So I was watching Ryulong's movements for the last few, and I came upon something interesting. In general, veteran wiki users have a few traits they'll show when edit warring. Unbeknownst to them, there is a right and a wrong way to edit war. Let me elaborate:
When you want to wage internet war on a Wiki, you want to do it right.
You want your posts to be straightforward, fact-laden if possible, and arguing from logical, common-sense and NPOV viewpoints. Nothing angers shitbirds like the Ryulong crew like someone who writes a well-worded rebuttal. Don't hold back the longtext, either - go full out with it. Leave them with no wiggle room. A three-page long comprehensive breakdown, in this regard, is a great example of what to do with this, but if it's a short post filled with facts then just go with that. Get in-depth and analytical, and everything else falls into place. You beat them using the rules and by playing fair. This is why the GethN7 approach works so well.
If you do it right, you will provoke a response that goes on for fucking pages without any additional input from you, and when you do come back, you'll be able to pick and choose from the barrage of vitriol to respond to. Don't go for the bait - instead address the best, most well-written post and use that to push dialogue forward. Keep it up and you win people over eventually.
This brings us to Team Dragondicks:
Ryulong and his friends fundamentally do not know how to properly edit war. The main thing you do not want to do in an edit war is do tons of shortposts, especially disrespectful ones. Shortposts, especially ones as devoid of facts as Team Ryulong's are, generally indicate that whoever neither has the time nor effort to debunk the longpost. If a longpost has dozens of links and has in-depth analysis, and the shortpost response is LOL NO DEBUNKED ALREADY, then it makes those trying to hold the line come across as desperate, if not unhinged.
To correctly fight a longpost, you need a longpost of your own. Always be respectful and analytical during it, and make abundantly clear that you are addressing that user's concerns. Don't be a dick and dismiss them outright, explain calmly why they are factually inaccurate and you'll do just fine. At this point, you've forced the other side to respond to your longpost, and the exchange will continue as long as there's genuine discussion going on - or until one side or the other drops spaghetti. Thing is, Team Ryulong doesn't get that. In their eyes, they're automatically right, so it'd be helpful if you fucks just shut the fuck up and let them push their agenda.
This always works against them; they can't help but automatically frame themselves as ever-so-important, but they always betray themselves. Using rapid shortposts and constant reverts makes those doing them look obsessive, if not dangerously so. With Ryulong generating as many edits as Brianna Wu generates twitter posts, this is pretty much exactly what's happened; even RationalWiki, as a result, thinks Ryulong is a fucking Sperg of godzilla proportions.
It is solely through a cozy relationship with an RW staffer that Ryulong is even still around.
