Forum:How do we deal with edit wars here?
See Talk:The_Pandorica_Opens#Edit_war_over_synopsis. After I tried to get the two of them talking, User:The mysterious just keeps insisting to me that his synopsis is better and ignoring anything I say, while User:Olilorry doesn't respond at all.
The two of them keep changing the page back and forth, multiple times/day, which has prevented people from using the Undo feature, and in one case even triggered one of those obnoxious RTE bugs that made the page into a huge mess for a few hours until someone fixed it.
If this were Wikipedia, I'd know how to go get an admin to step in, but I have no idea what to do here. --Falcotron 21:44, May 29, 2010 (UTC)
- Speak to an admin. Write on their wall and explain it. Tardis1963 09:42, May 30, 2010 (UTC)
- Fortunately, another user came up with a better solution--he merged the two synopses together, and both users seem to be happy with the result (or at least they've stopped reverting back and forth). But thanks for the information, in case I ever need it in the future. --Falcotron 11:12, May 30, 2010 (UTC)
- Ask for an adin Tardis:Administrators has a list. I'm usually here, Doug86 is also around as much as I am, Azes13 is also often here also.
- As far as how it was handled, I favour discussing it rather than any more drastic methods, this is a wiki and it's all about building on contributions. So merging the two was a good way to go. --Tangerineduel 11:44, May 30, 2010 (UTC)
Archivist's notes[[edit source]]
We've since got a bit more "drastic" with this, largely thanks to things archived at Talk:Howling Halls/Archive 1. There's now actual policy on what constitutes an edit war and how to deal with it. See our editing policy. So this is a bit of an out of date way of handling edit wars — though discussion and compromise is still the way we hope to defuse edit wars.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:08:44 Tue 31 May 2011
