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Dumb Shit on Wikipedia
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Good job using reddit may mays that won't make any sense in 20 years or so. Some "encyclopedia."
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I've got to give Wikipedia credit because they've greatly improved over the years in terms of content. Some stuff I remember them having that has since been removed:
Also, while they've cut down on the character articles since then, they're still kinda weird about it. Gag characters like Mayor West and Herbert in Family Guy still have their own articles while Joe Swanson, a more prominent character, does not. It makes even less sense considering that Cleveland and Quagmire, who are about as important as Joe, do still have their own articles.
- Donnie Wahlberg's friends think he has "terrible flatulence"
- Articles for each episode and character in Drawn Together, which was only in its second season at the time.
- A Family Guy character list that included literally every character that had appeared in the show by that point, including ones that only appeared in short gags.
- Also Family Guy related: Seth MacFarlane supposedly had an episode called "Greg the Weather Mime Has a Baby" for if the show reached a seventeenth season (this was a year or two after its revival) which I could find absolutely no information on.
- About five different lists for A Series of Unfortunate Events characters, including separate articles for "minor" and "very minor" characters.
- Individual articles on The Boondocks characters, including ones that only appeared once or twice in the show.
- Saying that shows have implied things that they didn't. Example: the description for the World of Warcraft episode of South Park used to say that it was implied that the griefer crapped his pants after they kill his character. There's no indication of that in the actual episode, he just sits there and stares blankly.
- Separate list articles for stunts performed in the two (at the time) Jackass movies.
- Individual articles for each character from Happy Tree Friends.
- Many non-notable YouTube videos once had their own articles.
- Their article on Liam Kyle Sullivan (the guy who did the "Shoes" video) used to have detailed descriptions of every video he'd made at that point.
- Separate articles on "Pazuzu" and "Captain Howdy" from The Exorcist. For those who haven't seen the movie, these two are the same character. "Captain Howdy" is a name that the evil spirit Pazuzu uses when talking to Reagan before possessing her.
- Unnecessarily detailed timelines of movie franchises like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
- An article on "Darth Chef" from South Park.
- Each character from Pee-wee's Playhouse once had their own article.
- Another list article for cataloguing every adult joke made in Rocko's Modern Life.
- Remember that time on Chappelle's Show where Wayne Brady played a sociopathic version of himself? Wikipedia sure did! They used to have an article on that too!
- Not only did Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget once have his own article, but there was even a discussion at one point about whether or not to split the article up into a separate one for his cat, MAD Cat.
- The article on Skeletor from He-Man used to have a lengthy section devoted entirely to sperging about whether or not he had a neck.
- A category for deceased fictional characters
- An enormous list of LGBT characters in fiction that included characters who may have had one or two throwaway lines at one point.
- An "American nerds" category. The only article I explicitly remember it containing was the one for John Kricfalusi.
- A Hindu store clerk character from Mind of Mencia had an article for a short time.
Also, while they've cut down on the character articles since then, they're still kinda weird about it. Gag characters like Mayor West and Herbert in Family Guy still have their own articles while Joe Swanson, a more prominent character, does not. It makes even less sense considering that Cleveland and Quagmire, who are about as important as Joe, do still have their own articles.
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That's hilarious.
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Much of that content actually still exists in an article on the He-Man wiki (which I'll share in the Wikia thread too).
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Anything political without all sides represented to some degree to fact check and winnow out shit sources has turned into utter SJW crap lately. Not only that, but every dumb SJW meme tier buzzword has its own article, even for shit like "manspreading" that is just not going to be remembered in years. Nobodies like John Flynt have articles where facts are strictly prohibited, and the "reliable sources" cited are provably lies or confabulations.
I think Wikipedia has gotten considerably worse in the last few years, at least in those areas. There is a lot of nonsense that would have been deleted as fringe conspiracy theory as well.
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I'm aware of that, and definitely could've worded that sentence better. What I meant was that they've cut a lot of autistic crap over the years so their standards have improved a tiny bit since 2006-2007 (which is when most of the content in that list actually existed). They've still got a long way to go, of course.
