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Friday, November 15, 2024

Internet Pundit, Internet pundit, internet pundit

 You have come across one, (some would say I am one!), but Wikipedia has nothing

Like so many things found on Wikipedia, we don't actually need an article on this. Because the meaning of the two words is obvious.

A pundit is a person who offers opinion in an authoritative manner on a particular subject area (typically politics, the social sciences, technology or sport), usually through the mass media.

Explaining it could be viewed as condescending.  (condescending, that means talking down to people like they are ignorant). (<-- Bob Newhart joke)

Should Wikipedia have articles on common phrases, or even words that everybody knows?  

Well, like so many things, some are OK, and some are not allowed.  "Soapfish" is an obscure term for a type of fish, but an article on "soapfish" cannot be found.

But "water" has a very long article.

"Daisy flower" has no article, nor does Daisy have a redirect to Bellis perennis, which is actually the article for daisy.  It gets complicated and stupid (of course) at this point.  Because Wikipedia doesn't actually have an editor.  

Originally daisy had an article, and Bellis perennis redirected to daisy

Now the daisy article, which was about the flower (the origin of all other daisy names and such) is a page with a hundred different things on it.

It's wikigroaning level annoying.

Boba Fett, a fictional character has a very very long and detailed article,  Even though most people in the world never heard the name.

While The Subway Vigilante, or Bernhard Goetz, no article.  A billion people know those names.  No article.


If you think that's absurd, then you are probably a sane rational person who doesn't trust Wikipedia already.  














Saturday, November 9, 2024

The Non Sequitur F bomb comic, "Go fuck yourself Trump" - Feb 10 2019

 While you can read about it, Wikipedia doesn't have the actual comic or the panel or the actual script published.

While the "official version" of the comic (with the f bomb whited out) appears as the historic version of it, the actual version can be found here.


But not on Wikipedia.  


(which has extensive article on Fuck off, and Fuck you, but "go fuck yourself" redirects to fuck)



Sunday, October 20, 2024

Number of atoms in the universe

 Not found


There may be a page that does state this theoretical number, but it's not easy to find


The number is estimated to be 10 to the 80th power

or

10^82


It depends on who you ask





Thursday, October 10, 2024

Anal Babes (band), Adam Thrasher, Spacemoose and Yavin 4

I found the Anal Babes (NFOW) on Adam Thrasher's old web page, which also isn't found on Wikipedia.  While those are both "real things", a band and a person,  which either exist or did exist, you will not find an article about them on Wikipedia.

Articles for Spacemoose and Yavin 4 are both found, but neither actually exist, they are just creations of real people, who do exist. 

It's just one of those strange things about Wikipedia, made up "things" that have no actual existence have huge articles, while actual people or things are not found.  And will never be found.  This is not by chance, or neglect.  There is an active and constant effort, energy and actions being taken by unknown or known people, to remove and prevent articles from existing on Wikipedia.

Both examples, Anal Babes and Adam Thrasher, will not be allowed to exist on Wikipedia.  

While a cartoon that long ago vanished from the internet, and a fictional moon from the Star Wars franchise both have extensive articles.


It's one reason why I find making blog posts here so much fun.  Creating articles about actual people, places and things, that are real. An enjoyment you can never have on Wikipedia.  Which means "that" is also something not found on Wikipedia.  


Wow.  So meta.


The Anal Babes links

https://analbabes.bandcamp.com/track/intro-fuckstuck

https://www.discogs.com/artist/505754-Anal-Babes

https://analbabes.bandcamp.com/album/people-are-garbage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_mBhrgH69k&list=PL93aTp21n90iOaGvZqgwUgdQuHPNtXmPw full album

Live at Bromsjordet in Horten (Norway) 1992 



Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Gene Ray or Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray, the author of the Time Cube Theory

 Gene Ray, inventor and authorAmerican self-described scientist and creator of the Time Cube Theory

While his "theory", the Time Cube,  (something that is not real) has an extensive article, the actual person, Gene Ray, (who did exist) is not allowed to have an article on Wikipedia.  (he does however, have an article on Wikiquote)

In this matter, it is almost exactly like how Bernhard Hugo Goetz is not allowed an article on Wikipedia.






Thursday, September 26, 2024

Matt Furie is now found on Wikipedia

 See here for update and original post


Efforts are still being made to delete content about him.  Because Wikipedia is all about not allowing "certain information" to be found on Wikipedia.  

Richard Clock, John Manuel Ruiz, Louis Crawford, Knife rape, knife rape clock joke

 Clock, Ruiz and Crawford all either knife raped or just raped and stabbed their wife with a knife.  Some people, and some actions, we don't actually want to be on Wikipedia.


Richard Clock is notable since Norm McDonald used him in a joke.  But unlike Ruiz and Crawford, you can't find his story online.  Or on Wikipedia.


Now you probably know more than you wanted to know.  Here's the joke, which is also not found on Wikipedia.

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

"Dynamic anti-dragging", as well as "anti-dragging"

 This one should NOT be found on Wikipedia.  Yet.

While the term has been created, it's not clear what it means, or if it is real.

Of course "being real" is not a requirement for being found on Wikipedia.  A huge amount of articles on Wikpedia are about things, ideas and concepts, that don't actually exist.

Like the term being real.  That is not found on Wikipedia.


