Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

Basado said:
Not to be one of the "dood, imagine if the sides were reversed" niggas but if you wrote something similar on a page relating to some left-wing social media platform your edit would immediately be revoked by a powerjanny. Who are these "researchers and journalists" anyways? Whatevs, I haven't expected wikipedia to be neutral since 2016. Lol how the author wrote both "alt-right" and "far-right" next to each other, is there a difference???
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Much of the article was written late last year by our dear friend GuerrillaWarfare, but the 'terrorism' edit was added by a anon IP in August:

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..specifically, this edit on 21 Aug. Naturally, he/she/it cites Jan6 as a 'terrorist' event, even though most of the rioters used mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Source? A fucking 2018 Politico article that is mostly about Gab. The anon IP has mostly done edits on tech related articles, ie Big Tech, Alt Tech, and isn't as obviously political.
 
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Sicko Hunter said:
Was doing some research on a streaming platform called Rumble today and ended up on the alt-tech page and noticed the editors managed to sneak terrorism into the intro.
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Also notice the "This article is about internet platforms that cater to extremists" Just giving away any sense of neutrality in the first line of the article. Terrorism is when you let people speak freely yeah that makes sense you fucking retards.
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>... journalists have alleged X may be literally Hitler. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] . . . [N][N + 1]
 
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bird.up said:
i like how wikipedia ignores convergence of evidence and insists that everything be "reliable," which is vague enough to be interpreted as anything a contributor agrees with
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There's a case where some dude had to publish his denial of something in a reputable source or they wouldn't accept it as a denial no matter if he posted it on his own site, emailed them or what ever. So then cause he had backchannels just wrote this kind of blogpost on the New Yorker or something (im sure they called it a chronicle) and only then did he get everything removed.
So all you gotta do is have friends at like the New Yorker, post your random thoughts there and your words are the gospel.


Edit: Sauce: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia

"Yet when, through an official interlocutor, I recently petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two others, my interlocutor was told by the “English Wikipedia Administrator”—in a letter dated August 25th and addressed to my interlocutor—that I, Roth, was not a credible source: “I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work,” writes the Wikipedia Administrator—“but we require secondary sources.”
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"Yes I understand that you're absolutely right but you're also wrong."
 
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Kiwiballs said:
There's a case where some dude had to publish his denial of something in a reputable source or they wouldn't accept it as a denial no matter if he posted it on his own site, emailed them or what ever. So then cause he had backchannels just wrote this kind of blogpost on the New Yorker or something (im sure they called it a chronicle) and only then did he get everything removed.
So all you gotta do is have friends at like the New Yorker, post your random thoughts there and your words are the gospel.




"Yes I understand that you're absolutely right but you're also wrong."
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Philip Roth. Here's his New Yorker piece.
While trying to find it I came across this paragraph in the Wikipedia page for Wikipedia-related controversies which blatantly attempts to downplay the embarrassment:
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It contains a link to a blogpost by a faggot named Oliver Keyes. His points boil down to ackshually.png:

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Like here, where he hides behind the fact that Wikipedia is merely reporting inaccurate statements by literary analysts about Roth's work, and not making those inaccurate statements themselves, which completely absolves them of any misinterpretation by a casual reader that may follow.

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Or here, where he intentionally acts dense and interprets Roth's paragraph in the most literal way possible by claiming that Roth was claiming that Roth himself was deemed to be a non-reliable source, even though the entire point of Roth's stunt was that Wikipedia wouldn't cite his own words until they were published by an unnecessary middleman.

So who is this Oliver Keyes faggot? Well, I had a gander and looked him up. It turns out that in the last few years he has rebranded himself. He is now a nonbinary faggot and goes by Os Keyes (pronouns: mx/mx). [Archive]
I'm not sure if he's still on Wikipedia, but here is his official website, with a beautiful artistic rendition of xerself: [Archive]
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Ha ha, what the fuck?
This tranny who fantasizes about torturing women was a Wikipedia administrator :sighduck:
 
