NationStates Jolt Archive

I'm sure that everyone here is aware of Wikipedia, the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit".

Sure, there are times when you have some good information to add to an article... but every once in a while, you feel like doing something evil.

What's the worst edit you've ever done? (Include a link to it)

Mine was probably when I took the text of the Timothy McVeigh page and transferred it to the Miley Cyrus page. There are a couple of errors, but I thought it was pretty funny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miley_Cyrus&oldid=201765345

Oh, and I also went and vandalized a user page (the guy gave me a 24-hour ban, so I felt he deserved it). WARNING: This one has some very foul language and some other questionable content. Don't say I didn't warn you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Xiner&oldid=117067909
[The fun thing about this one is that you pretty much have to read it all... some of my changes are hard to spot]

Oh gods, I can´t believe I´m about to post this but... here it goes... My worst Wiki edit was this:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discusión:Concilio_de_Nicea_I

Nicea Council I. The problem is that it´s in Spanish. But it´s my worst edit to date.

the first one was lolz.

Oh god... That second one was hilarious! I almost died when I read it!

ROFL at the second one.

i edited the entire article on Budhism to just say 'budha' but its fixed now.

theres one other, forgot what it was, i'l try to find it.

i edited the entire article on Budhism to just say 'budha' but its fixed now.

Yeah, they're pretty fast with some of the articles. My Miley Cyrus edit only lasted for a few minutes.

Its not funny and you shouldn't do it. I've never posted anything that was incorrect for "fun", and I never will.

(the guy gave me a 24-hour ban, so I felt he deserved it)From what you've posted, I think you deserved a good deal more than a 24-hour ban...

I make my joke edits to Uncyclopedia (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) where they welcome humor instead of removing it.

I don't vandalise things that I use every day as a homepage and source of information. Even then I've only edited Wikipedia a few times, and once I kept changing a release date to the correct one "TBC 2008", only to have them change it back repeatedly :headbang:

Oh, and I also went and vandalized a user page (the guy gave me a 24-hour ban, so I felt he deserved it).

So, you went out and commited destructive acts against a web site, and when you got caught and very lightly punished, instead of taking your lumps for it like an adult, you went and commited more destructive acts. What a big baby. :rolleyes:

What did you do when you got blocked for a week?

From what you've posted, I think you deserved a good deal more than a 24-hour ban...

Indeed. Perma ban FTW.

Here's the talk page for this person (and i use the term lightly): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Niyyuu

Mayhapse someone would like to give him a taste of his own meds...

I was planning on changing all of Uncyclopedia to the correct wiki articles

I never got round the whole doing it but it would of made the world a slightly more crazy place and I like that :)

Its not funny and you shouldn't do it.

From what you've posted, I think you deserved a good deal more than a 24-hour ban...

I don't vandalise things that I use every day as a homepage and source of information.

remember when people did things because they where fun and not because they happened to be absolutely morally correct? wait I'm talking to NSG here:p

remember when people did things because they where fun and not because they happened to be absolutely morally correct? wait I'm talking to NSG here:p

There's a humongous gap between fun and malicious idiocy.

remember when people did things because they where fun and not because they happened to be absolutely morally correct? wait I'm talking to NSG here:p

I generally only attempt to destroy expendable things for fun, I may and will need Wikipedia in the future, I wouldn't want my actions there to come back and bite me.

Random passers-by on the other hand... fair game.

I did one Wiki edit... but I was high and now I kinda don't remember what I did... I think I changed the spelling of a few words, including the word for "Ford Pinto" to "Dorf Nipto". :)

I only consider vandalizing it bad when done with the intent to manipulate the information. Pranks, however are funny and are not the same.

I'm sure that everyone here is aware of Wikipedia, the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit".

Sure, there are times when you have some good information to add to an article... but every once in a while, you feel like doing something evil.

What's the worst edit you've ever done? (Include a link to it)

Mine was probably when I took the text of the Timothy McVeigh page and transferred it to the Miley Cyrus page. There are a couple of errors, but I thought it was pretty funny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miley_Cyrus&oldid=201765345

Oh, and I also went and vandalized a user page (the guy gave me a 24-hour ban, so I felt he deserved it). WARNING: This one has some very foul language and some other questionable content. Don't say I didn't warn you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Xiner&oldid=117067909
[The fun thing about this one is that you pretty much have to read it all... some of my changes are hard to spot]

I was about to vote Yes when I read your first edit.

OMG! That's absolutely hilarious!

Your second one? What the hell? This guy gave you a 24 hour ban, so what? I'm sure you've got other things you could do. It's still annoying but I think what you did to his page is childish, malicious and makes you look a hell of a lot worse than it did him.

I edited the definition of capitalism to say at the end "Capitalism hates poor people".


Id link, but the edit lasted maybe 20 seconds before someone reedited and removed it.

I was going to edit a celebrity's (who I hate) Wikipedia page, but I decided against it. The sudden dose of reason was mainly because I read an article about someone getting arrested (after the police tracked down his IP address) for editing someone's Wikipedia page to make it say that they died.

Editing Wikipedia is funny, but I don't think you should do it. Nevertheless, it's still freakin' hilarious:D

Eh, I've never really seriously tried to put wit to my vandalism. It's been really juvenile on my end, but I knew that it'd be reverted really quickly but...

Well these were from my school's IP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed&diff=prev&oldid=115343136

Stupid? Yes. But it was better than doing my schoolwork.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pig_%28zodiac%29&diff=prev&oldid=115586371
This was mostly the work of a friend of mine, but the last link was my work.

What? Programming was a really boring class.

I was going to edit a celebrity's (who I hate) Wikipedia page, but I decided against it. The sudden dose of reason was mainly because I read an article about someone getting arrested (after the police tracked down his IP address) for editing someone's Wikipedia page to make it say that they died.

Proxy servers in 3rd world countries are your friends.