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The title text indicates Randall's belief that such arguments are perpetual and will always arise. He suggests that the edit to the Wikipedia page will result in a dispute over variants of Cueballs "compromise". Because the lowercase "L" and the capital "I" appear similar in many fonts, he also puts forth the potential argument that the character in the movie's title is a lowercase "L". | The title text indicates Randall's belief that such arguments are perpetual and will always arise. He suggests that the edit to the Wikipedia page will result in a dispute over variants of Cueballs "compromise". Because the lowercase "L" and the capital "I" appear similar in many fonts, he also puts forth the potential argument that the character in the movie's title is a lowercase "L". | ||
| β | The old "favorite edit war" might be the one referenced in [[878: Model Rail]]. | + | The old "favorite edit war" might be the one referenced in [[878: Model Rail]]. |
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| Star Trek into Darkness |
 Title text: Of course, factions immediately sprang up in favor of '~*~sTaR tReK iNtO dArKnEsS~*~', 'xX_StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNess_Xx', and 'Star Trek lnto Darkness' (that's a lowercase 'L'). |
~*~ExPlAnAtIoN~*~
The talk page of a Wikipedia article is used to discuss changes to the article. An edit war is a dispute about a specific edit to an article, manifesting as a series of edits alternating between making and reverting the change, and usually accompanied by a more-or-less heated debate on the talk page.
Here, Randall is referring to a dispute on the Wikipedia article about Star Trek Into Darkness (an upcoming Star Trek film at the time of the comic's posting). On the day before the comic was published, the article name had a lowercase "into", and the talk page looked like this (rounded off in a friendly way, with the posting of a summary of the arguments, and an exchange of virtual hugs).
Cueball changes the title so that every other letter is capitalized, and adds framing tildes and asterisks (a common, childish way of emphasizing titles online). This will probably not go over well.
Megan's line of "They should have sent a poet." is a quote from the film Contact. The quote is also featured in 482: Height.
The title text indicates Randall's belief that such arguments are perpetual and will always arise. He suggests that the edit to the Wikipedia page will result in a dispute over variants of Cueballs "compromise". Because the lowercase "L" and the capital "I" appear similar in many fonts, he also puts forth the potential argument that the character in the movie's title is a lowercase "L".
The old "favorite edit war" might be the one referenced in 878: Model Rail.
xX_tRaNsCrIpT_Xx
- [Cueball staring at computer screen.]
- Cueball: Oh, wow. Look at Wikipedia's Talk page for Star Trek into Darkness. I have a new favorite edit war.
- Megan (off-panel): Oh?
- Cueball: Forty thousand words of debate over whether to capitalize "into" in the movie's title. Still no consensus.
- Megan: That's magnificent.
- Cueball: It's breathtaking.
- Megan: They should have sent a poet.
- Cueball: Well, I'm making an executive decision. I hope both sides accept this as a fair compromise.
- [A Wikipedia page titled "~*~ StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNeSs ~*~"]
+~tRiViA+~
After the publication of the comic, the debate continued with full force, complete with a section of xkcd-inspired suggestions. The article itself was soon protected, so that only administrators could edit it. A day later, the title was changed to one including a capital "Into" by the administrator Mackensen. (The debate continued on his talk page.) Currently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~*~_StAr_TrEk_InTo_DaRkNeSs_~*~ is a valid link and it redirects to the correct page.
The Independent published an article about the "grammatical tizzy", and the affair as a whole was added to Wikipedia's humorous list of the lamest edit wars.
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