Ah yes that one site full of white anti communist cishets is a great example of anarchism

  • pisspissass [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    a lot of wiki pages are the projects of weird cranks and their cliques who absolutely will not let you edit shit no matter how stupid or wrong it is

    • AluminiumXmasTrees [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Every single Shakespeare page on Wikipedia is run by an editing group who don't believe Shakespeare existed and thus no information that contradicts that viewpoint is allowed. The talk pages go on for 100,000s of pages and its generated legal threats, court cases, legal mediation, academic spats... Jimmy Wales himself trying to help and failing. It's an absolute mess.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Lmao wiki edit wars are the best. My fave is the one where Stanley Kubrick's page doesn't have an info box unlike every other famous person's ever page because the people editing the page decided info boxes make people not read the rest of the text because they only glance at the box instead, and that's really bad apparently because you really really really positively HAVE to read every sentence of the text, for some reason. Apparently there's been a huge edit war over this but the "no boxes" crowd eventually prevailed.

        • Amorphous [any]
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          4 years ago

          thats absolutely hilarious

          and its one of the very few clear-cut cases where the admins of the site should step in and say "look, this is dumb, im putting up the fucking info box and locking it" but wikipedia admins are shit