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Don't jump to conclusions!!

Re. reversion of my edit to Ordnance Survey. You are completely wrong in saying these are unlikely to be articles – I have in fact been researching both for some time. There is certainly enough material to produce something worthwhile in each case, particularly with respect to the 1:25,000 series maps. Edwin of Northumbria (talk) 22:22, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Sorry!! I clicked on the wrong link and this should have appeared on the talk page for the person who made the edit, not yours.

{Edwin of Northumbria (talk) 22:27, 7 March 2020 (UTC)}

HS2

Thank you for the intervention. I have started an RFC in an attempt to iron out the (frankly ridiculous) POV-pushing on HS2. Let's see what happens. Not sure what to do about the abusive and disruptive IP editor, but may yet feel the need to escalate. What do you think? Cnbrb (talk) 16:58, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

@Cnbrb:, unfortunately there is nothing short of an IP range block (which is only used in the most exceptional circumstances) that can be done about a dynamic IP. This editor keeps popping up with different addresses. You just have to hope that he (it won't be a she) eventually gets frustrated by being reverted all the time and goes away. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:28, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

I escalated it to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and Admins have blocked the IP range for 72 hours, which will give us a bit of peace. I fully expect the IP tantrums to resume once the block expires, in which case we should request page protection. I'm happy for the tantrums to remain on the talk page though - why deny these people the opportunity to make fools of themselves in public? Cnbrb (talk) 00:05, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

@Cnbrb:, so I saw and I had always thought it would be a bigger deal to get. I expect it was the NPA vio: that in itself would have got a named editor blocked for at least a week for a first offence. As for leaving the tantrums on the talk page to be seen, I really don't believe that the anon has any sense that they are being silly, look at Trump for goodness sake. IMO the best and most frustrating tactic (used on banned editors and their sockpuppets), is just don't engage, don't respond, revert good or bad. We are not there yet of course but in the meantime, abusive contributions cannot be tolerated and certainly should be reverted. Of course the person who is (or feels themselves to be) the target of the abuse should not do the reversion for the same logic as WP:INVOLVED. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:22, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

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