Wikipedia:WikiProject Peerage/Humour

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Original title: Wikipedia:List of extraordinarily long discussions about extremely unimportant matters about which hardly anyone gives a toss, and which do nothing towards resolving the matter anyway

Phrase referring to a long, drawn out, and somewhat incomprehensible debate over the proper presentation and formatting of British peerages. The origins of the debate are murky at best, but seem to have revolved over how to best name articles concerning peers who were best known by their common names (i.e. Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell). The debate played out over several weeks on the WikiProject_Peerage page, the few insistent voices of the history majors being drowned out by a chorus of uninformed but very determined wikipedians. The eventual result, a split vote on the matter, was regarded as a success by both sides. The very determined wikipedians considered that they had won, and retired to their various caves. The historians realized that no one would ever pay attention to them again, and gamely carried on.