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Post by Great Unwashed on Jul 20, 2014 5:52:20 GMT -5
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Post by The Prighlofone on Jul 20, 2014 13:44:35 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2014 13:46:50 GMT -5
The page for Ethan Hawke, because of the photo they used for it.  |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jul 20, 2014 14:12:20 GMT -5
The pages about occult, paranormal or otherwise strange phenomena what have never been rewritten in a condescending and inaccurate manner by obsessive atheists. Oh wait - there aren't any. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Jul 20, 2014 19:04:39 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jul 20, 2014 19:51:47 GMT -5
I find the micronation entries amusing, especially Sealand and Other World Kingdom, the latter being a non-recognized BDSM matriarchal slave-state in the Czech Republic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations. You can become a baron or baroness in the Peerage of Sealand for only £29.99. For £8 less you can receive a gift pack comprising a mug, pen, t-shirt, and wrist band. www.sealandgov.org/gifts/gift-pack |
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Post by Nudeviking on Jul 20, 2014 20:17:59 GMT -5
I find the micronation entries amusing, especially Sealand and Other World Kingdom, the latter being a non-recognized BDSM matriarchal state in the Czech Republic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Micronations. You can become a baron or baroness in the Peerage of Sealand for only £29.99. For £8 less you can receive a gift pack comprising a mug, pen, t-shirt, and wrist band. www.sealandgov.org/gifts/gift-packBaronies are played out. How much does it cost to become a Marquess or a Margrave? |
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jul 20, 2014 20:35:10 GMT -5
I find the micronation entries amusing, especially Sealand and Other World Kingdom, the latter being a non-recognized BDSM matriarchal state in the Czech Republic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Micronations. You can become a baron or baroness in the Peerage of Sealand for only £29.99. For £8 less you can receive a gift pack comprising a mug, pen, t-shirt, and wrist band. www.sealandgov.org/gifts/gift-packBaronies are played out. How much does it cost to become a Marquess or a Margrave? They don't offer those titles. Their highest non-royal rank is Count for £199.99. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Jul 20, 2014 20:47:24 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Jul 20, 2014 20:56:03 GMT -5
Just a heads up: Don't look at that sandwich one if you skipped breakfast and there's still an hour left until your lunchbreak.
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Post by opalcat on Jul 20, 2014 22:39:19 GMT -5
NONE of them.
Wikipedia is shit and the people who run and edit it are control freak spazzes desperately flopsweating their unwashed stink over what they consider their precious 'kingdom/fifedom.'
I tried for the better part of 5 years to put together an entry for porn star Alicyn Sterling and put it up on the site, but the longest it lasted was about 80 minutes. I got in a long knock down drag out discussion with the shithead who had staked their claim to the 1990's porn star section. He kept moving the goalposts as to why Sterling was considered a 'star.'
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Post by The Prighlofone on Jul 20, 2014 23:14:29 GMT -5
^So maybe your beef is with the shithead who disagreed with you about a porn star's relevancy, rather than one of the most popular websites for information in the world. Because the fact is, it's unlikely that the person you were arguing with was Jimmy Wales. That's not to say the website doesn't have flaws, or assholes in positions of (relative) power, but that is one fucking broad brush you're wielding.
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Post by Great Unwashed on Jul 21, 2014 2:51:41 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Jul 21, 2014 3:51:50 GMT -5
Today a goodly portion of my day was spent reading the list of sandwiches posted earlier by Ron Howard Voice. The thing I was most astonished to learn of was a sandwich known as a "toast sandwich." Here in Korea there's a thing colloquially referred to as "toast" which is basically an egg sandwich with cheese and sometimes ham on toasted white bread, so I assumed that's what "toast sandwich," was going to be. It was not...it was way greater than that. Perhaps the greatest sandwich ever created in the history of man... TOAST SAMMICH!!!! |
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Post by monodrone on Jul 21, 2014 3:56:01 GMT -5
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Post by Great Unwashed on Jul 21, 2014 4:22:10 GMT -5
Today a goodly portion of my day was spent reading the list of sandwiches posted earlier by Ron Howard Voice. The thing I was most astonished to learn of was a sandwich known as a "toast sandwich." Here in Korea there's a thing colloquially referred to as "toast" which is basically an egg sandwich with cheese and sometimes ham on toasted white bread, so I assumed that's what "toast sandwich," was going to be. It was not...it was way greater than that. Perhaps the greatest sandwich ever created in the history of man... TOAST SAMMICH!!!!  |
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Post by Great Unwashed on Jul 21, 2014 4:23:59 GMT -5
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Post by monodrone on Jul 21, 2014 5:28:53 GMT -5
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Post by nowimnothing on Jul 21, 2014 7:09:52 GMT -5
The pages about occult, paranormal or otherwise strange phenomena what have never been rewritten in a condescending and inaccurate manner by obsessive atheists. Oh wait - there aren't any.Of course, we will have to agree to disagree here. Some editors can get a bit citation happy, but requiring extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims is a good thing, otherwise it would look like Conservapedia. |
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Post by Tellyfier on Jul 21, 2014 7:21:55 GMT -5
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jul 21, 2014 7:34:42 GMT -5
The pages about occult, paranormal or otherwise strange phenomena what have never been rewritten in a condescending and inaccurate manner by obsessive atheists. Oh wait - there aren't any.Of course, we will have to agree to disagree here. Some editors can get a bit citation happy, but requiring extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims is a good thing, otherwise it would look like Conservapedia. Trouble is, that's not all they edit: there are clear cases of changing historically documented evidence (by which I mean actual documents of witnessed events are removed or changed, not simply woo-events dismissed or spurned), such as the article on the Society for Psychical Research's work with the alleged medium Leonora Piper. More here; dailygrail.com/Essays/2010/11/Skeptical-Skeptic |
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Post by Great Unwashed on Jul 21, 2014 19:04:47 GMT -5
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Jul 21, 2014 19:53:43 GMT -5
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Post by UnarmedAndDangerousVorta on Jul 21, 2014 19:56:48 GMT -5
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Post by nowimnothing on Jul 21, 2014 21:54:36 GMT -5
As a long time editor, let me tell you, you are doing the work of the lord. Admins get a lot of shit, but they do a lot of good and have to put up with a lot. So many people get so worked up over such small stuff. The greatest thing about Wikipedia in my mind is that it has scientifically proven at least a slight positive nature of humanity. Over all, there really are more people who want to build and create rather than destroy. There will always be trolls and censors, but we do outnumber them, even if sometimes the news and the rest of the internet tell us otherwise. I know how some feel about list pages, but they are great bits of trivia and can sometimes really aid in research. I will pimp the page I am most proud of creating from scratch and adding to the site many many years ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_evolution_fossils |
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Post by The Prighlofone on Jul 21, 2014 22:06:23 GMT -5
Yes! Do an AMA! I've also been an editor for a few years, although what I've done has been generally minor (although I've done some more significant stuff too.) Oh! Here's another good one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law |
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Post by Dr. Dastardly on Jul 22, 2014 10:20:26 GMT -5
I am also a Wikipedia editor, but like The Prighlofone I don't do much. Just every once in a while I catch a grammatical error or a terrible sentence or something. (My history of contributions shows a ....broad, or shall we say disturbing, range of interests.) |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 22, 2014 10:50:40 GMT -5
I just wanted to say how much joy this post has brought me in the last 24 hours.
When is the next TI Gorilla Month?
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Post by Dr. Dastardly on Jul 22, 2014 11:22:04 GMT -5
I just wanted to say how much joy this post has brought me in the last 24 hours.
When is the next TI Gorilla Month?
Me too. |
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