Wikipediocracy

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Randy from Boise wrote:Second edit of the year for Santa Claus of the Future (T-C-L) is his endorsement of Fram in the Support column.

The well is running dry...

RfB

Hey that's me! I swore off editing WP years ago, like most sane people.

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From List of Major League Baseball perfect games (T-H-L):

Braden's mother, Jodie Atwood, was not in attendance because she died of cancer when Braden was in high school.

Well, yeah, that would explain it.

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Maher also forgot that Wikipedia prefers verifiability, not truth . Even in that essay, there is some systemic bias... Yet, there is nothing about the veracity of Romance of the Three Kingdoms , one of the Four Great Classical Novels about the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history. I'm not sure ...

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Surf's Up (album) , apart from a vast bounty of citation needed tags, contains this marvellously useful piece of "information": Many of the articles related to The Beach Boys are in terrible shape. Aside from the proliferation of "citation needed" tags you get cringe-inducing paraphrasing of the ly...

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I have no idea what this is in reference to, as I can't get Fox Sports 1 without shelling out more $$$, but Joe Buck is usually charged with being prejudiced towards the Cardinals. (Because of his dad, I assume)

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List of songs with chromatic harmony This is a list of songs with chromatic harmony from the year 1950 to the present. The following list contains examples of popular music which employ chromaticism. So really it should be called List of popular songs with chromatic harmony since 1950 "Till There W...

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Scott5114 wrote:Stating the AADT of 442,000 is just a means of concretely illustrating this point.

It doesn't really work because practically no one has a frame of reference as to these numbers. This sentence means nothing to 99.99% of people.

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1577 in music (T-H-L)

I now have everything that happened in music in 1577 memorized. Next stop, Jeopardy!

I wonder how many "articles" there are like this... Hundreds?

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Twirling Toadstool (Alton Towers) (T-H-L)

The best part may be the picture.

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Johnny Au wrote:
Zoloft wrote:
Johnny Au wrote:Whenever a comedian, most often Clownbert, mentions something, its Wikipedia article view skyrockets.
Are you referring to Stephen Colbert?
What do you expect?

I couldn't tell if you meant Colbert or some Dilbert character I wasn't familiar with.

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On This Day today (June 4th) consists of these items: June 4: Day of National Unity in Hungary; Independence Day in Tonga (1970) German submarine U-505 1792 – Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain. 1944 – A United States Navy task group ca...

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The Isla Vista shooter was a WP editor too: ElliotR1 (T-C-L). He was indef blocked after 20 edits. He mainly removed stuff from his grandfather's article and removed naughty pictures from footjob (T-H-L).

(Sorry if this has been discussed already, but I've been away for a few months- no computer.)

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Boy, this Rusted AutoParts (T-C-L) appears to be a complete asshole.

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Project assurance (T-H-L)

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These are BBT episodes with the laugh track (mostly) stripped out. It shows how painfully unfunny the show is, and its dependence on a laugh track: jKS3MGriZcs Good point. But then, you could say the same thing about practically any US sitcom. I think that the last one I bothered to follow at all w...

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Malcolm Gladwell responds:

Being Nice Isn't Really So Awful

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enwikibadscience wrote:
Alison wrote:Interesting to note some of the characters that are coming out of the woodwork to vote
Oh, I am eligible to crawl out.

They are all so repugnant, though.

You can vote 'oppose' on everyone. That's what I'm doing.

Except Gerard. He gets a 'support'.

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macronychopteran pterosaurs It's kind of funny that the former word redirects to the latter. And I could understand this Novialoidea article, but one of my best buds growing up is a fairly well-known-and-respected paleontologist now. We had lots of long conversations about dinosaurs and a lot of it...

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Fences in Saint Petersburg people has nothing better to do with their lives. How does this article not have a picture?? ----------- Featured on Did You Know right now: History of the Jews in Namibia , which is kind of ridiculous: Some Namibian Jews even managed to become famous, such as "businessma...

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Is anyone here familiar with Piero Scaruffi ? I remember back when I was editing Wikipedia five years ago or so, links to his rock music reviews were all over the place on Wikipedia, despite the fact that no one had really ever heard of him. And I know that just today, Soul Crusher added them again...

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Vigilant wrote:Has en.wp EVER had 400 people endorse something?

WP:400 (T-H-L)

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Lots of NFL coaches never played in the NFL? You betcha. But all of them played for at least six years (and usually longer) at a very high level. The point is they played and they knew the game before anyone would let them be a coach. Not so at Wikipedia. I haven't done the legwork on this one, but...

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DanMurphy wrote:Didn't anyone take the time to tell all these mathematicians about the new visual editor?

Apparently, and don't ask me why, how, what, etc., but the visual editor is "unusable for mathematics articles".

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Alright, which one of you clowns posted this ? Delete Hello, ok, this might sound a bit weird but I had this dream last night after eating a giant heap of prawns with some mayonnaise that might have gone off and i was in deep sleep and then this hooded figure comes up to me out of the gloom and the...

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From the section "Characters" in the article Lolita (T-H-L)

Clare Quilty

Saves Lolita from Humbert.

I fear that this is an... um... unique interpretation of what Qulity does.

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...I've been looking at the Tauroctony article and rescuing whatever seemed actually reliable. That means checking every reference, which, I have found, almost nobody does. When I used to give a reference, I quoted the source, so readers could see that I wasn't faking. After all, anyone can claim t...

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EricBarbour wrote:obscure retired baseball player Matt Williams.

Not that obscure- He had a good chance to break Maris's home run record in 1994; the strike did him in.

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You can see the outline of some dudes dick on the Under Armour wikipedia page.

Well, not anymore...

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You guys are right, as expected. There are even two articles about Boolean algebra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra_(logic) Made me laugh: It has been suggested that Boolean algebra (logic) be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) P...

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(credit: Jeanne boleyn. Of course.) Hey, no fair! The subject of a photo doesn't own the copyright. The photographer does. Please credit the photographer. One can tell a genuine Shankbone without any attribution. Dear Lord. I was watching the MLB network in a bar during the World Series a few weeks...

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This spits out a random BLP:

http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/randombio/

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Anroth wrote:I will give someone a shiny penny if they revert prioryman for having a COI in editing articles related to Gibraltar and related to Bamkin

You owe SB Johnny $.01.

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Jeremy Brigham (T-H-L)

1 sentence, 1 infobox, ~50 links.

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Star Soldier vs dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU (T-H-L)

Video game. "Notable".

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"Wikipediocracy" also brings up one of the biggest cult films of the last decade, Idiocracy . Anyone under the age of 30 will instantly make that connection. That's why I made that Brawndo logo. I was thinking that it was an Idiocracy reference. Bit disappointing, that film... great idea, poor exec...

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