#incorrect wikipedia quotes

[batfamhyperfixation]

Damian: How petty can you get?

Bernard: I once edited a Wikipedia article to win an argument I was wrong about

Tim: I fucking knew it! I was right!

Jason: You know, I think Bernard just became my new favorite sibling

Tim: we aren't married yet, he wouldn't be your sibling

Bernard: 'yet?' got a question you wanna ask me Timmy?

Tim: yeah, how does it feel to have been wrong?

#this is why he edited wikipedia tim #he got his editing privileges revoked on there just to convince you #batkids #batfam #bat family #jason todd #incorrect batfamily quotes #tim drake #bernard dowd #timber #timbern #damian wayne

[moxie-girl]

Bungou Stray Dogs as Deleted Wikipedia Articles with Freaky Titles, pt. 2

#minor manga spoilers! #bsd manga spoilers #manga spoilers #spoiler warning #bsd #bsd funny #bsd memes #bungou stray dogs memes #bungou stray dogs #bsd incorrect quotes #deleted wikipedia articles #wikipedia #bsd natsume #bsd fukuzawa #bsd chuuya #bsd sigma #bsd yosano #bsd gogol #bsd tachihara #bsd mori

[did-slid-skid]

childhood friends <3

#camille desmoulins #robespierre #frev #frev art #art #robe + cam #my art #questionable historical accuracy but whatever #tis from the incorrect quote generator anyway #swings definitely did exist by then but not modern playgrounds #and the truth or dare precursor didn't use the word dare since it was called question or command #source: 2 seconds of reading wikipedia

[banana-vatore]

babe wake up it’s slingphries saturday

#loosely inspired by that one incorrect quote tumblr post about them #where eric goes ‘i once edited a wikipedia article to win an argument’ #i really feel like he’d do that #slingphries #slingphries saturday #eric slingby #alan humphries #black butler #kuroshitsuji #kuroshitpost #shinigami #grim reapers

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

KANAYA: They’re Putting Your Fail Ass On Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit

#submission #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #kanaya maryam #mod terezi #then i know i've made it #see y'all later i'm on wikipedia now

[sunshineinagrove]

You know that incorrect quote that goes,

person a: what is the pettiest you’ve ever been?

person b: I once edited an entire Wikipedia article to win an argument against person c

Yea well me and my friends took it to the next level and I’m stuffing in Warriors and Legend.

Hyrule: What is the pettiest you’ve ever been?

Legend: I once deleted an entire Wikipedia article because I knew Warriors would use it against me in an argument.

Warriors: And I knew he was gonna delete the article so I uploaded the exact same article onto Wikipedia as well as put a copy in my files.

Legend: And I knew he was gonna do that so I hacked his phone and deleted the file along with the second Wikipedia article.

Warriors: I saw that coming though, so I made sure to carry my computer with me since it also has a copy of the article and has a better security system.

Legend: So I stole his computer and smashed it, then buried the remains.

Warriors: But I printed out the article and put it in a pocket I sewed into my shirt.

Warriors: *pulls out article* As you can see, it says here that servants did, in fact, build the Giza Pyramids.

Legend: *pulls out a Smithsonian article* It says here that the Pyramids were built by the common citizens of Egypt as every citizen was required to serve at a few weeks of mandatory labour every month.

Warriors: O_o

Legend, to Hyrule: See, this is why you don’t trust Wikipedia.

#linked universe #lu legend #lu hyrule #lu warriors #incorrect quotes #I don’t actually know if any Wikipedia article says this #But it is true that the pyramids were built by citizens and not slaves and servants #Look it up #i also don’t know about the Smithsonian article #Haha you get a few laughs AND a history fact #Have a good day/night

[1337wtfomgbbq]

Outside a bar

Bjarne: When I turned pro you were 13, isn't that weird?

Jan, drunk as fuck: Can I... can I suck you off?

#funnily enough #Bjarne ACTUALLY turned pro when jan was 13 #he turned pro in 1987 #when Jan was 13 #but tbf according to wikipedia Jan also turned amateur in 1987 #incorrect cycling quotes #cycling stuff #cycling #jan ullrich #bjarne riis #ullriis #source: tumblr

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

American Psycho VR But The AI Is Self-Aware

Coomer: Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?

