Miscellaneous Grab Bag, Articles too horrible to dedicate attention to individually Options

[Donny]

This could be a fun game -- click random articles and assess the results for citations, viewpoint, grammar and accuracy.

I got http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Borges. It's a little boring. Can I play twice?
Second try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbira. Ooh. Nice article.
Third try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Little. Short but fairly informative.
Fourth try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umiastowski. Seems like a useful article.
Fifth try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_setting. Short but apparently useful.
Sixth try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Conal. Interesting article, I liked it. Again rather short.
Seventh try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattus_Norvegicus_%28album%29. I used to have that album. Article is rather short, again.
Eighth try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_planning. This is the first really lame article I've hit.
Ninth try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Angus_Association. Short but mildly interesting.
Last try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamimatsura...ict%2C_Nagasaki. Very short robot stub?

The only really good article I hit was the Mbira one, but none of the others except Top down planning were outstandingly bad. They all seemed to be a little short, and perhaps not very well researched.

[Blu Aardvark]

List_of_political_parties_in_East_Timor (T-H-L-K-D)

Citations: None

Point of View: Relatively nuetral, but that's not saying much, because this article is next to useless, with one sentence being the primary content of this article - not including the list, of course

Accuracy: With no sources, it cannot be confirmed whether or not the only statements made by this article are factual.

Theodor_Becker (T-H-L-K-D)

Citations: None.

Point of View & Accuracy: This article is so badly written, I cannot understand it, much less establish a point of view or accuracy issues.

Roary_the_Lion (T-H-L-K-D)

Substub. Bloody useless. Should be merged with the article on Middlesbrough_F.C. (T-H-L-K-D) and redirected. This will never be anything more than a stub.

[norsemoose]

What the shit?

World's_busiest_port

*That* page speaks for itself.

[Jonny Cache]

What the shit?

World's busiest port

*That* page speaks for itself.

I'm guessing either Manischewitz or Mogen David ...

Jonny (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/cool.gif)

[Somey]

I thought Port 80 was the world's busiest port these days?

[Looch]

I thought Port 80 was the world's busiest port these days?

Hehehe, good one, Somey.

[Kathryn Cramer]

Gotta love those auto parts stubs!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_2S-G_engine

[JohnA]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Borges has been deleted

Bisexual Erasure. Its another reason why heterosexuals are bad people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_..._Western_Apache is yet another list article. I think lists are one of the key reasons why Wikipedia is so large.

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office for everything you've ever needed to know about this important part of the American justice system - including the pay scales for Detention Deputies.

Vital information, as I'm sure you'll agree.

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[Cobalt]

Apologies for the thread necromancy, but Jesus God.
Pietermaritzburg Airport

[dogbiscuit]

Apologies for the thread necromancy, but Jesus God.
Pietermaritzburg Airport

18 months of refinement lead to that? Better to leave it to the sockpuppets who can create a complete article on their first edits.

[Neil]

Yoink. Cleaned up and stubbed.

[Cobalt]

Yoink. Cleaned up and stubbed.

That's a major improvement.

[The Joy]

When I was a more active Wikipedian, I tried to clean up various military articles. At one point, I got stuck on a Indian military article. It was like someone had taken an article from a different language, translated it into English via AltaVista Babelfish, and dumped it on Wikipedia without cleaning it up. I would try to fix things, but I never really knew what the original writers meant so I would just have to leave the ambiguous stuff alone as I have no knowledge of the Indian military. The most annoying thing was that every paragraph kept saying something like "General Vista Ramalamadingdong is the head of the Indian military and he is truly glorious." By the time I vetted through that article, I had about enough of General Vista Ramalamadingdong. Maybe he is truly glorious, but that's an opinion and no third party references to back it.

Pretty much after that, I gave up on making big changes to Wikipedia and I pretty much stay away from it now.

[Firsfron of Ronchester]

When I was a more active Wikipedian, I tried to clean up various military articles. At one point, I got stuck on a Indian military article. It was like someone had taken an article from a different language, translated it into English via AltaVista Babelfish, and dumped it on Wikipedia without cleaning it up. I would try to fix things, but I never really knew what the original writers meant so I would just have to leave the ambiguous stuff alone as I have no knowledge of the Indian military.

That's my experience as well. However, I don't think most of those articles are actual Altavista translations, as Babelfish at least gets the punctuation spaced correctly.

