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What are the benefits of a 1RR rule?

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

What exactly are the benefits of using it? I have 3 possibilities I thought of, but I think there are other reasons as well, does anyone know of them?

1: How intense edit wars are is judged by how many reverts there are, and because people who try to reduce the intensity of edit wars perceive them to be less intense when only 1 revert is allowed, the 1RR rule is, by definition, reducing edit wars, although of little practical help because edit wars aren't solved and merely switch between revisions at a lower frequency.

2: It helps keep the amount of information stored in Wikipedia less, so that it won't go bankrupt when donors can't keep up with the maintenance.

3: It is harder for edit warriors to resist the temptation to breaking the 1RR rule, so sooner or later one of them will get blocked and the edit war will be over, letting the more patient mind take the control so at least there is peace.

4: The reason could be a combination of the above true and misguided reasons.

Any other explanations to why we have this? 173.180.202.22 (talk) 08:02, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 23 March 2012

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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This place is in Kerala Near Munnar Ellakkal (talk) 12:32, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Not done: I can't find any place mentioned in this guideline, nor would its location really affect this page. Was this request misplaced? —C.Fred (talk) 12:48, 23 March 2012 (UTC)