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Articles of War Wikipedia's lamest edit wars Technicallity Political Ethics Ethnic Feuds American Cultural Superiority Religion Culture War Animal Rights Star Wars Page Key battle or dispute Total no. of page edits The Beatles page creation date Jesus Should they be listed in "traditional" order or alphabetically? And is it "The Beatles" or "the Beatles"? Cat 2001 A very long dispute over whether to use B.C. or A.D. "Owner", "caregiver", or "human companion"? Which words describe the correct relationship between man and beast: Jesus! 17.608 edits 21,864 Sulfur or Sulphur? 10,996 Alumin(i)um 3,950 MASSIVE fight Death Star 5,462 120km or 160km in diameter? 1,856 Cow Tipping Brazil or Fossil fuel for Appropriate to include a picture of a cow with the caption "An unsuspecting potential victim"? 2,155 Wikipedia тeciprocating piston engines equipped with spark plugs Br J.K. Rowling Is Jimmy Wales the founder or a co-founder with Larry Sanger? 11,751 Pronounced "rolling" or does it rhyme with "howling"? Should this substance be called 29,041 5,950 'gasoline' or petrol? 2,927 André the Giant Nikola Tesla Christianity How tall was he? 74? Born of Serbian. 610"? Was his height even consistent? 3,766 An argument about syntax in a sentence regarding the Church's historical definition of orthodoxy and heresy. parents in Austrian Empire, which became a part of the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary and is now in Croatia. Category nightmare! Tiger The "most powerful living cat"? Anus 15,647 5,303 2000 Feces Should article use an image of a human anus? If so, male or female? Hairless or 7,449 Potato chip As there was no year zero, the millennium we Should this page include a picture of a large human turd? Flavored or flavoured? Compromise "seasoned." "moderately hairy"? are currently in started in 2001. 5,224 2,918 2,136 2,268 Freddie Mercury Kiev, capital of Ukraine Of Iranian, Indian, Parsi or Azeri 2002 Iron Maiden Kiev (Russian) or Kyiv (Ukranian)? Edit war involved both Russian and Ukrainian governments. 3,026 ancestry? 11.439 User: Jimbo Wales Arachnophobia Which is more famous - Appropriate to include a huge picture of a the band or the torture device? tarantula on a page about fear of spiders? A war over the background colour of various parts of the user page. 9,388 Limp Bizkit 640 Hummus Are the band "nu Should hummus be in the "Israeli cuisine" category, or is it a purely Arab food the Zionists have illegally occupied? 2,076 metal/rapcore" or "rapcore/nu metal"? 6.372 8,721 U2 Star Wars Are Bono's harmonica Are Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader the same character? skills relevant in an Jennifer Aniston encyclopedia entry? 10,367 What order should the films appear in? Should actors from the Special Editions be credited? American or 12,869 American-born? Greek American? English-American? 6,536 John Logie Baird Mayonnaise Does traditional Mayonnaise contain lemon juice or not? 1,984 Can you be both Scottish and British? 1,122 Palin Futurama Is the politician more famous than the Monty Python member? 2003 Was protagonist Fry cryonically frozen or crygenically frozen (or even cryogenically frozen)? 289 John Kerry 8,731 Was his Purple Heart awarded for a "wound" or a "minor Ann Coulter wound"? Was it "bandaged" or just "wrapped with gauze"? Grey/Gray Squirrel 12,629 Was the right wing US commentator born in 1961 or 1963? Silent Hill 3 Slow and remorseless edit war over this spelling 1,124 What is the last name of the video game's protagonist? 3,095 10,790 Jimmy Wales Preteen The Wikipedia founder edited his own birthdate Are they 8-12 years old? 9-12? 10-12? 8-13? Even 17 years old? 8,628 544 Grace Kelly and Cher Street Fighter character articles Money (Pink Floyd song) What exactly is this song's time signature? 7/8, 7/4 or even 21/8? Gay icons? 2004+ 2,282 Drawn-out edit wars over the correct heights and weights of fictional characters Yoghurt or Yogurt? 