Just to show how nutty Wikipedia editors are — a crazy woman in the 1700s had a fever dream where she then claimed to be a "genderless entity" named the Public Universal Friend, and her Wikipedia article is an awkwardly-worded effigy validating her mental illness - Kotaku In Action 2

Just to show how nutty Wikipedia editors are — a crazy woman in the 1700s had a fever dream where she then claimed to be a "genderless entity" named the Public Universal Friend, and her Wikipedia article is an awkwardly-worded effigy validating her mental illness (en.wikipedia.org)

posted 3 years ago by loubag1997 3 years ago by loubag1997 +48 / -1

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– loubag1997 [S] 14 points 3 years ago +15 / -1

Here's an example of the stellar prose:

The person who would become the Public Universal Friend was born on November 29, 1752, in Cumberland, Rhode Island, as the eighth child of Amy (or Amey, née Whipple) and Jeremiah Wilkinson,[b][1][2][6]:11–12 becoming the fourth generation of the family to live in America,[7] and was given the name Jemima Wilkinson after Jemima, one of the biblical Job's daughters.[8]

And just to hit home on how far we've come with this insanity, here's what her article looked like in 2013 (it's actually rational):

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Public_Universal_Friend&oldid=536382793

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