The Most Surprising Wikipedia Controversies Of All Time

Cuteness? Vikings?

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"Cuteness"

Turns out "cuteness" isn't just cuddly -- it's controversial. This picture of sleeping kittens (vandalism?!) was posted, and later removed (whew). That napping kitty totally doesn't make the cute cut.

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[LMPE]

I never knew that similes could be considered gay.

[mungley]

Maybe the wedgie woman was deleted because her hands are attached to her arms backward.

[NoFooling]

That sucks that HuffPost didn't black out that poor kid's phone number in Blue. Like he needs that publicized more widely. Nice going, editors.

[cyclobenzaprine9]

Check out the Colbert-inspired Wikiality site:
http://wikiality.wikia.com/Main_Page

It's the funniest. Although I think many conservatives who stumble upon it fail to recognize the satire.

[TestAndVerify]

Another good account of stupid Wikipedia edit wars is on Wikipedia itself. There are so many, in fact, I have been unable to finish reading the entire page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

RationalWiki is another good site, it mainly focuses on making fun of the stupidity of Conservapedia, but other sites on the extreme right get lampooned as well:

http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

[xtiangodloki]

The list seem to be pretty random.

If you go to Wikipedia's Request for Arbitration section you can actually find a lot more drama. Typically you will find various Russian and ex-Soviet block editors warring over Russian related topics.

[czs5056]

i completely agree I tried to edit how a nuclear bomb works because they had inaccurate information on it and they deleted me

[BlackYowe]

I got so sick of the idiots taking down stuff I stopped contributing. The wiki people I dealt with who edited me were very rude, pseudo-int­ellectuals so its their loss I quit a few years ago.

[Jaywalkker]

Conservapedia is the most controversial wiki in my mind.

www.conservapedia.com/

[Hillrick]

ACK! So much %*#%$!!! in one spot!

[Kel Kendrick]

Talking about Ann Coulter's Adam's apple got deleted a lot before her Wiki page was locked down.