maybe off-topic or maybe not … I recently got a similar comment from another referee, while I had not deleted anything from the comments field (as far as I remember that field was empty at the time I made my addition)
Is there a general problem of things not visible or is it just a case of parallel edits by different users that make it look like stuff is removed that originally was not even there yet …
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
maybe off-topic or maybe not … I recently got a similar comment from another referee, while I had not deleted anything from the comments field (as far as I remember that field was empty at the time I made my addition)
Is there a general problem of things not visible or is it just a case of parallel edits by different users that make it look like stuff is removed that originally was not even there yet …
Regarding this problem, as a contributor it happened to me with two of my own modification requests (A and B) in the same page:
I first send a request A modifying a year line.
With A pending, I opened this page for modify other fields (for example, obverse, reverse and page comments). The year line has the original values.
In the middle time, A was accepted and the year line was modified. But the edit page opened before has the original values.
I sent the request B. The system created the expected request about the page, and another unexpected request about the line year with the original values.
This is impossible to detect by the contributor. I detected it because both requests were mine, but if the first request is from another user I can not know why the unexpected request are created (in fact, I remember that a while ago a field not modified by me was added in a own request).
There are some suggestions to try to alleviate these situations:
