Comment on WrestleMania was running wild on you

• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sometimes you’d think so. It’s actually more delayed than you’d think; major celebrities are often several minutes between major article publication and edit, when theoretically you could speedrun that kind of edit with a source in about two minutes from time of reading the article.

  You might’ve seen this, but the editor who changed Henry Kissinger to “was” became such a social media phenomenon that day that her talk page was flooded with “congratulations”. An administrator (being responsible, tbf) had to step in and remove gravedancing, my own included.

  Shame this kind of edit isn’t consistent or “Was%” would be a really fun speedrun.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think it’s important that Wikipedia remain unbiased and factual.

    It just happens to be a fact that kissinger’s death was worthy of celebration.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If a public figure dies and some people have good things and bad things to say about them, that is just life.

      If a public figure dies and a significant and diverse segment of the population want to dance on their grave and fight over who gets to celebrate their death the most, then that sounds like something of historical significance to me.

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