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Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews

Hi, can you please point me out where in the source [1] is used the term "Nazi-allied Bulgaria" that you added to the article? Also, can you please provide the exact content of the pages 98-104 by Walter, because having in mind misusing the previous source, adding the "Nazi-allied Bulgaria" out of nothing, I have a doubts, that you're trying to "over-Nazify" the state. Regards! --StanProg (talk) 20:08, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Bulgaria was allied to the Nazis in WW2 and fought on the Germans' side. This is not a subject capable of dispute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GPinkerton (talk • contribs) 20:21, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

The source may not use the exact phraseology "Nazi-allied Bulgaria" but it is evident throughout that Bulgaria was in an alliance with Nazi Germany, as all the world knows. It is therefore beyond doubt that Bulgaria was allied with the Nazis and can be fittingly described in English as "Nazi-allied Bulgaria". I am struggling to understand what issue you are taking with the words. GPinkerton (talk) 20:25, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

The problem is not if it was allied or not, the problem is with overusing the term "Nazi", which can be seen as an agenda in your latest edits. It looks like you intentionally overusing it, even when supporting your claims with online sources that can be easily checked. What about the pages 98-104 by Walter? Can we see what is exactly there? --StanProg (talk) 20:35, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

I have used it exactly once in the lead. I have never said the source you mentioned uses "Nazi-allied Bulgaria". My only agenda is to use reliable sources to create encyclopaedic content. Unless your agenda is to somehow exonerate Bulgaria for its involvement with Nazism and Nazi Germany, there is no reason for you to have a problem with the concept of Bulgaria being allied to Nazi Germany. It was, and the article ought to say so. It also helpfully ties the content to the wider history of the Holocaust because the expression "Nazi-allied Bulgaria" as succinctly as possible describes the international position of Bulgaria during the war and neatly explains why Bulgaria began confiscation of Jewish property, expulsions, race laws, deportations, and eventual genocide between 1939 and 1944 and helpfully excludes the remainder of Bulgarian history before the war and after 1944.

You appear to be removing well-sourced factual information for no good reason. Please desist, or else find suitable reliable sources that support the claims made in your edits. Your edits are being disruptive to Wikipedia. Please consult the sources cited before removing important information; you might learn a lot. Otherwise, you appear to be making partisan edits to obscure the facts and present a POV. GPinkerton (talk) 15:59, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

On the contrary - I am adding information, based on a reliable academic source, confirming exactly the information along with the full text of the source. You have removed the provided source and the information, while you have provided no text from your sources, so we don't even know if they are real. This is called vandalism. Please, stop vandalizing the work of other editors and start providing reliable sources with quoted texts. --StanProg (talk) 16:43, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Read the footnotes I have added. I have added no fewer than seven reliable sources to this page. No information I have added is not backed up by at least two if not all of these sources. If you don't believe the information read the sources. If you can't read, don't delete sourced information out of spite. You have repeatedly removed the information relating to forced labour - you have obviously not checked the citations I have added, which all of them say "forced labour". You appear to deny this, but you have no reliable sources to back your claims. Find reliable sources, or I will keep deleting your non-idiomatic nonsense.

There are only references, no footnotes. I can see only one of the sources (by anonymous author from ushmm.org). Is this source part of your reliable sources? I don't own the rest of the books, so I can't read the text of the sources. This is why I asked you to provide the texts. In the only readable source it says "Bulgarian authorities also confiscated most of the property left behind by those deported." in the article you have added "The Jews, whose deportation from Bulgaria was halted, including all Sofia's 19,000 Jews,[5] nonetheless had their property confiscated", so which properties were confiscated, the ones of the deported Jews (according to the source) or the ones that were not deported (according to the text you added)? This is why I needed to see the text of the sources you quote, because I'm starting to think that you're intentionally misquoting the sources. I have provided 1 source (not from anonymous author) which you can freely translate it with an online tool and check if it matches my text. --StanProg (talk) 18:44, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Whether or not you can read them is of no concern to me - I and anyone else reading the article can read the citations cited through the hyperlinks and see the facts written there. I have done nothing but transfer that information into Wikipedia. A machine translated text from a blog by a one-time member of a government committee does not constitute a reliable tertiary source, and certainly gives no grounds whatever to overturning the wording used by a half-dozen reliable, verifiable encyclopaedic soruces. (Oxford Handbook of Holocaust, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encylopaedia, Crewe, Chary, and the rest). Perhaps there's a reason you can't find that one Bulgarian politician's POV opinions repeated in reliable English-language sources ...