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Idiot Asshole said:
Ha ha, what the fuck?
This tranny who fantasizes about torturing women was a Wikipedia administrator :sighduck:
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I don't know, seems less like psycho torture fantasies and more like 00s era edgy autist in context. At least that episode in isolation does, god knows what he's up to now.
[19:54] <Bullzeye> Cream: I'm good. Having a bloody mary and trying to calm down.
[19:54] <Ironholds> ..do I have to pay for this like all the other lap-dances?
[19:54] <Ironholds> Or are you a cheap whore.
[19:54] <Ironholds> Bullzeye: whats wrong?
[19:54] <Ladonna> lolmary.
[19:54] <Bullzeye> I almost punched somebody out in college class today.
[19:54] <DanielB> lol
[19:54] <Ironholds> I have done that twice.
�08[19:54] <Cream> lol
[19:54] <Ironholds> Punched out, not almost punched out.
[19:55] <Bullzeye> I'll set the stage for you
[19:55] <Ironholds> luckily my school didn't transfer any records to the uni, so..
�08[19:55] <Cream> Ironholds, i'm cheap, 10$
[19:55] <Bullzeye> Girl in front row of class, next to me.
[19:55] <Ironholds> Mm.
[19:55] <Mifter> cream: lol it should be $10 not 10$
�08[19:56] <Cream> lol
[19:56] <Bullzeye> No book. Professor asks "Where is your book? I told you to bring it yesterday." She says, snottily, "You see I don't got it. Whaddya want me to do?"
[19:56] <Bullzeye> Professor frowns and looks at shoes.
[19:56] <Bullzeye> Girl pulls out Sidekick and commences texting. Above desk, for the entire class.
[19:56] <Ironholds> The correct response should not have been to punch her lights out.
[19:56] <Bullzeye> At the end of class, professor is getting ready to cut the class loose.
[19:57] <Bullzeye> I stop him briefly and ask whether he wants our midterm paper in MLA or Chicago citation style.
[19:57] <Ironholds> Yup.
[19:57] <Bullzeye> Girl gets mad, throws her hands up, says "Oh my fuckin' god...."
[19:57] <Bullzeye> I say "Is there a problem?"
[19:57] <Bullzeye> She says "Sit the hell down, white boy."
[19:57] <MindstormsKid> O_o
[19:57] <Bullzeye> I SHOUT at the top of my lungs
[19:57] <Mifter> O_O
[19:57] <Steve-Crossin> obai
[19:57] <Bullzeye> "This is not the FUCKING Bronx, and you are fucking with the WRONG bull."
�15[19:57] * Steve-Crossin (n=chatzill@unaffiliated/steve-crossin) Quit ("ChatZilla 0.9.84 [Firefox 3.0.6/2009011913]"�)
[19:57] <Mifter> lol cya steve :)
[19:58] <Ironholds> Hahaha.
�08[19:58] <Cream> lol!
[19:58] <Bullzeye> The shocked silence in that classroom was epic.
[19:58] <Mifter> lol
[19:58] <Ironholds> I would have done something different, but I admire the effort.
[19:58] <Mifter> so what happened next :P
�06[19:58] * MindstormsKid would have cheered Bullzeye on
[19:58] <Ironholds> You should however have instead taken your pen, punched a hole in her windpipe and looked on as her attempts to wave for help got increasingly feeble.
�06[19:58] * Mifter has his popcorn out and is listening intently :P
[19:58] <Prodego> :/
[19:59] <Ironholds> ..too much? :P.
[19:59] <Bullzeye> College kids are, by and large, scum. They were all shocked.
[19:59] <Mifter> lol I'm joking :P
[19:59] <Mifter> I'm no advocate of violence
[19:59] <Ironholds> Bullzeye: as a university student I agree with you like, totally, dude.
[19:59] <Ironholds> We have the biggest fuckwads at my uni.
[19:59] <Prodego> How about you just wait until she gets a 0 on the course and wastes x hundreds of dollars having taken it
[19:59] <p858snake> Mifter: pfft there are people that deserve it
[20:00] <MindstormsKid> WHAT NEXT??
[20:00] <Mifter> yes, but if anyone could attack anyone for any reason then nothing would ever get done :P
[20:00] <Bullzeye> Prodego: No joke. That's my only solace. U-Albany boasts an impressive 40% graduation rate.
[20:00] <Ironholds> Example conversation at my uni: "Have you done the contract assignment?" "no, I got an extension until friday" "oh, so when are you working on it?" "probably thursday evening"
[20:00] <Ironholds> Its like WHAT THE FUCK.
[20:00] <Ironholds> I've never needed an extension in two fricking years.
[20:00] <Bullzeye> Despite having the absolute lowest tuition and standards in the state.
[20:01] <Prodego> Bullzeye: SUNY?
�08[20:01] <Cream> ␇
[20:01] <Bullzeye> Prodego: Yessir. SUNY Albany.
[20:01] <MindstormsKid> Bullzeye: care to continue??
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[20:01] <Bullzeye> MindstormsKid: Nothing to continue on. Everyone was shocked into silence. Like dead, frightened silence. And then the prof turned around and everyone left.
[20:01] <Bullzeye> Keep in mind, this was a 25 person class.
[20:01] <Bullzeye> In a small classroom.
[20:02] <Ironholds> Bullzeye my man.
[20:02] <Ironholds> You deserve a trophy.
[20:03] <Ironholds> In the shape of a small, tearful piece of white trash.
[20:03] <Bullzeye> lawl
[20:03] <Ironholds> At least I assume she was white.
[20:03] <Bullzeye> Nope.
[20:03] <Ironholds> God knows.
[20:03] <Ironholds> oh rly?
[20:03] <Bullzeye> She called me "white boy" recall
 
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bird.up said:
i like how wikipedia ignores convergence of evidence and insists that everything be "reliable," which is vague enough to be interpreted as anything a contributor agrees with
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They created a blacklist of sites that you cannot source from. These are overwhelmingly right-leaning (Project Veritas, Breitbart, etc.) along with a handful of Russian sites (because I'm sure that pro-Ukraine outlets are 100% real and not propaganda at all), as well as anything self-published (which can just as easily be "laundered" into real news if you get the right people).
 
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Back in the Gamergate days, they were using Kotaku and Polygon as "reliable" sources. So the article at first was basically "Kotaku is not biased. Source: Kotaku." Slowly, the article devolved into the schizophrenic, conspiratorial ramblings of madmen.

Today, the article is longer than their article on Watergate, starts off with immediate bias and escalates wildly as it goes along.
 
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