# Wikipedia question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 19, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-question/423281 "2007-10-19T08:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-question/423281/1 "2007-10-19T08:21:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-question/423281/2 "2007-10-19T08:34:20Z")
Here’s the page on dealing with vandalism: > **[Wikipedia:Vandalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: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... ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-question/423281/3 "2007-10-19T09:11:29Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] 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. [/QUOTE] See the section on enforcing the three revert rule: [Wikipedia:Edit warring - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:3RR) ---
**Author:** ![727FE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/958977/32.png) [@727FE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/727FE)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-question/423281/4 "2007-10-19T09:18:43Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] 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. [/QUOTE] I don’t think they’re interested, Harry. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-question/423281/5 "2007-10-19T09:29:31Z")
Been editing the James Randi page, have we? ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-question/423281/6 "2007-10-19T13:31:40Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] 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. [/QUOTE] Wikipedia doesn’t have moderators, certainly not in the sense that message boards like SMDB do. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-question/423281/7 "2007-10-19T14:06:29Z")
[QUOTE=anson2995] Wikipedia doesn’t have moderators, [/QUOTE] So who takes the action required to suspend someone’s posting privileges? ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-question/423281/8 "2007-10-19T16:22:43Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] So who takes the action required to suspend someone’s posting privileges? [/QUOTE] A wiki admin can temporarily block a user… see [this page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy) 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.