Wikipedia Sucks!

Crap = California Reparations Task Force

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californi ... Task_Force

Stories in the AP, Los Angeles Times, and NYT and as of now the Wikipedia article is "crickets"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/busi ... tions.html

PS I vote myself $1 trillion dollars - on the basis that it is a free country.... just saying it is "fantasy island" political posturing nevertheless it is documented in tons of "reliable sources" and is "notable." The reality is;

"The report will act as a manual for lawmakers" replace the manual with white paper.. or rolling paper.

wexter wrote: ↑

Sun May 07, 2023 12:04 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californi ... Task_Force

But srsly......this is a purely political grandstand. Note this comment in the crummy WP article:

Eight members are African American and the ninth Japanese American

What about the decades of abuse native people endured at the hands of white Californian settlers? In the 19th century they were literally hunted like animals. I don't see anyone bringing that ugly business up.

What about the decades of abuse also dished out to Chinese immigrants?

How does someone prove they were directly descended from slaves anyway? Do you take a printout of your ancestry.com family tree to the state and ask for free healthcare or something? Did the task force consider any of the details? If this was actually serious, it might bankrupt the state. Instead I expect Newsom will issue more apologies, and hand out little shreds of public assistance. It always worked before.

The federal government was just as guilty of all the above, if not more so. I don't see a federal reparations committee. Oh, right, it is "stalled in Congress" and such. Nevermind. Ignore me, I'm a disgusting cis white male. La la la.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_K ... characters

170KB article for non-notable fancruft. At first it may seem well-sourced, until you realize that the 173 "sources" are its website and a few tweets.

Why does this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll_Be_Missing_You

completely fail to mention Sting's successful lawsuit for its use of unapproved samples?

https://fortune.com/2023/04/06/diddy-st ... -you-take/

Is Wikipedia run by massive P. Diddy stans? Does this song make them weep uncontrollably?

and speaking of fanboy cruft, I haven't complained about the Green brothers lately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Green is now 192k bytes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Green is 93k bytes

Just a pair of YouTubers. Admittedly they started the VidCon conferences, and John has won awards for his books.

Lemme guess: "they're likable guys" or "millennial hipsters love them" or "kids love them" or whatever.....

ericbarbour wrote: ↑

Sat May 20, 2023 9:51 pm

and speaking of fanboy cruft, I haven't complained about the Green brothers lately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Green is now 192k bytes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Green is 93k bytes

Just a pair of YouTubers. Admittedly they started the VidCon conferences, and John has won awards for his books.

Lemme guess: "they're likable guys" or "millennial hipsters love them" or "kids love them" or whatever.....

Sadly, one of them recently got cancer.

This editor gives meaning to anyone with a pulse, has OCD, a fixation, or agenda, can write many articles for Wikipedia on any subject no matter how obscure or irrelevant - and break every "rule" in the process such as Notability and Original Research..


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Psychologist_Guy

He lists articles he created and when you look at the edit history of "his articles" he seems to be in a world of his own;

I am a historian of vegetarianism. I have created hundreds of Wikipedia biographies for vegetarians and improved thousands of articles. In July 2020 I founded the WikiProject Veganism and Vegetarianism for Wikipedia users to improve and maintain objectivity on veganism and vegetarianism related articles.

Similar to other users that improve women's history, I am interested in improving vegetarianism history. I also specialize in the history of dietetics. I am in the top 3000 editors for the list of Wikipedians by article count. If you need to contact me just email me and I will get back to you but please check your junk mail as messages do not always go through to inbox.

Email address: psychologistguy@europe.com

eg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... n_Winograd

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history (and his brother Socket Wrench)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_W._E._Hare

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history

Wrote a book called the F-plan that can be purchased for $2.99 used regarding a diet that causes gas and also has a Wikipedia entry with near no support..
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-plan



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Baptist_Krebs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_(surgeon)

wexter wrote: ↑

Wed May 24, 2023 4:16 am

This editor gives meaning to anyone with a pulse, has OCD, a fixation, or agenda, can write many articles for Wikipedia on any subject no matter how obscure or irrelevant - and break every "rule" in the process such as Notability and Original Research..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Psychologist_Guy

Speaking purely from personal experience, I'd evaluate this account in the following ways:

a) either an extreme OCD victim who has time to grind WP during the workday, probably cheating an employer;
b) or it's an account being shared by two or more people who are fanatical about veganism.

Also clearly an American. And only a total maniac would generate useless crap-piles like List of pescetarians. There are thousands of more important and necessary articles this crank could be writing; I'm having trouble imagining why a list of fish-eating celebrities, or dozens of bios of utterly obscure fad-diet shillers, is "important or necessary". As usual, Wikipedia doesn't get GOOD content, it gets whatever content some random lunatic wants to generate. Any good content is an accidental side effect.

Pointed out by a friend who used to work for Ostoja long ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_St ... -Kotkowski

The work of one person. Family member, acolyte or paid editor is the usual thing. Notice the amazing lack of references and general uselessness and obscurity of this "content", and also notice; it's been there since 2006. This really should be more like 1/10th of its current length, simply judging by WP's normal "treatment" of dead semi-obscure artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... /Wildstyle

(inspired by this Reddit post)

The Black Book of Communism

If you read the Wikipedia article, the book would sound like a highly-accurate and acclaimed tell-all book about the supposed "horrors of Communism". In reality, the book was none of those, it was highly inaccurate, provided almost no new information, and was only celebrated by pro-Capitalist institutions. In fact, the very selling point of the book - that 95,000,000 deaths were the result of Communism - was a mistranslation ten times the 'true' number, which in itself was well overestimated and based on bad data and false assumptions. Here's a good Reddit post debunking the whole thing.

The Wikipediots even deleted the criticism section. This was the edit it was removed in, by a very stereotypical Wikidiot (look at his "political leanings" ). Some of criticism was later restored, but only the anti-communist parts.

The same user who questioned the censorship of criticism, later questioned their regard of Taiwan as a separate nation while not recognizing SDAR, Somaliland, Transnistria, etc., but was met with walls of Capitalist propaganda.