[maggot3]

I've seen similar articles that I've tried to fix before and had similar problems. There's often really no way to fix them other than stubbing them, they're so awful. Indian places are the worst for this; they're regularly created with lots of advertising style writing (stuff like "It is recently known for lots of very good Information Technology specialists") and attempts to fix are met with WHY U CHANGE MY ARTICLE.

[Milton Roe]

This could be a fun game -- click random articles and assess the results for citations, viewpoint, grammar and accuracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA-B49 Short, but a lot of interesting info on an HLA allele I knew nothing about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carvers%2C_Nevada Stub about a town, but has grid coords, at least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Elmaleh_de_Buenos Minor French impressionist painter I'd never heard of. Obvious translation. Info but no refs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Hultgren Stub on Miss Sweden, 1995, with some acting gigs. No photo, damnit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_MultiCom Swiss computer network company. Clearly a cropped stub from the company website, just so they have a WP presense. COI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_...hess_of_Suffolk Stub on a younger sister of Edward IV of England, obviously by a ROYAL worshipper. Late 15th century. You remember the York who started the War of the Roses and kept waffling on and off the throne. No? Just as well. Anyway, he had this sister...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_%28disambiguation%29 A dab page on Ferns. I love dab pages. Did you know a Fern Bar is an upscale yuppie bar? Most people ferns I've met are varieties of human potted plants who decorate the living spaces of the rich and famous. A slang use not reported here. Ah, well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_of_Watching_Fireworks. An album by the American Analog Set. Not much info but a track listing. Apparently not a terribly important band.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_14_of_t...ted_States_Code Not much info, but does give links. Title 14 is THE title in US Code for the legal authorization for the Coast Guard. Who knew?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorma A river in Norway (name means "warm"). Stubby article but long river.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Lucas Texas bankrobber who went to Alcatraz in 1935, stabbed Al Capone non-fatally there in a laundry room in 1936, tried to escape in 1938 (resulting in a death) and was sentenced to life, serving 25 more years till he died there in 1963. This guy's life sucked (I've visited Alcatraz). Decent references and a pretty good article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilston_West_railway_station Stub on a Brit railway station closed in 1962 and used after that only by Hoggwarts students.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenham_Clumps Article on a bunch of small hills in Oxfordshire. Thrilling poetry included. References substandard. But the English live up to their rep, with this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Palace Very nice article on a pretty piece of London architecture, with nice photos and good references. And a good place to stop, as the English have here redeemed themselves for the Wittenham Clumps.

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[Crestatus]

Man, I hope none of mine get listed on here.

[Rootology]

I used to do this ages ago...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A40_Devon Decent article on a classic car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myricaceae Typical plant stub.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alizarine_ink A form of ink from the 1800s. Interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Coles English footballer. Next (I never read these).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orting%2C_WA_...h_Flood_of_2006 I remember this flood, when it happened here. I boggled before I read the article that it said to merge to "Pineapple Express", thinking it was vandalism--merge a flood article to a stoner movie? What?! But turns out a Pineapple Express is not what I thought it was.

[KamrynMatika]

The "Related Works" list in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World is quite entertaining:

Related works

* The Scientific Outlook by philosopher Bertrand Russell. When Brave New World was released, Russell thought that Huxley's book was based on his book The Scientific Outlook that had been released the previous year. Russell contacted his own publisher and asked whether or not he should do something about this apparent plagiarism. His publisher advised him not to, and Russell followed this advice.[22]
* The 1921 novel Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells. A utopian novel that was a source of inspiration for Huxley's dystopian Brave New World.
* In Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga, an isolated planet practicing genetic eugenics to form a perfect society is called 'Huxleys Haven'
* The 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman alludes to how television is goading modern Western culture to be like what we see in Brave New World, where people are not so much denied human rights like free speech, but are rather conditioned not to care.
* Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano (1952) he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We."[23]
* The Iron Maiden song by the same name on their album Brave New World whose cover art depicts a futuristic London described by Huxley.
* "Slave New World," a song by Brazilian band Sepultura from their album Chaos A.D.
* Brazilian rock singer Pitty's debut album, released in 2003, is called Admirável Chip Novo (Brave New Chip).
* Brave New World is the title song on the third album by the Steve Miller Band.
* The Motörhead album Hammered includes a song named Brave New World.
* Richard Ashcroft's first solo album Alone with Everybody includes a song named Brave New World.
* Demolition Man, a film starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock, is set in a not-too-distant future utopian society based on a Brave New World. Sandra Bullock's character is even named Lenina Huxley, referencing the author and character from the book. (1997)
* Reagan Youth had a song named "Brave New World".
* The Proletariat had an LP entitled "Soma Holiday."
* Scottish techno record label Soma Quality Recordings was named after the drug Soma featured in a Brave New World
* On their album Here, Here, and Here, Meg & Dia have a track titled "Hug Me", a song written by Dia inspired by "Brave New World."
* The song "Soma Holiday" by Gods of Luxury is based on the novel and includes several quotes from the novel in its lyrics.
* The lyrics for Marilyn Manson's song "Ka-boom Ka-boom" from The Golden Age of Grotesque play on the title and idea of this book; in them, Manson suggests that society is a "depraved new world."
* Sam Endicott of The Bravery based the song I Have Seen The Future off of Brave New World, as he said in an interview.

