Quite Interesting @qi.com · Jun 16

Wikipedia has a list of ‘Lamest Edit Wars’ that includes such disputes as ‘Is Limp Bizkit a nu metal/rapcore or rapcore/nu metal band?’, ‘Is it Star Trek into or Into Darkness?’, and ‘Should we say that economist Guy Standing is sitting in his photo?’. bit.ly/39qXtcu

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Snowman · Jun 16

What if there is an edit war about an entry on this list of lamest edit wars? Would it make the list? What if there is then an edit war about this question? Etc....

the irreducible · Jun 16

Wait, did people really argue for not capitalizing the I? never mind, I cannot go there

otterly bewildered · Jun 16

By the way, does Standing have children or is he the last Guy Standing?

Champie · Jun 16

If there's a Guy Sitting somewhere, we need to make him famous enough to have a Wikipedia page.

Shaun Pond · Jun 16

He's seated... unless he's in motion towards the chair, he's not sitting 😉

Centuries of Sound · Jun 16

A load of wikipedia edit wars boil down to the feeling that if anything is funny it cannot be "encyclopedic" - even if it's funny because it's so encyclopedic.