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Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars


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Right here is -- a collection of the most insane editorial debates that so-called Wikipedians engage in. This ought to give you a good several minutes of amusement.

 

This one's my favorite so far:

 

'A revert war on whether the tiger can properly be described as the "most powerful living cat" (complete with accusations that people were "tiger fanboys") gradually led to arguments about how tigers would match up vs. bears and crocodiles, complete with another revert war about the inclusion of a YouTube video showing a tiger fighting a crocodile, eventually leading to the article being semi-protected. The debates about bears and crocodiles continue on the talk page.'

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Right here is -- a collection of the most insane editorial debates that so-called Wikipedians engage in. This ought to give you a good several minutes of amusement.

 

This one's my favorite so far:

 

'A revert war on whether the tiger can properly be described as the "most powerful living cat" (complete with accusations that people were "tiger fanboys") gradually led to arguments about how tigers would match up vs. bears and crocodiles, complete with another revert war about the inclusion of a YouTube video showing a tiger fighting a crocodile, eventually leading to the article being semi-protected. The debates about bears and crocodiles continue on the talk page.'

 

I liked this one

 

Copyrights

 

Hitler Has Only Got One Ball

Can anonymously written folk songs be copyrighted? What if the anonymous author sues Wikipedia? Or his son? Such a serious controversy on such a serious article can only be settled by a month-long, soul-scarring flame-fest delving into international copyright law, which fails to convince an obstinately irascible user out to impugn Wikipedia's credibility.

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