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;[[Hannover 96]]: One n or two n's? Filling up many talk pages and much time.
;[[Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom|Her Late Majesty]]: Must a queen deceased for over a century still be styled here "[[Her Majesty (style)|Her Majesty]]", an [[epithet]] conventionally reserved for the current [[monarch]]? This weighty dispute ([[Talk:Victoria of the United Kingdom#"Her Majesty"|pale reflection of warring here]]), filling talk pages and edit histories, has spilled over into other British monarchs, other royals and titleholders, several countries having or having had a monarchy, claimants and other royal pretensions, and even hundreds of holders of the [[papacy]], where popes centuries dead are endorsed as “His Holiness” here, losing and regaining the endorsement with blinks of eyes. [[Talk:Victoria of the United Kingdom/Surname|Ongoing debates]] deal with the format of dates, and the used or unused, existing or non-existent <s>surnames</s> <s>family names</s> <s>house names</s> <s>former fiefs</s> (some inherited names, but very few are sure what they precisely are) of monarchs and relatively unfamiliar variants of those (as well as the [[Talk:Victoria of the United Kingdom/Surname#horse|putative name of the ''horse'' of her late majesty's husband's family]]), with most edits being extremely trivial. Involved parties vouch for only aiming at [[accuracy]], and certainly some argumentation goes deeper than believed humanly possible. This even created an [[Wikipedia talk:Lamest edit wars
;[[Istanbul]]: It was [[Constantinople]], but is it now Istanbul or İstanbul? A few editors make nuclear war over a small speck above the I, bringing new meaning to the word ''[[iota]]''.
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;[[The Best Page in the Universe]] : The reason why [[Wikipedia:External links|external links sections]] are [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|not web directories]] is aptly illustrated when the owners of two rival fansites, www.the3rdbestpageintheuniverse.com and www.thethirdbestpageintheuniverse.com, repeatedly replace the other's link with theirs. The link goes [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Best_Page_in_the_Universe&diff=43291994&oldid=43232255 back] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Best_Page_in_the_Universe&diff=43300520&oldid=43291994 forth] for ''weeks'' - as they leave no messages or edit summaries, few notice and none care. One uninvolved editor [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Best_Page_in_the_Universe&diff=44874271&oldid=44873787 tries to add both], asking ''"Is there not room for both self-proclaimed third best pages?"'' - apparently not, as one is [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Best_Page_in_the_Universe&diff=44886866&oldid=44874318 removed] two hours later and the war continues on its merry way. Eventually yet another editor [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Best_Page_in_the_Universe&diff=45462850&oldid=45460936 drops a train] on all the spam, including that oh-so-vital link.
;[[Vic Grimes]] :The removal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vic_Grimes&diff=73352490&oldid=73133540 a single line] in which an editor credits himself as "author" of the article, in violation of [[WP:OWN]], leads to an edit war where the "author" attempts to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vic_Grimes&diff=next&oldid=73799977 remove all the information they ever posted on the page] stating they own the information they found. The resulting war escalated and incidents that derived from the war ended up on [[WP:AN]], [[WP:ANI]], [[WP:3RR]], [[WP:PAIN]], a [[WP:PW|WikiProject]], and the talk pages of many users and admins. Arguments put forward by the "author" included [[WP:LAWYER|wikilawyering]] on whether [[WP:REVERT]] applies to [[WP:3RR]] leading to a bolding of the line '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AThree-revert_rule&diff=74206002&oldid=73784217 in whole or in part]''', wikilawyering on if removing information you added yourself compromises the integrity of wikipedia and attempting to have a user blocked for violation of [[WP:3RR]] for removing a large block of information copied from another part of wikipedia off their own talk page. After every ___location tells the "author" their argument is ridiculous, and to stop the warring, the "author" begins spamming {{citationneeded}} templates on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vic_Grimes&diff=74211225&oldid=73877906 every] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vic_Grimes&diff=74266186&oldid=73877906 piece] of information in the article, even information they originally added, in an attempt to have all the information removed due to lack of citations. After this was reverted as the original information fell under [[WP:AGF]] the "author" began a second edit war to have the templates put back in. The war temporarily ends when the "author" was blocked indefinitely for violating [[WP:POINT]], [[WP:NPA]], edit warring, and trolling but it soon began again with the "author" using [[Wikipedia:Sock puppetry|AOL sock puppets]] to continue their campaign to have the information they added removed from wikipedia.
;[[What would Jesus do?]] :Should the article link to [[Brian Boitano]] or [[What Would Brian Boitano Do?]]. Should a movie title be italicized? Did something happen in the middle of the 1990's or the mid- to late-1990's? These and other probing questions were at the heart of five-day long edit war between Anthony and Wik, during which the page had to be protected twice. The campaign spread to other pages, with What Would Brian Boitano Do? surviving a VfD listing by Wik.
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:Edit wars over which edit wars are allowed to be on this page, or over how specific entries on this page should be worded (oh, the irony). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars_ever Recursion]; see also [[tail recursion]]. Examples have included '''William of Orange''', '''Her Late Majesty''', '''List of virgins''', '''Template:User admins ignoring policy
== See also ==
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