the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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We're at least 15 years too late for that. Feds have full-time jobs as Wikipedia editors. All that rules-lawyering bullshit is either something that heavily advantages full-time jobs editors who get paid to memorize those rules or something completely conceived by them in the first place. Plus, I think Jimbo Wales or some Wikipedia higher-up has fed connections, so there's that as well.
At this point, it's better to start a campaign that discredits Wikpedia as a source rather than attempt to change it from within. If you go to /r/askhistorians, they constantly shit on Wikipedia, so it's not just those tankie commies who don't like Wikipedia. Wikipedia has always sucked for anything not related to the hard sciences, and even for that, there's plenty that it gets wrong.
Just call people who link Wikipedia a pseud who doesn't know how to read books.
I don't see how a wikipedia discrediting campaign is going to achieve much. People have discredited wikipedia ever since it started. I recall even teachers in schools discrediting wikipedia. None of it sticks.
teachers always had the angle that wikipedia is bad because the mere rabble editing it don't have staid institutional reputation behind them. it was always obvious to everyone else, though, that wikipedia does a fine job of interpreting the sources. wikipedia is consistently useful as an aggregator of mainstream sources
the only way to attack it I think is with vandalism. add incorrect information like slightly wrong dates, wrong distances to astronomical objects, and wrong molecular weights of chemicals; mix up physics theorems with subtly-incorrect contrapositives; replace working code with pseudocode that doesn't quite handle the edge cases. make people as frustrated with wikipedia as they are with quora! then wikipedia will become irrelevant.
it won't change all of the liberalism that wikipedia was collecting in the first place, but
death to wikipedia
Sprinkles extra spaces everywhere.