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I'm a huge boxing nerd so I was browsing Zab Judah's Wiki page today, since he suffered a career ending injury friday night. While I was browsing over his record I remembered that he has several brothers in the fight game as well, so I looked them up. I found this gem on his brother Daniel's Wiki page.wikipedia posted:Judah's father is an avowed Israelite Jew, which is another way of saying he's part of a hilarious racist cult whose members have deluded themselves into thinking that they are a lost tribe of Israel composed of black Americans. though Judah's family has declared themselves "Jews". Judah's brother Zab has been referred to in the press as "the best Jewish fighter of all time." I know that Wiki is an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, but this was my first time seeing a rogue edit in the wild. Fellow goons share your stories about interesting edits you've come across.
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Once in high school I opened Wikipedia on a computer and it had several warnings about vandalism. Taking a look, it appeared that the vandal had edited the page for revolutionary war figure John Stark by replacing the entire article with "john stark is a homo". Got 'em.
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Jun 10, 2019 17:04
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Someone edited in Gleyber Torres as the owner of the Baltimore Orioles last month after he hit 2 homers in a game against them. It actually stuck for a week or two.
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Bear Enthusiast posted:Once in high school I opened Wikipedia on a computer and it had several warnings about vandalism. Taking a look, it appeared that the vandal had edited the page for revolutionary war figure John Stark by replacing the entire article with "john stark is a homo". Similar situation except it was in college and the person had edited in detailed descriptions of several actresses' feet to their pages. I have to imagine this guy is now running that celebrity wikifeet thing so good on him for chasing his terrifying dreams.
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Jun 10, 2019 17:25
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For a while all the sesame street articles were obviously written by little kids 
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Jun 10, 2019 18:18
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Anytime I read a wikipedia page I compulsively check the talk page for arguments, fights, insanity etc. You can can just go straight to Noticeboard pages like the Major Incidents, Fringe Theories, or Edit Wars if you're in a hurry, but it's much more satisfying to stumble across some no-mans-land of a talk page naturally. The Monty Hall problem just absolutely breaks people's brains. Its talk page archives grew so large and heated that it developed its own talk page.
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Jun 10, 2019 18:38
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Man, I was away from TV and internet this weekend and hadn't heard about Judah, that loving sucks and I hope he makes as full a recovery as possible. On topic, like a decade ago I edited the brazilian jiujitsu article to say that it "Like all forms of interaction in Brazil, was designed to allow men to rub their cocks together while claiming to be straight." Lasted like a week. Possibly my greatest accomplishment in this failed life.
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Syd Midnight posted:Anytime I read a wikipedia page I compulsively check the talk page for arguments, fights, insanity etc. You can can just go straight to Noticeboard pages like the Major Incidents, Fringe Theories, or Edit Wars if you're in a hurry, but it's much more satisfying to stumble across some no-mans-land of a talk page naturally. jesus h wikipedia editors are completely broke brained.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Human_feces dont click if at work, obviously.
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Jun 11, 2019 20:50
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xALZs5mxPdU&t=3s That's the actual audio, before they removed it.
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Jun 11, 2019 20:55
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man I wish I had that kind of time
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flyingporcupine posted:Man, I was away from TV and internet this weekend and hadn't heard about Judah, that loving sucks and I hope he makes as full a recovery as possible. On topic, like a decade ago I edited the brazilian jiujitsu article to say that it "Like all forms of interaction in Brazil, was designed to allow men to rub their cocks together while claiming to be straight." Lasted like a week. Possibly my greatest accomplishment in this failed life. its a pretty good achievement
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Jun 11, 2019 21:33
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I was looking up ambergris once and it said it's used for 'hella expensive rear end' perfume.
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I forget why, but I was discussing Scott Bakula with a friend and mentioned the mostly-forgotten animated movie "Cats Don't Dance". He'd never heard of it, so we quickly pulled up the Wikipedia article, which was mostly normal...except for the "Cult Following" section. It mostly referenced a single unofficial fan-site, which was almost surely written by the guy who made the site. My friend went "lol, nope" and straight up deleted the whole section. It's never been put back.
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Jun 11, 2019 21:51
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In 2011 I remember my friends and I laughing about how some internet stranger edited the List of animal sounds page to say that sharks go “hom hom”, and I still think about it from time to time.
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Harveygod posted:I forget why, but I was discussing Scott Bakula with a friend and mentioned the mostly-forgotten animated movie "Cats Don't Dance". He'd never heard of it, so we quickly pulled up the Wikipedia article, which was mostly normal...except for the "Cult Following" section. Cats don't dance is pretty good!
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Harveygod posted:I forget why, but I was discussing Scott Bakula with a friend and mentioned the mostly-forgotten animated movie "Cats Don't Dance". He'd never heard of it, so we quickly pulled up the Wikipedia article, which was mostly normal...except for the "Cult Following" section. gently caress your friend
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Jun 11, 2019 23:06
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Mad he deleted your website link lol owned
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Didnt Cats Don't Dance have a dog character played by Billy Joel? edit: wait that was Oliver and Company, CDD was semi-anthro talking cats
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When I heard Heath Ledger died on some other forum, I went to Wikipedia to confirm because I was 15 and dumb, and the whole page had been deleted and replaced with a giant dick pic. Couldn't have lasted more than a few seconds, but it was a healthy foreshadowing of what the web would become.
