Post the most worthless thing you can find on wikipedia

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Nagato: Apr 26, 2011; Why yes my username is the same as an autistic alien who looks like a 9 year old from an anime, why do ask?

this is everything that could possibly go wrong with a wikipedia article, on a single page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masturbation

nsfw and dont ask me why i clicked through to this article

# ? Apr 17, 2012 16:44

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 07:49

Fart.Bleed.Repeat.: Sep 29, 2001

was it for a project

# ? Apr 17, 2012 16:46

FEMA summer camp: Jan 22, 2006

Ruby got Railed posted:

was it for a project

dear bing how do I "jerk it"? sincerely nagato

# ? Apr 17, 2012 18:40

Sneaking Mission: Nov 11, 2008

wikihow.com/wiki/Masturbation

# ? Apr 17, 2012 18:53

Wit_sponge: Dec 29, 2008; FUUUCK

Panic! At The cisco posted:

wikihow.com/wiki/Masturbation

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-an-Unwanted-Erection

# ? Apr 18, 2012 13:05

time is a wastin: Sep 11, 2011

Bring it out to the curb, for recycling

# ? Apr 18, 2012 14:07

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

.lnk to the past posted:

Truck nuts (トラック�NUTS?)

# ? Apr 18, 2012 14:13

Dans Macabre: Apr 24, 2004

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events#This_is_strange_stuff.

(1) "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it."
This sentence seems to recommend expanding the list by making more such predictions. Probably not what was meant.

(1) Certainly not by predicting the end yourself. See Wikipedia:Original research. To me, it encourages adding widely reported predictions, predicted by others.

# ? Apr 19, 2012 18:51

Malloc Voidstar: May 7, 2007; Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

.lnk to the past posted:

Truck nuts (トラック�NUTS?)

yep, this is the most worthless thing on wikipedia

# ? Apr 19, 2012 22:03

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

I just remembered there was a no original research infinite loop when "All Day" by Girl Talk came out because people successfully argued that there was no way to verify if the sample list was accurate without that verification effort counting as "original research" and therefore disqualifying it from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:All_Day_%28Girl_Talk_album%29 :psylon:

# ? Apr 19, 2012 22:19

Guido van Possum: Apr 7, 2012; by T. Finninho

lol you read the talk page

# ? Apr 19, 2012 22:26

Pardot: Jul 25, 2001

Wit_sponge posted:

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-an-Unwanted-Erection

Know that there are times that it will be next to impossible to avoid having your erection viewed, as when you are reclining at a dental appointment with a dentist and/or assistant; standing before a coach while auditioning; or inspecting a house for sale with a realtor, for examples.

# ? Apr 19, 2012 22:36

Hammerite: Mar 9, 2007; And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.; Jade Ear Joe

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

yep, this is the most worthless thing on wikipedia

Holy gently caress i assumed that was a joke. what do truck nuts have to do with japan

# ? Apr 19, 2012 22:52

Trig Discipline: Jun 3, 2008; Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.; Grimey Drawer

Hammerite posted:

Holy gently caress i assumed that was a joke. what do truck nuts have to do with japan

Truck Nuts: In Popular Culture: Anime

# ? Apr 19, 2012 22:53

NOTinuyasha: Oct 17, 2006; The Great Twist

some dude reverted part of my contributions to the truck nuts page

# ? Apr 20, 2012 02:40

Dans Macabre: Apr 24, 2004

qirex posted:

I just remembered there was a no original research infinite loop when "All Day" by Girl Talk came out because people successfully argued that there was no way to verify if the sample list was accurate without that verification effort counting as "original research" and therefore disqualifying it from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:All_Day_%28Girl_Talk_album%29

so why didn't someone just post the sample list on a blog post or something and then it's "outside research"

# ? Apr 20, 2012 02:47

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

Nevergirls posted:

so why didn't someone just post the sample list on a blog post or something and then it's "outside research"

because there was no way to verify that the blog post was not made specifically to be a source for wikipedia and no way to verify the data in the blog post

basically they came within a hair's breadth of an "Emperor's New Clothes" moment but managed to use twisted logic to weasel out of claiming that the act verifying any source would violate "no original research" for the whole of the site

# ? Apr 20, 2012 03:02

EMILY BLUNTS: Jan 1, 2005

Wit_sponge posted:

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-an-Unwanted-Erection

http://www.wikihow.com/Hide-an-Erection

# ? Apr 20, 2012 03:19

Nagato: Apr 26, 2011; Why yes my username is the same as an autistic alien who looks like a 9 year old from an anime, why do ask?

