Wikipedia:Tendentious editing

This is an explanatory essay about Wikipedia:Disruptive editing.

This page provides additional information about concepts in the page(s) it supplements. This page is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

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This page in a nutshell: How to recognize and avoid various problematic and disruptive patterns of editing.

Tendentious editing is a pattern of editing that is partisan, biased, skewed, and does not maintain an editorially neutral point of view. It may also involve repeated attempts to insert or delete content in the face of the objections of several other editors, or behavior that tends to frustrate proper editorial processes and discussions. This is more than just an isolated edit or comment that was badly thought out.

This essay is about how to recognise such editing, how to avoid it, and how not to be accused of it.

Other policies, guidelines, and essays covering tendentious behaviors include:

How content is edited – neutral point of view, consensus
Common tendentious behaviors – edit warring, gaming the system / abuse of process, wikilawyering, disruption to make a point, "I didn't hear that"
Editor intentions – single purpose accounts, not being here to build an encyclopedia.