Wikipediocracy

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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...

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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...

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Now that things have run their course, I wish to point out that the picture is of a creature stoatally different from a weasel.

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I would have hoped that Nishidani and any other accused be informed of what organisation it is making the complaint.

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Sandstein has learnt nothing about being a human being in the past decade.

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"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...

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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...

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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.

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The Garbage Scow wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:01 pm
A 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).

And both were connected with the first incarnation of WMUK.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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I see that Josh E. Gross (T-H-L) was created by Joshg0788 (T-C-L) who had intended to create Jack O. Gross (T-H-L) before disappearing and leaving it to the entirely unrelated Jg10101 (T-C-L) to create the article.

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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...

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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...

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WP:PROXYING What happens when a blocked user points out a spellong mistake in an article.

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rnu wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:43 pm
WP:OUTING: Making publicly available information about power users publicly available.
Harassment: Politely suggesting that a power user should follow policies and guidelines.

Conflict of interest Something that power users can accuse other people of having.

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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.

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orangepi wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:20 am
And 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.

Well, looking at his football stats he had plenty of time to be doing other things while he was not being selected to play.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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Gitz wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:32 am
Does 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"?

I suspect that it is a jibe at Beeblebrox.

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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.

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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.

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How come no one at AE has yet dived in to assert that the use of "dumb" in this context is ableist?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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'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 ...

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I've received an email with the following subject.

Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter

Why isn't there a committee to oversee the charter for the committee to oversee the charter?

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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...

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That article is called "Guntram" but the alternative form of the name "Gontrand" is used throughout.

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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]

But Andy Mabbett made an interesting addition to Shapps's Wikidata entry almost 9 years ago and it's still there.

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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...

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L-H wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:24 pm
Is Islamist propaganda covered by the Code of Conduct in any way?

How does this question relate to the thread?

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I notice that he still maintains that his birth country is Ireland. S, the poor Irish orphan trick has not been played out yet.

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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...

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rnu wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:21 pm
According to her user page she is 14. So I guess that it is just the exuberance of youth.

She was so precocious that she started editing Wikipedia on the day she was born.

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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...

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Jip Orlando wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:51 pm
Ritchie333, I would certainly vote for you over Sandstein. Not that that's saying much... but I value your judgment.

Maybe WIkipedia could have an Athenian-style ostracism vote each year.

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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.

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tarantino wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:54 pm
We 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.

I understand he retired recently. It might give him something to do with his time.

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Peter Damian wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:26 pm

The term first appeared in a blog post by American writer Vox Day.[37]

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.

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I have a feeling that the first interaction between CW and Someramoth was this 1022745757 in which CW rejects an article for creation for Vancouver Collective Against Sexual Exploitation. Somerath told CW how inappropriate it was for someone with that username to reject such an article and CW immedi...

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