Help:Edit conflict

An edit conflict occurs when two or more users start to edit the same part of a page at the same time and come up with different changes when they Publish.

What happens, and how do I avoid edit conflicts with others?
The second editor to press Publish will be told that there is a conflict due to someone else saving the page since they started editing it. However, sometimes you can edit the section that you want to edit on the same page someone else is editing without a conflict.



You can click on the tan notification banner to read the rest of the notification:



The easiest way to resolve an edit conflict once it happens is to add your edits into the version that was saved before you attempted to save yours. When the edit conflict window appears, you will see a box with your version of the page as well as the most recently saved version. Note that the text that is in red on the edit conflict screen is yours, but it is not in the article yet. You will need to manually re-add that to the page. You can copy it from the bottom box, where your text is, and add paste it into the main editing screen. Then press Publish and your edit will be added too.



Also remember that while edit conflicts do have the word "conflict" in the name, they're not a fight or an argument. No one purposefully got into an edit conflict with you, so remember to assume good faith and not become involved in any arguments over the edit conflict. It was just a case of bad timing!

How did I get in an edit conflict with myself?
This occasionally happens if you edit, Publish, and then hit your browser's "Back" button to go back to the edit box. You can avoid it by using the "edit" button to open a new instance of the edit box rather than using "Back". Another possible cause of this is if you click the "Save" or "Publish" button twice, causing two revisions to be submitted.

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