Profanity in SydLexia.com articles - Revision history

SydLexia at 22:35, 17 September 2008

2008-09-17T22:35:14Z

Valdronius: /* Methodology */ fixed note about FF poem data.

2008-07-06T10:59:34Z

Methodology: fixed note about FF poem data.

Valdronius: /* word count for FF poem */

2008-07-06T10:57:41Z

word count for FF poem

Tyop at 09:35, 6 July 2008

2008-07-06T09:35:04Z

Ghandi: corrected "Steve Carlin" to "George Carlin"

2008-07-06T07:26:17Z

corrected "Steve Carlin" to "George Carlin"

Tyop: /* Methodology */

2008-07-05T22:33:25Z

Methodology

Tyop at 22:31, 5 July 2008

2008-07-05T22:31:34Z

Tyop at 22:19, 5 July 2008

2008-07-05T22:19:29Z

Tyop at 22:19, 5 July 2008

2008-07-05T22:19:01Z

Tyop: New page: This page gives an account on the frequency of prophanity in SydLexia.com articles. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Fur...

2008-07-05T21:45:11Z

New page: This page gives an account on the frequency of prophanity in SydLexia.com articles. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Fur...

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 == Full data ==
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 * The whole text of every article is searched for the swear words. This includes the title of the article as well as alt texts for images.
-* Words that appear in images themselves are not accounted for. This is why there is no data available for [[Valdronius]]' [http://sydlexia.com/vald/ff6/FFEpic.html Epic Poem about FFVI].
+* Words that appear in images themselves are not accounted for, such as the in-image text of [[Valdronius]]' [http://sydlexia.com/vald/ff6/FFEpic.html Epic Poem about FFVI].
 * Any occurence of the strings "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit" is counted. This includes partial matches like '''crap'''py, '''damn'''ed, '''fuck'''ing and dip'''shit'''. A more complex search pattern is used for the word "ass" because of its frequent occurence in words like cl'''ass'''ic.
 * Only white-space is considered a delimiter between words. This means that "ice-cream-flavored" is counted as one word as is "input/output" and similar constructs.

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 |style="border-top:1px solid gray"|77. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/ff6/FFEpic.html Final Fantasy VI: An Epic Poem] (V)
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 == Conclusion ==
-While [[Syd]]'s articles contain a decent amount of prophanity there is still room for improvement.
+While [[Syd]]'s articles contain a decent amount of profanity there is still room for improvement.
 == Full data ==
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-|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|34. [http://www.sydlexia.com/jeebus/ducktales.htm DuckTales]
+|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|34. [http://www.sydlexia.com/jeebus/ducktales.htm DuckTales] (J)
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-|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|58. [http://sydlexia.com/jeebus/cyoa.htm Cheat Your Own Adventure: The Cave Of Time]
+|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|58. [http://sydlexia.com/jeebus/cyoa.htm Cheat Your Own Adventure: The Cave Of Time] (J)
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-|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|63. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/pockyrocky.html Pocky & Rocky]
+|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|63. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/pockyrocky.html Pocky & Rocky] (V)
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-|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|66. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/toxic_crusaders.htm The Toxic Crusaders]
+|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|66. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/toxic_crusaders.htm The Toxic Crusaders] (V)
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-|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|68. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/law_of_the_west.htm Law Of The West]
+|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|68. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/law_of_the_west.htm Law Of The West] (V)
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-|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|71. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/maniac_mansion.htm Maniac Mansion]
+|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|71. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/maniac_mansion.htm Maniac Mansion] (V)
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-|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|77. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/ff6/FFEpic.html Final Fantasy VI: An Epic Poem]
+|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|77. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/ff6/FFEpic.html Final Fantasy VI: An Epic Poem] (V)
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 |style="border-top:1px solid gray"|78. [http://sydlexia.com/pac-nihilism.htm Pac-Man: A Bleak Commentary on Western Life]
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-|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|79. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/wintercleaning.htm The Winter Cleaning Crapstravaganza]
+|style="border-top:1px solid gray"|79. [http://sydlexia.com/vald/wintercleaning.htm The Winter Cleaning Crapstravaganza] (V)
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 == Methodology ==

← Older revision		Revision as of 07:26, 6 July 2008
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−	This page gives an account on the frequency of '''profanity in [[SydLexia.com]] articles'''. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Further studies will hopefully cover the remaining range of profanity including those of [[~~Steve~~ Carlin]]'s [[The Seven Words\|seven words]] that were left out for now.	+	This page gives an account on the frequency of '''profanity in [[SydLexia.com]] articles'''. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Further studies will hopefully cover the remaining range of profanity including those of [[George Carlin]]'s [[The Seven Words\|seven words]] that were left out for now.

