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List of edit wars on Wikipedia
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Man most of the edit wars on there are so incredibly pointless. I know that kind of detail obsession is what you want in a Wikipedia editor, but I can't really imagine spending hours debating whether it's "Star Trek into Darkness" or "Star Trek Into Darkness"
In the context of art, I think it is useful to capture the author's original art as closely as possible when archiving. Especially because art can use wordplay and breaking grammar for the sake of the art.
Interestingly there are a lot of political ones I know not listed on that page. I think that page kinda chose the funnier ones.
I think it's analogous to road rage, which is also dumb and unnecessary. Helpful to remember that there's a person on the other side of the wiki edits