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The page for Edit War itself says that if the add/remove/add or remove/add/remove cycle is to enforce an aspect of wiki policy, such as example indentation or keeping zero-context examples commented out, then the person acting on behalf of those policies won't face suspension for edit warring. (Although the person contravening those policies should be brought to mod attention anyway to stop an endless back-and-forth cycle from developing.)
The rule isn't that any add/remove/add or remove/add/remove will result in an automatic suspension. The mods aren't robots, after all.
Conventionally yes "removal -> add back -> removal" would qualify as an edit war.
I am increasingly thinking that it's a little too broad, especially when the added back edit was inappropriate for a different reason. Such a broad definition lets problem edits stick around for longer.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

So for the YMMV.Revolutionary Girl Utena page we on the Magnificent Bastard cleanup thread
deemed none of the examples—with particular emphasis on Akio—to be qualifiers. Troper idominatio2 re-added the entry after it was removed and was messaged being asked to come to the thread to make the case but never did so. To prevent an edit war, am I okay to remove and leave a note asking it not to be re-added unless it's approved by the thread?
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