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This page documents an English Misplaced Pages guideline. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page. |
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A wheel war is a struggle between two admins, or an unilateral admin and a group of opposing admins, in which they repeatedly counter each other's admin actions - in particular, repeatedly blocking and unblocking a user, or repeatedly deleting and undeleting, or protecting and uprotecting, an article.
Just like edit warring is considered harmful and needlessly divisive, wheel warring is not considered good behaviour for an admin. Since Misplaced Pages works on the spirit of consensus, disputes should be settled through civil discussion rather than wheel wars. Indeed, wheel wars generally result when admins get too "heated up" to discuss something, or when an admin is deliberately ignoring an existing discussion (usually at WP:ANI or WP:DRV) to implement their preferred version.
Preferred behavior is:
- If you think something is a good idea, be WP:BOLD and do it.
- If people disagree, take a step back and discuss.
Enforcement
The following is a proposed Misplaced Pages policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. |
While most editors (and admins) tend to agree that wheel wars are not good, there is presently no enforcement against wheel warrers (except for the occasional block on a warring admin, but these tend to become wheel wars themselves as the blocked admin or a friend undoes the block).
Should there be enforcement against wheel warring? Please discuss on the talk page.
See also
- Three Revert Rule
- wheel war, the encyclopaedia article about this that already existed
- Wheel wars entry at Jargon dictionary