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===Edit flooding=== | ===Edit flooding=== | ||
If a user is judged as having made many edits in a short timespan that | If a user is judged as having made many edits in a short timespan that do not make constructive improvements to Bulbapedia, staffers may take action to reduce the pace of change. Users may be given a preview warning, where they are instructed to preview their changes before making an edit to the page. If this warning is ignored and edit flooding continues, the user may be forced to preview their changes before making updates. | ||
In some cases, a "cooldown" block may be issued. The length of the block is to be judged by the blocking Staff member, but should not exceed 1 day unless the situation is exceptionally severe. During that time, the edits will be reviewed and any unacceptable ones will be reverted. As with other short term blocks, this can not be appealed. | |||
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Users engaged in a dispute should reach consensus or attempt to resolve a dispute on the article’s talk page or reaching out to the involved user, rather than edit warring. Additionally, a user can also contact a member of Staff to address the issue if another user continuously reverts you and a resolution cannot be reached. All parties involved in an editing or reverting war will be blocked, generally for 3 days for a revert war; this may be expanded if there is a large number of reverts. | Users engaged in a dispute should reach consensus or attempt to resolve a dispute on the article’s talk page or reaching out to the involved user, rather than edit warring. Additionally, a user can also contact a member of Staff to address the issue if another user continuously reverts you and a resolution cannot be reached. All parties involved in an editing or reverting war will be blocked, generally for 3 days for a revert war; this may be expanded if there is a large number of reverts. | ||
Users making similar or identical edits/reverts across multiple pages as part of a larger dispute can also be considered an edit war. Users should follow the above guidance for using talk pages to work through these disputes, rather than edit warring. An issue that spans multiple pages does not need each individual page to be reverted three times to fall under this policy. | |||
===Harassment, threats, and violent conduct=== | ===Harassment, threats, and violent conduct=== | ||