Why are there so many prescription medications listed among Wikipedia's "Bad Words"?
Hey, guys! I found something odd and immediately thought that this community was the best place to share it. I was doing some Wikipedia-ing and noticed that on my contribs page, there was an option to "Hide Probably Good Edits". I was like wtf does that mean? All my edits disappeared when I clicked it so I guess all mine are good, but who or what decides what a good edit is? So I looked into it. I quickly found and followed the chain:
Wikipedia - Help:User Contributions → #Parts of the page and their purposes → Dot point #5 → "ORES" → "we create a model based on bad words." (bc wtfdym by that) → "Review our word lists" → "English"
I was reading through this list (accessible at the last link above), and it's mostly as you would expect – swears, slurs, informal speech, and even random tech things, which I guess is its own mystery – but I kept finding words that were completely foreign to me, and when I looked them up, they all came up as prescription medications???? zanaflex, phetermine, levitra, butalbital, tenuate, carisoprodol, xenical to name a few.
If anyone knows what's going on here, I'd love to know.