Wikipedia talk:Edit warring/Archives/2020/February

Semi-protected edit request on 17 February 2020
Does 3RR apply per person or per page or per person per page?Can I make 1 edit on I-90,1 on I-95,1 on I-87 and 1 on I-80? Or would I get banned? 2600:387:5:807:0:0:0:61 (talk) 17:15, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * 3RR doesn't apply in that case (an editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material, on a single page within a 24-hour period. [emphasis mine]), but the general principles of edit warring do; to wit, if you're reverting someone on multiple pages, you're probably edit warring. --Izno (talk) 17:24, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 February 2020
2RR?4RR?Do they exist 47.16.99.72 (talk) 19:11, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Wikipedia:Edit warring. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned.  JTP (talk • contribs) 19:33, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Clarifying the definition of 'revert'
To my reading, the text in the red box and in the para following the red box should be reworked for clarity (inserts indicated in italics below):

An editor must not perform on a —whether involving the same or different material—within a. An edit or a series of consecutive edits that undoes other editors' actions—whether in whole or in part—counts as a revert ''reverting edit. A series of consecutively saved reverting edits by one user, with no intervening edits by another user, counts as one revert''. Violations of the rule often attract blocks of at least 24 hours. Fourth reverts just outside the 24-hour period may also be taken as evidence of edit-warring, especially if repeated or combined with other edit-warring behavior. See below for exemptions.

A "page" means any page on Wikipedia, including talk and project space. A "revert" means any edit (or administrative action) that reverses the actions of other editors, in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material. An "edit" is here read broadly to include administrative actions; and "editors" to include administrators. A series of consecutively saved reverting edits by one user, with no intervening edits by another user, counts as one revert.

where 1) the 2nd sentence in the red box has been simplified to refer to a reverting edit so it can lead into the clear definition of revert in terms of reverting edit that I moved up from the last sentence in the subsequent para; and 2) the 2nd sentence in the subsequent para — which repeated text in the red box with minor elaboration — has been reworked to focus on that elaboration.

In final form, that would be:

An editor must not perform on a —whether involving the same or different material—within a. An edit that undoes other editors' actions—whether in whole or in part—counts as a reverting edit. A series of consecutively saved reverting edits by one user, with no intervening edits by another user, counts as one revert. Violations of the rule often attract blocks of at least 24 hours. Fourth reverts just outside the 24-hour period may also be taken as evidence of edit-warring, especially if repeated or combined with other edit-warring behavior. See below for exemptions.

A "page" means any page on Wikipedia, including talk and project space. An "edit" is here read broadly to include administrative actions; and "editors" to include administrators.

I stumbled over this a couple of months ago in trying to understand this policy, and offer the above to prevent similar confusion for others coming up the learning curve. Thoughts?, Humanengr (talk) 03:44, 29 February 2020 (UTC)