[Herschelkrustofsky]

The "Related Works" list in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World is quite entertaining:

Related works

* The Scientific Outlook by philosopher Bertrand Russell. When Brave New World was released, Russell thought that Huxley's book was based on his book The Scientific Outlook that had been released the previous year. Russell contacted his own publisher and asked whether or not he should do something about this apparent plagiarism. His publisher advised him not to, and Russell followed this advice.[22]
* The 1921 novel Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells. A utopian novel that was a source of inspiration for Huxley's dystopian Brave New World.
* In Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga, an isolated planet practicing genetic eugenics to form a perfect society is called 'Huxleys Haven'
* The 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman alludes to how television is goading modern Western culture to be like what we see in Brave New World, where people are not so much denied human rights like free speech, but are rather conditioned not to care.
* Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano (1952) he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We."[23]
* The Iron Maiden song by the same name on their album Brave New World whose cover art depicts a futuristic London described by Huxley.
* "Slave New World," a song by Brazilian band Sepultura from their album Chaos A.D.
* Brazilian rock singer Pitty's debut album, released in 2003, is called Admirável Chip Novo (Brave New Chip).
* Brave New World is the title song on the third album by the Steve Miller Band.
* The Motörhead album Hammered includes a song named Brave New World.
* Richard Ashcroft's first solo album Alone with Everybody includes a song named Brave New World.
* Demolition Man, a film starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock, is set in a not-too-distant future utopian society based on a Brave New World. Sandra Bullock's character is even named Lenina Huxley, referencing the author and character from the book. (1997)
* Reagan Youth had a song named "Brave New World".
* The Proletariat had an LP entitled "Soma Holiday."
* Scottish techno record label Soma Quality Recordings was named after the drug Soma featured in a Brave New World
* On their album Here, Here, and Here, Meg & Dia have a track titled "Hug Me", a song written by Dia inspired by "Brave New World."
* The song "Soma Holiday" by Gods of Luxury is based on the novel and includes several quotes from the novel in its lyrics.
* The lyrics for Marilyn Manson's song "Ka-boom Ka-boom" from The Golden Age of Grotesque play on the title and idea of this book; in them, Manson suggests that society is a "depraved new world."
* Sam Endicott of The Bravery based the song I Have Seen The Future off of Brave New World, as he said in an interview.

To my mind, an oddly homogeneous listing. The big omission, of course, is Shakespeare's The Tempest, which originated the phrase:

O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

[wikieyeay]

I tried:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossana_Schneider - text is close to nonsensical, and is basically a puff piece, reference is unverifiable. Rubbish.
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Sattsayev - minor Russian footballer, no information provided, latest year's stats not given by reference. Only one line. Unlikely to be useful to anyone.
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaquina - dismabiguation page that rather misses the opportunity to explain why places in Oregon are called 'Yaquina'.
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berman - another disambig page
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street - about a brutalist skyscraper. Now this is actually interesting, and appears to be the only real article about the subject available online.
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_governor - article asserting the existence of a specific mental process to prevent over-exertion. Presented as fact with a 'criticism' section at the end, but a google search leads me to suspect it's actually a fringe theory and not accepted generally by medical science.
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaysin_Quli - Balkar poet, pretty good article. Appears to have been written by only one or two people.
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_warship_combat - geek topic, I'm not even going to bother questioning this
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACP%E2%80%93E...entary_Assembly - article describing an African, Caribbean, Pacific-EU assembly. Very dry, no analysis. Has this really attracted no news coverage?
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFAF_Challenge_Cup - minor European gridiron competition.

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[radek]

Well, this isn't "random" (it's actually related to an article I worked on recently) but it's pretty "awesome" so it fits. I'm too in awe of it to try and "fix it" in anyway:

Wyandanch, New York

(edit) Note that, had it been created in the past 5 days, the table of contents alone would be long enough to be DYKable, by a long shot.

