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