Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[AnOminous]

Eh, it's pretty simple to switch back to the old one with the "Switch to old look" link on the left. I've been using it for over half a year and I've gotten used to it.

Yeah, if you have an account. What if you don't want to have an account?

 

[KingLiberty76]

I like how on the Farms wiki page they go out of their way to not mention Chris Chan by name instead calling him a webcomic artist.

 

[Dan Schneider]

I like how on the Farms wiki page they go out of their way to not mention Chris Chan by name instead calling him a webcomic artist.
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The citation after the “Something Awful forums” says that he did his mom.

It’s crazy that you can have a source that says he did incest in the title, but mentioning him by name violates BLP.

 

[AnOminous]

It’s crazy that you can have a source that says he did incest in the title, but mentioning him by name violates BLP.

Wikipedia is run by absolute cretins. If anyone thinks that would save them from a libel suit they're idiots. (In this case the fact that it's true would be the defense but if everyone knows who you're talking about being coy about it doesn't do shit.)

 

[Baraadmirer]

Yeah, if you have an account. What if you don't want to have an account?

Then you'd have to get with the times or tweak the skin with some CSS changes. This isn't the first time Wikipedia changed its default skin, and it isn't the first time people seethed over it.

 

[Contra Pozz]

This is neither here nor there, but still classic wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marga_d%27Andurain

D'Andurain is noted for being the first European to enter the holy city of Mecca.

Not only did several non-muslim Europeans manage to enter Mecca from as early as 1503, the woman in question didn't even get there according to the cited source.

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

This is neither here nor there, but still classic wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marga_d%27Andurain

Not only did several non-muslim Europeans manage to enter Mecca from as early as 1503, the woman in question didn't even get there according to the cited source.

This must be midwit reliance on machine translation. The source says she wanted to become "la première Européenne" to enter Mecca, in context meaning the first European woman. Machine translation gives "the first European". And not only did she not get there, she may have murdered both her husbands!

 

[BootlegPopeye]

This is neither here nor there, but still classic wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marga_d%27Andurain

Not only did several non-muslim Europeans manage to enter Mecca from as early as 1503, the woman in question didn't even get there according to the cited source.

Also includes this howler:

In 1925, Marga inherited her father's wealth, and so, the family decided to move to the Middle East.[1] Paradoxically, she enjoyed much more freedom there than she did in the West, which was governed by very strict moral codes.

Keep in mind, she was living in Third Republic France, hardly a place of 'strict moral codes'.

 

[Contra Pozz]

Keep in mind, she was living in Third Republic France, hardly a place of 'strict moral codes'.

Any community is oppressive if you're crazy enough.

 

[Stochastic Terrorist]

The sharty thread made me look deeper into the soyjak wiki. I found something relevant to this thread there.

Best known for​

"Best known for" is a spineless weasel word phrase best known for[by whom?] as the sole anonymous authority that Wikipedia jannies allow on their site. It is a vague and ambiguous crutch for bad articles.
As of the time of writing, there are approximately 123k Wikipedia pages that use this cowardly phrase.[1]

Conflict with rules​

Putting "best known for" on an article is against Wikipedia's own rules as per NPOV and AWW. This becomes comically self-evident when you read the example list of terms that conflict with AWW:

• some people say
• it is believed
• many are of the opinion
• most feel
• it is often reported
• it is widely thought
• it is often said
• X has been described as Y

But apparently "best known for" is A-OK daijoubu...

Best known for IP​

Wikipedia's article (warning: extremely biased): Best known for IP

A prominent name on Wikipedia's list of so-called long-term abuse is a hero they disparagingly call "Best known for IP" (BKFIP). This gigachad has been removing "best known for" on articles for ten years going.[2] And unlike other names on their "abuse" list, BKFIP isn't even a troll. In fact, this is openly stated by the wikipedia ministry of love as the biggest obstacle in their unjust conspiracy to remove him from history:

The principal problem with this case is that most edits made by this user are good-faith edits that are often supported by editors when looked at on their individual merits. This makes issues of conduct harder to enforce.[2]

They claim to have given him 3-month IP bans for the crime of removing "best known for" on articles.[2] Why? According to them, his edit summaries are "snarky". As you read through the article, it becomes obvious that the only reason they prosecute this innocent man, and refuse to concede that he is right, is due to his "incivility" and "offensive and aggressive summaries" and "personal attacks in the edit summaries."[2] Yikes.

Comparisons have been made by /qa/ users[3][4][5] between this user and the Anti-Thougher's war on thoughers.

Citations​

• Using a search engine to search for site:wikipedia.org "best known for"
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Best_known_for_IP
• https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4317834/#4319630
• https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4418526
• https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4321171/#4321171

https://soyjak.wiki/Best_known_for [A]

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Impressive. Thank you for doing something useful for one soyjack.party

Apparently they have some beef with Wikipedia and are determined to fucking with Wikipedos.

