The Manx language Wikipedia is off the rails

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The Manx language Wikipedia is off the rails

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Sep 02, 2022 8:02 pm

Seen on Facebook yesterday:
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And sure enough: it's completely dominated by ONE GUY, "MacTire02". Who appears to at least know the language somewhat. And is grinding out bios of porn stars. (He's already done a raft of articles about TV shows, popular movies, and actors. Why??)

https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Er_lheh:R ... lversion=2

Historical reference: two years ago there was a scandal over the Scots Wikipedia being pwned by an American teenaged brony/furry/whatever who didn't actually know Scots and used auto-translation to generate "content". Most of which was crap. Similar things have happened on various Wikipedias for obscure languages. It's "routine".
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