How do I report someone for misbehaviour? Specifically edit warring, repeatedly removing information, three times in a row. I’ve seen people be suspended for it but I don’t know how to report it to the moderator.
Here’s the page on dealing with vandalism:
On Wikipedia, vandalism has a very specific meaning: editing (or other behavior) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free encyclopedia, in a variety of languages, presenting the sum of all human knowledge.
The malicious removal of encyclopedic content, or the changing of such content beyond all recognition, without any regard to our core content policies of neutral point of view (which does not mean no point of view), verifiability and no o...
How do I report someone for misbehaviour? Specifically edit warring, repeatedly removing information, three times in a row. I’ve seen people be suspended for it but I don’t know how to report it to the moderator.
See the section on enforcing the three revert rule: Wikipedia:Edit warring - Wikipedia
727FE
October 19, 2007, 9:18am
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How do I report someone for misbehaviour? Specifically edit warring, repeatedly removing information, three times in a row. I’ve seen people be suspended for it but I don’t know how to report it to the moderator.
I don’t think they’re interested, Harry.
jjimm
October 19, 2007, 9:29am
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Been editing the James Randi page, have we?
How do I report someone for misbehaviour? Specifically edit warring, repeatedly removing information, three times in a row. I’ve seen people be suspended for it but I don’t know how to report it to the moderator.
Wikipedia doesn’t have moderators, certainly not in the sense that message boards like SMDB do.
So who takes the action required to suspend someone’s posting privileges?
A wiki admin can temporarily block a user… see this page for an explanation of how that works.
Message boards have moderators who oversee particular sections, but that’s not the case with wikipedia, which is a self-policing community.