Wikipediocracy

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I think it's always a mistake to call attention to a Wikipedia article. Biographies of Living Persons are as likely to end up being edited by the subject's enemies as by their fans, and a "vanity" biography may turn into an attack page at any moment. In my opinion, nobody benefits from having a bio...

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It's nice to see them thrive. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/WMUK_membership_over_time.jpg That chart comes from the numbers listed here . I question that high point of 330 members (from the 2012 annual report apparently). Maybe someone could ask one of the WMUK staff members to...

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Liquid threads version two? In which the WMF tries to give you something no one asked for but Brandon Harris thinks you want? Gotta spend those donation dollars somehow.

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From the WP article: In April 2013, her memoir I Was the First Woman Phil Spector Killed, described as a "tell all book" in a "Gonzo journalistic style" about life in the Brill Building between 1958 and 1961, was published and was featured at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The source for this is a ...

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Not mentioned in Lollipop (1958 song) (T-H-L):

Millie Small (T-H-L).

Mentioned in Lollipop (1958 song) (T-H-L):

The song is a firm favorite amongst many performing barbershop music.[citation needed]

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Plenty of people did volunteer. They ignored the responses, did not fix the already found bugs and bulled ahead because they wanted to meet their artificially aggressive schedule. Chef : Would you like to try my new dish, la soupe agile ? Patron : OK. (samples some) Hmm. Interesting, but way too sa...

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Dear en.wp, You think VE was a disaster? Wait for flow. Your only chance is to force early and often conversations about what you're willing to accept. What I've seen so far is, "Fuck you, we do what we want" from Jorm and Company. Once they figure out that Flow won't support their fancy multicolor...

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Just to answer the question the topic title poses: How Many Women Does It Take to Change Wikipedia? Answer: Apparently more than one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Sue_Gardner_Feb_2013_portrait_crop_2.jpg/640px-Sue_Gardner_Feb_2013_portrait_crop_2.jpg Yes but she does ha...

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I suspect that the current one will be around for some time. She is far more useful to him than the previous ones were. Who said anything about Jimmy dumping her? He'll revert to form and then it'll be onto the hunt for number 4. Can we cut Jimbo some slack for these imaginary transgressions? You c...

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The Daily Dot: " Are plastic surgeons nip/tucking ads into high-profile Wikipedia articles? " If you're a woman looking to learn more about a labiaplasty—an expensive, invasive reconstructive surgery—your first step is probably to just plug the term into Google. That will, almost inevitably, bring y...

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Gawker: " Man Arrested for Branding Woman's Genitals Arrested Again for Dog Porn " The arrest of an Arizona man early this month on suspicion of branding his name into the private parts of at least one former girlfriend has resulted in the same man's arrest earlier this week on bestiality charges. C...

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You shouldn't have revision deleted it. Sometime, someone is going to take Sir Prioryman to ArbCom and there needs to be easy access to those diffs. As I've said before, I think that case will set a new record for the amount of evidence presented against a single editor. Even Prioryman friend Roger...

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WMF commissions report on "objectionable content", report recommends user controlled filters, WMF proposes filters, community objects, WMF caves.

WMF releases buggy WYSIWYG software, community objects, WMF stands its ground.

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Nice edit summary from Prioryman

restrictions lifted = end of controversy peddled by morons and fuckwits

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Saved By Jimbo

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That was fast. GETTING RESULTS: Noam Bramson Wikipedia Entry Flagged for Conflict of Interest Talk of the Sound, 9 September 2013 http://www.newrochelletalk.com/content/getting-results-noam-bramson-wikipedia-entry-flagged-conflict-interest Yesterday I wrote about Noam Bramson's highly questionable ...

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From the WMUK "watercooler" Alastair McCapra's declaration of interest I was grateful to see Alastair update his declaration at Declarations_of_Interest#Alastair_McCapra in advance of taking up the role of CEO of CIPR. CIPR and WMUK have had a productive relationship in the past, however this does a...

