Wikipediocracy

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Wow, that article is terrible. Almost nothing about the man's life in general, just the bad shit he did recently. Shameful.

Wikipedia really needs to stop covering current news events.

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He once answered to a comment I posted on his Commons talk page. Does that count?

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That NYT article was terrible.

Shame on Mr. Cohen.

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Most of WP's articles on human emotions leave a lot to be desired. Guilt_(emotion) (T-H-L) starts out OK, then degrades into blathering on about white privilege and crap. Ecstasy_(emotion) (T-H-L) is a quote-a-thon, with hardly any scholarly analysis. Embarrassment (T-H-L) spends too much time on politics, etc.

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If people actually listened to "don't be a dick", Eric would be banned in a instant.

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The funniest thing about the school shooting article is that template box at the top saying "Terrorism".

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Alternative versions of the Hulk (T-H-L) fancruft with no sources, and ridiculously over-detailed to boot.

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Cunt is the only swear word left in the English language that still has any meaning or power, at least where I live. I don't really care if somebody me calls it, though - I think SWs in general are annoying.

Just FYI, I'm female.

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That article is rather negatively biased. If I knew more about the subject, I'd make it more positive.

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Poetlister wrote:He's made 136 edits on Wikinews and 63 on Wikiversity.

People still go to Wikinews?

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I still can't believe so much text and drama has been generated over a single four letter word.

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It's interesting how JW is the "public face" of Wikimedia, when he hardly ever contributes to it - and, quite often, gets some things wrong. i.e., last time I checked, he only created 22 articles on the site. That's not exactly advancing human knowledge, right? On Commons, I believe he lost his powe...

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I was going to AFD that article, but decided to clean up the promo language instead.

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I think it's annoying how Eric fails to realize that the gendered nature of the word cunt makes it different from most other swear words.

That being said, this was a pretty bad block.

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Maybe I'm a an anomaly, but I'm not a huge fan of how the Internet has made its way into our everyday lives. It's a tad dehumanizing. The Internet can be regulated (to get rid of CP, for example), but over censoring of the Internet and using 'filters" is just wrong. The UK government is doing this a...

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When I hear Jimbo telling a journalist that his company is going to "put the pedal to the metal", I am reminded of another time he told a journalist about Wikia Search, "We're just cranking away." Days later everyone working on Wikia Search was fired, and Wales shut down the site. Out of all people...

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If WP decided to enforce that 90% of their editors had to be content builders instead of SPAs and POV-pushers, only 25 or so people would remain.

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I notice you (or someone following this thread) are tagging those articles. I avoid interacting with Wikipedia in this way, as our critics will argue that the Wikipedia quasi-Darwinian system is 'working'. Personally I would just note them here. That's fine. I was only tagging the most terrible one...

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Peter Damian wrote:The Mollys (T-H-L)

I love how all those names are red-linked

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Thanks for that - as much as we criticize Wikipedia here, it's also good to improve it as well :) Some interesting stuff there - Candy Store Prophets looks like a hoax (I don't have time to tell if it is or not.) Chingon (band) is yet another MS band; Hammer Damage would've been a MS band if MS have...

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I cane across this article entirely by accident: Super Genius (T-H-L). An obvious band vanity article, made by a single-purpose account in 2007, touched almost never after that. Any more examples of this?

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This Impossible.com thing is really stupid. For one thing, most of the wishes are for trivial shit instead of worthy activist stuff, like helping out people dying of cancer, or something like that. Second of all, what if someone doesn't decide to go through with say, donating some cash? Do you sue L...

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Another great Reddit shit-splosion earlier today: Fired Reddit employee posts on the "AMA" section that he's confused about how Reddit makes a profit. He also mentioned having just been fired by Reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_reddit_employee_ama/ Then Reddit CEO ...

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Quit Commons, Alison. They don't need your awesomeness.

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This needs to be a blog post here, pronto. This is worse than Siegenthaler.

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Annnnd it was deleted again. Nice to see the atheist circlejerk protecting their God-Man.

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Annnnd some guy deleted it already. Good job on attracting women like me, Wikipedia!

And I put it back. Let's see how long it stays.

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As Eric says, there are so many crap BLPs that the game is too easy. Just for fun, I tried the "Tim Technique" - 4 presses of "Random Article" got me this: Gwen Norbeck Munson Not a living person, but I'd be depriving you of true wonderment if I didn't share. Ahahaha that is amazing. First time I'v...

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EricBarbour wrote:The supply is endless. Just our list of "autobiographies" is several hundred entries long, very unwieldy, and only covers a tiny fraction of them.

Where, exactly, is that secret list?

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Henry Earl is (or was) one. Jenna Jameson (T-H-L) is another. (it's even a FA!) The battles over Ashida Kim and Daniel Brandt were hilarious back in the day.

Anybody know any more?

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There's WAY too many articles on obscure anime on WP, and too many articles on individual episodes of the Simpsons.

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The attitude here is much calmer and politer than WR (and often, WP itself) which is why I'm a fan

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tarantino wrote:Ryulong is currently living in Okinawa, so he should know, lol. He considers himself a oceanographer, chemist and archeologist and now a linguist.

And a toku show fanboy.

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Wikipedia propping itself up as an "free-culture encyclopedia" means that what's said on there matters as far things like defamation and libel go. If WP didn't take itself so seriously, it would put a lot of pressure off the editors, admins, and the WMF's backs.

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SJWs are fucking stupid. What else is new?

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A trenchant observation, but not a new one. Wikipidiots take themselves far too seriously. Yep. This has its roots, at least partly, in Jimbo's bombastic "sum of all knowledge" bullshit. Google is also partially to blame, as well. If they didn't rank Wikipedia articles so highly, we wouldn't have t...

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Pick a porn-star article. ANY porn-star article. All it'll be is a laundry list of produced "films" and performer preferences ("She loves girl-on-girl scenes, but does not identify as a lesbian".) - sometimes, not even that. Great examples: Dee_(pornographic_actress) Monique_(pornographic_actress) T...

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Wikipedia: Where public shaming is allowed and even cool, but saying "cunt" makes you the devil incarnate. At least they deleted it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... ination%29 =

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Funny how quickly this turned into a Rschen-bash-fest when this thread is about featured articles. Rschen has several but his FAs are not even close to constituting the majority of the road FAs. Of 64 U.S. road FAs, Rschen is responsible for seven. He doesn't even have the most road FAs. For all Wi...

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Suppose Mediawiki exploded tomorrow, whether it be from a bad line of code, too many features that clog the servers, or otherwise. And Wikipedia needs a new software, and it needs it fast. Never mind the how. I am well aware that Wikimedia would shove their own software down our throats even if it ...

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Thanks, Hex :D The amount of FAs on American highway systems is also pretty ridiculous. Most of them created by the same guy, Rschen7754, who seems to have a hard-on for this kind of thing. Not just American highway systems, but Ontario Highway 401 and Don Valley Parkway are also featured articles....

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Thanks, Hex

The amount of FAs on American highway systems is also pretty ridiculous. Most of them created by the same guy, Rschen7754, who seems to have a hard-on for this kind of thing.

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Does anyone else hate how so many FAs nowadays are about shit that most people could care less about?

Sonic X is a perfect example. Outside of nerds and fanboys, who gives a damn about that show?

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