Talk:/b/

Split from 4chan
/pol/ has had its own article since July 2017. /b/ has its own WP:Notability independent of 4chan, and the culture and community of /b/ is distinct from the rest of 4chan as a platform.

There is a subsection with content at 4chan. The next step to development is moving the content from 4chan to here, then replacing the longer explanation at 4chan with a summary now that the section can link to this as a main article.

I am taking this slow for now and only linking 4chan to here as a first step. If anyone wants to jump into this then please do.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  15:53, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

About the sources here
I searched for b and 4chan in a few search engines. The sources I have here in this draft all specifically describe /b/. I made no assumptions about any source which was talking about 4chan in general, so this draft has more focused sources. Probably there are 10-20x more sources available which name 4chan, neglect to name /b/, but which actually are discussing /b/. Many sources confuse 4chan and /b/, as if they are the same. To me this seems comparable to describing all of reddit or YouTube based on one subreddit or playlist. I recognize that sites which publish user generated content are challenging for anyone to document in the way that it is possible to document media with staff content producers.

My recommendation for future development is to post to this talk page if anyone uses a source to talk about /b/ if that source does not explicitly name /b/.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  15:53, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Request blacklist link exemption
/b/ is blacklisted in Wikipedia as an external link. I requested an exemption to link to be in the "external links" section of this article as documented at MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  16:13, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Mostly porn
The content here seems outdated or something. /b/ is about 90% porn, compared to any "discussion" or anything else. 209.152.195.77 (talk) 16:42, 19 February 2024 (UTC)