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Block of User:KoA by User:Leyo

I am questioning the coorectness of this block stating that "You have been blocked temporarily from editing for edit-warring (Special:Diff/1166825517, Special:Diff/1167229773, Special:Diff/1167935777, Special:Diff/1168612971), as you did at Dominion (2018 film)), as you did at Dominion (2018 film." by User:Leyo.

I asked Leyo to explain her block here:https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Leyo#Your_block_of_User:KoA_was_inappropriate] She's now been inactive for almost two days so I have decided to proceed.

When I first noticed the block it didn't seem to be appropriate. It wasn't clear to me that they were reverting anyone on the 24th, the first diff. It was trimmed quite a bit, but as I understand it, that's not considered reverting if it isn't reverting a specific editor's text. As for their last actual revert, they posted to the article talk page at 17:43, July 31, 2023, no one responded, and at 22:43, August 3, 2023 they reverted. In other words, they waited over 3 days. I don't see that revert as edit warring. I'd probably revert if I'd posted to the talk page and waited that long (note that I'm not agreeing with the revert, simply saying that this wasn't edit warring as I understand it). What I hadn't realised is that Leyo is an involved editor - I only learned that from KoA's unblock request in which he wrote:

"I've had to caution Leyo about their behavior issues building over some years when they have been attacking me and edit warring in DS/CT topics. I specifically had to warn them about casting WP:ASPERSIONS in the GMO topic here and here as well as for the 1RR restrictions. I had to caution them specifically about the GMO restrictions again just a couple months ago yet again because Leyo was promoting a WP:FRINGE organization (denial of scientific consensus on GMOs) as reliable in this discussion where they were lashing out at me. A lot of that has focused on GMO-related content disputes like this too, so I'm worried that this pursuit is escalating into other agriculture related topics. They also made similar article talk comments You have a well-known history of man-on-a-mission edits. Your actions are not the consensus. where another admin Smartse (though involved in the topic) had to caution Leyo about their pursuit of me. That all started back in 2016 when they were taking to article talk to accuse me of having an agenda. I've felt they haven't taken cautions I've given them seriously, but I never expected them to go this far and use admin tools as part of that interaction."

User:Smartse also responded to the unblock request agreeing that Leyo is WP:Involved. Doug Weller talk 07:37, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

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