• Emily (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    273·
    3 months 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dictating otherwise, in my experience adjudicators often end up weighing authoritative academic sources equally with outdated or lower quality references.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.worldEnglish
    204·
    3 months ago

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

    ITS A FUCKING GENOCIDE

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      25·
      3 months 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.mlEnglish
        9·
        3 months 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.worldEnglish
    51·
    3 months 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.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 months 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.