User blog comment:Master Ceadeus 27/A User's Guide To: Edit Wars!/@comment-8-20141030223200

Nicely written Ceadeus, there's a lot of good advice here.

I think the hardest part of an edit war is that both sides tend to think their edit is the right one. And so they think the only correct outcome is that their edit ends up on top. That makes it hard to come to a compromise.

It is possible though. With honest conversation, both sides will hopefully understand the other and together they will find a wording or (as you say) a reference that solves the dispute.

Good job in writing this Ceadeus