Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Dealing with disputes: Difference between revisions

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Wikipedia is a busy place with millions of articles already, and thousands of new articles being added (or attempted) every day, with a net gain of thousands of new articles each week. As in any dynamic endeavor, there are bound to be occasional disputes; on Wikipedia, the vast majority are minor or brief, and the participants are well able to deal with the issues on their own.

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In some of these disputes, the presence and/or intervention of an uninvolved administrator may help to de-escalate a dispute.