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Posted by: EricBarbour
If you think that tree-octopus bit was funny......consider this.
On 14 March of this year, someone added http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kaster&diff=349895615&oldid=276324139 to the article about the village of Kaster.
He http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/dktqg/go_to_google/c10yhi0 his "achievement" on Reddit two weeks ago.
(Note how he is flamed by a user called "http://www.reddit.com/user/electronics-engineer", who belabors him with WP:POINT like a madman.)
And he posted it on Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dqvqk/iam_the_cocreator_of_the_kaster_blastoise/.
Once again, he gets flamed, by a sanctimonious Wiki-fan named "http://www.reddit.com/user/npod".
Is it me, or do electronics-engineer and npod seem like arrogant pricks? And now I wonder what their Wikipedia login names are.
Luckily, the Wiki-fans were voted down, because most Redditors thought this was a funny prank.
(Why Blastoise? Because he's a http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Blastoise....)
Posted by: taiwopanfob
Kaster presently has 12 words of content, and not one source.
There should be a robot at Wikipedia that scours the database for articles that are less than 500 words, lacks any sources, and has remained that way for more than a month, and automatically erase them.
If such a robot was unleashed, how many articles would fall?
Just to piss off the lazy-ass vandals^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinclusionists, it can list each such article somewhere, giving them a chance to take owership and "improve the encyclopedia" by finding material and references.
Posted by: CharlotteWebb
On 14 March of this year, someone added http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kaster&diff=349895615&oldid=276324139 to the article about the village of Kaster.
He http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/dktqg/go_to_google/c10yhi0 his "achievement" on Reddit two weeks ago.
The pokéjoke in question was first added http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=178001998&diff=prev.
Kaster presently has 12 words of content, and not one source.
There should be a robot at Wikipedia that scours the database for articles that are less than 500 words, lacks any sources, and has remained that way for more than a month, and automatically erase them.
If such a robot was unleashed, how many articles would fall?
It depends upon the speed of the second robot, the one which contrivedly lengthens each stub to 501 words.