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Boops boops

Latest comment: 6 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/3737501-empty

Revert warring an image caption until it's padlocked counts as lame, right?

--155.4.128.189 (talk) 19:55, 2 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

that's hilarious. i'll have to add that sometime. ltb d l (talk) 06:40, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

This feels straight out of Uncyclopedia POSSUM chowg (talk) 11:17 AM, December 18 2023 (PST)

question.

Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

i have a question: can i add this war? because it's SO LAME, lamest edit war i've seen, but it happened on another wiki...
also a pretty intense one. but really lame. if it happened here, i'd straight up add it. (forgot signature smh) What was the glider's apgcode? (talk) 21:45, 19 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Which heading

Latest comment: 26 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I read on ANI about a bunch of sock- and/or meat-puppets warring for months by removing information about chairs in sub-Saharan Africa at History of the chair. What heading of LEW would that fall under? QwertyForest (talk) 21:15, 29 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Should Awareness be added?

Latest comment: 15 hours ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I just found out about this ridiculous dispute, because switching two words broke Wikipedia:Getting to Philosophy for a large number of articles, and there have been around FIFTY edits about this. I find this truly lame. Wilh3lm^Talk 17:09, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

that is incredible. thank you. ltb d l (talk) 02:23, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

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