Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[AprilRains]

Here I am tarding about actual quality in posts when I should be just shitposting. Still, I want to fix this OP. It sucks. I feel like I suck so long as it continues to suck as much as it does.

Do as your autism bids you.

 

[The Pink Panther]

I really want to rewrite the OP for this thread. It is lazy, shitty, and just more or less a shitpost. As small as this thread is, I think it is actually one of the better ones on the site, and I blighted it with my absolute faggot OP. Seriously look at it, it's bad. What should be in it? I think there should be at least a half-dozen sections, that should link to parts of serious Wikipedian dumbness in the thread.

I want to take a day or so at some point to make the OP at least semi-useful. Is this worth doing?

Also, this isn't particularly egregious, but it just annoyed the shit out of me today. Here's the article on Burzum. It isn't particularly awful in and of itself but this just annoyed me:



I don't actually have so much difficulty with the content, which is obviously true, but just that they somehow felt the need to deny that J.R.R. Tolkien is somehow some kind of Nazi just because Varg Vikernes used a word he coined. What kind of fucking world do we live in where it was even necessary to point this out? This isn't so much a "dumb shit on Wikipedia" post as a dumb shit in reality post because only in a world with SJWs in it would anyone even feel it necessary to point this out.

lol, who cares

Do all OPs need to be college theses on the observations and the lulz of the human condition?

 

[AnOminous]

Do all OPs need to be college theses on the observations and the lulz of the human condition?

Maybe not but maybe they shouldn't be embarrassingly stupid if they are criticizing a website that for no good reason at all is considered on the level of an encyclopedia. Am I alone? Apparently. I am OP. I am a faggot. Such simultaneity.

 

[Lucille Bluth]

So in a talk page, an IP user asked this: "I don't understand Wikipedia policy. Is wikipedia based on proven facts or on the false thinking of the most active and fierce members ?"

I guess more people aren't aware that Wiki pages are all subject to whatever narrative the most frequent users/mods wants to push. There is no consistency and rules means nothing if users don't like your edits.

 

[LateNightMuffin]

Maybe not but maybe they shouldn't be embarrassingly stupid if they are criticizing a website that for no good reason at all is considered on the level of an encyclopedia. Am I alone? Apparently. I am OP. I am a faggot. Such simultaneity.

Your posts are consistently among my favorites on the site. And yes, I don't think the OP is up to your normal remarkably erudite standards. That said, I think it works, and it's fine if you want to move on and just shitpost more future content. But rewriting it a bit would be fine too, so long as you let us know when you've done so, so we can all revel in the new improved OP that is an even more scathing takedown of the bullshit that _is_ wikipedia.

 

[An Sionnach Seang]

I've recently learned about Caidin-Johnson, a persistent pest not only on Wikipedia but several other wikis
in the words of his Wikipedia long-term abuse page:

In the mid-2010s, a young man by the name of Caidin-Johnson created the first of many accounts on Wikipedia. He has been known to use the site as a vehicle for vandalizing articles, mainly those of programs aimed at small children, by inserting into them various bits of nonsensical commentary. He has been said by one user to have been responsible for "the introduction of Nickelodeon and Disney themes" in Happy Tree Friends, an animated web series that is not intended for children. He has also taken egotistical routes, such as self-insertion into articles that do not concern him. The most extreme cases of this are his many edits to the List of Crayola crayon colors article, where he invents such colors as "Caidin Red", "Mrs. Fields Yellow", "Grammy Green", "Mommy Blue", "Bungyung Purple", "Clee Brown", "Scooby Black", and so on and so forth. He also has an obsession with inflatable, bursting, popping and bouncing objects.

as well as that, one of his MOs is to add references to "The Oh No! Bunny Show", a fictional spinoff from "Happy Tree Friends"
he has a lot of qualities in common with lolcows, but as he doesn't chimp out or throw tantrums, he's more like a serial shitposter

 

[Michaelsoft]

I've recently learned about Caidin-Johnson, a persistent pest not only on Wikipedia but several other wikis
in the words of his Wikipedia long-term abuse page:

as well as that, one of his MOs is to add references to "The Oh No! Bunny Show", a fictional spinoff from "Happy Tree Friends"
he has a lot of qualities in common with lolcows, but as he doesn't chimp out or throw tantrums, he's more like a serial shitposter

The long-term abuse category is a goldmine full of lolcows and shitposters. A few examples:

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

full of lolcows and shitposters

Cow cleaner 5000 has a god-tier username, too bad he's an idiot.

