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Or consider this list of the _lamest_ edit wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_w

• Osmium 13y ago
  I actually find lame edit wars kinda heartening. It suggests that the people running wikipedia have principles regardless of the topic; that it doesn't matter if it's silly; that if you want to talk about it, it should be done right.
  • chongli 13y ago
    people running wikipedia have principles Sure, if you want to call ego a principle. Or whatever you want to call the emotion that leads to tunnel-vision; to thinking about what you're going to say next without even hearing the other side.
  • InclinedPlane 13y ago
    When the strength of a principle is expended in meaningless battles over minutiae the principle is weakened greatly. More importantly, there is no such thing as a perfectly self-consistent set of ethical or moral rules. There will always be gray areas and areas of extreme complexity. It's far more valuable to know when to make exceptions and how to uphold the spirit of a principle independent of absurdly rigid rules.
• acheron 13y ago
  This is a fantastic list. Thank you for the link. I may have seen it before but had long forgotten about it.
• ErrantX 13y ago
  The "best", and one of the longest, rages over capitalisation of the letter T in The Beatles. Seriously.