Wikipedia:Great Edit War
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| Great Edit War | |||||
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| Part of Wikipedian edit wars | |||||
 Proof Why Edit Wars Are Becoming Like REAL Wars by SomeDudeWithAUserName | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
 Reactionaries |
 Revolutionaries | ||||
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| Bots | de-centralized leadership | ||||
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| Bots | Unknown number of Wikipedians and unregistered editors | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
| -2 | literally everyone else | ||||
The Great Edit War is an edit war involving the national origin of the Caesar salad. It became famous (or rather infamous depending on POV) when it was featured on Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars and some Revolutionary veterans spoke of their horrible "blocked times". Thus, a Wikipedian POW-MIA flag came popular.
Background
A slow-motion edit war is happening currently for 15 years on whether the Caesar salad was created in Mexico in 1924, or in Ancient Rome. Aside from its national origin, its etymology is also debated in the more than one-decade edit war.
Factions
There are two factions, like in most wars.
Reactionaries
They are people who say the Caesar salad was made in Mexico. Lots of anti-vandal bots classified as vandals, of course or why would we mention them?
Revolutionaries
They are the opposite of the Reactionaries, saying it was made in Rome. They are seen as vandals who, most of them at least, didn't mean to vandal.
Current state
Even though there was a moment of peace, in which a block was raised, where the reactionaries won. As soon as the block was lifted, Italian partisan activity resurges.
As of now, The Great Edit War is changing and changing, not at one clear conclusion. As of February 2024, the Caesar Salad Wikipedia page claims the place of origin to be Mexico, indeed making the Reactionaries the victorious, however no formal end has come to the war.
On January 28, 2024, the Caesar Salad was “Albanian” for 1 hour and 31 minutes (12:48-14:19 UTC±0) but was soon removed off the Wikipedia page. Because of this, it has been unfortunately blue locked until December 23, 2024.