This is super common amongst tons of fakers. I am sure the Indian niche is just one subsection. I have run into a ton of fake white Americans doing just this to pump up their cred count.
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Wikipedia is not considered reliable either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipe... > Content from a Wikipedia article is not considered reliable unless it is backed up by citing reliable sources. Confirm that these sources support the content, then use them directly. But, unlike IMDB, it's (supposed to be) verifiable.
A bit of topic. Does anyone know, why the english Wikipedia site about the JFK movie does not talk about what was fiction, what was true in the movie and what is unknow? On the german page about the movie, they have a lot about it. I understand there are differences in languages. But in this case, in english, the most important information is missing. So it's just a movie, all fiction?!? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi…
In general you can sometimes get insight from the "Talk" section for these kinds of questions.
In this case, there was a "historical inaccuracies" section which was removed due to sourcing concerns. Not sure how well it holds up to what is (/was was the time) up on the German one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:JFK_(film)/Archive_1#Qu...
Sometimes it can be up to chance or culture, sometimes editorial differences.
EDIT: Come to think of it, in this case maybe the German Wikipedia just has misproportionate coverage and activity for its speaker-base (this would certainly fit with my preconception)? I recall reacting to pages on topics from other countries where I'd be surprised to find it covered in German and not the native language,
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"The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[13]" No, it doesn't.
"It was started in 2003 by Martin Eberhard, Dylan Stott, and Elon Musk (who also co-founded PayPal and SpaceX and is the CEO of SpaceX)." [1] [1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%2c_Inc%2e
1) 'simple' wikipedia isn't 'main' wikipedia - same as any other language wikipedias.
2) You can edit and fix mistakes if you see that as a mistake.
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Ironically, Wikipedia is an unreliable source. I’ve given up making fixes
Different parts of Wikipedia are completely taken over by interest groups. Try making any factual change, they immediately revert and claim you are a vandal.
[citation needed]
Just kidding. But I do wonder - what parts are you talking about? Like some specific languages? Or topics?
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This strategy is widely known in folklore.
I used to regularly do this by accident. I used to live and socialise in a place where a lot of my city's security guards and bouncers drank, and became if not friends, at least familiar with many of them. (Kings Cross in Sydney in the 80s/90s) I also used to pretty much exclusively wear black jeans, black t-shirts and when it was cold enough a black leather bike jacket. I would often show up to clubs or gigs, and ju…
> I used to regularly do this by accident.
> I would often show up to clubs or gigs, and just get waved in
I’m clearly missing the accidental nature of your actions.
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A great strategy but has its limits. Just a few weeks ago some guys tried a rather good version of this strategy in Estonia to sneak into a Rammstein concert. Not only did they have high-vis vests, but one of them also had high-vis pants, both of them had working gloves and they were carrying a ladder. [1] It didn't work out though, they didn't get past security. I think one of the major flaws in their attempt was th…
Never mind that most stage hands wear exclusively black, not high-viz. A concert is probably one of the few places where seeing someone in a high-viz outfit stands out.
I have successfully deployed this strategy by just dressing in black and carrying around a heavy duty speakon cable. Worked every time.
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#218I remember the imdb-ratings on movies from India were also absurdly high, I brushed it off as a cultural thing back then; but unfortunately [0] the rigging seems to be norm on imdb across the board (not limited to India). [0] https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/the-kashmir...
Indian fake ratings are a big thing, but from my own experience collecting good ratings, I can attest that keeping fakes out if the system is a big effort, and it cannot be done manually. I implemented a complicated but fair statistical system to keep fake ratings out from my site. But I'm only doing the top 3 film festivals, not all the crap. The manual blacklist is still huge. In the west the biggest offender is A2…
it seems you left out a few words:
> In my opinion, the top Indian movies are usually better than the best Western movies.
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That's an intriguing idea... I'd be interested if you care to expand upon it!
Well that’s the gist of it… make it so easterns can’t access western websites and other internet services and vice versa.
where do you draw the geographic lines between east and west?
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#220IMDB lost all my respect many years ago when they made clear with their actions that they support fake reviews. When the problem started to grow beyond the occasional vandalism, they still had a very effective discussion section in which users soon began to expose fake reviews. Their response? Of course remove the discussion section! IMDB today has some use for their database only; but they lost any credibility on ev…
Comment sections on many websites across the net got scrapped around the same time. Ostensibly because some people use them to say nasty things, but really I think it's about keeping the masses consuming rather than creating. The corporations prefer that creation of content and narratives be restricted to an elite few, while the masses dutifully consume. At the end of the day it's about protecting their bottom line.
are you saying that writing comments on various websites is equivalent to creating original content?