Do editors get warned before breaking open edits?

[bsammon]

I had submitted an edit to correct the artist credit on a recording. A few days before it passed, an auto-editor submitted an edit to the same recording to replace “and” with “&” (or maybe the other way around). This resulted in my edit being invalidated, (even though it was still useful), and I would have to re-enter it to get it in.

I’m guessing that this is a known issue with Musicbrainz.

Did the auto-editor get a warning when submitting? Something like "You’re about to break someone else’s edit. Are you sure you want to do this?"
Also maybe edits that break other edits should be auto-flagged as votable or something?

Should I submit a feature request to add this?

[chirlu]

@bsammon

Did the auto-editor get a warning when submitting?

No, the yellow background indicating pending edits for an entity is the only hint.

@bsammon

Should I submit a feature request to add this?

You may vote on MBS-7511 if you like, but don’t expect it to be implemented any time soon.

[psychoadept]

This would be really helpful for those of us non-auto-editors who occasionally break our own edits by accident, too…

[jesus2099]

@chirlu

@bsammon

Should I submit a feature request to add this?

You may vote on MBS-7511 if you like, but don’t expect it to be implemented any time soon.

And for cases where your edit is being broken by an identical edit, there is an even more powerful suggestion.

MBS-1398