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Wikipedia:WHEEL |
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This page documents an official English Wikipedia policy, a widely accepted standard that should normally be followed by all editors. Any edit to this page should reflect consensus. If in doubt, consider discussing changes on the talk page. |
A wheel war is a struggle between two or more administrators in which they undo one another's administrative actions — specifically, unblocking and reblocking a user; undeleting and redeleting; or unprotecting and reprotecting a page. Do not repeat an administrative action when you know that another administrator opposes it. Do not continue a chain of administrative reversals without discussion.
Sanctions applied by the Arbitration Committee and by Jimbo Wales for wheel warring have varied from reprimands and cautions, to temporary blocks, to desysopping, even for first time incidents. Wheel warring has been used as grounds for immediate revocation of adminship following Arbitration in a number of cases. For summaries and citations of relevant arbitration cases, and example scenarios, see /Examples.
Possible indications of wheel warring are:
If you feel the need to wheel war, try these alternatives:
Wikipedia works on the spirit of consensus; disputes should be settled through civil discussion rather than power wrestling.
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