 

[Kulee Baba]

I'm still mad that these assholes attack Cool Runnings. That movie didn't hurt nobody.

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

 

[Basil II]

I'm still mad that these assholes attack Cool Runnings. That movie didn't hurt nobody.

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

lol they listed Lawrence of Arabia, LITERALLY AN ACTUAL EVENT THAT HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE.

 

[discombobulate]

I'm still mad that these assholes attack Cool Runnings. That movie didn't hurt nobody.

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

It's an article essentially run by one person over 6.5 fucking years. Man, get a life.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I've recently learned about Caidin-Johnson, a persistent pest not only on Wikipedia but several other wikis
in the words of his Wikipedia long-term abuse page:

as well as that, one of his MOs is to add references to "The Oh No! Bunny Show", a fictional spinoff from "Happy Tree Friends"
he has a lot of qualities in common with lolcows, but as he doesn't chimp out or throw tantrums, he's more like a serial shitposter

I googled his name, and what I found was:

• He's a logosperg, as evidenced here (Google videos shows his name here instead of the current channel name and I found a previous channel of his which had the same sort of content.
• steals content from Wikipedia to his own wikis
• this apparently
• hes apparently Nate Speed if he was slightly more stable

 

[byuu]

lol they listed Lawrence of Arabia, LITERALLY AN ACTUAL EVENT THAT HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE.

So did Cool Runnings. Sort of. The actual team did have an white American coach. Somehow they couldn't find a Caribbean bobsledding coach.

 

[Lucille Bluth]

lol they listed Lawrence of Arabia, LITERALLY AN ACTUAL EVENT THAT HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE.

Are Holocaust movies centered around saving (((them))) "White Savior movies"?

Or do (((they))) who control the media also control the qualifications?

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Are Holocaust movies centered around saving (((them))) "White Savior movies"?

Or do (((they))) who control the media also control the qualifications?

Depends on the front, the Germans didn't think the Soviets were white either.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

lol they listed Lawrence of Arabia, LITERALLY AN ACTUAL EVENT THAT HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE.

So did Cool Runnings. Sort of. The actual team did have an white American coach. Somehow they couldn't find a Caribbean bobsledding coach.

So much for "reality has liberal bias" crap, huh.

Reminded me of a weird thing I read in a book once (not want to google it in case it is not true), where plan to make a statue to commemorate firemen who worked heroically during 9/11 was halted and then cancelled outright, cause all three were white...but somehow, it was considered an option to change two of them to look racially diverse.

All these reality-retconning assholes probably have as much brain as average cynicism-is-clever person*, which is none.

*I saw one in russian net claiming a widely-reposted generic heartwarming story was "surely a vural ad"...there were not any products mentioned in it, at all.

 

[Trig.Point]

I saw an interesting tweet on the Before and After of the Wikipedia page on Cultural marxism.

https://twitter.com/AurelianofRome/status/1331998858042363907

Interestingly the Wikipedia editor who deleted the first article on Cultural Marxism, for a time described himself as a Cultural Marxist in his bio.

https://twitter.com/KiriyaSacca/status/1115284734534230016

https://archive.is/0L5wt#selection-29.11-29.22

It's now officially anti semitic, so that's the end of it.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/...es-neutrality-is-dead-thanks-to-leftist-bias/

Larry Sanger agrees Wikipedia is fatally biased.

 

[AnOminous]

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/...es-neutrality-is-dead-thanks-to-leftist-bias/

Larry Sanger agrees Wikipedia is fatally biased.

It's not even that it has biases. Biases are inescapable. It's that now a critical mass of editors (and the joke of self-governance that is the ArbCom) view it as literally nothing but a propaganda outlet to push their own politics. It's not even concealed at this point. Also probably Sanger's actual article (from back in May) is better than a Breitbart article about the same thing, considering how absurdly biased Breitbart itself is.

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

 

[Pointless Pedant]

It's not even that it has biases. Biases are inescapable. It's that now a critical mass of editors (and the joke of self-governance that is the ArbCom) view it as literally nothing but a propaganda outlet to push their own politics. It's not even concealed at this point. Also probably Sanger's actual article (from back in May) is better than a Breitbart article about the same thing, considering how absurdly biased Breitbart itself is.

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

I agree Breitbart has its own biases. It's basically anti-Wikipedia ideologically. It's just that both sites are basically on a similar level at this point. Pick your poison, left or right.