Gordon: They're okay.

Coomer, putting on a raincoat and sneaking over with a fire axe: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

Gordon: Hey, Dr. Coomer.

Coomer: Yes, Dr. Freeman?

Gordon: Why are there copies of the style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?

Coomer: No, Dr. Freeman!

Gordon: Is that a rain coat?

Coomer: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. You can read about it on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit! HELLO, GORDON! (attacks Gordon with the fire axe) AAAAAAAAAA

#shenanigans #doctor coomer #gordon freeman #doctor coomer saying things #hlvrai #half-life vr but the ai is self-aware #american psycho #wikipedia #fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak memes stronger #violence mention #queue continuum #incorrect quotes

[incorrect-benny-quotes]

Bev: How petty can you get?

Brax: I once edited a Wikipedia article to win an argument I was wrong about.

#bev tarrant #irving braxiatel #incorrect benny quotes #incorrect quotes #...not just once #why edit just wikipedia when you can edit history

[anotherincorrectquotesblog]

A: I dunno, there’s no controversies section on their Wikipedia page so I’m not gonna shit on them too much.

B: That’s quite an accomplishment!

#incorrect quotes #2 characters #Wikipedia #controversy #source: beach too sandy water too wet

[moxie-girl]

Bungou Stray Dogs as Deleted Wikipedia Articles with Freaky Titles, pt. 4 (The Guild!)

#bsd #bsd funny #bsd memes #bungou stray dogs memes #bungou stray dogs #bsd incorrect quotes #deleted wikipedia articles #wikipedia #bsd guild #the guild #bsd lucy #bsd louisa may alcott #bsd steinbeck #bsd john steinbeck

[wordpainterpixie]

Valentine: *sighs*

Orsino: You bored?

Valentine: Yeah.

Orsino: Wanna start drama for no reason?

Valentine: I thought you’d never ask.

Mercutio: Can I help?

Orsino: Of course! The more, the merrier!

Feste: *from offstage* He doesn't even go here!

#twelfth night #incorrect quotes #duke orsino #valentine twelfth night #mercutio #romeo and juliet #inspired by the fact that mercutio has a cousin named valentine #at least according to wikipedia

[literallymechanical]

Alessandro Volta's Electric Eels

Okay so, it turns out that your cell phone battery is a basically a homunculus of an electric fish. 

These are the same thing. Let me explain.

@fishteriously, a paleoichthyologist, told me that Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery after studying electric eels and rays.  This sounded like a fun science factoid!  I wanted to know more!  I saw the claim repeated on any number of pop science articles from the last century or so, but none that quoted from primary sources.

The voltaic pile is one of the most important inventions, ever, of all time.  Before Volta, electricity could be stored in Leyden jar capacitors, which would discharge in a single, brief burst. Volta's pile was the first method of producing a continuous electric current, which launched the modern era of electricity as we know it. His explanation for how it worked was incorrect, but it was still a massive breakthrough.

Batteries use the same principle to this day, just with different materials (e.g. cobalt oxide, graphite, and lithium salts rather than silver, zinc, and brine).

But is it a fish?

This is Volta's first schematic of a battery, or "voltaic pile" – at the time, "battery" referred to a bunch of Leyden jars linked in series, the term wouldn't come to refer to piles until later. "Z" and "A" stand for zinc and silver ("argentum"), with brine-soaked paper disks between. It does look a bit like an eel?

But is it truly?

Surely, if Volta modeled the pile after electric fishes, I’d be able to find a citation!  Wikipedia is usually a good place to start when hunting primary sources, but no luck.  No mention of fish at all.  I trust fishteriously more than wikipedia, however, so I went digging.  Looks like Volta first reported his discovery in a Letter to the Royal Society in 1800.

Found the letter!

Aw beans, it’s in French.  I haven’t studied French since high school.

BUT WAIT. WHAT WAS THAT.

Une commotion électrique? A trembling eel???

