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[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 74 points 1 year ago

From Wikipedia:

This article was nominated for deletion on 26 September 2023. The result of the discussion was keep.

[-] oehm@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

So like a lot of posts on here this is just anger bait missing important context

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 67 points 1 year ago

I can understand the anger in why deletion was even a topic to be discussed in the first place. Cause it embarrasses us????

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[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The mere attempt at holocaust denial should always elicit anger

[-] iie@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

the point of this post is "some libs are trying to erase history now. look, here is an example."

whether they succeed or fail in this one instance is a lot less interesting than the fact of the attempt.

it's a cultural barometer.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

The "important context" was that there was even a discussion about deletion in the first place, demonstrating that neo-nazis agitation has seeped into every corner of the internet

Frankly if you consider that "bait" or something not worth getting angry about then that says something about you

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was a proposal to change the entry for “Chinese Communist Party” to “Communist Party of China” and they rejected it because it was “Chinese propaganda since this is what China wants people to refer it as,” and that it should be satisfying enough that the proper party name is included in parenthesis in the article. Well, they rejected it for a myriad of reasons, actually.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chinese_Communist_Party#c-JapanStar49-20230918143300-Tokisaki_Kurumi-20230315133100

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

The Anglo West has a very dark future ahead of them if this is what passes for an intellectual over there. No wonder most of their talent is imported.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

In the totalitarian USSR, aparachniks and intelligencia were chosen and promoted on the basis of ideological loyalty and political reliability instead of competence.

[-] CommieKurtz@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

The reason given was "Oppose due to MOS:VAR, although I agree that CPC is the better abbreviation" Just Wikipedia rules that there needs to be a substantial reason to change and that "...the party prefers the use of "CPC", it accepts the use of both and says that whether the use of either abbreviation is positive or negative depends on the specific content." If they don't mind I don't see what it's about. Republicans will use black and white logic on anything communist with any given name. I'll use CPC from now on thanks for the info. I have no doubt the article would be changed if it was a straight change like Türkiye

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If history starts getting deleted from wikipedia because it's inconvenient to liberals THAT is the quickest way to kill wikipedia as a reliable and "unbiased" source in the eyes of everyone.

I could not have come up with a better way to kill wiki than they have come up with themselves.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

I think you’re drastically overestimating the critical thinking faculties of westerners.

[-] RollaD20@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

If you haven't read this article, I highly recommend. Wikipedia has severe issues regarding reliability.

https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

"in the eyes of everyone" was the operative phrase. Awoo definitely knows some NATOpedia lore, like most people on this site do.

[-] RollaD20@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah i assumed she likely knew about it. I probably could've phrased it better. I comment as much for the lurkers as for the people I'm responding to.

[-] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

History is already frequently deleted from Wikipedia because it's inconvenient to liberals.

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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh don't mind me I'm just whitewashing history to fit my narrative and soothe my guilty fucking conscience.

If you claim to love history you take it warts and all. How are you supposed to learn from it if you ignore the mistakes? Would that be permitted in other disciplines like medicine or rocket science? Welp ho hum off to my job at NASA trying to fly a cube into space because aerodynamics can be ignored.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

The west isn't rapidly encroaching into fascism bro, trust me dwag.

[-] underisk@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago
[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Yes it was an "affair" and the incident is totally not Canadians are propping up and harboring known SS Nazis. It's all about the "embarassment" the damage of the truth did. Not the actual facts.

It's like IDF and NAFO having a struggle session.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

It's like IDF and NAFO having a struggle session.

lmao

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Snowball Keep. He has achieved world-wide notoriety. The rumored forthcoming Polish extradition for war crimes is the cherry on top. — The Anome (talk) 14:11, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

WP:RUMOR, so far all we have is a tweet from the Polish education minister. cagliost (talk) 01:05, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

If you think you need to lie to the general public and it's anything but an actual matter of espionage, state secrets, or preventing a mass panic, it is a more reasonable conclusion that the project you are working on behalf of is evil.

Turns out reality has an anti-imperial bias, ig

[-] flan@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

this whole thing has been honestly one of the most pathetic displays ive seen in a long time

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

All my least favourite editors from the Holodomor edit wars are going crazy on that page. It's like the who's who for Ukrainian Nazi apologists.

[-] emelia@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Important to keep in mind this is the talk page and literary people without even a Wikipedia account.

[-] authorinthedark 21 points 1 year ago

An important factor that I think a lot of people are missing here, is that the page was created 5 days ago. Nobody is talking about deleting a page because they just now decided they didn't like the guy, they are talking about whether or not the page was worth creating in the first place.

Obviously now Wikipedia has decided to keep the page, but seriously guys try putting a little effort into dodging the rage-bait.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would any truthful information not be worth creating? Storage is incredibly cheap nowadays and search engines are amazing at filtering out low viewed pages so it wouldn't obscure more popular/useful pages either

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Especially when they receive standing ovation from several governments and a slew of controversy ensues in the media. Wikipedia has articles on random ass chemicals that surely only 2 guys will ever refer to, and local disasters or earthquakes or phenomenon that no one ever talks about. But yes, I do ageee that the rage bait is very enticing to users here

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

One downside for Wikipedia would be people making vanity pages for themselves or their friends. Those kinds of pages would generate a lot of noise in search results.

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Dude caused an international crisis and you don't think he deserves a Wikipedia page?

The bar for getting a Wikipedia page is extremely low and the guy easily surpassed it.

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[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

If the dude was up for possible extradition for grievous warcrimes he seems to have committed a over a half-century ago and made no real effort to hide in the interim (see his blogging about it for some reason), it seems like he gets well above the threshold of notability for him to get an article if Nostalgia Critic gets multiple.

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