User talk:JohnGrantNineTiles

December 2014

Your recent editing history at British Rail Class 365 shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's 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 BRD 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 your being blocked from editing—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—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. –Davey2010 • (talk) 16:19, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Is this how I reply? @Davey2010: It's not obvious; pse acknowledge if it is. I happened to see unit 365533 at our station and remembered seeing the news of when it was unveiled and it not being clear form the article whether it was a naming or something else, so I thought it'd be helpful to add the information to the page, which seemed to be out-of-date without it. The edit got undone by someone in the USA for an entirely spurious reason and, as far as I could tell, to help him meet some kind of target for the number of edits undone. Clearly I don't understand how Wikipedia works, but I do now understand that the information is likely to be incomplete because this is how updates from anyone ouside the magic circle are treated. Anyway, feel free to look at what the new text is saying and provide it in some way that you think is more appropriate. And I won't try to be helpful next time I spot something missing in an article.