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Re:Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomize... by solresol on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:40AM (#27419707)
It matches my experience.

I can update pages about some topics (e.g. backup, tape drives, backup products) and nothing gets deleted or changed. But there are others where everything I update gets reverted with a comment like "reverted good faith edit from ____"

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Re:Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomize... by dataviz1000 on Monday June 07, 2021 @03:49AM (#27420115)
This might be a case of the Law of triviality[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

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Re:Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomize... by yorwba on Monday June 07, 2021 @03:59AM (#27420162)
I think the expected reaction to having your good faith edits reverted is to reconsider whether it's an improvement to the article, and if it is, reapply it and potentially start a discussion on the talk page. If they keep reverting, they'll eventually get blocked from doing so.
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