

The wikipedia talk page is some solid sneering material. It’s like Habryka and HandofLixue can’t imagine any legitimate reason why Wikipedia has the norms it does, and they can’t imagine how a neutral Wikipedian could come to write that article about lesswrong.
Eigenbra accurately calling them out…
“I also didn’t call for any particular edits”. You literally pointed to two sentences that you wanted edited.
Your twitter post also goes against Wikipedia practices by casting WP:ASPERSIONS. I can’t speak for any of the other editors, but I can say I have never read nor edited RationalWiki, so you might be a little paranoid in that regard.
As to your question:
Was it intentional to try to pick a fight with Wikipedians?
It seems to be ignorance on Habyrka’s part, but judging by the talk page, instead of acknowledging their ignorance of Wikipedia’s reasonable policies, they seem to be doubling down.
Following up because the talk page keeps providing good material…
Hand of Lixue keeps trying to throw around the Wikipedia rules like the other editors haven’t seen people try to weaponize the rules to push their views many times before.
Looking back on the original lesswrong
brigade organizingdiscussion of how to improve the wikipedia article, someone tried explaining to Habyrka the rules then and they were dismissive.Yes Habyrka, because you clearly have such a good understanding of the Wikipedia rules and norms…
Also, heavily downvoted on the lesswrong discussion is someone suggesting Wikipedia is irrelevant because LLMs will soon be the standard for “access to ground truth”. I guess even lesswrong knows that is bullshit.