Okay so now I NEEDED to read the letter in English. I found an English-language summary published by the Royal Society, but it looks like the only English translation of the full letter was in the appendix of an out-of-print book called “Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery.”

So I bought a used copy. Let's see what Volta has to say about this:

"To this apparatus ... I have constructed it, in its form to the natural electric organ of the torpedo or electric eel, &c, than to the Leyden flask and electric batteries [battery = linked Leyden flasks], I would wish to give the name of artificial electric organ."

Yes! The voltaic pile was explicitly modeled after electric fishes – torpedo rays and electric eels.  Fishteriously was 100% correct. Volta never even calls it a "pile," it is always "artificial electric organ." A significant portion of the letter is devoted to electric eels and torpedo rays, in fact.

But also, the rest of the letter is bonkers.

He wrote pages on painful experiments with the artificial electric organ – touching it, poking it into his eyes and ears, making other people touch it, generally just shocking the ever loving hell out of himself over and over. He routinely shocks himself so hard that he has to take breaks. And of course, he licks it.

But that's not the best part:

He says that the artificial electric organ can be turned sideways and submerged in liquid...

"...by which means these cylinders would have a pretty good resemblance to the electric eel ... they might be joined together by pliable metallic wires or screw springs, and then covered with a skin terminated by a head and tail properly formed, &c."

There you have it. One of the most important scientific discoveries of all time, and it includes a crafts project for building an authentic electric eel puppet.

In summary, next time you charge your phone, take a moment to thank the soul of the electric fish inside of it.

#science #engineering #not mad just disappointed

[danshive]

I think something that probably does get taught in schools, but probably not enough, is how to share facts without just repeating how they were told to you.

For example, explaining migratory patterns of ducks without just copy / pasting from Wikipedia. I don’t know why I chose migratory ducks, but I did.

If you want to avoid plagiarism, here’s some tips (with the assumption that sources will be cited). I’m not claiming to be an expert, what’s below just makes sense to me (especially the first one):

Actually understand the material. Know it well enough to explain it without quoting someone else. If you are prepared to annoy someone with migratory duck facts on command, you’re ready.

Write an outline of points to include that’s phrased as simply as possible. Don’t quote anything (unless, y’know, actual quotes that will be credited). Just write out those facts you need to cover.

Write using the simplistic outline as your guide. Don’t try too hard to be clever in your first draft.

Improve what you’ve written in subsequent drafts. Look out for overused phrases and general redundancies (this has nothing to do with plagiarism, it will just help improve the writing).

If you quote someone or something, credit them / it.

Don’t use AI. It’s automated plagiarism, takes from other people’s writing, and could include incorrect information even if it wasn’t.

I welcome additional tips in response.

#dan shive says stuff #writing

[muqingfx]

INCORRECT TGCF QUOTES

Xie Lian: How petty can you get?

Mu Qing: I once edited a Wikipedia page to win and argument against Feng Xin.

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Mu Qing: [beating Feng Xin with a broom]

Xie Lian: ...what are you doing?

Mu Qing: Cleaning.

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Heavenly Officials: You can't talk to us. You can't sit with us.

Xie Lian: I didn't know we still has cliques in heaven.

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Hua Cheng: What if we went to dinner, but not as friends?

Xie lian, confused: ...you want to go as enemies?

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Mu Qing: Fuck you.

Feng xin: Is that an insult to a to-do list?

Mu Qing: What?

Feng xin: What.

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Hua Cheng: Gege, do the thing.

Xie Lian: [smiles happily]

Hua Cheng, breathless: Oh my god.

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Anyone not Xie Lian: [speaks]

Hua Cheng: [puts eyepatch over left eye]

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Xie Lian: Qi Rong, what do you wanna be when you grow up?

Qi Rong: I wanna be president.

Xie Lian: Aww.

Qi Rong: So I can make slavery legal again.

Xie lian: AwwwWwWw...what.

lol they're all from pinterest

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #mxtx tgcf #heavens official blessing #mu qing #hua cheng #feng xin #xie lian #hua lian #hualian #feng qing #fengqing #incorrect quotes #tgcf incorrect quotes #qi rong

[moths-are-better]

one time I stockpiled a whole bunch of incorrect quotes and I think I should finally post them

Eva: Why are you on fire?  Dally: This is just how my day is going.

