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20 October 2012

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Megabombs has twice inserted excessive material into the page Ford S-Max, and all of a sudden a new editor with a single edit re-inserts the material so that Megabombs both doesn't transgress 3rr, and so that it looks as though they have support. Neither editor are using edit summaries, despite me asking them to. Fordcar888 should be aware of the need to use an edit summary, as the edit they reverted specifically asked for summaries to be used to justify the inclusion.
 * Initial insertion
 * My reversion
 * Reinsertion by Megabombs
 * My second removal, and request for edit summaries to be used
 * reversion by Fordcar888 - no edit summary

I accept that there are very few edits here, but I am using wp:duck as an argument. I have reverted again, but will not do so further, as that puts me at 3rr myself. Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:58, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Megabombs is actually my room mate. We helped made the article together however although i agree the section is a bit excessive but i thought it was generally ok and so therefore i decided i wanted it to be kept in — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fordcar888 (talk • contribs) 15:56, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

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Megabombs is actually my room mate. We helped made the article together however although i agree the section is a bit excessive but i thought it was generally ok and so therefore i decided i wanted it to be kept in — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fordcar888 (talk • contribs) 17:50, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

As my friend has said we are room mates, it is my personal opinion that i think the paragraph was ok. It was also my friends own personal opinion that the paragraph was generally ok as stated above and so as i understand he must have also undo-ed the removal as well. In good faith i have stopped undoing the removal of my post by Chaheel Riens and hope to draw the line over this. Megabombs (talk) 15:34 21 October 2012 (GMT)

Nothing in the editing habits makes these two appear to be roommates rather than socks. Note the sandbox created by Fordcar at User:Fordcar888/sandbox. The same material was restored by Megabombs in this edit. Both don't capitalize the letter I. Ryan Vesey 21:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

I would also like to say that the material in my Sandbox is what my friend and I have an interest in, we are planning to develop it together, that section was taken away from the KIXEYE page. My friend has restored that material from the KIXEYE page because he had found out that an unregistered user has deleted that section and it was basically vandalism from the unregistered user. Fordcar888 (talk) 20:35, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I'm going to assume a whole lot of good faith and not block either of you, partially because their interests seem to have diverged slightly and because they are now declaring their relationship on their userpages, so they aren't trying to hide. The sandbox issue is explainable because each would probably know what the other is doing. However, please note that tag-team edit warring is explicitly disallowed per WP:ROOMMATE. In other words, for the purposes of determining whether or not you have edit warred, you will be considered as one user, so you two together certainly cannot revert more than three times in a 24-hour period. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:25, 26 October 2012 (UTC)