• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    5 months ago

    I don’t have a crazy or funny outline for you, but when it comes to humor and Wikipedia, almost every single act of pettiness on this very long page is pretty damn funny.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

    The best one actually has its own separate article dedicated to its pettiness:

    Star Trek (I/i)nto Darkness

    Main article: Wikipedia Star Trek Into Darkness debate

    Is it “Into” or “into”? A simple capitalized letter led to, as xkcd neatly summed up, “Forty thousand words of debate”, before suggesting the “compromise” solution of “* StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNeSs *”. Here’s what the horrifying talk page looked like when the xkcd comic was published. A summary of the results was necessary to keep things sane. And that’s over three months before the film’s opening. Starfleet representatives have neglected to comment.