What was the worst thing you did on wikipedia?

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01 Mar 2010, 12:17 pm

I used to blank pages back in gr11 and it caused all the school computers (with the same IP address) to not be able to edit for a while. I doubt any teacher or the principal would even care that no one can edit wikipedia for a while. Well, I might have been a contributing factor to the editing ban since there may be other people at the school who also edit wikipedia in a bad way.

Anyway, that was back then, I don't mess around with wikipedia anymore.



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01 Mar 2010, 12:32 pm

On time, I deleted nearly all the text of an article about a still alive French celebrity (a writer and philosopher), only letting which means "XX (born in Y at Z) is an idiot".
It has been reversed less than one minute after. :lol:


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01 Mar 2010, 4:10 pm

A couple years ago my brother and I vandalized the article for the Nintendo DS game Apollo Justice to make it sound like a porno. It was hysterical, but was reversed within several minutes. We also got a warning.



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01 Mar 2010, 4:50 pm

I vandalize the University of Georgia page every now and then.


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01 Mar 2010, 4:51 pm

I also changed the lyrics of the Christmas song "Jingle Bells"

Dashing thru the snow, on a pair of broken skis.... :lol:



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02 Mar 2010, 3:30 pm

I thoroughly raped the plot synopsis of Akira.


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02 Mar 2010, 7:09 pm

None... Because I never knew you could seriously edit it up until today... :lol:


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02 Mar 2010, 7:16 pm

Not really the worst but I got a few laughs out of it:
At school my and my friend were on wiki and searching for nuclear energy for a science project and like the immature kids we are decided to write "nuclear energy is my favourite food". And then we searched for my birth date then put my birthday on the list of events. On an article about emos my friend put "emos are wannabe goths" or something like that.
After a while we tried to edit another article but we were banned from editing. But it was only temporary.


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02 Mar 2010, 9:05 pm

There was an article about a school (grade 7-12) in an area that is populated by many Asians and on wikipedia it said something like "the students in this school is 100% Asian"



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02 Mar 2010, 10:00 pm

jc6chan wrote:
I also changed the lyrics of the Christmas song "Jingle Bells"

Dashing thru the snow, on a pair of broken skis.... :lol:


You didn't do "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, Batmobile broke its wheel, the Joker got away"?


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02 Mar 2010, 11:02 pm

I've posted a bit about die cast Routemasters, in the article about Corgi Toys. I went back there, a year later and asked myself, who added that bit of information. It dawned on me that it was I, who did it, at the height of my Routemaster obsession. I've never edited anything on Wikipeadia, again.


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03 Mar 2010, 1:09 am

I edited the Twilight page to say Stephenie Meyer suffered from severe brain damage.


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03 Mar 2010, 11:12 am

Apart from ACTUALLY going to the website in the first place..................clicking on a link IN.........and then another and ending up in outer space :?


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03 Mar 2010, 12:03 pm

Nothing. The idea of vandalising information like that is horrible. :?


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03 Mar 2010, 12:54 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
jc6chan wrote:
I also changed the lyrics of the Christmas song "Jingle Bells"

Dashing thru the snow, on a pair of broken skis.... :lol:


You didn't do "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, Batmobile broke its wheel, the Joker got away"?

I forgot if I did or not



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01 Apr 2013, 1:42 am

Ignored their funding campaign.