(edit^2) And I get the impression that they have some kind of Springfield/Shelbyville thing going with this "town of Babylon" (which unfortunately does not appear have a Wikipedia presence aside from this)

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[CharlotteWebb]

Well, this isn't "random" (it's actually related to an article I worked on recently) but it's pretty "awesome" so it fits. I'm too in awe of it to try and "fix it" in anyway:

Wyandanch, New York

(IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/blink.gif) Jesus Crime-in-Italy. Is that Brad's home-town?

[Peter Damian]

To my mind, an oddly homogeneous listing. The big omission, of course, is Shakespeare's The Tempest, which originated the phrase:

O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

Seriously? [edit] I mean, does it seriously omit it?

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[Eva Destruction]

To my mind, an oddly homogeneous listing. The big omission, of course, is Shakespeare's The Tempest, which originated the phrase:

O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

Seriously? [edit] I mean, does it seriously omit it?

No. (Peter, I have to say that took all of two seconds to check.)

[Milton Roe]

To my mind, an oddly homogeneous listing. The big omission, of course, is Shakespeare's The Tempest, which originated the phrase:

O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

'Tis new to them.

[EricBarbour]

Suck on this one:

Love-shyness.

Something that Wikipediots know all about?

Rather long article for a term coined by pop-psychologist Brian Gilmartin, isn't it?
I wonder what other psychology academics think of Gilmartin's theories.

[Eva Destruction]

I've mentioned them all before, but my personal holy trinity of Wikipedia shite at its stinkiest are:

1. The BLP-violating, bar-advertising, sprawling mess of Orchard Towers;
2. The zen-like distillation of pure pointlessness that is Southborough, Bromley;
3. Blofeld's crowning glory, Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel. ("On March 25th-27th 2005 it hosted a Dawn of the Dead convention." Well, it must be notable then...)

[KD Tries Again]

This was a particular favorite of mine. I think I helped to improve it.

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[Doc glasgow]

This is my favourite article.

[The Adversary]

How can you forget the Saints? -any religion will do; Christian:
Mariam Baouardy (T-H-L-K-D)

Eyes flashing with hatred he lost control and kicked her to the floor. He then drew his sword and slashed her throat. Thinking her dead he dumped her bloody body in a nearby dark alley. It was 8 September 1858. What followed was a strange and beautifully moving story, told years later by Mariam to her Mistress of Novices at Marseilles, France. “A nun dressed in blue picked me up and stitched my throat wound. This happened in a grotto somewhere.

..or Muslim:
Sukayna bint Husayn (T-H-L-K-D):

..the children gathered around Sukaina with their little cups, knowing that as soon as Abbas ibn Ali would bring water, Sukaina would first make sure that they had some before taking any herself. Sukaina was standing next to Hussain ibn Ali, also with her eyes fixed on the Alam of Abbas ibn Ali. Abbas reached the river bank fighting Yazid's men trying to block his way, killing anyone with his spear that tried to stop his progress. Abbas' bravery was well known among the Arabs and the Yazid’s troops started to flee in different directions. As he bent down to fill the mashk, the Alam disappeared from sight. Sakīnah was frightened and looked at her father. Hussain ibn Ali said, Sakīnah, your uncle Abbas is at the river bank. Sakīnah smiled and said, Alhamdulillah (all praise is for Allah), and called out all the children to welcome Abbas.

With the water-bag filled, Abbas ibn Ali wanted to get the water to the anxiously waiting children as quickly as possible. Seeing him gallop towards the camp of Hussain ibn Ali, Umar ibn Sa’ad shouted from the enemy ranks that if even a single drop of water reaches Hussain's camp, it would be impossible to fight them on the battlefield. When arrows were coming from all sides, Abbas had only one thought in his mind, how to protect the water-bag than his life. Abbas ibn Ali lost both his arms during the attack, trying to save the water-bag. The Alam fell onto the ground. Sakīnah could not see it any longer. She looked at Hussain ibn Ali, but he turned his face away. Sakīnah began to tremble with fear and her eyes filled with tears. She raised her hands and prayed, “Ya Allah! Do not let them kill my uncle Abbas, I will not ask for water again and ran inside the tent to her mother”.

