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If they've re-deleted an example after the previous deletion was undone, then they're already Edit Warring. Right now, we just have to wait until the moderators come in. Don't undo their edit right yet; wait until you have the mods' permission.
That said, it's a good idea to provide a link to the edit history. Courtesy link
to the relevant edit history.
Courtesy Link to the page itself: YMMV.Mortal Kombat 11
Honestly, if they've already edit warred, I'd wait for the mods to respond before doing anything else.
That said, have you PM'd then about the Internet Backdraft entry? If that was discussed and decided on somewhere you could point them towards it.
Edited by sgamer82
This isn't the first time they've done this. They're really obsessed with that specific entry. Some people seem to be under the impression that Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment means "it's OK to make this a Zero-Context Example".
The way the example was previously written was unbiased, explaining why some people are complaining about this issue while not backing them or calling them out.
Edited by Zuxtron
Worth noting that this is the second time I do an ATT on them (first one was mods-only), on the exact same entry. It's also why I'm holding off from DM-ing them. Just like then, I'll wait for mod input before touching that entry again.
Zuxtron sums up the situation pretty well, btw.
Edited by perezman
Yeah.
What I'm seeing on the last few edits is definitely him changing wording in a way that injects bias towards the new designs and against the detractors into an entry that was fairly neutral before he "fixed" it.
Which isn't very proper conduct for an editor IMO.
I just reverted an unrelated edit of theirs on the same page, if they edit war over this one, then there's definitely a big problem here.
Edited by perezman
Bump for Mod attention on the Edit War
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
Another bump for mod attention.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
This one troper wants to start an edit war over the YMMV/Mortal Kombat 11 page. Apparently any edit that doesn't agree with them is "biased" or "unnecessary", even though "biased" describes most of their edits pretty well.
They insist on redoing the second entry of Internet Backdraft with vocabulary that strays away from the entry's neutrality. I reverted it once, and just a few minutes after, they reverted it back to their own. And then there's them restoring the "Boner Culture" entry on Memetic Mutation, which has many reasons to not be there.
Any input of what should be done? This is not the first time this user behaves like this.
EDIT: Since someone bumped this, here's some backstory (some of which was mentioned in the first private ATT about them)
Hello 9876 has a history of edits with Word Cruft, redundancy and political and/or personal bias against certain matters, including gratuitous jabs at whatever stance/figure they don't like. They seem fixated on YMMV pages, since it's where they can "get away" with most of this behavior. This didn't just happen in Mortal Kombat 11´s page, mind you, but in pages such as Apex Legends´, Battlefield V´s and most recently, Doom Eternal´s, all of which have been reverted by now (and fortuntately not edit-warred over). I don't even want to look at what's going on with Red Hood and the Outlaws´s YMMV page (they really seemed to "like" it, as most of their edit history happened there before shifting to Mortal Kombat 11)
Here's an example of what this troper can do when not contained by the rest of the editors, the aforementioned "Boner Culture" entry, but back when Hello 9876 first added it on February 21:
Edited by perezman