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  • That's the thing that also made the vote on deleting Yaroslav's page irrelevant (now they're debating in the edits if he was a fugitive). The entire organisation was considered criminal, ALL Nazis after the war were considered to be criminals, regardless of their personal involvement in atrocities or lack thereof. If you were in the Wehrmacht, you were a criminal. If you were in the Waffen-SS, you were a criminal. If you were in the SS, you were a criminal.

    What defines a criminal is being tried for their crimes. It doesn't matter if Yaroslav or other 14th division nazis did not commit war crimes or they can't prove that, just being part of it (especially as he bragged about it on his blog in the 2010s) is enough to convict him.

  • People shouldn't have to pour over pages of documentation, debates and policies to read an online wiki that's crazy

  • It's very interesting how it corresponds exactly to office hours lol (with some overtime in the evening)

  • 80% of edits are made by just 1% of users, and there's another guy called Philip Cross who edits every day from 6am to 10pm without fail, even during the weekends or national holidays like Christmas and New Year's. with over 100k edits, he mostly makes pro-war, Zionist, and climate change denial edits. It's been suggested this is a sockpuppet account managed by the MI5 or other British agency.

  • By and large Wikipedia is managed by autocratic administrators who simple got here in the early days. In 2019 they discovered for example that they had named a random Texas kid as admin of the Scots instance who just pretended to speak the language in the most over-the-top ironic way possible. He defaced hundreds of pages and got named as the admin when he was like 12.

    90% of their editors are men and most are white, so it's like maybe 75-80% of their editors are white men yknow. There's actually very few pages on notable women because they keep being deleted and women keep being chased away from the platform. Essentially if someone doesn't like you writing on Wikipedia they'll get their admin friend to ban your IP.

    If you make an edit you'll have it reverted in a few minutes by hawks who watch pages all day long and claim these pages as theirs.

    The funniest example (funniest because it's so sad you just laugh) was some guy who named his account after his Belgian Army grandpa arguing that the genocide in the Belgian Congo was not a genocide. I couldn't even make this up.

    We cover most of it here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia and even then it's far from being exhaustive.

    There's a few people in this thread who edit wikipedia and managed to get some of their edits through but honestly even they explain you have to jump through hoops and understand how Wikipedia works to get anything done, like actually participate in the community before you even make any edits. The idea that wikipedia can be edited by anyone or is edited by people "like you or me" is a complete lie upheld by Jimmy Wales who wants to make it seem as though his weird Ayn Rand libertarian ideas actually work in the real world.

  • Definitely read from the linked source in the meantime, I notified the editor who imported this to see if they're gonna finish it lol

  • You're correct, this was never finished lol. That's the problem with people starting too many projects at once and forgetting what they have going on

  • the human component of the famine is disputed by (even liberal) historians to this day. Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia promoting a No point-of-view policy, should not be so strict on classifying the famine like this in the very opening paragraph. Additionally it's accepted that non-human factors played into the famine, so it's also wrong to imply the famine was strictly man-made.

    Unless they mean man-made to say that the kulaks burned their grain, but somehow I doubt that. Still, it does raise a question of ambiguity: who was responsible for the man-made factor? In my opinion, this should then be left out of the opening paragraph because it can confuse the reader, and developed in the article.

  • You have no idea how to balance a budget.

    "Hmm, candles cost me 1500$ a month. But on the other hand, I could save 200$ a month if I reduced my groceries. I need to save 1000$, clearly I'll just stop buying groceries" that's your solution lol

  • dym the ex-KGB and military guy vs the literal comedian that played piano with his dick on TV? Do you really think Zelensky would win this?

  • They answered everyone else but you 😂

  • Genocide of native Americans is solved because they get to build casinos lmao I hope you lose all your money there and go bankrupt, gtfo

  • Ethnic minorities in Indonesia with US guidance 🙃 Koreans 🙃 Vietnam 🙃

    Bro really thought no genocides happened in the 50s huh