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This one might be a borderline case in terms of the edit itself, but in context it seems worth flagging.
Back in March, following guidance from GastonRabbit, the intro paragraph on J. K. Rowling regarding Rowling's views on trans rights was cut back to a short summary
that tried to keep things factual and avoided weasel words or emotive language. This was agreed via the ROCEJ thread.
A comment was later added advising tropers to check with the thread before making unilateral changes on this.
On April 9th, PatTron made two changes
to that part of the intro - adding a reference to "massive controversy" and changing the "racist tropes" reference to "questionable tropes".
An 'Ignored Comment' notifier was sent, but the view on the thread was that folk were comfortable keeping 'questionable' phrasing. I removed the "massive controversy" line and reverted to the original wording for that sentence, though.
(The thread was very quiet at the time and there was no consensus/comment on that aspect - so reverting to the last version that did have consensus seemed safe)
Today PatTron has added
the "massive controversy" phrasing back into a different sentence within the same para, this time with edit reason "Had to include the word "controversy" elsewhere in the paragraph".
Again, there's been no engagement with the ROCEJ thread, and I've not seen any reply on the notifier message.
Edited by Mrph1