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Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 5:30 am
by ericbarbour
Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 7:57 pm
by Strelnikov
Meanwhile, the
BLP of Morgan Marquis-Boire barely mentions that the hacker/human-rights activist has recently been accused of
running a drunken rape campaign for around a decade. That link goes to a long article at
The Verge.
Really the sloppiness and omissions within the totality of en.Wikipedia boils down to the lack of actual editors willing to do the job, and at this point there will be no retrenchment in position to how Wikipedia was before 2008.
Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:20 am
by ericbarbour
That's not all. You can chart the mostly leftist, pro-LGBT, pro-feminist, pro-Jewish and pro-Israel, pro-hacker and pro-etc. house biases of Wikipedia just by pointing at the BLPs it has as well as the missing ones.
Consider
Lena Dunham. Wikipedia says very damn little about all the people who dislike her. And damn there's a lot. It also fails to note her status as a NYC spoiled trust-fund brat; hope that's obvious from reading down further....? But by god it sure as hell mentions her Jewish mother. Otherwise Wikipedia treats her like a "cultural hero". Like most Wiki-Luv celebrities, the opening paras (which are most likely to be quoted by Google and other websites) say nothing unpleasant about Lena. If the Wiki-Asses hate someone, you WILL see negative info in the opening.
Who hates Lena? Umm, form a line.....
https://jezebel.com/zinzi-clemmons-its- ... 1820587768https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20 ... lt-supporthttp://www.instyle.com/celebrity/lena-d ... llying-whyhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplac ... 79d4e46bf4http://www.businessinsider.com/celebrit ... ood-2012-5
Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:55 am
by ericbarbour
And here's another one Wikipedia won't tell you about--a TV show on the Hulu streaming system. One that's been in development for MORE THAN TEN YEARS. What excuse could there possibly be for this? English Wikipedia is often the first "reference website" to post material about TV programs before almost anyone else other than IMDB.
Let me guess, no one in Wiki-Land knows who "Johnny Carson" was?https://www.hulu.com/theres-johnnyhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt6483198/http://variety.com/2017/scene/vpage/the ... 202402738/http://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/paul-r ... 201887190/http://deadline.com/2017/11/theres-john ... 202202590/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/revie ... ew-1058927
Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:26 pm
by ericbarbour
Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 4:19 am
by The End
I was going to mention "Gottlob Espenlaub" not being mentioned, but then I remembered Silver Seren started a stub about him years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_EspenlaubIt could be better. A lot better. There's not much written about him, though, since he burned much of his papers after WWII and he became something of an eccentric after the war. His colleague, Alexander Lippisch, gets more credit and acclaim.
Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 4:34 am
by ericbarbour
The End wrote:It could be better. A lot better. There's not much written about him, though, since he burned much of his papers after WWII and he became something of an eccentric after the war. His colleague, Alexander Lippisch, gets more credit and acclaim.
We talked about Espenlaub on WR a loooong time ago. Obviously and clearly the days when Wikizombies would look at the critical forum(s) for article ideas are over. They won't even take a hint anymore.
Here's another one that I had posted on Facebook.
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Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 10:08 pm
by ericbarbour
Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:55 pm
by ericbarbour
If Wikipedia skeptics and the RationalWiki nut squad hate crackpot gurus so much......
....where's the coverage of Bentinho Massaro?
https://medium.com/@bescofield/tech-bro ... 6314f830efIt’s clear that Bentinho has achieved many of the goals of a new startup: successful branding, passive income, social media reach, great design and platform creation. Bentinho has mastered the game. No, he became the game and upgraded it. Cosmic domination. He wants your soul. And his followers are the pawns of his delusional, tragic vision of an enlightened society.
https://tealswanblog.wordpress.com/2017 ... teal-swan/https://peacenowflower.com/2015/01/31/c ... o-massaro/http://chi-ting.blogspot.com/2013/01/ba ... story.htmlhttp://thebrayingjackass.blogspot.com/2 ... e-lie.htmlYes, most of those are blog posts. Since when has that ever stopped the "guerilla skeptics" from taking a dump on a guru? He's just another Werner Erhard ripoff anyway.
Metafilter had time and space to screech about him.
https://www.metafilter.com/171035/Cult-20-is-upon-usI have never heard of this person before, and he does indeed sound like just another shitty cult leader to me. This is only reinforced by the vast flood of sycophants showing up in the comments on the Medium article to tell the author how wrong she is and how awesome he is and how obviously she just needs to understand his teachings better and she will see how wrong she is. Nothing says "not a cult" like vast floods of defensive sycophants.
Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:13 am
by ericbarbour