This thread:
There was talk of administrative incompetence and Beeblebrox commented:The Deadweights
Post by tarantino » Sun Dec 29, 2019 8:17 pm
A group of 20 hoax articles and several images relating to the fictitious punk band The Deadweights were discovered and deleted today. They were added to wikipedia more than twelve years ago.
To do what would take one responsible person a few minutes instead occupies an army and is still unreliable. It's ridiculous to talk about the alleged incompetence of someone who has no responsibility. Nobody is responsible for ensuring that articles are vetted.This hoax is only impressive in that it lasted so long. The refs are obviously not reliable sources, this is exactly the sort of thing that would almost certainly be caught right away in recent years. That wasn't the case in 2006. A lot of new tools have been developed and there's an army of new page patrollers who basically only do that.
Something that could have created that, flagged revisions, where a reviewer tags a page as acceptable and therefore could be held responsible if this were done incompetently or worse, was essentially killed. There is no real supervisory structure. Human organizations learned long ago to create bureaucracies, and bureaucrats are held responsible to the sovereign. In a genuine democratic organization, the generality elects a representative governing body that appoints executives who supervise workers, who are responsible to the governing body which is responsible to the community.
Nothing like that was set up. Nobody is responsible. In that context, reliability is impossible.