I made an edit last year, it immediately got reverted and I got a banner on my user page for vandalism. I complained about that, other people agreed with me but the person who reverted my edits never responded. So there it sits.

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technothrasher 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

The only few times I tried to make small edits, typo corrections, or similar, they just got immediately reverted as vandalism. So when I found a page that is largely wrong about a relatively obscure historical figure that I actually know a lot about and have plenty of source material for, I didn't really feel motivated to put the work in to clean it up.

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stogot 8 months ago | parent [-]

I made a small edit to fix a mistake once and it didn’t get called vandalism but I sort of got a harsh message telling I did it wrong and didn’t follow processes

There must be some admin-level expectations of how things should be done but the editor flow gives you zero warning or indication. This was a while back so maybe they changed the flow

	▲	dharmab 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		I've had my edits similarly mass reverted with an unkind message.

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Arch-TK 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If there's a dispute and the person you're having a dispute with never materialises to argue their side of the argument, you're fine to just revert the banner.

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firesteelrain 8 months ago | parent [-]

How are people supposed to understand these hard to follow and shifting rules?

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Kim_Bruning 8 months ago | parent [-]

The base rules are actually not very complicated.

But any time you try to write them down, people will come along and interpret them to their own advantage, sometimes outright in the opposite direction. That's a people problem, to some extent, not purely a Wikipedia problem.

(BRD is my favorite pet-peeve)

	▲	dredmorbius 8 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		BOLD, revert, discuss, for those unfamiliar: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discus...>
	▲	oarsinsync 8 months ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> The base rules are actually not very complicated. > But any time you try to write them down, people will come along and interpret them to their own advantage, sometimes outright in the opposite direction. I think this a feature/bug of a (litigious) society that works on the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law.
	▲	firesteelrain 8 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I am going to use this at work!

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arjie 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For reasons unknown, I am much better than many at navigating this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40655989

https://x.com/arjie/status/1847046183342297498?s=46

If you share with me what your change is I might be able to get it done.

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paradite 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Seems like the story of Stackoverflow.

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Avamander 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you revert someone's malicious reverts three times, you'll be forced into arbitration. They rarely bother with that though.

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the_mitsuhiko 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would be curious to learn what you edited.

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GoblinSlayer 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it's an antispam bot, just rerevert.