Wikipedia Edit War Erupts Over Whether Paul Bunyan's Ox Was Blue or Teal

The Wikipedia article for Babe the Blue Ox has been indefinitely locked after a 72-hour edit war between two factions of American folklore enthusiasts who cannot agree on whether Babe is blue or teal. The conflict began when user LumberjackLore_1987 changed the article's color descriptor from 'blue' to 'blue-green, consistent with descriptions in the earliest Minnesota oral tradition,' sparking an immediate revert by user TrueBlueOx, who called the edit 'revisionist nonsense from someone who clearly has never seen an ox.' The situation escalated rapidly. Within 24 hours, the article had accumulated 4,700 revisions, three arbitration requests, and a 12,000-word talk page debate that one Wikipedia administrator described as 'the most passionate argument about a fictional animal's complexion I have ever moderated, and I moderated the My Little Pony color accuracy dispute of 2018.' Both sides claim support from 'primary oral sources,' a phrase that Wikipedia's citation guidelines were not designed to handle. 'My great-uncle told Paul Bunyan stories and he always said teal,' wrote LumberjackLore_1987. 'He was a lumberjack himself and would have known an ox's color.' 'My grandmother said blue,' countered TrueBlueOx. 'And she had perfect color vision, which she proved by winning the county quilt competition six years running.' A compromise proposal to describe Babe as 'a shade between blue and teal, the exact hue of which varies by regional telling' was rejected by both parties as 'wishy-washy relativism.' The Wikimedia Foundation has assigned a dedicated mediator to the dispute. The mediator's first act was to request a color theory expert, a folklorist, and 'possibly a veterinarian, because at this point I want to know what color oxen actually are.'