The 50 Most-Viewed Wikipedia Articles

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Seraphyn

Seraphyn

I've probably come across those articles at some point, but I don't remember ever actively searching any of them.
 
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Icarus

Well clearly, they needed a year to mull over the information of the penis and now they're moving on to the vagina :p

Seriously though, I've learned a lot of info on Wikipedia. Too bad you're never entirely sure how reliable it is so I always have to put this layer or cynicism between me and Wikipedia whenever I read anything.
 
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Icarus

Calleja said:
I don't, I just usually head straight for the cited sources after I read the article
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Cited sources don't mean anything. Many are interviews and articles from third parties which are just as unreliable and those articles don't have cited sources to back up their claims either.

For example, a while ago I read an entry about a certain song and Wikipedia had credited some guitarist as playing a certain part in that song "because the band's guitarist was not skilled enough to play it". Considering I had seen that guitarist play it LIVE in front of an audience, that claim seemed dubious so I went to look at the source. The Source was an American rock magazine who had quoted the guitarist that had played that part of the song. When I went to delve deeper, I found on ANOTHER site that the band's guitarist had invited the other guitarist over during a recording session and they had simply ended up playing both guitars at the same time instead of recording them separately and then mixing them together.

So yeah, "unreliable" is the word here. I've seen tons of other incorrect Wikipedia entries that had remained that way for years. I've corrected a few but my corrections often got thrown out because there was no online source toe cite even though the original cited source was dubious at best.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

YES! We made it! Our country is popular enough but mysterious enough to beat out vaginas and penises in a ranked list of queries!

CAN-A-DA! CAN-A-DA!
 
Jake

Jake

checkeredhat said:
YES! We made it! Our country is popular enough but mysterious enough to beat out vaginas and penises in a ranked list of queries!

CAN-A-DA! CAN-A-DA!
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People just look it up to when bets are made as to whether it's real or not.

As far as those other subjects go, I can just see the nerd hoards sweating the possibility of getting laid and rushing off to do research. :rofl:
 
Calleja

Calleja

I wonder if the Jonas Brothers, who some people insist on calling "the new beatles", are gonna be so searched for 50 years from now.

No, wait, I don't wonder. I know they won't. Prissy bitches.
 
Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

I wonder if most marketing speak of today is going to stick to any product in 50 years...

but yeah, calling something the New Beatles is pretty meaningless, since it doesn't specify what exactly about them is Beatles-ish or how they're filling a Beatle-shaped void in pop culture's heart. it's empty marketing speak that sounds like high praise.

In fact, just call my penis the New Beatle.
 
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