I think you have been missing the point. Though Sofia's Jews were not deported outside Bulgaria, they were all deported from Sofia and other Jews from other cities likewise deported to camps and ghettos within Bulgaria and their property seized. GPinkerton (talk) 19:29, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Please, answer in this discussion by pinging me. That's the normal way Wikipedians do discussions. I think you're missing the point. "Bulgarian authorities also confiscated most of the property left behind by those deported.". Deported is not related to the people that were expelled from Sofia the country interrion. Deportation is a specific term, it has a specific meaning, including in the source provided by you (Note the "expulsion" part). An of course in this source it says "most of the property", and you wrote in the article "had their property confiscated". --StanProg (talk) 19:38, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

What part of deportation do you not understand? In English, deportation means eviction from one's place of residence and removal elsewhere. That's the specific meaning employed by both the sources and this Wikipedia article. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encylopedia says: Shortly thereafter, the Bulgarian government announced the expulsion of 20,000 Jews from Sofia to the provinces. (In 1934, the Jewish population of Sofia was about 25,000, 9 percent of the capital's total population.) Police brutally suppressed popular protests staged by both Jews and non-Jews. Within about two weeks, Bulgarian authorities expelled almost 20,000 Jews, relocated them to the Bulgarian countryside, and deployed males at forced labor in forced-labor camps. Bulgarian authorities also confiscated most of the property left behind by those deported. The people refereed to are all the Jews of Sofia. Expulsion and internal deportation are the same thing, or rather, two sides of the same thing. GPinkerton (talk) 19:45, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

I perfectly understand what deportation within the context of the The Holocaust means. In the source the term expulsion/expelled is used exclusively for the relocation of the population within the state, while deported is used for deporting out of the state in the concentration camps. Most of the property of the Jews that were deported was confiscated and that's the fact which is described in the source. The ones expelled/relocated still had their property, excluding the "uncovered property", like fields, forests, etc. which they were obligated to sell according to the Law for Protection of the Nation . How was this "uncovered property" for example confiscated, when it was already sold. They had 3 months period from 23 January 1941 to do that. --StanProg (talk) 19:58, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

You said: "In the source the term expulsion/expelled is used exclusively for the relocation of the population within the state, while deported is used for deporting out of the state in the concentration camps." This is false! Expulsion is used for the Jews being forced to leave (expelled from) their homes, "deportation" is used for their transport elsewhere (whether within or without Bulgaria). Do not distort the source just because your English isn't good enough to parse it. Since you haven't understood the source quoted above, perhaps this one is clearer: "But when Belev presented plans for deporting Jews from Sofia either to Poland or to the provinces, the Bulgarian authorities chose the latter alternative. Consequently, 25,743 Jews from Sofia were sent to the countryside, along with another few hundred Jews from Stara Zagora and Kazanlak" - Ioanid, 2010. It's becoming increasingly clear you want to deny this well-attested fact. You said: "The ones expelled/relocated still had their property". This is false and conflicts with the sources. Why can't you find any source which supports your POV? I wonder .... GPinkerton (talk) 20:07, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

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Ogivale

This is the term used to describe Gothic architecture in the French language. It is also used, in the French language to described the pointed arch. It is not in general use in English, to descrobe the pointed arch, or a vault with pointed ribs. The two references given are both books written in the French language. Most of the French terms do not apply in English. One of the reasons why it is particularly confusing is that the term "ogee" or "ogive" is used in English specifically to describe an arch with an S curve, a "Flamboyant" arch. Amandajm (talk) 17:58, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

