[sien]

Yes. This is true. But honestly, while it still midly annoys me it just doesn't seem worth the effort.

What was interesting is just how unobjectionable this addition is and how hard it was to go through all the processes.

I've added stats in a few wikipedia articles which have all gone in just fine. With this one part of it was OMG, really, you can just object and object and keep something out if you're determined enough.

[jacobolus]

From the other side, editor X is doing their best to present a neutral and accurate view of a topic, and editor Y (who is a random stranger to them) keeps trying to add survey data which editor X believes to be methodologically unsound to the point of irrelevance.

(Disclaimer: I didn’t investigate this carefully enough to have a well formed opinion about the outcome.)