Simetrical wrote:
The edit-conflict resolver doesn't care whether you're editing the
page or a section. If the two edits are to different lines, they're
merged; if they're to the same line, they conflict. (There may be
some more details that I don't know of, but that's the gist of it.)
Edit conflicts occur most frequently on busy RFAs or talk pages
because everyone's editing the same line, namely the one below where
the last guy left his comment.
I would probably mumble something about my long-ago proposal to do away
with the "Edit Conflict" screen altogether, if only it hadn't been
criticised and flamed so much at the time....