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[-] EmilyIsTrans 26 points 1 month ago

In my experience, Wikipedia has a pervasive cultural of false balance, and it does not surprise me at all that this attitude extends to the founder of the site. Despite their many policies dictating otherwise, in my experience adjudicators often end up weighing authoritative academic sources equally with outdated or lower quality references. Looking through the talk page, it sounds like there was already an extensive RFC for the wording of the lede. Policy was already applied correctly in this case - the system worked as it was supposed to - and it's incredibly inappropriate for Wales to pull rank, reopen discussion when there has been no notable change in circumstance, and advocate for this exact kind of behaviour.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Welp, there's goes the last fucking unenshittified decent thing in the internet.

ITS A FUCKING GENOCIDE

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago

Don't jump to conclusions. Jimmy's "intervention" has been largely rejected by the Wikipedia community, and it wasn't much of an intervention to begin with.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He made a comment in a discussion, as can anyone. People disagree with his comment. Intervention my ass, all he did is express his opinion, which everyone is free to ignore.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

If you want a good laugh, go to the article and switch the Hebrew then translate it back to English with your browser. That version is probably what Jimmy wants the page to look like.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Ah for fucks sake. Fine I will download the entire wikipedia. It's probably a matter of when not if it goes to shit.

[-] Appleseuss@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Did that a few weeks back. Use kiwix

this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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