Wikipedia:Admin vitriol formula

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You should expect this amount of vitriol if you delete Wikipedia:Ignore all rules

1 Basic formula
2 Subformulas

[edit] Basic formula

An elegant formula for determining the amount of Vitriol that will follow upon any admin action:

$V=\frac{E*G*U}{O*R}$

Where:

V is amount of Vitriol
E is the Enemies of the Admin in Question Index
G is the Generated Controversy Index, or if this formula is being used in a forward looking context, the Expected Generated Controversy Index
U is the Unilateral Index (roughly defined as the degree to which the action is perceived as unilateral)
O is the Obviousness of the action in question.
R is the Reversibility of the action (usually defined as 1 for page protection, 8 for semi-protection, 5 for deletion, and a sliding scale from 1 to 20 for blocks, depending on the length of the block).

[edit] Subformulas

[edit] E: Enemies of the Admin in Question Index

E, the Enemies of the Admin in Question Index, is roughly governed by the equation:

$E=\sqrt{X+(F_{acns}*e^i)}$

Where:

X is the experience of the admin, measured in thousands of edits since adminship was gained (and roughly proportional to number of enemies made)
F_acns is the Aggressive Clueless Newbie Syndrome Factor
i is the level of user Insanity, where perfect sanity is zero, and raving lunacy is an imaginary number
e is the natural logarithm base, a number that is constant and irrational (like many things here)

Note: An alternative formula replaces ACNS with the ST or Seasoned Troll factor.

[edit] G: Generated Controversy Index

$G=\frac{O^N(\frac{A_u+1}{A_s+1})^{D_u}}{T}*W^{R+1}\forall{W}\in\mathbb{Q}\cap(0,5]$

Where:

O represents the Obviousness of the action (see below)
N represents the Number of users affected.
A_u represents the number of previous Unsuccessful Attempts.
A_s represents the number of previous Successful Attempts.
D_u represents the average length of Discussions (if any) generated by unsuccessful attempts in dozens of edits.
T represents Time since the last unsuccessful attempt (if any), in months.
W represents the Awareness factor of the user regarding the possible controversiality of the issue, on a scale of 0 to 5. Unawareness is expressed in fractions. Average awareness is 1.
R is the number of reverts over the actions. Most everyday actions have $R = 0$ . Trouble start when $R > 1$

[edit] U: Unilateral Index

U=1 for a well-discussed multilateral action. Totally unilateral actions have U=500.

$U=500-\frac{(N+F)(D_1+D_2)}{A_s+1}$

Where:

N represents the number of Users participating in the discussions.
F represents the number of Forums where input was requested.
D₁ represents the length of Discussion taken before implementing the action.
D₂ represents the length of Discussion generated by previous implementations.
A_s represents the number of previous Successful Attempts.

[edit] O: Obviousness

O, the obviousness of the action in question.

$O = (m a x (t, v, w, v * t, w * t) * V) E$

Where:

max(t,v,w,v*t,w*t) is the maximal value of t, v, w, v*t or w*t.
t is the apparent trolling, v is the apparent vandalism, w is the current level of revert warring, and v*t and w*t are the multiple of apparent trolling and either v or w. v, w and t default to 1, and are positive real numbers; a larger value equates to a more blatant example of vandalism, edit warring, or trolling.
V is the visibility of the page in question; see below.
E is the extent (if page related) or length (if a block) of the action in question, in hours.

[edit] V: Visibility

V, Visibility calculates roughly as:

$V=\frac{(\frac{L_r*L_e}{P_t})^{1+\frac{1}{2*D-1}}}{F_{va}}$

Where:

L_r represents the number of Relevant Internal Links to the page (date pages can be considered to have only very few relevant links).
L_e represents the number of External Links to the page.
- $\frac{L_r*L_e}{P_t}$ may be replaced by $\frac{100}{M}$ where M is the page's average position on "Most popular/visited pages" over the last month.
P_t represents the the Number of Pages in Wikipedia at Time t of occurrence.
D represents the Depth of the page (in clicks) from the Main Page.
F_va represents a Vandalism Attraction Factor, that is, the normal attractiveness of this page to vandals when unprotected. Indefinitely protecting Penis is unlikely to immediately create much uproar, no matter the circumstances.