Wikipedia:Monroe's law
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Monroe's law, first articulated by User:A D Monroe III in this discussion, states that the chance of an edit being reverted approaches 100% as the number of other editors reviewing the edit approaches infinity. The full quote is:
"I hereby declare Monroe's law: Chance of revert approaches 100% as number of reviewers approaches infinity. From my experience, every single edit by every single editor will be disagreeable to some other editors, as no statement can be pleasing to everyone. Theoretically, that means that any edit will be reverted if it's reviewed by enough editors. Edits by IPs are critically reviewed by more editors than edits by registered users, for the reasons already stated in this discussion. That may explain at least part of the perceived bias against IP edits. While I have no evidence this is the main cause, we also have no evidence it is not a significant factor."