Funny wikipedia asshattery thread.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So, I'm not sure a thread for this exists. What you do is post a screenshot of a wikipedia article where you find some obvious defacing.

Due to a thread on facebook, I decided to find the relative distances of Moycullen (the other guitarist's parents' hometown) and Clifden (my father's hometown) to Galway City in Ireland.

I found this:



What's wrong with this info?

[Golden Applesauce]

Having a "best" tourist attraction is clear violation of NPOV.

[Aucoq]

If I find anything funny, I'll have to post it.  I rarely come across defacing on the website.  And, when I do, it's usually something completely childish like: "The capital of China ASS BOOBIEZ HAHAHAHAHAA! is Beijing.[1]"

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Having a "best" tourist attraction is clear violation of NPOV.

You've obviously never been to Connemara.

That's not an endorsement for Clifden, btw.

Twid,
Spends most of his time, reading, walking, feeding apples to random horses and drinking his balls off when in Clifden.

ETA- Oh, and binge drinking tea, glutting on toast, and smoking with grandpa...

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I might also add that the walking bit is almost uniformly up the Sky Road. So there is some truth to that.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Having a "best" tourist attraction is clear violation of NPOV.

Also, the answer is that John D'Arcy (who was real) lived in Mordor (which you may remember is from Tolkien's fiction).

I thought that Discordians were supposed to be inclined to being dorks.

ETA- MORDOR in this context is CLIFDEN CASTLE. Which is a ruin, currently owned by someone who knows my cousin Brid, and who was upset that I was actually entering the castle until I said who I was.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

If I find anything funny, I'll have to post it.  I rarely come across defacing on the website.  And, when I do, it's usually something completely childish like: "The capital of China ASS BOOBIEZ HAHAHAHAHAA! is Beijing.[1]"

Yeah, I once came across "SAMURAI ARE GAYYYYYYY" on a page about Samurai. Disinformation is a lost artform sometimes.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Having a "best" tourist attraction is clear violation of NPOV.

I've been fighting it because I'm admittedly inebriated.

But what the fuck dude? Do you need to be so right that you have to go for some stupid shit like that, when I can personally confirm that aside from Kylemore Abbey, The Twelve Bens, and the fact that Roundstone is known for making good bodhrans, and every third Thursday of August Clifden is horse-breeding central, that there is very little for Connemara to offer? That it's a tourist trap? That it was intentionally founded with the specific purpose of Anglicizing one of the last major bastions of the Gaeltacht (successful campaign, btw)?  And that none of those are accessible without a car? you don't go there for the sights. You go there for the culture. And sometimes taking a hike and looking out on the vastness of the Atlantic is what hits the spot. Especially where you look out on one of those islands and say, hey, that's where my dad lived until the Irish government evacuated it (Inish Turbot (Turbot Island, because it looks like a turbot fish). My father is not originally from Clifden, but that's one of the towns Inish Turbot was evacuated to). Some of the most intense moments I've had there were out on the Sky Road, out at the turntable, halfway between Clifden and that village I have no connection with, looking down upon Inish Turbot, or in St. Josephs (hands down most intense-Grandma's funeral which was continued on Omey Island which is also a peninsula depending on the tides) or standing out on the back porch of my dad's apartment grasping for a piece of iron because I was afraid of the Daoine Sidhe against all rationality. Because the wee folk aren't real until it's midnight in the middle of the country and your stupid ass went outside for a smoke, and oh, hey, the hairs on my neck are up.

You want rural Ireland? Go to fucking Clifden. You want tourist trap Ireland? Go to fucking Clifden. And anywhere else in Connemara. But until you tour the whole fucking region, STFU, you pedantic American piece of shit.

Twid,
Pedantic American piece of shit, but at least one that's informed by personal experience on the place in question.

Now GA, I feel better, and I apologize for the wrath. But you touched a button and I'm still going to post it.

[AFK]

One doesn't simply walk on The Sky Road in Clifden.



WHN,
Someone had to say it. 

[Triple Zero]

Twid, relax.

1 I'm pretty sure that GA was making a joke, everybody knows Mordor was the asshattery in that screenshot

2 Pointing out something is the "best" of anything is violating NPOV, according to Wikipedia's guidelines. However, saying something is violating NPOV does not at all mean the accuracy of the statement is drawn into question, it just means it should be rewritten as "best according to X [citation]" to make it proper for an encyclopaedia.
This is the typical stuff stupid arguments on Wiki Talk pages are made of and frankly I'm a bit disappointed you went for it. Because  having personal experience that some place is absolutely great, changes NOTHING about whether or not a few lines of text are written to adhere to WP's NPOV guidelines. Conversely, commenting (as a joke, even) that those lines of text are not NPOV, just means those lines were not written from a neutral point of view, and says NOTHING about whether this non-neutral point of view is accurate or not.

Think of it like this. What if the line about "best tourist attractions" was written in Gaelic and someone remarked that that's not right because it's the English Wikipedia, you wouldn't fly off the handle and go BUT IT'S ALL TRUE YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE!! Which might be the case, but it's kind of nonsensical to get all worked up about defending the truth of a statement when somebody comments on the form it came in.

I'd normally not defend GA's pedantry, except this time I thought it was funny and I thought Wikipedia asshattery is a cool topic for a thread.

[Cain]

Agreed Trip, it was a funny quip, and didn't deserve that kind of response.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Yeah, I apologize GA. I was in an irate mood yesterday even when sober. Very, actually, for totally unrelated and unresolved IRL reasons. Throw some booze on it, and your going to take it out on someone undeserving, which is a shitty thing to do. I was going to flip out one way or another about something. It's just unfortunate that it happened nowhere near where it was deserved.

I was an asshole. My bad.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also, I'm not trying to excuse myself here, just explain. It's a pretty big personal flaw of mine that I bottle up, build up and explode. And every time I explode, I think to myself, "heh. I shouldn't do that. It's probably going to kill me with a heart attack someday. Or alienate people. Or both and no one will come to my wake."

[EK WAFFLR]

[Nephew Twiddleton]

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