Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[Clostridium Botulinum]

As I understand it, it's against Wikipedia rules to demand an editor's credentials. They treat that as a doxing attempt. This is how you wind up with debacles like that of Ryan "Essjay" Jordan, who was almost put on ArbCom despite having faked his background as a religious scholar. He was actually a 24-year-old community college dropout whose alleged expertise had been questioned for years by actual experts, whose voices were systematically silenced by Jordan and his clique.

When you let any idiot masquerade as an expert, that's exactly who will do so.

Yet college leftists still praise wikipedia as a bastion of free knowledge.


You're as likely to find academic-level knowledge as you are likely to find real Louis Vutton bags at a podunk town flea market.

 

[Punished Magician]

He hosted an AMA on the r/scotland subreddit. The questions are surprisingly mostly polite, but lowkey are asking him why the fuck he spends day after day for years editing a wikipedia on a language he doesn't even speak.

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>My qualifications are that I care about the language

>Non-native speakers can be found as admins across all the language Wikipedias
There's a difference between "Non-native speakers" and "Not-at-all speakers"

 

[Woke Blue Muttlema]

IT SUCKS BEING SCOTTISH! WE ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH!
HALF OF PEOPLE THINK WE ONLY SPEAK WEIRD ENGLISH AND THE OTHER HALF CAN'T DIFFERENCIATE US FROM THE IRISH!
IT'S BLOODY DWARF ENGLISH! SOME PEOPLE HATE THE WIKI FURRY, I DON'T!
HE IS JUST A WANKER! WE COULDN'T EVEN ALLOW A CUNT FROM THE RITE SIDE OF THE POND TO WRITE 9 ARTICLES A DAY LIKE SPAZ!
AND THEN A FUCKING REDDITOR COMES AND TIPS HIS FEDORA TO PROTECT BRAVE SCOTLAND WHILE I'M HERE LAUGHING MY ARSE OFF!
IT'S SHITE BEING SCOTTISH.

 

[Oats12345]

And Wikipedia wonders why every conscientious teacher bans students referring to them.

I never understood way my teachers never wanted us to use Wikipedia. Now I know way

 

[AnOminous]

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The distinction between Wikipedia and TV Tropes gets more threadbare by the day.

You're as likely to find academic-level knowledge as you are likely to find real Louis Vutton bags at a podunk town flea market.

Worse, they actively drive out experts. Wikipedia hates and detests experts. It is the "encyclopedia" of the participation trophy and the very existence of actual experts is anathema to the aggressively stupid morons who run it.

 

[Pickle Dick]

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Wrong thread, we have a TVTropes thread

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

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Almost was confused that I was looking at Urban Dictionary for a moment.

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Matter of fact, I’m surprised that this is not on Encyclopedia Dramatica.

 

[AprilRains]

Worse, they actively drive out experts. Wikipedia hates and detests experts. It is the "encyclopedia" of the participation trophy and the very existence of actual experts is anathema to the aggressively stupid morons who run it.

This is the truth. Wikipedia "editors" feel free to weigh in on discussions in which they have no knowledge. If experts learn of their stupidity and try to correct the matter, they are referred to as "meatpuppets" and their edits are reverted. See, what matters to these pathetic fucks is how long you've been part of the clique, not whether you know a single fucking thing about the subject under discussion.

Wikipedia "admins" are much worse.

Hang them all.

 

[Kaede Did Nothing Wrong]

nice 4chan meme

the guardian ran a story about the guy that's mostly sympathetic. obviously no mention he's a furry. also of course none of the redditors or wiki editors say, hey, this is person who thinks they're a wolf and wants to fuck wolves.

no this a stupid asshole is just living out his delusions in public and nobody is gonna comment on his obviously addled brain because that's just not polite.

 

[WarJams]

the guardian ran a story about the guy that's mostly sympathetic. obviously no mention he's a furry. also of course none of the redditors or wiki editors say, hey, this is person who thinks they're a wolf and wants to fuck wolves.

All the other usual bottom feeder bloggers pretending to be journalists at the expected clickbait dumps (Vice, Mary Sue, and Gizmodo, etc.) also threw out pisstakes on this failing to credit the source as the hacker known as 4chan

I just think it's funny this one autistic furfag has co-opted an entire portal of wikipedia to turn it into encyclopedia dramatica as narrated by Groundskeeper Willy

 

[Clostridium Botulinum]

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no this a stupid asshole is just living out his delusions in public and nobody is gonna comment on his obviously addled brain because that's just not polite.

I think this now deserves its own animal control thread

 

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[scathefire]

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It's boldly trying to justify the use of "terf" to refer to non-feminists, which makes no sense considering that the acronym is explicitly referring to radical feminists.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I never understood way my teachers never wanted us to use Wikipedia. Now I know way

At one of my old schools we weren't even allowed to go on the site during school hours

 

[Shaka Brah]

At one of my old schools we weren't even allowed to go on the site during school hours

Pretty based tbh. Anything a kid reads on there is going to be colored by new-left commentary anyway. Might as well make sure kids learn early on how to use real resources like the library.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Pretty based tbh. Anything a kid reads on there is going to be colored by new-left commentary anyway. Might as well make sure kids learn early on how to use real resources like the library.

Not even during free time, which seemed a little extreme

 

[Xerxes IX]

Weeb attempts to promote anime fanfic on the Wikipedia page for fatal insomnia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia#Popular_culture

(https://web.archive.org/web/20200826003755/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia)

That's probably a self-promo, which is a pathetic thing to do even on TvTropes where things like this belong.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

That's probably a self-promo, which is a pathetic thing to do even on TvTropes where things like this belong.

People self promote on Wikipedia all the time.

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey#Law_enforcement

Camden, New Jersey - Wikipedia

archived 1 Sep 2020 17:31:48 UTC

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Because of the reorganized force in 2013, the number of cops in the streets has increased and spread throughout Camden. Camden's new police force began patrolling in tandem, speaking with residents, and driving patrol cars


In 2018, the Camden County Police Department reported that violent crime had dropped 18%, led by a 21% decline in aggravated assaults; nonviolent crimes fell by 12%, the number of arson fell by 29%, burglaries by 21%, and nonfatal "shooting hit incidents" dropped by 15%.[413] So far, with only 22 homicides, 2018 had the lowest homicide rate in comparison to 2017' with 23 homicides.[413]

Later the article goes on to say:

Camden has been a model for what police abolition or "defunding the police" could look like.

 

[kcbbq]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey#Law_enforcement

https://archive.md/jXydT

Later the article goes on to say:

The rate of violent crime has dropped to "Don't ever go there, you'll be robbed, raped, and killed (in no particular order)" from "Cannibal Ferox", so places that are nominally safe should obviously emulate the city.