Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

MrAnnoyingDude said:
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According to Wiktionary, Nuthin But a G Thang features the best example of the word "maestro" being used.
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I rarely heard a composer being called a maestro. It is almost always conductors.

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Those of us following wiki drama in ca. 2008-9 could never imagine NPOV would get worse than it was, but it absolutely has post 2016. My own theory is that they followed suit after major newspapers like NYT and WaPo did the same thing re: Trump, but it went way beyond him to the various enemies of the wikipedia fanbase (this includes 'terfs').

Some of the things I have seen have been downright defamatory; some racialist writers are called 'neo nazis' outright, even though the examples I am thinking of definitely are not, for instance, in the way a vox writer might generalize.

Take a look at the page for wheat paste. Half of it is about using the stuff for vandalism.
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Years ago, I remember the article for 'bra' read like 50 reasons for women to not wear a bra, and why they were evil, etc, clearly written by some fetishist.
 
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Trump lawsuits list
Trump lies list
Trump conspiracies list

Basically any list relating to Trump, usually the sources are solely the totally unbiased hands of journos. I remember there used to be an article about his handshake for fucks sake but It seems to have been removed. Remember folks, it's deboonked if a journos quotes a fellow journos and Trump promotes it if he retweets it!

There is also this article for a famous photo of a Tennis Girl no one has ever heard of, this section is ridiculously detailed.

The photograph was taken by then-30-year-old Martin Elliott in September 1976 and features 18-year-old Fiona Butler[2][3] (now Walker),[4] his girlfriend at the time.[5] The photo was taken at the University of Birmingham's tennis courts (formerly Edgbaston Lawn Tennis Club) in Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, England. The site is occupied now by the university's Tennis Court halls of residence.[5][6][7][8] The dress was hand-made by Butler's friend Carol Knotts, from a Simplicity Pattern with added lace trim.[9] Knotts also supplied the tennis racquet, with all of the borrowed items later returned by Butler to Knotts after the shoot with a box of chocolates.[9] Butler borrowed the plimsolls from her father, whilst the tennis balls were those used as playthings by her family's pet dog.[3]
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Corpun said:
Trump lawsuits list
Trump lies list
Trump conspiracies list

Basically any list relating to Trump, usually the sources are solely the totally unbiased hands of journos. I remember there used to be an article about his handshake for fucks sake but It seems to have been removed. Remember folks, it's deboonked if a journos quotes a fellow journos and Trump promotes it if he retweets it!

There is also this article for a famous photo of a Tennis Girl no one has ever heard of, this section is ridiculously detailed.
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Somebody watched The iT Crowd!
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
I wonder who the people are that are fighting for objectivity in all these insane Trump articles, they ought to get combat pay.
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I've spoken about this, but clicktivism really took off in the Trump era. I guess it's in response to the right's frankly brilliant social media game. Not just here, but the UK and Brazil.

It's perfect because it convinces people that their musings are the equivalent of TIME magazine. Of course, a disaffected public is exactly what our overseers want.

I had to quit editing RationalWiki in disgust over what happened there.
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
I wonder who the people are that are fighting for objectivity in all these insane Trump articles, they ought to get combat pay.

There was a guy who was editing some of the really stupid Russia gate articles and the asshole editors he was fighting with used such great sources for their so-called research such as Rachel maddow segments.
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Those people are fighting a losing battle but I admire their efforts. It seems the Trump lawsuits list was removed not long after I posted that.
 
jennifermist said:
I've spoken about this, but clicktivism really took off in the Trump era. I guess it's in response to the right's frankly brilliant social media game. Not just here, but the UK and Brazil.

It's perfect because it convinces people that their musings are the equivalent of TIME magazine. Of course, a disaffected public is exactly what our overseers want.

I had to quit editing RationalWiki in disgust over what happened there.
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The ruling class looked at 2016 as a failure of democracy. Propaganda of almost any kind against Trump was not only tolerated, but treated practically as a patriotic duty by those in the media, supposedly apolitical federal agencies, etc. Wikipedia are merely followers of the trend rather that originators of it.

You don't have to be a Trump fan to see this. Granted, if youre coming from RationalWiki you almost certainly are not a Trump fan. But it should be as plain as day for those with eyes to see.
 
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Under "Notable People" this loser nobody is listed as a "journalist" who lived there for a year. When you click on his self-added link, it goes to his personal instagram page with several hundred followers. Talk about just blatant narcissism!

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What the fuck?

Many philosophers argue that the differential treatment of cows and dogs is an example of speciesism. They argue that members of the two species share similar interests and should be given equal consideration as a result, yet in many cultures cows are used as livestock and killed for food, while dogs are treated as companion animals.
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jennifermist said:
It's perfect because it convinces people that their musings are the equivalent of TIME magazine. Of course, a disaffected public is exactly what our overseers want.
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Sometimes they quite literally are. Some cabal pushing an agenda plants a fake news story, then they cite it in the Wikipedia article, then more "reliable sources" quote that, and suddenly it's a "fact." This is nearly every single source in every single article about goobergrape.
 
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Strange Wilderness said:
The Black Death: 6,626 words
COVID 19 pandemic: 17,723

One of the biggest events in human history that killed anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 of Europe's population and ended the Feudal System over 700 years ago is 1/3 the length of a virus that killed 2 million worldwide and has only been around for a year.
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Well to be fair most of what we have of those events are just from historical records since computers did not exist back then. If CWC was born in the 1700s for example we would know a lot less about him. but If they are going to save room I agree the black plague section should be the longer one.
That said "Deletionism" is stupid lol. Just let people make whatever they want.
 
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gangweedfan said:
Well to be fair most of what we have of those events are just from historical records since computers did not exist back then. If CWC was born in the 1700s for example we would know a lot less about him. but If they are going to save room I agree the black plague section should be the longer one.
That said "Deletionism" is stupid lol. Just let people make whatever they want.
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I feel like CWC would still be one of those absurdly documented nobodies even a millenia ago.
 
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