[quote=Snooooopy Well, the Wikipedia’s founder has told Hackwrench to change his ways, so being blocked seems like a definite possibility if the nonsense continues.[/quote]
That was actually Kolak quoting Jimbo, from the NPOV page.
The poor bastard is so deranged that he’s able to read the guidelines for neutral POV and still think that he’s adding neutrality. He sincerely believes that a good encyclopaedia entry should include every extant subjective opinion on its subject, and doesn’t see why this isn’t a desirable quality for an encyclopaedia article. He says it’s up to other people to put their own POV in to maintain neutrality, and that without his contribution, the article doesn’t have a neutral point of view. (!)
If he wants to clutter up articles on light entertainment with bulky, incoherant ramblings about subjective morality, I can only imagine how concise and useful the entry for something like beef would be: 3% useful information about nutrition, different cuts of beef, history of cattle farming – and then pages and pages of “Meat is murder!” “No, hamburgers are yummy!” “The only way to prepare steak is medium well.” “A well-done steak is safer and tastier.” “Beef production contributes to the greenhouse effect!” “Anybody who doesn’t eat meat is a sissy.” “Kobe beef is over-rated and gross.” “It’s fun and liberating to wear clothing fashioned from beef.” “There are drugs in beef that give nine-year-old girls boobies.”
Every Wiki article would pretty much resemble a usenet thread. Joy!
This website shows some of the interesting things found on Wikipedia by one individual. Fun read. It’s a blog, so it’s often update.
The thing astro pointed out isn’t surprising: most sitcoms have some scenes edited out in syndication for purposes of selling more ads. Simpsons fans notice this the most.
This really is the remarkable part of it isn’t it? I’m becoming convinced this must be some stoned kid whose mission in life is to write politcally correct readings of 1960’s sitcoms. Can you imagine what he could do with Green Acres?
I grew up in China Grove, NC which is about an hour north of Charlotte, so it’s in vaguely the same area as Mt. Airy. When I lived in the last house in town, way out in the Boonies, I saw all of three black people. All three were at my elementary school and two of them were teachers. When we moved in town, the racial mix increased to about, oh 5% black to 95% white. So I can believe the general lack of blacks on the show to a point.
Of course, this comes from someone who’s never seen an entire episode of the show (Should I turn in my NC citizenship for that?), so take with a grain of salt.
I suppose I should simply let this edit war over at Wikipedia die. It looks like some of the more regular Wiki-editors have noticed what that goof keeps doing to the page so I should probably just leave it up to them to deal with. I did make one last attempt to alter the entry in a way that I hope would the nutcase would find acceptable. I don’t have much hope for it though and I still don’t think some of the issues addressed are really relevant.
When you argue with a crazy person, the best possible outcome is that you end up winning an argument with a crazy person. But it is neither the most likely outcome, nor is it a significantly prestigious outcome even if you do happen to achieve it.
I’m resurrecting this semi-moribund thread to commend Larry Mudd, who’s been continuing the good fight against the Wikimaniac Hackwrench. The Wikipedia discussion page (read, but don’t post unless you have something significant to add) shows a rather fascinating trainwreck.