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Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Manual_of_Style_and_article_titles (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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For scale, the other 25 contentious topics include gender and sexuality, the Northern Ireland conflict, Kurdistan, Yasuke, contemporary US politics, and pseudoscience.

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is an internal-plumbing page. Not very interesting to the non-initiated.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's interesting that the capitalization of article titles is nearly as controversial as the Arab-Israeli conflict (another contentious topic).

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ha. Funny.

NB for others: the actual juicy list is at the bottom of another page.

The Arab-Israeli topic has ~~a two-letter code (ai)~~ the prestigious vanity plate "a-i".

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

it's actually a-i, one of the only three codes with a hyphen in it