@Amandajm: You would do well to consult the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (3 ed., 2010), wherein Ogive is defined thus: "Diagonal rib of a Gothic vault, or any arch made up of two arcs meeting at a point. Ogival architecture is therefore Pointed or Gothic architecture." or the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed., 2004) where, under the head ogival, adj. and n., the words "in current use" appear, together with the definitions: Having the form or outline of an ogive or pointed arch. and Characterized by ogives or pointed arches. There is no potential for confusion. The references I have added are all in English. GPinkerton (talk) 18:13, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Are you operating under two identities, by any chance? Amandajm (talk) 17:58, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

No I am not, since that would be both pointless and against Wikipedia rules. GPinkerton (talk) 18:13, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

"execrable double spaces"

What are these, that you keep going on about? One can't see from the diff. If you mean surplus lines, after a section header say, that might be ok, or not, depending on exactly where they are. If you mean double spaces after a full stop (period), this is a perfectly acceptable and standard style you should not be messing about. You are obviously a person with violently-held opinions, but you should not go round imposing them everywhere. Johnbod (talk) 17:09, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

These are the pointless double spaces that sometimes irregularly appear after full stops, after the manner of typewriter-users. There is, as I say, no point to these since they usually do not appear in the rendered page. See: MOS:DOUBLE SPACE. I have yet to come across any page where they are used consistently and what possible justification is there for keeping them where they pop up sporadically? As your claim that my "opinions" are "violently held", I'm still yet you hear from you as to why survival of British Gothic buildings should somehow govern the content of Gothic architecture - a world-wide style - as you appeared to pronounce. GPinkerton (talk) 17:45, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Well, I'm not going to bother producing a long explanation for someone who never seems to take in opposing arguments, in the context of a proposal that is clearly not attracting support. The same goes for the crucifixion one btw - to reply to that properly would involve reading three long & very boring articles, & the proposal is not going anywhere. If the spaces aren't rendered, why bother removing them? I find them useful when editing. MOS does not say they should not be inserted, & I'd be interested to see the level of support for removing them. At the least it looks, ahem, eccentric, to make such a fuss about them. Johnbod (talk) 21:26, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm making a fuss? Did I create this section on my talk page? GPinkerton (talk) 21:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Belated, but in general, don't mess with double spaces if they're already in the article. It's solely a matter of editor preference. They are utterly harmless and don't render differently, so there is no advantage to changing single spaces to double spaces or double spaces to single spaces - you've misread MOS:DOUBLESPACE if you think it gives you a license to change the style everywhere you see it. If you're already rewriting or editing a passage for other reasons, it's fine to use your own style of course. SnowFire (talk) 23:49, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

@SnowFire: Usually, the double spaces get removed when there're triple spaces, which I think do render and which I'm sure are not intentional. I use find and replace double with single in that instance. I have never just removed double spaces; I'm always doing something more worthwhile. As I say, I've never come across an article where double or triple spacing is used consistently. GPinkerton (talk) 23:55, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Well, you can test it out: One space. Two spaces. Three spaces. No difference. Anyway, if you're doing something worthwhile as well, it's no big deal, just figured I'd throw in my two cents. While we're here - I actually checked your talk page because of your recent edit on Parable of the Ten Virgins. I rolled that back if you don't mind too much - double check that I'm not crazy here? I did look at old versions and it doesn't appear to be in British English to me, but maybe I'm missing something. SnowFire (talk) 23:57, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

@SnowFire: The first divergence in styles of English seems to be this [2] one on 27 February 2006, where "honour" is introduced - I may be wrong. GPinkerton (talk) 00:09, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Hrmm. Unfortunately it seems the user who did that edit was blocked just a year ago. That said - you might be right after all, then, the article was in pretty sorry shape before those changes. I'll revert myself, although I think "medieval" with no ae is valid British English too so dunno if that particular change made sense. SnowFire (talk) 00:34, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

@SnowFire: "Medieval" is an Americanization of mediaeval. Still, policy is against the proper number of letters being British in this case, because the Americanization outside Wikipedia is complete in popular usage in the past decade or two and "medieval" is common to both sides of the ocean. GPinkerton (talk) 00:42, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Ob. xkcd Elizium23 (talk) 00:46, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

