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So the wikipedia front page is actual pretty cool. It has news that western media barely if ever reports on, but mostly it has a whole bunch of trivia, some of which is cool, some of which is just lame boring stuff about creeks. However, the choices they make for the front page are sometimes...questionable. For example, let's say they're trying to be relatively equal in their coverage, how many times per year would the front page bring up the 2004-2007 television show Veronica Mars? A couple? Maybe three times? Maybe never? What if I told you that in the "Did you know?" section from June to December it was brought up at a rate of more than once per month? Like so. December quote:... that a remix of "We Used to Be Friends" by The Dandy Warhols was used for the third season premiere of Veronica Mars, "Welcome Wagon"? November quote:... that the character of Ed Argent in "Show Me the Monkey", an episode of Veronica Mars, was originally envisioned to be a cameo by Ted Nugent? October quote:... that in "Spit & Eggs", an episode of Veronica Mars, director Rob Thomas used 27 camera angles in a scene that took up to 11 hours to film? September quote:... that Patty Hearst guest starred on "Lord of the Pi's", an episode of Veronica Mars? August quote:... that when asked, Veronica Mars actor Enrico Colantoni immediately suggested former Just Shoot Me! co-star and friend Laura San Giacomo for the role of his love interest in "Charlie Don't Surf"? July quote:... that Kyle Gallner did not know that his character in Veronica Mars, Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas, would be revealed as a murderer in the second season finale, "Not Pictured", until a costumer told him? June quote:that Alia Shawkat and Michael Cera asked not to play roles similar to the ones they played on Arrested Development when they guest-starred on "The Rapes of Graff", an episode of Veronica Mars? The weird part is that it barely comes up before this. Did a disgraced producer of the show start running Wikipedia? The front page has some great international stuff, but its nerdiness shines through a little much sometimes. This is all only from the month of November quote:... that players can ride on elephants in Far Cry 4? Do we really need to bring up video games that often on the front page of Wikipedia? Also, whatever the gently caress this is: quote:... that the anime series Charlotte has been described as defying the "moe anime" stereotype? Wikipedia has an archive of all the "Did you know?" articles they've ran, some of them are pretty interesting to look back at. Also, this is kind of cute: quote:... that Jack jumper ant workers are gamergates? Bring up cool or weird poo poo that Wikipedia has featured in this thread.
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op i am so, so sorry about your crippling autism 
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Dec 10, 2015 17:04
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hmmm tell me more about this "moe anime" stereotype
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Dec 10, 2015 17:04
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its a paedophile code word
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Dec 10, 2015 17:06
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Cantaloupe posted:hmmm tell me more about this "moe anime" stereotype Yeah, tell us some "moe" about it
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Dec 10, 2015 17:07
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Second thought, nm, kill urself op thx
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Dec 10, 2015 17:08
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I would probably sleep better at night knowing it was some ex-producer still trying to promote a show, but it's no doubt just some crazy fan who tries to relate everything in their lives to a terrible show instead In other fun wiki news: I dont know what on earth to search for, or whether I should, but for a while, wikipedia had a problem with an oversaturation of user-submitted photos of dicks, cum and disgusting poo poo. People were uploading photos of their own cum for wiki articles about semen. Like 90% of articles about sexuality have photos, while something like 30% of articles have photos (I made up those stats). I think there was an effort to curb the usersubmitted dick pics, not sure how that turned out
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Dec 10, 2015 17:08
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Cantaloupe posted:hmmm tell me more about this "moe anime" stereotype 
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Dec 10, 2015 17:11
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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropenis
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Dec 10, 2015 17:12
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quote:... that Kristen Bell, star of the television show Veronica Mars, is pretty and I bet her hair smells nice?
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Dec 10, 2015 17:13
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Madcosby posted:I would probably sleep better at night knowing it was some ex-producer still trying to promote a show, but it's no doubt just some crazy fan who tries to relate everything in their lives to a terrible show instead Yah check the wikimedia commons for big laffs https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Micropenis
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Dec 10, 2015 17:22
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There's something happening here what it is ain't exactly clear.
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Dec 10, 2015 17:42
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more like wikivirgins
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Dec 10, 2015 17:45
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What if I told you that it changes what it displays based on your cookies? So I guess stop obsessing with Veronica Mars conspiracy theory poo poo and it'll stop appearing in your search results. It's a brave new world.
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Dec 10, 2015 17:52
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more like virginpedia online source for virgins to click on
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Dec 10, 2015 17:53
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Get a hobby op
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Dec 10, 2015 17:54
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These things are true. Citation: I'm Dax Shepard.
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Dec 10, 2015 18:31
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http://www.somethingawful.com/news/wikigroaning/
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Dec 10, 2015 18:33
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I retract my former hostility, and acknowledge that this is a valid thread idea. However, I have never seen veronica mars.
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Dec 10, 2015 22:42
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help im being gangstalked
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Dec 10, 2015 23:13
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Sperglords like Veronica Mars. Sperglords edit Wikipedia. Sperglords monitor Veronica Mars mentions on Wikipedia. QED
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Dec 11, 2015 06:16
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dude how in the hell do you even know this
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Dec 11, 2015 06:18
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she's not as cool as buffy
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Dec 11, 2015 06:22
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:dude how in the hell do you even know this Op is a sleuth like Veronica mars
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Dec 11, 2015 06:22
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Op is a sleuth like Veronica mars buffy was a demon slayer
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Dec 11, 2015 06:23
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:buffy was a demon slayer then why didn't they call her buffy the demon slayer
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Cnut the Great posted:then why didn't they call her buffy the demon slayer i don't know she killed all those bitches
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