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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars
Recommended by Cody Espinoza
We've probably all gotten into arguments of minute and insignificant points of trivia. This is a list of similar arguments between Wikipedia editors, but instead of lasting a few minutes like most pointless disagreements, some of these drag on for months or years:
A lot of arguments about locations - Poland/Germany/Prussia/Baltic/Eastern European
A lot of American vs. British spelling arguments
A lot of age discrepancies.

Arguments over the correct word for what we in Salt Lake know as Gasoline. At one point it was suggested to call it "Fossil fuel for reciprocating piston engines equipped with spark plugs"
Death Star
Is it 120km or 160km in diameter? Even 900km? How shall they word that? Is the hyperdrive class 3 or 4? Who really cares? George Lucas apparently doesn't.
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Ongoing arguments and edit wars over whether to include the word "Friday" in the date of the event.
Gender of God
Or is it 'Gender of god'? How about 'Gender of Gods', gotta remember those damn heathens. Or is that 'Gender of gods'? Is 'sex' more appropriate than 'gender'? Is God/god/Gods/gods appropriate at all? How about (D/d)ivine entit(y/ies)... or supreme (B/b)eing(s)... or some mix of all the above? Meanwhile this doesn't account for religions with no explicit sex (or is that explicit gender?). We haven't quite decided yet but rest assured whilst some silly people are trying in vain to reach consensus those with the power are proving their point with reverts. There's even threats of ArbCom.
Alumin(i)um
Researchers and producers of element 13 have various called the stuff “alumine”, “alumium”, “aluminium”, and “aluminum”. Speakers and writers of American English spell it “aluminum” (as does the ACS). The non-American English-speaking world spells it “aluminium” (as does the IUPAC), which is where the article typically stands — with two letters ‘i’. There are occasional attempts to put the word back to aluminum. See here and here for the gory historical details. As a gauge of the scale of this territorial feud, the talk page specifically devoted to this debate is over 40,000 words of um/ium debate.