The First Bureaucratic War

The First Bureaucratic War of February-March 2021 is the only war that ever happened in the Roblox Rise of Nations wiki by far. Just starting from a roleplaying game, it quickly spiraled into an event that would be remembered forever in the history of the wiki. It involved two great powers of the wiki: Longtime bureaucrat RealKnockout and newcomer bureaucrat TheRichSeries. However, other people in the wiki as well as some people in the discord played influential roles in it too.

Background
A wiki user by the name of JHRacer made a roleplaying game, named "Wiki World," after TheRichSeries became bureaucrat. In wiki world, the more good edits you get, the more power you would get in the world. People, even TheRichSeries, joined, having a population of the number of their edits multiplied by one million. Later, RealKnockout would join, bringing TheRichSeries a challenger to try and beat. On 2/12/2021, to try and beat RealKnockout, TheRichSeries made a move by using MassEdit and give every nations page a template. That would boost his edit count by almost 1000. RealKnockout responded by categorizing all images, which would also technically raise his edit count. TheRichSeries would retaliate by removing those categorizations, blanking image descriptions in the process.

First accusations
The next day, RealKnockout made a post criticizing TheRichSeries for his tactics, saying that it "should be against wiki world rules." TheRichSeries replies, "They are not good edits you literally farmed the files by categorizing them when the categorizations won't even be used, as opposed to putting Navbox Nations on every nation page." People are already siding with their allies, with ForgeLoxus and JHRacer siding with Rich, RedKingdomOrder siding against Rich, and someone else remaining neutral. A roleplay war has begun.

Both sides "edit attack" each other often, and people try to get more good edits than the other. RealKnockout and TheRichSeries meanwhile, just mass-edit images. Already, JHRacer considers switching sides, seeing as TheRichSeries isn't online at the time of the "edit battle." He chooses to surrender, seeing as TheRichSeries wasn't online.

TheRichSeries switches strategies, now going for a more persuasive tactic. He now calls out RealKnockout for his farming of edits. RealKnockout says that because Rich undid them, he can now redo them. TheRichSeries makes a poll if people would condemn RealKnockout for his actions, which most people staying neutral. Eventually, TheRichSeries and RealKnockout reach a deal where both sides stop edit farming images. Now, both RealKnockout and TheRichSeries are on a propaganda spree. So far, a majority of people support Rich, and key people like RedKingdomOrder start deserting RealKnockout's team. Also, TheRichSeries makes his first and second threats against RealKnockout, threatening to contact FANDOM.

Momentum in the Discord
TheRichSeries now goes to the Discord, basically #suggestions-discussion, where they talk about the Wiki and how the staff and the wiki are "corrupt." He claims that RealKnockout "raided" x.Spy, a rogue server, by mass-pinging the staff. They talk more about how he's corrupt, and TheRichSeries decides to contact FANDOM to demote RealKnockout, with the Discord's support. He makes a poll, and many people vote. Already, Spirit suspects a rigged vote. RealKnockout tries to make another poll to demote TheRichSeries, but to no avail.

Things are quiet for a while, then RedKingdomOrder makes a poll asking if he should be sacked for his participation in "raiding" x.spy, which just barely gets a majority. Then, BasedProperty, the owner of the x.Spy discord server, joins the wiki discord server and is not banned, claiming he just wants to spectate the drama. This angers the discord and many members of the wiki. RealKnockout also interviews Property, disappointing many people, including TheRichSeries, who now accuses RealKnockout for affiliation with x.Spy, but this was not to be taken seriously. Also, some evidence was deleted by RealKnockout. TheRichSeries now makes his first hint at actually making a report to send to FANDOM, for RealKnockout's demotion. Few people fear a raid from x.Spy for RealKnockout's recent actions.

The report was sent later that day.

The Coup and RealKnockout's demotion
The next day, RealKnockout is demoted, considers sending a counter-argument report back to FANDOM, to repromote him and demote TheRichSeries. Later that day, a show-off between RealKnockout, and Golden and Rich happens, with accusations being thrown at RealKnockout. This also paves the way for a total break in relations between RedKingdomOrder and RealKnockout. The wiki has officially been couped.

Instability
Amid all this, the wiki is very unstable (was too lazy to put this so yeah lol)

Fall of TheRichSeries's side
Fast forward to March 3rd, TheRichSeries hears that RedKingdomOrder was given Bureaucrat title as a last ditch to save RealKnockout, and he goes to RedKingdomOrder's message wall to try and convince him that RealKnockout is power-hungry and that he needs to demote himself. However, he makes a massive mistake in his wording, and his messages are quickly exploited by RealKnockout to attack TheRichSeries’s influence. Due to RedKingdomOrders massive popularity in the wiki, people begin turning against TheRichSeries due to him calling RedKingdomOrder inexperienced. TheRichSeries made another grave miscalculation by calling RealKnockout and RedKingdomOrder corrupt, and that was another message which RealKnockout used to attack TheRichSeries. Due to TheRichSeries calling RK and RKO corrupt, JHRacer, Therealbounber, ZackRON00, and ForgeLoxus (all influential wiki members) turn on TheRichSeries and begin supporting RealKnockout, which was a major boon to his anti-Rich effort (previously, he was not as trusted and supported as TheRichSeries was in the war). The members threaten to quit the wiki. TheRichSeries (jokingly?) threatens to rollback all of his edits, but RealKnockout knows it won't work.

Peace
Eventually, RedKingdomOrder listens to TheRichSeries and steps down as Bureaucrat. He also steps down as admin, surprising some. Many people go on break, and since the wiki is in danger of failing, RealKnockout and TheRichSeries sign a treaty that allows RealKnockout to be promoted back to Bureaucrat, as well as dropping all charges against TheRichSeries. The coup was over.

Aftermath
The aftermath of the coup was a devastating event that saw a negative outcome. The wiki will eventually look back on this moment and ponder. However, some members from the official discord, most notably Secure Contain, did not agree with this outcome, and on March 7, 2021, they launched The Second Wiki Deposition Campaign in yet another effort to demote RealKnockout.