User talk:Meryfela

March 2009
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Edit warring
Your recent editing history at Richard Stanley (director) shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you do not violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:25, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your attempts to keep totally unacceptable material out of the article Richard Stanley (director). While 's message above was no doubt posted in good faith, it fails to take into account that the edit warring-policy includes an exemption for removing violations of the policy on biographies of living persons, which is clearly what you were doing. JBW (talk) 22:15, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I would argue about the claim that the material was "totally unacceptable". While the allegations are still just that, they have had a material aeffect on Stanley's career (a production studio has cut ties with him and refuses to pay his royalties on a project), so the material could be considered relevant even just as allegations. I don't claim that the material should be retained, but I do argue that a proper discussion should have been had before the edit war ensued. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:09, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * User:WikiDan61, I have reviewed the BLP policy, and I now realise I was mistaken. The policy does contain provision against reporting unproven allegations, but not in such a blanket way as I thought. JBW (talk) 22:29, 28 March 2021 (UTC)