Long-term abuse

soyjak.wiki

Operation Wikisneedia

soyjak.wiki

Alex Sazonov

soyjak.wiki

 

[Molesting the Decapitated]

the article for the village Fucking, Austria was absolutely hilarious. there was (without a shadow of a doubt) in-jokes everywhere on the page, it definitely had double entendres everywhere merely for the point of humor.

since then however the name of the village has changed its name to "Fugging" which is super faggoty..
nothing gold can stay my friends.

Impressive. Thank you for doing something useful for one soyjack.party

Apparently they have some beef with Wikipedia and are determined to fucking with Wikipedos.

Long-term abuse

soyjak.wiki

Operation Wikisneedia

soyjak.wiki

Alex Sazonov

soyjak.wiki

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this reminds me of that time when i was a teenager in high school and i was bored so i wrote "what up my nigga" on dozens of peoples talk pages just to see if i would get banned doing it and eventually i did in fact get banned like within 20 minutes. lmfao

also side note: i love how in their policy for banning they say "it's to stop pages from having incorrect information, not to punish the user" or something of that sort, when this is in fact a complete utter fucking lie: mods most definitely DO ban people to punish them . why else do the ban people for reverting too many times or edit warring or for being rude to other users (which is entirely subjective)

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

since then however the name of the village has changed its name to "Fugging" which is super faggoty..
nothing gold can stay my friends.

"Fuggin" is the euphemism that Norman Mailer used for "fucking" in his novel The Naked and the Dead. Tallulah Bankhead's press agent put out a story that when she met him, she said "So you're the man who can't spell fuck!". Norman Mailer denied that this ever occurred. Nonetheless, I propose that the Austrian village should forever be known as "The Village that Couldn't Spell Fuck".

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

the article for the village Fucking, Austria was absolutely hilarious. there was (without a shadow of a doubt) in-jokes everywhere on the page, it definitely had double entendres everywhere merely for the point of humor.

since then however the name of the village has changed its name to "Fugging" which is super faggoty..
nothing gold can stay my friends.

It was merely annexed by Finland.

 

[AnOminous]

https://soyjak.wiki/Best_known_for [A]

This guy is a fucking hero.

 

[Molesting the Decapitated]

also i already know someone else mentioned this, but the site's new design is fucking atrocious

for a website that constantly begs its users for money, you would think it would actually listen to suggestions made by people who are kind enough to donate to the project

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

Why doesn't Wikipedia have high quality and good looking photos in biography articles? Whenever I look up a person on Wikipedia, their article's main image is low quality or the person just looks bad.

An example of good looking photo:

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

Impressive. Thank you for doing something useful for one soyjack.party

Apparently they have some beef with Wikipedia and are determined to fucking with Wikipedos.

Long-term abuse

soyjak.wiki

Operation Wikisneedia

soyjak.wiki

Alex Sazonov

soyjak.wiki

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This shit is nothing. Their greatest strike against Wikipedo is Operation Taigjak. https://soyjak.wiki/Graffiti
There’s also one user on the sharty who vandalizes the Explain XKCD wiki as a hobby with ‘jaks and gets away with it due to the fact the admins are retarded and can’t ban IPs, only accounts

 

[Fapcop]

If you'll permit me to go a little off topic, this reminded me of another case of a black woman "scientist" who was seriously incapable of acting like an adult, namely the mathematician Piper Harron. Her PhD thesis was written in Buzzfeed-Tumblrese, and when written normally it was 12 pages including the bibliography.

Spoiler: Some quotations

It's odd when these people just put admissions of plagiarism and lack of understanding in their own work, but it saves time for us, I suppose.

She wrote a blog post, published by the American Mathematical Society, telling cis white men to resign and that universities should stop hiring cis white men. Her cis white husband (must be a masochist) did quit his university job and now works at some sort of investment bank. At some point she started calling herself Piper H and is now a they/she. Many fundamental mathematical discoveries were made by Jews in eastern Europe during a period of high antisemitism, so needless to say, the excuse that "I can't do mathematics because of oppression" doesn't hold any water.

Strangely, she's oddly timid in person, and seems to model her appearance on Tay Zonday:

Strangely, she doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but her thesis does.

A Black sheboon mathematician who… Can’t do math, admits so in her thesis yet still graduates from Princeton?

I don’t know why, but I’m reminded of the Zambian space program.

Pic related:



The rocket did launch, however it was launched from a catapult.

It’s a shame these Zambians ain’t around anymore, because NASA would surely have found a multimillion dollar inclusion grant for them.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Why doesn't Wikipedia have high quality and good looking photos in biography articles? Whenever I look up a person on Wikipedia, their article's main image is low quality or the person just looks bad.

copyright reasons. they dont want to get sued for having copyrighted images used in a person's page