@SnowFire: I'll revert the "gray" as well. It doesn't mean a special grey, it's just grey, as in the colour of a grey area. GPinkerton (talk) 01:23, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

I mildly disagree but it doesn't matter so sure, go for it. SnowFire (talk) 04:05, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

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See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Bulgarian Holocaust: personal attacks and canvassing where actions of other editors towards you are dicussed.--Eostrix (talk) 09:26, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

@Eostrix: Many thanks for discovering this and bringing it to my attention! GPinkerton (talk) 13:08, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Note that my report may be far from complete. I was looking at the voting patterns at Talk:Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews and the interwiki connection. I did not examine every edit and talk page comment on that article and I hardly looked at any of the other articles involved.--Eostrix (talk) 13:32, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

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For continuously making accusations of POV at Esther instead of addressing the arguments:

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For your work at The Holocaust in Bulgaria (formerly Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews). Bob not snob (talk) 05:49, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Your recent editing history at Basilica 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—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. Elizium23 (talk) 07:42, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Notice of edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Elizium23 (talk) 07:43, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

3rd opinion requested

Hi GPinkerton there is currently a 3rd opinion request open at Talk:Basilica#Third_opinion that requires your comments. I’m noticing you are making a lot of changes to the article which seems to have been going on all day. Please at this time go to the link and fill in what is being requested. It is very much appreciated.

Galendalia _{CVU Member} \ ^{Chat Me Up} 09:09, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Please, as the directions state, provide a short sentence of the issue in which you two are having. I don’t need the entire chat posted back down in that section. Just your view in 1 maybe 2 sentences please.

Galendalia _{CVU Member} \ ^{Chat Me Up} 10:04, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020

Do not add personal information about other contributors to Wikipedia, as you did at Talk:Basilica. Wikipedia operates on the principle that every contributor has the right to remain completely anonymous. Posting personal information about another user is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's harassment policy. Wikipedia policy on this issue is strictly enforced and your edits have been reverted and/or suppressed, not least because such information can appear on web searches. Wikipedia's privacy policy is to protect the privacy of every user, including you. Persistently adding personal information about other contributors will result in being blocked from editing. MrClog (talk) 17:33, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you purposefully and blatantly harass fellow Wikipedian(s) again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. This refers to the incident above, but please note: there will be no further warnings. This is an immediate banning matter, so please do not do it again. Guy (help!) 17:40, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@JzG: @MrClog: Please see also the comment immediately above where Johnbod addressed me in exactly the same way - is that purposeful and blatant harassment?

He addressed you by your username. --MrClog (talk) 17:57, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@MrClog: And so I should have used his first name? And no, I mean the baseless attacks he has made against me, as several times before (which are often based on very weak but conceited understanding of the subject at hand). GPinkerton (talk) 18:01, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@JzG: @MrClog: I'm still unclear about what these notices are for. GPinkerton (talk) 19:13, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

GPinkerton, you used a person's real first name, while he did not list his first name on his user name or the like, in which case you are not allowed to use it (WP:OUTING). Also, no need to ping me twice in 2 hours. --MrClog (talk) 20:03, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@MrClog: Well I must have seen it somewhere so it must be listed somewhere so I'm not sure this applies. GPinkerton (talk) 20:11, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

"It is generally more acceptable to reference information if it is clear the user does not mind wider dissemination (e.g. posted on a user's public userpage) and less acceptable if it requires much "research" to find (particularly information later removed by the user in question)." and "Editors are urged to take care to err on the side of privacy, and to ask users before posting their personal information if there is any doubt. Posting information which might not constitute outing per se can still be unwise and reflect poorly on the poster's judgment.". --MrClog (talk) 21:14, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence Talk:Basilica. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you. A neutral notice offers the fact of an RfC, not opinion thereupon. Be mindful. serial ^# 19:02, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129: I am not breaching policy. Policy states: "any editor who may wish to draw a wider range of informed, but uninvolved, editors to a discussion can place a message at any of the following: The talk page or noticeboard of one or more WikiProjects or other Wikipedia collaborations which may have interest in the topic under discussion. ..." Please explain if and why you believe otherwise; if not, please remove your comment. GPinkerton (talk) 19:07, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Serial Number 54129, I'm also confused, because I see GPinkerton's notice at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_History#RfC_on_Basilica, which simply reads: Publicizing a Request for Comment on Basilica. Seems perfectly sensible. What "opinion" are you refering to? El_C 19:26, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@El C: It's been edited. Before it said what the RfC was about. GPinkerton (talk) 19:29, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes, El_C, in the history: the notification should be of the RfC itself, not of whether one choice is avaliable over another. All the best, serial ^# 19:37, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

