I m not sure if his rationale is valid or not but that s usually the case with edit wars At face value plenty of IPs do indeed blank content as a method of vandalizing however if the blanking is an attempt to revert another user s addition by default I must treat it as a good faith attempt to edit the encyclopedia as part of building consensus If he doesn t take the warning seriously he still risks violating the three revert rule and or being blocked for edit warring talk