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Merge conflict with yourself after editing sequentially
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Go to a page on the Dutch Wikipedia. (https://nl.wikipedia.org)
  • Click edit on a section and cut some text from it.
  • Save the edit.
  • Then click edit on a section below the one you just edited.
  • Paste the previously cut text into this section.
  • Try to save the new edit.

What happens?:

You receive an edit conflict with yourself, even though you are the only editor making changes sequentially.

What should have happened instead?:

The edit should save normally without an edit conflict.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
WMF-hosted (Dutch Wikipedia)
Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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Event Timeline

WMDE-Fisch subscribed.

Thanks for the report. This is most probably a general issue with edit conflict detection happening in the core code. Two-Column-Edit-Conflict-Merge only provides the interface after a conflict was detected.