573 3,135 2,147 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season Pwned Wii What does this Cute piece of geek slang actually mean? Who invented it? How do you pronounce it? House MD Tropical Storm Zeta formed on 30 "Wii." "Nintendo Wii" or "the Is it NPOV (Neutral Point of View) to say an animal is 'cute'7 Wii"? Should "wee" link here or Should we mention the December, 2005 and lasted until 6 January, 2006, Which hurricane to the article on urine? show's lack of asian 26 20,077 21 diversity? season does this count 8,423 US Election as? 3,254 2008 Clover Angels & Airwaves is/are a band Is Stephen Colbert considered a serious candidate? If so, was it Stephen Colbert (comedian) or Stephen Colbert (character)? (Creature) Cloverfield. Clover, The Cloverfield creature, or Clover (creature)? 1,654 14,957 British English requires "are," as the band comprises multiple people. American English requires "is", as the band is a singular entity. FIGHT! 8,055 David McCandless //v1.0 //August 2010 Additional design: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson Additional research: James Key data: http://bit.ly/WikiLame source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars InformationIsBeautiful.net Articles of War Wikipedia's lamest edit wars Technicallity Political Ethics Ethnic Feuds American Cultural Superiority Religion Culture War Animal Rights Star Wars Page Key battle or dispute Total no. of page edits The Beatles page creation date Jesus Should they be listed in "traditional" order or alphabetically? And is it "The Beatles" or "the Beatles"? Cat 2001 A very long dispute over whether to use B.C. or A.D. "Owner", "caregiver", or "human companion"? Which words describe the correct relationship between man and beast: Jesus! 17.608 edits 21,864 Sulfur or Sulphur? 10,996 Alumin(i)um 3,950 MASSIVE fight Death Star 5,462 120km or 160km in diameter? 1,856 Cow Tipping Brazil or Fossil fuel for Appropriate to include a picture of a cow with the caption "An unsuspecting potential victim"? 2,155 Wikipedia reciprocating piston engines equipped with spark plugs Br J.K. Rowling Is Jimmy Wales the founder or a co-founder with Larry Sanger? 11,751 Pronounced "rolling" or does it rhyme with "howling"? Should this substance be called 29,041 5,950 'gasoline' or petrol? 2,927 André the Giant Nikola Tesla Christianity How tall was he? 74? Born of Serbian. 610"? Was his height even consistent? 3,766 An argument about syntax in a sentence regarding the Church's historical definition of orthodoxy and heresy. parents in Austrian Empire, which became a part of the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary and is now in Croatia. Category nightmare! Tiger The "most powerful living cat"? Anus 15,647 5,303 2000 Feces Should article use an image of a human anus? If so, male or female? Hairless or 7,449 Potato chip As there was no year zero, the millennium we Should this page include a picture of a large human turd? Flavored or flavoured? Compromise "seasoned." "moderately hairy"? are currently in started in 2001. 5,224 2,918 2,136 2,268 Freddie Mercury Kiev, capital of Ukraine Of Iranian, Indian, Parsi or Azeri 2002 Iron Maiden Kiev (Russian) or Kyiv (Ukranian)? Edit war involved both Russian and Ukrainian governments. 3,026 ancestry? 11.439 User: Jimbo Wales Arachnophobia Which is more famous - Appropriate to include a huge picture of a the band or the torture device? tarantula on a page about fear of spiders? A war over the background colour of various parts of the user раge. 9,388 Limp Bizkit 640 Hummus Are the band "nu Should hummus be in the "Israeli cuisine" category, or is it a purely Arab food the Zionists have illegally occupied? 2,076 metal/rapcore" or "rapcore/nu metal"? 6.372 8,721 U2 Star Wars Are Bono's harmonica Are Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader the same character? skills relevant in an Jennifer Aniston encyclopedia entry? 10,367 What order should the films appear in? Should actors from the Special Editions be credited? American or 12,869 American-born? Greek American? English-American? 6,536 John Logie Baird Mayonnaise Does traditional Mayonnaise contain lemon juice or not? 1,984 Can you be both Scottish and British? 1,122 Palin Futurama Is the politician more famous than the Monty Python member? 2003 Was protagonist Fry cryonically frozen or crygenically frozen (or even cryogenically frozen)? 