Wikipedia's Equinox (Solstice 2) page is awful...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:24:47 GMT

Pogs

There are also street rules for those who still play, such as skipping your turn to try and reflip an opponent's POGs into the upright position, and combo moves (catching and re-throwing the slammer). These rules are not used in sanctioned competitions, after the 1995 incident causing the death of 2 players who agreed that thrown...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:36:13 GMT

It's gotta be a prank; Phatamus Prime brings up no Google results other than those related to that page.

What I'm noticing at Wikipedia now are things that aren't wrong, per se, but are written kind of badly.

The issue of capital punishment came up in the October 13, 1988 debate...

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feeds@yuku.com (sethrashnoo) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:18:52 GMT

That's equally funny prank or not.

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:48:35 GMT

From the entry on the Fat Boys:

There was a fourth Fat Boy, Bill "Phatamus Prime" Whitker (He was one of the original Fat Boys and was with the band during the Disco 4 Era (before the Disco Three came to be) until a fight with Buffy over a pizza and a can of chicken noodle soup caused him to quit.

Is that true or is that a Wikipedia prank? It doesn't cite any sources.

Even if it is true, that's still a pretty ridiculous...

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:38:42 GMT

Joe Walsh's picture is a really ridiculous drawing of his head:

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

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:27:47 GMT

That's really sad, Crawl. If you were a true fan, you'd have known about that already.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:14:49 GMT

From the Captain Planet article

rarely known is that captain planets father lives in albany IN under the alias tanner harshman

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feeds@yuku.com (sethrashnoo) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:06:44 GMT

TaroSH wrote:
Folks, I may have very well found the worst video game Wikipedia page yet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley%27s_Adventure

The only bit of information on this page is still wrong (that it's a kid's game).

It sounds like they wrote that after just looking at the package art. I...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:16:51 GMT

The Gamefaqs review of Equinox that has the star is pretty bad, too. He says that you can't fight the enemies ... meaning he never played long enough to get a weapon ... meaning he played five minutes, and wrote a review in less time than that.

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:30:50 GMT

From the Conker's Bad Fur Day article:

When Conker's Bad Fur Day was released, many publications and websites considered the graphics to be the best to date on the N64 (even better than Perfect Dark's).

Guess who they cite for this? IGN and Gamespot.
Although the song was reused from the Rhythm of the Pride Lands album.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:55:37 GMT

[Regarding the music in Lion King 2]

"He lives in You" is an original song by Lebo M and his African choir. This song represents

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:46:34 GMT

While both films were commercial successes,The Lion King received a greater amount of positive feedback and larger grosses than Pocahontas, but both became known Disney classics.[7]^{Re: Wikipedia's Equinox (Solstice 2) page is awful...
feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:28:57 GMT
Wikipedia might be making it against their official policy to have "criticism" sections.

I dunno. For some subjects that are controversial and which have unified criticism against them, I think it makes sense. Example, the Church of Scientology.
Or maybe The Bell Curve.

It has become a Wikipedia cliche, however. I know I've seen some articles on people that have had maybe one controversial thing happen in a 30 year period
of fame, and the section is just...

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feeds@yuku.com (TaroSH) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:57:22 GMT
Folks, I may have very well found the worst video game Wikipedia page yet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley%27s_Adventure

The only bit of information on this page is still wrong (that it's a kid's game).

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:07:56 GMT
Here's a helpful Wikipedia page: Exploding Animals.

An exploding animal is an animal that explodes either through natural causes or the intervention of humans.^{Re: Wikipedia's Equinox (Solstice 2) page is awful...
feeds@yuku.com (CRAWLand1000) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:12:07 GMT
That link also admits he thinks games were better in the past, but that, professionally, he lies about that.

"Without a foothold in the past, we cannot walk towards the future."

-Vagrant Story

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:18:28 GMT
Seriously, the point of having citations in an encyclopedia is that the sources are supposed to know more or be more authoritative about the subject than a random reader of the article. But how can you even get reliable opinion citations for videogames? Publications freely admit they don't beat the games they review, and and less frequently admit they barely know anything about...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:16:40 GMT
They're trying to get citations for those opinions, but considering their sources for those citations are magazines like EGM, which contains such gems as

Quote:Sharazade is no where near as classy looking as other RPGs currently populating store shelves, but it may provide some diverstion for game players looking for another adventure to overcome. The game looks cheesey graphically, but the play isn't that bad. Fans...

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feeds@yuku.com (DOVEBLOB) — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:32:39 GMT
Wikipedia's game articles are often so full of opinion, they're practically becoming a second GameFAQs.

Where can I find...a bagel?

Wikipedia's Equinox (Solstice 2) page is awful...
feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:44:01 GMT
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I wouldn't care if it was a review or an opinion piece on a site, but it really bothers me that something that's supposed to be an encyclopedia article has so much stuff that's blatantly opinion. And it has the one criticism I've seen of this game elsewhere that pisses me...}}