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Perry Mason Jar posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xALZs5mxPdU&t=3s This dude was actually from Bhutan and doing his best is the funny thing.
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Harveygod posted:I forget why, but I was discussing Scott Bakula with a friend and mentioned the mostly-forgotten animated movie "Cats Don't Dance". He'd never heard of it, so we quickly pulled up the Wikipedia article, which was mostly normal...except for the "Cult Following" section. Disgusting behavior. Disgusting.
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Jun 12, 2019 00:56
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One dude really wants to refer to a minor character on a forgettable episode of Midsomer Murders as a “Guardianista” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_in_Blood_(novel) The Talk page for Dvorak keyboard does not like QWERTY sympathizers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
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Smiling Mandrill posted:I'm a huge boxing nerd so I was browsing Zab Judah's Wiki page today, since he suffered a career ending injury friday night. While I was browsing over his record I remembered that he has several brothers in the fight game as well, so I looked them up. I found this gem on his brother Daniel's Wiki page. that edit was done by the idf. israel not so hot on black jews
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Jun 12, 2019 01:28
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It's not vandalism, but I was reading about limpet mines after that incident last week and I found the telltale mark of SEA PATROL
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Jun 12, 2019 03:38
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A long time ago I used to edit myself as a famous person from the podunk town that I grew up in (about 9000 people) to go along with two people that they claim are from there but have nothing to do with the place Some nerd would always erase me within a couple of weeks
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my bat mitzvah ROCKED posted:A long time ago I used to edit myself as a famous person from the podunk town that I grew up in (about 9000 people) to go along with two people that they claim are from there but have nothing to do with the place How does that get detected? I guess there's some list of pages created in the last X days and some people take it upon themselves to police them?
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autism ZX spectrum posted:It's not vandalism, but I was reading about limpet mines after that incident last week and I found the telltale mark of SEA PATROL He created the anti-frogman techniques article.
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Lazyhound posted:He created the anti-frogman techniques article. quote:Police-type baton and riotshield tactics would be of use only onshore or in a large enough boat.[clarification needed][citation needed]
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Jun 12, 2019 04:15
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In 2005 I changed Jeff foxwortthys pic this for a couple weeks that's kinda funny right? Subtitle with "Jeff circa 1979" people kept updating with "more modern" pics
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Jun 12, 2019 04:26
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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=50_Cent&diff=13286176&oldid=13238326
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This Twitter account often has some interesting stuff. Probably most relevant if you're Australian, though. https://twitter.com/AussieParlEdits quote:This account shows anonymous edits to Wikipedia from Aus parliamentary and government IP addresses Usually anything from the NT Govt is pretty...weird. https://twitter.com/AussieParlEdits/status/1133598737312493568 https://twitter.com/AussieParlEdits/status/1133598217227112450 immortalyawn fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 04:40
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you idiots convinced me to vandalize my hometown wiki page. that town produces nothing but mouthbreathers so I expect that to stick for a while, unless there’s some regional wiki editing police administration.
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buglord posted:you idiots convinced me to vandalize my hometown wiki page. that town produces nothing but mouthbreathers so I expect that to stick for a while, unless there’s some regional wiki editing police administration. Some hipster Wiki editor; "I only moderate small town pages , like Burkina Faso, Louisiana, you've probably never heard of it..."
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The Reform, Alabama had some pretty good wiki graffiti about a certain hot dog slinging gentlemen and a reknowned gastronome whose last name was Wade. Sadly no longer the case. I mostly enjoy graffiting wikia pages myself, especially the ones i dont see the point in existing. Like the Lord of the Flies wikia. Mostly it was just me replacing the picture of Piggy with Jek Porkins and talking about how he eventually died at the battle of Yavin IV. The for some reason some random others briefly joined in, and started posting weird fat dude porn until it was cleaned up a lot. I think some of the random gibberish i replaced is still there though. Like one of the characters dads is said to be a naval officer i replaced it with naval gazer. But i havent checked it in a while. But then who the hell else would have either?
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Jun 12, 2019 07:00
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I've made so many small, weird incorrections to so many pages of the years, just like one small easily overlooked error I find idiotically humorous at the time. And I have forgotten all of them, and they are probably just accepted as fact now.
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Jun 12, 2019 07:14
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I once found an article on fondant (candy coating for fruit) where someone had replaced every fruit name with the name of a small mammal, so there were references to fondant-dipped voles and such. The other one I remember was someone getting into an argument about the taxonomy of some obscure frog species, on the stub article for that frog, with several paragraphs that amounted to "whoever edited this page is an idiot." I sometimes wonder if it's still there. It was years ago, but who's even keeping track of those random biology stubs?
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I was looking at this page yesterday https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocognition And it's hella weird. I was actually surprised some wiki mod hadn't come along to try and make it more sane.
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somebody edited Chris Benoit's wiki with a line about his wife dying an entire day before their bodies were all discovered 
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