Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[General Emílio Médici]

Trump Meeting Word Count: 7,797 words

WW2 Word Count: 14,055 words

That article is just over half the length of the article on fucking World War II

My absolute favorite that is my go-to whenever I need to make fun of wikipedia:

The Holocaust: 15k words, 100k characters, 128kbytes, 479 citations.

January 6th Capitol Attack: 48k words, 311k characters, 498kbytes, 636 citations.

 

[WhiteNight]

My absolute favorite that is my go-to whenever I need to make fun of wikipedia:

My favorite go-to, which I brought up upthread, is this gargantuan article on a five-minute photo op by Trump:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John's_Church

~29k words, 309 citations

(But there are different definitions of article word count, so these don't always compare.)

The first sentence of that article by the way is misleading. As the last paragraph in the intro explains, the park was not cleared for Trump.

However, I will somewhat defend Wikipedia about WW2 and the Holocaust. Both of those topics have hundreds, well probably thousands, of subsidiary articles on individual people, battles, locations, etc., so the main article can be shorter and link to other more detailed ones.

 

[scathefire]

My favorite go-to, which I brought up upthread, is this gargantuan article on a five-minute photo op by Trump:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John's_Church ~29k words, 309 citations

Hahaha they included a fucking map and a complete timeline of every single development??? You’d think this was on the level of some major terrorist attack or assassination. But no it’s just orange man yet again doing something simple that’s perceived as controversial.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

My absolute favorite that is my go-to whenever I need to make fun of wikipedia:

The Holocaust: 15k words, 100k characters, 128kbytes, 479 citations.

January 6th Capitol Attack: 48k words, 311k characters, 498kbytes, 636 citations.

that's an awful lot of citations and words for two things that didn't happen

 

[Calandrino]

that's an awful lot of citations and words for two things that didn't happen

Wow, sorry, but that's kind of an ignorant statement. The Star Wars article is 18k words so for wikipedia it's pretty typical for things that didn't happen.

 

[BigPeanut]

Wow, sorry, but that's kind of an ignorant statement. The Star Wars article is 18k words so for wikipedia it's pretty typical for things that didn't happen.

Prove it didn’t.

 

[Calandrino]

Prove it didn’t.

I... I can't

 

[AnOminous]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump%E2%80%93Zelenskyy_meeting

The fact that this article is longer than the entire article on the Russian Civil War is astounding

It would literally take you longer to read all this bullshit than the meeting itself took. Typical example of "the left can't meme" because this logorrhea makes it LESS likely anyone will read this propaganda.

 

[SCRAM]

I thought this was a goddamn meme but then I checked the talk page. There's several threads of people arguing specifically over whether the Africans made their own chairs before Europeans came. One poster mentioned it was probably due to the Arabs who ruled after some time but that got glossed over to discuss the fact that "Well, stumps are stools and stools ARE chairs!".

Wiki editors will nitpick the smallest thing unless it fits "the right narrative". See here:



So it's a chair if someone historically called it a chair, and not up for debate. But if someone claims they're trans we rewrite their entire history. Got it, because the modem definition of that thing or person has changed. Double standards.

Also, I'm waiting on the "list of genocides" article to have suggested or inserted the current day "Transgender Genocide".

Mark my words it will happen

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

This must be a joke:

Trichloroethylene is used to wash grease off metals in the industry and industrial metal is a musical genre

 

[Gilgamesh]

This must be a joke:
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Trichloroethylene is used to wash grease off metals in the industry and industrial metal is a musical genre

It’s like the easier error an editor can make. Absolutely innocent and blameless. Common on articles not visited much, like chemicals

 

[demicolon]

Is putting hyperlinks in Wikipedia automated in some way? If so, it might be what happened there and no editor paid enough attention to correct it.

 

[Qui-Gon's Gin]

Is putting hyperlinks in Wikipedia automated in some way? If so, it might be what happened there and no editor paid enough attention to correct it.

You put [[double brackets]] around whatever you want linked and it automatically goes to the page with that title (if one exists). The editor just didn't check and make sure it went to what he thought it did.

 

[Calandrino]

You put [[double brackets]] around whatever you want linked and it automatically goes to the page with that title (if one exists). The editor just didn't check and make sure it went to what he thought it did.

I'd have left it that way on purpose, because it's funny and nobody can prove shit.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Since 2014, GameStop has regularly donated money to Autism Speaks' research that could be used for eugenics, despite regular campaigns against this from the Autistic community.

- GameStop - Wikipedia

Oh FFS. First of all, wanting to cure autism is not wrong. Second, there is no one "community" of autistics. Finally, are they seriously capitalizing the "A" in "autistic"?

 

[Susanna]

- GameStop - Wikipedia

Oh FFS. First of all, wanting to cure autism is not wrong. Second, there is no one "community" of autistics. Finally, are they seriously capitalizing the "A" in "autistic"?

I'm sure most actual autists would be in favour of "eugenics" in this context. Who the fuck wants to be autistic? There are plenty of disorders where a person who has it wouldn't rather be neurotypical, whether it's because they feel superior or simply because they're too paranoid to trust a cure, but autism is neither of those things.

 

[scathefire]

I'm sure most actual autists would be in favour of "eugenics" in this context. Who the fuck wants to be autistic? There are plenty of disorders where a person who has it wouldn't rather be neurotypical, whether it's because they feel superior or simply because they're too paranoid to trust a cure, but autism is neither of those things.

The “neurodiversity movement” argues that autism is merely a different way of being and not a disorder or disability. Therefore there are absolutely autistics that feel superior due to their autism, most likely high-functioning ones who have the luxury of not currently drooling from the mouth in a group home.

 

[Corpun]

The “neurodiversity movement” argues that autism is merely a different way of being and not a disorder or disability. Therefore there are absolutely autistics that feel superior due to their autism, most likely high-functioning ones who have the luxury of not currently drooling from the mouth in a group home.

I wish I wasn't a high-functioning autist and just a normal person. There's some days I'm glad I'm not a drooling retard unable to live on my own and days I wish I was instead of a outwardly 'normal' person.

Speaking of autism retardation, the end of the ass-burger classification was extremely detrimental to this gay ass autism community for a multitude of reasons. But like all this gay ass identity bullshit, people who proudly say they are autistic like to be special retards instead of realizing they ought to hope for a cure.

 

[Salt Upon Wounds]

..."Reptar on Ice" continues this satirical tradition, heavily displaying the over commercialization where media is dragged on into several merchandising tie-ins. Angelica is insistent on only eating Reptar brand cereal, which Stu states has "no actual food in it.". The events depicted in "Reptar on Ice" are a loose adaptation of the Cuban Missile Crisis.."

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

https://youtu.be/-xlo-qTzC7s?si=UfW2EMHLKaGOiArq

 

[glue eater]

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

How could Trump possibly ballwash the Jews more? Absolute clown site.