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==Dealing with entrenched views==
[[Image:Esel auf Santorin.jpg|right|thumb|Some editors may have stubbornly held views]]Sometimes no matter how much advice you give, how much you persuade or cajole or threaten, some editors are just going to be entrenched in their positions. They may still be civil, they may review sources in good faith, they may be established editors with thousands of good contributions to their name, but on some certain topic, they may just be completely inflexible, to the point where they are actively blocking consensus, and/or causing additions to articles that are a violation of Wikipedia's policies on [[WP:NPOV|neutrality]]. This problem might be from one editor on an article, or multiple editors, or there may be an off-wiki [[Wikipedia:Tag team|
These situations are often noticed in topics of nationalism or religious belief, though can be found in other areas such as those of pseudoscience, supernatural phenomena, or anywhere that works of popular fiction may have imposed a false idea of reality onto some field. Internal disputes, such as areas of the [[WP:MOS|manual of style]] or [[WP:INFOBOX|infoboxes]] can also see editors with entrenched views.
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