Jon Wilson
hannah onlineThere's good and bad stuff about wikipedia but one bright spot is that they've kept this joke running on the "list of cetaceans" article for at least 10 years
The article on vintage base-ball used to have a section on 19th century baseball slang that was full of glorious terms like "stir your stumps" and "bug bruiser" and one day some no-fun nerd deleted it all and I'm still mad about it
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@prehensile for many years Wikipedia stated that Shun Gon from the Aristocats was a Singapura rather than Siamese, this was due to Disney removing his speaking part in the film version shown in SE Asia and making him smaller in the toys sold there (more like a modern Siamese) and a whole generation of Singaporeans concatenating his character with Hit Cat (the cool British cat) and insisting he was a Singapura 😁
Matilda@prehensile For Pete’s sake, why??
@owlislost it's "cruft" and "not encyclopedic" and "smiling is illegal"
Steve Downey
george pollard@prehensile @owlislost the "not paper" thing should override all other concerns
Kyle@prehensile I tried a couple of times to get "the body is round" into the Pallas cat article, but it must have violated the No Fun Allowed policy
Mira@prehensile has anyone tried to re-add it but using wiki terms to justify it?
Ian Kennedy@prehensile I’m still bummed they discovered the Alan McMaster’s hoax https://www.bbc.com/news/the-reporters-63622746.amp
ryan@prehensile
Not without some level of contention on the talk page though! "um ackshually this is indistinguishable from deliberate misinformation"
Not without some level of contention on the talk page though! "um ackshually this is indistinguishable from deliberate misinformation"
Oat Mouse@ryan @prehensile I love seeing the heated debates on article's talk pages. Everyone on their is just so passionate, it's beautiful in a way
@ryan ah the classic "I've decided this thing is exactly like a different, unrelated bad thing" maneuver
Isaac Erbele, MD@ryan @prehensile That's a lot of consternation over 3 missing cetaceans.
WingedRobot@prehensile I'm sorry but I until I spotted your highlight I thought the joke was that one of the map highlights looks extremely phallic.
Thom Slattery@wingedrobot @prehensile I thought it had something to do with the positioning of the scuba diver and cetacean getting more and more inappropriate.
KatM@prehensile when I was trying to teach myself geology, this disambiguation note on the page for clastic rocks made me laugh as it's so goofy. It's still there too
@KatEmm lol great find!
WGAvanDijk@prehensile
I thought that this would have been corrected by now by overzealous Wikipedians (the type that have made sure I am not allowed ever again to edit any lemma on Wikipedia because I do not follow rules, and they refused flat out to tell me what I did wrong).
Anyway, wonderful! It's still there, indeed. Need to scroll a bit down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans#Family_Ziphiidae:_beaked_whales
pro-choicelli@prehensile aww cute tho
David Seed
GAY BIRD ONLINE@prehensile Nobody's gonna comment on the fact that the distribution zone of the pygmy beaked whale is a huge dick off the weat coast of South America, huh?
@prehensile the mixed weight units are making my teeth itch
Peter Merholz@prehensile Before I read the post, and just saw the image, I thought the joke was going to be the distribution map of the pygmy-beaked whale.