Eva: We have to plan, we have to figure something out.  Yugo: Eva, when have any of our plans ever actually worked? We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose.

Eva: How the hell are you still alive?  Ruel: Honestly, I’m just as confused as you are.

Adamai : Don’t weep for the stupid. You’ll be crying all day.

Adamai : What goes up but never comes down?  Eva: The amount of stress you're bringing this family.

Yugo, writing in their diary with a glitter gel pen: I'm losing my sense of humanity. Nothing matters. God is dead. There's blood on my hands.

Yugo: Is that a gun?!  Amalia : It's not what it looks like!  Yugo: It looks like a gun!  Amalia : Okay, maybe it is what it looks like, but in my defense, it doesn't have anymore bullets, so I technically can't shoot it anymore.  Yugo: ...ANYMORE?!

Adamai , singing: He's making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's on thin fucking ice  Amalia , also singing: Santa Claus is calling you out!

Adamai : Can I borrow five dollars?  Yugo: If you’re only borrowing it, does that mean you’ll pay me back?  Adamai : Of course.  Adamai : Not directly, but with my love and affection.  Yugo: So that’s a no.

Adamai : STOP!  *Everyone stops*  Adamai : wAiT a MiNuTe-

Cop: What are your names?  Yugo: Don't tell them, Amalia .  Cop, writing: Amalia ...  Yugo: Crap.  Amalia : Nice going, Yugo.  Cop: Amalia : Uh oh.

Adamai : That's it, I'm cutting off the internet!  Yugo: No, please don't! I have a family to feed!  Adamai : Adamai : What?  Yugo: I need to feed my Neopets!

Ruel: You know, I used to play back in my gory days.  Dally: You mean glory days?  Ruel: Ah, that too.

Yugo: .. .----. -- / ... --- .-. .-. -.-- [translation: I’M SORRY] Amaila: What's that? Yugo: Remorse code. Amaila: I'm even angrier now.

Yugo: Amaila and I have the kind of easy chemistry where we finish each other's-  Amaila: Sentences.  Yugo: Don't interrupt me.

Yugo: What’s up guys? I’m back. Amaila: What the- you can’t be here. You’re dead. I literally saw you die. Yugo: Death is a social construct.

Amalia : You're violent.  Yugo: Yeah but I'm also short and that's adorable.

Yugo: Amalia and I are no longer dating.  Amalia : Yugo, that’s a horrible way of telling people we’re married.

Yugo: If there's going to be a big dramatic scene, wait until I get back. Amaila: Of course. I can't flip this table by myself.

Yugo: How petty can you get? Amaila: I once edited a Wikipedia article to win an argument I was wrong about.

Chibi: You need a hobby.  Yugo: I have a hobby!  Chibi: Hitting Quilby isn't a hobby.

Eva: Guys, I’ve been meaning to tell you… Dally and I are dating.  Dally, Adamai, Amalia , and Yugo: *gasp*  Eva: Dally, why are you surprised?!

Amalia : Dally! For the love of god, please turn down that music. I have a hangover.  Dally: *blasting the mii theme at full volume* That sounds like a you problem, not a mii problem.

Amalia : Dally, this morning, I called you abhorrent and reprehensible, and I’d like to withdraw that statement-  Dally: Aww, thanks-  Amalia : But I can't. Those are the 2 words that best describe you.

*Dally is fighting a monster*  Adamai: Just stay calm! You already have everything you need to beat it!  Dally: The power to believe in myself!?  Adamai: No, a knife! Stab it!

I have more so I’ll post them eventually

#I’ve had some of these for months #wakfu #ankama #wakfu yugo #yugo wakfu #wakfu amalia #eliatrope council #wakfu s4 #Wakfu incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #wakfu dally #wakfu tristepin #wakfu percedal #wakfu evangelyne #amalia wakfu #amalia sheran sharm #wakfu yugo x amalia #yugo #yugo sheran sharm