Wikipedia:Admin vitriol formula

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Basic formula[edit]

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).

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.

$G={\frac {O^{N}({\frac {A_{u}+1}{A_{s}+1}})^{D_{u}}}{T}}*W^{R+1}\forall {W}\in \mathbb {Q} \cap (0,5]$

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 starts when $R>1$ .

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:

O, the obviousness of the action in question.

$O=(max(t,v,w,v*t,w*t)*V)^{E}$

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.

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 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.