Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

Maricón de Mierda said:
The Wikipedia page for the International Unicycle Federation is pretty much all copy-and-pasted from their official website, but there is included a handy little map of the nations of the world that are official members. Did you know that unicycling is more popular in Israel than Spain? You know now. Thanks, Wikipedia!

I first stumbled upon the International Unicycle Federation while reading the page for Jack Halpern, a fairly interesting polyglot dweeb most academically known for his work on a Japanese-English dictionary and establishing the first and only Yiddish-speaking club in Japan. As much was written about his unicycling endeavors as his linguistic profession, however. Did you ever wonder who was responsible for first seriously introducing the sport of unicycling to Japan? Jack Halpern. China? Jack Halpern. "Other countries?" Jack Halpern.

Some day in the future when the International Unicycle Federation finally reaches its coveted goal of establishing some genre of unicycling as an Olympic sport, Jack Halpern will have been an important pioneer in the history of the Olympics games. Until then, it's all just silly.

International Unicycling Federation - Wikipedia

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Jack Halpern (linguist) - Wikipedia

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I do notice his page is distinguished from other Jack Halperns by "(linguist) but I wonder if "(unicyclist)" would be more honest. Looking back at his original page entry from 2008, even then it included a more subdued description of his unicycling activities.
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Wait this isn't that Jew in Japan who took on a Japanese name and complains about how anti-immigrant Japan is? Halpern seems like a big ofna sport but if he's so passionate about a hobby clowns do let him spread it.
 
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Dead Memes said:
Wikipedia doesn't seem nearly as bad. Judging from the thread, there are definitely a decent amount of users and moderators who are nakedly partisan and actively try to control the narrative around certain subjects, however they seem much more limited in the amount of articles they're able to control. I Can't say why though. Wikipedia seems to maintain a fairly byzantine set of rules and a bizarre hierarchy, so for all I know it could contain mechanisms to prevent power modding, however selectively enforced they may be.

Personally, I'd be very surprised to see a single account controlling discussions the way they do on reddit. There are groups that certainly stand to gain from manipulating Wikipedia, but they're probably not so brazen about it.
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the closest wikipedia equivalent to power mods is the arbitration committee. remember there's fucktons of money involved, some of that is coming from charities like wikimedia UK. this influences not just who holds those roles, but the nature of the rules and priorities being enforced.
unrelated, back when the yaniv article was purged, I found one of the editors involved was the former director of Wikimedia UK, who resigned because he kept uploading nudes to the wiki commons. here is a picture of his ass crack:
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Kaede Did Nothing Wrong said:
the closest wikipedia equivalent to power mods is the arbitration committee. remember there's fucktons of money involved, some of that is coming from charities like wikimedia UK. this influences not just who holds those roles, but the nature of the rules and priorities being enforced.
unrelated, back when the yaniv article was purged, I found one of the editors involved was the former director of Wikimedia UK, who resigned because he kept uploading nudes to the wiki commons. here is a picture of his ass crack:
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Wikimedia has an insane amount of pornpgraphic content, mostly from older people who think everyone needs to see their wrinkly genitals.
 
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Here is something not dumb from wikipedia that I read today and loved and had nowhere else to share. Feel free to be angry at me for going off topic:

In 1870 Warrensburg, Missouri, George Graham Vest represented a farmer suing for damages after his dog, Old Drum, had been shot and killed. During the trial, Vest stated that he would "win the case or apologize to every dog in Missouri."

Vest's closing argument to the jury made no reference to any of the testimony offered during the trial, and instead offered a eulogy of sorts. Vest's "Eulogy of the Dog"[7] is one of the most enduring passages of purple prose in American courtroom history (only a partial transcript has survived):

Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.

Gentlemen of the jury: A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.

If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death.

Vest won the case (the jury awarded $50 to the dog's owner) and also won its appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court.

In 1958, a statue of Old Drum was erected on the Johnson County Courthouse lawn containing a summation of Vest's closing speech, “A man’s best friend is his dog.”[8][9]

As well, a bust of the dog resides in the Missouri Supreme Court building in Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Bec said:
Chris Chan grievance report.

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They are really fucking adamant in not giving Chris and article. "Bad sources" my ass, you clowns consider Vice News reliable.
NerdShamer said:
Well, he made his own brigade sub on Reddit; and right on cue, people are being banned for defending Chris.
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Reddit never ceases to fail in making me glad I left that shithole in under a year.
 
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Corpun said:
They are really fucking adamant in not giving Chris and article. "Bad sources" my ass, you clowns consider Vice News reliable.

Reddit never ceases to fail in making me glad I left that shithole in under a year.
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I like how the conspiracy theory that Avril Lavigne died in 2003 and was replaced by a body double named "Melissa Vandella" is allowed to stay up, but Chris Chan's page isn't allowed to be made.

Mind you, IIRC, the conspiracy theory literally originated as a joke on a Brazilian fansite.

Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy theory - Wikipedia

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I'm still shocked that there are grown people, old enough to be grandparents that edit Wikipedia. Like, if I was in their shoes, I'd be wondering what bad decisions led my life to becoming a Wikipedia editor during my golden years.

Can you imagine being 50 or 60+ and arguing with pre-teens or 20-somethings because they made an edit that you dislike and refuse to fling shit in the talk page?
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Lucille Bluth said:
I'm still shocked that there are grown people, old enough to be grandparents that edit Wikipedia. Like, if I was in their shoes, I'd be wondering what bad decisions led my life to becoming a Wikipedia editor during my golden years.

