Honestly, Tova is in bed, and I almost woke her up when I got to the Urban Dictionary entry. Totally didn't see it coming.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Thing is, deleting it now is entirely counter to wikipedia's stated purpose. The word has become noteworthy.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Not so much. It's a flash in the pan. The best idea I've seen is turning it into a pointer to Wikipedia in culture.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
Wish I didn't have to ask...
What did this have to do with Lisa?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
She's one of the wikieditors involved in the discussion on the linked talk page.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
(Which is actually an interesting depiction of how the sausage is made)
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Man, just following the Google results on this reveals a harrowing look at a culture of stone-cold and presumably Asperger's-crippled nerds.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Sure is.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Given the long life of other xkcd memes, I can virtually guarantee you that it will see a continued level of usage (including to tweak wikipedia editors) for years and years to come (and probably longer; xkcd hasn't been around long enough to verify that impact, though).
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
wikipedia is the best thing to happen to sperglords and zealots. like, the BEST thing.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
Think of the trouble all those people could have gotten into I they hadn't ha that kind of outlet. The Internet is the pressure release valve for nerds, dweebs, and spazoids the world over Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Lisa, are you really banned from more than one revert per page per week?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
*Goes back to edit the page on Cherenkov Radiation*
I'm happy to have discovered TV Tropes where I can make those kind of popular culture edits.
However I do find the digs at aspenger sufferers and other nerds somewhat more insulting then our depiction on 'The Big Bang Theory' please stop.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: Lisa, are you really banned from more than one revert per page per week?
I'm pretty sure that's over now. It was a year long sentence, and a bizarre one. A guy named Alistair pissed a million different people off (including me), so there was a proceeding against him. In the process, one of his defenders decided that I needed to be punished as well. It was odd, but that's Wikipedia.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: *Goes back to edit the page on Cherenkov Radiation*
Oh, please don't. If you remember, I wasn't the one who put a stop to that; it was an admin.
Posted by Mucous (Member # 12331) on :
Alister McGrath or just a random Alistair?
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
how many times do you think you've been warned to stop edit-warring
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Asperger "sufferers"? Most Aspies don't suffer all that much. Not once they learn how to deal with neurotypicals, anyway. Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mucous: Alister McGrath or just a random Alistair?
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: how many times do you think you've been warned to stop edit-warring
Two or three times, probably. Maybe more, but nothing recently. Wikipedia is like crack. It's kind of like this.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
People nowadays have no input on what goes in the Bible, The Koran, or just about any media source broadly read that tells us how the universe is.
Wikipedia gives them that outlet, and they'll be damned if they are going to actually share. Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Sorry to double post but this reminds me of the time we attempted to encapsulate hatrack into a Wikipedia entry. I remember Wikipedia's response was swift and deadly.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
That was before I'd started editing there, I think. But I remember it.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
You could always make a tv tropes article on Hatrack.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
God, Blayne.
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