Thank you  for politely reverting as an equal might     Civility   Dear reader  You are probably reading this because you think Im an obnoxious clown  Okay  The thing about wikipedia that is magical is that we are a community of equals  When someone like  unilaterally deletes a large swath of content against the stated objections of a number of contributors it does dishonor to this equality  When someone like  or  uses a threat of authoritarian action to prove that they are right it does dishonor to this equality  If you want to prove you are right use the rights of all wikipedians like  and  EDIT  Hell when someone like  tells you youre an asshole for being an asshole or in the words of a more tactful wikipedian too bold am I contributing to wikipedia  No probably not  But am I honoring the spirit of equality  Hell yeah  We can swear at eachother until the cows come home without one of us depriving the other of the powers inherent in a wiki  But if I wanted to contribute to an encyclopedia run by a community of ruleobsessed elites I would submit to Encyclopedia Britannica  Or look at it from the utilitarian perspective  I once tried to get in a revert war and I found it was way too boring after only two rounds so I quit allowing  to get the last worduntil a third party emerged from the community of equals to take my place  But man throwing sand in the face of a pointless authoritarian  Priceless  Ill do it forever if youre willing to keep playing  Bring it on  Suffice it to say I have a wikipedia alter ego which has a couple serious contributions under his belt  Or to put it another way I have a lot of IP addresses  Convince threaten block  Dont threaten threaten threaten  It just doesnt work  So if you want to revert my work go for it  I might argue with you I might even be uncivil but you can be certain that I wont block you or delete your contributions or even vandalize your encyclopedic content  You wont find any proudlydisplayed thank you notes from administrators on