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We must ruin the west!

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  • Section Ratio GeneralOPto196We are losing ground!
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    1 day ago

    This is preemptive, sort of.

    There’s been an ongoing edit war going on over the captions of the picture which is a spillover from the page for Guy Standing which features a picture of Standing sitting since there are no pictures of Guy Standing standing. The obvious joke was made almost immediately, which was reverted almost immediately. Normally this is where things would have stayed, but the joke about Guy sitting became a sort of political issue as I described in this post. Wikipedia has been trying to be more serious for a while now, and stuff similar to the Cetaceon Needed joke is not being allowed to stay even though they don’t violate the rules of the site.

    When the Guy Standing caption was fully lost ground due to ruling by the admin team, the edit/reversion war moved to the page for Sir Guy Standing, starting with a picture of Sir Standing sitting in center-frame with his daughter behind him (necessitating the clarification that Standing is sitting). This picture makes the clarification less relevant and is therefore more vulnerable to being relabeled as Standing (left).

    I would have not learned about Prof. Standing’s theory on the precariat class if it wasn’t for this joke. I also would not have learned about Sir Standing’s film career if it wasn’t for this joke. Removing the frankly nondisruptive jokes about how Standing is sitting, in the opinion of myself and many others, harms the educational mission of Wikipedia.












  • There’s a meme about “iPhone Face”, referring to actors in period dramas who resemble modern beauty standards more than the beauty standards of the period their film is set in. Some less film-literate people also use it to talk about how costume design always seem pulled to a more modern interpretation of the style rather than historical accuracy, which makes the actors feel more like modern people than people from the period the film is set in.







  • Section Ratio Generalto196banned rule
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    20 days ago

    Honestly same. If someone breaks my trust, they’re all but dead to me. Becoming a nazi is one of those things that breaks my trust.

    Don’t get me wrong, they can get better and work on themselves and I’ll treat them with respect because all humans deserve respect. But it will take a long, long time before I trust them again.