Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3184244-20200117005313/@comment-14250-20200117082334

Blocks do not necessarily always require prior warning if their cause is serious enough. It's good form to issue warnings over minor issues of course, bad form to have a trigger-finger on the block button over minor issues.

All I can think is... super-politely, collect evidence of what led to the dispute (link the ?diff= in the history, or threads) and present it in a place like... maybe here? Is there a more appropriate spot then here folks? Dunno...

I mean eventually if this is an all-powerful bureaucrat and they were totally in the wrong and un-cooperative it would only be staff who could intervene, but it's ideal to look to other sources of input unless it's clear they're totally unreasonable (ie being completely absurd) which is rare. Most conflicts tend to be about subjective aesthetics people have about what focus they want to see in articles, or minor eccentricities in interaction between users that escalate to intensely worded pejorative conversations between them.

Would linking the Special:Log/block on the wiki(s) in question be something you're comfortable doing here?