The Hall of Shame

Wikipedia seems to be failing. At the very least, if it isn't failing it's not very fun to edit unless you have a very low definition of "encyclopedic" and\or a naive, unfounded belief that Wikipedia will get better over time. The purpose of this page is to document various absurd edits to Wikipedia that are somewhat reflective of the problems with it. The citation of a particular user's edit is in no way intended to denigrate them or their ability to edit, personally.

WP:FAIL
WP:Zombies
WP:Anti-Wikipedianism
User:Shii/Hoaxes
(see Brahmanical See on that list)
Essjay controversy
WP:Expert rebellion
Talk:Muhammad/FAQ -- an embarrassing attempt at reasoning with Islamic POV-pushers
The protection log for Criticism of Wikipedia
User:Raymond arritt/Expert withdrawal
User:Alex756
User:The Thadman/Give Back Our Membership
List of lists
- List of LGBT couples
- List of major artifacts in Dungeons & Dragons
- List of minor planets
- List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck"
- List of cults
  (not unencyclopedic, but there's constant vandalism)
WP:ARS (also see their wonderful article, Bawls
)

Category:Wikipedia categories
- Category:Exploding animals
Portal:Portal (kept twice over a decade, now at Wikipedia:Portal:Portal
)

X (disambiguation) (most of the stuff there is on pop culture, if not being outright fancruft)
Controlled demolition hypothesis for the collapse of the World Trade Center
Satanic ritual abuse[1]

Back to the Future timeline

An anonymous IP called people in a content dispute Jews and was pushing anti-semitic conspiracy theory. After reporting it on
WP:ANI, most of the folks there were apologetic. Only User:ChrisO was the voice of reason and seemed to understand. [2]

I attempted to make constructive edits to
Austrian economics, which was and is dominated by a POV-pushing mob. I ended up getting blocked for edit-warring. See User:Zenwhat/Evidence. My ArbCom case was rejected as a mere "content dispute." At the time, User:Newyorkbrad
was labeled as on vacation and unable to respond to comments on cases, yet during the weeks he put that message up, he was generally the first arbitrator to respond.

I proposed merging

Austrian economics

.

I expressed frustration about immature SysOps in the IRC. Users were apologetic. [4]
In IRC (I can't post this here, because it's against the rules), I was once told by a certain nameless editor that administrators are capable of falsifying policy violations in order to justify banning users they don't like. This wasn't an anti-Wikipedia conspiracy theorist, mind you. It was two people: an IRC SysOp and an experienced, well-respected editor on Wikipedia.
I say that people come to Wikipedia to gain knowledge. A user replies, "Not necessarily." [5]
Users are apologetic about using encyclopedias as a source FOR AN ENCYCLOPEDIA! [6]
I argue that Wikimedia's statistics aren't reliable. I deal with some pretty absurd remarks. [7]
The witch-hunt of Adam Cuerden
Wikipedia:List of cabals, a joke, but which to some degree holds some truth: 1) That users frequently put forth silly claims about "cabals" 2) That there actually are mobs of editors around various topics.
I some saw blatant favoritism regarding a certain user choosing to have their userpage and talkpage history wiped. [8] So, I decided to ask the admins to wipe my clean for me too. I didn't expect them to actually do it, but amazingly, they did.[9] So, I left a message explaining how I wanted it restored, how I'd make immature remarks in the past that it was important for the community to see. [10]
AfD for Mzoli's. [11]

My comment on
WP:ANI, "This thread is too critical of the admins. Someone should clamp an archive template around it to stop it and edit-war with anybody trying to remove it. Is anybody willing to do this?" [12] Later, User:Jehochman slapped a collapse template around it. [13] User:Relata refero removed it. [14] Then User:Jehochman added an archive template. [15]

Because of lack of consensus in
Gun politics, a user proposed a "Conservative statistics" section that actually seems to have been up, for a while. [16]

WP:BLP apparently applies to Heath Ledger, post-mortem. [17]

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:BQZip01/Comments