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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Can U4C who the first ones will be?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 679
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Deathly Shallows: Wikipedia's coverage of JK Rowling
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1257
Re: Deathly Shallows: Wikipedia's coverage of JK Rowling
There's the unfortunate thing where "the Holocaust" sometimes means just the Jews who were murdered and sometimes all those others murdered for "race purity" reasons. I would prefer if the Shoah were used for the narrower context and that would allow the term "Holocaust" to apply to the wider contex...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:08 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 88
- Views: 2719
Re: Server issues
Also.... It looks like one of the things they did to ameliorate (I refuse to say "fix") the page-load-times problem was to enable caching when you use the back-button. So if you read the site via the "Active Topics" page and use the back-button to go back to Active Topics after reading the new post...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:41 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Eric W. Jepson – the W Stands for “Weasel”
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1098
Re: Eric W. Jepson – the W Stands for “Weasel”
Now that things have run their course, I wish to point out that the picture is of a creature stoatally different from a weasel.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Backdoor PROJSOCK spooks I/P CT editors ARBPIA 5? incoming?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1547
Re: Backdoor PROJSOCK spooks I/P CT editors ARBPIA 5? incoming?
I would have hoped that Nishidani and any other accused be informed of what organisation it is making the complaint.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3113
Re: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
Sandstein has learnt nothing about being a human being in the past decade.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: World Jewish Congress: The Bias against Israel on Wikipedia
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1143
Re: World Jewish Congress: The Bias against Israel on Wikipedia
"The Jewish World stands united..." is, of course, related to the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. If you point out to right wing Zionist propagandists that there are Jews who do not support Israel, then they dismiss those Jews as self-hating or leftist extremists or a a bunch of meshuggeneh frummers lik...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
- Replies: 205
- Views: 6017
Re: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
I can remember listening to a radio programme that referred to the most common reasons for surgery as the Five Hs. Hip replacement is the least likely for a woman that age and heart surgery is the next. Which leaves hernia, hysterectomy and haemorrhoids and most people would not want their having th...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: World Jewish Congress: The Bias against Israel on Wikipedia
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1143
Re: World Jewish Congress: The Bias against Israel on Wikipedia
Looking at the WJC's website it features an Israeli flag and claims that "The Jewish World Stands United With the People of Israel"(sic). So it's not exactly an unbiased organisation itself.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: David Gerard comes for the critics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 676
Re: David Gerard comes for the critics
And both were connected with the first incarnation of WMUK.The Garbage Scow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:01 pmA 2004 RfA. What a delightful visit to the stone age. And recommended by Theresa Knott (another stone ager who hasn't edited in almost 10 years now).
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: On source verification
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1002
Re: On source verification
Appletree submitted a photo, which may or may not be of himself, to the Jewish Chronicle with the Kahanist fist and star logo in the corner. https://api.thejc.atexcloud.io/image-service/view/acePublic/alias/contentid/173ps2400rmt09qlf2v/0/david-appletree.webp?w=585&q=0.9 In writing their hagiography...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world
- Replies: 27
- Views: 736
Re: UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world
Aren't article headers frequently written by sub-editors rather than the authors of the pieces themselves. So the "around the world" may have been chosen by someone who hadn't met Moore or even listened to the interview or looked at a transcript.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30988
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
It should be the higher the status the lesser the crime to attract the same sanction. Except this a cult, not a rational organization, and thus the higher the status the greater the crime has to be to even be noticed. Get with the program. The implication of this is that Wikipediocracy should conce...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822896
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30988
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
And the Arbcom that did nothing about the outing of VM and Gitz will no doubt support Fram's block because he targeted one of their fellow power users, whilst when power users made it just as easy to identify Gitz and VM as Fram's post made it to identify Joe, then Arbcom refused to act except to bo...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: MIT Technology Review: Wikimedia’s CTO: In the age of AI, human contributors still matter
- Replies: 8
- Views: 305
Re: MIT Technology Review: Wikimedia’s CTO: In the age of AI, human contributors still matter
The sentence which most caught my eye was: Over its 23 years, Wikipedia has become one of the most trusted sources for information—and a totally free one, Is it really that trusted? If so why do I hear it joked about so often on comedy programmes? WIkipedia is used so much because it is free and can...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The Devil's Wiktionary: A Wikipedia Glossary (merged)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2370
Re: The Devil's Wiktionary: A Wikipedia Glossary (merged)
WP:PROXYING What happens when a blocked user points out a spellong mistake in an article.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The Devil's Wiktionary: A Wikipedia Glossary (merged)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2370
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 791
- Views: 419927
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
Given that red was already associated with left-wing politics, I am very sceptical of Trotsky picking that colour for the star because it was the colour of blood.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822896
Re: Crap articles
Well, looking at his football stats he had plenty of time to be doing other things while he was not being selected to play.orangepi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:20 amAnd I suspect Marc Olsen (T-H-L) is a gestalt biography of two separate individuals.
