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Piterpicher (Series 2)
2020-05-27 23:36:19

I'd try to fix the issue and ask for help, though it's hard to say if I'd report, seeing as people are likely to improve over a long period of time and it may indeed seem petty. That edit by Grotadmorv was one day less than 6 months ago, which seems like fairly long time. I'd say that if something happened that long ago, it's probably the point where you could "ask for other tropers to help and move on", but still let the offending troper participate in correcting their mistake if they decide to (though I think I have seen cases of rather long-term edit wars being reported, a rather poor move if you ask me due to the page histories being the way they are).

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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2020-05-27 23:56:45

To mention a time where the troper didn't improve anything, in the case of Darkness Falls, the troper was actually edit warring over the ZCE markup. When I reported it, someone else fixed it. Only recently did I notice they reverted it again afterward, and in their recent edits they still had ZCE issues, but even then in my post on the ZCE thread I hadn't been trying to report them, just to get help. (The troper still ended up suspended and is currently in Edit Banned, but that wasn't my intention.)

Admittedly, that whole situation made me more impulsive in this case, where Grotad really did nothing wrong except for deleting the tag (there's still some ZCEs on the page and the tag is usually kept even if the page is completely fixed). But it was another situation where my stress came less from the fact that the revision happened and more from the fact that I caught it very late and wasn't sure what to do about it.

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