# One little sentence **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771 "2013-08-21T02:04:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![runningdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@runningdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runningdude)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771/1 "2013-08-21T02:04:13Z")
I wrote a sentence in a Wikipedia article about 3 years ago. There was recently a 3-day, heated argument about this sentence. It was resolved by an uninvolved editor changing the word “during”, to “in”. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771/2 "2013-08-21T02:08:17Z")
Truly one of the most mundane things ever posted in this forum. _golf clap_ ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771/3 "2013-08-21T03:18:59Z")
Cite? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771/4 "2013-08-21T04:07:06Z")
> [@runningdude](#): > > I wrote a sentence in a Wikipedia article about 3 years ago. There was recently a 3-day, heated argument about this sentence. It was resolved by an uninvolved editor changing the word “during”, to “in”. Quick, Jeeves, let’s get him to the fainting couch! ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771/5 "2013-08-22T21:11:55Z")
But he picked the correct forum. The OP is indeed mundane and pointless, and obviously he felt that he wanted to share it. But I would have liked to know what the sentence was. Just out of curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![Courk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Courk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Courk)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771/6 "2013-08-23T02:14:22Z")
We don’t talk about it. It is the-sentence-that-must-not-be-written. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771/7 "2013-08-23T03:23:43Z")
> [@jerseymule](#): > > But he picked the correct forum. The OP is indeed mundane and pointless, and obviously he felt that he wanted to share it. > > But I would have liked to know what the sentence was. Just out of curiosity. _“I was conceived during the launch of the Apollo 11 mission.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771/8 "2013-08-23T03:43:01Z")
> [@runningdude](#): > > I wrote a sentence in a Wikipedia article about 3 years ago. There was recently a 3-day, heated argument about this sentence. It was resolved by an uninvolved editor changing the word “during”, to “in”. Did you participate in the argument or just watch from the sidelines? ---
**Author:** ![runningdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@runningdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runningdude)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-little-sentence/666771/9 "2013-08-24T16:18:12Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Did you participate in the argument or just watch from the sidelines? Only to offer a bit of insight as to my original intent. However, this was only at the beginning when it was a non-accusatory question about whether it was properly sourced. Since then, _someone else_ argued _passionately_ that my sentence was _beautifully_ structured to show the subtleties between three near synonyms. Some else argued equally passionately that the source did not reflect this. Someone else then flipped over the table and used the word “in”, which was apparently used in the source, and everybody walked away embarrassed. I didn’t even notice what had changed until someone posted a before and after link. I was a bit confused, though flattered, that someone thought my sentence was so worthy of defense…