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A belated request
editHi Oblivy, as a belated request looking at Special:Diff/1337089690, Special:Diff/1337097973 and Special:Diff/1337089864 more closely, please only do the last of these if possible in the future. If you have no position, don't join the edit war please. Edit warring for the sole purpose of responding to an edit war evidently doesn't work. It adds fuel to a fire instead of stopping it, which is why the only policy that explicitly allows users to revert to the status quo is limited to cases where an administrator does so while also protecting the page (WP:PREFER). If you can't block nor protect, you can only add fuel to the fire. You may say that was the right thing to do because it led to a block, but that's like saying that increasing the size of a fire so much that the fire brigade starts caring about it is a good action in response to a small fire. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:24, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for reaching out. I agree that this was already a two-way edit war by the time I arrived, but that wasn't how it looked to me at the time. By the time I put together that this was potentially a two-way edit war and not just a single disruptive editor I was two reverts in, and then I stopped before the third because I'd already submitted the block request (if I'm wrong about this timeline feel free to correct me). From my perspective, I wasn't trying to feed the war but to support an effort by what seemed like another editor to revert vandalism and then to invite discussion on the talk page. Not making excuses, just explaining. Next time I'll have a better look at the recent edit history and try to make a better judgment about what's going on before taking action. Oblivy (talk) 13:47, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- It's all good and the situation is far from being monochrome. I'm certain that the description "vandalism" is inappropriate for what happened from either side, but there's disagreement about this on the article's talk page too. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:19, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
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