Can you imagine being 50 or 60+ and arguing with pre-teens or 20-somethings because they made an edit that you dislike and refuse to fling shit in the talk page?
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Can you imagine what level of narcissism someone must be on to write a Wikipedia article about themselves? With sections and infobox and all...
Dude should've just uploaded a picture of him sucking his own cock to Wikimedia and call it a day, and not distill his autism into an autobiography.
But at least he doesn't write about himself in third person, which I've seen Wiki editors do.

Also I googled his name and apparently he's a transphobic bigot so kinda based
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Yangon said:
Can you imagine what level of narcissism someone must be on to write a Wikipedia article about themselves? With sections and infobox and all...
Dude should've just uploaded a picture of him sucking his own cock to Wikimedia and call it a day, and not distill his autism into an autobiography.
But at least he doesn't write about himself in third person, which I've seen Wiki editors do.

Also I googled his name and apparently he's a transphobic bigot so kinda based
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I saw his edits on Nina Paley's page, and it seems like he was simply reverting people who were trying to add "transphobic feminist" as one of her occupations. As well as removing a paragraph about her views on troons, as it was already covered in her "Personal life" section. I'll bet money that he's just as much a liberal SJW as many other Wikipedia editors.

Also, I have no clue why a total nobody (outside of Wikipedia) would want to upload their whole biography on Wikipedia of all places. But hey, Wikipedia users and narcissism go hand in hand. I'm sure the only reason why you have a user page is to show how much of a self-absorbed loser you are.
 
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Deadwaste said:
oh so the tranch is notable enough for a page but the second you mention cwc its like no he's not notable enough
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Articles for clearly non-notable (except to us) subjects like the Tranch always struck me as preemptive in nature, like even the liberal editors have a sense that eventually it's going to generate bad publicity.

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The majority of the local community has been welcoming and supportive of the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch
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LOL
 
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Their excuse for not having a Chris Chan thread is that it would be an invasion of a private citizen's life, which is rich considering how many "reputable sources" of theirs have made it their bread and butter to try and ruin the lives of private citizens. Take a gander at the Covington article (archive), and see if they decided to protect the identity of Nicholas Sandmann, an actual teenager who was dragged through the mud by the entire MSN, and who many leftists still want to see dead for the crime of smiling at some leftist professional agitator. Apparently an underage kid dragged into the spotlight by opportunists doesn't deserve to be afforded the privacy of a non-public figure but a charged mother-rapist who is one of the most famous Internet figures in history should be shielded at all costs.
 
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Maricón de Mierda said:
Here is a completely worthless stub on a Croatian surname that has only a single person listed as an example:

Čulo - Wikipedia

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And now here the page is in its original incarnation when the page was first formed:

Čulo - Wikipedia

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11 years, 33 edits, and look at the progress! Remember, this is more notable than Chris-chan.
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Only made because there is a B*snian with the name.
Kaede Did Nothing Wrong said:
cross posting from other thread. gorillawarfare (editor obsessed with blocking the CWC article) is almost single handedly responsible for writing the tranch article
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GorillaWarfare is supposedly a programming engineer or some such technobabble yet has the time to devote herself religiously to Wikipedia and Cat pics.
BootlegPopeye said:
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How long until the Tranch turns into that Hindu cult that existed in California a few decades back? The one that pushed locals away via flooding their local elections I mean.
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Their excuse for not having a Chris Chan thread is that it would be an invasion of a private citizen's life, which is rich considering how many "reputable sources" of theirs have made it their bread and butter to try and ruin the lives of private citizens. Take a gander at the Covington article (archive), and see if they decided to protect the identity of Nicholas Sandmann, an actual teenager who was dragged through the mud by the entire MSN, and who many leftists still want to see dead for the crime of smiling at some leftist professional agitator. Apparently an underage kid dragged into the spotlight by opportunists doesn't deserve to be afforded the privacy of a non-public figure but a charged mother-rapist who is one of the most famous Internet figures in history should be shielded at all costs.
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That article is such a shitshow, even has the autistic battle box. Some high schoolers protecting abortion, some Indians screeching to the wrong people about how fucked the BIA is, and Black Hebrew Israelites who need no introduction.

If there was ever an event to display how blatantly partisan the media is, it is them dragging that poor kid through the mud without looking further into the event, the narrative they wanted was just too good.

Edit: it also seems from the citation retrieval atleast, that Mr. Prominent Native American activist only got a wikipage after the event.
 
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Corpun said:
How long until the Tranch turns into that Hindu cult that existed in California a few decades back? The one that pushed locals away via flooding their local elections I mean.
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You're talking about Rajneeshis, which managed to take over a tiny town called Antelope, Oregon and renamed it 'Rajneesh, Oregon' for a year.

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Antelope, Oregon - Wikipedia

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In the early 1980s, members of the Rajneesh movement moved in and effectively took over the government of the city by outnumbering the original residents with new voter registrations. On September 18, 1984, a vote was held and the city was renamed to "Rajneesh, Oregon". By 1985, after several of the Rajneesh movement leaders were discovered to have been involved in criminal behavior (including a mass food poisoning attack and an aborted plot to assassinate a U.S. Attorney), their guru left the country as part of a negotiated settlement of federal immigration fraud charges, and the Rajneesh commune collapsed. On November 6, 1985, the city voted to rename itself back to Antelope.
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