Normally this would be seen as over-kill for a humor page, but only by fools and knaves, blind to just how important this page truly is. Does anyone care? to bolster their case. It is essential that as many editors as possible chime in, not adding to the discussion at hand but pointing, LOL, and lamely commenting about how lame it is and how it's a big waste of time (See Self-fulfilling prophecy, Positive feedback, and Exponential growth). Another one bites the dust ... An edit war erupted over John Kerry's first Purple Heart award in Vietnam. Users have been edit-warring for six years now over how to describe it. The only thing all the editors-turned-detectives can agree on is that the truth is out there. Some say that the official style guidelines say it should be written Danah Boyd; others say they allow for exceptions for the subject's personal preferences. Murray is anti-English and British after the media misinterpreted a joke with Des Kelly and Tim Henman in 2006 so therefore he must be Scottish. Accusations of weasel wording appear in the talk page. Or is it a system? Another edit war about this page (circa 2006) was whether it should be kept to the one-sentence version from Larry Sanger, or be several paragraphs, including explanations and conditions of the policy.[1]. And if you think that's ridiculous, edit wars over whether to identify the band as "The Beatles" with a capital T or "the Beatles" with a lower case t have gone on longer than the group's existence. Editors resorted to uploading photos of their own ponies to debate the point, possibly indicating ten-year-old girls are more computer savvy than ever ... Is it an RPG or is it a Console RPG? In 2014, it was included by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [142] Twenty years to the week after its initial release, the Official Charts Company recorded total UK sales of 1.5 million, including album-equivalent units. That album is fucking brilliant. [196], Critics have compared Radiohead's statements of political dissatisfaction to those of earlier rock bands. Is adding that rival KSL-TV is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vandalism that must be reverted on sight? No! This is slightly ridiculous as she is English, and therefore of course will pronounce it in an English manner. [27] Yorke identified the subject of the song as "someone who's trying hard to keep it together but can't". Is he actually 5'6"? The involved could be considered mad as a badger, or if another digging mammal is allowed, making mountains out of molehills. Was she born in 1991 or 1992? Two newlines in the source had been stripped out at some point without either participant noticing, rendering the appearance of the two versions, which were reverted back and forth seven times, completely identical. If Copernicus were around today, he might have suggested that he would be satisfied to be remembered as an astronomer, but we will never know. Is Urban75 a "left leaning" or "liberal leaning" site? What about the Canadian Royal family? "Should we have a picture of someone's principal?" Various supporters of the US Libertarian party (founded in 1971) argue that they own the meaning of the word "libertarian", that placing it next to "socialism" is a contradiction in terms, and hence that libertarian socialism (described circa 1850) cannot possibly have existed. 7'4"? This debate, over a single word in the article, consumed most of the month of September 2007. The edit war receives mention on-air – and possible Wikipedia editing – from a KUFO DJ. Was this marinated raw fish delicacy invented in Peru, or in Ecuador? Edit warring about this edit war then proceeded onto this very page. "[33][34] Many of Yorke's vocals were first takes; he felt that if he made other attempts he would "start to think about it and it would sound really lame". Many sources disagree. Sadly, no known edit wars ensued from that statement. In the aviation field, the term "alternate aerodrome" (or "alternate airport" or "alternate airfield") is used globally to refer to the second airport/aerodrome/airfield selected in a flight plan if a landing at the planned destination cannot be made, see material published by aviation authorities in Europe (Eurocontrol), Israel (CAA). Chart, Foo Fighters Follow", "Radiohead tops list of best-selling albums in independent record stores - Independent.ie", "Radiohead Officially Release 18 Hours of Leaked 'OK Computer' Sessions", "ARIA Charts – End of Year Charts – ARIA Charts – End of Year Charts – Top 100 Albums 1997", "Year in Focus – European Top 100 Albums 1997", "Year list Album (incl. Much edit warring and most of the talk page is used on this vital question after the premiere. Roads WikiProject, regular editors, and administrators, resulting in a few probations and even a song. The reissue includes a remastered version of the album, plus eight B-sides and three previously unreleased tracks: "I Promise," "Man of War", and "Lift". The closing administrator perhaps summed up popular opinion by stating "I have intently analysed every word of the impassioned arguments presented in this section, both for and against, and have discovered that this discussion is pointless, and furthermore, that we all have better things to do than try to change a long-standing abbreviation that has presented absolutely no problems to anyone ever.". And you know it, don't you?! The use of "Polish-born" is branded as a racist slur. With Chinese and Taiwanese Chinese-Taiwanese and AmericansMainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese Real Chinese and Chinese who had forgotten their ancestors Freedom fighters and threat to humanity Mao Zedong worshippers and modern Chinese "Unionists" and "Independencrats" reviving arguments that once almost sabotaged zh.wiki, this article has the (mis)fortune to have a lengthy FAQ which uses statements like "Chinese can also be Taiwanese just like Chinese can also be Beijingers" and "Jeremy Lin's maternal grandma lives in Zhejiang and thus he has undisputed Chinese descent" to satisfy both sides. Is he American or American-born? (For the record, the Nintendo Seal of Quality was, as the name implies, a means of quality control related to the company's internal policy regarding third-party software. "[27] The lyrics, written by Yorke, were inspired by his experience of watching American tourists in France frantically trying to see as many tourist attractions as possible. South African? Is he really 5'5"? Arguments focus on whether "Outta" is a preposition, whether it's relevant that it's not shorter than five letters, and whether the way the title is spelled on the actual CD is more important than our manual of style. Nationalistic tempers simmer for two years in slow and remorseless edit war after a content request for comment supposedly settles the issue in favor (favour) of the Americans. Was this band officially formed in 1996 or 1998? It was really obvious to have 'Tourist' as the last song. ensue. The two editors warring over it filed simultaneous 3RR reports against each other and a RFC. An on-and-off edit war over this detail roils for months. Was Cranky Kong the original Donkey Kong? An unseemly brawl over whether the article should name him "Richard Kyanka" or "Richard Charles Kyanka". Did Göran Persson resign on the 5th or the 6th? The vocals on "Exit Music (For a Film)" feature natural reverberation achieved by recording on a stone staircase, and "Let Down" was recorded in a ballroom at 3 a.m.