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I'm kind of new to Misplaced Pages and not familiar with many of the procedures. In the meantime I'll look into how to get the proper permissions to do the file upload properly.Hickorybark (talk) 03:27, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

3RR

Hickory. As a relatively new user you may not be aware of the 3RR. You might want to consider whether you are sailing close to the wind on this on the John Hagelin article. (olive (talk) 16:49, 30 December 2009 (UTC))

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The "three-revert rule" ("3RR") is a bright-line rule concerning blatant overuse of reverting, a common kind of edit war behavior. It states that a user who makes more than three revert actions (of any kind) on any one page within a 24-hour period, may be considered to be edit warring, and blocked appropriately, usually for a 24-hour period for a first incident. 3RR draws a line where edit warring via reverts is clearly beyond a reasonable level and action will be taken if it has not already been. As such it does not apply in a few narrowly defined situations where there is no edit war (listed below).

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Thanks for your feedback, Olive. I have no desire to participate in an "edit war," and I hope the other editors working on Hagelin's biography will weigh in on the Dallas Observer quote. But I don't think you and Fladrif should have reverted my input without discussing the issues thoroughly with me, because I don't think you're right to keep that quote in. I prefer that Misplaced Pages maintain an objective, courteous tone in its coverage, particularly in its biographies. It's not that I'm a Pollyanna--I think there are people for whom it's very appropriate to cite references noting that they are crackpots or that they are ostracized by responsible people. Holocaust deniers and racists, for example. But Hagelin is a superb scientist and a humanitarian. You and Faldrif may or may not agree with his views about consciousness, but I think that Misplaced Pages has to be cautious about propagating slander--sourced or not. "Once considered a top scientist, Hagelin's former academic peers ostracized him" comes pretty close. Anyway, I'll let other editors think this through and come to a consensus. I've made my point of view clear and don't wish to belabor it. Hickorybark (talk) 16:18, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks, –MuZemike 19:44, 15 February 2010 (UTC)