Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[AnOminous]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fat_bias

"One dangerous effect of anti-fat bias is the presence of this bias in healthcare professionals, whose biases could result in a lower quality of treatment for overweight patients."

"(PE) teachers were more likely to display implicit anti-fat attitudes."
...

It's encyclopedic and shit!

 

[vertexwindi]

There's actually Reliable Source for that shit, too. He was actually in it, and he really did say "That kid kicked sand in Cool Cat's face!"

ETA: One of my favorite aspects of Wikipedia retardation is how there is this dude who has some kind of weird monopoly on fetish art in articles even though he draws like whatever fag draws every single wikihow.

Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellatio

There's at least one other dude like this, who has an obsession with interracial porn and somehow managed to insert his pictures, 100% of them shit like a white dude getting blown by an Asian chick, into every fucking article where it was remotely relevant.

These pictures are pretty... informative though. I've certainly learned some interesting things I might want to remember for later.

 

[millais]

Ages ago, I remember there was some drama about some guy's claim to internet fame being the fact that he managed to get his picture of sucking his own dick featured on the article for "autofellatio". And sure enough, according to the discussion page of the article on "autofellatio", at some point, the photo that accompanied the article was a photo of a Wikipedia editor who later got banned. At that point, they changed it to a photo of a porn actor or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Autofellatio

 

[WhoopieDoo]

Ages ago, I remember there was some drama about some guy's claim to internet fame being the fact that he managed to get his picture of sucking his own dick featured on the article for "autofellatio". And sure enough, according to the discussion page of the article on "autofellatio", at some point, the photo that accompanied the article was a photo of a Wikipedia editor who later got banned. At that point, they changed it to a photo of a porn actor or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Autofellatio

If you want dickpicks then Wikimedia commons is the place to go: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Autofellatio (NSFW, obviously).

Yeah, there's a category for that.

 

[vertexwindi]

If you want dickpicks then Wikimedia commons is the place to go: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Autofellatio (NSFW, obviously).

Yeah, there's a category for that.

brb pouring bleach unto my eyeballs

 

[Hellfire]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_viewed_YouTube_videos

 

[ToroidalBoat]

[manspreading]

What I find interesting about that is there's even articles on "manspreading" in several other languages too.

 

[Rihanna Ikari]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka_no_Prince

This has been on Wikipedia for 4 1/2 years. It is not real. The only reference is a dead website.

"Seems legit" - Wikipedia admin

 

[kobebyarlant]

Why even have that article when there's already an entire wiki dedicated to Star Wars?

While I don't think excessive focus on specific topics is necessarily "dumb," it can make one marvel at the dedication some have.

Spoiler: They're reading the Wookiepedia article word for word.

 

[RepQuest]

Wikigroaning may be old as hell, but it's still fun.

Spoiler

http://kiwifarms.net/media/wikigroaning.1209/full

 

[Ebisumaru]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_(slang)

 

[Positron]

Somehow someone succeeded in out-autisticing TV Tropes:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_is_Magic

 

[RIck Sanchez]

The loli article is pretty great.

Spoiler: I'm 12 years old and what is this

 

[Another Fellow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka_no_Prince

This has been on Wikipedia for 4 1/2 years. It is not real. The only reference is a dead website.

"Seems legit" - Wikipedia admin

I hate to sound one-uppy, but there was a hoax article that lasted ten years before it got deleted last September. This was the entire article:

Jack Robichaux was a serial rapist in the 19th century, who plagued the township of New Orleans. Most of his victims were overweight females. He was a Creole, although police initially suspected that the assailant was black by his choice of victims. His talents as a jazz musician were praised throughout New Orleans, until his crimes became public knowledge.

References:

Christopher Waldrep & Donald G. Nieman (2001). Local matters : race, crime, and justice in the nineteenth-century South. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-2247-4.

 

[VLAD]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan

Spoiler: anime was a mistake

 

[Holdek]

Someone needs to AfD every article mentioned in this thread.

Spoiler

And then make hoax articles in their places.

 

[Cynical]

The loli article is pretty great.

Spoiler: I'm 12 years old and what is this

Something that not a lot of people know is that if you look up some of the work Kasuga (the artist) did, you'd be surprised if the cops haven't confiscated his hard drive.

No shit, this is pretty damned tame compared to some of the horror I stumbled across.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan

The CWCki has one too.

[Wikigroaning]

[MLP]

[Saka_no_Prince]

[Jack Robichaux]

Why educators don't like students using Wikipedia as a source is becoming ever more clear(er).

 

[CWCissey]

'Dumb shit on Wikipedia'

I thought Ryulong got banned?

 

[VLAD]

The CWCki has one too.

"The autism is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!"

Why educators don't like students using Wikipedia as a source is becoming ever more clear(er).

Using Wikipedia as a source is a stupid idea for many reasons. Not only is the information on it unreliable, biased, poorly sourced, or just plain wrong, but authorship is always in question. I've had students turn in papers directly copy-pasted from Wikipedia, and they try to dodge plagiarism by claiming that they wrote the entire article, all by themselves. Some are so autistic that I might actually believe them, if they weren't so lazy as to forget editing out the citation numbers.