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Some Boards no longer active. Use past tense?[edit]

Hispachan, Krautchan, and Wizardchan do not exist anymore, but their entries are written as if they still do. ie: "The site also features a popular English language board, /int/, which is also the origin of the Polandball internet phenomenon. In March 21, 2018 the imageboard was shut down." - Can these be changed to use the past tense? As is they are factually incorrect. --Stackguy (talk) 14:50, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve added the needs update tag. Aaron Liu (talk) 16:48, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

regarding Krautchan[edit]

I'm not sure if this is relevant to the Wikipedia, but the end of Krautchan and the beginning of Kohlchan as successor was not that simple as it looks in the article. We were looking for a new home and in this process we considered many possible successor boards. For example, the /kc/ sub-board on 8chan. Although Kohlchan was founded very quickly, a huge amount of us (maybe even the majority) ended up on the german imageboard Ernstchan which was used in the past as an alternative when KC was temporary offline. The fact that EC also had an english /int/ sub-board helped a lot with the immigration since our international community is very important to us.

After a while it became obvious that a big part of our KC community had huge political and philosophical differences with the administration of EC which led to many bans and a large shitstorm that took place on /int/. At the end of it, the admins of EC took the site offline and we all went to Kohlchan. I'm not adding this without feedback by other people since I'm not sure if this type of internal drama is relevant and imageboards have the tendency to not provide much source for these type of claims. 95.222.25.219 (talk) 20:19, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why is 4chan and 8kun the most controversial imageboards of all time?[edit]

It's because of it's users being more focused on political incorrectness. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Takeshi Ishii (talk • contribs) 10:09, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of tumblr and Pinterest from the opening description[edit]

I tried a couple times only to have some guy keep removing my edits. tumblr and Pinterest are not imageboards, proper examples would be 7chan, 420chan etcDollsyndrome (talk) 19:36, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose the mentions of tumblr and pinterest are unsourced, and so can be removed. But replacing them with a list of nonnotable websites isn't going to work. MrOllie (talk) 16:54, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Soyjak party[edit]

Why is an entry for soyjak.party not allowed? It is one of the most active English speaking imageboards and is widely known throughout imageboard circles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8308:219:D00:F736:7FB8:1BC:F82F (talk) 13:48, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sources that meet WP:RS and WP:V are required for all challenged content on Wikipedia. The sources cited in that section did not even come close to meeting those requirements. - MrOllie (talk) 13:50, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So you're saying that unless it satisfies the wikipedia mods and unless they are familiar with the source personally it's just not good enough? So much for free online encyclopedia. 79.164.126.199 (talk) 14:05, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

to add onto this, there's other sections that have less reliable, peer-reviewed sources than the soyjak.party article. Soyteen (talk) 14:14, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS MrOllie (talk) 14:17, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you follow the logic of WP you've posted the best course of action for any user of wikipedia is to just imitate you - make an account and cancel every edit/article attempt while farming karma and following senseless rules that are only rivaled by rules and laws in totalitarian dystopias like Nazi Germany. Like i said, "so much for free online encyclopedia". 79.164.126.199 (talk) 14:28, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, this isn’t Reddit, mods and karma don’t exist or work here. How tf does this correlate to Nazis did they have a policy of WP:AGF or kill revert discuss. In Reddit terms, Wikipedia is an echo chamber of reliable sources. That’s just what it is. Aaron Liu (talk) 16:42, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OtherStuffExists doesn't apply when it's in the scope of the very same article that's moderated pretty much only by you. For example Wizardchan's significance pales in comparison to Soyjak Party and there are metrics that easily prove it. 2A02:8308:219:D00:F736:7FB8:1BC:F82F (talk) 15:51, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Then add them backed by reliable sources since this is an exceptional claim to the section instead of just blind adding it back! Aaron Liu (talk) 16:43, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is absurd. The latest edit had several trustworthy sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8308:219:D00:F736:7FB8:1BC:F82F (talk) 22:11, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Webrate and getwatcher are by no means WP:RELIABLE SOURCES Aaron Liu (talk) 16:38, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]