Wikipedia (133)

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Wikipedia is horrible.
It isn't paper, so there can be many articles and in more depth than normal right?
But they delete a lot of content because of flawed notability guidelines. Well known figure in say.. art from centuries ago? Deleted, someone {{prod}}s it and no one notices or it goes through AFD and people vote on it with (at best) googling for it. I'm pretty certain a lot of the people voting on AFDs don't even read the article before voting, much less do any research.
All the while there is an article on EVERY GOD DAMN POKEMON AND TRANSFORMER AND NEARLY EVERY EPISODE OF THE SIMPSONS AND HALF OF THE BIBLE SPLIT UP BY VERSE. The fuck? Harddrives are cheap, even Jimbo "Bomis wasn't a pornsite" Wales thinks that the guidelines for inclusion should be low. He doesn't mind the Simpsons articles. You also have the horrible editors that will spout guidelines and policies up the ass all over talk pages instead of actually trying to contribute. These people are also highly likely to revert an expert on a subject citing some guideline (not policy). Not even going to mention wheel warring and edit warring. There is another set of people that just go out of their way to be stubborn it seems. You want to put an image below the fold? OR HEAVENS NO LINKIMAGE IT and people have a fucking shitstorm and there can never be a concensus because they will vehemently fight for WIKIPEDIA IS NOT CENSORED FOR THE PROTECTION OF MINORS and even citing the god damn disclaimer of liability as policy (see Mohammed cartoon). If people would shut the fuck up about userboxes maybe people could get back to work. Although, that might actually make the quality of the encyclopedia go down as the edits by those that are knowledgable about a subject and/or can copyedit are widdled away to mediocrity by Joe Average.
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