Las guerras más tontas de la Wikipedia
En la Wikipedia no sólo se pelean por borrar a alguien o dejar de borrar a alguien. Que va. Hay discusiones todavía más tontas. Y es la propia Wikipedia la que se encarga de contárnoslo en Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars.
Creo que mi favorita es:
- 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 the article’s deletion after a VfD vote. An ancient mirror out on the Net still had a version available, though, so it’s been rescued for posterity: User:ConMan/List of numbers that are always odd
No sé de dónde saqué el enlace, lo siento.