EDIT: huh, according to a book review it is the same person.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30988
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
There's been relatively discussion on WP of the socking. Also if Joe is the sort of person who posts positive reviews of his wife's books on other websites without disclosing COI, how can anyone trust him not to use his Crat and Admin bits on WP in a way that does not support his interests elsewhere...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: All the Israel/Palestine infighting on Wikipedia
- Replies: 144
- Views: 2886
Re: All the Israel/Palestine infighting on Wikipedia
In other news, Drsmoo has been topic banned for a year and Nishidani warned against inflammatory language. Drsmoo retired a bit prior to the ban coming down. I was going to speculate about whether Drsmoo's account was going ot last any longer that Nishidani's. However, a scan of his last 500 contri...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: All the Israel/Palestine infighting on Wikipedia
- Replies: 144
- Views: 2886
Re: All the Israel/Palestine infighting on Wikipedia
Kraken, you say that admins don't want to wade through lots of reading in order to decide something. Maybe you can then understand that there is a limit to how many of your extended posts that I am prepared to read. More is sometimes less.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2919
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
I've said elsewhere that I knew when I made the comment that some would see it as crossing a line. I felt the line needed to be crossed in this instance, because what they were doing was so blatantly unfair. There's a parallel with your situation in what has been happening recently with the Hugo Aw...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:40 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2919
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
I suspect that it is a jibe at Beeblebrox.Gitz wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:32 amDoes anyone understand what Kirk is referring to when he tells Andreas "I'm reading about some user who defended the same one you're defending"?
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:39 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2919
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
There's still a steady flow of Italian supports for Vituzzi. If all the votes from his home wiki were removed, I wonder what the numbers would be.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: POLL: Do you know anyone (friends, family, colleagues) with a Wikipedia article?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1150
Re: POLL: Do you know anyone (friends, family, colleagues) with a Wikipedia article?
My answer depends on whether the people have to be still alive. Quite a few I've thought of have died. Another one Christopher Priest (novelist) (T-C-L) went this month.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: All the Israel/Palestine infighting on Wikipedia
- Replies: 144
- Views: 2886
Re: Yet more bad faith allegations by pro-Israel POV pusher Drsmoo
How come no one at AE has yet dived in to assert that the use of "dumb" in this context is ableist?
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519198
Re: News from RFA
7. He stopped participating because he is Icewhiz (Eostrix/Lourdes), whose goal is to pass RfA, but have some fun in the process this time around (their previous two incursions that we know of being just too easy) I'm confused by your repeated implication that Lourdes is Icewhiz. I thought they wer...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Infoboxes for micronation cruft
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1109
Re: Infoboxes for micronation cruft
The above exhibition of collective fuckwittery finally pushed me over the edge. I've stopped contributing to Wikipedia. As to whether this will be permanent, last as long as my previous break (5 years, bar the occasional edit as an IP), or turn out to be just another Wikipedia going-off-in-a-huff t...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494927
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
I suspect Arthur Knight will not do well in prison. There's already the examples of Scottish prisoners taking the Mick out of his claim to be Jewish and before that he had appeared in court with a black eye. I would have thought that someone with a less abrasive personality who took the piss out of...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2919
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
I don't know. On 22 July I received an email from Oversight saying that, after discussion, ArbCom had decided not to suppress that edit per WP:OS. But I don't know anything about the rationale, maybe it's because (as Vito said) I had revealed my identity on it.wiki in 2014, on the talk page of a de...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2919
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
What is this "confirm" business? It appears to be different from an election. To become a steward you need 80% support. Then annually, if someone wants to remain a steward, they need there to be a consensus for them to remain a steward. Consensus is determined by the stewards. Who's eligible to vot...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2919
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
I wonder how all those Italian admins heard their comrades were facing the music? :whistle: if I counted correctly, so far 26 Italian admins plus one non-admin Italian user have voted for Vito's confirmation. It's ridiculous that Vito claims that he did not out you on en.wp when he provided a link ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2919
Steward election/reconfirmation
The Steward elections are on and I'm watching with interest how Vituzzi is doing after his outing Gitz during the Orsini affair. During the discussion, Vituzzi repeatedly lies about his outing of Gitz during the Signpost discussion...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617391
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
'Kidnapped by vagabonds' (or gypsies) is an ancient trope. The actual historical evidence for such things happening is sparse, to say the least. One of the people that claim is made about is Adam Smith, the Scottish economist. I was surprised to hear it repeated in a modern biography of Smith that ...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Universal CoC
- Replies: 290
- Views: 23386
Re: Universal CoC
I've received an email with the following subject.
