User:Deacon of Pndapetzim/How to win a revert war
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Something ticks you off! As many good men and women do, you have your ideology, the motor of your existence. You have an opinion; nay, you have knowledge, and you wish to spread the Word on wikipedia.
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Often when attempting to "spread the faith" as it were, you encounter one serious problem: other editors. There is you, and a bunch of Nazi-esque [blank]-ists. You are the prophet, they are the persecutors.
You insert your content, but they remove it. You remove [blank]-ist dogma, they put it back. You have no choice but to perform on them what is called a revert. When other editors continue to remove your content, and you stand tall against them, you are in a revert war.
There will certainly be many users of the opposite ideology. Worse still are the "neutrals" (crypto-[blank]-ists in fact, even if they don't know it!). These users have an ideology even more extreme and yet more sinister than your ideological opposites: adherence to that nonsense, WP:NPOV. Those spoil-sports can be a real nuisance, as they can be harder to bait and harder to discredit. On the plus side, they are unlikely to care as much, so doggedness may be all you need here.
But don't worry, if you follow a few simple rules, you can prevail in most revert wars and in most editorial conflict, and thus spread the faith to your heart's content.