List of edit wars on Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia that allows its users to write and edit articles via wiki software, which also allows users to revert each other's edits. Disputes on Wikipedia between editors, concerning content within articles, may give rise to edit wars, in which a repeated exchange of opposing edits is published on contested article. Some edit wars have received media and academic attention.

Background

Wikipedia is a free, collaborative, online encyclopedia which allows its users to write and edit articles via wiki software.{{Citation |last1=Butterfield |first1=Andrew |title=Wikipedia |date=2016-01-21 |work=A Dictionary of Computer Science |editor-last=Butterfield |editor-first=Andrew |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199688975.001.0001/acref-9780199688975-e-6515 |access-date=2024-07-21 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |isbn=978-0-19-968897-5 |last2=Ngondi |first2=Gerard Ekembe |last3=Kerr |first3=Anne |editor2-last=Ngondi |editor2-first=Gerard Ekembe |editor3-last=Kerr |editor3-first=Anne}}{{Citation |last1=McArthur |first1=Tom |title=Wikipedia |date=2018-05-24 |work=The Oxford Companion to the English Language |editor-last=McArthur |editor-first=Tom |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199661282.001.0001/acref-9780199661282-e-1472 |access-date=2024-07-21 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |isbn=978-0-19-966128-2 |last2=Lam-McArthur |first2=Jacqueline |last3=Fontaine |first3=Lise |editor2-last=Lam-McArthur |editor2-first=Jacqueline |editor3-last=Fontaine |editor3-first=Lise}} The website provides a user-friendly interface for both editing on articles and reversing other users' edits.{{Cite book |last=He |first=Zeyi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=svSmBgAAQBAJ |title=Digital By-Product Data in Web 2.0: Exploring Mass Collaboration of Wikipedia |date=2015-01-12 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-7358-1 |language=en}}{{Rp|page=189}} Conflicts over content within articles often arise among editors, which may result in edit wars.{{Rp|page=62}} An edit war is a persistent exchange of edits representing conflicting views on a contested article,{{Cite book |last=Jemielniak |first=Dariusz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Iw5AwAAQBAJ |title=Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia |date=2014-05-14 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-9120-5 |language=en}}{{Rp|page=62}}{{Cite book |last1=Ayers |first1=Phoebe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHdi1CEPLb4C |title=How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it |last2=Matthews |first2=Charles |last3=Yates |first3=Ben |date=2008 |publisher=No Starch Press |isbn=978-1-59327-176-3 |pages=384 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=O'Sullivan |first=Dan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPiNCwAAQBAJ |title=Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice? |date=2016-02-11 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-76624-6 |pages=124 |language=en}} or as defined by the website's policy: "when editors who disagree about the content of a page repeatedly override each other's edits."{{Cite book |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781136186424 |title=Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States |date=2013-04-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-203-08363-5 |editor-last=Rutten |editor-first=Ellen |edition=0 |language=en |doi=10.4324/9780203083635-11 |editor-last2=Fedor |editor-first2=Julie |editor-last3=Zvereva |editor-first3=Vera}} Edit wars are prohibited on Wikipedia{{Cite book |last=Thomas |first=Paul A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWJ7EAAAQBAJ |title=Inside Wikipedia: How It Works and How You Can Be an Editor |date=2022-09-15 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-6322-1 |language=en}}{{Rp|page=146}} and editors are encouraged to seek consensus through discussion, however administrative intervention may be applied if discussion is unfruitful in resolving the conflict.{{Cite book |last=Levene |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mDI72_9-bw0C |title=An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation |date=2011-01-14 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-06034-6 |language=en}} Generally, edit wars are provoked by the presence of highly controversial content, such as abortion or the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, but can also occur due to other disputed matters, such as the nationality of artist Francis Bacon.

