (UTC) "Warning: Three-revert rule."

    Diffs of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page:

    1. 00:34, 20 April 2025 (UTC) "Undid revision 1286451612 by 2604:3D08:5E7A:6A00:DD4A:13BF:B6EC:FFFD (talk) Not a Forum"

    Comments:

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