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Stupid Shit on Wikipedia Megathread

So, it would appear that there wasn't already a thread about this on here, so I'm getting one started. This is a general megathread for posting stupid shit that you found on Wikipedia, including stupid misinformation and stupid drama.

I'll get the thread started with a few examples. For one, this recent "Did you know..." box could almost pass for a parody:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/171476887248887.webp

The article about Jex Blackmore appears to have been fully created about a month ago. March 29th when was when it stopped being a redirect, and was mostly what it is today. This is clearly an astroturfed-in art project from someone who has no talent, no skill, and is likely mentally ill. In other words, perfect for Wikipedo. With that said, you can tell that even the :marseytrain2:s who wrote the article know that this person is batfrick insane.

Here's some more recent :marseytrain2: drama, in which self-professed neurodivergent anarcho-communist Dronebogus calls a columnist a "transphobic wackadoodle" (in blatant violation of Wikipedia's so-called rules against personal attacks), then gets another user permanently banned for making very light anti-:marseytrain2: comments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_436#Student_newspaper_for_controversy_on_a_BLP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1155#LadybugStardust_and_transphobic_remarks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LadybugStardust#May_2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ponyo#LadybugStardust

Much like Le Rebbit, Wikipedia has been completely overtaken by mentally ill :marseytrain2: activists in recent years.

Wikipedia is primarily edited by the same kind of people who post on Reddit (i.e. porn-addicted neckbeards/:marseytrain2:s), and this screenshot of Wikipedia's examples of "multiracial people" speaks for itself:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17147688728985188.webp

There is always drama surrounding Wikipedia articles about internet trolls, whether it's regarding G*merGate, Kiwi Farms, imageboards, or anything else. Recently, Wikipedia purged all references to Kiwi Farms "targeting" far-right users. The Wikipedo jannies - many of whom, again, self-identify as communists - declared that catboy/Nick Fuentes criticism from Kiwi Farms users is only "infighting" because the trolls are all, of course, far-right themselves.

Before:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17147688726281176.webp

After:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17147688727134712.webp

Before:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1714768872781521.webp

After:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17147688728393672.webp

Needless to say, it's hard to keep the "internet trolls are all Nazis" illusion around if they mention facts to the contrary. Having the fact that Kiwi Farms keeps threads on the likes of Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer be public knowledge opens people up to asking "but why would they be fighting other far-right people if they're far-right themselves?" and we definitely can't have that!

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It's been reverted now, but I remember for the first two weeks after the Ukranian-Russo War of 2022 got underway, glowies were hard at work shittin' up all the wikipedia articles on the Soviet Union. I googled the usernames of the accounts behind the more egregious edits, and found puzzle game profiles elsewhere online with the same username, with their location listed as Washington DC (Smartest glowies). Which is funny because the accounts themselves pretend to be innocuous things like sports fan accounts, so they're practicing the literal bare minimum of OpSec.

It took a year or so for the wiki jannies to get around to mopping them up.

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What kinds of stuff did the feds say about the Soviets?

Spill the tea, sis. :marseygossipsmug:

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Nothing really interesting, just stuff like adding U.N criticisms to foreign policy interventions, like on the Brezhnev doctrine page they went "Uhmmm ackshully its illegal due to international law :marseyakshually:" (the Containment doctrine page never had similar criticisms added).

But you could see sleeper profiles, posting like they have other interests, get activated on the few weeks following February 22nd and suddenly go about picking apart Russian history.

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That sounds less like glowie psyops and more like the policy spergs just supporting current thing. :tayshrug:

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Nonwestoids have a tendency to blame everything on America's CIA. I think they're so used their own country doing it they make the assumption for the US

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