Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[DadaistVizor]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsonwave (archive)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsonwave

 

[Abethedemon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krusty_Krab

 

[Darwin Watterson]

Epic Movie used to have a separate article for its characters a long time ago. I remember seeing one of those Wikipedia archive sites that had a copy of this article. It was a poorly-written piece of crap, and the fact that it was for a shitty parody film makes it even funnier to me. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find this archive anymore, but if I do I'll link it.

 

[Chris did nothing wrong]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

Lol, this was a FEATURED ARTICLE at one point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Former_featured_articles#Media

 

[Randall Fragg]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Labelle

As a result of her webcomic she has received criticism and abuse from men’s rights activists, trans exclusionary radical feminists(TERFs), and transphobiccisgay people.

Looks like someone needs to edit this for True and Honest content.

 

[DadaistVizor]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Barney_humor (archive)

Why does this need its own article?

 

[Ghostapplesause]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_(economist)

That sentence caused so much drama they had to get another picture of him to stop an edit war.

 

[vertexwindi]

They didn't take that one standing down, huh?

 

[NARPASSWORD]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)
An article about dumb shit that could simply be described as "two dumbass countries almost went to war with each other over a single dead pig".

 

[AnOminous]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)
An article about dumb shit that could simply be described as "two dumbass countries almost went to war with each other over a single dead pig".

Oh, look who has involved: George Pickett, known for future dumb shit in the Civil War called Pickett's Charge, a disaster on the level of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Despite the name Pickett's Charge, though, it probably wasn't actually his fault.

None of this is dumb shit in the sense that it shouldn't be on Wikipedia, though.

 

[Mistrider]

What about that time Hakkar fucked up a few servers on WoW?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident

 

[MetallicTunes]

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[Chris did nothing wrong]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek_on_the_Internet

 

[NARPASSWORD]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cutie_Mark_Chronicles
This is just one example of the kind of brony autism that's usually seen on TV Tropes. There are dozens hyper-spergy articles on this technocolor pony commercial.
The worst example was how one time, Wikipedia had an article on every single episode. Most of these eventually got deleted, and considering how they seem to insist on having articles of every single episode of The Simpsons and South Park, this really speaks volume for terminally autistic it is.
(I accept my late ratings for this.)

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Diane_Reitz

Welp.

 

[Joan Nyan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_skills

• Mathematical skills such as borrowing or long division are learned without adding cultural context such as multiculturalism or ethnic heritage or issues of social justice.

 

[AnOminous]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_skills

• Mathematical skills such as borrowing or long division are learned without adding cultural context such as multiculturalism or ethnic heritage or issues of social justice.

It's fucking awful. Also looks like it was just dumped into Wikipedia in one go by one guy.

 

[Darwin Watterson]

Tommy Sotomayor has an article (archive) that's just one sentence long and a shit-ton of links, references, and categories. The Wiki markup accounts for the vast majority of the text.

Tommy Sotomayor is an American radio and internet talk show host, YouTube personality, social and political commentator, men's rights activist and film producer.

 

[TheImportantFart]

This is old (I had to dig through quite a few edits to get here), but it was up for quite a while before it was fixed. This is from the Wikipedia page for Unfriended, and it's two separate edits.

 

[DadaistVizor]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_the_Frog (archive)

Notable uses

• Katy Perry once tweeted a Pepe to illustrate her jet lag.[2]
• Nicki Minaj posted a twerking Pepe representing her on Instagram.[2]
• When the New Zealand government was accepting proposals for a new national flag, a design with Pepe was submitted.[12][13][14]
• Donald Trump retweeted a Pepe representation of himself that was associated with a video, "You Can’t Stump the Trump (Volume 4)".[15]
• On August 25, 2016, a self-identified member of the alt-right movement yelled "Pepe" when Hillary Clinton mentioned the alt-right movement during a speech in Reno, Nevada.[16]

Here's some hilarious :autism: from the talk page (archive):

No mention of white supremacy?

All major networks and anti-racism organizations have acknowledged that Pepe the Frog is a White Nationalist Symbol. Southern Poverty Law Center has also recognized Pepe the Frog as a white supremacist meme.

That is ridiculous. The simple fact that existed before doesn't mean it has not been appropriated. The links need included and selectively including clinton's website and saying she is the one "insinuating" is clearly false.

Hate symbol

Just saw at least two reliable sources refer to using Pepe the Frog as symbol of support for alt right and/or white nationalist hate causes. Hardball with Chris Matthews (2016-09-12); NBC News refers to it as a "popular white nationalist symbol". In the NBC news story, Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center is given as the primary source.