Policy says to block both participants in an edit war correct Also you do not have to violate RR to edit war right If he was edit warring so was  This user was the intended target in the first place the admin confused the two of them This the user he was edit warring with dw at least had consensus to fall back on and was acting in good faith The other user was overriding consensus of multiple users to make a controversial change did not even discuss this So block the other participant