edit warrior

plural edit warriors

1. wiki jargonOne who engages in an edit war.

   As the volume of work and of disputes grew, a Mediation Committee aiming to find common ground between edit warriors was established; it had no coercive power.

   2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes, →ISBN, page 157

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   As Wikipedia has grown, Wales has been forced to impose some more centralized, policelike measures–to guard against “edit warriors,” “point-of-view warriors,” “revert warriors,” and all those who have difficulty playing well with others.

   2006, Brendan I. Koerner, The Best of Technology Writing 2006, →ISBN, page 113

   Amid the scores of single-issue edit-warriors with screen names like PalestineRemembered, HumusSapiens, and G-Dett, two Wikipedians stand out for their tenacity and influence, and for the resourcefulness of their wikilawyering: Jayjg and SlimVirgin.

   2007, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60

   Edit warriors, however, are more often than not myopic in their view of Wikipedia, believing that a “wrong” version should not be allowed to stand on Wikipedia—even for a day!

   2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 389