Why isn't there a committee to oversee the charter for the committee to oversee the charter?Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The autobiographers
- Replies: 98
- Views: 27554
Re: The autobiographers
William Peskett , created by Wpeskett in 2006. He stops by every now and then to update where he lives, but no one has ever talked to him. Well he won an award that has an article and was in the same group of winners as Andrew Motion and Tom Paulin and had a collection published by Secker and Warbu...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Personal touches
- Replies: 194
- Views: 52671
Re: Personal touches
That article is called "Guntram" but the alternative form of the name "Gontrand" is used throughout.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 1:22 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: I'm not dead!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1042
Re: I'm not dead!
But Andy Mabbett made an interesting addition to Shapps's Wikidata entry almost 9 years ago and it's still there.Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:44 pm**Grant Shapps is probably a very nice man who loves his family and is kind to animals. Any allegations that he edited his own Wikipedia article are unproven.[/size]
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Nakba denial
- Replies: 66
- Views: 5350
Re: Article on Nakba denial at DYK
Is Islamist propaganda covered by the Code of Conduct in any way? How does this question relate to the thread? The article in question would be a good example. The use of the term "Nakba" to describe the mass movement of Palestinians in 1948 out of what became the State of Israel seems to have star...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Nakba denial
- Replies: 66
- Views: 5350
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494927
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
I notice that he still maintains that his birth country is Ireland. S, the poor Irish orphan trick has not been played out yet.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822896
Re: Crap articles
Reinhold Glière at first glance looks pretty good... This part of the article could fit in the "personal touches" thread: His symphonic idiom, which combined broad Slavonic epics with cantabile lyricism, is governed by rich, colourful harmony, bright and well-balanced orchestral colours and perfect...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 791
- Views: 419927
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 791
- Views: 419927
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
I'm generally a fan of Gerda. She makes an effort to be friendly to people she comes across. The example DYK hook given in the thread (that someone I hadn't heard of was the soprano in a recording of a Bach cantata by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic) is uninteresting to me even as as a fan o...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4447
Re: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
Maybe WIkipedia could have an Athenian-style ostracism vote each year.Jip Orlando wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:51 pmRitchie333, I would certainly vote for you over Sandstein. Not that that's saying much... but I value your judgment.
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Pro-Israeli Canvassing 'n' Meatpuppeting at Arbcom
- Replies: 153
- Views: 7242
Re: Pro-Israeli Canvassing 'n' Meatpuppeting at Arbcom
They established late last year that it is unacceptable for Arbs to hint to the plebs about what is going on because that violates confidentiality or something.
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: "An Interview With My Wikipedian"
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10318
Re: "An Interview With My Wikipedian"
I understand he retired recently. It might give him something to do with his time.tarantino wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:54 pmWe might be able to put together enough reliable sources to write a bio for the guy who owned Mutant Pop Records (T-H-L) and The Shoe Hutch. That would be an interesting exercise.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Personal touches
- Replies: 194
- Views: 52671
Re: Personal touches
Vox Day (real name Theodore Beale) is familiar to me as the bigot who attempted to wreck the Hugo Awards with his "Rabid Puppies" block voting system.Peter Damian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:26 pmThe term first appeared in a blog post by American writer Vox Day.[37]