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Re: Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars |
Aug 9, 2010, 17:34 |
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I'm a huge fan and proponent of Wikipedia despite its overly bureaucratic nature.
People like to bitch about how "broken" the U.S. government is but it is that "broken"-ness, that system of checks and balances and political game playing that makes it great. I look at Wikipedia the same way.
Like it or not that bickering and rule upon rule (even contradictory rules) is what makes the site great. |
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| [I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Aug 9, 2010, 16:36 |
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| I'd rather let TV Tropes eat ten hours of my time rather than think about Wikipedia. |
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NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES THEY'RE IN MY EYES AARRGRHGHGGAFHGHFGHFG!
(170 Hit Combo) |
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Re: Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars |
Aug 9, 2010, 13:15 |
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Only slightly related via the most obscure tangent.
A while back on tvtome.com (which was eventually gobbled up by tv.com) I used to post to the forums quite a bit for a number of shows. I don't recall if my contributions to the Notes and Allusions were ever accepted, but I digress.
I posed to the FORUM, repeat FORUM, about a specific episode on Law and Order: SVU. It was about 8 sentences, grouped into 2 paragaphs ( 4 each).
The douche that got appointed over-watch of that show's forum started editing our flippin' comments... somehow. He posted a big item about how he would not allow multiple paragraphs, this, or that. He even commented out some other stuff.
Needless to say, I was quite annoyed at the nerve. I wasn't alone, a bunch of people started flipping out.
But no, he was a little Napolean of a site that had his vision about what would be posted and how it would look, and acted accordingly.
I imagine Wikipedia is worse than that, as you have people that believe they are *the* expert on the subject and believe that anyone that posts something that they don't agree with is wrong. Just one of them in the room is horrid, but put 2 in the room and it's a fiasco.
As such, I don't bother with submitting updates to Wikipedia even when I notice something wrong in a mundane article about a comic book character or what-not. |
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"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurama |
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Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars |
Aug 9, 2010, 10:28 |
sir |
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I only ever tried to edit a Wikipedia article once. Well, several times actually, but that's the point that the above linked article gets across so vividly. The obsessive shitehawk who maintained the Falklands War page on Wiki kept deleting my addition of a band and song to the "Cultural Impact" section, to the point where I got fed up and started adding gibberish just to piss him off. So if you're bored and have nothing to do at the moment, feel free to copy "Spear of Destiny - Mickey" and paste it multiple times over in the pertinent section of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_the_Falklands_War
Who knows, maybe the inflexible twit might relent and actually do some research to discover that it was arguably the most significant musical lament to arise from that brief little spat in the Southern Atlantic. |
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