Topic on Help talk:Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface

Who brings this stuff on my page when I do not want it? And it does not work, it sucks

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Summary by Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)

Unrelated issue with unbalanced <ref> tags on the page.

Kipala (talkcontribs)

Suddenly this beta feature pops up. Did i choose it? Cannot remember! So why do i get it?

And it does not work! My changes disappear, the whole paragraph.

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Kipala (talkcontribs)
Kipala (talkcontribs)

After the appearance of that Beta window text the paragraphs on the page after January 2017 are invisible. I think my changes are there, because history shows it and the edit view shows it, too. Somebody please fix it fast ~~~~

Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

The page sw:User talk:Riccardo Riccioni was destroyed in January 2017 by these two edits. This was never reverted. There was an unclosed <ref> tag on the page since then. This is an error in the wikitext, but was ignored by the parser. This changed yesterday when this edit added some wikitext that hapend to contain something that appeared to be a closing </ref>. Since then, the parser tried to parse the entire content between the previously unclosed <ref> and the only </ref> it could find as a reference, but failed to do so.

I fixed the page.

This had nothing to do with the TwoColumnConflict Beta feature. Actually, I'm curious how you could have ended in an edit conflict in this particular situation? The page history does not look like another user was trying to edit the same time. Are you sure it was this page where you have seen the TwoColumnConflict interface?