Wikipedia Sucks!

On every Wikipedia article for a movie, show, product, video game, etc., no matter how bad, the 'reception' section will always sound so glowingly positive that it will sound like a modern renaissance of intellectual creativity. No exception.


TOTALLY not paid editing <wink> <wink>

This appears to be universal, no matter how small or obscure something is. Is there a particular cabal of paid editor dedicated specifically to this?

There are thousands of examples, but here are two I can think of off hand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Road_ ... #Reception
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWBY#Reception

A) What are video games doing in an "encyclopedia?"
B) What is a "fan boy?"

"Fan boys" and wing-nuts are all over Wikipedia comic books, manga, and movies. The best edit wars can be found over all this nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... nd_fiction

The "noteworthy" construct of Wikipedia means that missives (long long long articles) can be written on any kind of tripe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_v ... d_the_best
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_v ... _reception


Even Britanica has to cater to wingnuts with some brief articles here or there;

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Final-Fantasy
https://www.britannica.com/technology/Atari-console

Rather than a particular one, there are multiple independent and mostly unrelated cabals. There are South Asian cabals, Russian cabals, Greek cabals, Palestinian cabals, Christian cabals, etc. South Asian entertainment articles are hilariously flowery and puffy. So are articles about South Asian politicians and police/military officials. It is sometimes obvious that these groups are working in tandem with eachother, especially with the South Asians; particularly on ethnic and historical articles. I refer to this phenomenon as the "Global South Project". But for the most part, they are unrelated.

The people who actually run Wikipedia would crack down on this if they could, but alas, the website is too big and too "free" to ever fix.

wexter wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 22, 2023 1:32 pm

A) What are video games doing in an "encyclopedia?"
B) What is a "fan boy?"
"Fan boys" and wing-nuts are all over Wikipedia comic books, manga, and movies. The best edit wars can be found over all this nonsense.

FWIW, I complained about this on Wikipedia Review and Wikipediocracy back in 2011-2012, at some length. And had little impact. Even other WP critics are willing to let nerds build vast monuments to their favorite videogames, singers, manga/anime franchise, blah blah. So long as the nerds aren't shitting up content the critics care about.

Wikipedia was set up as a nut magnet, because nuts will not demand hard payment in kind for writing trivia down. Their "reward" consists of having the free space to assemble things like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ct_Madonna

Another pet-peeve of mine is that every internet company is now described as a "SaaS" company.