Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5632187-20141023222048/@comment-5632187-20141024035238

The reason that I'm saying to leave it alone until it can be dealt with appropriately is because undoing a reversion causes that undo to be undone, which in turn creates more and more conflict. Or you can let your edit be undone, take it to an Admin or talk directly to that person, and work it out from there without flooding the Recent Changes/Wiki Activity pages with unnecessary amounts of edits.

The reason edits are undone is pretty irrelevant, as people will undo as they see fit and there isn't really anything to be done about it. This is why conflict resolution is important, as it will teach both parties what other users may be thinking as they go about checking recent edits and deciding which parts should stay and which shouldn't have been done in the first place.

I obviously use the undo button a lot, more often than not to revert vandalism though.

Again, the point of not undoing something of yours that's been undone is because it causes more conflict than necessary in the situation. It's hard to patrol the Wiki Activity/Recent Changes for vandals when it's being clogged with "so-and-so user undid revision #170,000 by such-and-such user" and to see it go back and forth pointlessly. It's better to encourage the two users to communicate about it, or to just get aid from a staff member for the conflict.

Most edit wars don't end in a forum post and subsquent discussion. If it is a constant conflict, or a major one, that will result in a forum post/discussion, but typically it is just resolved by the two users or by an Admin who has to step in and mediate.

At the end of the day, we need to create some kind of policy that people can follow if they're getting into conflict with users, as people are bound to argue and be stubborn if they aren't told anything about how to behave in certain situations. I don't see how this could be negative at all, as all it does is help those who are ignorant to what needs to be done in a situation where they may be unsure of what's happening. Finally, sorry if you take offense to this, but it was discussed that more policies needed to be drafted in my most recent blog post. This was the easiest one I could think of, and it's just a draft, it's far from being the ultimate thing we go with if people participate in discussions and help critique and change the post.