PS: the girl died...5 years old (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/huh.gif)

[Abd]

How can you forget the Saints? -any religion will do; Christian:
Mariam Baouardy (T-H-L-K-D)
Sukayna bint Husayn (T-H-L-K-D)

Probably all or almost all of what's in those articles is verifiable if attributed. Without sane process, fixing this stuff is completely beyond anything I'd care to attempt. If the mob comes across these articles, they will hack them to pieces. But I'd assert that any Saint recognized by the Catholic Church -- or even close to that -- or any widely known martyr of Shi'a Islam -- is almost certainly sufficiently notable for an article, and then what's in the article? Just neutral histories from secular sources?

[IN278S]

I have a COI with respect to this article, so I'll let someone else decide if it's sufficiently crappy to be deletion-worthy.

HandsFree Networks

[Eva Destruction]

Definite honorable mention for An Organic Conversation. Anyone want to take bets on whether Ginanatalina (T-C-L-K-R-D) is "Helge Hellberg, Executive Director of Marin Organic" or "Mark Mulcahy, award winning retail consultant, educator, and organic advocate"?

[Eva Destruction]

Another fine addition to the BLP slushpile. I'm particularly taken by the magnificent piece of artwork that is the Clinton Family Portrait.

(IMG:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/The_Artwork_of_Larry_D._Alexander_016.jpg/500px-The_Artwork_of_Larry_D._Alexander_016.jpg)

[Subtle Bee]

Another fine addition to the BLP slushpile. I'm particularly taken by the magnificent piece of artwork that is the Clinton Family Portrait.

(IMG:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/The_Artwork_of_Larry_D._Alexander_016.jpg/500px-The_Artwork_of_Larry_D._Alexander_016.jpg)

(IMG:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Beavisprofile.jpg)

"huhhuh....I'm President... huhhuhhuh"

[the fieryangel]

I have a COI with respect to this article, so I'll let someone else decide if it's sufficiently crappy to be deletion-worthy.

HandsFree Networks

Hmm, this article seems to be toast!

The Wikipedia Review effect strikes again!

[Eva Destruction]

List of Presidents of the United States who knew a foreign language.

[Eva Destruction]

Malchik. Words fail me. "Man brutally kills pregnant dog for no particular reason" has got to be my new favorite news headline, though.

[Milton Roe]

Another fine addition to the BLP slushpile. I'm particularly taken by the magnificent piece of artwork that is the Clinton Family Portrait.

(IMG:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/The_Artwork_of_Larry_D._Alexander_016.jpg/500px-The_Artwork_of_Larry_D._Alexander_016.jpg)

Well, they nailed Chelsea of that time. Bill has morphed a bit into a JFK with graying hair. I dunno who the woman is. I think I've seen her as a news anchorperson, though.

[CrazyGameOfPoker]

Apparently all you need is 15 minutes of fame (well maybe an hour and a half)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miskel_Spillman

Her only claim to fame is winning a contest to host SNL for one episode. Article's been up for 5 or 6 years.

[Milton Roe]

List of Presidents of the United States who knew a foreign language.

Damn me, that's actually a well-done and interesting article. I read it all and it was painless and informative and even entertaining.

It's badly named, as it's too detailed to be a merely standard stand-alone WP:LIST article. I think should renamed to Presidents of the United States who knew a foreign language.

[NotARepublican55]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_Domin...dise_Soundtrack

(IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/yak.gif)

Mod note: Merged this post here as it's not really worthy of an individual thread - kamryn.

[CharlotteWebb]

Two-year-old redirect vandalism at Kim Jong-Ill, note the spelling.

The added specificity did make me lol out loud. Also I'm somewhat amazed that the edit wasn't swiftly reverted by some humorless bureauprat and that the section-redirect was still functional (the tortured ambiguity of the sub-title in question having remained untouched in the two years since it was introduced).

By that I mean "waning" is to "health rumors" as "purple" is to "people eater" of course.

In any case Al-Jazeera says he might be one step closer to retirement.

[Kelly Martin]

Ran across Wikipedia's press releasearticle on Apple's Time Capsule (Apple) yesterday. The article is fairly obviously at best a light gloss on Apple product literature. The Time Capsule has been heavily criticized in industry press for its design flaws (and Apple's original reticence to replace defective units), but the article valiantly minimizes that.

[CharlotteWebb]

Meet the Farquhars

Sorry but the Punnett square made me lol out loud. At least one related vandalism remains unreverted.

[Obesity]

Ran across Wikipedia's press releasearticle on Apple's Time Capsule (Apple) yesterday. The article is fairly obviously at best a light gloss on Apple product literature. The Time Capsule has been heavily criticized in industry press for its design flaws (and Apple's original reticence to replace defective units), but the article valiantly minimizes that.