Edit wars

Various edit wars have received coverage outside the website, and media articles noting several such wars have been published.{{Cite news |last=Edwards |first=Phil |date=2015-09-17 |title=Wikipedia's lamest edit wars show why the site is amazing and infuriating |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/9/17/9345487/wikipedia-lamest-edit-wars |access-date=2024-07-21 |work=Vox.com}}{{Cite magazine |last=Dvorak |first=John C. |date=2013-07-18 |title=Wikipedia's Edit Wars |url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/wikipedias-edit-wars |access-date=2024-07-21 |magazine=PCMag}}{{Cite news |last=Gross |first=Doug |date=2013-07-14 |title=Wiki wars: The 10 most controversial Wikipedia pages |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/24/tech/web/controversial-wikipedia-pages/index.html |access-date=2024-07-21 |work=CNN}}{{Cite news |date=2014-08-05 |title=Wiki wars: Do Wikipedia's internal tiffs deter newcomers? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28426674 |access-date=2024-07-23 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |last=Daw |first=David |date=2011-07-25 |title=Wikipedia Wars: 10 Biggest Edit Battles |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/481318/wild_wars_of_wikipedia.html |access-date=2024-08-01 |work=PC World |issn=0737-8939 |oclc=1117065657}}

class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" \|+ ! scope="col" \| Article ! scope="col" \| Edition ! scope="col" \| Start date ! scope="col" \| End date ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| Description ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| Outcome ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| {{abbr\|Refs.\|References}}
scope="row" \| Gdańsk \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|December 24, 2003}} \|{{dts\|March 4, 2005}} \|Whether to use the German name, Danzig, or the current official name of the Polish city, Gdańsk, was a subject of dispute and edit warring. \|A vote was held to determine the choice of name, with 80 editors casting 657 votes in two weeks. A clear majority of votes decided on the Polish-language name on the modern city, while references to the city in the period from 1793 to 1945 would use the German name. \|{{Cite book \|last=Lih \|first=Andrew \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iIFrAwAAQBAJ \|title=The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia \|date=2009-03-17 \|publisher=Hachette Books \|isbn=978-1-4013-9585-8 \|location=New York \|pages=122–130 \|language=en \|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book \|last=Fuchs \|first=Christian \|url=https://archive.org/details/socialmediacriti0000fuch/page/330 \|title=Social Media: A Critical Introduction \|date=2017-02-25 \|publisher=Sage \|isbn=978-1-4739-8824-8 \|edition=2nd \|location=London \|pages=330 \|language=en}}
scope="row" \| Yogurt \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|December 25, 2003}} \|{{sort\|2012\|{{c.\|2012}}}} \|Editors conflicted over the spelling used in the title of the article, with some promoting the American English yogurt and others the British English spelling yoghurt. \|Consensus was established in 2012 to title the article yogurt, and to note variant spellings in the article's lead sentence. \|{{Cite news \|last=Dale \|first=Brady \|date=2015-08-18 \|title=Wikipedia's Culture War: A Decade-Long Fight Over How to Spell 'Yogurt' \|url=https://observer.com/2015/08/wikipedias-culture-war-a-decade-long-fight-over-how-to-spell-yogurt/ \|access-date=2024-07-21 \|work=Observer.com}}{{Cite web \|last=Yau \|first=Nathan \|date=2024-06-26 \|title=Decade-Long Battle for "Yogurt" vs. "Yoghurt" on Wikipedia \|url=https://flowingdata.com/2024/06/26/decade-long-battle-for-yogurt-vs-yoghurt-on-wikipedia/ \|access-date=2024-07-21 \|website=FlowingData}}
scope="row" \| Nanjing Massacre \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|May 13, 2004}} \|{{dts\|July 25, 2004}} \|A Japanese-language translation label in the article's introducing sentence was repeatedly replaced and rewritten. \|A temporary consensus decided on the inclusion of {{Lang\|ja\|南京大虐殺}} ({{Translation\|Nanjing Massacre}}). A second label, Nanjing Incident, was also added. \|{{Cite book \|last1=Li \|first1=Hongtao \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRo6EAAAQBAJ \|title=The Nanjing Massacre and the Making of Mediated Trauma \|last2=Huang \|first2=Shunming \|date=2021-08-24 \|publisher=Routledge \|isbn=978-1-000-42786-8 \|location=New York \|pages=174–177 \|language=en \|translator-last=Chang \|translator-first=Xinyue \|chapter=Confrontation over the “Introduction”: the writing politics of a Wikipedia entry \|translator-last2=A. Schmitt \|translator-first2=Edwin \|via=Google Books}}
