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The saddest part about this page are the warnings and the fact that they felt these needed to exist:

“This section is intended as humor. It is not, has never been, nor will ever be, a Wikipedia policy or guideline. Rather, it illustrates standards or conduct that are generally not accepted by the Wikipedia community.”



It's not sad. Wikipedia is supposed to be a serious source of information, and is used by people from all over the world, many of whom may not "get" this kind of humour. The warnings make sense.


Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if there was another meta-edit-war where someone exclaimed "Guys, stop, you are featured in _Lamest Edit Wars_ page!" and a lengthy discussion ensued whether being featured in the page implies the edit dispute was in "bad faith" (or whatever wiki-ism they use these days), and the disclaimer was a result of that.


I think it's an interesting page. It shows human nature.

That the edit wars themselves (lame or not) can be query should be interesting for the students of the human mind and, maybe, even for future historians because it shows what was important in our time.




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