Behold: the dangers of unlimited, often unchecked Wikipedia editing. Scope out a perfect example of the kind of stuff Jason mentioned last night that can be screwed with by pretty much anyone and go for weeks or months without being corrected.
Somehow, I suspect this isn't an unbiased estimation of what Romantic poetry is, though I admit I think I've said pretty similarly damning things about the genre. However, I'd never, ever use "gay" to describe it. "Flamboyant" and sensational like a nice pair of pink leopard print leather pants, yes.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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Holy crap. This is now null and void! Somebody FIXED it!!!
Originally it read "romanticism was a super gay and stupid literary movement" then, farther down, "Leah Calho" (or something like that "is the BEST romanticist ever. She'd make a great, SMOKIN HOT librarian!"
This amused me as I sat here, drudging away at my thesis. I'm happy a good definition has been restored, but a little sad to see the entertainment go. :)
It's better to link to the vandalism's revision, than the main site, if you want to show a state. This works for both positive and negative revisions.
If you browse the vandalism, you'll see it was around in various forms from 16:53 through to about 17:12. 18 minutes, no big deal, in the scope of how people discuss Wikipedia. However, imagine if another site considered an authority in a subject called it "super gay" for 18 minutes.
That all said, the best part is if you see the person who goes in and blanks out the entire article, and a vandal bot comes along and RESTORES the older vandalism.
This falls under the bit I was talking about regarding beta-release. None of this would happen like this.
I'm a bit of an internet fuckwit. I still don't really understand the utility of a beta release (but I guess I'll go Wikipedia what that means, now. Ha), and I have no idea how to link to the vandalism's revision versus that to which I linked, so thanks for breakin' it down.
Cool. I get it thanks to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_release
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