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Wikipedia:Great Edit War

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The First Great Edit War
Part of Wikipedian edit wars

An accurate depiction of the edit war in question.
Date11 September 2008 - Present
Location
Wikipedia page for Caesar salad
Status đŸ”«đŸ”«
Belligerents
Mexico Mexican Caesar Salad Lover (Reactionar-ies) Italy Italian Caesar Salad Lover (Revolution-aries) Albania Albanian Caesar Salad Lover Switzerland Neutral Caesar Salad Lover
Commanders and leaders
Bots Leader decentralized Leadership Unknown Leadership Unkown Leadership
Units involved
Bots Army
Mexican Army Wikipedians
Italian Army Wikipedians
Roman Army Wikipedians
Albanian Army Wikipedians Unarmed Wikipedians
Strength
Bots
Unknown number of Mexican Wikipedians
Unknown number of registered and unregistered Wikipedians
Unknown number of Italian Wikipedians
Unknown Lonely Albanian Soldier Wikipedian 48,333,294[1] registered Wikipedians and unknown number of unregistered Wikipedians
Casualties and losses
No bot killed or injured
Unknown Mexican Wikipedians killed or injured
517373827/737282837 killed
73738283664 injured
None killed or injured.... at least for now More than 48,333,294 injured

The First 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

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For 15 years, there has been a "debate" on whether 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 the war.

A 100 percent realistic (poor) illustration on what happened at the edit war of the Caesar salad Wikipedia page.

Factions

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There are two factions, like in most wars.

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?

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 situation

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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, the Italian partisan activity restarted.

Illustration shows the page for Caesar Salad protected. (Now blue locked, which isn't shown.)

As of now, The First Great Edit War is changing and changing, with no 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 war has come to the end.

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. As a result of this, it has been unfortunately blue locked until December 23, 2024.

  1. ^ This number is dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBEROFUSERS :D