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edit war

noun
/ˌɛd.ɪt ˈwɔː/UK/ˌɛd.ɪt ˈwoɹ/CA/ˌed.ɪt ˈwoː/

Etymology

From edit + war.

  1. derived from *wers-✻ — “to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”
  2. derived from *werʀu✻ — “confusion; quarrel”
  3. derived from werra
  4. derived from guerre//werre
  5. inherited from werre//wyrre
  6. inherited from werre
  7. compounded as edit war — “edit + war”

Definitions

  1. A dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work where opposing…

    A dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work where opposing editors continually change the page without discussion.

    • As with dinner-table discussions, it is best to avoid editing articles about politics or religion unless one wishes to become entrenched in a perpetual edit war.
    • An unproductive edit war results as editors change the page back and forth between two incompatible versions, without troubling to engage in discussions.
    • In 2008, doubters of the official account of the attacks — sometimes called truthers — were told by the arbitration committee not to edit the main page on the attacks after so-called edit wars over what should be included there.

  2. To engage in an edit war.

    • When a dispute arises, it is common to see a page protected to avoid edit warring.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA