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An ideology warrior is an editor who spends most of their time on Wikipedia altering the ideology field of political infoboxes, or altering a party's/individual's political leanings within the body of the text. They may also alter the "political position" field in the infobox. They are the political siblings of genre warriors, but are often far more passionate and headstrong about their interpretations being right.
The ideology warrior is usually here with an agenda, either to promote their own politics or disparage their opponents'. They are more often than not motivated by their own point of view, and often resort to original research and especially synthesis to argue their points.
Ideology warring is disruptive to articles, because the changes have to be reverted. Warriors waste the time of other editors, because it must be spent reverting these edits and some then feel obligated to add the affected articles to their watchlist, thus adding to their workload. Furthermore, ideology warriors often have no hesitation in edit warring and violating the three revert rule to make sure their version of a political article sits on top.
If a disagreement arises over what political ideology or position should be stated in an article, take the issue to the talk page, and start an RfC, if needed.