Forum:Image Wars

It's obvious that for the last few months, we've had many different edit wars, and part of it is due to the fact that it isn't quite clear how edit wars is supposed to be run. Many people tend to make up their own rules, the most popular being the "default" rule, which is keeping it at its original version until the talk page as decided. But some people prefer a rule of it being the previously accepted version. We sort of have different unwritten policies with this subject, but everyone views it differently. I checked our guidelines, but it says nothing about any "default" rule, unless I'm missing something. We should definitely take care of this now. We need an actual rule on how to deal with Image Wars. 20:59, June 2, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion
Definitely the first uploaded version. If we use a "previously accepted" rule, we fall into a grey area where we need to how long a version has to be in place to be "accepted". Plus, there's issues where two images are uploaded within the same hour and there is no "accepted version". It's much less complicated to use the first uploaded of the images being edit warred over.

Something else that might be of use is to create a category that Edit war adds, so that the community can keep track of images that are being edit warred over. That way, no images can fall through the cracks and become not so much "previously accepted" as "previously ignored". 21:14, June 2, 2013 (UTC)

I disagree. I'd rather have the "previously accepted" rule, as that keeps it how it currently was. I think however long it should be determines if the war is over. A set length will just cause conflict, so if the war is over and it's been decided, then we use the version that was accepted before the edit war. 20:18, June 3, 2013 (UTC)