Wikipediocracy

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Why are people surprised by this? Homophobia is the norm rather than the exception countries like Russia and Ukraine. Do you have any information on sheep shagging and national stereotypes? Pew had no survey data. Pew has 2018 data on beliefs about religion, Muslims, Jews, and homosexuals in Europe...

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(marxists.org cite in the lead, anyone?) ... 3,558 uses of marxists.org on WP. I believe that the esteemed Carrite has used Marxists.org for archiving publications, e.g., from early 20th Century Schismatic Man , especially Marxist socialists in the USA. It is currently used to host the Canton Speec...

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A wiki encyclopedia should avoid biographies of living persons and current events.

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Put the latest blog on the blog's front-page right away.

Then a hero can write an update.

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I don't think this has much to do with fonts, since Tahoma is a standard pretty much everywhere (ever since Microsoft adopted it for Windows 95). All I'm saying is that when I maximize a Firefox, Safari or Edge window on my 4.5K monitor (4480px × 2520px), the second sentence of the Just how did thi...

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Emboldening by KW Good post, but some formatting issues. How does your screen get wider than mine? I've got a 4.5K monitor, dammit! :hrmph: The site Practical Typography is run by Matthew Butterick , who designed the website for How to Design Computer Programs . line length 45–90 characters or 2–3 a...

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Wasn't Andy Mabbett simultaneously pushing English Wikipedia to adopt policies to make it easier for tech-companies to harvest data while being paid as a consultant to the same companies on how best to exploit Wikipedia?

Or is my memory wrong?

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We need to discuss how the challenge of an XRV closure should be reviewed The instructions at WP:CLOSECHALLENGE currently say: "... In general, deletions are discussed at WP:Deletion review, moves are discussed at WP:Move review , and other closures are discussed at WP:AN ." Since we are modeled af...

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Covid-19 has disrupted medications for many patients. Drug shortages in Australia https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/drug-shortages-putting-patients-at-risk/news-story/088231cf46441aa93956017e0a644ec0 Australia changes prescription rules because of Covid19 https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mental...

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Thierry Caro has his own Wikidata entry: Q55468017 ( History ) This did improve my knowledge of the overseas parts of France. People working in the sociology of the body have greater incidences of severe psychiatric pathologies than actors, composers, and mathematical logicians. Luckily, most sympt...

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:45 am
It's clear that admin-for-life isn't working.

What's the solution?

Close down Wikipedia?

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Andy has an eye for talent. Omg4real https://i.imgur.com/KhhJu2a.png tangenter som nån har spillt varm choklad gjord av en mamma i 40 års åldern med mens och en libresse binda i fittan och 5 barn This looks a bit iffy. Can one of our Swede-readers translate ? It is incoherent and certainly misogynis...

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Icewh.... damn it! I wanted this one to count as a number 1 and have 19 to go. Damn, damn, damn! Baby steps. We're all friends here. I believe you can do it. The moderators have better things to do than search out sock-puppets. Regular Wikipediocracy readers know that they should respect our hospit...

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What happens next? C'mon, that's a 30-day block for anybody. How does he get away with this? Does he have blackmail material on all the admins or something? This is ridiculous. It's blatant, flagrant hypocrisy if they don't give him at least two weeks. My memory: Editors are free to remove comments...

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I am sure that Jechoman shall take on board the suggestions by Newyorkbrad and Worm That Turned with the usual self-improvement of similar advisees.

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The description of the Lasso is about as mathematically bad as most treatments in the engineering and statistical literature. It is not shocking, alas, but it is incorrect, but at least its mistakes are common. Convex relaxation interpretation [sic., The] Lasso can also be viewed as a convex relaxat...

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How many people can read this article? Far too many of the math articles are just as impenetrable and are preening by the editors. The Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc were shit, but honest people could mostly avoid poisoning their souls by working in mathematics, so Soviet Mathematics was very goo...

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Piotrus and Volunteer Marek, VM seems to know a lot about statistics, and probably math too. Our articles on those topics have considerable room for improvement. Changing topics is something that I try to do , and I find it refreshing. Jehochman 15:06, 5 January 2022 [emboldening by KW, along with ...

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Jim wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:54 am
Perhaps I should be a bit less cruel to him, but I'm not moving him to "cool" at this point.

Cruel to Be Kind (T-H-L)
Nick Lowe (T-H-L) Daryl Hall (T-H-L) and Nick Lowe with T-Bone Wolk (T-H-L)

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Looks like someone's thinking of socking . Academic question In real life I am conducting academic research and publishing on the topic of privacy . (See, for example, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-91081-5_6 ) Fischer M.J., Hochman J.E., Boffa D. (2021) Privacy-Preserving Data...

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Any editor can report Jechoman at Arbitration Enforcement.

Arbcom does not have a monopoly on enforcing policy, nor has it claimed infallibility.

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Could you explain why you find the DS enforcement part of it difficult? Because as one of the people who saw this case as something that should have taken place at AE, instead of just people threatening to do so or to file a case, I dont get it. The whole point of DS is to make it simple and easy t...

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http://www.mymovierack.com/images/buzz/4/9/9794/original.jpg I suggest a makeover. Luckily for you, the KW Charm School is open. 5¢ after having read Unbeatable Squirrel Girl , you decided that there were better ways of dealing with anger, by directly addressing to the underlying hurt and fear. Do ...

