I swear I almost moved right past this is as just same old same old.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... 06/Opinion
Bollocks. A non-insane person would readily interpret them as the frustration of a man who thinks his Wikipedia biography is innacurate.The only way to interpret those tweets is that they are intentional insults to all Wikipedians.
Lolwut? Does that mean you usually refer to yourselves as "wiki"s? What a pillock.You are effectively calling me and all Wikipedia editors "dicks"
As opposed to the quiet village green that is Wikipedia?on a platform that you control where millions of people can view the insult within hours. Ten days later the tweets had been viewed 18.5 million times.
Fuck off with this bullshit.
Edits made to Wikipedia are visible to Google almost instantly. And by curious coincidence, Elon Musk's Wikipedia page has been viewed a total of 18 million times. And as everyone knows, on Wikipedia, control is everything. Take User:HAL333. He is by a country mile the controlling mind on that page. He has made almost half of all edits to the page, and is responsible for over half the text added.
Who the fuck is he? Nobody knows. Those statistics alone should raise red flags on an alleged collaborative website aiming for neutrality through the wisdom of crowds, but as usual, it's fucking crickets at best, back slapping congratulations at worst.
Uh huh. And just so we're clear, you're sticking with the idea that Wikipedia is some small time mom and pop store?And you start with a reminder of your wealth "I will give them a billion dollars", letting us know that you are a big shot.
Unfucking believable. Wikipedia is awash with cash. And the more you think about it, the more parallels emerge between how Elon made his money and Wikipedia obtained its dominance. My favourite is how they both managed to persuade people to pay upfront for a mere promise of a product marketed as the future. Well, I got me an electric car and even a ticket to space, but funnily enough, I'm still waiting for my accurate, comprehensive and neutral encyclopedia.
Most people won't have a fucking clue what you're even talking about tbhMost people don't like it when some rich person insults them and uses their money to justify the insult.
It does nothing of the sort. It instructs you only in how to approach other editors. And even then it is merely a guideline (advice) not a policy (instruction). It sure as shit isn't a fundamental tenet (if you were thinking of the "five pillars"). Elon Musk is not a Wikipedia editor. So this statement is absolute bullshit.A fundamental tenet of Wikipedia, known as "assume good faith" or AGF, instructs us to assume good faith on your part
And honestly, it just goes downhill from there, where Small Boner fleshes out this fantasy land where he imagines Elon's Tweets were actually the work of a notional Elon as a Wikipedia editor and he gets to tell Elon everything he has done wrong according to Wikipedia policy.
He takes it pretty far too.....
Well OK. If we suspend reality and imagine you think you are actually talking to a Wikipedia editor, have you considered the absolute shit storm that would rain down on you if you ever dared to abuse the SignPost to use it as a means to issue a very public warning to a specific editor? It would be a spectacular violation of a number of Wikipedia rules. In the common tongue, an absolute dick move.Consider this letter to be a warning.
What an utter fruitcake.
And not just because somehow, without him even realising it, he proved that it really should be called Dickipedia.
Because it's run by dicks for dicks.
There is part of me that hopes Elon gets the wrong idea and assumes that because this lunatic was allowed to post this drivel in the SignPost he might actually think it has quasi-official status as a very public warning by someone with the actual authority to ban Elon from Wikipedia without Elon having ever edited Wikipedia, and he has an extremely bad reaction to it.
For all that Small Boner was trying to come across as a helpful person who was reaching out to Elon in a respectful way to explain Wikipedia to him, he neglected to include the vitally important information that he wasn't speaking for anyone but himself, Wikipedia offers no guarantees that he isn't talking complete bollocks, and even if he wasn't, he hasn't got the power to ban anyone, except perhaps his mom from entering his room. And you suspect he doesn't even have that.
One thing is certain however. Elon's lawyers surely know fine well that under Californian legal precedent, established at great cost to Wikipedia donors, including you would guess some of the money E!on has previously donated to Wikipedia, you can be banned from Wikipedia for "any reason", including "no reason at all". That always was a stupid thing to do. Giving a maverick billionaire with millions of obsessive fans a reason to show complete contempt for everything you stand for and in the process see themselves as being in the moral right, is a classic example.
Small Boner genuinely threatened to ban Elon from Wikipedia without him ever having made a single edit. In a way he at least hoped was a very public forum.
Man alive I am PISSED that Elon must surely have missed it.