>From: MightyChimp >Who is David Gerard? >He also reversed my conversions on Vinyl records?
It does not really matter who he is. He didn't like something that you did. He then investigated you to see what other changes you had made and targetted those too. The strength and weakness of the community is that it is self censoring and self repairing. Imagine if one vandal managed to delete all references to metric units or put a swearword on every page, the many people in the community would be able to revert it all. The answer is to welcome the lesson you have learnt. I have experienced the same sort of thing in the past. Be thankful to him. Do the indisputable uncontroversial changes first. It is not a closed shop of metric purists, it is more like usenet where diplomacy, persuasion and reputation count highly. >My changes appear to be still intact in the history. >I wonder if what would happen if you made the changes, >if they would stay, It is a hypothetical question - I won't do it. Try editing something else and be less controversial. >otherwise I re-edit in a few days with your suggestions. If you get into an undo-redo cycle, you will lose. You will find yourself banned from making edits. Don't do it. Try editing something else and be less controversial. Generally, if you are positive that you are right, think about what the other person objects to and try a form of words that includes their concerns. It is classic conflict resolution tactic which will help you understand how you will get on in your future job as your country's ambassador at the UN. In this case, I strongly advise you to just walk away. There are 269,262 pages. There are plenty of things in need of simple uncontroversial changes. For example, look up references to feet and add metres. Get some early simple successes elsewhere and you will feel good about it. Let us know what your registered name is and we will watch out for you.
