Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars/External links

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PLEASE include two or three edit history links about the lame edit war. It would be also useful to list the date the edit war was added.

Huge revert war over one external link critical of Smart. Discussion filled several talk pages, with each side accusing the other of POV, systemic bias, stalking, paranoia, bad faith edits and being lame in general. Escalated to a request for arbitration, and eventually an Office Action.

A three-day-long war starting with this good faith edit which turned into an edit war as to whether it should be included or not, ending with this last revert edit. Even after talking on the article's talk page, and bringing the issue up on ANI, the user who originally posted the link was eventually indefinitely banned.

A slow burning edit war lasting over three months over the file extension of one link. Not the inclusion of the link itself – just its extension (.txt or .prt).

A huge edit war regarding the inclusion of external links. Should commercial sites be linked, should the section be this big, or should the external links section be there at all? These are some of the questions plaguing this article.