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WhiteNight said:
This is indeed dumb, but it's worth noting that that text was added by an anonymous (IP) user only a few weeks ago, and has now been removed (probably because of your post):

This was basically vandalism that went unnoticed for some time because it is an obscure article.
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Well shit, how will I know about controversial alkanes now, can anyone help me out here?

If only Wikipedia could fix the rest of the articles people highlight in this thread so quickly.
 
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Got his ass.
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Nguyen Van Phuoc said:
This might be one of the dumbest things put in the Did You Know section, I'm pretty sure this is taught to elementary school children.
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Where/when did you see this? I don't see it on enwp right now, and I searched the DYK archives and got no hits.

Never mind I see it now.

DYK draws from newly created articles, and this one was created on December 21:

Yeah they could have picked something from that list that's much less well-known.
 
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Nguyen Van Phuoc said:
I first saw it around the time I posted that message, in fact I opened Wikipedia up on my phone just now and saw it again
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>Through 1927, Li gained increased popularity with audiences, which her father used to popularize his school for musically inclined youth.[6] She recorded the song "Drizzle", penned by her father, with Pathé Records in 1928. Fusing traditional and Western elements,[8] the song called for a free-choice love that rejected Confucian values.[9]

so her father tried to make her into a whore got it
 
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In case there was any doubt that Wikipedia is even less reliable now than before Current Year...

EXCLUSIVE: Wikipedia Effectively Blacklists ALL Right-Leaning Media, Favors Left (on "MRC Free Speech America" and adblocker advised)

Positioning themselves as arbiters of truth, Wikipedia and its editors have effectively institutionalized a blacklisting system utilizing a “Reliable sources/Perennial sources” page that forbids the use of some of the most popular media sources on the right when editing Wikipedia pages. Their claims? Right-leaning sources are not “reliable,” and in some cases literally “blacklisted” — Wikipedia’s actual word — from use on the platform altogether. The predictable effect? Conservatives, Republicans and Trump appointees are smeared, maligned and slandered by the most popular online source for information about people.
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The funniest perennial source is the ADL, which has a three-tier evaluation:
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Calling right-wing groups white supremacists and neo-Nazis and "hate groups": 100% reliable.

Calling people antisemitic: it depends. Smearing right-wingers as antisemitic, probably okay. But pro-Palestinians screaming about Jews, well, the ADL can't be trusted on that.

They outright admit that the ADL "has repeatedly published false and misleading statements as fact" and yet conclude it can be totally trusted in other domains.
 
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Baby Pom said:
They go out of their way to avoid mentioning CWC in any context. It gets absurd.
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He shall not be named, or you risk he appearing at your room at 3am
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until someone higher up realized 99% of the deaths do not pass the hate crime smell test and in a rare display of sanity reigned in the tranny power jannies and cut the page to 1/20 of the size.
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Here in Brazil there was a big "lesbocide" and "trans murder" posts by big lgbt pages, thing is, since the total number was less than 500 for both, you can easily just dig the names and start checking. Between the cases of horrible persecution for lgbt people that were on their posts it included:
Lesbian dug dealer shot by the police. Lesbian cop killed on duty. Trans who got a heart attack on a plane. A venezuelan trans who never even stepped on brazil and instead died on Spain (?)
Funnily the second one also got on trouble because when they posted the numbers, it shows less trans died after the "fascist" president had stepped in, so they deleted the post and them tried to claim all other lgbt sites were lying about their data, but they forgot the internet archive exists.

rape/murder gangs destroyed
women hit hardest

That part was removed, but its hilarious, the site they link as source complains that prostitutes now need to find a real work since their pimps are all on jail.

 

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Musk derangement continues apace. A mob of terminally online retards still insists, in defiance of all reason and sense, that Elon Musk randomly decided to do a couple of Sieg Heils (aka Nazi salutes) during his speech at Trump's inauguration. The article entitled "Elon Musk gesture controversy" (and for a time "Elon Musk straight-arm gesture controversy") has been moved to "Elon Musk salute controversy" after a week-long move discussion. The title "Elon Musk Nazi salute controversy" was initially proposed, but they agreed to shave off the "Nazi" part. However, the fact remains that it was not a salute, which several dissenters pointed out.
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The article itself repeats familiar smears against Musk. For example, the intro states that he endorsed "an antisemitic post" without noting that he immediately corrected himself and deleted it, and has done international tours in support of Jewish issues.

The text still uses "gesture" mostly, but will no doubt be rewritten to say "salute"

This article is linked from inside the Musk infobox (still with "gesture" as of now):
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But this is probably not even in the top 100 notable topics about Elon. This "controversy" is likely to be forgotten, and indeed outside of online spaces everyone has moved on. The media will drop a reference now and then in anti-Musk pieces but I expect that will be all.

Finally, the article had this paragraph (though an editor changed the last sentence 24 hours ago, we'll see if it sticks):
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Here's more of that neo-Nazi rhetoric:

Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity?’ When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has observed all My statutes and done them, he shall surely live. The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.
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Ezekiel 18:19-20

Ancient Hebrews confirmed Nazis.

God, Wikipedians are retarded.
 
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WhiteNight said:
The article entitled "Elon Musk gesture controversy" (and for a time "Elon Musk straight-arm gesture controversy") has been moved to "Elon Musk salute controversy" after a week-long move discussion. The title "Elon Musk Nazi salute controversy" was initially proposed, but they agreed to shave off the "Nazi" part.
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Quoting myself, because, guess what, less than 48 hours after the move to "Elon Musk salute controversy" went through, there is already a move request to make it "Elon Musk Nazi salute controversy" after all.

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Some of the comments in the discussion are simply breathtaking:
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How far to the left do you have to be to see the ADL as "far right"? I'm waiting for them to outright declare that the ADL is a Nazi organization.
 
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WhiteNight said:
How far to the left do you have to be to see the ADL as "far right"? I'm waiting for them to outright declare that the ADL is a Nazi organization.
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Ed Special said:
Please, God, let it happen, it would be so fucking funny.
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I can't believe I'm ignoring the opportunity to dab on ADL AND Wikipedia, but I have to "ackshually" here.

There are two types of Jews: Zionist right-wing Jews that bomb brown countries and liberal leftist Jews who open the borders of the white countries for them. Usually they are separate people, but some schizo Jews take both positions simultaneously and just rawdog the cognitive dissonance. ADL attacks pro-white people from the left ("You should accept infinite somalians or its literally the Holocaust"), and leftist anti-zionists from the right ("If you deny Jews the right to self-determination its literally the Holocaust"). To leftists, its a Zionist right-wing organization, to conservatives its a left-wing anti-"hate" liberal grifter organization.

TL;DR "Is ADL left wing or right wing organization". The short answer is yes.
 
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