Lamest Edit Wars
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Lamest Edit Wars
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#2The artwork provides accurate historical depictions of the edit wars.
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#3Recently somebody replaced the skyline and landmark photos of the Birmingham Alabama page with their shitty smartphone pictures from an overcast day and have cried victim because somebody called their pictures shitty. To me that's the lamest edit war because it happened in February and hasn't been resolved.
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#4> Compact Disc is a tradename, and therefore is capitalised. But the logo says "Compact disc", and the term is now used as a generic term for compact disks or compact discs, depending on where in the world they are. Everyone calls them CDs (or maybe CD's).
My headcanon:
- The logo says "dɪsᴄ", like what can be represented on the seven-segment display that would be found on the front of any player even in the '80s.
- They cease being "Compact Discs" and start being "CDs" in ~1994 (region dependent) when they started being pressed with IFPI codes: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/can-you-tell-if-an-au...
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#5Recently somebody replaced the skyline and landmark photos of the Birmingham Alabama page with their shitty smartphone pictures from an overcast day and have cried victim because somebody called their pictures shitty. To me that's the lamest edit war because it happened in February and hasn't been resolved.
Is it because the labour is unpaid, people think their contributions are equally as valid, or even proportional to the effort they put in? Like when someone volunteers for a charity/nonprofit but does a shit job and you have to ask them politely to stop.
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#6> Was Chopin French, French–Polish, Polish, or Polish–French?
An aside, but maybe this wouldn’t be as much of an issue if not every biographic article had to start with “ () is a ”. I never understood why nationality should be considered more important than the reason someone is notable.
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#7It's striking how many of these are arguments over what nationality to ascribe to someone born in X, whose parents are from Y, but now lives in Z.
I'm surprised Wikipedia doesn't have a formal scheme for referencing what is apparently a common source of contention.
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#8> Was Chopin French, French–Polish, Polish, or Polish–French? An aside, but maybe this wouldn’t be as much of an issue if not every biographic article had to start with “ ( ) is a ”. I never understood why nationality should be considered more important than the reason someone is notable.
"Representation is important."
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#9For months or longer, there's been an edit war around Solana vs Ethereum, where mods (it appears deliberate) only allow negative content about the former.
It felt petty that adults who've spent over a decade editing such a vast source of information could end up devoting a chunk of their unpaid labour time to such petty edit wars.
I didn't know that there's so many edit wars, speaks to the vastness of Wikipedia.
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#10> Was Chopin French, French–Polish, Polish, or Polish–French? An aside, but maybe this wouldn’t be as much of an issue if not every biographic article had to start with “ ( ) is a ”. I never understood why nationality should be considered more important than the reason someone is notable.
Well, before the metaverse, a persons geographical position and date of birth allowed for some inference of context. You get a 4D coordinate, so to speak. Doesn’t seem very strange to me?