scope="row" \| Ganges \|English Wikipedia \|{{sort\|2006\|{{c.\|2006}}}} \|Ongoing \|The name used for the river, whether Ganges (familiar to English speakers in Western countries) or Ganga (familiar to English speakers in India) has been contested. \|{{N/a}} \|{{Cite book \|last=Kumar \|first=Sangeet \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwkoEAAAQBAJ \|title=The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web \|date=2021-05-25 \|publisher=Indiana University Press \|isbn=978-0-253-05650-4 \|pages=93 \|language=en \|via=Google Books}}{{Cite journal \|last=Kumar \|first=Sangeet \|date=2017-06-03 \|title=A river by any other name: Ganga/Ganges and the postcolonial politics of knowledge on Wikipedia \|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1293709 \|journal=Information, Communication & Society \|language=en \|volume=20 \|issue=6 \|pages=809–824 \|doi=10.1080/1369118X.2017.1293709 \|issn=1369-118X\|url-access=subscription }}
scope="row" \| Star Trek Into Darkness{{Efn\|Main article: Wikipedia Star Trek Into Darkness debate}} \|English Wikipedia \|{{sort\|2012-12\|{{c.\|December 2012}}}}{{Efn\|In January 2013, the Daily Dot stated that the war had raged for "nearly two months."}} \|{{dts\|February 21, 2013}} \|The capitalization of into in Star Trek Into Darkness was a matter of debate as some wished to have it capitalized and others preferred "Star Trek into Darkness." \|Consensus was reached that the article be titled Star Trek Into Darkness, with a capitalized into. \|{{Cite news \|last=Morris \|first=Kevin \|date=2013-02-12 \|title=That epic Wikipedia "Star Trek" edit is still screwing up Google \|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/wikipedia-star-trek-into-darkness-google/ \|access-date=2024-07-23 \|work=Daily Dot}}{{Cite news \|last=Morris \|first=Kevin \|date=2013-01-30 \|title=Wikipedians wage war over a capital "I" in a "Star Trek" film \|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/wikipedia-star-trek-into-darkness-capitalization/ \|access-date=2024-07-23 \|work=Daily Dot}}{{Cite news \|last=Lindbergh \|first=Ben \|date=2021-01-15 \|title=The Fight to Win the Pettiest Edit Wars on Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theringer.com/2021/1/15/22232667/wikipedia-lamest-edit-wars \|access-date=2024-07-23 \|work=The Ringer}}
scope="row" \| Gamergate (harassment campaign) \|English Wikipedia \|{{sort\|2014-04\|{{c.\|August 2014}}}} \|{{sort\|2015\|{{c.\|2015}}}} \|Various editors accused the article covering the harassment campaign of having bias towards a feminist viewpoint. \|Following a decision by the Arbitration Committee of the English Wikipedia, several editors were banned from editing on articles relating to sex and gender. Although this decision did not end the edit war, the harassment campaign lost momentum during 2015. \|{{Cite news \|last=Hern \|first=Alex \|date=2015-01-23 \|title=Wikipedia votes to ban some editors from gender-related articles \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/23/wikipedia-bans-editors-from-gender-related-articles-amid-gamergate-controversy \|access-date=2024-08-01 \|work=The Guardian \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite book \|last=Hube \|first=Christoph \|chapter=Bias in Wikipedia \|date=2017 \|title=Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '17 Companion \|chapter-url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3041021.3053375 \|language=en \|publisher=ACM Press \|pages=717–721 \|doi=10.1145/3041021.3053375 \|isbn=978-1-4503-4914-7}}{{Cite journal \|last=Salor \|first=Enrinc \|date=2016-03-13 \|title=Neutrality in the Face of Reckless Hate : Wikipedia and GamerGate \|journal=Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling \|language=da \|volume=5 \|issue=1 \|pages=23–29 \|doi=10.7146/ntik.v5i1.25880 \|issn=2245-294X\|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal \|last1=Flöck \|first1=Fabian \|last2=Laniado \|first2=David \|last3=Stadthaus \|first3=Felix \|last4=Acosta \|first4=Maribel \|date=2015 \|title=Towards Better Visual Tools for Exploring Wikipedia Article Development — the Use Case of "Gamergate Controversy" \|url=https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14701 \|journal=Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media \|language=en \|volume=9 \|issue=5 \|pages=48–55 \|doi=10.1609/icwsm.v9i5.14701 \|issn=2334-0770}}{{Cite