Wikipedia talk:Current disputes over articles

I propose this page for discussion of "destructive" activities that rise above the level of deleting whole pages or inserting "joe is kewl" into articles at random.

For example, we might say:

• Lir is calling Christopher Columbus a slavetrader and reverting (all, most?) other contributors' changes.

I think it's better to call such a dispute an edit war than to use such a provocative term as vandalism. --Ed Poor

COuld be a good idea. Might keep traffic down on the mailing list too! -- Tarquin

What kind of doublethink allows people to think that "edit war" is a less provocative term than "vandalism"? War is worse than vandalism, and both are destructive acts. There's no way to destroy anything on Wikipedia, other than good will, and this page does a better job of destroying good will than any contention over a single topic ever will. --The Cunctator

--- What is an Edit War? Ilyanep