Don't edit too quickly
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Prolific editors working too quickly is a major cause of wiki-wars. If wikimedians sat down and talked, edit-wars, which lie at the heart of of almost every wikimpedian disupute, would have not become what it has become. A wiki is supposed to evolve organically and gradually. If you have any of the following symptoms, you should slow down a bit:
- You have had more than one edit conflicts today
- you have viewed the same pages more than twice
- you keep going back to the recent changes
- you have nothing to do and start to correct your own grammar
- you jump from wiki to wiki in search of a new idea
- you are engaged in a dialogue with another wikimedian and you are talking completely past each other
- more...
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