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This is an outrage. The citizens of the United State of America (it is not comprised of every state on the continent of America...) you are an ungrateful lot. You are given a language and you have to change it. Why ? to be different. Now you are trying to change to change English to American. If Colour cannot exist, then drat it I want you to see the world without IT. Oh and Interiot - can you find the flaw in your english expression above. I will give you a hint ( double negative) --if you cannot find it, it is contained in "Since it's not a non-controversial move))." Not a non-.... I think you mean it would be a .. oh never mind. Go read Orwell on the decline of the English language. --dbmoodb 11:52, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Lawrence Gilchrist posted:

are there any good ones on the page for witch house

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In the old days we just called these people freaks and weirdos

I know it's part of your ideology now that if people think they are this and that, like a 50 year old man thinking he's a 6 year old girl, then he must be. These kinds of articles denigrate from Wikipedia's credibility as a reliable source of information. It's anything goes on this website. Most, if not all the other webpages on the subject of the Otherkin overwhelmingly agree that these people are just stupid freaks and weirdos and should not be afforded any respect. I think there needs to be an international hashtag movement to get Wikipedia to improve on its standards and to stop treating these complete nuts as a legitimate minority group. #GetYourActTogetherWikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.79.144 (talk) 21:40, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

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Let's unpack that barrage of hateful, dehumanising prejudice used to fashion a carefully crafted narrative that appeals to the "transgender predator" moral panic and tries to capitalise on the right-wing histrionics surrounding that queer cryptid, which makes Bigfoot almost appear like solid, established science. First, note that in mainstream discussions, the prototypical transgender person is always male-assigned, their female-assigned counterpart passed over in near-total silence, and this example is no different. Second, the choice of an adult person as example, since transgender children cannot be easily demonised as dangerous deviants and perpetrators of heinous crimes (only as victims of a sinister "transgender lobby"). Third, the assumption that transgender people are deluded, hence seriously mentally ill, believing themselves to be what they are patently obviously not – instead of feeling detached from and (usually) uncomfortable to some (often major, not infrequently crippling) extent with their assigned gender (which can easily lead to psychological troubles and consequences as harsh as suicidal tendencies if left untreated), while (typically) harbouring a profound longing and desire to live and to be perceived as their "chosen" or identity gender. Fourth, the implied assumption that mentally ill – and by extension, via the preceding assumption, transgender – people inherently pose a grave danger to society (instead of, as is the case in the real world, being far more likely to be victims than offenders of serious criminal acts). Fifth, the conflation of mental illness in the form of delusion, pedophilia, child sexual abuse, transgender and otherkin in order to portray unconventional, minority, rare or stigmatised identity perceptions as somehow completely unacceptable and in need of ruthless pushback. Sixth, the choice of the epitome of "creepiness", an older adult man (of never explicated sexual orientation), at the age when they are considered the "creepiest", about 50, too old to be likely judged attractive, but too young to be likely judged frail and harmless. Seventh, the choice of a little girl as the man's "target persona" to imply that he would specifically endanger the most vulnerable (at least to sexual abuse) members of society (apart from, you know, the disabled or mentally ill) – and also those most likely to be judged "cute" and appeal to our protective instincts, an appeal to emotion if I ever saw one –, children at the age of about 6, by seeking out their company – presumably to prey on them sexually. Of course, in reality that makes no sense, because a man who believed he was a little girl would presumably behave like one, which might look utterly goofy, eccentric or weird to outsiders (another way to portray transgender as wrong and shameful, by having the putative transgender person come across as absolutely ridiculous – an older woman behaving in a boyish way, for example, not to mention other possible constellations, would be percieved much more positively), but not pose a grave danger at all, considering that little-girl behaviour does not involve preying on other children, luring them into dark corners and sexually abusing them, as is clearly implied here! Note further the implied assumption that typical sexual abusers are creepy, weird strangers ("Slavering Beasts"), while the actual fact is that they are rarely strangers but usually family members or other acquaintances who have gained the victim's trust already. (Not to mention that I've never heard of a transgender person who intended to "transition to child", as it were, or live as a child; transgender is about changing your gender only, not your age, considering that the desire to change to a younger age medically or surgically is an absolutely mainstream preoccupation in our society, and feeling like a child inside, childlike behaviour in adults, and longing one could be a child again is not exactly rare, either.) The amount of hateful, stupid and wrong is breath-taking here, and makes one wonder which side rightfully deserves to be called "mentally ill", "freak" or "weirdo". As usual, bigoted right-wing fanatics construct an actually delusional mirror world by inverting the roles of perpetrator and victim – "freaks" and "weirdos" are almost invariably on the receiving end of abuse (of all kinds), not those who dish it out. Instead of questioning the alleged sinister "gay agenda", it is necessary to put the right-wing agenda under the lens, namely the preservation of the ability to bully, hurt and torture all those who do not fit into the narrow worldview of hateful zealots in denial of their own giant privilege. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:02, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

