User:Trafford09/a

Concern re potential edit-warring re AD vs CE.

Some editors prefer the BC-AD format, whilst others favour the BCE-CE format. Personally, I have no strong feeling either way. However, there's the potential for strong-viewed editors to engage in edit-wars. How can WP guard against this, and is there any consensus &/or WP-Policy? <br

Retiarius - a Main Page Featured Article from a couple of days ago - is an example of different views, with certain named editors toggling the format from each other, (possibly using alternative UserIDs), and then other IP users doing likewise.

As you'll see from the diffs below (mostly in asc. date-order), I tried a cautious warning of one user, but to no great avail I fear.

Diff.#1

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cesium_133 My qry. to Cesium_133]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bottesini#On_the_AD.2FCE_issue... Cesium_133 to Bottesini - but apparently signed in text by "John Sawyer"?!]

Ben_Tillman restores CE

An IP changes some CE to AD

Cesium_133 writes in Talk (but as "User:John_Sawyer"?) -     but note that there's no User:John_Sawyer with an underscore, but there is a User_talk:JohnSawyer with no underscore.

What's going on here? Is some sock-puppetry afoot? (Is that where one user adopts multiple a/c's? Is that allowed?).

But anyway, going back to my starting questions: There's the potential for strong-viewed editors to engage in edit-wars. How can WP guard against this, and is there any consensus &/or WP-Policy?