Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

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The article on the Great Leap Forward is schizophrenic as fuck. You have plenty of paragraphs that point out that killing tree sparrows helped cause a famine that killed between 15-45 million people, and that telling Chinese villagers to make steel in their backyard both failed to industrialize China and also contributed to a major famine. The overall tone is correctly negative, even if it's couched in a painful neutrality as if the Wikipedia commies are begrudgingly admitting it.

But then you have paragraphs like this citingg a communist writing in a communist magazine glorifies the Great Leap Forward in an article entitled "Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward." Or using official stats to make blatantly false claims about China's economy (better stats, and stats which by no means are biased against China, show China's GDP per capita dropped by 20 percent from 1958 to 1962). There's also a paragraph below this about how awesome the Great Leap Forward was for women's rights in China.

 

[WhiteNight]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force&diff=620732187&oldid=620693897#Affirmative_action_program...

Wikiproject "Countering systemic bias" proposed "affirmative action" for women, protecting women from being reverted. Thankfully doesn't seem to have been implemented.

Per the date in the screenshot, this proposal was from 2014 and quickly scrapped.

Here is the actual proposal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force&oldid=619037920

It was initially titled "Her parting words" before being renamed to "Possible affirmative action program" by user Carolmooredc. The author of the proposal was user LawrencePrincipe. (The Roscelese user was only discussing the proposal and was not involved in writing it.)

 

[White_N]

Shells for the shell god! Barrels for the barrel throne!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/116th_Mechanized_Brigade_(Ukraine)

 

[General Emílio Médici]

wtf I love Ukraine now

 

[scathefire]

Per the date in the screenshot, this proposal was from 2014 and quickly scrapped.

Here is the actual proposal:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force&oldid=619037920

It was initially titled "Her parting words" before being renamed to "Possible affirmative action program" by user Carolmooredc. The author of the proposal was user LawrencePrincipe. (The Roscelese user was only discussing the proposal and was not involved in writing it.)

What’s the point of Wikipedia affirmative action if literally any user can claim to be a woman? Particularly troons, who often have 100% male-dominated interests due to the fact that they’re men, and won’t actually contribute to greater female presence in those spaces since they’re just men with a self-declared female infobox on their profile.

 

[Ed Special]

Wikipedia wants you to be aware of mpreg fans' preferences
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I wonder who even put that one on the main page, and how long it has even been sitting there

Mpreg is retarded fagshit, but who the fuck cares how many lacrosse sticks some dead guy made? Seriously, fewer people care about that shit than squash or women's basketball.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Mpreg is retarded fagshit, but who the fuck cares how many lacrosse sticks some dead guy made? Seriously, fewer people care about that shit than squash or women's basketball.

He's still more notable than Liz Fong Jones or all the random Twitter troons and journos who have articles. And more deserving of an article than "LGBTQ+ Rights Under Donald Trump" or "2020s Anti-Gay Panic in the United States" or whatever other hysteric nonsense Wikipedia tries meming into existence.

 

[Ed Special]

He's still more notable than Liz Fong Jones or all the random Twitter troons and journos who have articles. And more deserving of an article than "LGBTQ+ Rights Under Donald Trump" or "2020s Anti-Gay Panic in the United States" or whatever other hysteric nonsense Wikipedia tries meming into existence.

This is true, but there are still not enough actual Lacrosse fans across the entire Earth to match the population of La Crosse, Wisconsin. It's literally just a fake and gay sport that high schools make a girls' team for so they can have their baseball and football teams without violating Title IX, since they can't have a second volleyball team.

 

[Obnoxious Asshole]

This is true, but there are still not enough actual Lacrosse fans across the entire Earth to match the population of La Crosse, Wisconsin. It's literally just a fake and gay sport that high schools make a girls' team for so they can have their baseball and football teams without violating Title IX, since they can't have a second volleyball team.

Everybody says that since Jim Brown died. Be hard pressed to find some who thought that while he was alive.

 

[Gilgamesh]

Wikipedos think more citations = more true. It's like gish galloping in text form.

I think this is correct for many Wikipedia articles, but there is actually a policy against this, that is brought up on talkpages all the time (especially more sane parts of Wikipedia this thread doesn’t cover)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_truth
This contributes to articles not having excessive citations, and has saved many from things like Indians trying to inject Hindu nationalism into history and science.
I do think it’s really funny that someone tagged it as “excessive citations” but didn’t actually do the work of going through and deleting some of them.

 

[Susanna]

I do think it’s really funny that someone tagged it as “excessive citations” but didn’t actually do the work of going through and deleting some of them.

It’s considered courteous to let someone clean up their own mistakes, rather than treating their writing like the garbage it is.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

This is true, but there are still not enough actual Lacrosse fans across the entire Earth to match the population of La Crosse, Wisconsin. It's literally just a fake and gay sport that high schools make a girls' team for so they can have their baseball and football teams without violating Title IX, since they can't have a second volleyball team.

It's just a list of factoids, nigger, calm down.

 

[Brain Power]

Someone was wewuzzing in the spanish page for a mushroom.

"Ackshually, yorubaniggers knew eating this thing with booze was a bad thing WAY before whitey! " [citation needed lol]
That's not even the same mushroom!

 

[Contra Pozz]

I was mildly pleased to see this. link

 

[The Nothingness]

The site has now changed presenting a date to be more like the European model where it goes date, month, and year.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"Nazism formally named National Socialism is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the..."​

- Wikipedia

Accurate or not, they immediately associate "Nazi" with "far right" in the very first sentence.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

"Nazism formally named National Socialism is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the..."​

- Wikipedia

Accurate or not, they immediately associate "Nazi" with "far right" in the very first sentence.

well i mean it isnt like they're left leaning politically.

 

[Susanna]

"Nazism formally named National Socialism is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the..."​

- Wikipedia

Accurate or not, they immediately associate "Nazi" with "far right" in the very first sentence.

Despite the name, half the ideology is built around opposition to socialism, so yes, "far-right". "Left" and "right" is a reductive and useless system of classification, but nazis very much belong in the far-right section of that diagram, even though they're distinct from other far-right groups like paleoconservatives and monarchists. They're not alone in having a misleading name, social-democrats are also right-wing, despite the name.

 

[WhiteNight]

The site has now changed presenting a date to be more like the European model where it goes date, month, and year.

As I understand, current policy calls for the date format associated with the location of the topic (when applicable). So American cities, politicians, etc., use American date ordering. This article is about an object in Italy, so it uses European ordering.

 

[Ed Special]

well i mean it isnt like they're left leaning politically.

Economically and socially, the Nazis were center-right, extreme authoritarian, with significant amounts of social welfare programs, redistribution of wealth, and direct government intervention in the economy. The main things putting them in "The Right" were their extreme nationalism and their autistic hyperfixation on racial purity. The Nazis were "right-wing" extremists because they were on one of the edges on the right-hand side of the political compass, but they were not in the top-right corner of it as the Leftist brain thinks they were.