Wikipedia:Great Edit War
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| Raid of the crack fortress | |||||||||
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| Part of Wikipedian edit wars | |||||||||
 An accurate depiction of the edit war in question. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Reactionaries (Italian and Roman Caesar Salad Lover) |
  Revolutionaries (Mexican Caesar Salad Lover) |
 Albanian Caesar Salad Lover |
 Neutral Caesar Salad Lover | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Bots Leader (MIA) Grove Streeet  |
Resurrected Julius Caesar Big Smoke † | 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 | ||||||
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Bots Unknown number of Mexican Wikipedians |
Unknown number of registered and unregistered Wikipedians Unknown number of Italian Wikipedians 74,475,566,501 (per Wikipedia CNN) | Unknown Lonely Albanian Soldier Wikipedian | 48,527,351[a] registered Wikipedians and unknown number of unregistered Wikipedians | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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Unknown number of bots missing Unknown Mexican Wikipedians killed or injured |
517,373,827 killed 73,738,283,664 injured | 1 killed | More than 48,527,351 injured | ||||||
The First Great Edit War was 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 16 years, there was a "debate" on whether Caesar salad was created in Mexico in 1924, or in Ancient Rome (In Moldova). Aside from its national origin, its etymology was also debated in the war.
Factions
[edit]There were two factions, like in most wars.
They are people who said the Caesar salad was made in Mexico. Lots of anti-vandal bots classified as vandals, of course or why would we mention them?
They were the opposite of the Reactionaries, saying it was made in Rome. They were 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, the Italian partisan activity restarted.
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.
On December 1, 2024, a book was published that confirmed that the creator of Caesar salad was Caesar Sardini, ending the war with a Reactionary victory.
Note
[edit]- ^ This number is dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBEROFUSERS :D