Thread:MDGeistMD02/@comment-29664475-20161210062248/@comment-29664475-20161210095339

It didn't warrant a discussion because there was no disagreement; I didn't disagree with your point, as I stated in my edit summary ("likely as it may be"). I was simply following the MoS – removing speculative/conjectural content, no matter how well-reasoned – and made a point to state that, so as to highlight the guideline being ignored on your part.

If your edit was even somewhat against the MoS – which you seem to believe we would have agreed on anyway after discussion – then why did you feel compelled to undo the revision and only then seek discussion rather than seek compromise initially, especially with there being two editors against the addition of your "reasonable assumption"? At that point, you should have either discussed the issue with the disagreeing parties yourself or accepted that it wasn't in compliance with established standards. But instead of doing so, you started an edit war and undid the removal of your assumption for a second time. I will attest to having participated in the edit war, but it was you who started it.

As for my Bone Charms edit: now you're arguing in a circular pattern that I'd rather not partake in. I'll simply take Piko's advice on the stylistic/cosmetic/syntactic front and leave things alone if they are understandable as they are, so as to avoid these tiring consistency disputes.

If I come off as disrespectful to my fellow editors in these situations, please know that's not the case. I'm simply a tad bit too conscious about consistency and formality – products of being one nitpicky bastard. :/