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For those who think that edit wars, content disagreements, and innacuracies are any special realm of Wikipedia, they're not.

One of the best examples I've encountered demonstrating this is a 19th century edit revision war between the British and American publishers of Chamber's Encyclopaedia, on the topics of Free Trade, Protection Duties, Slavery, and certain salacious particulars concerning His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4xe2k1/chamber...

What's novel concerning Wikipedia is that these disputes (as with those of free software vs. proprietary software) tend to occur, or at least leave significant evidence, in the open public record.