Today's reddited article is Ching Shih.
While this tale of a pirate woman in 19th century China sounds intriguing, the article rapidly descends into the usual tedious babbling. It starts right away in the lead section:
Wow, books and novels, not to mention VIDEO GAMES.Ching Shih has been featured in numerous books, novels, video games, and films in Asia.
Disjointed, barely comprehensible babbling is back, and this time it's personal.Cheng I belonged to a family of successful pirates who traced their criminal origins back to the mid-seventeenth century. Following his marriage to Ching Shih, "who participated fully in her husband's piracy",[1]:71 Cheng I used military assertion and his reputation to consolidate a coalition of competing Cantonese pirate fleets into an alliance. By 1804, this coalition was a formidable force, and one of the most powerful pirate fleets in all of China; by this time they were known as the Red Flag Fleet.[1]:71
The article goes on with this kind of tedious, lazy writing. I'll offer a short sample:
Noel Coward remarked that television was for appearing on rather than watching. I suppose the people involved in the above prose think that Wikipedia is for writing, rather than reading.Once she held the fleet's leadership position, Ching Shih started the task of uniting the fleet by issuing a code of laws.[8]:28 The Neumann translation of The History of Pirates Who Infested the China Sea claims that it was Cheung Po Tsai that issued the code.[9] Yuan Yung-lun says that Cheung issued his own code of three regulations, called san-t'iao, for his own fleet, but these are not known to exist in a written form.[5] The code was very strict and according to Richard Glasspoole, strictly enforced.[10]