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An example of edit warring arose over the seemingly trivial issue about the spelling of the word "aluminum"

Alumin(i)um Researchers and producers of element 13 have variously called the stuff “alumine”, “alumium”, “aluminium”, and “aluminum”. Speakers and writers of American and Canadian English spell it “aluminum” (as does the ACS). The non-American English-speaking world spells it “aluminium” (as does the IUPAC), which is where the article typically stands – with two letters ‘i’. There are occasional attempts to put the word back to aluminum. See here and here for the gory historical details. As a gauge of the scale of this territorial feud, the talk page specifically devoted to this debate is over 40,000 words of um/ium debate. The History can be found here:

This article meets the definition of an edit war because the contributors failed to reach a consensus on the talk page which was evident by the back and forth bickering. The continuous corrections and alterations to each others edits where the aftermath provoked by these previous disputes, and because of it, this will definitely classify as an edit war. It matters not which is officially correct, but the mere fact that over a short period of time the content was reverted more than three times within a 24 hr period, they broke the three-revert rule (3RR) which clearly states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material, on a single page within a 24-hour period. Any appearance of gaming the system by reverting a fourth time just outside the 24-hour slot is likely to be treated as a 3RR violation.