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Devin79, who mostly contributes unsigned as Special:Contributions&target=68.35.182.234, Continually makes silent reverts to several pages, including the Provisional Irish Republican Army page, the Provisional IRA campaign 1969-1997 page. The same behaviour is also apparent on the Special Activities Division page. He has been blocked numerous times for violating the three revert rule, so now he leaves more time between his reverts. Effectively, this is edit-warring in slow motion.

Regarding the Irish Republican pages, this user pushes a POV agenda talking up the IRA's military effectiveness. He does this by inflating the casualty figures listed. He has used several methods to do this. Firstly, by changing the numbers given by sourced material, thereby falsifying it. Secondly, by inventing sources and or/citing them falsely. He refuses to engage with other users when asked detailed questions about this behaviour, but instead makes personal attacks (specifically calling users loyalist paramilitary supporters) and threatens to get other editors banned from wikipedia. This behavious has been going on for nearly a year now and is hughly disruptive to the articles in question. This is not only due to the factual inaccuracies and POV he inserts, but also becauee his reverts delete all the work doen on the articles since his previous edits. Additionally, his constant reverts have had the effect of re-posting copyrgiht material that had been removed. Finally, Devin79 has also defamed a living person, Irish journalist Henry McDonald, although he has not engaged in revert wars there when his edits were removed. 11:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Evidence of disputed behavior

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  1. Refusal to engage with other usersat the Talk:Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army — three different editors (Demiurge, Jdorney, User:Fluffy999) raise specific and detailed questions about Devin79's edits, only to be completely ignored as he reverts again.
  1. The latest in a long line of silent reverts, and
  1. Not citing sources, or even worse, making them up and lying about them. Or worse yet again, changing sourced info while leaving the source, thereby falsifying it. See and for details.
  1. Personal abuse, and use of threats, as well as refusal to engage with content questions, eg that users are loyalist paramilitaries Also at
  1. Defamation of Henry MacDonald

Applicable policies and guidelines

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  • A violation of verifiability rule; WP:V
  • Constant reverting of other people's work, even when he just wants to change a minor detail but in the process loses all the work done on the article in the interim. A slow motion violation of Misplaced Pages:Three-revert_rule.


Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute

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  1. On IP adress talk page
  2. On Devin79 talk page

On PIRA talk page

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  1. Jdorney 11:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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