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Given others are giving their Wikipedia edit stories I'll do mine. I am not usually a Wiki editor for context, so I was editing from an IP without an account.
by chownie 3y ago
Given others are giving their Wikipedia edit stories I'll do mine. I am not usually a Wiki editor for context, so I was editing from an IP without an account.
I was reading the page for a weaponry used by civilians when I noticed someone had linked to a protest page but had labelled the link "x riots" instead of "x protests" -- this seemed a little odd to me.
I edited the page to correct the link's text to match the page it pointed to. Within a day it was reverted, I re-reverted and asked the other editor for their rationale. They stated it was important to note that weapons are used by rioters and not protestors and reverted the change once again.
I made one last revert to keep my change, cited npov plus some other wiki customs the offending editor had been ignoring and asked them to just edit the wording if they felt so strongly about the nuances.
And they did. The other person, a power editor, conceded that this unrelated page was not the appropriate place to argue the semantics of a protest vs a riot and they reworded that section while keeping my edit.
Just thought I'd chime in, since positive reviews are naturally rarer than negative ones.