The or the?
There are a lot of debates on Wikipedia (see #4) but this one was particularly intense and it's just about capitalization.
There is a faction of people that believe that John, Paul, George, and Ringo, aka The Beatles, should be referred to as “the” Beatles (lowercase) because of Wikipedia style manuals; they add that in 1970 and John Lennon said it was a lowercase “the” to further prove their point. Others say the "The" is a crucial part of the name that is trademarked. This Wiki-fight got so out of hand that some people were banned from discussion, some quit contributing, and the debate reached the pages of the Wall St. Journal. It looks like the lowercases prevailed, and you can read the whole bloody argument here.
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