Today, I spent three and a half hours creating a Wikipedia page for myself. Three minutes after publishing, it was deleted due to me being a "Non-notable person nobody's ever heard of." FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, while drunk, my brother got on my computer onto my already logged in Wikipedia account and made a few bad edits. He got me reported for vandalism, sending abusive messages to other editors, and banned from editing, pending appeal. FML
Today, my boss caught me coming to work late. I panicked and told him I’d been there all day. He knows I do a lot of editing for Wikipedia, so he actually found my publicly listed edits showing I’d been publishing edits from my normal account, i.e. my home PC, when I should have been at work. Oops. FML
Today, I realized that not only am I still an unpublished author, but I can't even get an FML posted after submitting several in the last year. FML
Today, I tried to write a bad review for the fast-food place at which I work part-time. My username made me anonymous, but I forgot to change my profile picture. Now my manager and coworkers won't even speak to me. FML
Today, again I wrote out another FML. Again, I deleted it before posting. Every FML I write would seem like I'm just making stuff up, or would be so obviously me that it would just cause me grief. My life is just an endless stream of weird stuff I can't tell family or friends. FML
Today, and every time I try my hand at content creating, I get 0 appreciation or recognition, beyond bigger content creators stealing my work and ideas as their own, and seeing them get the many 10s of thousands of views I could have gotten. FML
Today, I took a deep breath and started journaling to "figure out my life." Two hours later, I had written four pages of ranting about my upstairs neighbor's loud footsteps and zero pages about my life goals. FML
Today, I uploaded the first chapter of my best writing yet to a popular writing website. After ten minutes, I was thrilled to already see one review and five comments. Each comment was telling me to immediately delete the story because of how horrible it was. The rating was half a star. FML
Today, I got an A+ on a writing assignment. My teacher asked me three times if I really did write this article myself, and didn't memorise an article from the Internet. FML
Today, I realized the only real accomplishment I've had in my life that I take any pride in is that I've had an FML published. FML
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Twisted107 4
that's probably why it got deleted
Furnaceman 0
you think that highly of yourself? aww, did your poor ego get a boo-boo?
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Comments (151)
amarie2009 22
That's what Facebook is for!!
Omgwithabang 0
Well thats not nice! ps... Could anyone tell me why when I submit a FML.. it never gets posted?
chippa 24
Because the people who moderate your FMLs don't think they're very good, interesting, funny, sad, and/or understandable.
Alexxcunningham 0
cuz the moderators are ******* stupid. I've sent in like, 7. none ever get approved. doesn't help I've been banned 3 times though ._.
Callyn 47
Get a facebook/myspace. Wikipedia is an actual reference site, if you haven't done anything you shouldn't be on there.
zombiekitten87 12
well the fact that anyone technically can just go on and make a random page about themselves discredits wikipedia from being a real reference site... not that everyone doesn't use it as one anyway lol
SpinozaQ 2
Absolutely not. It is a constantly improving collection of organized information. It has been shown several times to be more accurate then 'edited' sources. It's not intuitive. It is an emergent system. Go read about that on wikipedia.
OvenproofToast 0
They have a staff of 300+ moderators.Wikipedias founder did a test of it at a convention and made a nonsense page.Guess how long it took before it got taken down?10 seconds. So it is a refrence website because you have to cite your sources, and it has to have a real purpose and real facts.
LyricaSilvan 30
@ 78: They CAN'T. That's the entire point. Try thinking before you reply; you'll look less ignorant that way.
quraishakrueger 4
why the **** did you make yourself a wikipedia page for?
akaOtter 1
ydi for not being important enough to have a wikipedia page for yourself.
CommonSenseKarma 17
It is a true waste of your time. Word of advice: don't **** with Wikipedia contributors. They are goddamned hardcore with how they do things, and most of the ones I saw HATE Americans and "Americanizing" words (mechanisation = mechanization", s = z"") As far as I can tell, they're pricks and snobs. The ones I meet, or rather met, I mean. Moral of story: non-applicable.
BlargHonk 0
That's not fair. Most of them aren't like that. True, a few are, but most of them are genuinely trying to make the wiki a better place. I know that I am.
ieatbebies 0
ok yea ppl are just gunu look you up now....what and why were you thinking?
FMLoverAgain 7
haha that sucks. how do they know no one have heard of you? maybe your colleagues do?
GothOz 0
Then get out there and do something with you life. Something Wikipedia-page worthy.
GothOz 0
*your
zargon 1
Can somebody please tell me how the **** this is supposed to qualify as an FML? Wikipedia's policies, like them or not, are very clearly laid out on the site, including what it takes to qualify as notable, as well as specific policies regarding writing your own biography. Furthermore, unless OP is Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World, then 3 1/2 hours probably indicates going into far more detail than they allow for even well-known celebrities. Finally, since this got speedy deleted, OP clearly didn't include a single reference for anything, breaking yet another Wikipedia rule. Now, Wikipedia is full of a bunch of pretentious deletionist pricks that I spent months trying to fight before they totally took over, but it's hard for me to say anything other than "YDI" given that it was pretty obvious said pricks would never let such an article stand.
Zebidee 9
There's a certain irony in questioning the legitimacy of a FML on the basis that OP knowingly breached an obvious site policy... Still - you're right. OP is an idiot.
zargon 1
Hey, I'll agree it's amusing, but at least if something happens to me on account of this post I'm not going to post an FML to bitch about it. If I break the rules, I deserve what's coming to me. That said, I'm not entirely sure what the votes are supposed to be if not "Yeah, that's totally an FML" and "WTF is this doing on this site", so I don't even get why saying something doesn't qualify as an FML is even against the site's rules.
Zebidee 9
I completely understand your point. My best guess is it's to stop people getting into pissing contests over whose life is more ******, when the aim of the site is for light entertainment. Plus, it'd get boring as hell for the mods to have to read it, and they're nothing if not easily bored! ;)
FAYUL12345100 3
Well said.