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So far as I know correcting your own typos is not considered an Edit War at all. I do a lot of it myself. The potential issue is...Serial Tweeking(?); try to get as much as possible correct the first time so you don't have to make five corrective edits for one addition/rewrite/whatever.
Again, I do a lot of this as well. Take your time and use the available tools to get it as right as possible and nobody minds you coming in again to fix a typo.
"But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." - O'Brien, 1984
The thing is that I'm not asking correcting my own typos. I can even slip into the lighter side of serial tweaking myself if I have the bad idea of adding something more than a line long after 10 PM. The tl;dr of what happened 2-3 times with that other troper is:
I write an entry > much later, the other troper corrects some element of my phrasing, but also adds something incorrect about the story to the entry > I remove the incorrect thing, often reverting to something about 90% identical to my original entry.
Edited by Nazetrime
^^ If the (?) was because you weren't sure of the name, I think you're after Serial Tweaker
^ if you're concerned about edit warring I'd suggest, at bare minimum, including an edit reason on any entries meant to fix factual information. Those can be reverted without it being considered an edit war, I believe. Especially since you're not trying to put the grammatical errors back. If you want to play it safer though, the better options would be either PMing the other troper or putting the questioned entries into discussion.
The PM might be the better option, if the issue is as consistent as you say. Otherwise you'll be going over every other edit they make by the sound of it.
Edited by sgamer82
Stand Still, Stay Silent has reached a point where many entries were either written or rewritten by me at some point. One of the other tropers who sometimes edits on that work is good at spotting the Ambiguous Syntax I sometimes have due to a mix of English not being my first language and having low-key Aspergers, but can be quite bad at correctly remembering some of the story's facts.
Because of the above, my act of Repair, Don't Respond to their edit will also technically be an Edit War due to eliminating the incorrect fact frequently being enough to make the entry correct again, and changing maybe a word or two being enough to fix whichever Ambiguous Syntax the other troper had spotted in the first place. Those situations are part of the handful of cases in which I make extra-sure to put an edit reason, and the entry is always left alone after I fix it.
Having taken to lurk on this thread a lot, I'm slowly realizing that I should maybe ask for a second opinion here next time something like this happens. It happens infrequently enough that asking about each separate case will get nowhere near clogging up the thread.
This also makes me wonder what takes precedence: the troper's right to correct something that they know is objectively wrong (Repair, Don't Respond) or the need to ask for a second opinon if the repair would technically be an Edit War?
Edited by Nazetrime