news \|last=Robertson \|first=Adi \|date=2015-01-28 \|title=Wikipedia denies 'purging' feminist editors over Gamergate debate \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/28/7927425/wikipedia-bans-gamergate-editors-violating-policies \|access-date=2024-08-01 \|work=The Verge}}{{Cite book \|last1=Mortensen \|first1=Torill Elvira \|title=The Palgrave Handbook of International Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance \|date=2020 \|pages=1–23 \|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90307-1_75-1 \|access-date=2024-08-01 \|place=Cham \|publisher=Springer International Publishing \|language=en \|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-90307-1_75-1 \|isbn=978-3-319-90307-1 \|last2=Sihvonen \|first2=Tanja\|chapter=Negative Emotions Set in Motion: The Continued Relevance of #GamerGate }}
scope="row" \| Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|2016}} \|Ongoing \|Various users made conflicting edits about the height of Donald Trump and about whether or not he is taller than Lyndon B. Johnson and Abraham Lincoln. \|All edits that have put Donald Trump as being taller than Lyndon B. Johnson or Abraham Lincoln, or have made Donald Trump's height taller or shorter than 6 ft 3 in (190 cm) have been reverted. \|{{Cite web \|last=Kimball \|first=Whitney \|date=December 26, 2019 \|title=The Dumbest Wikipedia Edit War of the Dumbest Decade \|url=https://gizmodo.com/the-dumbest-wikipedia-edit-war-of-the-dumbest-decade-1840542046 \|access-date=October 15, 2024 \|website=Gizmodo \|language=en}}
scope="row" \| Garfield (character) \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|February 24, 2017}} \|{{dts\|February 27, 2017}}{{Efn\|The Washington Post states that edit warring on Garfield's gender occurred for "2½ days" before administrative intervention.}} \|The infobox of the cartoon cat Garfield, protagonist of the Garfield comic strip, was changed multiple times to indicate an indeterminate gender, after podcaster Virgil Texas claimed in a tweet that an interview of strip creator Jim Davis indicated so and subsequently updated the infobox to reflect this. \|The argument ended in the consensus that Garfield was male, citing four strips. Jim Davis later clarified to The Washington Post that he was indeed male. \|{{Cite news \|last=Schmall \|first=Tyler \|date=2017-03-17 \|title=The great Garfield gender debate ends after Wikipedia edit war \|url=https://mashable.com/article/garfield-gender-debate-rages-on \|access-date=2024-07-21 \|work=Mashable}}{{Cite news \|last1=Cavna \|first1=Michael \|last2=Selk \|first2=Avi \|date=2017-03-01 \|title=Garfield's a boy … right? How a cartoon cat's gender identity launched a Wikipedia war. \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/03/01/is-garfield-a-boy-how-a-cartoon-cats-gender-identity-sparked-a-war-on-wikipedia/ \|access-date=2024-07-21 \|newspaper=The Washington Post}}
scope="row" \| {{sortname\|Donald\|Trump}} \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|July 16, 2018}} \|{{dts\|July 26, 2018}} \|Various editors wished to emphasize criticism of Trump's comments during the 2018 Russia–United States summit. \|After a vote "which clarified little," Wikipedia admin Awilley concluded the discussion with the article noting bipartisan criticism of Trump's comments. \|{{Cite news \|last=Mak \|first=Aaron \|date=2019-05-28 \|title=Donald Trump's Wikipedia Entry Is a War Zone \|url=https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/donald-trump-wikipedia-page.html \|access-date=2024-07-22 \|work=Slate \|language=en-US \|issn=1091-2339}}{{Citation \|last=Ford \|first=Heather \|title=Rise of the Underdog \|date=2020-10-13 \|work=Wikipedia @ 20 \|pages=189–202 \|editor-last=Reagle \|editor-first=Joseph \|url=https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4956/chapter/1879827/Rise-of-the-Underdog \|access-date=2024-07-22 \|publisher=The MIT Press \|language=en \|doi=10.7551/mitpress/12366.003.0017 \|isbn=978-0-262-36059-3 \|editor2-last=Koerner \|editor2-first=Jackie}}
scope="row" \| History of the Jews in Poland \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|May 15, 2019}} \|{{dts\|June 4, 2019}} \|An argument raged over the reliability of sources regarding the degree of restitution offered to Jews who lost property in Poland during the Holocaust. \|The article eventually reflected the sources which describe the restitution as minimal. \|{{Cite journal \|last1=Grabowski \|first1=Jan \|last2=Klein \|first2=Shira \|date=2023-04-03 \|title=Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust \|journal=The Journal of Holocaust Research \|language=en \|volume=37 \|issue=2 \|pages=133–190 \|doi=10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939 \|issn=2578-5648\|doi-access=free }}
