User:Shii/Diary

Call me old fashioned, but I like to fix random articles as I browse around. Here is a list of articles I fixed by month and what happened afterwards. =November 2009=

Fraternity articles
I noticed most fraternity articles don't have information about the meaning of their Greek letters or slogan, which is readily available on Wikileaks. I added the information to a few articles to see what would happen. Rather than requesting a citation, petty dictator Dysepsion reverted me and gave me a scolding on my user talk page for adding information to the articles which was true, and which I could have provided sources for if he asked politely. I didn't bother re-adding this information.

New Thought
I added Seicho-No-Ie to this article many moons ago. Now it had disappeared from the text so I added it again. Petty dictator Hrafn, editing from his account and his IP, reverted me twice, forcing me to add the information three times. The first time was with no cite because I thought it was obvious (it was cited on the Seicho-No-Ie page). The second time I added a cite per his request. The third time I had to look up the page number for him. After the second revert this warlord gave me a template message warning me not to add new information to Wikipedia pages. I responded with a humorous "template" of my own, after which he scolded me for improving on the article. I called him out on his bullshit, which he responded to passive aggressively by deleting my message, much like JBsupreme below. 

Sylvie and Bruno
This entire article is unsourced. I know this book had bad reception which isn't mentioned in the article so I added this information. Rather than requesting a citation, petty dictator Cfortunato reverted me unilaterally for adding unsourced info. The entire article remains unsourced.

JBSupreme

 * See this ArbCom report for the full story

Amadiya
This is an article about a diocese that doesn't link to the town the diocese was centered in. I thought that was pretty silly so I added a wikilink to the town, but petty dictator Djwilms reverted me. After the second try I got him to actually elaborate on the full relationship of the diocese to the town. 

Edits I made that were improved upon
Luckily the system is not totally broken. After two tries, I was able to contribute a basic summary of my understanding to a Falun Gong article under the watchful eye of a dozen POV warring editors, and have it cleaned up and kept. My edit to the article Laylat al-Qadr on Orientalist perspectives was heavily improved by Muslim editors. This is probably because nobody interested in Muslim holidays particularly wants to own the article but only to improve upon it. Shii (tock) 05:46, 10 November 2009 (UTC) =February 2010=

Unknown Tajiki captive in Guantanamo
Articles for deletion/Unknown Tajiki captive in Guantanamo went through AfD, received nothing but keep votes, and was deleted.

Hetoimasia
Hetoimasia is a symbol found throughout primitive cultures but which attains its fullest expression in Christian symbolism. At least, that's what the article's owner would have you believe. I battled long and hard to remove this cultural imperialism but eventually gave up.

The Golden Bough
This is a weird one... The Golden Bough is a book that's over a century old now, and has long been relegated to the dust bin of anthropology. It's so obviously full of amateur work, arrogance, and falsehoods that Evans-Pritchard felt free to dismiss it off hand when talking about more serious anthropological investigations. However, this article has an owner who believes the book is sacred, and won't permit criticism! Jesus! I hope he never has to take an intro anthro class... he won't survive the battle wounds.

Wendy Doniger
The owners of this article (there's more than one) feel that the czarina of Hindu studies is literally beyond criticism. Her article was removed from Encarta? She's had an egg thrown at her? Clearly a coincidental product of pure chaos, with no relevance to her pristine, perfect work. Neither of these are allowed to be included in the article. Eventually, I was able to sneak in a full paragraph that hints at how it might not all be sunshine and roses up in Donigerland. Shii (tock) 23:34, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

=October 2010= When I do research on various subjects I often notice their articles are crap. However, nobody reverts me, so I won't list those here; it's just demonstrative of the difference between Wikipedia and real knowledge.

Last month, an article sourced only to conservative websites was kept, while an article with academic references was deleted.

One article I'd like to spotlight this month is Ethnic issues in the People's Republic of China, which is hilariously written to put all the blame on Chinese minorities for starting all the racism in China. Shii (tock) 05:40, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Do you believe in miracles?
Too bad! On Wikipedia, it is forbidden to mention that an event is popularly described as a "miracle": Talk:US_Airways_Flight_1549/Archive_7 Shii (tock) 23:55, 13 October 2010 (UTC) =December 2010=

Ayumi Hamasaki
According to English Wikipedia, Ayumi is still a popular singer and has never been criticized. Yeah, I'm not even going to touch that one.

Kucheng Massacre
User:GnuDoyng describes himself as follows on his user page: "I believe in Biblical inerrancy. I think what is stated explicitly in the Scripture needs not to be restated in whatever form such as cultural relativism. Therefore, I abominate idolatry (including atheism), and I loathe homosexual behavior, etc." Perhaps, then, it should be no surprise that he reverted sourced information in an article about Chinese peasants standing up to foreign Christian domination. The vandalism was left standing for many months until I noticed it. Shii (tock) 01:13, 9 December 2010 (UTC)