Edit Wars

*(not to be confused with faction wars, which relate to in-game events for SMPEarth)*

**Edit Wars** are events in which one or more SMPEarth Wiki editors disagree over the contents of a page or its formatting, leading to them repeatedly overriding each other's contributions. These can also include other things such as competitions.

Editors engaged in a dispute are advised to attempt reaching consensus or pursue dispute resolution rather than edit warring.

## The Tommy War

The first edit war took place on the TommyInnit page between editors SimonDoesFandom and PhilippeDrTv. It lasted an hour and two minutes before being resolved by Cherxbimx.

## The Wiki Zoomer Cold War

On 28 November 2019 at 8:37 pm, editor CubicSkiLift complained on the fan Discord server about SimonDoesFandom's edits to pages they were modifying, rather than working on other articles. Tensions continued until, after an hour of arguing, the two resolved the conflict without any edit fights being launched.

## Anonymous Grief War

On 30 November 2019 around 6:45 pm, two anonymous users without accounts began rapidly deleting pages on the wiki. 30 different pages in total were attempted to be removed.

The war was resolved when wiki admin mong IP banned the griefers. The wiki team subsequently restored all of the affected pages.

## The Anonymous Ban Act

On 7 December 2019, two anonymous users attempted to delete Technoblade's page. This was stopped by the admin, SimonDoesFandom who promptly blocked both of the users. A few days before this, another anon edited Technoblade's, the Administrator pages, and many others to say vulgar things on it. Because of that attack, the format pages have since been protected.

On 9 December at around 10:10 am, another anonymous user griefed nine pages including the main page. His actions were caught by user SovietRacoon, who with the help of Cherxbimx, an anon, and MikeSharpMNI, restored the pages back to their state of normality. The anonymous user was blocked and the main page became protected.

These two griefings were the straw that broke the camel's back. On that day, Cherxbimx made a community announcement that directed people to a poll. The poll was to get a community consensus on whether they should take away the right for anonymous users to edit pages.

On 10 December 2019 at 11:59 pm, the poll was ended leaving a total of 73 votes placed. A majority of the votes were in favor of requiring users to log onto an account to be able to edit, leaving on 10% of the votes to be against the ban. That same night, the inauguration of the Act ensued and currently, no anons can edit pages. An anon nicknamed Reichart attempted to plead against this act but ended up creating an account to escape the ban. It was discovered that he has later banned on two different accounts, saying, "God damn it I was banned again" on both accounts. He is no longer banned, as he wrote this sentence.

It is unclear whether this will ban will last. Since then there has been a streak of vandalism done by the user from 9th. His griefing usually happens around 10 am-1 pm on the Antarctic Empire page and Technoblade's.

## The War of the Slave Trade

During December, an edit war was held on The Villager Adoption Agency wiki page. A user by the name of "GrandePommeDeTerre" changed the name to "The Antarctic Slave Trade" and added some more context surrounding the event. This was quickly removed by Hawkspider, what followed was an edit war that lasted 3-4 days as the two users kept undoing/redoing the changes. People were uncomfortable with the reference of slavery and a lynch mob was formed in the comments where GrandePommeDeTerre was lynched. In the end, a part of his edit was kept, however, the name now rests as the "Villager Adoption Agency"

After five months, GrandePommeDeTerre returned to the page in May of 2020 and made his edit against the decision taken in December 2019 by renaming the page to Antarctic Slave Trade. Due to many of the original editors having followed the page, it was noticed very shortly afterwards, causing the admin Zirqn to revert the changes, with MynameisSeth locking the page indefinitely.

This edit war remains the lengthiest war held over a single page.

## The Great Badge Battle

On Christmas Eve 2019, achievements were added as a new year celebration update for the wiki by Cherxbimx. When the user ACoca162 logged on and noticed them, they pounced to get as many as updates as possible. This caused Cherxbimx to become angry.

At the time, ACoca162 had 840, ImpulseFibre731 had 300, and Cherxbimx had 340. There was also a new person named Guesswho who has 130 points who said in Coca162's post 'A new challenger approaches '

The badge battle concluded after several of the parties spoke to each other directly, with the current leaderboard head briefly berating the others for editing for personal gain rather than for the sake of documentation.