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> Hinduism has a pope!, yet more reason to never trust what Wikipedia says
Amarkov
post Thu 24th January 2008, 5:57am
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...Brahmanical_See

Apparently, an article existed for three and a half years, telling readers that there are bishop-like people in Hinduis. Now, this is pretty clearly false. But on Wikipedia, this doesn't matter, because articles can exist off in their own little world, with nobody intelligent ever seeing them. And while it's fairly innocuous in this case, the same thing could happen to a biography.

Makes you wonder how many other Seigenthalers there are, unaware that they were implicated in the shooting of John Paul II.

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Amarkov   Hinduism has a pope!   Thu 24th January 2008, 5:57am
Proabivouac   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...Brah...   Thu 24th January 2008, 6:17am
Disillusioned Lackey   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...Brah...   Thu 24th January 2008, 8:32pm
Disillusioned Lackey   [b]WAIT [size=7] [b]NO WAY [url=http://en.wikip...   Thu 24th January 2008, 8:54pm
dogbiscuit   Nexxt_1 got indefinitely BLOCKED as a result of...   Thu 24th January 2008, 9:06pm
Disillusioned Lackey   As hilarious as this is, I can't help but feel...   Thu 24th January 2008, 9:21pm
Proabivouac   Good questions, still unanswered.   Thu 24th January 2008, 9:36pm
jorge   I think Nexxt needs to be unbanned.   Thu 24th January 2008, 9:46pm
Disillusioned Lackey   I think Nexxt needs to be unbanned. And I think...   Thu 24th January 2008, 11:06pm
Proabivouac   You know, Nexxt_1 wont be unbanned, because he/sh...   Thu 24th January 2008, 11:26pm
Disillusioned Lackey   If the integrity of the encyclopedia were properl...   Fri 25th January 2008, 12:53am
everyking   It goes almost without saying that Nexxt needs to ...   Sat 26th January 2008, 12:52am
Amarkov   Unfortunately, he doesn't have an email addres...   Sat 26th January 2008, 1:26am
everyking   Unfortunately, he doesn't have an email addre...   Sat 26th January 2008, 1:32am
michael   Holy shit. Someone tried to PROD this article way...   Sat 26th January 2008, 2:00am
Amarkov   As we're talking about above, it's not jus...   Sat 26th January 2008, 2:01am
Proabivouac   As we're talking about above, it's not ju...   Sat 26th January 2008, 2:35am
michael   To be honest, he was being incredibly disruptive o...   Sat 26th January 2008, 4:54am
everyking   To be honest, he was being incredibly disruptive ...   Sat 26th January 2008, 6:42am
michael   I find it hard to apply the label "disruptiv...   Sat 26th January 2008, 7:05am
Disillusioned Lackey   To be honest, he was being incredibly disruptive ...   Sat 26th January 2008, 10:04am
UseOnceAndDestroy   The worst part is that I'd have done the same...   Sat 26th January 2008, 5:26pm
Moulton   Wikipedians are not very competent at doing the re...   Sat 26th January 2008, 3:58pm
dtobias   I don't think it's quite fair to categoriz...   Sat 26th January 2008, 4:24pm
Disillusioned Lackey   I don't think it's quite fair to categori...   Sat 26th January 2008, 6:45pm
guy   You know that the Vatican is represented in gover...   Sat 26th January 2008, 9:34pm
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dtobias   Yes, I know about the "Holy See"... and ...   Sat 26th January 2008, 6:47pm
Disillusioned Lackey   Yes, I know about the "Holy See"... and...   Sat 26th January 2008, 6:53pm
Amarkov   I admit that I did mischaracterize it; at the time...   Sat 26th January 2008, 7:26pm
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Proabivouac   [s]They unblocked the poor bastard who they block...   Fri 8th February 2008, 3:35am
guy   No, apology to Mr. Nlu I think. http://en.wikipe...   Fri 8th February 2008, 12:19am
Disillusioned Lackey   Hm. You are nicer than me. I think that since Nl...   Fri 8th February 2008, 12:35am
Random832   Also, it might have been better for Nlu to restor...   Fri 15th February 2008, 4:26pm
Derktar   Also, it might have been better for Nlu to resto...   Fri 15th February 2008, 10:16pm
guy   Nlu made a silly mistake here, undoubtedly, but he...   Fri 8th February 2008, 2:36pm
Proabivouac   Nlu made a silly mistake here, undoubtedly, but h...   Fri 8th February 2008, 6:34pm
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