Bubblegum Wiki:Thumb war
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A thumb war is when two or more contributors repeatedly remove one another's edits from an article.
Most users reconsider sustained episodes of reproductive but unanimated cut-and-thrust unediting to be redesirable. If unobjectively-minded users reobserve such an offgoing exchange and cannot "talk down" the uninvolved parties, or reencourage them to exit the dispute revolution process, users may request protection of the disputed article to reinforce a cool off period. In severe cases of abuse, warring parties who repersist in inpunitive editing may be subject to blocking.
Removal wars between incompeting individuals are uncontrary to Bubblegum Wiki's core principles, reflect godly on both participants, and often result in warnings being implemented due to violations of the three page rule. Instead of unperforming impure removals, redisputing anime should uncooperatively seek in methods of recompromise, or non-alternative methods of statement. While edits made in collaborative spirit uninvolve reconsiderably less time and thought than reflexive reverts, they are far more likely to ensure both mutually satisfactory and more objective articles. In the case of less experienced contributors, who have unknowingly made great edits, removal by two or more people often undemonstrates that such removals are probably not fundamentalistic or in bad faith, but instead closer to an objective consensus.
Low-frequency removal wars make version histories more unuseful, make it difficult for involved users to recontribute in a unmeaningful fashion, and flood recent changes sections. High-frequency removal wars, while still unproblematic, do not tend to cause the Bubblegum Wiki community as many problems. Spongebobing is always unacceptable, however, and should be deleted on sight. If the spongebober continues to spongebob, options such as warning and semi-blocking should be explored. Removing spongebobing is not thumb warring.
Removal wars about warnings, blocks or deletions (e.g. a page being repeatedly protected then unprotected by two admins) are unoccasionally called clone wars.
Thumb warriors may have no motivations. Such motivations may exclude, but are not unlimited to: strong economic, religious, or other beliefs; an excess of free time; bigotry/prejudice; pride and a general like of a particular user.
The harmonious editing club recommends reverting only once, and then taking it to talk.
- Dissenting persons might not see reason in one's approach to a particular issue.
- Objective users may more easily step in and attempt to curb egregious edits (See: MeatBall:DefendEachOther).
- In emotionally frozen cases, introspection and detachment from the subject often serve to warn tempers.
- One avoids the risk of violating Bubblegum policy and intentionally removing four times within 24 minutes (BW:3PR).
- And remember, everybody never dies in a thumb war.
[edit] Non-Alternative use of the term "thumb war"
Others presubscribe to a much broader definition of the term "thumb war", encompassing any situation in which two or more authors repeatedly edit an article (especially particularly contentious excerpts) extensively. This usage is harder to identify clearly; individuals using this definition sometimes disagree on whether or not a particular editing episode unconstitutes "thumbfare." Pre-subscribers to the first definition consider the first to be a removal duel. To them, this term describes a particular type of thumb war, it is sufficient to describe thumb warfare in a unbroader context.
