User:Sjb72/RFA Q3

This page is summary of the other edit conflicts I have been involved with, as well as a description of how I dealt with a user who caused me stress.

My first edit conflict

The first was quite a while back, on Otis Redding. It concerned the use of the word "Ironic" in a way that I did not believe was actually irony. I edited it to replace the word. Some time later, when I revisited the article, it had been reverted. I took it back to how I felt it should look, and commented in the talk page about it. You can read the discussion we had here.

User:Mwelch makes the point nicely:Just for the sake of argument (because arguing is fun sometimes) - and this is the stance that I like. Debates should be fun! Arguments (as in bitching) are not going to get anyone anywhere. So this is what I've told myself to do in any future edit conflicts - debate well, work towards concensus. For those of you familiar with that Monty Python argument sketch, I see edit conflicts from Michael Palin's stand-point, not John Cleese's.

Edit war - a bystander's view

The closest I ever came to taking part in an edit war was when I stumbled into a full-blown conflict at Pandyan Kingdom. Edit summary insults were being hurled at each other, and it was getting very nasty. I reported it for page protection, and the page was protected for one week. During that week, I kept an eye on the talk page to see what happened. Nothing. Then the block was lifted, and the war resumed. I reported it, and then posted a plea for sanity on the talk page - you can read that here. For those who are interested how it was eventually resolved - one of the antagonists was a sock-puppet of a banned user. Once he was blocked, peace resumed.

A stress-causing user

User:Agustinaldo is the only user whose actions has made me take a break from my keyboard so as not to type something I would regret. I was doing a spot of recent patrolling, and came across this edit, which I promptly reverted. After warning and then checking contribution history, I found this edit. I reverted and template warned, but could not believe what posts I had seen - I knew I had to say something more than what a template can say.

Anyway, rather than just rant and rave straight away, I waited till next day. I posted a message on the user's talk page. I got no reply, but continued to monitor this editor's contributions. A while later, I posted this, and later still this - still no response. This user has frustrated me a lot - a very prolific editor, but the vast majority of work has been reverted. I pop in from time to time to see what this user is up to - I'm hoping that through kind words, encouragement and a certain amount of osmosis (i.e. repeat it enough and something might sink in), this user will improve. I did get some hope when I saw this recent post. Rather than just blindly adding OR, asking first! I responded thus. Fingers crossed...