One of my favorite early Wikipedia articles (nerdy as that is) was a
page called Slashdot trolling phenomena which described all the most
common styles of Slashdot trolls. Of course, it was later nuked as
original research with insufficient sourcing, and is preserved only in
user-space:
The same thing happened after Michael Jackson's death; IIRC there was a
website in which people could insert a celebrity's name, and a death
article would spew out. I recalled somebody did that with Kevin Spacey
back in 2009:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Erik Moeller wrote:
I doubt that the responsible Slashdot editor was aware that they were
falling for a troll. Is there a lesson here somewhere? If so, it's
perhaps that documentation of subcultures in Wikipedia is very much
worth doing.
Wikipiedia has a general problem
