Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

soy_king said:
I feel as if not just the quality of their information but also the quality of their writing has suffered as well. For example, I tried reading their article on Thailand a few weeks ago and it was riddled with grammatical errors.
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All articles on non-Anglosphere topics, from history to culture to local celebrities, tend to be riddled with grammar errors/bad spelling, especially for more obscure topics. They're also usually shorter than the topics on the relevent foreign-language Wikipedia, so if you're interested you should just go over to said Wikipedia and put that high school foreign language to good use (or just use Google translate)
Trig.Point said:
What I don't understand about Wikipedia, is how they can justify deleting pages that have existed sometimes for years, without archiving their talk pages. So you can't actually see how a decision was made.
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They don't remove the deletion discussion, they just throw it into the archives. Here's the archive. This link is not easily visible on any policy page or anywhere else really.
 
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AnOminous said:
They don't justify it. The tranny cult that runs Wikipedia just fucking does it, and fuck you if you don't like it. All those fake rules they have to look like they actually have standards and procedures are a lie. They'll just ban you if you actually are dumb enough to expect them to be followed.
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No wonder they annoyingly beg for money every month.
 
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I was reading their list of Twitter suspensions article when I came across this little factoid.
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Alrighty, then...
 
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Save the Loli said:
All articles on non-Anglosphere topics, from history to culture to local celebrities, tend to be riddled with grammar errors/bad spelling, especially for more obscure topics. They're also usually shorter than the topics on the relevent foreign-language Wikipedia, so if you're interested you should just go over to said Wikipedia and put that high school foreign language to good use (or just use Google translate)

They don't remove the deletion discussion, they just throw it into the archives. Here's the archive. This link is not easily visible on any policy page or anywhere else really.
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That's really interesting thank you.

There's a YouTube Channel that I follow called Forgotten weapons, it covers historical firearms. It did at one point have a Wikipedia page, the channel owner is a published author he does original research, a top 20 earner on Patreon, his channel was at one point used as a reference in Wikipedia pages on obscure weapons.

It's been deleted and I don't know why, particularly as YouTubers like Lindsay Ellis and Hbomberguy have what are essentially fan pages on Wikipedia.

All the information as to what happened is in that link you provided but because its not searchable, it's obviously harder to find the talk page.
 
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Trig.Point said:
There's a YouTube Channel that I follow called Forgotten weapons, it covers historical firearms. It did at one point have a Wikipedia page, the channel owner is a published author he does original research, a top 20 earner on Patreon, his channel was at one point used as a reference in Wikipedia pages on obscure weapons.

It's been deleted and I don't know why, particularly as YouTubers like Lindsay Ellis and Hbomberguy have what are essentially fan pages on Wikipedia.
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Forgotten Weapons has over a million subscribers on YouTube, a healthy Patreon, and is updated daily with scholarly content. If its Wikipedia page had been deleted, that says a whole lot more about Wikipedia than it does about Ian McCollum, PBUH.

It's not even a political channel! Yeah, he has guests like Larry Vickers, but they talk about firearms as experts.

I'd love to see that delete discussion.
 
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AprilRains said:
Forgotten Weapons has over a million subscribers on YouTube, a healthy Patreon, and is updated daily with scholarly content. If its Wikipedia page had been deleted, that says a whole lot more about Wikipedia than it does about Ian McCollum, PBUH.

It's not even a political channel! Yeah, he has guests like Larry Vickers, but they talk about firearms as experts.

I'd love to see that delete discussion.
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It's probably precisely because it's not a political channel the deletionist crew could get it deleted. Hbomberguy and others have an army of shills posing as journalists working for them in the clickbait media who churn out article after article. And on Wikipedia, these articles are all top-notch reliable sources. So how could Hbombergoy not be notable when all these great and reliable sources are covering him?
 
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Save the Loli said:
It's probably precisely because it's not a political channel the deletionist crew could get it deleted. Hbomberguy and others have an army of shills posing as journalists working for them in the clickbait media who churn out article after article. And on Wikipedia, these articles are all top-notch reliable sources. So how could Hbombergoy not be notable when all these great and reliable sources are covering him?
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If they want to reinforce their own irrelevance, that's fine, but I look forward to having told them so.
 
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AprilRains said:
Forgotten Weapons has over a million subscribers on YouTube, a healthy Patreon, and is updated daily with scholarly content. If its Wikipedia page had been deleted, that says a whole lot more about Wikipedia than it does about Ian McCollum, PBUH.

It's not even a political channel! Yeah, he has guests like Larry Vickers, but they talk about firearms as experts.

I'd love to see that delete discussion.
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It's strange because if you do a search for Forgotten weapons on wikipedia, it brings up a whole host of articles where the Forgotten weapons blog has been used as a reference!.

I suppose McCollum should aspire to get something published by Buzzfeed, then he'll be a trusted source.
 
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Trig.Point said:
It's strange because if you do a search for Forgotten weapons on wikipedia, it brings up a whole host of articles where the Forgotten weapons blog has been used as a reference!.

I suppose McCollum should aspire to get something published by Buzzfeed, then he'll be a trusted source.
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I think McCollum does more to improve Wikipedia's credibility than the reverse. He publishes real books, puts up real content. His star is rising. Wikipedia's, I think, is falling.
 
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Darwin Watterson said:
I was reading their list of Twitter suspensions article when I came across this little factoid.
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Alrighty, then...
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www.vice.com

I Was Banned From Twitter for Threatening to Kill Mr. Peanut

To be fair, this wasn't my first time menacing the Planters mascot. Or the second. Or the third.
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Vice Writer Becomes Hilarious Victim of Twitter Censorship, Gets Banned for Threatening Planters Peanut Mascot

The law of unintended consequences catches up to one writer gunning for Mr.Peanut
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Trig.Point said:
It's strange because if you do a search for Forgotten weapons on wikipedia, it brings up a whole host of articles where the Forgotten weapons blog has been used as a reference!.
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Unsurprising, really, since the articles about various firearms are probably just populated by gun spergs, while arguing over which youtubers deserve articles attracts all the politispergs and their various offshoots.
 
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ProgKing of the North said:
Unsurprising, really, since the articles about various firearms are probably just populated by gun spergs, while arguing over which youtubers deserve articles attracts all the politispergs and their various offshoots.
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The difference is that the gun spergs belong in the firearms entries, while the politispergs who want to weaponize Wikipedia belong in the airlock.
 
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Ilikeoreos said:
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Blue whale penis - Wikipedia

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Yet another case of some dude's obvious fetish turning into an article. Not as bad as that seedfeeder weirdo who went around putting his drawings of white dudes blowing a load all over the faces of Asian chicks in every imaginable article, but still ridiculous.
 
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