Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

Not dumb, actually amazing, but these two consecutive sentences in the lead tell a small tale in themselves:

Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of The Waste Land, that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of 32 [...]

It was a nice try I'm sure :(
 
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Man vs persistent rat said:
Not dumb, actually amazing, but these two consecutive sentences in the lead tell a small tale in themselves:

Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of The Waste Land, that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of 32 [...]

It was a nice try I'm sure :(
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I'm sure these things are merely a coincidence.
 
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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
I was looking at the page for Travis Bickle out of curiosity when I ran across this.

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That last sentence has fuck-all to do with Joker and instead talks about American Horror Story, which came out years before Joker. So why is it lumped in with Joker?
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Because they're now letting tropers edit Wikipedia instead of doing exterminatus on them.
 
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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
You might have a point. This is the page for Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.

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The True Detective shit has far more description than than the fucking book itself.
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That's a terrible stub-class article buried under a side note. Modern Wikipedia.
 
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Shaka Brah said:
Those are two quotes from the TVTropes entries that the wikipedia article is cribbed from.
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I'm not sure about that. They don't share any of the same language and it's well known that True Detective was directly influenced by Ligotti (to the point he was even accused of plagiarism). He admitted the influence. I'd still bet it's a troper and it's troper-tier to throw a giant paragraph of marginally relevant blather into a tiny article.
 
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Save the Loli said:
I know Snopes has dragged its name through the mud in recent years thanks to their blatant partisanship, but they had a section meant to trick people who didn't do their own research which featured them making up their own urban legends like the California flag, the Bear Flag, was originally the "Pear Flag" and only became the Bear Flag thanks to the fact people couldn't read well enough to understand the designers of the flag wanted a pear on it rather than a bear. The intent was to make people look stupid so they'd do their own research and presumably be less vulnerable to believing in urban legends. This looks similar to that, where "trusted sources" are fucking around with people.
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They have a whole section dedicated to troll stories kinda rich that snopes kept attacking the Babylon Bee (a satire news site that was pretty obviously fake) when they had a whole section dedicated to troll stories that exist purely to trick people.
 
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