Anthere wrote:
I looked for guidelines about this, and found none. Just guidelines asking sysops included in the war to please not edit the page. I found nothing about what 'other' sysops "proper" (with quotes) behavior should be. What is the usual on the matter ?
Sysops should generally not edit a page that has been protected due to a dispute, whether or not they were involved in the edit war to start with. I say "generally not" because of course there can be exceptions, for example rolling back to a version before the edit war might be useful in some cases, or attempting a one-shot temporary compromise.
Certainly, protecting the page and then having sysops continue a high-power-wizards edit war with each other isn't really helpful, if that were to ever happen.
When we wear our 'sysop' hats, we are supposed to be removed from editing. And protection is supposed to be very temporary in cases like this, just to allow tempers to cool, and only when really necessary.
--Jimbo