e with these trivial changes."
The dispute has since flared up almost every year.
"It's their NAME and 'The' needs to be capitalised wherever and whenever it appears in a sentence—I was taught that shortly after we'd stopped writing with crayons!" wrote one user in June 2006.
"Sorry, I never wrote with crayons... I coloured with mine, and wrote with a pen, or pencil as needed," replied another.
Austria-based Andrew Edge, a leading voice in the uppercase faction, began working on Beatles entries in 2007. This July, Mr. Edge accused Mr. McFadden of setting up a "fake" poll about the matter in order to "demolish" an existing poll residing on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band talk page. "It really is a sorry state of affairs when an editor has to stoop to such tactics," Mr. Edge wrote.
In July, a Wikipedia administrator "indefinitely banned" Mr. McFadden and Mr. Edge from interacting with each other following a weeklong community discussion that ran more than 11,500 words.
Mr. Edge sees it differently. He says the encyclopedia has increasingly become home to groups of editors "that gather together to agree with each other, and revert or block anybody who is not a member."
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