Cetaceans

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• tetrachromacy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not pictured: The dynamic and eternal back-and-forth in the comments section of that article where Wikipedia purist nerds do battle with Wikipedia’s cadre of silly gooses.

  Purists hate that “cetacean” is used here and feel that the silly gooses are diluting the information on Wikipedia for a pun. They also complain that visitors to that page will be confused by the term, and that it will cause the social credit of Wikipedia as a whole to wane in the eyes of the world.

  The gooses want the purist nerds to take a chill pill. I’m with the gooses. If the purists knew how often scribes in ancient times doodled pointless things like mounted snail combat and wildly exaggerated dick drawings then I’d presume they’d be happy with a minor joke like this one, but I guess you can’t please everyone.

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  • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Humans never change.

    Romans carved and painted grafitti on plenty of things over the centuries they were around.

    Let the silly gooses be goofy goobers, I say. Maybe humans in 1500 years will have a chuckle.

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    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That if Wikipedia survives 1500 years. Digital media tends to be much more fragile than traditional ones in that aspect.

      Well, that if we survive 1500 years, but I’ll let that for another discussion.

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    • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mmmerican, first time in Europe, in Brussels, graffiti all over centuries old statues. Like wtf?? Right… there shit is just this shit, so it’s where they do their shit

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  • callyral@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also (a picture of) a cetacean is literally needed.

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• thejml@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Verified. It’s on the table entry for en.wikipedia.org/…/Tamanend's_bottlenose_dolphin

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  • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Approved and vetted.

    It’s official.

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  • lengau@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The current page contains two [cetacean needed] blocks, one of which is Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin. The other is Deraniyagala’s beaked whale.

    However, neither of those is the one in the picture, which shows the cetacean in question living in the coastal waters of South America. I believe this is Burmeister’s porpoise, which now has a fairly disappointing image attached.

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• Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this a pun ? I don’t get it.

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  • tautalas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Citation needed”

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    • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ooooh OK. I feel stupid.

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  • lemon@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a play on ‘citation needed’

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You must pronounce cetacean very differently to me

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  • zagaberoo@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a play on [citation needed].

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  • woodenghost@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It sounds similar to [citation needed], which is often used on Wikipedia.

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• synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Needs more saddam

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