Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

This note from the top of the Fool's Gold Loaf article made me snigger. Hard hitting stuff Wikipedia:

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The Axis powers (German: Achsenmächte; Italian: Potenze dell'Asse; Japanese: 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as "Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis" (also nicknamed with the Italian name "Roberto", from the initials of "ROma", "BERlin" and "TOkyo")

I've never heard this before and I could barely find anything to back this up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers
 
I meant a non-wikipedia source. The only reference I could find was on reddit.
There are references to it in Italian language books and papers on google scholar, and on Italian forums and websites, usually under the different spelling "RO-BER-TO" with dashes instead of periods. This google books link should work: The electrification of Italy as well as this link to an Italian Communist website that mentions it under that spelling.

To get any good searching done on it you need to search it with the prefix L'Asse (the axis) to get Italian historical results and not just the name.
 
There are references to it in Italian language books and papers on google scholar, and on Italian forums and websites, usually under the different spelling "RO-BER-TO" with dashes instead of periods. This google books link should work: The electrification of Italy as well as this link to an Italian Communist website that mentions it under that spelling.

To get any good searching done on it you need to search it with the prefix L'Asse (the axis) to get Italian historical results and not just the name.
Thanks for the info! I still question how widely known was that term and whether or not it's justified being in the first few sentences for a significant English wikipedia page.
 
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Below are archived links to the Wikipedia article on 'Bugchasing' most of which was written around 2009/2010 and which hasn't seen that many edits in the last few years.

I was quite surprised at it's existence, and the fact that the article accepts the practice exists really interesting.

I wonder if it's just stayed below the activists radar , and that at some point in the future it'll get memory holed.

 

Interesting category. Holds articles on New England Patriots-related scandals (Spygate and Deflategate), baseball shit like spitballs and corked bats, underage Chinese gymnasts, the college football SMU scandal, links to other categories including famous cheaters like Shoeless Joe Jackson and Lance Armstrong, and also disgraced Donkey Kong player Billy Mitchell.
 
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