289 John Kerry 8,731 Was his Purple Heart awarded for a "wound" or a "minor Ann Coulter wound"? Was it "bandaged" or just "wrapped with gauze"? Grey/Gray Squirrel 12,629 Was the right wing US commentator born in 1961 or 1963? Silent Hill 3 Slow and remorseless edit war over this spelling 1,124 What is the last name of the video game's protagonist? 3,095 10,790 Jimmy Wales Preteen The Wikipedia founder edited his own birthdate Are they 8-12 years old? 9-12? 10-12? 8-13? Even 17 years old? 8,628 544 Grace Kelly and Cher Street Fighter character articles Money (Pink Floyd song) What exactly is this song's time signature? 7/8, 7/4 or even 21/8? Gay icons? 2004+ 2,282 Drawn-out edit wars over the correct heights and weights of fictional characters Yoghurt or Yogurt? 573 3,135 2,147 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season Pwned Wii What does this Cute piece of geek slang actually mean? Who invented it? How do you pronounce it? House MD Tropical Storm Zeta formed on 30 "Wii." "Nintendo Wii" or "the Is it NPOV (Neutral Point of View) to say an animal is 'cute'7 Wii"? Should "wee" link here or Should we mention the December, 2005 and lasted until 6 January, 2006, Which hurricane to the article on urine? show's lack of asian 26 20,077 21 diversity? season does this count 8,423 US Election as? 3,254 2008 Clover Angels & Airwaves is/are a band Is Stephen Colbert considered a serious candidate? If so, was it Stephen Colbert (comedian) or Stephen Colbert (character)? (Creature) Cloverfield. Clover, The Cloverfield creature, or Clover (creature)? 1,654 14,957 British English requires "are," as the band comprises multiple people. American English requires "is", as the band is a singular entity. FIGHT! 8,055 David McCandless //v1.0 //August 2010 Additional design: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson Additional research: James Key data: http://bit.ly/WikiLame source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars InformationIsBeautiful.net Articles of War Wikipedia's lamest edit wars Technicallity Political Ethics Ethnic Feuds American Cultural Superiority Religion Culture War Animal Rights Star Wars Page Key battle or dispute Total no. of page edits The Beatles page creation date Jesus Should they be listed in "traditional" order or alphabetically? And is it "The Beatles" or "the Beatles"? Cat 2001 A very long dispute over whether to use B.C. or A.D. "Owner", "caregiver", or "human companion"? Which words describe the correct relationship between man and beast: Jesus! 17.608 edits 21,864 Sulfur or Sulphur? 10,996 Alumin(i)um 3,950 MASSIVE fight Death Star 5,462 120km or 160km in diameter? 1,856 Cow Tipping Brazil or Fossil fuel for Appropriate to include a picture of a cow with the caption "An unsuspecting potential victim"? 2,155 Wikipedia reciprocating piston engines equipped with spark plugs Br J.K. Rowling Is Jimmy Wales the founder or a co-founder with Larry Sanger? 11,751 Pronounced "rolling" or does it rhyme with "howling"? Should this substance be called 29,041 5,950 'gasoline' or petrol? 2,927 André the Giant Nikola Tesla Christianity How tall was he? 74? Born of Serbian. 610"? Was his height even consistent? 3,766 An argument about syntax in a sentence regarding the Church's historical definition of orthodoxy and heresy. parents in Austrian Empire, which became a part of the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary and is now in Croatia. Category nightmare! Tiger The "most powerful living cat"? Anus 15,647 5,303 2000 Feces Should article use an image of a human anus? If so, male or female? Hairless or 7,449 Potato chip As there was no year zero, the millennium we Should this page include a picture of a large human turd? Flavored or flavoured? Compromise "seasoned." "moderately hairy"? are currently in started in 2001. 5,224 2,918 2,136 2,268 Freddie Mercury Kiev, capital of Ukraine Of Iranian, Indian, Parsi or Azeri 2002 Iron Maiden Kiev (Russian) or Kyiv (Ukranian)? Edit war involved both Russian and Ukrainian governments. 3,026 ancestry? 