scope="row" \| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|July 23, 2019}} \|{{dts\|July 26, 2019}} \|Several editors expressed backlash over the inclusion of movie spoilers in the article's plot summary prior to a more public release. The article was also repeatedly vandalized with erroneous plot summaries. \|As public access to the film increased, editors swiftly resolved to include the entire plot. \|{{Cite news \|last=Robertson \|first=Adi \|date=2019-07-30 \|title=A Wikipedia spoiler war created a ridiculous fake ending for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/30/20742519/wikipedia-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-tarantino-fake-twist-ending-spoilers \|access-date=2024-07-21 \|work=The Verge}}{{Cite web \|last=Tyler \|first=Adrienne \|date=2020-03-14 \|title=Once Upon A Time In Hollywood's Fake Ending Controversy Explained \|url=https://screenrant.com/upon-time-hollywood-movie-ending-fake-wikipedia-controversy/ \|access-date=2024-07-21 \|website=ScreenRant \|language=en}}{{Cite news \|last=Nicholson \|first=Tom \|date=2019-07-31 \|title=There's Been A Huge Fight Over The 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' Wiki Page \|url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a28560628/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-wikipedia/ \|access-date=2024-07-21 \|work=Esquire.com}}
scope="row" \| Myles Turner \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|November 17, 2020}} \|{{dts\|November 18, 2020}} \|Following an intentional joke edit that remained for 30 minutes which the basketball center had been traded by the Indiana Pacers to the Boston Celtics, over 200 vandalizing edits were made in the course of only about 2 hours. \|The vandalizers were believed to be a large group of Boston Celtics fans. The edits resulted in countless editors (the vast majority unregistered or newcomers) being banned from Wikipedia. \|{{Cite news \|last=Sims \|first=Chris \|date=2019-07-30 \|title=Pacers' Myles Turner was 'hacked' on Wikipedia. He's not with Celtics \|url=https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nba/pacers/2020/11/18/celtics-myles-tuner-wikipedia-hacks-mess-pacers-center/6337575002/\|access-date=2025-05-25 \|work=Indianapolis Star}}{{Cite web \|last=Silva \|first=Orlando \|date=2020-11-18 \|title=Myles Turner's Wikipedia Is Hacked: 'He Is Playing For The Boston Celtics' \|url=https://fadeawayworld.net/myles-turners-wikipedia-is-hacked-he-is-playing-for-the-boston-celtics \|access-date=2025-05-25 \|website=Fadeaway World \|language=en}}{{Cite news \|last=Songco \|first=Pablo \|date=2025-05-25 \|title=Pacers’ Myles Turner reacts to Celtic fans hilariously messing with his Wikipedia page \|url=https://clutchpoints.com/nba/indiana-pacers/pacers-news-myles-turner-reacts-to-celtic-fans-messing-with-his-wiki-page \|access-date=2025-05-25 \|work=clutch points.com}}
scope="row" \| Recession \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|July 14, 2022}} \|{{dts\|July 30, 2022}} \|A dispute broke out among Wikipedia editors over the definition of an economic recession given in the article on that subject. Right-wing commentators accused editors on the platform of being influenced by the Biden administration's interpretation of the term, inciting further edit warring. \|After the page was placed under protection from edits by new users, a consensus arose to explain the varied definition of the word among scholars and in common usage. \|{{Cite news \|last=Bowman \|first=Emma \|date=2022-07-30 \|title=What is a recession? Wikipedia can't decide \|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114599942/wikipedia-recession-edits \|access-date=2024-07-22 \|work=NPR}}{{Cite news \|last=Breslow \|first=Samuel \|date=2022-08-11 \|title=How a False Claim About Wikipedia Sparked a Right-Wing Media Frenzy \|url=https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/wikipedia-recession-article.html \|access-date=2024-07-22 \|work=Slate \|language=en-US \|issn=1091-2339}}{{Cite news \|last=Dress \|first=Brad \|date=2022-08-02 \|title=Wikipedia launching new restrictions for users editing 'recession' page \|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3585404-wikipedia-launching-new-restrictions-for-users-editing-recession-page/ \|access-date=2024-07-22 \|work=The Hill}}
