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This is the second time you have made allegations of editor conduct in respect to using a collage in the infobox at 2026 Iran war. The first was in your edit summary that reinstated the collage . Such comments can be perceived as a personal attack - particularly if allegations cannot be substantiated. Editors are reminded to comment on content, not on the contributor per WP:NPA. Because this article falls under a contentious topic (see banner at the top of the talk page), there is generally a greater expectation that editors follow editorial and behavioural best practice.

You reinstated the collage after I removed it. At the TP you now state: Also, I suggest this is a one-person crusade against the consensus now, and as such, the collage should be reinstated. This infers that that I am the editor that has subsequently remove the collage. I did not. Therefore, it is not just one person and a local vote falls to WP:CONLEVEL. I would suggest that you strike the second sentence of your recent post to the talk page. Cinderella157 (talk) 01:50, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Dear Cinderella157, the first allegation was correct as you indeed did not cite an existing Manual of Style page, the second was not a comment on you, but the discussion as a whole and that I felt we have reached a consensus in it.

What I would suggest as further action is that you try to challenge the consensus on collages in war infoboxes on pages that do not fall under contentious topics (as you've pointed out beneath) first, which would serve to make history more navigable and therefore less prone to an error of overlooking the editors, which had happened to me, or to change the consensus more generally on the relevant portal, ideally the History one. Choosing a high-frequency article and one with a limited revert policy to suddenly challenge the conventions of Wikipedia is, I believe, unhelpful.

Thank you for editing Wikipedia! BasicWriting (talk) 18:22, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

You appear to me to be missing the point. It is not about the link being incorrect or your view that there appears to be a consensus but the accompanying ad hominem which is both unnecessary and inappropriate. Cinderella157 (talk) 02:28, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

This entire discussion is, I assure you, purely content-oriented, and describing it as anything else is, I believe, a misconstruction. BasicWriting (talk) 02:47, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

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