Alison wrote it.

[Alison]

Ran across Wikipedia's press releasearticle on Apple's Time Capsule (Apple) yesterday. The article is fairly obviously at best a light gloss on Apple product literature. The Time Capsule has been heavily criticized in industry press for its design flaws (and Apple's original reticence to replace defective units), but the article valiantly minimizes that.

Alison wrote it.

I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo.

Jes' sayin' ...

[RMHED]

Ran across Wikipedia's press releasearticle on Apple's Time Capsule (Apple) yesterday. The article is fairly obviously at best a light gloss on Apple product literature. The Time Capsule has been heavily criticized in industry press for its design flaws (and Apple's original reticence to replace defective units), but the article valiantly minimizes that.

Alison wrote it.

I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo.

Jes' sayin' ...

But then again, you would say that wouldn't you...

[Jon Awbrey]

I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo.

Jes' sayin' …

And if there's anything Wikipedia doesn't have enough of, it's gotta be odd photos.

Jon (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/tongue.gif)

[Obesity]

Ran across Wikipedia's press releasearticle on Apple's Time Capsule (Apple) yesterday. The article is fairly obviously at best a light gloss on Apple product literature. The Time Capsule has been heavily criticized in industry press for its design flaws (and Apple's original reticence to replace defective units), but the article valiantly minimizes that.

Alison wrote it.

I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo.

Jes' sayin' ...

i am sorry for my disrespect
sorry for my lies

:-(

[Somey]

i am sorry for my disrespect
sorry for my lies

Sorry for my dialect,
and my pumpkin pies...

[Obesity]

i am sorry for my disrespect
sorry for my lies

Sorry for my dialect,
and my pumpkin pies...

i don't think Biggie Smalls, despite his physique, ever rapped about PUMPKIN PIES

[EricBarbour]

Nopsie, just sex and violence.

[Zoloft]

Some say the spies, make the pies
Spec-tacular, make me lick it from da fork
On da plate, then ya, shiverin, tongue deliverin
Taste of that pumpkin, that pie is jumpkin
Skip the milk and the cookies, no Oreos tonight
If its alright with you, we slicin' dat pie

[Eva Destruction]

I thought Wikipedia had lost its capacity to surprise me. I was wrong.

[-DS-]

I thought Wikipedia had lost its capacity to surprise me. I was wrong.

Where I come from, there is a word for this.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[radek]

I thought Wikipedia had lost its capacity to surprise me. I was wrong.

To be fair, that's in good part a reflection on our general culture rather than being specific to Wikipedia.

[Milton Roe]

I thought Wikipedia had lost its capacity to surprise me. I was wrong.

To be fair, that's in good part a reflection on our general culture rather than being specific to Wikipedia.

Ever culture has its reliquaries. The reliquary of the tooth of Mary Magdelene . The requiquary of the lock of hair of Justin Beiber. You can start to worry when either the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Beiber's hair, or else they start building a cathedral around it.

Even so, it's not THAT much more silly than Catholicism. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/tongue.gif)

[radek]

I thought Wikipedia had lost its capacity to surprise me. I was wrong.

To be fair, that's in good part a reflection on our general culture rather than being specific to Wikipedia.

Ever culture has its reliquaries. The reliquary of the tooth of Mary Magdelene . The requiquary of the lock of hair of Justin Beiber. You can start to worry when either the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Beiber's hair, or else they start building a cathedral around it.

Even so, it's not THAT much more silly than Catholicism. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/tongue.gif)

Oh, I totally agree with that - I'm willing to bet that pretty much every culture at every point in history was more or less just as goofy as ours. It's just the fog of history and the dulling vapors of romanticism that make it seem otherwise. Seriously, when Mozart was around, how many people do you think actually listened to the guy (putting aside the fact that he's over rated). I tell you how many. Two. Everyone else was listening to some roadside tavern version of Justin Bieber (of course in those times, each village had to have its own version of JB, and some did worse than others). But that stuff never got recorded so we were spared it. Or it got passed through the generation but thanks to the passage of time it now seems quaint and "authentic" (ugh). But now we record every single damn thing.

So anyway, my standard of comparison, was my somewhat idealized version of what culture we should have, rather than any kind of historical comparison. You know, I was being elitist.

btw, that article was apparently created as a (very awesome and hillarious) violation of WP:POINT (bad editor! bad!),