11.439 User: Jimbo Wales Arachnophobia Which is more famous - Appropriate to include a huge picture of a the band or the torture device? tarantula on a page about fear of spiders? A war over the background colour of various parts of the user раge. 9,388 Limp Bizkit 640 Hummus Are the band "nu Should hummus be in the "Israeli cuisine" category, or is it a purely Arab food the Zionists have illegally occupied? 2,076 metal/rapcore" or "rapcore/nu metal"? 6.372 8,721 U2 Star Wars Are Bono's harmonica Are Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader the same character? skills relevant in an Jennifer Aniston encyclopedia entry? 10,367 What order should the films appear in? Should actors from the Special Editions be credited? American or 12,869 American-born? Greek American? English-American? 6,536 John Logie Baird Mayonnaise Does traditional Mayonnaise contain lemon juice or not? 1,984 Can you be both Scottish and British? 1,122 Palin Futurama Is the politician more famous than the Monty Python member? 2003 Was protagonist Fry cryonically frozen or crygenically frozen (or even cryogenically frozen)? 289 John Kerry 8,731 Was his Purple Heart awarded for a "wound" or a "minor Ann Coulter wound"? Was it "bandaged" or just "wrapped with gauze"? Grey/Gray Squirrel 12,629 Was the right wing US commentator born in 1961 or 1963? Silent Hill 3 Slow and remorseless edit war over this spelling 1,124 What is the last name of the video game's protagonist? 3,095 10,790 Jimmy Wales Preteen The Wikipedia founder edited his own birthdate Are they 8-12 years old? 9-12? 10-12? 8-13? Even 17 years old? 8,628 544 Grace Kelly and Cher Street Fighter character articles Money (Pink Floyd song) What exactly is this song's time signature? 7/8, 7/4 or even 21/8? Gay icons? 2004+ 2,282 Drawn-out edit wars over the correct heights and weights of fictional characters Yoghurt or Yogurt? 573 3,135 2,147 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season Pwned Wii What does this Cute piece of geek slang actually mean? Who invented it? How do you pronounce it? House MD Tropical Storm Zeta formed on 30 "Wii." "Nintendo Wii" or "the Is it NPOV (Neutral Point of View) to say an animal is 'cute'7 Wii"? Should "wee" link here or Should we mention the December, 2005 and lasted until 6 January, 2006, Which hurricane to the article on urine? show's lack of asian 26 20,077 21 diversity? season does this count 8,423 US Election as? 3,254 2008 Clover Angels & Airwaves is/are a band Is Stephen Colbert considered a serious candidate? If so, was it Stephen Colbert (comedian) or Stephen Colbert (character)? (Creature) Cloverfield. Clover, The Cloverfield creature, or Clover (creature)? 1,654 14,957 British English requires "are," as the band comprises multiple people. American English requires "is", as the band is a singular entity. FIGHT! 8,055 David McCandless //v1.0 //August 2010 Additional design: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson Additional research: James Key data: http://bit.ly/WikiLame source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars InformationIsBeautiful.net Articles of War Wikipedia's lamest edit wars Technicallity Political Ethics Ethnic Feuds American Cultural Superiority Religion Culture War Animal Rights Star Wars Page Key battle or dispute Total no. of page edits The Beatles page creation date Jesus Should they be listed in "traditional" order or alphabetically? And is it "The Beatles" or "the Beatles"? Cat 2001 A very long dispute over whether to use B.C. or A.D. "Owner", "caregiver", or "human companion"? Which words describe the correct relationship between man and beast: Jesus! 17.608 edits 21,864 Sulfur or Sulphur? 10,996 Alumin(i)um 3,950 MASSIVE fight Death Star 5,462 120km or 160km in diameter? 1,856 Cow Tipping Brazil or Fossil fuel for Appropriate to include a picture of a cow with the caption "An unsuspecting potential victim"? 2,155 Wikipedia reciprocating piston engines equipped with spark plugs Br J.K. Rowling Is Jimmy Wales the founder or a co-founder with Larry Sanger? 11,751 Pronounced "rolling" or does it rhyme with "howling"? Should this substance be called 29,041 5,950 'gasoline' or petrol? 2,927 André the Giant Nikola Tesla Christianity How tall was he? 74? Born of Serbian. 610"? Was his height even consistent? 