Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pat8722/Evidence

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Edit warring
Pat8722 has been a continuous edit warrior on Wikipedia, and repeatedly (one might say purposefully) misunderstood the purpose and import of the three-revert rule.
 * — Note "Three reverts a day are permitted" and "my daily alottment of three reverts".
 * "[R]evert wars happen all the time in wikipedia, and sometimes they are the only way to get others to make an effort at achieving consensus"
 * Edit summary of "Third revert for today, see you on Sunday".

I (and many others) have tried to get Pat to realize the intent of the 3RR:

Earlier reverts from his RfC

 * March 31:
 * April 3:
 * April 4:      - 6 reverts within a few hours. Pat was blocked for this 3RR, and since then he limits himself to exactly three reverts on most days.
 * User:William M. Connolley blocked Pat for the 3RR. WMC is uninvolved: he handles many 3RR requests, and does not edit the Libertarianism article. Despite WMC's unbiased status, Pat accused WMC of blocking him for political reasons, called him a "coward", a "liar", and "incompetent".
 * April 8:
 * April 10:   - three reverts within six hours
 * April 11:   - three reverts within two hours
 * April 15:   - three reverts in less than an hour
 * April 17-18:
 * April 20:   - three reverts within an hour
 * April 21:   - three reverts within ten minutes
 * April 23:
 * April 25:   - three reverts in a little over an hour
 * April 26:   - three reverts in less than a half hour
 * April 27:   - three reverts in less than a half hour
 * Pat also tried to modify Vandalism so that "circular definitions" would be considered vandalism, which he believed would give him a license to revert endlessly at libertarianism:, . See talk page.

Assumption of bad faith
Pat8722 also has assumed bad faith on more than one occasion, notably when he was first blocked, and also to those with whom he disagrees on the direction of an article.
 * in response to his first block, which I made for clear gaming of the 3RR.
 * , asking for me to be desysopped.
 * More of the same:

—BorgHunter (talk) 03:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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