Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

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I occasionally do editing on Wikipedia (mostly just fixing up broken links and small spelling errors.) But I have 3 experiences I've had that amused me.

I remember one article had accidentally left a comma in after a period like ". ," [no words after that paragraph]
So I started to fix it. Within 12 hours, I was given a fucking message saying "YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN WHY YOU TOOK OUT THIS MINOR THING" by another user when it clearly wasn't supposed to be there. And he left it back in.

And I remember another where someone vandalized the entirety of the Go Animate page for it to be for a movie called "Go Animate The Movie", and this user wrote down all this weird shit, like the distributor was 20th Century Fox, produced by Warner Bros, saying the movie was released on VHS, DVD, and even fucking Laserdisc in 2001, and that it was critically acclaimed. The user had this shit all thought out. The vandal was so weird that I screencapped the entire thing on my old laptop. (that laptop is kill now rip)


Last one: I remember, for at least a good year, someone vandalized the page for Phil Fish so that his image had the "Mystery of the Druids" guy cleverly photoshoped into the background
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this one edit was so good I didn't even bother fixing it. And it was left in for a year before someone fixed it.
 
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FatFuckFrank said:
I occasionally do editing on Wikipedia (mostly just fixing up broken links and small spelling errors.) But I have 3 experiences I've had that amused me.

I remember one article had accidentally left a comma in after a period like ". ," [no words after that paragraph]
So I started to fix it. Within 12 hours, I was given a fucking message saying "YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN WHY YOU TOOK OUT THIS MINOR THING" by another user when it clearly wasn't supposed to be there. And he left it back in.

And I remember another where someone vandalized the entirety of the Go Animate page for it to be for a movie called "Go Animate The Movie", and this user wrote down all this weird shit, like the distributor was 20th Century Fox, produced by Warner Bros, saying the movie was released on VHS, DVD, and even fucking Laserdisc in 2001, and that it was critically acclaimed. The user had this shit all thought out. The vandal was so weird that I screencapped the entire thing on my old laptop. (that laptop is kill now rip)


Last one: I remember, for at least a good year, someone vandalized the page for Phil Fish so that his image had the "Mystery of the Druids" guy cleverly photoshoped into the background
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this one edit was so good I didn't even bother fixing it. And it was left in for a year before someone fixed it.
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I've seen some dumb, fake shit get Wikipedia pages as well. Years ago, I saw pages for these fake Nicktoons games called Nicktoons: Dark Snap (which involved Dark Danny and Snap from ChalkZone, for some reason) and Nicktoons: Power of the Chosen Ones.
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_(fish) - Troon fish who survived cancer

Bubba (circa 1982 – August 22, 2006) was a giant grouper (Queensland grouper) that resided at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois. Bubba is believed to be the first fish to undergo chemotherapy.[1] He was often nicknamed "The Super Grouper".
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The 69.3-kg[1] Bubba was donated to the aquarium in 1987 by an anonymous donor; at the time, he was a female about 10 in (25 cm) long. Bubba changed sex to male (being a protogynous hermaphrodite) in the mid-1990s
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In 2001, Bubba developed an unusual growth on his forehead, which was eventually diagnosed to be malignant; the aquarium called in veterinarians to remove the growth surgically and treat Bubba with chemotherapy that year, and again in 2003, when it regrew.
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FatFuckFrank said:
I occasionally do editing on Wikipedia (mostly just fixing up broken links and small spelling errors.) But I have 3 experiences I've had that amused me.

I remember one article had accidentally left a comma in after a period like ". ," [no words after that paragraph]
So I started to fix it. Within 12 hours, I was given a fucking message saying "YOU NEED TO EXPLAIN WHY YOU TOOK OUT THIS MINOR THING" by another user when it clearly wasn't supposed to be there. And he left it back in.

And I remember another where someone vandalized the entirety of the Go Animate page for it to be for a movie called "Go Animate The Movie", and this user wrote down all this weird shit, like the distributor was 20th Century Fox, produced by Warner Bros, saying the movie was released on VHS, DVD, and even fucking Laserdisc in 2001, and that it was critically acclaimed. The user had this shit all thought out. The vandal was so weird that I screencapped the entire thing on my old laptop. (that laptop is kill now rip)


Last one: I remember, for at least a good year, someone vandalized the page for Phil Fish so that his image had the "Mystery of the Druids" guy cleverly photoshoped into the background
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this one edit was so good I didn't even bother fixing it. And it was left in for a year before someone fixed it.
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Bread Fetishist said:
I've seen some dumb, fake shit get Wikipedia pages as well. Years ago, I saw pages for these fake Nicktoons games called Nicktoons: Dark Snap (which involved Dark Danny and Snap from ChalkZone, for some reason) and Nicktoons: Power of the Chosen Ones.
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Oh hey I stumbled onto entire wiki full of shit like that. It seems to be some special brand of autism because the chosen media are the sort that would attract attention of people who have obsessive nostalgia over 00s cartoons. probably can still find those by googling "ideas wikia", but that's material for another thread. In any case such wiki contributors seem to have a really weird grip onto reality since they post ideas like that, up to release dates and other business information, I don't get why.
 
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"Overton was hospitalized for pneumonia in December 2018. He recovered, but was put in a rehabilitation center, where he died on December 27, 2018, aged 112 years 230 days."

I'd call that kind of the opposite of "recovered."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arvin_Overton#Death
 
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