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People are replying to his comment by saying they're gonna put his approval of them on their resumé.

The wiki page can currently be summed up with "Hamas is responsible because the US says so."

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Unrelated, but I have personal beef with Wikipedia because they've locked editing of some pages about Wales on account of what they call vandalism and "not fitting the relevant style guide" when Welsh users try to update place names where the English name for it has been officially dropped.

As a compromise, they sometimes have the official name in brackets after the English.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Neutral point of view" among westerners means exactly as much as Gamers being apolitical

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago

There's an alarming amount of people who don't seem to understand that neutral on Wikipedia means "reported by western media". They straight up have rules against critical analysis. A source is either approved or not and by sheer coincidence, western media is all approved and all media in countries opposed to the US is not approved. If the NYT says the earth is flat and CGTN says it isn't, Wikipedia has to say the earth is flat, those are the rules.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wales has visited Israel over ten times. He has said that he is "a strong supporter of Israel". In 2015, he was awarded one of the Dan David Prizes, an international award of $1 million given yearly at Tel Aviv University (10 percent of the prize goes to doctoral students); Wales was chosen for spearheading what the prize committee called the "information revolution."

I'm sure he has no bias guys

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My personal jihad against Wikipedia can be summarized by the fact that every single one of the wikipedia pages I specifically bookmarked over the course of my doctoral program for containing huge amounts of specific scientific data otherwise not available unless you want to buy a few hundred scientific papers (this was pre scihub) have now been merged with giant vague general introductory articles on the topic seemingly written for the children of liberals on their first day of school. I mean fuck man, most of those molecular biology pages were written by the scientists that discovered the shit. Fuck those guys, I guess

All that shit is just gone like it never existed, and this cicjsucjer keeps asking me for money ! which I used to happily donate, but no, now he wants to do another bullshit vanity project of idk scanning all art ever into VR or whatever the fuck, instead of spending two cents a month on the server space it would have taken to keep those fucking expert level pages on their own, but because your loser ass wikiexperts dropped out of middle school in order to homeschool themselves at the university of hentai they can't tell the difference

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Helpful tip for the future is to use the article’s permalink to link to that specific version in history or better yet use an archive site or use your browser to save a complete local archive of the page.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Sounds like the wiki-dorks get flustered seeing information they're too dumb to understand. A lot of fake intellectual Reddit types don't like being reminded that they're not epic polymaths just because they binge watch video essays.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

we just do not know?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"As always, sieg heil,

Jimmy Wales"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Thank you, Hexbearians.

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