Some one was asking about a video showing an edit war on Wikipedia. I think it is not likely in real Wikipedia life because of the Three-Revert Rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Three-revert_rule Which basically says don't revert an article three times in a 24 hour period. This is an official Wikipolicy. And the norm is that you can't use meatpuppets or sockpuppets to evade. OTOH, as best as I can glean, it is not automatic in that the software doesn't ban you if you go over 3. But I've seen multiple cases of a person complaining (often the other you're editing) to an admin who then blocks the 3-reverter for 24 hours or more. I know I've been tempted to do multiple reverts in one article (the other person is always wrong, eh?), but decided I didn't want to be in edit war hell. And no, I am not doing systematic research on Wikipee. Just a Wikiuser. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________