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Occasionally, Wikipedians lose their minds and get into edit wars over the lamest things. This is to document that phenomenon. Please note, this page is dedicated to whimsy, and not to document real, contentious edit wars.

Cauliflower - Is cauliflower nutritious? Is specifying what parts are usable POV?

List of numbers that are always odd - the number 3 was being considered as possibly being not odd. Page protection was needed to halt the heated debate. User:Wik's correction of a misspelling of hypochondriacs was re-reverted no less than 3 times. Supposedly as a means to illustrate the ludicrousness of the subject, various examples such as "the atomic numbers of gold and silver, but not their sum" and "the number of days in a year (except leap years)" were added to the list. Later in the edit war, no less than two thousand five hundred numbers of debated oddness (every second integer from 1 to 4999) were added and removed, four hundred ninety eight of them repeatedly before the edit war was solved by Meelar deleting the page.

Wikipedia:Yet_more_bad_jokes_and_other_deleted_nonsense#Edit_conflicts - the edit war on the Wikipedia:Edit conflicts page, preserved in Yet More Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense.

Gdan zisk - edit wars have been occuring for most of a year as regards the exact name of this ~~Polish~~ ~~German~~ ~~Prussian~~ ~~Eastern~~ ~~Central~~ ~~Northern European~~ Baltic city.

Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship - Wik's nominations of 9 Wikipedia:Wikicops were moved; the wikicops page itself got in a move war about a week later and ended back at Wikipedia:Administrators.

Sarah Edmonds - Wik makes a correction, giving her middle name and month of birth. This gets lost through an edit conflict, and Danny and Alexandros add a paragraph worth of content. Wik reverts. Danny reverts. Etcetera. The only objection either had with the other's edits was that it reverted their own.

Richard Neustadt - Two months of edit war on whether the page should say "[[Harry S. Truman|President Truman]]" or "President [[Harry S. Truman]]" (plus the same with several other presidents.
- Of course, this president's ACTUAL name was Harry S Truman, with no period after "S", his complete middle name.

Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars ever - edit war over what edit wars should be on this page. - see Recursion; see also tail recursion.

Suncrest, Washington - Constant reversion of Mark Richards's "vandalism" by original creator who seemed to think it was his page. See page history and VfD discussion.

FOX News - edit war over whether three commas should go inside or outside the quotation marks.

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 * ''List of numbers that are always odd'' - the number '''3''' was being considered as possibly being not odd. Page protection was needed to halt the heated debate.  [[User:Wik]]'s correction of a misspelling of ''hypochondriacs'' was re-reverted no less than 3 times.  Supposedly as a means to illustrate the ludicrousness of the subject, various examples such as "the atomic numbers of gold and silver, but not their sum" and "the number of days in a year (except leap years)" were added to the list. Later in the edit war, no less than two thousand five hundred numbers of debated oddness (every second integer from 1 to 4999) were added and removed, four hundred ninety eight of them repeatedly before the edit war was solved by [[User:Meelar|Meelar]] deleting the page.
-* [[Bill Clinton]] - edit war over which picture of him to use, when the photos are virtually identical except one is slightly darker and the other is 5 times as big.
 * [[Wikipedia:Yet_more_bad_jokes_and_other_deleted_nonsense#Edit_conflicts]] - the edit war on the [[Wikipedia:Edit conflicts]] page, preserved in Yet More Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense.