::i was cautioned because i am inexperienced and was entrapped. the hostile editor i am dealing with deleted the entire article and substituted a polemical, inaccurate stub. the rules of wiki are voluminous, arcane, byzantiine and not at all user friendly.  they are easy to misunderstand for a beginner and easy to manipulate maliciously by an experienced wikipedian like bali. from my reading of the definition of vandalism, i thought bali deleting the entire article was against the rules and my putting it back with minor changes was completely legal. he basically entrapped me into a revert war. he was not punished, but  i was not just cautioned, but banned and told I must get consensus to make any further changes. since then the article has been frozen.

your other advice would be useful if this was an ordinary dispute with well meaning people who disagree.  or if the topic was indeed trivial.  it is not appropriate to walk away from an article on the Holocaust because there are malicious and hostile editors who want to falsify the record or, what is happening here, ban basic facts on the Holocaust.  this is not a topic where it is acceptable to let the bad guys win - for me. is it okay with wiki administrators?  

i don't think it is appropriate to use mediation with what are functionally Holocaust deniers. this has been going on for six months. posts asking for consensus are ignored. any post they see as a challenge is answered within minutes.  i did walk away for several months, and more recently for days at a time and there is no relief. there has to be another level of getting help at wiki for truly intractable problems like unreasonable, malicious attacks on Holocaust information.

not taking sides or even knowing the topic of the dispute is fine when the dispute is between two sincere editors. but what if the dispute is about incontrovertible, non-controversial Holocaust history and editors who have dedicated themselves to keep it out of wiki and also to drive sincere editors off the page, if not to discourage them from ever participating in wiki again?  this is much bigger than my individual problem or this one article.  this is a wiki problem of how to deal with malicious spoilers.  cimicifugia