Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

Somebody created a Wikipedia article about Youtuber Magdalen Berns after she died, and unsurprisingly, it didn't take long before Autistic.png ensued and the article was protected:
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>The mechanism by which certain cis lesbians use their sexuality to deny trans women's womanhood
Lol
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You have over-the-top fans commenting and editing, you have troon rights activists editing, even her girlfriend (Satiricole/Nicole Jones) appears to have edited the article on one occasion.
 
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ATaxingWoman said:
Somebody created a Wikipedia article about Youtuber Magdalen Berns after she died, and unsurprisingly, it didn't take long before View attachment 938812 ensued and the article was protected:
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Which "McKinnon" are those clowns talking about? I don't suppose it is Catharine McKinnon?

Speaking of that McKinnon:
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Prior to moving to the College of Charleston, McKinnon's sporting career had been focused on badminton.
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Citation needed.
 
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ATaxingWoman said:
Somebody created a Wikipedia article about Youtuber Magdalen Berns after she died, and unsurprisingly, it didn't take long before View attachment 938812 ensued and the article was protected:
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>The mechanism by which certain cis lesbians use their sexuality to deny trans women's womanhood
Lol
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You have over-the-top fans commenting and editing, you have troon rights activists editing, even her girlfriend (Satiricole/Nicole Jones) appears to have edited the article on one occasion.
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the deletion discussion page is mostly just arguing over what constitutes notability. it's like everyone knows it's wikipedia itself that's the benchmark of internet notability and nobody is going to be honest why they want the article kept or removed. they're just trying to out-technicality the opposition.
 
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Kaede Did Nothing Wrong said:
the deletion discussion page is mostly just arguing over what constitutes notability. it's like everyone knows it's wikipedia itself that's the benchmark of internet notability and nobody is going to be honest why they want the article kept or removed. they're just trying to out-technicality the opposition.
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Welcome to the game of Wikipedia.
 
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3119967d0c said:
The article on FW really sucked. The one on Mr McCollum was slighty better, but still lacked citations from mainstream lying press sources, which tend to be a large part of proving 'notability'. I'm not surprised they were deleted.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190122050752/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Weapons
https://web.archive.org/web/20190528183250/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McCollum

I suspect an article on Forgotten Weapons that would hold up to the requirements could probably be put together with a little research, but don't really care to do so. Fuck Wikipedia. One on Ian alone would probably not make the cut due to the higher standards on articles about living persons.

I do find it funny that anyone would think this is an 'anti-gun' political decision. I have no doubt that Ian would trade universal background checks, a ban on private firearms sales, no firearm purchases before age 21, and probably even universal licensing with individually named firearms for a little more collector access to machine guns. His collaborator Karl Kasada is a literal fedora Satanist, I believe I might have read Karl's in a poly relationship as well (not sure but he is a libertarian so not unlikely).
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I'm sure there were older versions of this article. One of which focused on the fact that Forgotten weapons was a top 20 patreon earner despite having a 'relatively' small subscriber base.

I think a channel making 20K plus a month from Patreon and direct subscribers, should automatically be notable enough for Wikipedia..
 
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murgatroid said:
Decent topic to read about, terrible section:

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

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AnOminous said:
That's just pure editorializing. Also I'm pretty sure "the hood" isn't an encyclopedic term. Obvious work of a Kang of some sort.
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yeah very few sources and clear editorializing usually means the good stuff is on the talk page. but something here that I haven't seen before is editors disclosing that they were doing this as a part of college coursework.
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if we click on one of the students you'll find a link to their whole class. here's one of them, listing his subjects of interest.
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so what are the classes focused on editing this page?
University of Michigan, Black Lives and Deaths
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UC Berkeley, Global Poverty and Practice (I'm having trouble getting archive to work so here's link. but it's pretty fancy. they track statistics about how much students have added.)
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University of Maryland, Introduction to Information Science
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see that course description at least sounds like something more than overt partisan campaigning. I agree kids would benefit from learning that stuff in college.

this must be a popular thing for schools to do now because the list of wikipedia course instructors has 1,536 users listed. I'm glad this information is transparent, but transparent is kind of a relative term on a site as opaque and convoluted as wikipedia. when I get time later I'll browse that list of professors and see if I can find any really retarded or funny sounding classes 😇

on another topic-
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Someone probably posted this before me, but do we really need a page on "Netflix and chill"?

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well, this is the page's creator. please be patient, lol
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