Recession

2016

In economics, a recession is a negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters. It is also a business cycle contraction which results in a general slowdown in economic activity.^[1][2] Macroeconomic indicators such as GDP (gross domestic product), investment spending, capacity utilization, household income, business profits, and inflation fall, while bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rise.

Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending (an adverse demand shock). This may be triggered by various events, such as a financial crisis, an external trade shock, an adverse supply shock or the bursting of an economic bubble. Governments usually respond to recessions by adopting expansionary macroeconomic policies, such as increasing money supply, increasing government spending and decreasing taxation.

July 2022

In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction when there is a general decline in economic activity.^[1][2] Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending (an adverse demand shock). This may be triggered by various events, such as a financial crisis, an external trade shock, an adverse supply shock, the bursting of an economic bubble, or a large-scale anthropogenic or natural disaster (e.g., a pandemic).

Although the definition of a recession varies between different countries and scholars, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's real gross domestic product (real GDP) is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession.^[3][4][5] In the United States, a recession is defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales".^[6] In the United Kingdom and most other countries, it is defined as negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters.^[7][8]

2008

In macroeconomics, a recession is a decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year. In the United States GDP is officially tracked by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. An alternative, less accepted definition of recession is a downward trend in the rate of actual GDP growth as promoted by the business-cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.^[1] That private organization defines a recession more ambiguously as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months." A recession may involve simultaneous declines in coincident measures of overall economic activity such as employment, investment, and corporate profits. Recessions may be associated with falling prices (deflation), or, alternatively, sharply rising prices (inflation) in a process known as stagflation. A severe or long recession is referred to as an economic depression. A devastating breakdown of an economy (essentially, a severe depression, or a hyperinflation, depending on the circumstances) is called economic collapse. Newspaper columnist Sidney J. Harris distinguished terms this way: "a recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose your job."

Super Galaxy (astronomy) maybe found

Updated July 27 2022

Currently found on Wikipedia.  

Dealing with the nonsense around this article on Wikipedia was actually one of the experiences that led to starting this blog.  14 years later the article is currently on Wikipedia.  A dubious victory at best.

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This one is sometimes found, but very quickly deleted.

Here it is an article but if you do a search you will no doubt get a redirect to a page with no article on the astronomical term Super-Galaxy

WIKIMILI Wikimili (Wikipedia reader)

Just came across this while researching the previous blog post.  

https://wikimili.com/

Not found on Wikipedia.  I'm tempted to start an article, just to see how long it takes for an angry admin to delete it.

Found articles on it that had been delted from Wikipedia

Fatso and the Space Whistle (band) and the Russo-Japanese Provisional Treaty of Karafuto Island

Fatso and The Space Whistle

A band, but recently deleted from Wikipedia.

Google search

Duck Duck go search

Never heard of them, but saw the name in a long list of deleted articles by Admin Liz on Wikipedia.  I was creating a screen grab to post here, trying to come up with a name for a blog post.  I was going to use 

Russo-Japanese Provisional Treaty of Karafuto Island (1867)

But then I saw Fatso and the space whistle, and well, it's easier to say.  Also there is an article about it on another Wiki WikiMili, which  used the now deleted Wikipedia article as the source.

This latest find, an admin deleting like crazy, is a complete maniac, editing non stop with brief pauses (suspect sleep, but sometimes not a very long pause), with no regular sleep pattern showing up.  Has deleted over 300,000 articles on Wikipedia.  She is a walking talking deleting example of why I almost never add anything to Wikipedia anymore.  (not that the vandals she is fighting daily are any better, but vandals don't have the power to erase information, block users from editing, or to delete articles)

I thought it might be a one time thing, but every day she deletes articles.  And does a 100 edits.

Every day

Gibbs Woods North Carolina (recently deleted from Wikipedia)

Gibbs Woods, North Carolina Gibbs Woods is a woods located in Currituck County, NC at N36.53543° W76.04632° (NAD83) and at an elevation of 3 ft MSL. It can be seen on the USGS 1:24K topographic map Creeds, VA. Feature Type: Woods Latitude: N36.53543° (NAD83 datum) Longitude: W76.04632° Elevation: 3 ft MSL County: Currituck County, North Carolina USGS 24K Map: Creeds, VA USGS 24K MRC: 36076E1 You can view this location or feature in our Topographic Map Viewer now.

Another Map

New Years Day Snowstorm of 1964 (recently deleted from Wikipedia)

 Also the Jan 11-12 blizzard of 1964

(sources to be added)

Smoker box Smoker Box Smother box Smotherbox update

 The article "smoker box" still does not exist on Wikipedia.

