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My own two cents is that a two and a half year difference does not constitute an edit war. But don't quote me on that; I know the mods tend to be stricter about such things than I am.
And my recommendation would be to add a note on the entry to the effect of "their words, not ours". That or just rewrite it so as not to use the phrase to begin with.
I mentioned in my edit reason that it is what Adam says in the show.
Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.
While it is a pretty big gap, it's the same troper changing it to the incorrect thing. Maybe sending a PM about it. That seems like a long time to care about the phrase "buffer zone" versus "butter zone".
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I have been mistaken. Randomguy 490 made the first change, but the second was by Randomguy5850. The first guy hasn't been active since 2015.
Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.
Back in January of 2015, Randomguy490 made an update to Tropes Examined by the MythBusters changing a mention of 'butter zone' to 'buffer zone'. It was changed back by Giant Space Chinchilla about a week later.
Fast forward to August this year (IE about a 2 and a half year gap). Randomguy490 made the same update again. Then just now, I reverted it, without realizing I had technically taken part in an edit war.
I can bring the entry to the discussion board, but since Adam does actually say 'butter zone' on the episode (and the gap between edits is so large) I'm not sure it would help anything.
I wanted to bring this to ATT now, in hopes of avoiding a suspension for edit warring.