Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

For Wikipedia's "On This Day" section one of the notable events they highlighted was the release of GTA III. Funny how Wikipedia seems to give more of a damn about GTA III than Rockstar does.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

This entire article reads like a fluff piece for violent terrorist organization it takes a while for them to call it a terrorist organization

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

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I'm confused, what does GTA 3 have to do with abortions in Africa?

 

[AnOminous]

While this thread is generally about dumb shit on Wikipedia, even other "real" encyclopedias have degenerated in recent time. For instance, doing a bit of research on Marcus Aurelius, I came across this jarringly stupid passage on britannica.com of all places:

Marcus was a statesman, perhaps, but one of no great calibre; nor was he really a sage. In general, he is a historically overrated figure, presiding in a bewildered way over an empire beneath the gilt of which there already lay many a decaying patch. But his personal nobility and dedication survive the most remorseless scrutiny; he counted the cost obsessively, but he did not shrink from paying it.

What the fuck is this sophomoric shit?

I went to my bookshelf to compare it with my 1968 paper copy and there is nothing remotely this retarded in it. This is just some retard opining on the guy.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

he is a historically overrated figure

At least the writer acknowledges that he's going against the grain here. An encyclopedia's not the place for historical revisionism, though.

nor was he really a sage

More than a little dumb. He's the only Roman politician, apart from Caesar and Cicero, whose works still get read today.

 

[AnOminous]

More than a little dumb. He's the only Roman politician, apart from Caesar and Cicero, whose works still get read today.

This is why paper is more important than ever. Look at the people currently in charge of our fake "encyclopedias." They will replace actual history with their cucked zoomer opinions given any possible chance. Paper is very important, and must be protected, with lead if necessary.

 

[glue eater]

Pre-emptive apology for a spergout. Wikipedia gets alternatively called a dictatorship or a democracy, but having lurked wikipedia for almost a decade, its more comparable to a patchwork of warlord states, like 30s China.

See, you imagine users and admins editing a little here, a little there. But really subjects say, religion and politics are jealously guarded by very small amount of super active users and admins, Wikipedians like to joke about "a cabal", but its post-ironic, its a joke that's actually true. Subject matters are like fortresses, any new user will be met with unmitigated hostility if they dare trespass this territory. Sure, a very minor edit might go unchallenged, but that's it. Wikipedia has a policy against trying to maintain a certain version of a page, they're supposed to be fluid, but its virtually ignored, wikipedia is like Libya, a third world country where the separation of powers is completely broken and country is in a political deadlock.

To expand on the China comparison, Wikipedia is in utter desolation, except for few hubs of activity. Wikipedia is more like a patchwork or a chain of islands rather than a monolith. But it also works the other way. While the popular subject matters are lorded over by fanatical users and admins, minor articles can be vandalized at will. Even articles with over a thousand views a day, you can add virtually any sort of disinfo if its not a matter of interest to any single cabal. Without going into detail, I have seen blatant hoaxes stay up for 5 years, and they're still up. And I'm not talking about liberal fantasy like "Tucker Carlson tells people to kill immigrants"-hoax, I'm talking "My neighbor Bob is the leader of ISIS" type shit.

TLDR Wikipedia is shit, what a revelation.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

My neighbor Bob is the leader of ISIS" type shit.

You should read the sections on Russian history it's clearly written by some completely and utterly slavic supremacist and it's taken seriously because no one actually cares about 16th century Russian history.

I fully support the people who keep exaggerating every single battle between slavic nations and mongolians absolutely there was 300,000 people at that battle and 10,000 Russians don't say otherwise

 

[glue eater]

You should read the sections on Russian history it's clearly written by some completely and utterly slavic supremacist and it's taken seriously because no one actually cares about 16th century Russian history.

I fully support the people who keep exaggerating every single battle between slavic nations and mongolians absolutely there was 300,000 people at that battle and 10,000 Russians don't say otherwise

Precisely, Wikipedia could be also described as a network of autistic insulated cults.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Precisely, Wikipedia could be also described as a network of autistic insulated cults.

If I told you the top guy was Alexander souvaroff and he had no sweetest ancestry according to Wikipedia even though he himself said his family originated in Sweden but don't worry the Russian historians insist that the greatest general of Russia was 100% slavic and not even remotely Swedish he doesn't look even remotely slavic he looks very Swedish but in the Russian heritage of this one important 1790 general in Russia he is Russian not Swedish I don't know why it would matter that much if his family originated in Sweden even though they lived in Russia for hundreds of years before he joined the military.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

I'm looking for a new book and also listening to more black metal lately, so I found myself on the Wikipedia page for the book"Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Undergound" by Michael J. Moynihan.

