User:Joey Coconut1/Drafts/Conflict

Conflict is an editing guide meant to demonstrate what conflicts should be placed on their own pages, what constitutes a conflict, how they start (as far as the wiki is concerned), how they 'end' (as far as the wiki is concerned), who is considered to be involved in a conflict,

What is a conflict?
At its most basic definition, a conflict is simply a 'serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one' according to Oxford Dictionary.

2b2t is an anarchy server, after all, and to apply a rigid cause-and-effect relationship on a chain of events may result in an inaccurate understanding of events being conveyed. It is also extremely important to note that to talk about every minuscule detail of a conflict, its long-term causes, and all related events, would result in textwalls that are difficult to properly understand. A middle ground must therefore be approached that acknowledges long-term causes of a conflict, while focusing on the specific segment of said conflict the page is actually about. To this effect, a conflict on its own page should satisfy the following criteria; it should:


 * 1) Have an event that sparks it (this does not preclude other long-term causes from being mentioned)
 * 2) Have an endpoint (this does not necessarily mean all related conflicts suddenly end or that a resolution occurs)
 * 3) Have at least two parties in conflict with each other (these can be players, groups, or bases, for example)

Conflicts must have a 'start' and 'end' so that there is a proper scope for the page, otherwise it becomes unclear what the full contents of the page are actually meant to be. Conflicts must specifically have an endpoint as they are otherwise open-ended, which results in them being being more-or-less ongoing, posing a significant issue to page objectivity as the benefit of hindsight is not afforded.

Appropriately addressing long-term causes
Many conflicts have one or more long-term causes. Just because they are not within the time span between the 'beginning' and 'end' of a conflict doesn't mean they should not be mentioned. It should simply be noted that this specific page is not about the long-term causes of the conflict, and that their inclusion on a specific conflict page should simply address the long-term causes and direct to the appropriate pages that, in turn, should have sections discussion their contribution to the start of a respective conflict.

A conflict's 'end'
==Parties to a conflict--