• edric@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Remember the prolific wikipedia contributor who had an extreme fascination with boobs?

    Edit: It was a joke people. I wasn’t being serious. But yeah, that did happen and there were articles about it for a while.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      There’s thousands of prolific Wikipedia contributors. Writing high quality articles takes a lot of time.

      So no

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        Gee I don’t know let’s have a look:

        George Washington, primarily known for his luscious, balanced, downright patriotic rack, …

        … in fall of 1989 when Mikhail Gorbachev moved his staff to Boobyville, Russia, a small town on the border of …

        … contended that the solar system is comprised of approximately .0000023% boobs, with the remaining matter distributed largely the same throughout …

        It’s getting out of hand I’d say

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          All of those are funny and obviously untrue. Using Wikipedia isn’t a one stop perfect information system. Knowing how to use it comes with knowing how to use the sources.

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            So his contributions were wrong but now you’re moving goalposts and saying they’re funny and obviously wrong, so it’s okay? WTF kind of standard is that lol

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            Well Wikipedia is striving to be a perfect information system. So they don’t belong there. There are better locations on the internet for those kinds of jokes.

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      1 year ago

      The Scots guy is a better example, imo. Someone who was trying to contribute in a positive manner but filled the wiki with complete gibberish, as opposed to a troll, of which there many.