A bizarre stricture. GPinkerton (talk) 19:38, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Well, if it was a non-neutral summary that would obviously be a problem. And it does seem like it editorializes a bit. As a general rule of thumb it's best to just link to the RfC, per se., that way, the RfC question could stand on its own. El_C 20:07, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@El C: Do you know if it's possible to get the RfC listed on the History and geography RfCs? The starting user (disappointed that Third Opinion did not go their way and pursuing a pro-Catholicism COI) did not list the RfC there (but did list with the Religion RfC) which is surely itself selective? GPinkerton (talk) 20:15, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I agree that it would have been better to list those other categories, too. But I don't think a Catholicism COI is a thing, even for members of the priesthood. Doctors are allowed to write about medicine on Wikipedia. That's not a conflict of interest. El_C 20:22, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@El C: It definitely is a thing, it just doesn't appear to be against the rules. Doctors, in any case, are not allowed to write about their own practices. And I should not be sanctioned for trying to rectify the lies-by-omission inhering in Elizium's behaviour, who, doubtless upset their attempt to turn Basilica into a disambiguation page failed, is now militating to have yet another article devote yet more space to this (apparently very meaningful for them) one denomination's title, when we have already Major basilica, Minor basilica, and Basilicas in the Catholic Church. This is not how Bathtub and Roman bath are handled ...! GPinkerton (talk) 20:33, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Your comments are very argumentative and at times lack any sense of WP:AGF. Please do not turn Wikipedia into a battleground. --MrClog (talk) 21:16, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@MrClog: It isn't me that's doing that. It's very difficult to assume good faith in cases of demonstrable bad faith. GPinkerton (talk) 21:27, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

No, GPinkerton, having a POV does not equate to having a COI. And you are skirting the line between what is or isn't acceptable — lies-by-omission is not, btw. As an uninvolved admin, that is my preliminary evaluation. Please try to do better. El_C 23:34, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Catholicity

Hi GPinkerton. Regarding this edit], I read the cited pages in the McBrien text and did not see any basis for the change you made. Perhaps I missed something. Could you clarify by indicating which part(s) of the McBrien source support those changes? Thanks! Sundayclose (talk) 22:43, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

@Sundayclose: Do you really need a citation to know that the Catholic Church is led by the Pope? Is the WP:SKYBLUE? [Is the pope a Catholic?] The whole article exists because the church called Catholic Church on Wikipedia is not the only catholic Church and never has been. GPinkerton (talk) 23:10, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

I'm quite aware that the pope leads the RC Church, but I'm asking for clarification for your edit and why it was changed from the previous version. I'm asking for the specifics in the source for the change you made. Thanks. Sundayclose (talk) 23:14, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

I have removed the source as redundant. The present wording is clearer. GPinkerton (talk) 23:16, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Redundant with what? I disagree with your edit. Removing the source doesn't clarify anything. Sundayclose (talk) 23:34, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree with Sundayclose. "Faith and practices" are not a church. People make up the church. And I am not so sure that either version is a great specimen of writing, but the diff makes it worse. Elizium23 (talk) 23:39, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Read again and tell me what you think is actually wrong with it or how it should be improved. GPinkerton (talk) 23:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

It should read "Though the faith and practices of the Catholic Church are led by the pope in Rome, the traits of catholicity ...", the way it was originally. As Elizium23 said, "faith and practices" are not the church. Sundayclose (talk) 23:51, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

OK. GPinkerton (talk) 00:02, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020

Your recent editing history at Catholicity 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—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. Sundayclose (talk) 00:07, 16 May 2020 (UTC)