Wikipedia:Great_Edit_War

Wikipedia:Great Edit War

Wikipedia:Great Edit War

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.

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Background

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 poor illustration on what happened at the edit war of the Caesar salad Wikipedia page.

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 restarted.

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

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.
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