The blog post here on THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013 is no longer correct, there is no longer a question bout "Did you mean smother box?" when you type in smoker box.  You still get a question page

Four links down tyou are told it can be found on the Barbecue grill article.

The article on smotherbox is now gone, and redirects to a page, but not to where it is explained, just the page in general.

However, because it was not deleted, you can still read the extensive article on smotherbox.  Not that most would, but is possible.

The article is also based on a single source.  And existed for 6 years, with an extensive talk page.

It was even nominated as a FEATURED ARTICLE!

The Downing effect

No longer has an article, but can be found buried in another article.

In 2008 it has an article

On 5 August 2010‎ it vanished down the Wikihole, while the Dunning-Krugers kept an article, which of course makes no sense.

Here is what was deleted

The Downing effect describes the tendency of people with below average intelligence quotients (IQs) to overestimate their intelligence, and of people with above average intelligence to underestimate their intelligence. An individual's predictable propensity to misjudge their own intelligence was first noted by C. L. Downing who conducted the first cross cultural studies on perceived intelligence.^{[citation needed]}

His studies also evidenced that an individual's ability to estimate others' intelligence accurately was proportional to their own intelligence. This means the lower the IQ score of an individual, the less capably he or she can appreciate and accurately appraise others' intelligence. The lower someone's IQ, the more likely one is to rate oneself as more intelligent than those around them. Conversely, people with a high IQ, while better at appraising others' intelligence overall, are still likely to rate people of similar intelligence to themselves as having higher IQs.

The disparity between actual IQ and perceived IQ has also been noted between genders by British psychologist Adrian Furnham. Men are prone to overestimate their intelligence by around 5 points while women are likely to underestimate their IQ by a similar proportion.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Davidson, J. E. & C. L. Downing, CMOF Intelligence – Handbook of Intelligence, 2000
2. ^ International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 11–24, March 2005

Dunning-Kruger effect (found and not found on Wikipedia) DK effect, Dunning-Kruger Syndrome

 This one isn't strictly not found, but it's so interesting I am blogging about it. Note that in 2005 it was called the "Dunning-Kruger Syndrome".  

July 2005‎ 

 Dunning-Kruger Syndrome is the phenomenon whereby people who have little knowledge systematically think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge. In a phrase, clueless people think they are smart.

Though many people have noticed this, it was rigorously demonstrated in a series of experiments performed by Justin Kruger and David Dunning, then both of Cornell University. Their results were published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in December, 1999.

July 2022‎ 

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias^[2] whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of a task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. Some researchers also include in their definition the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills.

One could say the people writing the article (either in 2005 or the present) are suffering from the DK effect, but that would also be wrong.

One can also read the study and realize the authors, in a huge ironic twist, suffered from the Dunning-Kruger effect.  Which would also not be true.

They were just bad researchers.  Of course the internet latched onto this as a one line response to anything or anyone, to replace thinking or reasoning, or even a good argument.

(exampled abound online, but I am not going to include any)

Which is hugely ironic.  And annoying.

 

Lucubration

No article on Wikipedia??  No surprise actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucubration

 Latin lūcubrātiō (“nighttime study”), from lūcubrō (“work by artificial light”), from lūx (“light”).

At least there is a link to wiktionary.  But even so, Lightsaber and Wookie have extensive articles, even multiple articles explaining and giving examples.  And neither one of those words describe an actual thing. 

 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine‎^[1]:

'You have been good enough to allude to me in one of your recent lucubrations,' he said, shaking the paper at me

Ellen Page (movie star)

An article called "Ellen Page" is no longer on Wikipedia.  I'm pretty sure if you call Ellen "Ellen", or "she", you will be banned for all eternity as well.

Ellen Page sort of can be found on Wikipedia, however, like so many missing things, it's in the history, which usually isn't changed, except for when it is, usually by deletion of an entire article.  Here is a copy paste quote from 10 March 2006

Ellen Page also known as Ellen Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actress most notable for her award-winning roles in Pit Pony and Marion Bridge, and the 2004 TV series Regenesis. Recently Page has also landed the role of Shadowcat in the forthcoming X-Men movie, X-Men: The Last Stand, directed by Brett Ratner.

But if you follow the link you will see the article is now called "Elliot Page", which certainty was not the case in 2006.  (she changed her name in 2014)  So even the past can be changed.

 An article called Ellen Page can no longer be found on Wikipedia.  Of course it's more complicated than this, but discussing it or stating an opinion about it might get you cancelled.