Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

RealtreeByGod said:
Some absolute mad man edited the Motte & Bailey fallacy page, let's see how long it lasts or what examples survive editing.
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Some anon later came on and tried to remove the "Believe Women" and BLM entries saying they were "IrReLeVaNt, SpUrIoUs AnD pOlItIcAlLy ChArGeD." They were later restored by a guy who simply cited NPOV and told them to BTFO.
 
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The fuckers are gunning for Mount Rushmore now!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore
This section is completely new:
Although Mount Rushmore was constructed with the intention of symbolizing "the triumph of modern society and democracy",[15] for the original land occupants, the Lakota Sioux, the monument embodies a story of "struggle and desecration".[16] The U.S. Government promised the Sioux territory, including the perpetuity of the Black Hills in the Treaty of 1868. That lasted only until the discovery of gold on the land and soon after white settlers migrated to the area in the 1870s. The federal government then forced the Sioux to relinquish the Black Hills portion of their reservation.[16] The battle that took place in 1890 between the US Army and the Native Americans is known as the Wounded Knee Massacre, "where hundreds of unarmed Sioux women, children, and men were shot and killed by U.S. troops", as summarized by PBS regarding historian Dee Brown's account of the event.[16]
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They added it sometime between March 22, and April 10th.

Here's what it looked like before.

Yes, this is part of the current jihad against all monuments to America's past.
 
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ProgKing of the North said:
The information is true though
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Of coure it's factually true, dumbass. Wikipedia activist mods are the masters of "technically accurate" edits. You know what it's not? Relevant. The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in 1890. Mount Rushmore was authorized in 1925 and finished in 1934. None of the presidents on Mount Rushmore were president when the Wounded Knee massacre happened, Benjamin Harrison was. The two are not directly connected. It's gratuitous shaming and a blatant editorial in what's allegedly an encyclopedia.

What would you think if someone added a paragraph about Stalin's purges to the beginning of the Wikipedia entry about the Soviet space program? As someone who has been quite vocal about my dislike of the Soviet Union, I would know that's complete and utter bullshit.
 
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Doctor Placebo said:
What would you think if someone added a paragraph about Stalin's purges to the beginning of the Wikipedia entry about the Soviet space program? As someone who has been quite vocal about my dislike of the Soviet Union, I would know that's complete and utter bullshit.
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That would be very relevant since the Soviets literally had to fish their lead engineer Sergei Korolev out of a gulag after Stalin purged him, and unsurprisingly that fact is mentioned in the history section of Wikipedia's article on the Soviet space progam as it should be. Just as relevant as mentioning how the US acquired Mount Rushmore and that the native people really didn't like how they acquired it or what they did with it.
 
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Save the Loli said:
That would be very relevant since the Soviets literally had to fish their lead engineer Sergei Korolev out of a gulag after Stalin purged him, and unsurprisingly that fact is mentioned in the history section of Wikipedia's article on the Soviet space progam as it should be. Just as relevant as mentioning how the US acquired Mount Rushmore and that the native people really didn't like how they acquired it or what they did with it.
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My mistake. However, it's only very briefly mentioned (two sentences as opposed to a full paragraph), it's not the first thing in the article (hence why I missed it, while the Mount Rushmore excerpt is placed in a way that's impossible to miss), and it's purely descriptive, not loaded with editorial language about how people feel about the space program. They're definitely not on the same level.
 
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@Doctor Placebo speaking of highly politically leading articles...
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Emperor Julian said:
Grahams wiki page is interesting.
I'd say a good 3rd of his page is in dedicted to how much he hates trans people. Best guess some wiki editor is holding grudge.

also for the record Fuck Graham lineham, I'm largely indifferant to trans people so the damage his already done with his bullshit far outstrips and good will he gets for any change of heart.
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Crossposted from Graham Lineham's thread. Apparently his Wikipedia page now has a disproportionately large portion dedicated to attacking his TERF slacktivism instead of, you know, information about his actual career.

Give it time and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if J.K. Rowling's Wiki page looks the same.
 
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Doctor Placebo said:
not loaded with editorial language about how people feel about the space program
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Lmfao, go on and express how you feel about some public decision in the fucking USSR of all places.
Save the Loli said:
That would be very relevant since the Soviets literally had to fish their lead engineer Sergei Korolev out of a gulag after Stalin purged him, and unsurprisingly that fact is mentioned in the history section of Wikipedia's article on the Soviet space progam as it should be. Just as relevant as mentioning how the US acquired Mount Rushmore and that the native people really didn't like how they acquired it or what they did with it.
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TBQH the US did just exactly the same with the Nazi scientists from the V-2 Program, they were all quite desesperate.
 
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Kamala Harris's Wikipedia Page Is Being Edited

In recent presidential cycles, the velocity of edits made to a Wikipedia page have correlated with the choice of vice presidential running mate.
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Story I caught in The Intercept about the politically motivated edit wars over likely-Democrat vice presidential appointee Kamala Harris. Some hack began scrubbing any negative content from her article with hundreds of alterations for "minor edits for length", constructing a massive fluff piece in the process with some edits apparently aping her campaign press releases word for word.
 
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