27 July 2007 UTC What I am getting at is that it appears from my observations that the your work will be mercilessly edited rule is used as a reason to revert someone else s editing of your the rule citer s work Example Joe writes text Jane mercilessly edits Joe s text Joe offended reverts Jane s edits back to Joe s original text Jane seeing all of her work deleted objects Joe replies Hey if you can t take the heat stay out of the Kitchen and condescendingly points out to Jane who is quite familiar with the rules btw Welcome to Wikipedia please read the rules particularly the one that says your work will be mercilessly edited preempting Jane s justification of her work by such citation which she thought was implicit anyway There you have it How to cite the mercilessly edited rule 16 45