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edit warrior

noun

Etymology

From edit + warrior.

  1. derived from *wers-✻
  2. derived from *werʀu✻ — “confusion; quarrel”
  3. derived from werra
  4. derived from guerroiier
  5. derived from werreur
  6. inherited from werreour
  7. compounded as edit warrior — “edit + warrior”

Definitions

  1. One who engages in an edit war.

    • As Wikipedia has grown, Wales has been forced to impose some more centralized, policelike measures–to guard against “edit warriors,” “point-of-view warriors,” “revert warriors,” and all those who have difficulty playing well with others.
    • Edit warriors, however, are more often than not myopic in their view of Wikipedia, believing that a “wrong” version should not be allowed to stand on Wikipedia—even for a day!

The neighborhood

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