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Image transcription: A screenshot of a Tumblr post by smol-blue-bird. The post reads: "sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium". Below is an attached screenshot showing the markdown of the article, reading "Francium is a stupid element". End transcription.

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[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

There are some really dumb ones like Americium and Tennessine that are just named after places. Like at least the confusing sounding elements like Copernicium honor people who made amazing scientific discoveries. Certain elements like Krypton sound strange because of pop culture, but actually have reasonable names. I feel like the ones named after places are just a missed opportunity. Berkelium takes the cake for being named after a place named after a person. Seriously, WTF?

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