3,766 An argument about syntax in a sentence regarding the Church's historical definition of orthodoxy and heresy. parents in Austrian Empire, which became a part of the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary and is now in Croatia. Category nightmare! Tiger The "most powerful living cat"? Anus 15,647 5,303 2000 Feces Should article use an image of a human anus? If so, male or female? Hairless or 7,449 Potato chip As there was no year zero, the millennium we Should this page include a picture of a large human turd? Flavored or flavoured? Compromise "seasoned." "moderately hairy"? are currently in started in 2001. 5,224 2,918 2,136 2,268 Freddie Mercury Kiev, capital of Ukraine Of Iranian, Indian, Parsi or Azeri 2002 Iron Maiden Kiev (Russian) or Kyiv (Ukranian)? Edit war involved both Russian and Ukrainian governments. 3,026 ancestry? 11.439 User: Jimbo Wales Arachnophobia Which is more famous - Appropriate to include a huge picture of a the band or the torture device? tarantula on a page about fear of spiders? A war over the background colour of various parts of the user раge. 9,388 Limp Bizkit 640 Hummus Are the band "nu Should hummus be in the "Israeli cuisine" category, or is it a purely Arab food the Zionists have illegally occupied? 2,076 metal/rapcore" or "rapcore/nu metal"? 6.372 8,721 U2 Star Wars Are Bono's harmonica Are Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader the same character? skills relevant in an Jennifer Aniston encyclopedia entry? 10,367 What order should the films appear in? Should actors from the Special Editions be credited? American or 12,869 American-born? Greek American? English-American? 6,536 John Logie Baird Mayonnaise Does traditional Mayonnaise contain lemon juice or not? 1,984 Can you be both Scottish and British? 1,122 Palin Futurama Is the politician more famous than the Monty Python member? 2003 Was protagonist Fry cryonically frozen or crygenically frozen (or even cryogenically frozen)? 289 John Kerry 8,731 Was his Purple Heart awarded for a "wound" or a "minor Ann Coulter wound"? Was it "bandaged" or just "wrapped with gauze"? Grey/Gray Squirrel 12,629 Was the right wing US commentator born in 1961 or 1963? Silent Hill 3 Slow and remorseless edit war over this spelling 1,124 What is the last name of the video game's protagonist? 3,095 10,790 Jimmy Wales Preteen The Wikipedia founder edited his own birthdate Are they 8-12 years old? 9-12? 10-12? 8-13? Even 17 years old? 8,628 544 Grace Kelly and Cher Street Fighter character articles Money (Pink Floyd song) What exactly is this song's time signature? 7/8, 7/4 or even 21/8? Gay icons? 2004+ 2,282 Drawn-out edit wars over the correct heights and weights of fictional characters Yoghurt or Yogurt? 573 3,135 2,147 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season Pwned Wii What does this Cute piece of geek slang actually mean? Who invented it? How do you pronounce it? House MD Tropical Storm Zeta formed on 30 "Wii." "Nintendo Wii" or "the Is it NPOV (Neutral Point of View) to say an animal is 'cute'7 Wii"? Should "wee" link here or Should we mention the December, 2005 and lasted until 6 January, 2006, Which hurricane to the article on urine? show's lack of asian 26 20,077 21 diversity? season does this count 8,423 US Election as? 3,254 2008 Clover Angels & Airwaves is/are a band Is Stephen Colbert considered a serious candidate? If so, was it Stephen Colbert (comedian) or Stephen Colbert (character)? (Creature) Cloverfield. Clover, The Cloverfield creature, or Clover (creature)? 1,654 14,957 British English requires "are," as the band comprises multiple people. American English requires "is", as the band is a singular entity. FIGHT! 8,055 David McCandless //v1.0 //August 2010 Additional design: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson Additional research: James Key data: http://bit.ly/WikiLame source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars InformationIsBeautiful.net

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Wikipedia's army of fact-checking web geeks is well-known for its accuracy and attention to detail. Sometimes, however, the volunteer editors take it a little too far. Between 2001 and 2004, they got ...

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