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Paragraphs of sperging about how whitey isn't willing to take Tyrone's feminine penis up the ass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_LGBT_community
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_LGBT_community
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I remeber that the "List of Total Drama characters" article was once one of the top 20 most edited pages. It was a billion miles long, overflowing with more stuff than you'd find even on a fan wiki. It got nominated for deletion because it had gotten so out of control, and it required some kind of special permission to delete it (for those who don't know, only admins can delete pages, but in this case, even the admins had to get some kind of permission of their own!). It's now a redirect to the Total Drama page, and surprisingly, only once has anyone tried to undo the redirect.
On a lighter note, anyone want to hear one of my more positive stories from my time on Wikipedia?
On a lighter note, anyone want to hear one of my more positive stories from my time on Wikipedia?
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Tehshigelisok
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All right, one of my GOOD experiences on Wikipedia.
I like to create biographies on musicians, especially in country music. When I first started writing regularly around 2006-08, they still did not even have biographies on a few artists who had #1 hits, and even many of the articles on big-name artists like Brooks & Dunn were woefully underwritten. Between Allmusic, the Joel Whitburn chart books, album liner notes, and back issues of Billboard, it's generally pretty easy for me to get at least a few sentences on nearly any artist who's ever come even within striking distance of Top 40 on the country music charts.
One guy I created an article on was somewhat obscure -- his only album was on a short-lived independent label in 1997, and none of the singles hit the country Top 40. But I still found enough to write about four paragraphs on him, and even a small article on his album. Some time after his article went up, he e-mailed me and told me how pleased he was to find that someone remembered him enough to make a Wikipedia article on him. He was really polite, and he didn't nitpick the article or try to make ass-patting edits on it. He also told me that he was still recording, and even sent me a copy of a new album he had just self-released a few months prior to the e-mail.
Considering all the other run-ins I've had with the subjects of articles in the past, this one has really stuck with me and driven me to keep editing.
I like to create biographies on musicians, especially in country music. When I first started writing regularly around 2006-08, they still did not even have biographies on a few artists who had #1 hits, and even many of the articles on big-name artists like Brooks & Dunn were woefully underwritten. Between Allmusic, the Joel Whitburn chart books, album liner notes, and back issues of Billboard, it's generally pretty easy for me to get at least a few sentences on nearly any artist who's ever come even within striking distance of Top 40 on the country music charts.
One guy I created an article on was somewhat obscure -- his only album was on a short-lived independent label in 1997, and none of the singles hit the country Top 40. But I still found enough to write about four paragraphs on him, and even a small article on his album. Some time after his article went up, he e-mailed me and told me how pleased he was to find that someone remembered him enough to make a Wikipedia article on him. He was really polite, and he didn't nitpick the article or try to make ass-patting edits on it. He also told me that he was still recording, and even sent me a copy of a new album he had just self-released a few months prior to the e-mail.
Considering all the other run-ins I've had with the subjects of articles in the past, this one has really stuck with me and driven me to keep editing.
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Wikipedia seems to have lists of every show ever made, plus detailed articles on Simpsons episodes.
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Episode lists aren't that bad. What's bad is when they have separate articles for every episode, character, and anything else related to some autistic thing, which in fact they used to have.
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^ Agree. See my Total Drama example above. A character list for a fucking cartoon should not be one of the most edited pages on the whole project.
Unless an episode or character article has a lot of good sources in it, I usually nominate it for deletion or redirect it to the series.
Unless an episode or character article has a lot of good sources in it, I usually nominate it for deletion or redirect it to the series.
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Everyone who reads about movies in Wikipedia has seen this sign.
To be fair this is often a valid complaint, but how come articles on TV cartoons and comic books can be as long and spergy as the authors like?
To be fair this is often a valid complaint, but how come articles on TV cartoons and comic books can be as long and spergy as the authors like?
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At that stage, if left unchecked, it would collapse under its autistic girth and hemorrhage into a TV Tropes article. I think medical documentation still qualifies this as 'a tumor.'
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Because autism and removing unnecessary details are incompatible mental states.