I blocked the user so I suspose I had better explain
I try and apply policy evenly. I tend to take the view that the alturnative is that you end up with a popularity contest which will result in even more 3RR gameing. In this case I made my descision based on the following:
1.The user was not reverting vanderlism
2. They were straight forward reverts not "complex reverts"
3. There was no reason to assume that the user was not aware if policy
There are 370 active admins that is a lot of people to appeal to if you belive I have made a mistake.