[31] Isolation allowed the band to work at a different pace, with more flexible and spontaneous working hours. Are any people going to search for Halo 2 or 3, not expecting information about a video game? Is the party center-left, centrist, center-right, right, progressive, conservative, right from an international POV, left from a general POV, 11: List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming / List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming (, This page was last edited on 7 February 2021, at 02:11. Edit wars continued back and forth, and at one point the article even read "U2 are an Irish and British rock band" (which didn't last very long). This monumental lameness was even the subject of an article in The Wall Street Journal! Is the language being spoken Latin? A lengthy discussion has occurred on the issue which would even make your Engrish teacher faint. Examples include Earth (nine times), Wikipedia (nine times) and the Afd pages being nominated for deletion themselves, often recursively. And since one lame edit war apparently wasn't enough, another one raged over whether the school's full name is "University of Maryland, Baltimore County" or "University of Maryland Baltimore County". Should it be an SCP? Q and Les Inrockuptibles both listed the album in their unranked year-end polls. A slow-motion edit war between SmackBot and Yobot about whether or not to include a blank line before a {{DEFAULTSORT}} line. Sockpuppeting follows over a matter of one inch. Do the numbers' acceptance by Trent Reznor mean anything? Finally, since the manga is serialized in Shōnen Ace, the demographic was changed to shōnen for good. Mainly going down the line of Murray called himself Scottish. Edit war over which name to use: Voßstrasse, Vossstrasse, or even Voss strasse or Voss-strasse. [64] The lyrics were inspired by an assignment from Yorke's time at Abingdon School to write a piece of "Martian poetry", a British literary movement that humorously recontextualises mundane aspects of human life from an alien perspective. The situation calmed down only when the disambiguation page for a 4-letter acronym joined the tiny number of articles with indefinite full protection (it has since been reduced to semiprotected). Multiple moves and a stupidly long, long, long talk page court case (complete with "exhibit A" and various chums) ensued. Who's gonna know? User:T13bot, editing off-task, engaged in a brief edit war with User:AnomieBOT in July 2014 over this minor issue, with each bot carefully following 3RR by making only two reverts on each page. Brandon Curtis of Secret Machines said, "Songs like 'Paranoid Android' made it OK to write music differently, to be more experimental ... OK Computer was important because it reintroduced unconventional writing and song structures. This dispute has led to multiple mediation attempts and an ArbCom case. Should this article include a large image of a human anus? Intense edit warring ensued, and continues, over this contentious matter. This was lost through an edit conflict, and Editor B adds a paragraph worth of content. Or should it link to printf (where it serves as a shortcut to print text). Did the band form in 1981 or 1982? It was then deleted and reborn again, at which point it managed a sufficient rally on the AfD to survive, roughly 18 months after the original was first posted; however, it has been moved to another location. A somewhat controversial comic book artist who felt there were errors in his article and so blanked almost all the content without explaining what specifically the errors he was objecting to were. "[6], Radiohead found touring stressful and took a break in January 1996. Take A Sneak Peak At The Movies Coming Out This Week (8/12) “Look for the helpers” – Celebrities helping out amid Texas storm; New Movie Releases This Weekend: February 19th – … In the course of describing an event, namely Merkle's Boner, dated 1908, an author used the "Pittsburg" spelling when mentioning the Pirates' baseball team. What is its phonetic spelling? It's now B-class. Some advocated for the pipe tricked version while others preferred full string method of disambiguation. He was tall, just leave it at that. Was he 7'1"? OK Computer's abstract lyrics, densely layered sound and eclectic influences laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work. [nb 2] The lyrics are also arranged and spaced in shapes that resemble hidden images. (not to mention "wee" as a synonym for "small", or "diminutive") Just some of the hard-hitting issues that provoked in excess of 1500 edits in the space of two weeks – long before the console was even released, and shortly before a massive war breaks out over "non-official external links" that leads to a huge strawpoll to end the issue, and continuing debates over whether the official or unofficial names of the console (according to official Nintendo policy, the console is called the "Wii", not "Nintendo Wii") and its accessories (for example, the "Wii Remote" aka "Wii-mote" aka "Wiimote") are more commonly used and which ones should be mentioned in which articles. I generally take about half a day to do a mix. But that wasn't enough. Edit war over background color of various parts of user page. Does this university have a Latin name, Universitas Sidneiensis, and should it appear in the infobox? Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing, wasting time debating topics of no practical value, or wrestling over questions whose answers hold no practical consequence.