Template talk:Edit conflict

Reasons for having the template
Once I’ve made a more advanced version of the template for Russian wiki, users started to ask why the template is needed. And, to get the answer, I am asking the same question: why? —  NickTheRed37 t/c (f.k.a. Naista2002) 18:25, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


 * From wikipedia: "This template may help to indicate that one is replying to an older state of a discussion and may not take more recent replies into account." -- Orthotopetalk 19:02, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Strictly speaking, it's not; 99.9% of the time, it's unlikely that the fact that you had an edit conflict while attempting to post a comment will have any effect whatsoever on anything other than you. However, there's still that rare circumstance where something inadvertently gets changed or reverted, and in that case, using this template would be saying "I got an edit conflict, so there may be some unintended weirdness in my edit". If any individual user doesn't want to use the template, there's certainly no reason to force them, but there's also no real need to delete the template itself: it isn't hurting anything with its presence, and on the occasions when an editor does want to indicate they got an edit conflict, the template gives them a means to do so. In the case of the Russian template, it may help its usefulness to have it link to m:Help:Edit conflict. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 19:04, 30 March 2015 (UTC)