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Every Wikipedia entry is written by someone with an obsession with a topic.
Dumb Shit on Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotnik
Here's how the entry for "Robotnik" reads on the Wikipedia disambiguation page:
The Robotnik Family from Sonic the Hedgehog video game series
Here's how the entry for "Robotnik" reads on the Wikipedia disambiguation page:
The Robotnik Family from Sonic the Hedgehog video game series
- Doctor Ivo Robotnik, also known by the alias Doctor Eggman, the main antagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog
- Professor Gerald Robotnik, the grandfather of Dr. Ivo Robotnik
- Maria Robotnik, the granddaughter of Gerald Robotnik, and the cousin of Doctor Eggman
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Off the top of my head, I recall at one point Wikipedia decided to feature an obscure individual Family Guy episode as the featured article on the main page.
Another time they featured an article on an obscure minor Pokemon character "Torchic" as the main page featured article; eventually they decided that 90% of the article was just fancruff and deleted it entirely, and just merged it into an article about "Lists of Pokemon characters".
Another time they featured an article on an obscure minor Pokemon character "Torchic" as the main page featured article; eventually they decided that 90% of the article was just fancruff and deleted it entirely, and just merged it into an article about "Lists of Pokemon characters".
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Did you ever want to read 1300 words on the high school football career of a guy you might have heard of a decade ago? Yes? Former marginal NFL player and prolific wikipedia autobiographer Tai Streets has you covered:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Streets
Painstakingly sourced with 185 references (only 26 fewer than Tom Brady), Tai has made sure you will know everything there is to know about his life.
Painstakingly sourced with 185 references (only 26 fewer than Tom Brady), Tai has made sure you will know everything there is to know about his life.
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not sure if you can qualify this as "dumb shit" but I find it fascinating how this actually exists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_white_male
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_white_male
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Wikigroaning is still good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
A war that killed over a million people is less important than a bunch of exceptional individuals autistically screeching at each other over video games.
And guess which one of those articles is locked down and not available for editing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
A war that killed over a million people is less important than a bunch of exceptional individuals autistically screeching at each other over video games.
And guess which one of those articles is locked down and not available for editing...
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It has this:
This article about a political term is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This is not true. It would be more accurate if it said
This article is utter crap. You can help Wikipedia by deleting it.
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It has this:
This article about a political term is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
This is not true. It would be more accurate if it said
Apparently there was a movement called "deletionists" on Wikipedia at one point. They really should have gone a lot further than they did.
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I know it's to be expected, but the pictures on this article are revolting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentai
At least the article itself is right that "hentai" just means "depraved" and isn't a genre, but we don't need proof of concept in suggestive drawings of children. At least put them behind a spoiler like people do here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentai
At least the article itself is right that "hentai" just means "depraved" and isn't a genre, but we don't need proof of concept in suggestive drawings of children. At least put them behind a spoiler like people do here.
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They do that with tons of articles about shit they shouldn't do that with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunnilingus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_(sex_position)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_anthropomorphism, featuring "Wikipe-tan, a combination of the Japanese word for Wikipedia and the friendly suffix for children, -tan... [the] moe anthropomorphism of Wikipedia."
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I don't think having a picture of a sex act on the page for that act is a bad idea, but it should be under a spoiler.
That "Wikipe-tan" is pure :autism:, though. Apparently TV Tropes has one too. Of course it does.
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There have been big dramafest edit wars over Wikipe-tan as well, sometimes including lolcows like Ryulong.
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Wikipe-tan
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Now I really understand what people mean when they say the Wikipedia community is pathetic.
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It kind of astounds me that no one, at any point in the Wikipe-tan drama, decided to Google Kasuga39 to find that he primarily draws really fucked-up porn.
Except me.
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It kind of astounds me that no one, at any point in the Wikipe-tan drama, decided to Google Kasuga39 to find that he primarily draws really fucked-up porn.
Except me.
I never did, but I'm really not at all surprised.
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To be fair is there any dramafest on Wikipedia pre-ban that Ryulong wasn't involved in?
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Yeah, I remember an old Wikipedia review thread where it was discovered that the artist of Wikipedia's "mascot" draws "loli porn" of prepubescent girls being raped. To be honest I'm not suprised given how Wikipedia seems to draw in fucked up times in general; I'm just surprised that the dysfunctionality of Wikipedia's community has never really made much media attention and that the website is still viewed as credible, but then again so is the US federal government.It kind of astounds me that no one, at any point in the Wikipe-tan drama, decided to Google Kasuga39 to find that he primarily draws really fucked-up porn.
Except me.