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I keep seeing comments and reblogs around Tumblr along the lines of "wow, all of those words and you didn't even bother to mention x 🙄".

The thing about replies like this that there's a strong insinuation that either x was left out intentionally and maliciously, or that the person writing the post is an idiot for not already knowing about and including x, or both. Either way wording it this way is an insult and a put-down to whoever wrote the post.

Maybe sometimes people didn't mention x for malicious reasons, but 9 times out of 10 that's not the case. Most of the time people either generally didn't know or weren't fully aware. Or maybe just genuinely forgot. Either way, it's not called for to insult and attack people who are total strangers to you on the internet.

And there really needs to be more emphasis on the whole "people on Tumblr are strangers to you", it's rarely called for to attack or insult strangers unprovoked. Say some of your new co-workers or classmates you haven't really gotten to know yet are talking about how your city is going to be getting rid of some of the bike paths, and one of them is talking about how this is bad for the environment. You (hopefully) wouldn't butt in and say "wow, all those words and you didn't even bother to mention how this affects lower class people who can't afford cars 🙄😒" and if you would actually do that, you seriously need to work on your boundaries because it's really inappropriate to just attack and insult people unprovoked like that.

Of course you could say something like "oh it's not just an environmental issue, this is really going to hurt lower class people who can't afford a car!". You can actually just add it in a neutral way like that without attacking or insulting anyone in the process for not already saying it.

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Gilbert Baker added a 9th stripe shortly before his death, with the new stripe representing diversity. He added this stripe in reaction to the 2016 US election. It’s unfortunately not as well known as the 8 and 6 striped versions.

Here’s an image of him sewing together the 9 striped rainbow flag.

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Articles are (by default) written from an in-universe perspective and take the post Season 7 Dark Horse comics (and some, but not all, of the tie-novels) as canon. So it can sometimes be a bit unclear whether an article is describing something that was established as fact within the show or something that is comic- or novel-only. (There are also articles on the Boom! era comics, which take place in a completely different continuity again, but those are usually flagged as such.)

The commitment to the in-universe perspective also makes it very hard for the wiki to describe retcons or places where the show's lore appears to contradict itself. (What is the name of Buffy's aunt, for example? And who are the Order of Aurelius?) That's the right perspective in some cases but can be very frustrating if you're trying to answer a question like "when exactly did the writers decide to make [idea] canon?".

Relatedly, the wiki is quite often very bad at properly citing sources: it will reliably give some kind of source, but often on inspection that source doesn't provide any evidence for the assertion it's supposed to be backing up. Just off the top of my head, the wiki cites Welcome to the Hellmouth when describing the Master as the leader of the Order of Aurelius (but the name 'Aurelius' is not spoken once during that episode; I don't think it was until years later that anybody decided this was the name of the collective group of vampires who followed the Master and it's only used as such in flashbacks on Angel) and cites Grave when claiming that Spike had his soul restored by "Lloyd" in Uganda (the episode Grave does not name "Lloyd", crediting him only as "Cave Demon", and does not give a location for where Spike has his soul restored beyond "a cave in Africa").

Reading the linked article, the name "Lloyd" seems to come only from the Season 7 episode Selfless, when D'Hoffryn offhandedly mentions somebody by that name when talking to Willow, and the suggestion that this is the name of the specific individual who restored Spike's soul seems to be pure fanon. (Indeed I've never even seen it suggested outside of the wiki.)

For yet another example of this sort of thing: the article on The Gift claims that this episode was "originally written to serve as the series finale, and several ideas that were used in the real finale were originally written for this episode" and only then cites a single source (Joss Whedon's audio commentary for Chosen). It's not clear at all which of these two quite distinct claims that source is meant to be supporting (in fact I've checked that audio commentary track and I don't think it supports either one). In general the show's discussion of behind the scenes facts or the real world development of the show is noticeably lacking, at least in part because that's not something the wiki contributors seem to care about as much.

As I've complained about before, the wiki is old enough that it's gained some deeply-embedded pedantic conventions that simply don't make sense to outsiders (which is why there is an article called "Jennifer Calendar" despite no character with that name existing on the show: the wiki adopts a convention that favors 'full names' and somebody has unilaterally decided that 'Jenny' must be a nickname, even though nobody uses it that way and it's never hinted as being short for anything until we get a single shot of Ms Calendar's grave).