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Edit conflict
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For back-and-forth disagreements in wiki editing, see Edit war.
For dealing with edit conflicts on English Wikipedia, see Help:Edit conflict.
An edit conflict is a computer problem that may occur when multiple editors edit the same file and cannot merge without losing part or all of their edit. The conflict occurs when an editor gets a copy of a shared document file, changes the copy, and attempts to save the changes to the original file, which has been altered by another editor after the copy was obtained.
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