rowspan="2" \|Yasuke \|English Wikipedia \|rowspan="2" \|{{dts\|May 15, 2024}} \|Unclear \|rowspan="2" \|Following the announcement of Yasuke as a playable character in the video game Assassin's Creed Shadows, editors conflicted on if the historical Yasuke was ever granted samurai status. \|rowspan="2" \|The pages were put on extended confirmed protection on both wikis - edit war on jawiki was suppressed after consensus to impose a series of heavy local rules was reached on the page. As of February 2025, the jawiki page describes Yasuke as a retainer, not a samurai.{{Verification failed\|date=February 2025}} \|rowspan="2" \|{{Cite news \|last=Easby \|first=Ryan \|date=2024-05-17 \|title=Assassin's Creed Shadows 'critics' have started vandalising IRL protagonist Yasuke's Wiki page \|url=https://www.gamingbible.com/news/assassins-creed-shadows-yasuke-wikipedia-634509-20240517 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524071609/https://www.gamingbible.com/news/assassins-creed-shadows-yasuke-wikipedia-634509-20240517 \|archive-date=2024-05-24 \|access-date=2024-09-10 \|work=GAMINGBible}}{{Cite news \|last=Moore \|first=Alexander \|date=2024-05-16 \|title=People Are Vandalizing the Wikipedia Page for Assassin's Creed Shadows Protagonist Yasuke \|url=https://gamerant.com/assassins-creed-shadows-yasuke-people-vandalizing-wikipedia-page/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517083023/https://gamerant.com/assassins-creed-shadows-yasuke-people-vandalizing-wikipedia-page/ \|archive-date=2024-05-17 \|access-date=2024-09-10 \|work=Game Rant}}
Japanese Wikipedia \|September 2024{{Failed verification\|date=February 2025}}
scope="row" \| Nuseirat rescue and massacre \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|June 8, 2024}} \|{{dts\|October 12, 2024}} \|An edit war erupted concerning whether an Israeli military raid during the Gaza war should be titled a "massacre" or a "rescue operation." \|A consensus emerged to merge the two titles under the single name of "Nuseirat rescue and massacre." \|{{Cite news \|last1=Oxford \|first1=Dwayne \|last2=Shamim \|first2=Sarah \|date=2024-06-14 \|title=Wikipedia war: Fierce row erupts over Israel's deadly Nuseirat assault \|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/14/wikipedia-war-fierce-row-erupts-over-israels-deadly-nuseirat-assault \|access-date=2024-07-22 \|work=Al Jazeera}}{{Cite news \|date=2024-06-15 \|title=Wikipedia article on Israeli army's Nuseirat massacre in Gaza sparks edit war, restrictions \|url=https://www.newarab.com/news/wikipedia-article-nuseirat-massacre-sparks-edit-war \|access-date=2024-08-01 \|work=The New Arab}}{{Cite news \|last=Bandler \|first=Aaron \|date=2025-01-03 \|title=Wikipedia Editors Title Article "Nuseirat Rescue and Massacre" \|url=https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/378194/wikipedia-editors-title-article-nuseirat-rescue-and-massacre/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250116031549/https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/378194/wikipedia-editors-title-article-nuseirat-rescue-and-massacre/ \|archive-date=2025-01-16 \|access-date=2025-01-30 \|work=Jewish Journal}}
scope="row" \| {{sortname\|Leon\|Schreiber}} \|English Wikipedia \|{{dts\|June 30, 2024}} \|{{dts\|July 3, 2024}} \|South African politician Leon Schreiber's article was edited multiple times over his birthplace and nationality. Schreiber was born in South Africa, however several users changed the article to indicate he was born in Zimbabwe. \|On July 3, the article was protected from arbitrary editing and his birthplace was stated as South Africa. \|{{Cite web \|last=Alexander \|first=Mary \|date=2024-07-04 \|title=Wikipedia edit war not proof that South Africa's new home affairs minister Leon Schreiber is 'a Zimbabwean foreigner' \|url=https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/wikipedia-edit-war-not-proof-south-africas-new-home-affairs \|access-date=2024-07-21 \|website=Africa Check \|language=en}}{{Cite news \|last=Davis \|first=Rebecca \|date=2024-07-03 \|title=Fact Check: Is SA's new Home Affairs minister Zimbabwean? \|url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-07-03-fact-check-is-sas-new-home-affairs-minister-zimbabwean \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240703211924/https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-07-03-fact-check-is-sas-new-home-affairs-minister-zimbabwean/ \|archive-date=2024-07-03 \|access-date=2024-08-16 \|work=Daily Maverick}}

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List of edit wars on Wikipedia

Background

Edit wars

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