This is a violation of sysop guidelines. You are not allowed to protect a page where an edit war occurs in which you yourself are involved. Please do not do this. I have unprotected the page. Sysops are NOT editors.
It's not as strict as that. I see nothing wrong with:
1. Telling the list you protected the article (and why). 2. Making ONE LAST EFFORT toward neutral POV. 3. Then butting out until a consensus emerges.
I would only worry, Erik, if someone made a practice of getting the last word by repeatedly doing the above.
In this case, another sysop selected another version to revert it to, so no harm was done.
Ed Poor ---- "Don't cry till you're hurt". --Robert Heinlein, ''The Man Who Traveled in Elephants''