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Topic: Wikipedia is a fucking joke

Anonymous 01112af314b866a8cab95a10526cbbe6 started this discussion 2 months (2008-07-04 02:04:06 UTC) ago:

I repeatedly tried to add AnonTalk as an article, with a well written text about the site, but within seconds some fucking faggot inserted a "tag" which "speedily deletes" it and posts a lot of pre-written drivel on my user page. Now the article is blocked from being created at all.

Don't bother wasting your time contributing to that shitty site — your edits will just get reverted instantly by the 16-year-old mods who sit on huge butt plugs and fap to their powers as they destroy your work and ban you. Same story as always…

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Anonymous a520e075cdfed92073306c46724258cf replied with this 2 months (2008-07-04 02:32:57 UTC) ago, 29 minutes later (#30,349):

I think it's the notability thing. A subject needs to be mentioned by the media or other reputable outside sources in order to be considered "notable".

Anonymous 4ee16aeb74cb63dfe732ccfed6cf8725 replied with this 2 months (2008-07-04 02:46:03 UTC) ago, 13 minutes later (#30,352):

Deletionists are ruining wikipedia.

Anonymous b0c92bb51cfcfdd26ba6b39fb6fae04f replied with this 2 months (2008-07-04 03:26:55 UTC) ago, 41 minutes later (#30,361):

I've been contributing and editing things there for years, and I've never had someone revert something I did without a good reason (except vandals, but there are ways to deal with them). I think the person who mentioned the "notability" thing is spot on. The System Operator of this site was addressing concern awhile back about the low Google PageRank, which probably says something about the "notability" of this site.

Anonymous 5a387f9e89330bb6b668a931b223c1d7 replied with this 2 months (2008-07-04 03:33:42 UTC) ago, 7 minutes later (#30,363):

The thing is though, does it hurt Wikipedia in any way, shape, or form to host a page about AT? Absolutely not. They're just restricting themselves.

Anonymous 5aef150f3490f3f98d305710aa61f1b6 replied with this 2 months (2008-07-04 03:43:15 UTC) ago, 10 minutes later (#30,366):

@30,363
considering that they want to be taken more seriously as a reputable source, yes it does hurt them.

any jackass could then go in and build a vanity page. there's 'social network' shites for that.

they're not meant to be the repository of trivia.

try ed instead.

if we want mainstream wikipedia types here we may as well build a fucking anontalk myspace fucking profile.

Anonymous 5e58dfeca09acee8df6c9000d9344add replied with this 2 months (2008-07-04 06:08:21 UTC) ago, 2 hours later (#30,387):

@30,363

Does one page hurt them? No, not really. But the 40,000 pages about tiny little websites that don't belong in any sort of encyclopedia would certainly cause some trouble and take up unnecessary server space.

Anonymous 7360139c365e54d2dc8b43bd6156275b replied with this 2 months (2008-07-04 11:46:01 UTC) ago, 6 hours later (#30,399):

Anontalk is not notable… if you keep it up it will be.

Anonymous 2811c8ff7f2f900a29844c3fae7ef24d replied with this 2 months (2008-07-04 20:41:23 UTC) ago, 9 hours later (#30,463):

Anontalk is quite minor compared to most other boards, I think he might've been right in doing so.

Anonymous 005518f3666424f515c98b79a0ba81ab replied with this 2 months (2008-07-05 01:13:21 UTC) ago, 5 hours later (#30,495):

@30,399

lol

i understand OP's frustration though. no fun to work for deletion.

Anonymous 11e1c0b71ec69ce1f8526867cbe1ebba replied with this 2 months (2008-07-06 16:46:57 UTC) ago, 2 days later (#30,706):

[Bug 14544] New: Add AnonTalk.com to $wgCaptchaRegexes (or $wgSpamRegex)
http://www.archivum.info/wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org/2008-06/msg00904.html

Someone's been spamming the English Wikipedia with the website
"www.AnonTalk.com", often replacing the entire content on the targeted page
(see links below). Since it's not actually linked, the ordinary URL blacklists
don't catch it. (It's also not very effective as spam, but the blanking is
annoying.) Bot use has been suggested, though not proven.

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