Knocklyon on WIkipedia

Bartronilic

So unblievably funny! Nobody change anything (i didn't make it but just leave it the way it is!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/Knocklyon

The Templeogue wikipedia is just plain weird... whoever wrote most of it said that Templeogue people were the first to learn how to watch colour telivision and go shopping in a supermarket. Weird. Anyway read the Knocklyon one.

Matthewthebig

wow

it's true stupid people can type

aidan_walsh

Dublin forum, tbh.

Rb

Unbelievably funny?
I don't think so.

projectmayhem

ah it was pretty good

Binomate

Rofl.

youcancallmeal

Surprisingly accurate :eek:

Mossy Monk

aidan_walsh wrote:

Dublin forum, tbh.

why bother putting it in the right place when everything else is put here anyway

sturgo

that's class!

biko

Union Jack
All members of the boy-band Union Jack hail from Knocklyon. Unfortunately, the two homicide victims mentioned previously were also members of this band. RIP.

Grade A stuff

crosstownk

I lived in Knocklyon for 7 years and that article is rubbish (most of it anyway). First I ever heard of Black Wednesday. Where did they get that population figure from? Way to low - even for 2002. Half that amount live in Woodstown!!!

blu_sonic

crosstownk wrote:

I lived in Knocklyon for 7 years and that article is rubbish (most of it anyway). First I ever heard of Black Wednesday. Where did they get that population figure from? Way to low - even for 2002. Half that amount live in Woodstown!!!

its clearly a joke, someone went in messing at it, expect it to be fixed with in the week

kjt

crosstownk wrote:

I lived in Knocklyon for 7 years and that article is rubbish (most of it anyway). First I ever heard of Black Wednesday. Where did they get that population figure from? Way to low - even for 2002. Half that amount live in Woodstown!!!

lol


Great article!

super_furry

I live in Knocklyon and even I don't think it's funny. True, but not funny.

pbsuxok1znja4r

Boo-urns. Some jerk fixed it...

lodgepole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Conor

Only hours after it gets posted here too... It's all still in the history anyway.

The thing is, although tongue was firmly in cheek most of what was in that article was accurate. There was more to be learnt than the six or seven nonsense facts that exist there now.

CuLT

Here's a link to the unedited one: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knocklyon&oldid=46685790

Bless wikipedia's historical function

Now I've to read it!

Cactus Col

"Will do anything for drugs , bitch"


That crazy rick james!

blu_sonic

Hey i edit Wikipedia too, but i let the Knocklyon one run it was funny

lodgepole

blu_sonic wrote:

Hey i edit Wikipedia too, but i let the Knocklyon one run it was funny

On a serious note, if you were to have edited something similar to the Knocklyon one how would you go about it? The person who edited the knocklyon one just removed anything that sounded like it was supposed to be funny, when in fact at least a quarter of it was accurate information about the area. Do you remove or first research and then remove?

blu_sonic

Anyone can edit anything i signed up to do the Shamrock Rovers page, if i were editing something (i edited the Crumlin page) i would research it or only if was dead certain about it, I was born and grew up in Crumlin and reearched it deeply.

I'd advise people to research the topic they are editing/adding to 1st

lodgepole

blu_sonic wrote:

Anyone can edit anything i signed up to do the Shamrock Rovers page, if i were editing something (i edited the Crumlin page) i would research it or only if was dead certain about it, I was born and grew up in Crumlin and reearched it deeply.

I'd advise people to research the topic they are editing/adding to 1st

Ah ok, I misunderstood you then. I thought you said you cleaned up nonsense on wikipedia, like the guy who removed the Knocklyon stuff.

blu_sonic

But he'd be in the same context as me i think, anyone can sign up, you could edit pages, sign up

Anyone can edit wikipedia.

You don't even have to sign up.

However if you put nonsense in it will get reverted.

I reverted those edits BTW.

blu_sonic

When you edit/revert do you research the topic? Most people who edit and don't sign up are vandels though (my handle is the same as here BTW)

lodgepole

blu_sonic wrote:

When you edit/revert do you research the topic?

That's pretty much what I was asking. Do you edit anything you suspect to be nonsense or put time in to it to remove the nonsense and keep the fact. This is aimed at Ronoc since it was him who changed them. I understand how Wikipedia works in terms of adding and editing content, i'm asking about your actual intention.

The first warning bell is an IP address and no prior edits.

I look at what I consider to be a good version and follow the edits.

In this case the article had information with no sources, non encyclopedic information, and jokes inserted in it over the course of around 30 edits!