Wikipedia talk:What editors mean when they say you have to follow BRD

One thing they mean

By reverting, other editors are drawing a red line that says to the bold editor: "Stop and detour to the talk page. Do not revert the revert." Your edit needs to be vetted by other editors before it can change the article. On the talk page, you should work out your differences with other editors by discussing and collaborating with them. Edit warring is always wrong and should be nipped in the bud, so stick to discussion. All editing of that content in the article should be stopped during this time, leaving the status quo version in place until you have determined a satisfactory version of the edit to use. -- Valjean (talk) 16:14, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Your comment assumes that a "status quo version" exists (and that it isn't your edit), that the reverter might have a reasonable point (rather than being a vandal, a POV pusher, an editor with a poor grasp of BLP requirements, someone who misunderstood the edit, etc.), and that you want to pursue the point (rather than doing something else, which I routinely recommend to anyone who is weeding out external links; you can improve a dozen articles in the time that it takes to have one discussion about one dubious link). Often, one of your assumptions is not true; sometimes, none of them are true. Therefore, reverting can have multiple meanings, and we should not prescribe a single response to it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:05, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

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User:WhatamIdoing, would you please change the shortcut? -- Valjean (talk) 16:34, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

@Valjean, I've removed it. (I wouldn't have minded if you had done so yourself.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:48, 21 November 2021 (UTC)