Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[Irrational member 14]

"Just avoid the politics and the site is fine, bro!"

Keep in mind that Wikipedia can be written by people like you and me who can be wrong and arrogant. Unpopular Wikipedia articles are less likely to be satisfactory or contain correct information.

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This is COMPLETE bullshit. It jumbles up the TV show and movie timelines with NO REGARD for canon. Fester was Morticia's uncle on the television show, not Gomez's brother. Grandmama was Morticia's mother in the movies. A bunch of characters listed are exclusive to either the show or the movie. Mixing and matching like this is retarded. Die you faggots.

You can edit it and fix all the mistakes. Or you can keep the truth of it to only yourself. Maybe the guy who wrote that family tree originally was a troll or was banging his gf while editing the page. You can never know.

I think it depends on the subject matter.
If, Joe Smith, 53yo software engineer from California has been the main editor for Wikipedia article SEGA SNES x86AMD Soundblaster Meagdrive IEEE2.37 Standard RFC332 hardware interrupts, then I think Joe Smith is trustworthy as they have intimate knowledge and experience with what is the topic, and there is no impetus to lie, that editing a Wikipedia page is exciting for a 53yo man.

If, Jacob White, 15yo zoomer is editing any article probably a popular article on Wikipedia, then you're reading the grand knowledge of a 15yo, and their changes will become reverted eventually.

And of course if the subject matter is politics, then it's an opinion, and you should look for facts and facts presented elsewhere without the narrative and political comments about those facts polluting your eyes, as if the comments need to be there because you couldn't think yourself.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Your argument is nice. However simple observation of reality shows that it is wrong. Such as the cases of citogenesis, the GamerGate article, the articles on stuff like George Floyd, the entire of the Scots Language wikipedia and so on.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

Keep in mind that Wikipedia can be written by people like you and me who can be wrong and arrogant. Unpopular Wikipedia articles are less likely to be satisfactory or contain correct information.

In theory, yes.

In practice, as much so as an attempt to make certain articles neutral (let alone with a positive bias) such as Donald Trump's or the one for this very website (zealously guarded by one Liz Fong Jones) will get your edits reverted at the speed of light and your IP banned if they find you unbearable enough.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Prediction: Once Trump is sworn in, Wikikes will change US form of government to dictatorship like they did with Russia.

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I would say Russia is a flawed democracy but it's not a dictatorship dictatorships usually don't have attempted coups or people disagreeing with Vladimir Putin's decisions

 

[Day of the Cope]

Keep in mind that Wikipedia can be written by people like you and me who can be wrong and arrogant.

Lemme guess, you're one of the "Wikipedia might be a mess, but you can use it as a jumping off point by digging into the sources and citations" people?
We're talking about a site that outright bans primary sources, picks and chooses what news sources are "valid", and deletes articles that are inconvenient for any reason.

 

[0gh]

bans primary sources, picks and chooses what news sources are "valid"

Not only news sources, but the actual subject of the article is not a valid source for the article unless a journalist is quoting those words, because it's assumed the journalist is trusted and did his due diligence in verifying the information is correct or someshit.
I'm pretty sure some celeb had this issue where they couldn't correct an article about them because they're not a valid source. EIther that or some youtube faggot

 

[Brain Power]

Today, on wikipedia's front page...

 

[AnOminous]

I'm pretty sure some celeb had this issue where they couldn't correct an article about them because they're not a valid source. EIther that or some youtube faggot

Philip Roth. Some journoscum made up some utter bullshit about a novel he'd written called The Human Stain, loosely based on a professor who had commented about a couple students who hadn't ever shown up in class with something like "Do they exist, or are they spooks?" They turned out actually to be spooks, that is to say, niggers, so naturally an enormous scandal erupts.

Anyway Roth told them they'd totally gotten it wrong and they refused to accept his correction.

Unlike a lot of people Roth could just call up The New Yorker and now his version of events was in a "reliable source," which was still him, it just now had the imprimatur of "reliable."

An Open Letter to Wikipedia

I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my work. The entry contains a serious misstatement that I…

www.newyorker.com

It's one of the earlier examples of Dumb Shit on Wikipedia and how Wikipedia is flat out fucking dumb.

 

[TitusOvid]

"A wonderful film called Powder" he says. Maybe Salva could've ridden out the controversy if he made a movie that wasn't a gay pedo persecution fantasy. I'm like 50/50 this guy is trolling anyway.

He also claims to have been one of 13 who fought Steven Seagal in an encounter once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Steven_Seagal&oldid=269275249

 

[glue eater]

Now this is certainly a hot take: Wikipedia is controlled by Republicans. Unlike your garden variety communist, this seems to be a radical Hillarite centrist Democrat.

