Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-109.149.46.181-20140919195939/@comment-6881629-20150203131011

If you win the Battle for Whiterun but don't go and listen to Balgruuf's speach at the gates that'll happen you should (i think) be able to keep going in civil war but you will be stuck with the quest in the log so its very annoying but shouldn't be game breaking. The only way to remove it without reloading is on the PC with console commands and it should be -

setstage CWPostWhiterunObj 100