Poorly written wikipedia pages...

[Tekee]

Yeah so being on wikipedia have you ever found a terrible written page? For some obscure thing?
The only one I can think of is an entry for a techno band Virus, hell in the opening sentence it is described as "The project was producing techno-based, Russian pop music, similar to Ruki Vverh at the time. After several more or less popular tunes, they disappeared in the never-ending sea of techno-based Russian pop music.."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_(Russian_band)
What sort of encyclopedic entry is this? Even the talk page only has issues with calling their music terrible, but has nothing on sentences lik these

Anyone else know of any poorly written wiki's that just don't ever seem to get corrected....

 

[Godwynn]

I bet a lot of people disappear in Russia.

 

[Earthling]

If you hit the "random page" button a few times, you're almost guaranteed to get an article like the one you mention - one sentence on an entirely unnotable person or something similar. Sometimes I wonder how the total number of articles is actually so low, or if not everything is counted as an article.

Edit: See, I was telling folks the other day that it's common among various posters to be cautious in their one-click-rule urls.

also, just a fun example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK_Vinogradar

 

[amadeus]

I bet a lot of people disappear in Russia.

 

[Babbler]

There's probably lot, Tekee. Given your mastery of the English language, you should find them yourself.

 

[Bugfatty300]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rosa_De_Guadalupe

Kind of badly written and kind of annoying. I thought about rewriting this but meh I'd have to sign up up and blah blah.

 

[Annex]

Anyone else know of any poorly written wiki's that just don't ever seem to get corrected....

Yeah. The article on North Africa, for one, doesnt seem to include Poland. A rather obvious mistake that never gets corrected.

 

[Cutlass]

I seem to recall looking up Cincinatus at one time and finding a really crappy article.

 

[Tekee]

Lol at the La Rosa De Guadalupe article
"It is a fun program, hat allows us to deliver positive messages, full of hope and struggle. It airs only once a week on Fridays at ten p.m. on Univision (in the US). In each episode the audience will see a miracle come true by the Virgin of Guadalupe. The story says that when you pray to the virgin and put a rose in front of her image, if the rose does not fade away, your wish is becoming true. That is where the name of the show comes from, "The Rose of Guadalupe". Each episode has different characters and different stories."

LOL Love it

Ciinuatus article was not so poorly written in my opinion, I don't understand what is so bad.
But never change the La Rosa article BugFatty, it is pure gold

 

[Cutlass]

It may have been improved since I saw it.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

I found one. Its about a mountain in Swetzerland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_(Kandersteg)

 

[Equuleus]

One time I saw an article on colonial Cambodia that said the current King of Cambodia died in 2010.

 

[Tekee]

I found one. Its about a mountain in Swetzerland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_(Kandersteg)

Heh it is rated Mid-Importance Swiss article, and a Low-Importance Mountain article.
I never find hooliganism on wikipedia...

 

[bestrfcplayer]

One time I saw an article on colonial Cambodia that said the current King of Cambodia died in 2010.

can you show me the link?

 

[Equuleus]

It was edited after a few days.

 

[Tekee]

It was edited after a few days.

Of course, hooliganism is funny if it lasts for long long time...

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Article on the outer core. Really? Also, pretty much any subjective topic people get butthurt about.

 

[Tekee]

Wow this one is terribly written and it deals with an ongoing controversy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathima_Rifqa_Bary_conversion_and_custody_controversy

It makes the claim that only Evangelical Christians want Rifqa out of parental custody. As well as a spelling mistake on "international" (internation.)

And this whole gem The situation drew internation attention[8] and became a cause célèbre[5] and a flashpoint of hostility between some members of the Christian and Muslim communities after a "cacophony of blogs, cable TV news reports and Facebook pages populated by strangers who assert – assuredly – anything they want to about her faith and her family and what they think should happen to her."[11]

Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida claimed that the controversy "has been sponsored by far-right religious groups who are intent on demonizing Islam and Muslims and painting the Columbus, Ohio community with being all extreme and fundamentalist and they're out to kill this poor girl," and that he had "great doubts that any father, especially a Muslim father, would harm his little girl."[11] Harry Coverston, who is a former public defender, an Episcopalian priest, and a professor of religion at the University of Central Florida theorized that some people "need an enemy" that will be seen as "demonic and fierce and threatening."[11] Dr. Hany Saqr of the Noor Islamic Cultural Center stated, "These Islamophobes are not only paranoiac but are so manipulative. Their method of guilt by association is comical in a way and dangerous in another."[12]

The public Debate section is all Pro-Islamic... Right I am gonna go see the talk page and see if anyone else got up on it.
Nah talk page is all quiet.

 

[civ_king]

OJ Simpson killed Ted Kennedy! lasted about five minutes (this was the day Kennedy died)

 

[Lord Baal]

The 'Ivan the Terrible' page once looked like it was writtten by Tekee - no offence Tekee, I'm just commenting on the broken English it used, which was eerily like yours. It was also shockingly biased in his favour. Don't know if it's been changed. RD Reynolds, who runs a wrestling website, has been pronounced dead by Wikipedia on at least four occasions, despite being quite alive. I can't think of any others off the top of my head, but I know I've seen some horribly bad Wiki pages before.