I scroll to the critical reception section:



It sounds like it had quite a positive reaction, save for the deranged leftist way of insisting he needs to denounce the subject matter. Thank God the good citizens at Wikipedia are here to help canonise it's problematic nature. It's very telling that they refer to claims of a lack of distance between the author and the subject matter as "charges". Lmao what charges, you crazy little queer fascist you.

The left leaning newspaper journo didn't appreciate the author getting royalties in spite of how they admit its a great read. These people make me sick.

Anyway I must definitely read it now.

 

[Nod Flenders]

I'm looking for a new book and also listening to more black metal lately, so I found myself on the Wikipedia page for the book"Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Undergound" by Michael J. Moynihan.

I scroll to the critical reception section:

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It sounds like it had quite a positive reaction, save for the deranged leftist way of insisting he needs to denounce the subject matter. Thank God the good citizens at Wikipedia are here to help canonise it's problematic nature. It's very telling that they refer to claims of a lack of distance between the author and the subject matter as "charges". Lmao what charges, you little crazy little queer fascist you.

The left leaning newspaper journo didn't appreciate the author getting royalties in spite of how they admit its a great read. These people make me sick.

Anyway I must definitely read it now.

Is it any wonder why schools tell you not to use Wikipedia?

 

[Henri Barbusse]

What the fuck is this sophomoric shit?

I went to my bookshelf to compare it with my 1968 paper copy and there is nothing remotely this retarded in it. This is just some retard opining on the guy.

It's mostly correct, but written in a way that does not belong in an encyclopedia. Marcus Aurelius was a good emperor, even after the death of his co-ruler, but the Antonine plague fucked up the empire and he failed to choose a competent successor. He maintained what was already there and could have done more in better conditions, but things went to hell after his death.

Edit: It occurs to me that the opinion is pretty close to that in Historia Augusta, which is a very unreliable source in itself. From what I remember, Historia Augusta claims that Lucius Verus was more competent than Marcus Aurelius and that by the time of their predecessor Antoninus Pius, the seeds of future crisis were already there.

More than a little dumb. He's the only Roman politician, apart from Caesar and Cicero, whose works still get read today.

His works are read because he was a Roman politician. If he was just a philosopher, his works would be read only by specialists, since without the appeal of being written by a ruling Emperor, the Meditations wouldn't be anything unique. Saying that he was no sage is poor phrasing, but the underlying idea that he wasn't a great philosopher, but merely one of many is correct. Of course, that might be me being a bit too charitable to the writer.

 

[Smiggadigga]

You guys should take a look at the Wikipedia article for Voter ID law in the US.

 

[Smiggadigga]

Wait, actually found some happenings on Twitter
https://x.com/PirateWires/status/1849551071171183007
https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-w...itors-hijacked-the-israel-palestine-narrative

Not sure how accurate any of this is.

 

[Susanna]

You guys should take a look at the Wikipedia article for Voter ID law in the US.

"Requiring verification of identity to vote is racist because niggers are too dumb to get IDs." - The party that keeps screaming that the other party is racist.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

"Requiring verification of identity to vote is racist because niggers are too dumb to get IDs." - The party that keeps screaming that the other party is racist.

To be quite honest I'm surprised that the article didn't mention literacy tests or Jim Crow or something like that

 

[AnOminous]

Marcus Aurelius was a good emperor, even after the death of his co-ruler, but the Antonine plague fucked up the empire and he failed to choose a competent successor.

He probably SHOULD have arranged for Commodus to have an unfortunate accident. It's easy to say that in hindsight. I can't really fault him for not being a bloodyminded ruthless murderer, though.

"Requiring verification of identity to vote is racist because niggers are too dumb to get IDs." - The party that keeps screaming that the other party is racist.

This is less the case than it used to be generations ago, since anyone this old is on the verge of dying, but there are people who have never had any kind of identifying documents of the sort you need for TrueID. They were born at home in some tin roof shack, never had a Social Security card, worked odd jobs, and never even had a birth certificate. Any record of their birth may be long expired. But they've lived in the same community for their entire lives.

There should really be alternative means of identification for people in that kind of situation. It's not stupidity, it's just that it's only recently considered normal to require everyone get the Mark of the Beast to do any kind of business whatsoever.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Look up how they do election security and voter identification in places like Brazil and India, then compare to what European countries like the UK and France do.

It's 100% american politicians ensuring the system is broken to keep fraud possible in case of need.

 

[demicolon]

He probably SHOULD have arranged for Commodus to have an unfortunate accident. It's easy to say that in hindsight. I can't really fault him for not being a bloodyminded ruthless murderer, though.

What's funny about Aurelius is that for all his stoic bullshit, he couldn't keep his emotions in check. He forgave his wife for being the biggest whore in the Empire and cucking him with one of his generals, who she also incited to rebellion, and passed the throne to his son despite him being an incompetent psychopathic sadist, breaking centuries of precedent in the proces. One might wonder how much of a cope Meditations was for him.