Wikipediocracy

Just becoming a farce as two people, who actually appear to agree, wrestle with language and lose. "Beginning in the late 19th century, science provided evidence for the idea that humanity was divided into genetically distinct races" replacing the also awful previous version "Late 19th century scien...

Poetlister wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:57 am

I put in the Smiley to indicate that I was joking.

I did realise that, just wanted flag up that they were even more 'interesting' than the book synopsis might have suggested. Quite a character

Poetlister wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:09 am

He'd be an interesting contributor.

If you like hearing about ChemTrails, then yes.

MastCell had associated Africans & "monkeys" four times Your argument is that the real racist there is MastCell and not Reagan, who was using the word innocently? :blink: Look, you had the considerable good fortune to escape last time because the person reporting you was a sock. The smart thing to ...

Isn't the answer simply because it isn't reliable? It hasn't existed that long, has little record of factual reporting, like checking sources, or correcting inaccuracies?

tarantino wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:04 pm

The article is probably accurate

'probably' is a stretch. 'possibly' accurate, and unethical.

Neil Clark and his wife are terrific journalists Neil Clark found an old man with a common surname in a large town. He also believed this 'Philip Cross' was actually a Times journalist, and was backed by an academic and website concerned with media bias. I'm not saying he is wrong to be concerned b...

Ah, lovely. The all-mighty ARBCOM is going to ban the guy who has spent years trying to bring some modicum of neutrality to the most contentious articles about US politics and politicians for 18 months, to see if it gets any better. Yes, these remedies aren't going to improve things: they simply do...

I imagine this edit : the account is either run by Shapps/ Hackneymarsh directly in violation or being run under his clear direction I believe that the account is either run by Hackneymarsh directly in violation or being run under his clear direction will be much debated. The original hangs around f...

Rather than calling Collect & Co. "BLP activists," I use the phrase "BLP Hawks." They basically are for an aggressive "speak no evil" approach to BLP, a rigid adherence to the doctrine of so-called "Reliable Sources," deletionism of borderline notable biographies if the subject so much as peeps, an...

This is what wikipedia should do in robots.txt: # Google User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: / Freebase (which is where knowledge graph came from, mostly) didn't scrape web pages but started with the DB dumps, then used a change feed -- presumably http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_update_feed_se...

Today's judgement makes broadly the same assessment of DiStefano. I had thought of him a something of a rogue, a chancer, but it seems pretty clear now that he's a conman, and a pretty nasty one too. Looking over BBC News articles they shift from 'lawyer' to 'Italian lawyer' (once it became clear he...

Meanwhile in the sexology (Jokestress/Cantor) case we have either:

• One side blackmailing the other, leading to evidence being withdrawn, and outing.
• Or is this a particularly underhanded smear tactic?

Kevin, see me after class.

What's not quite true SarekOfVulcan? "...a reaction that would justify admin action, whether his or someone elses's", presumably (emphasis mine). I doubt he would have taken admin action. I take you overall point, though. Admins do have power even when (as involved editors) they are prohibited from...

Kumioko wrote:Thirdly, although Sarek admitted to severe violations of the Admin tools

Where did Sarek admit that? Sarek edit warred, but I missed use of admin tools.

Looks like SarekOfVulcan is about to be desysopped . That's not so clear: 'admonished' has 3 first choice votes, 3 second choice votes, and 2 straight votes, and 1 oppose, whereas 'desysopped' has 3 first choice votes, 3 second choice votes, 1 straight vote and 2 opposes. So I think that means admo...

Looks like SarekOfVulcan is about to be desysopped . That's not so clear: 'admonished' has 3 first choice votes, 3 second choice votes, and 2 straight votes, and 1 oppose, whereas 'desysopped' has 3 first choice votes, 3 second choice votes, 1 straight vote and 2 opposes. So I think that means admo...

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/james-bond-fans-beware-wikipedia-reveals-major-skyfall-spoiler-62606,James Bond Fans Beware: Wikipedia Reveals Major 'Skyfall' Spoiler The real story appears to be "Bond released late in U.S.". They went for "Wikipedia Publishes Spoilers!" but could equally hav...

Peter Damian wrote:"He is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways."

Plagarised Heath Robinson, perhaps?

Gerard, Owen and Fae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:F%C3%A6 are now all involved/members of Uk Wikimedia http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - seems funny also - what is the homosexual connection, they are all gay, why is that? You make it hard for those of us who wish to support you :( I hop...

Off2delhiDan wrote:User Cirt and ChrisO are two leading anti entomologists...

I'm glad someone is keeping an eye on those shifty insect lovers

dotdash wrote: TheKartingWikipedian sounds more like LevenBoy.

Or maybe Sussexman?

(Do you realize that the only WR user who ever really gave a damn about the British/Irish/blahblah editwarring was HighKing? And he was one of the worst assholes on the British side? FYI, he called himself "The Karting Wikipedian".) You've mixed something up there. HighKing (formerly Bardcom) is no...

lilburne wrote:Current opinion is that his reputation is grossly overrated.

Well they seemed ok to me, but I will bow to current opinion.

dogbiscuit wrote: I simply don't understand why Wikipedia as a whole tolerates the guy.

He's provided good articles? See also Giano, Cla68, Malleus, etc etc etc... At the extreme there's even Vintagekits (if anyone remembers him). Most people will tolerate noise if the work is acceptable.

The full quote by Miliband is, "Obviously I'm Jewish, it is part of my identity, but not in a religious sense. Do you read that as self-identification as a "British Jew"? I don't. If you want to distill his beliefs into a simple "yes or no" to that question, I'll squirm (see, watch me now). And tha...

Edit warring about Ed Miliband again :face palm: Its part and parcel of the issue, with YRC out of the way the taggers will add Miliband to every Jewish related article they can. No one will stop them and quite frankly I think that allowing the likes of Nomoskedasticity drag WP into that particular...

Edit warring about Ed Miliband again :face palm:

Believe me, it would be very good for this to go to arbitration with YouReallyCan and Prioryman as two of the parties. Among other things, it would provide an opportunity to compare YouReallyCan's attempts to defend BLP subjects with ChrisO's/Prioryman's attempts to defame people he doesn't like (M...

Already discussed here. Not the finest moment for the internet.