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[–] 64 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I once posted a Wikipedia article to r/TodayILearned, and my post went really popular. Someone a few hours later then edited the Wikipedia page to contradict my Reddit post title, reported my post to the subreddit mods, and my post got taken down.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Is that Wikipedia page accurate today?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure. It was about the "turbo" button on 80s PCs, and how its function could be confusing to users depending on how it was wired. You look at the talk page and edit history there's still a lot of arguments about this.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Most of the edits to try and say turbo is the slow mode were done by the one person, they seem to think they are right when all the evidence points to the contrary. I'm glad they seem to have given up for now.

    Heh maybe you inspired them :p

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah unless the fact that the original Wikipedia article was grossly inaccurate in person that edited actually did edit it correctly then this sounds like a bullshit made up sorry. I mean not that it didn't actually happen because that shit happens all the time. But if we compete I would have been edited and then had somebody report it within usually a few hours or so it would be removed and returned it back to the original state once it was verified false.

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