Wikipedia:Great Edit War

Great Edit War
Part of Wikipedian edit wars
Proof Why Edit Wars Are Becoming Like REAL Wars by SomeDudeWithAUserName
Date Unknown Location Wikipedia page for Caesar salad
Belligerents
Reactionaries	Revolutionaries
Commanders and leaders
Cluebot	de-centralized leadership
Strength
The User:ClueBot NG itself	Unknown number of Wikipedians and unregistered editors
Casualties and losses
1,984	literally everyone else

The Great Edit War was an edit war involving the national origin of the Caesar salad. It became famous (or rather infamous depending on POV) when it was featured on Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars and some Revolutionary veterans spoke of their horrible "blocked times". Thus, a Wikipedian POW-MIA flag came popular.

Background

A slow-motion edit war happened for 11 years on whether the Caesar salad was created in Mexico in 1924, or in Ancient Rome. Aside from its national origin, its etymology was also debated in the more than one-decade edit war.

Factions

There were two factions, like in most wars.

Reactionaries

They were people who supported saying the Caesar salad article saying it was made in Mexico. Lots of anti-vandal bots classified as vandals, of course or why would we mention them?

Revolutionaries

They were the opposite of the Reactionaries, they supported the article saying it was made in Rome. They are seen as vandals who, most of them at least, didn't mean to vandal.

Aftermath

The page was protected, so no more wars would take place about the origin of Caesar Salad.