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a) I have hundreds of examples of this. And they are only a tiny sample. And I am not going to post them in a public area. Because if those thousands of Jimbo-throne-sniffers can't find stupid and obvious typos, they should not be running that place. ( Congrats, Greg......) b) Alley to Bali is a typical WP article about a cartoon, book, TV show, movie or other pop-culture flotsam. Short, rather useless, and very badly written. There are hundreds of thousands more like this one. c) As usual, the illustration may be a copyright violation. And no one cares--until a lawsuit is filed. d) Sharka Blue. (nsfw) This post has been edited by EricBarbour:
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 15th August 2011, 7:48pm) Over 3,000 page views, and nobody bothered to question the unusual lede on the biography of one of America's most famous CEOs. Fifteen days? Jimbo, is this another example of the "quick" fixes of vandalism you're so often touting? To be fair, vandalism to BLPs is often caught much faster than 15 days. Take this edit to Leif Garrett, which was caught after only 7 days. Oh, I would have fixed it myself, but Garrett has ties to Scientology...
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 15th August 2011, 8:48pm) Over 3,000 page views, and nobody bothered to question the unusual lede on the biography of one of America's most famous CEOs. But what if it's true? We woudn't want to omit important true information from the lede! (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) And everyone will be delighted to see that a brand new user has swooped in to remove the spurious apostrophe. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 24th August 2011, 1:38pm) I have to give credit where it's due. There's an article on Wikipedia about an African musical instrument, and in the article it mentions: QUOTE A banjo is not a person. Nothing could be more true, and ever shall it be. Thank you, Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...ldid=189844125No one bothered to fix whatever that anon was trying to say since March 2008. I'm not a language expert, so I'm not sure how to go about fixing it either. This post has been edited by Michaeldsuarez:
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 24th August 2011, 10:38am) I have to give credit where it's due. There's an article on Wikipedia about an African musical instrument, and in the article it mentions: QUOTE A banjo is not a person. Nothing could be more true, and ever shall it be. Thank you, Wikipedia. A week later, and it still sits unrepaired. Thanks, Wikipedia! So, let me get this straight: If an anonymous flake posts drivel on your "encyclopedia", it can sit there for THREE YEARS unmolested. But if Greg Kohs points out said drivel, you will deliberately leave it unrepaired. Why is that? (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif)
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QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 24th August 2011, 11:41pm) QUOTE(Silver seren @ Wed 24th August 2011, 4:10pm) Fixed. When in doubt, remove it. Didn't seem to have anything to do with the Akonting instrument anyways.
It's a comment about linguistics. It appears that the word has structural gender corresponding to a personal gender, which is anomalous as a banjo is, well, not a person. It's rather like the anomalous way "Mädchen" is grammatically neuter; much has been written about the acceptability of using feminine pronouns in backreference to women made neuter by this quirk of German's grammar. I understood that, but it didn't seem to have any place in that article, even if it was about the linguistical variations of the word Akonting.
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QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Wed 24th August 2011, 4:47pm) QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 24th August 2011, 10:38am) I have to give credit where it's due. There's an article on Wikipedia about an African musical instrument, and in the article it mentions: QUOTE A banjo is not a person. Nothing could be more true, and ever shall it be. Thank you, Wikipedia. A week later, and it still sits unrepaired. How do you get a "week" later, Eric? Today's the 24th. QUOTE(Silver seren @ Wed 24th August 2011, 5:10pm) When in doubt, remove it.
Like Jimbo's claim to be "founder" of Wikipedia, because he installed some freeware on a server, at the request of one of his employees?
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Thekohser: You know, we aren't all bloody fools on Wikipedia. Some of us have a pretty shrewd suspicion which accounts are doing the sort of paid advertising you claim to be doing. But WP:AGF we usually leave those accounts alone if they appear superficially to behave themselves.
Now, if one of those accounts were to fix errors in articles rather than parade those errors here and get others to fix them, that account would get brownie points, and people would be even more inclined to invoke WP:AGF.
I do hope you take this advice in the spirit it was given.
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