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duskwuff on May 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lamest Edit Wars

It gets extra-spicy when editors start debating what nationality a person was, using names of countries which didn't even exist when the subject of the article was alive (e.g. people born in Central/Eastern Europe before WWI).

smcl on May 7, 2023 | [–]

If you like your wikipedia spicy, you may enjoy the story of Croatian-language wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Wikipedia

H8crilA on May 8, 2023 | [–]

Or like when someone says they are from Punjab.

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