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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:22 pm 
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They have a disclaimer saying they'll shut it down unless users send them donations. They also claim they're the number 5 most visited website in the world. If you're the numer 5 website, sell some advertisement. Why won't they do that?


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That's not what the disclaimer says.


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Ugueth Will Shiv You wrote:
That's not what the disclaimer says.

:lol: I hate facts.

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The Original Kid Cairo wrote:
Ugueth Will Shiv You wrote:
That's not what the disclaimer says.

:lol: I hate facts.

Then Wikipedia is the place for you.

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The Original Kid Cairo wrote:
Ugueth Will Shiv You wrote:
That's not what the disclaimer says.

:lol: I hate facts.

Then Wikipedia is the place for you.

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I believe the answer is because they would like people to give them money.

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There's an "X" at the top of the page. That's one way to eliminate the nagging message Wikipedia is offering.


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While Wikipedia will inherently have inaccuracies here and there...I challenge the people who claim it to be 'terrible' to go through it and find a bunch of flat-out wrong items.


FACT: i used to go through brittney griner's article and remove any and all instances of "she" and "her" from it. i think after awhile i pissed off one of the wikiknights who patrols for the cause and now the article is semi/protected, but for a few years you'd read that article and their would be nary a "she" or "her" describing "brittney."

my work there was done.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:20 pm 
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Funny, but those occurrences are rare, and you didn't change it to "he," did you? Maybe a "it scored 22 points while grabbing 7 boards."


no, as memory serves i was just quite liberal with using the name "brittney" in place of personal pronouns. i just wanted it to be as ambiguous as possible without being flagrantly obvious that i was doing what i was doing.... but there's seriously some deranged fuckers who hang out on wikipedia for hours a day who go around and look to fix things FOR TEH CAUSE and now i'm sad to report that the article has a few "she" and "her"-s in it.

i was clearly the hero that wikipedia needed, but didn't deserve.

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While Wikipedia will inherently have inaccuracies here and there...I challenge the people who claim it to be 'terrible' to go through it and find a bunch of flat-out wrong items.

Also, Wikipedia wouldn't want to be viewed as biased. If they started to have PETA as a sponsor...one could start to question the content you'd find in animal entries, as an example.



IMU was forced to make a sensible post here and you should all be fucking ashamed of yourselves for it.

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I was paid to stop doing the CSFMB Wikipedia thread.


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Ugueth Will Shiv You wrote:
I was paid to stop doing the CSFMB Wikipedia thread.

Wasn't that something that NSJ put together, and after being up for a few weeks, the folks at wikipedia deemed that we weren't revelant enough and deleted the page?

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spmack wrote:
Ugueth Will Shiv You wrote:
I was paid to stop doing the CSFMB Wikipedia thread.

Wasn't that something that NSJ put together, and after being up for a few weeks, the folks at wikipedia deemed that we weren't revelant enough and deleted the page?


Wait a minute. The CSFMB, the voice of the Chicago sports fan isn't relevant enough for a Wiki page but a fucking bar owner can pay someone to carefully curate his Wiki and I was scolded when I stripped out all the content and noted that it was nothing more than an advertisement?

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So as you all know...I don't listen to B&B much. However, I did today. And WYC was on. And then I heard the following...

Someone tried to Crap a sponsor...Fannie Mae Candy I believe. And Bernstein cut the guy off. No sponsors.

THIS is why Wikipedia doesn't want sponsors and advertising.

Also, weak sauce 670...


oh comeon dude.... you know any decent corporation worth a lick has their IT dept routinely go through and "spruce up" their page/s.... and how many times have you read a wiki on some obscure actor/producer/writer/author/etc that's incredibly fleshed out and descriptive to the point where it's like "gee, i wonder what DEVOTED FAN wrote this one...."

if wiki's non-prophet and SOOOOO IMPORTANT that it has to transcend the bernsteinesque sponsors-are-off-limits policy.... then like, comeon... this should be subsidized by teh UN or something as an important consortium of collected human knowledge or something..... not an overglorified sanctimonious subvertively-brilliant website that's permanently got a couple'a meaty fingers up google's twat whenever you search something in the hopes of secretly/subtly revising human history over the long term..... colbert covered it awhile back when the w(/)rd was "wikiality"

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oh comeon dude.... you know any decent corporation worth a lick has their IT dept routinely go through and "spruce up" their page/s.... and how many times have you read a wiki on some obscure actor/producer/writer/author/etc that's incredibly fleshed out and descriptive to the point where it's like ["gee, i wonder what DEVOTED FAN wrote this one...."


Richard Roeper. :lol:

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oh comeon dude.... you know any decent corporation worth a lick has their IT dept routinely go through and "spruce up" their page/s.... and how many times have you read a wiki on some obscure actor/producer/writer/author/etc that's incredibly fleshed out and descriptive to the point where it's like ["gee, i wonder what DEVOTED FAN wrote this one...."


Richard Roeper. :lol:


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immessedup17 wrote:
sinicalypse wrote:
immessedup17 wrote:
So as you all know...I don't listen to B&B much. However, I did today. And WYC was on. And then I heard the following...

Someone tried to Crap a sponsor...Fannie Mae Candy I believe. And Bernstein cut the guy off. No sponsors.

THIS is why Wikipedia doesn't want sponsors and advertising.

Also, weak sauce 670...


oh comeon dude.... you know any decent corporation worth a lick has their IT dept routinely go through and "spruce up" their page/s.... and how many times have you read a wiki on some obscure actor/producer/writer/author/etc that's incredibly fleshed out and descriptive to the point where it's like "gee, i wonder what DEVOTED FAN wrote this one...."

The simple fact that IMU is editing Wiki pages is reason enough not to rely upon them for truth and accuracy.

if wiki's non-prophet and SOOOOO IMPORTANT that it has to transcend the bernsteinesque sponsors-are-off-limits policy.... then like, comeon... this should be subsidized by teh UN or something as an important consortium of collected human knowledge or something..... not an overglorified sanctimonious subvertively-brilliant website that's permanently got a couple'a meaty fingers up google's twat whenever you search something in the hopes of secretly/subtly revising human history over the long term..... colbert covered it awhile back when the w(/)rd was "wikiality"

* twilight zone theme broadcast directly to my tinfoil hat *

You're an "indie" type guy, yes? I'm very surprised that you don't believe someone could be a big enough fan of something obscure.

I've only edited Wiki a few times...but only because it is usually done already. If I notice a page of something "lesser known," and I know it, sure I'll add the info.


The simple fact that IMU is editing Wiki pages is reason enough not to rely upon them for truth and accuracy.

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