Wikipedia:Great Edit War
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| Great Edit War | |||||||||
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| Part of Wikipedian edit wars | |||||||||
 An accurate depiction of the edit war in question. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Mexican Caesar Salad Lover (Reactionar-ies) |
 Italian Caesar Salad Lover (Revolution-aries) |
 Albanian Caesar Salad Lover |
 Neutral Caesar Salad Lover | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Bots Leader | decentralized Leadership | Unknown Leadership | Unkown Leadership | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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Bots Army Mexican Army Wikipedians |
Italian Army Wikipedians Roman Army Wikipedians | Albanian Army Wikipedians | Unarmed Wikipedians | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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Bots Unknown number of Mexican Wikipedians |
Unknown number of registered and unregistered Wikipedians Unknown number of Italian Wikipedians | Unknown Lonely Albanian Soilder Wikipedian | 47,667,634[1] registered Wikipedians and unknown number of unregistered Wikipedians | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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No bot killed or injured Unknown Mexican Wikipedians killed or injured |
99% killed 1 injured | None killed or injured.... at least for now | More than 47,667,634 injured | ||||||
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[edit]
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.
Factions[edit]
There are two factions, like in most wars.
Reactionaries[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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 restarted.
As of now, The 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.
- ^ This number is dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBEROFUSERS :D