Leftypedia:Edit warring

An edit war occurs when editors who disagree about the content of a page repeatedly override each other's contributions. Editors engaged in a dispute should reach consensus or pursue dispute resolution rather than edit war. Edit warring is unconstructive, creates animosity between editors, makes consensus harder to reach, and causes confusion for readers. An editor who repeatedly restores their preferred version is edit warring, regardless of whether those edits are justifiable. Claiming "My edits were right, so it wasn't edit warring" is not a valid defense.

There is a bright line known as the two-revert rule (2RR). To revert is to undo the action of another editor. The two-revert rule states that an editor must not perform more than two reverts, in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material, on a single page within a 24-hour period. Any appearance of gaming the system by reverting a third time just outside of the 24-hour slot will usually be considered edit warring. There are certain exemptions to the two-revert rule, such as reverting vandalism or clear violations of the policy on biographies of living persons; see below for details. The two-revert rule is a convenient limit for occasions when an edit war is happening fairly quickly; it is not a definition of "edit warring", and it is absolutely possible to engage in edit warring without breaking the two-revert rule, or even coming close to doing so.

Edit warring, and particularly violating the two-revert rule. is strictly punishable with a ban. Any contributor who engages in this unproductive and uncomradery behavior will be promptly warned and then blocked with few exceptions.

What edit warring is

Wikipedia encourages editors to be bold, but while a potentially controversial change may be made to find out whether it is opposed, another editor may revert it. This may be the beginning of a bold, revert, discuss (BRD) cycle. An edit war only arises if the situation develops into a series of back-and-forth reverts. Nevertheless, not every revert or controversial edit is regarded as edit warring:

• Reverting vandalism is not edit warring. However, edits from a slanted point of view, general insertion or removal of material, or other good-faith changes are not considered vandalism. See Leftypedia:Vandalism § Types of vandalism and Leftypedia:Vandalism § What is not vandalism.
• Reverting to enforce certain overriding policies is not considered edit warring. For example, under the policy on biographies of living persons, where negative unsourced content is being introduced, the risk of harm is such that removal is required.
• Reverting edits of banned or blocked users is not edit warring.
• Reverting edits in one's own user page is rarely edit warring. Traditionally, Leftypedia offers wide latitude to users to manage their user space as they see fit. For more information, see Leftypedia:User pages § Ownership and editing of user pages.

When reverting, be sure to indicate your reasons. This can be done in the edit summary and/or talk page. Anti-vandalism tools such as Twinkle, Huggle and rollback should not be used to undo good-faith changes in content disputes without an appropriate edit summary.