:::::It's inconsistent only if you believe I am either on the place-sockpuppet-notice side or on the remove-sockpuppet-notice side. I'm on neither side. 
 :::::About the reversion, I had noticed an anon () had posted an abusive message here, and looked at his contributions. I noticed the anon reverting Mel on , and reverted him (it looked like the anon was following Mel around and reverting every revert he made — look at his contributions. That was the only unreverted one then, IIRC).  complained, and I apologized. 
 :::::About the protection, you may be right that protecting just because you believe revert wars are evil and rude might be wrong. I concede that point and apologize, since just now I noticed on Wikipedia:Protection policy the two words, "upon request". (Which I think is a bit bizarre... If you see a huge revert war going on, you need to wait for someone else to put a stop to it?) 
 :::::Finally, about the version I protected at, it is simply how it was the moment I decided that was enough. It was by random chance that it was opposite to the version I had reverted to before. 
 :::::What should I do now? Unprotecting would only lead to the same stalemated revert war. I guess I will ask on the noticeboard then. 
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