Crap or questionable articles

[ericbarbour]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spira_(car)

"Interestingly", the day after I posted the above, someone showed up and improved the text and references.

Want another bad electric-car article?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_dragster

Dates from 2009. Not updated since 2014. The technology has improved considerably since then. Article also fails to mention NEDRA, or any of the standing records, or any of the vehicles used.

[Dr Mario]

If you ever wondered why wikipedia, has problems and fails at everything it claims to be and no wonder they have such an issue with its content. (excluding al the other drama)

Wikipedia:Don't cite Wikipedia on Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... _Wikipedia

So if Jimbo and co dont traust their own project then how are news media, educational insituions and so one gooing to traust anything thats on wikipedia?

[ericbarbour]

Why bother repeating the same photo twice? Anchor Blue was once a major mall retailer. Other photos of their stores must be available somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_Bl ... ng_Company

[ericbarbour]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LateNightWanderer

Obviously lives in Wyckoff, New Jersey. And absolutely despises his Congressperson, Josh Gottheimer. That is now one of the longest and rantiest articles I've ever seen about a member of Congress at 292k bytes. Much of it is about Gottheimer's support of Israel and hatred of "antisemites" who are protesting the Gaza war.

Another unnoticed shitmonkey gets away with ignoring WP:NPOV.

[ericbarbour]

Anyone for another "personal essay" with very few references?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star_Mall

[journo]

[[Figure Eight Inc.]]. A vanity article that is gross by purposeful omission and also misleading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_Eight_Inc.

It's a defunct machine learning operation. The article doesn't mention that it's founder, Lucas Biewald, quit the company and sold it immediately being exposed for very exploitative labor practices in a very high-profile investigative documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSZFUiElls

The sale is mentioned, but not why (exploitative labor practices). The brand/business as described in the article doesn't exist anymore either, it appears a different machine learning business, Appen just took their workers and that's it. They have issues with is/was throughout the article as a result.

A few people try to add stuff related, but they don't source it correctly, rather than work with them, the Wikipedians just defend the vanity article

[ericbarbour]

easily one of the DUMBEST article subjects I've ever seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_brainrot

Crap like this probably should be stuck into "List of Internet phenomena" or something. Not every idiotic meme war deserves to be preserved for "eternity" (assuming you actually think Wikipedia is eternal, and if you do, I've got some swampland to sell you.)

[Dr Mario]

Why does this fetish porn site needs its own article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_Affinity

[ericbarbour]

Why does this fetish porn site needs its own article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_Affinity

Because Wikipedia is "furry friendly". Silver seren has been "guarding" that article. It was heavily edited by FA principals and other furries. KieferSkunk has also helped to "control" it--one of WP's most notorious fur-freaks.

Major editor: Ye9CYNMD. Also Tigerdude9, who is probably a sock. They could both be controlled by the same nerd. Would not surprise me. Is that furry enough for you?

And speaking of freak content: without question, Russia-1 has been editwarred by pro-Russian accounts as well as some anti-Russian types. One of the the top tv channels in Russia, yet its WP article says very little about the blatant pro-Kremlin and pro-Putin propaganda they have been spewing for the past 10 or so years.

Related: Russia-1's top on-air personality, Vladimir Solovyov. He started out as a well-regarded journalist and morphed into a Putin asslick. Every week he goes on his Russia-1 show and vomits the most insane lies you can imagine about Ukraine, NATO, and the West generally. And people believe him. Look thru the Russian Media Monitor channel on YT for loads of examples.