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Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws by empath75 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:27PM (#12790896)
> Go to any article and visit the “talk” tab. More often than not, you'll find a somewhat orderly debate, even on contentious topics like Hillary Clinton's e-mails or Donald Trump's sexual abuse allegations.

Oh, for the really good talk sections, you need to look at anything vaguely related to Macedonia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alexander_the_Great

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Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws by FireBeyond on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:43PM (#12791504)
What about Palestine and Israeli foreign relations, if you want orderly debate?
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Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws by hogrammer on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @09:44PM (#12793275)
There are talk pages that are locked! Some topics are too controversial to even discuss!

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AProtect...

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Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws by justinlardinois on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:52AM (#12794682)
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1665/

The talk page for San Jose (or is it San José?) has a very passionate debate about whether the article's name should be accented or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:San_Jose,_California#Requ...

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