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This is not a forum. — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 06:02, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Nooner posted:

Back when I was in highschool and Wikipedia was still pretty new we used to always dick around with our high schools page and like put in little things like it's home of the gayest soccer team in America and stuff and it would always get changed back in like a day


Who is the guy monitoring some stupid highschool wiki page for vandalism lol

angerbeet posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aluminium/Spelling/Archive_1

There are three archives about how to spell Aluminum

CrashCat posted:

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My thanks to TrashLock for explaining what drew this sudden attention. It appears to me that the website is here, at something called "somethingawful", filed under "General Bullshit/Wikipedias insular culture imploding in on itself". Clearly, a high-quality scholarly site (sarcasm intentional).

Celluloid Sam posted:

i think golbez had a good av before

Tears In A Vial posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Crucifixion/Archive_6#Merge_the_anime_section_with_the_cartoon_section

Nooner posted:

Back when I was in highschool and Wikipedia was still pretty new we used to always dick around with our high schools page and like put in little things like it's home of the gayest soccer team in America and stuff and it would always get changed back in like a day


Who is the guy monitoring some stupid highschool wiki page for vandalism lol

hemophilia posted:

some of that cruxifixion in anime discussion is me, and it looks like they removed the good parts <ad hominem removed>

I want to physically harm wikipedia admins sometimes.

OctoberBlues posted:

Hello everyone,

I firmly believe that Wikipedia must protect itself not only from the insidious encroachment of government and corporate "spies" posing as Wikipedians but also the encroachment of Orwellian "new-speak," and I suggest that the reference to "Commander in Chief" is one such encroachment.

--Gunnermanz 13:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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The Battle of Solfιrino was a decisive engagement mostly caused by French intervention against General Trogdor von Burninator of Austria and his scorched earth policy of burninating the countryside and genocidal practice of burninating all the peasants in the Italian Campaign in the Franco-Austrian War. The geo-political context for the war was the nationalist struggle to unify Italy, long divided between France, Austria, Spain and the Papal States. The battle took place near the village of Solferino, Italy, a location between Milan and Verona.

Strategic Tea posted:

Can you imagine if, after all the lethal interrogation training and induction assassinations and masonic rituals, you were invited into the Illuminati bunker only to be sat at a desk and told to edit wikipedia so that the President was CiC of the people and not for the people

Friginator posted:

Go to the talk page for "Beyonder" (It's some Marvel Comics character/being/thing) and find the thread called "Beyonder Is Omnipotent". Keep in mind, this is a comic book character from the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beyonder

Also, go to the talk page for "Female ejaculation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Female_ejaculation Now, obviously this is a controversial sexual topic, but come on. How many of these people do you think have experienced, or even SEEN what they're talking about? Here are some great lines:

"Feminism has nothing to do with anything these days."
"Not trying to sound like a voyeur or anything, but since there's a video tape of a male ejaculating on the male ejaculation page, shouldn't some one volunteer to do a taping on the female ejaculation page?"
"an article this big needs a picture. perhaps one with pubic hair to lessen pornography accusations"

Tears In A Vial posted:

BattleMaster posted:

listing one's fetishes on Wikipedia - everything about it