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You suggest you were a victim of some kind of injustice, yet there isn't enough information to think that. You don't actually explain why your initial change was reverted. And you don't say whether you acknowledged the reason your changes were reverted when you reverted the page to your version. If you didn't respond to the initial feedback, this can be interpreted as malicious behavior. And just because you "attached links to documentation that I'm right, showed examples etc.", doesn't mean the documentation met the necessary standards or adequately supported your change. Instead of engaging in an editing war, you should have used the Talk page to get feedback on the best way to push your changes through.

And instead of fighting willing contributors the editors should have informed that

But for some pages it's a competition on who has the most free time and the most willingness to navigate the bureaucracy (and none of those items implies greater knowledge of the subject, quite the opposite)

I'm not going to give exact links.

That was a page about a database. I've added an info, that this database has a feature. Someone removed that. I have added links to documentation stating that yes, there is this feature.

And I'm not going to argue with them. Let me write it so you will understand it: I JUST DON'T CARE.

Let them argue in their own kindergarten. I have more interesting things to work on. I can always make another training where I teach people that this database has this feature.

I don't have links now, but there are quite known cases where a professor, who spent 20 years on a topic, writes something about this topic, and gets over voted by the bunch of kids, who have no idea about the whole thing.

I thought the thing these days was to default to believing victims, instead of starting out by denying their experience and claiming that anything that did happen must have been their fault somehow.

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