Protecting "his" version of the page, this
most recent time and also
back around February 13 the previous time this problem arose. Also, back
in the February incident, he got into a delete/undelete war over the
request-for-comment page where this was being discussed; this was the
reason for his emergency de-sysopping at the time.
I'm in total agreement with you that the
problem isn't the wording of
the paragraph, but there's some sort of behavioral anomaly going on
here, perhaps on both sides?
I've apparently become "involved" now so my perspective may be
considered biased.