Good rules and procedures to protect "Bold-enough" editors
Fragment of a discussion from Proposal talk:A "be bold" campaign
In fact improving consensus-building processes is one of the Recommendations.
Task force/Recommendations/Community health 7
While proposed processes may be a bit excessive for your issue, it would help nevertheless to deescalate the tension. In some area editors are in sort of Trench warfare stance ready to jump at anyone that cross their imaginary line which can only hurt Wikipedia in the long term.