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I have biologists on my side. Right, I'm always sure to check with a biologist when I'm not sure what first name to use to refer to a person. How else would I know? FWIW, in the UK you can declare to be known by whatever name you like and as long as it is not for the purposes of deception then that...

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Dunno, in years gone by they overlayed images that had geodata. Mostly it was nothing more than adding a level of eye-candy to the page, add a bit of extra interest or whatever. As their map competition declined and their ability to add more adverts to the page increased that layer went. Why would ...

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If you go to this page on the Toolserver, you can ask a bot to fix all the reference problems (such as duplicate references) on the page you specify. But what if you are a blocked editor? Well, the bot just goes ahead and fixes the problems anyway. And what if you aren't a blocked user but you put ...

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If you ever want to be like me, learn how to wake up I don't want to be like you. Dreck like this used to be space fillers for free newspapers that sell ad space to local real estate agents. I'm surprised you're making a living doing this. You are competing with all the other people who are churnin...

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The photo on Leyla Alieva's bio, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Leyla_Aliyeva%2C_Founder_of_International_Dialogue_for_Environmental_Action_%28IDEA%29.jpg/220px-Leyla_Aliyeva%2C_Founder_of_International_Dialogue_for_Environmental_Action_%28IDEA%29.jpg was uploaded as "own ...

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I'm of two minds about this whole situation. On the one hand, I'm really impressed with what Mr. Penny here has managed to do so far; I know I couldn't have done it, and the fact that I wouldn't have wanted to doesn't make it less impressive. On the other hand, this ongoing tendency of his to shoot...

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Leyla Aliyeva (T-H-L) is interesting.

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So far, there doesn't seem to be any direct connection between VikiHərəkat and the Wikimedia Foundation or Jimbo. But, Tony Blair is definitely connected to Azerbaijan in a very Jimbo-esque way. Evening Standard: Reputation launderers: the London PR firms with their own image problems PR agencies a...

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Did anyone notice that SlimVirgin apparently contacted Chelsea Manning's attorney, and the lawyer stated that Chelsea prefers that the "she" pronoun be used for post-announcement Manning, but "he" is okay for pre-announcement Manning? Which is exactly what I said made logical sense, while others he...

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The Joy wrote:Please tell me this is satire.

* Disclaimer: These tips do not constitute legal advice and will not actually help pass a law degree, but should provide comic relief to ease the conscience of law students. But don't sue me if not.

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I deleted it as a A7 though G4 is applicable as well as the original two deleted versions was written by Mr. Penny (same account). He clearly doesn't have a good grip on sources, as basically every source is articles that he has written (80% of the citations) or doesn't mention him at all (20%). We...

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This issue has already been resolved, in favor of the activist POV-pushing crew, who can't even wait 30 fucking days for their complete victory. The mainstream media seems to be buying in to the idea that a person can change their name and gender with a news conference, which renders the WP debate ...

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HRIP7 wrote:
Vigilant wrote:
Pigsonthewing banned 6 5 0 PASSING
No longer. Timotheus canens has switched to Abstain.

Is anyone surprised?

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Russavia is being unusually strict about consent issues for an image of a politician photographed at his son's funeral. Can he have turned over a new leaf after his recent pummelling at the hands of his peers ? Whilst Alfred is a notable person, on Commons we have an COM:IDENT guideline of which Com...

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Vigilant wrote:The sixth grade called and wants their insult back.

If they ask about me tell them you don't have my number.

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Commons:Categories for discussion/2013/09/Category:Bradley Manning Category:Bradley Manning On August 22, Bradley Manning came out as transgender and wishes to be known as "Chelsea Manning" henceforth. In deference to her wishes, we should move the category "Bradley Manning" (and all files in it) t...

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Roger Davies has voted in favour of the indefinite ban – he's marked it "Second choice", but even so, as far as I can make out, that means the ban passes 6:5. The comment is a key qualifier, though. It is basically a way of signaling that passage of the first choice negates the approval of the seco...

