Tardis:Edit wars are good for absolutely nothing

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An edit war occurs when editors who disagree about the content of a page repeatedly override each other's contributions, rather than trying to resolve the disagreement by discussion on the article's talk page or in the Forums. Edit warring is unconstructive and creates animosity between editors, making it harder to reach a consensus.

An edit war is considered a "war" if you revert edits on an article 4 times within 36 hours. For the purposes of this policy, the initial edit which becomes the subject of the edit war (e.g. the one that is then reverted and subsequently unreverted) is counted as a revert for the editor that made it.[nb 1]

Users who engage in edit wars risk being blocked. Other measures will also include the page or pages in question being fully protected to prevent any editing until the issue is resolved.

If an article is fully protected a topic will be started by the admin who protected the article on the article's talk page to discuss the edit war.

In all situations discussion is should be the norm, not an edit war or admin action (in the form of protection or blocking).

What isn't an edit war

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Therefore, the maximum sequence of reverts that could be made between 2 editors without violating policy is as follows:
    1. Editor A makes an edit (1 revert for A)
    2. Editor B reverts that edit, removing the edit (1 revert for B)
    3. Editor A reverts this, restoring their edit (2 reverts for A)
    4. Editor B reverts that, restoring the pre-edit state of the page (2 revert for B)
    5. Editor A reverts this, restoring their edit (3 reverts for A)
    6. Editor B reverts this, restoring the pre-edit state of the page (3 reverts for B)
    7. Editor A reverts this, restoring their edit (4 reverts for A)
    8. Editor B reverts this, restoring the pre-edit state of the page (4 reverts for B)
    The end result is that the page ends up as it was before Editor A's initial edit, inline with T:BOUND.

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