Can Somebody Please Edit Cosmo’s Wikipedia Page?
I was reading over the Cosmopolitan Wikipedia page today, as you do, when I came across the “Controversy” section of the lady mag’s history. In it, one Wikipedia contributor attempts to resolve the long-standing feminist debate over Cosmo, once and for all:
“And it wasn’t just prudes and conservatives who took issue with the mag: A number of hard-core feminists were anti-Cosmo as well,” writes the contributor. “What they didn’t seem to realize was, Cosmo’s gentler brand of feminism was more realistic and palatable.”
Hey, it’s on Wikipedia. It must be true! The contributor goes on to quote former Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown as simply “Helen,” and states that the typical Cosmo reader “loves having a smokin’ hot sex life.” Citation needed.
On Cosmo’s Wikipedia talk page, user Dasani airs her concerns with the history. “This article needs serious help. Who says this magazine is the most popular among women in the world? I highly doubt such a claim,” she writes. This magazine is packed with garbage. Every issue is about how to give good blowjobs or how to lose 112 pounds in a week.”
Sexy Cosmo Confession time: I do not know how to edit a Wikipedia page. So if anybody wants to waste a few minutes of their life to ensure that Wikipedia readers don’t have to read mag-ready phrases about how fun-hating “hard-core feminists” want to keep all the real ladies from lovin’ their “smokin’ hot sex lives,” I will repay my debt to you with a free t-shirt, which I will mail to the address of your choice. Thanks!
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7:19 pm
Are you over 60? Find out how Wikipedia works and edit it yourself.
1:14 am
ah…c’mon, no, why so bitter about? You don’t know how to do it either?
I don’t, or I would do it for you. But hey, i’m admitting it…
1:37 pm
Hi Amanda,
It has already been changed, so there isn’t any work left to do! However, you can learn how to edit a wikipage without too much effort.
The header of each section has a button that says edit off to the right side of the page. Clicking that will take you to a textbox that might look overwhelming! There are lots of little symbols like [[ ]], ==, ” and etc. Those are just for headers, making font bold, and different formatting things. You don’t need to worry about them to make small changes to blocks of text that are already there.
If you want to start adding your own content instead of just changing what is there, you can practice on the sandbox page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox) to play around with different formatting techniques without being worried about messing anything up.
Good luck!
11:29 pm
I envy those who don’t know how to edit Wikipedia. It is too commonly a vile snake-pit of power-hungry administrators who know nothing of building a knowledge resource — you really are better off just avoiding it altogether. So, I appreciate your plea for help from others.
3:22 pm
Actually, Gregory Kohs is 100% correct.