Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

BootlegPopeye said:
You missed the great disclaimer for the trans-women category

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Fringe userbox categories are a source of milk we haven't really explored in this thread much; I can remember seeing some really obscure and arcane political ones before.
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Here're a couple of more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Non-binary_Wikipedians (>too many to display on one page)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_interested_in_the_abortion_debate (ought to be good)

Edit: How did I overlook the greatest of them all...

 
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Oh come on, you're asking for them to be targeted at this point.

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BootlegPopeye said:
You missed the great disclaimer for the trans-women category

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Fringe userbox categories are a source of milk we haven't really explored in this thread much; I can remember seeing some really obscure and arcane political ones before.
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This reminds me of a now-deleted category (transracial Wikipedians) that had the same disclaimer which I mentioned a while back on here. It's possible Nicholas Michael Halim scoured the Farms and saw us laughing at his identity.
 
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Shmuel Sam Coinsniffer said:
Here're a couple of more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Non-binary_Wikipedians (>too many to display on one page)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_interested_in_the_abortion_debate (ought to be good)

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Alot of good ones are attached to the Userboxes/Politics section and all of its sub-related pages:

Wikipedia:Userboxes/Politics/Ideology - Wikipedia

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Wikipedia:Userboxes/Politics/Issues - Wikipedia

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Some highlights from scrolling through a bunch
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fat ass said:
Alot of good ones are attached to the Userboxes/Politics section and all of its sub-related pages:

Wikipedia:Userboxes/Politics/Ideology - Wikipedia

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Wikipedia:Userboxes/Politics/Issues - Wikipedia

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Dear lord…

I can smell the basement/Cheetos/dried semen fumes through the screen.
 
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Luigi Cadorna said:
Just found this guy using that userbox and it's beyond parody.
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Surely there's no working in a Socialist workers' state. Right guys...right?
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“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”​


― Yuri Bezmenov
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This legitimately reads more like a Rationalwiki or Jezebel article than it does a Wikipedia one:

Whether he actually is a human trafficker or not is irrelevant, but it is nice to see you can basically all but directly accuse someone of the crime they have been suspected of without due evidence, trial, or conviction simply because of their beliefs and some toilet paper-tier rag reporting it as thus.
 
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Shmuel Sam Coinsniffer said:
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If you're conservative and don't respect trans rights you need to fuck right off, chud. Actual neo-Stalinist NK-supporting zigger editing Communism articles? All's good here.
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Userboxes, if anything, are a throwback to the era of MySpace, when you'd fill your user info with gaudy and distracting extraneous details. It's no coincidence that Wikipedia really ballooned in popularity in the same era (mid 00s).

I've long given up any hope for Wiki-reform, but if it were a serious project (it isn't) they'd disallow these entirely, unless it had some relevancy toward one's expertise on some topic.
 
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Always hilarious to see communists claim to be “anti-work” considering that the citizens had a duty to work in the Soviet Union (just like the state had an obligation to find work for everyone.)

Citizens who didn’t want to work we’re labeled “asocial elements”, “parasites” or “bourgeois wreckers” and were sentenced to labor in a gulag for a few years to rethink their priorities.

(Of course the communists were also big on the ennobling character of work, and the ability of hard work to cure thought criminals and class enemies. Kinda shades of Arbeit Macht Frei.)

Fuck, one of the only bright sides of reintroducing communism that I can think of, is Twitterati being sent to gold mines in Alaska to do something productive. Or the thought of queer theory academics fighting each other over a loaf of bread in an arctic timbercamp.
 
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Becky McDonald said:
Whether he actually is a human trafficker or not is irrelevant, but it is nice to see you can basically all but directly accuse someone of the crime they have been suspected of without due evidence, trial, or conviction simply because of their beliefs and some toilet paper-tier rag reporting it as thus.
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Wow, such reliable source, much WP:BLP.
BootlegPopeye said:
I've long given up any hope for Wiki-reform, but if it were a serious project (it isn't) they'd disallow these entirely, unless it had some relevancy toward one's expertise on some topic.
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Unfortunately the one thing those early autists got right was establishing a format to put articles in that make them look "encyclopedic." That's now a hollow shell, but you essentially now have most new articles being the equivalent of Buzzfeed clickbait articles with footnotes to utter garbage sources curated based solely on their ideological bias.
 
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AnOminous said:
Unfortunately the one thing those early autists got right was establishing a format to put articles in that make them look "encyclopedic." That's now a hollow shell, but you essentially now have most new articles being the equivalent of Buzzfeed clickbait articles with footnotes to utter garbage sources curated based solely on their ideological bias.
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Yup. That's how we got this abomination (regardless of one's views on the retired politician).

Campaign for the neologism "santorum" - Wikipedia

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Sources are mostly HuffPo tier clickbait. Actually cites Colbert Report as a source.
 
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