While something that does exist, like the author of this blog, will not be found on Wikipedia


Thursday, September 12, 2024

Radiolytic O2 production, or even radiolytic

 This one was surprising.  Since both are used in Wikipedia articles, it would seem prudent to define and explain them.  Or at least link to Wiktionary


There is an article on Radiolysis

Wiktionary has

radiolytic (comparative more radiolyticsuperlative most radiolytic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, caused by, or causing radiolysis

which means you have to go to

English Wikipedia has an article on:

radiolysis (countable and uncountableplural radiolyses)

  1. (chemistry) The dissociation of a molecule as a result of radiation

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

The Tokara Strait, Tokara Strait

 "The Tokara Strait", not found Wikipedia, including not being mentioned in the article on the Tokara Islands

Which is most odd, especially when Google maps also doesn't know where the Tokara Strait is!!

science direct article on the tides there

News article that started my fruitless search for where it is.

Looking at the picture below, you will know more than Wikipedia AND Google maps about this location.

img source

img source


Commentry:

So trying to find where it is, led to the creation of this topic.  And some interesting research papers on the tides there.





Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Build your own meat

Red Meat Comics has an entry

Max Cannon, the creator,  does not

This website lets you make your own Red Meat comics, and it is not found on Wikipedia.










Sunday, July 21, 2024

Meta commentary on article problems, feedback about article conflicts, any sort of forum to actually discuss anything

 Can't really blame them for this one

The comments on the Christ Family (cult) and Lightning Amen (Charles Franklin McHugh) post

On September 30 2017 I created an article on the Christ Family Cult, something not found on Wikipedia

It has at least 277 comments, mostly from former members or people impacted by the cult.  Which means the comments are much larger than the article.  

“Why Don’t You – Yes But” from Eric Berne (Games People Play)

Explained here, from Eric Berne himself. He writes, "... occupies a special place in game analysis, because it was the original stimulus for the concept of games. It was the first game to be dissected out of its social context, and since it is the older subject of game analysis, it is one of the best understood" Full text of the book Games People Play

Mentioned twice on Wikipedia, "Why Don't You — Yes But," and "Why Don't You... / Yes, But...", but no agreement on how it is presented.  Nor is the game explained. (“Why Don’t You – Yes But” is correct)

No explanation of the game is found on Wikipedia.  And of course, no article.  

Try making an article about the game, and have fun watching it go away.

"Yes, but" is actually larger than this original game now.

Some links (that would be used for an article)

https://sheffieldcentralcounselling.co.uk/blog/why-don-t-you-yes-but

https://www.elitefts.com/coaching-logs/coaching-the-yes-but-people-its-impossible/ (a different example)

https://www.kinetichw.com/post/yes-but-is-the-ultimate-conversation-killer (has a quote from Berne)

https://arbss.org/the-yes-but-strategy/ (yes, but being promoted as a good thing)

and of course the two Wikipedia article also have sources.






Tuesday, July 2, 2024

A grammar/spell checker for articles created on Wikipedia, as well as a simple "report error" button on an article (July 2 2024)

As an example,  in  the article about off-season  Atlantic hurricanes, there is a bad sentence.

The 1951 season had four, one of which a depression.

Here is where it appeared,  and it has remained since that day, 14 May 2015

Permanent link to the page (line 186)

Content by  User:Hurricanehink It's no surprise this anonymous user brags about being a  "Wikipedia administrator since March 17, 2008".  There is also no source for the claim.  Not then, not now.  In fact, it falls into the class of "not found on the internet", meaning that Wikipedia article is the only place it has ever appeared.  See here if you enjoy that sort of thing

There is no way to simply alert anyone at Wikipedia about the error.  There is no way to let the author know either.

This error has survived 400 edits over the last 9 years.  Nobody has noticed it.  (Even when it was a featured article)

The situation is exactly the same as it was 20 years ago.  Is it a lack of money?

The latest data available shows Wikipedia payed itself $67,857,676 in 2020/2021

That's right, about 68 million dollars was made by Wikipedia employees.  One might wonder where the money is going. 

tldr?

If you look at the compare page, Here is where it appeared, the right hand side is all the edits.  You can see it was done with some sort of program, due to the massive amount of tags added everywhere.  Somehow the bad statement was also added, but not by hand? There is no way to know.

Nobody noticed or changed it in over 9 years.  Since there is no spellcheck or grammar checker, it might never be changed, even if somebody reads about it here.

There are a massive amount of bots on Wikipedia.  But they are looking for vandalism, bad links, forbidden links, changes to any article, or they are used to delete and edit articles, by the employees and privileged users there.  None of them actually patrol to look for errors in the words or sentences. I know, I know, it sounds insane.

 The highest paid person working at Wikipedia can be found here (that is funny, but not supposed to be)

As always, I know there is nothing to be done about changing this situation, so I simply document it here.  





 


 


 

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Update on Red Panels and Stonetoss

 Redpanels still not found, but recently a stonetoss article was created.  Probably because somebody doxxed the creator.

Original post

Monday, January 29, 2024

Rick Cavallaro and John Borton

Rick Cavallaro and John Borton, the two men who built the Blackbird DDWFTTW cart.  While mentioned in the Wikipedia article on the Blackbird, neither have an article, and no redirect to Blackbird.


Thursday, January 4, 2024

James Huberty, mass murderer

 Just another dead mass shooter, who doesn't have an article.   Just a redirect to the mass shooting.

It illustrates how Wikipedia has no style sheet, no consistent method of being an encyclopedia. It isn't because he is dead, 

Stephen Paddock, Omar Mateen and Seung-Hui Cho all have articles.  

List of named winter storms, named winter storms

 Not allowed, not found on Wikipedia


While unofficial names are found, the Weather Channel names for winter storms are not.