Jonathan Walther wrote:
In practice, it amounts to that. I have seen Eric and Ortolan and some others attack Ed Poor when he appropriately protected a page to stop an edit war, when he had recently been involved in editing that page himself.
There will always be the possibility of "judgment calls" where sysops question each other. These need never turn into heated arguments unless there's some kind of ongoing problem.
As general wisdom on edit wars, I recommend that people sometimes (not always, it depends on the circumstances, and different people will judge things differently at times)... that people sometimes let the other person "win" for now. Just drop the debate, and come back to the page tomorrow. Maybe the other person will be gone then. Maybe they will have a change of heart by then. Maybe you'll think of a way to make the article NPOV *and* satisfy their concerns.
--Jimbo