User talk:86.152.160.2

August 2021[edit]

Not sure what you think you're doing on Great Siege of Gibraltar but you're being reverted because your changes screwed up the infobox. W C M_email 15:42, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Wee Curry Monster: Apologies for the misunderstanding but the Great Siege of Gibraltar was definitely a decisive British victory. 86.152.160.2 (talk) 17:23, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at Great Siege of Gibraltar shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. W C M_email 20:13, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

By convention on Wikipedia, we do not use terms such as "Decisive" and again, your edits are screwing up the format. Please read carefully the 3RR warning, you've reverted 3 times now. Do it again and it's likely you'll be blocked from editing. W C M_email 20:13, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Wee Curry Monster: There are many war pages on Wikipedia which end in decisive victories such as Operation Storm and the Battle of Worcester. I don't see why the same case doesn't apply on the Great Siege of Gibraltar. 86.152.160.2 (talk) 20:34, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop altering infobox results to non-standard results.

Template:Infobox military conflict documentaion is clear and reflects consensus.

result – optional – this parameter may use one of two standard terms: "X victory" or "Inconclusive". The term used is for the "immediate" outcome of the "subject" conflict and should reflect what the sources say. In cases where the standard terms do not accurately describe the outcome, a link or note should be made to the section of the article where the result is discussed in detail (such as "See the Aftermath section"). Such a note can also be used in conjunction with the standard terms but should not be used to conceal an ambiguity in the "immediate" result. Do not introduce non-standard terms like "decisive", "marginal" or "tactical", or contradictory statements like "decisive tactical victory but strategic defeat". Omit this parameter altogether rather than engage in speculation about which side won or by how much.

(Hohum ^@) 21:11, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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