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

There's also the japanese Kiwi Farms article, which might as well have been written by Hector Martin himself

Was thinking it might literally be since Hector should be able to speak Japanese, and interestingly, it's almost entirely written by one (meanwhile blocked) guy who also wrote articles on 4chan and 8chan: ケラ氏 and his later alt account 枝豆三萬子. (Userpage archive) Very much doubt it's Hector, but I thought it was interesting.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

Now this is certainly a hot take: Wikipedia is controlled by Republicans. Unlike your garden variety communist, this seems to be a radical Hillarite centrist Democrat.

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While the guy is unhinged, yes, there are many other ways to do things on the Internet than Wikipedia's.

Such a shame that Wikipedia, amongst other selected and curated 'reliable' sources are given preferential treatment in search engines while others are deemed disinformation-unti-proven-otherwise and relegated to the 4th page if even appearing.

 

[Syzyg]

Wikipedia does not allow hardcore pornography ie. penetrative sex or masturbation to be used on Wikipedia articles because of liability issues

The Wikipedia article for the first hardcore pornographic film has it embedded in its title card.

Spoiler

Link

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Another example of "woke" invading Japanese Wikipedia is the article on Ben Garrison. Translated, such BS looks like it was written by an American soy or dangerhair journo.

ベン・ギャリソン（Ben Garrison、1957年 - ）は、アメリカ合衆国の極右政治漫画家[3]。彼の漫画は、オルタナ右翼のイデオロギーを描写しており、オルタナ右翼によって宣伝されている。彼は、性差別、人種主義、イスラム恐怖症、ワクチン忌避、反ユダヤ主義として特徴付けられる物議を醸す漫画を制作した。また、気候変動の否定を試み、陰謀論を推進したことで批判されてきた[4] [5][6][7][8]。彼の漫画はしばしば、保守的な人物やドナルド・トランプを称賛している[9][3][10]。

2015年に行われたブライトバート・ニュースのインタビューで、ギャリソンは2016年アメリカ合衆国大統領選挙で支持候補はいないと述べていたが、「ネオコンの共和党を動揺させた」ことでトランプを肯定的に言及した[7]

Ben Garrison (born 1957) is an American far-right political cartoonist.[3] His cartoons depict alt-right ideology and are promoted by the alt-right. He has produced controversial cartoons that have been characterized as sexist, racist, Islamophobic, vaccine-phobic, and anti-Semitic. He has also been criticized for attempting to deny climate change and promoting conspiracy theories.[4][5][6][7][8] His cartoons often praise conservative figures and Donald Trump.[9][3][10]

In a 2015 interview with Breitbart News, Garrison said he was not supporting any candidate in the 2016 United States presidential election, but he did refer positively to Trump for "upsetting the neocon Republican Party."[7]

Ben Garrison is an American "wrongthinking" political cartoonist. His cartoons depict "wrongthinking" "ideology" and are promoted by "wrongthinkers". He has produced "wrongthinking" cartoons that have been criticized as "wrongthinking". He has also been criticized for attempting to deny The Narrative™ and promoting "wrongthink". His cartoons often praise "wrongthink" figures and Orange Man.

 

[MeltyTW]

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This is COMPLETE bullshit. It jumbles up the TV show and movie timelines with NO REGARD for canon. Fester was Morticia's uncle on the television show, not Gomez's brother. Grandmama was Morticia's mother in the movies. A bunch of characters listed are exclusive to either the show or the movie. Mixing and matching like this is retarded. Die you faggots.

its also woefully incomplete in any case and ignores other incarnations completely, frankly idk why they bothered existing let alone making this.

"Structural evil"? What is that?

i dont think wikipedia troons have a grasp on what "evil" is. if youre no longer ascribing any moral failing to a person then youre kinda undermining the philosophical basis of "evil" as a concept and youre approaching either biological determinism or predeterminism or you conceive of humanity as sort of cells for some sort of multi-person group based organism or some post-modern shit where you dont believe in morality or see it in more purely consequentialist terms which also isnt really a strong foundation to say that "evil" exists in your world view rather than just "good" outcomes ie beneficial ones and then "bad" or non-beneficial ones.

 

[Something Awful]

 

[Brain Power]

 

[Tater Thot]

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Was going to post this too. Just Wikipedia being a super legitimate and serious encyclopedia by featuring pics of "Cock Destroyer" porn bimbos on the front page!

 

[San Marino]

Was going to post this too.

Lol same.

 

[Mound Dweller]

I was clicking links in the le Jean-François Gariépy hon hon hon page and found this:

Just making up phrases n'shit, thank you wiki very cool.