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Hi. I wanted to know if it is okay to add that Asaram Bapu started his life as a bootlegger since it has been published in a major English newspaper in India. [2] IPS stands for Indian Police Service.--Crème3.14159 (talk) 01:09, 2 September 2013 (UTC) Feel free to discuss it on the talk page. Tell ...

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For me, consistently calling Manning "she" is not redefining who they were in the past. Exactly. You're both a couple fries short of a Happy Meal if you think that. Jesus... You think changing a name or pronoun retroactively changes a 5 year old Bradley Manning into a little girl? I don't. They wer...

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This is actually more than the usual Jimbo tempest in a teapot. Admins regularly remove discussions of these kinds of allegations from talk pages "because WP:BLP applies on talk pages too". For some reason Jimbo has locked on to this particular case and is standing his ground. According to Jimbo, if...

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I think Roger has a fair point. We are pretty rough on new accounts if we suspect they have supped on the WP Koolaid. We should give people the chance to engage in discussion before driving them away. Just in general. In this case there were problems right from the start.

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2. I don't doubt in the least that Bradley Manning seeks gender reassignment hormone therapy and surgery. Desiring something and describing that as an accomplished fact are quite different. Worse yet is the neo-Orwellian revision of biography, effectively backdating this pseudoreality to birth. It'...

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1. The title of the page prior to the events in dispute was "Bradley Manning"; this was a long-term, stable title, and the brief and limited discussion prior to the initial page move to "Chelsea Manning" does not constitute the formation of community consensus to move the page. Therefore, the defau...

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penwise wrote:Really? There's an anti-Wikipedia attitude at libraries?

I haven't seen one.

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-edit- And...now not banned, as AGK has switched to oppose an outright ban. Wish I had taken bets now... Looks like Roger Davies will get to cast the deciding vote. I guess AGK wanted to be seen taking the hard line but didn't actually want the hard line. Or he just caved under off wiki pressure. H...

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The World of Black-Ops Reputation Management

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Ming is personally OK with the use of Chelsea now and the use of female pronouns going forward . It's the acting if their name was always "Chelsea" and the insistence on female pronouns in the narrative of the past that is cranky and inaccurate. The historians' term for this is "anachronistic"... I...

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I think the answer is that you are asking the wrong question. Do you think sex and gender are the same thing? Is the "journey" of "changing your sex" a path with only one possible starting point and one possible ending point and everyone takes the same steps? I am well aware of the over-simplified ...

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Vigilant wrote:How is it that the file uploader is Sage Ross (WMF)?

You mean why did Sage Ross claim it is his "own work"?

Text by Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia
Commons contributors
Design by EXBROOK, San Francisco
Puzzly and illustrations by Michael Bartalos

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Currently, they're leaning in favor of an infobox topic ban 4-2; there's a 3-3 split on a total siteban. In short, the "supreme court" will pussy out again. Snivel, snivel, followed by the gentle tap on the wrist. It amuses no longer. I would post "Ira, you suck", but it will have no effect. How pe...

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Stevie Benton is localizing the brochure on donating images to Commons. He sent it out to the UK mailing list for comment. This is the paragraph he added about WMUK: Wikimedia UK Wikimiedia UK is a charity and is the local chapter of the global Wikimedia movement. We exist to support and promote Wik...

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I just saw this a bit ago on Jimbo's talk: Not so, Manning is unquestionably notable for her statement that she is now a female called Chelsea, indeed that is arguably the most notable thing this notable human being has done . Thanks, ♫ SqueakBox talk contribs 18:36, 25 August 2013 (UTC) It saddens...

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I do quite heartily believe that if you are born a boy, then you are male, and if you're born a girl, you're female. Obviously people can change that down the road through surgery and drugs, but you kinda start off pre-assigned to one team. That's a slight over-simplification, but basically it's tr...

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