Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 5 (section)

== Undoing someone's change by accident ==

A few days ago, I made an edit to the [[Religious Music]] category, moving it from [[World Music]] to [[Music]] proper. Today, I checked the history and it turns out that it'd only been moved into World Music a few days earlier.

Is there some etiquette about undoing someone's change, assuming it wasn't a deliberately destructive edit? Do we have to battle it out in a duel?

[[User:Strib|Strib]] 14:26, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
:Dueling is discouraged. :-) Messy, you know, and not productive.  If you follow the link to the article's discussion page (it'll be named [[Category talk:Religious Music]] in this case; in other cases, you'll find article discussion pages at [[Talk:The Article's Name]]), you can discuss the issue there -- most of these disagreements are fairly easily solved.  Some people do get grouchy, of course, when you undo an edit of theirs -- try to stay calm and friendly, and if necessary, follow the advice at [[Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot]].  Invite editors you know and trust to look at the edits you're making and solicit their opinions -- hopefully they can give good advice, and offer a useful third perspective, which often helps people reach a satisfactory conclusion.  Good luck. [[User:Jwrosenzweig|Jwrosenzweig]] 19:51, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)