This page lists Wikipedia pages by the total amount of text in all of their talk page archives put together. It is the best measure there is for determining how much squabbling has gone on behind the scenes for a given page.
Here is a ranking of all 63 of the listed pages that are actual articles (as opposed to policy/administrative/user pages), in descending order:
- Donald Trump
- Intelligent design
- Climate change
- Barack Obama
- United States
- Jesus
- Race and intelligence
- Catholic Church
- Circumcision
- Homeopathy
- Muhammad
- Gamergate (harassment campaign)
- Chiropractic
- Abortion
- Monty Hall problem
- Gaza War (2008-2009)
- Evolution
- Prem Rawat
- Sarah Palin
- India
- Israel
- World War II
- Christ myth theory
- Mass killings under communist regimes
- Jehovah’s Witnesses
- September 11 attacks
- Cold fusion
- Climatic Research Unit email controversy
- Armenian genocide
- Anarchism
- Atheism
- Falun Gong
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- Jerusalem
- Control of cities during the Syrian civil war
- Kosovo
- British Isles
- Transcendental Meditation
- United Kingdom
- George W. Bush
- Christianity
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Libertarianism
- Acupuncture
- Thomas Jefferson
- International recognition of Kosovo
- Israel and apartheid
- Adolf Hitler
- United States and state terrorism
- Syrian civil war
- List of best-selling music artists
- Julian Assange
- Russo-Georgian War
- Historicity of Jesus
- Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Tea Party movement
- List of common misconceptions
- Murder of Meredith Kercher
- Genesis creation narrative
- Taiwan
- Hillary Clinton
- Electronic cigarette
- Michael Jackson
Bubbling under (present in earlier versions; I have gone back to 2015 so far here, though the page history goes back to 2010):
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- European Union
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- Shakespeare authorship question
- Fascism
- Astrology
- The Holocaust
- Joseph Smith
- Chelsea Manning
- List of scientists who disagree with the scientific consensus on global warming [NOTE: now deleted]
- Gibraltar
- Ayn Rand
- Fox News
- Shooting of Trayvon Martin
- Human
- Canada
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Race (human categorization)
- Iraq War
- Elvis Presley
- Islam
- Philosophy
- Terri Schiavo case
- Black people
- White people
- Palestinians
- Mitt Romney
- HIV
- Occupy Wall Street
- Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
- Elizabeth II
- Asperger syndrome
- Centrifugal force
- Transnistria
the funniest thing I’ve read is that if you present the monty hall problem to pigeons they get it immediately and switch every time because they literally dgaf and just want the food reward