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"Chudweed"
editI've noticed an edit-war over the name "chudweed"
While this name may have started as a joke, references to it have gone viral, and the association of "chudweed" with Biden's Hyperborea is now of political and cultural significance due to its association with the 2024 US Presidential election. It is now arguably the most culturally significant aspect of Biden's Hyperborea.
I suggest we create a section to describe this. What are your thoughts? 2601:285:C080:2330:F131:3E80:195E:F9D1 (talk) 16:47, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- @2601:285:C080:2330:F131:3E80:195E:F9D1
- This is hardly relevant enough to include in the article. Are there any articles referencing this plant or the name "chudweed" in relation to Biden or the 2024 US election? Is "chudweed" even attested in writing? Or is this someone's attempt at trolling? Tetragnathos (talk) 17:09, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Google shows that outside this article, the word "chudweed" appears only in a couple of tweets and 4chan posts. It is most definitely not a real name for this plant, and it only has "political and cultural significance" to a handful of extremely online people. Zacwill (talk) 17:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- To be fair, this plant was basically long forgotten and irrelevant to probably the entire world before the “Chudweed” revived it, so I believe it deserved to be described as an erroneous name at least. AtomicCrescentRoll (talk) 17:49, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- This is nonsense. If I edited some random chemical or plant or mineral to include a dumb joke, would the fact that I did so deserve an entry on the page? This is one wikipedia edit, its not like its a widely known joke, it has no social or cultural signifigance. We must remove all mentions of "chudweed" whether noted to be erroneous or not. 2601:147:C100:F400:9CCA:D673:1C81:EA68 (talk) 17:55, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- It would be given enough outside cultural significance. There’s no reason for things that happen on Wikipedia to be excluded from Wikipedia. But one could probably argue in this case that there’s not enough influence 108.147.171.73 (talk) 19:00, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- No. Only if it's a name + it got popular Gastropod Gaming (talk) 00:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Tbf, it would be pretty funny if the edit war did wind up causing it to become an actual nickname causing it to be included in the article for real. 2601:5C1:300:DF50:9859:E854:CC46:49CD (talk) 02:17, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- The answer is really stupid and nobody is going to like it: this would be notable enough for inclusion if some tabloid wrote about the argument we are having right now, which is something that often happens, but until then it does not have wp:sigcov. jp×g🗯️ 13:38, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- This is nonsense. If I edited some random chemical or plant or mineral to include a dumb joke, would the fact that I did so deserve an entry on the page? This is one wikipedia edit, its not like its a widely known joke, it has no social or cultural signifigance. We must remove all mentions of "chudweed" whether noted to be erroneous or not. 2601:147:C100:F400:9CCA:D673:1C81:EA68 (talk) 17:55, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Zacwill As expected, it's just a trolling attempt. Thank you for your verifying Tetragnathos (talk) 18:00, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- To be fair, this plant was basically long forgotten and irrelevant to probably the entire world before the “Chudweed” revived it, so I believe it deserved to be described as an erroneous name at least. AtomicCrescentRoll (talk) 17:49, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Google shows that outside this article, the word "chudweed" appears only in a couple of tweets and 4chan posts. It is most definitely not a real name for this plant, and it only has "political and cultural significance" to a handful of extremely online people. Zacwill (talk) 17:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- On one hand, the plant wasn't called Chudweed before a trolling attempt, but on the other hand this has become somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is a very obscure plant, and most of the people aware of its existence know it as Chudweed. Given that the Chudweed meme is the most culturally relevant and well-known thing about the plant I think it deserves a section. Cro-magnus (talk) 04:01, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- This is a very funny vandalism, and I appreciate the effort, but if there are no sources saying this, then it cannot go in the darn article. We do not get to just decide stuff on our own and then write it down (if we did I would have a couple freakin things to say about politics!!!). jp×g🗯️ 13:36, 14 June 2024 (UTC)