Editing Talk:Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei:Volume 9 Chapter 7 (section)

==Edit War over "would or would not"..==
If he could prove his connection to the Independent Magic-Equipped Battalion they could take her prisoner, but unfortunately there was no chance his highly classified status wouldn't be brought to light over an incident of this scale. 

Don't really want to get dragged into this, but personally I think it should be '''would'''

therefore meaning :They could take Lina prisoner by showing he is with the 101 but unfortunately they don't want to reveal his classfied status over an incident of this scale.

the use of "would not" changes this to (as mentioned by an editor, the use of a double negative makes it absolute): They could take Lina prisoner by showing he is with the 101 but unfortunately it would reveal his classfied status over an incident of this scale. 

Therefore to me, "would not" makes less sense, since the incident scale is redunant. --[[User:Drowzycow|Drowzycow]] ([[User talk:Drowzycow|talk]]) 08:49, 14 September 2013 (CDT)

:I believe the people wanting to change it to "would not" are misinterpreting the sentence as something like this: "They could take Lina prisoner by revealing his connection to the military, but because this is such a huge incident, it would not be possible to keep it a secret". This interpretation is wrong; revealing his connection to the military would reveal top-secret information regardless of the scale of the incident. The correct interpretation is "They could take Lina prisoner by revealing his military status, but there's no way they (the military or Tatsuya himself) would reveal top-secret information just to resolve such a relatively small-scale incident". [[Special:Contributions/80.223.220.209|80.223.220.209]] 10:51, 14 September 2013 (CDT)

I think, the people involved in this "edit war" should register and discuss this issue in the talk page. I don't like seeing ipaddress debating each other and it is difficult to keep track who say what. [[User:Xenocross|Xenocross]] ([[User talk:Xenocross|talk]]) 11:00, 14 September 2013 (CDT)


I was the one who did the original edit, but I didn't properly understand the reason for the undoing so I edited it again, the next person clearly stated the underlying meaning (which I previously failed to understand) so I wrote here saying I was wrong.

I registered an account afterwards, but couldn't find a way to make a note/talk after the fact (and how do you "talk" ?), which is why I wrote here explaining myself. (Again sorry for making a bother of myself -_-)

And "80.223.220.209" is right about the reason/thoughts behind the edit. (I'm 193.14.104.26 btw, the 3rd edit wasn't me)