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Since then I am not super interested in purely symbolic unblocks. Hmmm... Or you could go with Worm's " quiet return " approach after all this time. ( User:Worm That Turned/Quiet return ) That would of course require never mentioning Merkey and leaving Jimbo alone. Neither of them are particularly ...

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I got blocked without warning by Tony Sidaway in 2006 for trying to defend en.wp from the notorious Jeff Merkey, who had a secret deal for on-wiki protection with Jimmy Wales. Go back and look at the history there. It may difficult for some Arbs to understand the good humor of your having challengi...

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Dave , Ray ; no, the then arbitrator Roger Davies wrote me (roughly, from very old memory) that appeals with detailed responses to the findings (and linked guidelines for future behavior) often are denied, perhaps unjustly insofar as busy arbs may interpret the detailed responses as legalistic and ...

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Hey El_C. FR and Levivich had had, what? Three? Four? Years to show some collegiality ? Somehow along that timeline neither one thought it fit to make that effort (I did - at certain points I've reached out to both of them, particularly during the initial case) but both chose to do the opposite. If...

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The attacks by the activists such as Icewhiz on Poland-related articles that started around 2018 are primarily the consequence of the political crisis concerning the heirless properties left behind by the Polish Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Polish state took ownership of those properties after t...

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Apparently, 2 100 years of antisemitism have left a mark on many Europeans.

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Thanks, VM, for the history, which I believe will be helpful to Beeblebrox and other s arbitrators. I concur with what Volunteer Marek wrote about Bezdomni, generally. I trust VM about the details of the BS "dispute" about the witnesses. VM is honest and careful in his writing, as regulars know. For...

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South Park on NFTs

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The Great Satan or The Neighborhood Bully are the preferred terms.

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Why not just lock down all articles associated with this topic? Pending changes or full protection... Wikipedia cannot assure quality on these articles, and the WMF refuses to fund editors to write or to edit articles (but spends money on failures). Lock down the articles that have a history of soc...

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However, we've also got several user suggesting that the reason the area is relatively quiet is that it is so unpleasant that most users simply want nothing to do with it. That very much is exactly the sort of problem ArbCom is here to resolve, if it can. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:11, 24 December 2021 (...

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Arbcom has improved its willingness to sanction problem administrators , such as Jehochman . Predictions: Jehochman shall be desysopped (perhaps by Arbcom action early in this process). Jehochman shall be banned for 12 months. (During the last few years, Jehochman has been especially obnoxious and ...

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Volunteer Marek (T-C-L),
I choose you!

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Ceoil wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 25, 2021 3:56 pm
I agree with New Sheriff. If somebody identifies as dead, they should be allowed rest (and edit) in peace.

Wikipedia cannot have its dead-identified editors dead-named or identified.

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Smiley wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:16 pm
Wikipedia really does settle most of its epistemolological squabbles by waiting to see which person snaps and lobs a c-bomb at their foe first.

Precisely.
Bill Burr used to lose a lot of arguments by snapping....

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That sounds like an aspersion-casting, which is unanimously outlawed by ArbCom Dictat: 04:10:01:07:2009/6.1.3 Principle 6.1.3 Casting aspersions It is unacceptable for an editor to routinely accuse others of misbehavior without reasonable cause. Legitimate concerns of fellow editors' conduct should...

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I wonder who the expert is. For all we know, it could be Icewhiz . Nah, my money's on Eostrix . I am a great fan of your work. When it comes to identifying neo-Nazis, I think you show great talent. And I pride myself on having an eye for that kind of talent. he killed thirteen Gestapo officers. [St...

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Mason wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 21, 2021 12:29 am
If whistleblowers weren’t treated like shit on Wikipedia, they would probably feel less need to sock to do it.

[emboldening by KW]

Hmmmm ...

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I'm sure that Guerillero has been first reserve more than once before. If he can Tonya Harding someone, he gets in! :applause: Somebody shall quit or crack. Stay limber, Guerillero. I'm assuming this is in jest, as that is totally not how this works. Never attribute to humor what can be attributed ...

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MrErnie wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:59 pm

el84 wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:16 pm
I'm sure that Guerillero has been first reserve more than once before.
Glad to see that he didn’t make it. His participation at a few recent AE cases can be described, at best, as clueless.

Would you please remind us what he did?

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 16, 2021 5:36 pm

el84 wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:16 pm
I'm sure that Guerillero has been first reserve more than once before.
If he can Tonya Harding someone, he gets in!

Somebody shall quit or crack.

Stay limber, Guerillero.

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The Era of Good Feelings

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
and a little child shall lead them.

Isaiah 11:6

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Obviously voters were less forgiving of Thryduulf's old business than I have been. I am surprised that three former arbs, especially Guerillero, received fewer than 2/3 of the votes, but having received 60% is still a good achievement. Perhaps Wikipedia is enjoying an Era of Good Feelings? How did T...

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Darth Jimbo Wales seems like a unusually sane but unusually dishonest celebrity apprentice to Sith Lord Donald Trump.

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Rampant misandry on Hammer-headed bat (T-H-L)from EnWebb (T-C-L) (diff)?

EnWebb wrote: "In captivity, it is vulnerable to stress-related illness, particularly males."

Hammer-headed bat (T-H-L)

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It's truly breathtaking how Crow claims to be a woke anti-racist, yet casually uses ableist slurs (mong is British slang for mongoloid, which was formerly used in the UK to refer to people with down syndrome). Being compared to Vigilant is a high honour. Ming finds that Ming hasn't found cause to m...

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