	== Summary ==		== Summary ==

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-This page gives an account on the frequency of '''profanity in [[SydLexia.com]] articles'''. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Further studies will hopefully cover the remaining range of prophanity including those of [[Steve Carlin]]'s [[The Seven Words|seven words]] that were left out for now.
+This page gives an account on the frequency of '''profanity in [[SydLexia.com]] articles'''. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Further studies will hopefully cover the remaining range of profanity including those of [[Steve Carlin]]'s [[The Seven Words|seven words]] that were left out for now.
 == Summary ==
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 * The whole text of every article is searched for the swear words. This includes the title of the article as well as alt texts for images.
-* Words that appear in images themselves are not accounted for. This why there is no data available for [[Valdronius]]' [http://sydlexia.com/vald/ff6/FFEpic.html Epic Poem about FFVI].
+* Words that appear in images themselves are not accounted for. This is why there is no data available for [[Valdronius]]' [http://sydlexia.com/vald/ff6/FFEpic.html Epic Poem about FFVI].
 * Any occurence of the strings "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit" is counted. This includes partial matches like '''crap'''py, '''damned''', '''fuck'''ing and dip'''shit'''. A more complex search pattern is used for the word "ass" because of its frequent occurence in words like cl'''ass'''ic.
 * Only white-space is considered a delimiter between words. This means that "ice-cream-flavored" is counted as one word as is "input/output" and similar constructs.

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:19, 5 July 2008
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−	This page gives an account on the frequency of '''~~prophanity~~ in [[SydLexia.com]] articles'''. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Further studies will hopefully cover the remaining range of prophanity including those of [[Steve Carlin]]'s [[The Seven Words\|seven words]] that were left out for now.	+	This page gives an account on the frequency of '''profanity in [[SydLexia.com]] articles'''. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Further studies will hopefully cover the remaining range of prophanity including those of [[Steve Carlin]]'s [[The Seven Words\|seven words]] that were left out for now.

	== Summary ==		== Summary ==

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-This page gives an account on the frequency of prophanity in [[SydLexia.com]] articles. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Further studies will hopefully cover the remaining range of prophanity including those of [[Steve Carlin]]'s [[The Seven Words|seven words]] that were left out for now.
+This page gives an account on the frequency of '''prophanity in [[SydLexia.com]] articles'''. The words that were chosen for a close examination are "ass", "crap", "damn", "fuck" and "shit". Further studies will hopefully cover the remaining range of prophanity including those of [[Steve Carlin]]'s [[The Seven Words|seven words]] that were left out for now.
 == Summary ==
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 * Of the examined words "fuck" is the one most frequently used.
 * The '''100 Best SNES Games Ever''' article has the highest fuck count of all articles. The one with the highest fuck-to-words ratio is '''Hammerin' Harry'''.
-* Only in one article does the amount of "fuck" exceed one percent of the article's overall words.
+* Only in one article does the number of "fuck"s exceed one percent of the article's overall words.
 * '''Movie posters and the Philosophy of Art''' is the article with the least amount of prophanity.
 * The highest absolute number of swear words can be found in the '''Top 100 SNES Games''' article,  despite the '''Top 100 NES''' article being slightly longer.
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 == Methodology ==
 * The whole text of every article is searched for the swear words. This includes the title of the article as well as alt texts for images.
 * Words that appear in images themselves are not accounted for. This why there is no data available for [[Valdronius]]' [http://sydlexia.com/vald/ff6/FFEpic.html Epic Poem about FFVI].
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 * [http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ Linux kernel swear counts]: Use of "fuck" in the Linux kernel source code
 * [http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103944 It Hits the Fan]: South Park episode that uses the word "shit" 162 times