Coffee Quack posted:

http://www.wikihow.com/Hide-an-Erection

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Date-With-an-Escort-over-the-Phone

# ? Apr 20, 2012 05:41

Lutha Mahtin: Oct 10, 2010; Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

qirex posted:

because there was no way to verify that the blog post was not made specifically to be a source for wikipedia and no way to verify the data in the blog post

basically they came within a hair's breadth of an "Emperor's New Clothes" moment but managed to use twisted logic to weasel out of claiming that the act verifying any source would violate "no original research" for the whole of the site

does the wiki-justice system run under common law

# ? Apr 20, 2012 06:39

Hammerite: Mar 9, 2007; And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.; Jade Ear Joe

Nagato posted:

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Date-With-an-Escort-over-the-Phone

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Yourself-Look-Pathetic-on-the-Internet

# ? Apr 20, 2012 13:18

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

* Write about How to Make Yourself Look Pathetic on the Internet.

# ? Apr 20, 2012 22:05

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

step one: have an avatar of a fat man on the phone

# ? Apr 20, 2012 22:16

AtomD: May 3, 2009; Fun Shoe

i'm want to make a stink about the fact that in lists of software they show gpl in green and proprietary in red
that's not neutral at all!!!!

# ? Apr 20, 2012 22:18

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

i dont need an article from wikihow to tell me how to look pathetic on the internet

# ? Apr 20, 2012 23:51

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

lol what kind of idiot needs help w/ that??

# ? Apr 21, 2012 06:15

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

daveftl

# ? Apr 21, 2012 06:16

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Sweevo posted:

step one: have an avatar of a fat man on the phone

ay!

# ? Apr 21, 2012 07:50

JawnV6: Jul 4, 2004; So hot ...

Shaggar posted:

daveftl

faster than lose

# ? Apr 21, 2012 17:36

b0nes: Sep 11, 2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulist

# ? Apr 21, 2012 18:07

Samuel L. ACKSYN: Feb 29, 2008

b0nes posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulist

im roland the farter

# ? Apr 21, 2012 18:39

Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

He/She who observed it served it.
He/She who detected it, ejected it.
Whoever rhymed it crimed it.(used after someone uses a blaming rhyme)
He/She who said the rhyme did the crime. (used after someone uses a blaming rhyme)
Whoever spoke last set off the blast.
Whoever smelt it, dealt it.
Whoever denied it supplied it.
The next person who speaks is the person who reeks.[13]
The smeller's the feller.
He/She who inculpated promulgated.
The one who said the verse just made the atmosphere worse.
The one that made the song made a pong.
Whoever's poking fun is the smoking gun
He/She who accuses blew the fuses.
The next person to speak is the one who stinks.
Whoever said the rhyme did the crime.
He/She who refuted it, tooted it.
He/She who pointed the finger pulled the finger.
He/She who articulated it, particulated it.
He/She who deduced it produced it.
She who sniffed it biffed it.
The slanderer made the gland error.
He/She who eulogized it aerosolized it.
Whoever makes the smoke makes the joke.
He/She who rapped it cracked it.
Whoever rebuts it cuts it.

# ? Apr 21, 2012 21:37

Sneaking Mission: Nov 11, 2008

reeking emission

# ? Apr 21, 2012 21:39

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

Carthag posted:

The next person to speak is the one who stinks.

lol this one sucks

# ? Apr 21, 2012 21:40

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

Panic! At The cisco posted:

reeking emission

# ? Apr 21, 2012 21:52

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

No, a hapax legomenon occurs only once in a corpus; embiggen is used repeatedly in the Simpsons, including several inflections ("embiggens", "enbiggened"). And look at this formal paper on superstring theory (see bottom of page 27), would be fairly simple to cite independent use. (WP has another reference to the use in D-brane theory. Robert Ullmann 12:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

# ? Apr 21, 2012 22:14

Nomnom Cookie: Aug 30, 2009

Deuterieux posted:

No, a hapax legomenon occurs only once in a corpus; embiggen is used repeatedly in the Simpsons, including several inflections ("embiggens", "enbiggened"). And look at this formal paper on superstring theory (see bottom of page 27), would be fairly simple to cite independent use. (WP has another reference to the use in D-brane theory. Robert Ullmann 12:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

a hand in the pants embiggens the smallest dilz

# ? Apr 22, 2012 03:51