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- Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:09 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jimbo shares a $1,000,000 award with Berners-Lee
- Replies: 272
- Views: 44020
Re: Jimbo shares a $1,000,000 award with Berners-Lee
Who is going to update his BLP?
- Tue Jun 23, 2015 6:53 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Another day, another Gamergate ArbCom case
- Replies: 988
- Views: 64139
Re: Another day, another Gamergate ArbCom case
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/10177-Hatred-Review Hatred - Maypole of Controversy Love the title of the article. Though the game itself (which is banned in Australia) seems like a hyphed up version of GTA, where you screw the prostitute then roll her afterward. It woul...
- Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:26 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1987
Re: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
I'm lazy. I drop mine off at the local American Legion post.Zoloft wrote:Correct. That's why I burned them.When pigs fly wrote:Worn or damaged flags are supposed to be burned.Zoloft wrote:I've burned American flags. Trolling a bit close to the edge there.
- Sun Jun 21, 2015 3:27 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1987
Re: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
Worn or damaged flags are supposed to be burned.Zoloft wrote:I've burned American flags. Trolling a bit close to the edge there.
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:50 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1987
Re: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
Oh, I'm not blaming WP, but there's no doubt some editors (hi gamergaters!) want to control content to further their agenda.
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:06 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1987
Re: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
Is that not the MO of many editors? The people have a right to know the truth! So and so is a saint/axe murderer.
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 7:25 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1987
Re: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
Let's just assume the premise here is that if the Trayvon shooting incident article was correctly NPOV (and of course that means Ziimmy boy was 1000% in the wrong) then this church massacre would have never of happened. Therefore articles must be written with the correct NPOV to prevent such inciden...
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 7:17 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Yuri Gadyukin hoax
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1177
Re: Yuri Gadyukin hoax
What's the funniest hoax you've seen before?
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 6:12 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1987
Re: Wikipedia Starts A Shooter's Journey to White Supremacy
And the SJW's will now redouble their efforts. What's the over/under date of when this fuckwad meets Mr Mayhem?
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 3:55 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Another public lynching
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2997
Re: Another public lynching
... When Triptych is your biggest defender, you should tuck tail and run. When Triptych is your defender, you get some reasoning and a link or two to back it up. When Two Kinds of Pork is your attacker at a Wikipedia Arbcom case, you get horrendously warped characterization of diffs that go beyond ...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:56 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Filesystem that supports tools lab dies
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2252
Re: Filesystem t
A week old? They could use a simple incremental plan for daily backups and use cheap cloud storage.
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:55 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617397
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
From Lester Holt : Lester Don Holt, Jr. (born March 8, 1959) is an American journalist and musician . The basis for that last claim? In his spare time, Lester Holt plays the bass guitar, which he talked about in the September/October issue of Making Music Magazine. And Howard Stern is a photographe...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:48 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6511
Re: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
Jonothan Strong reported for Briebart.com and no rational person would question his bona fides in journalism. Definitely right leaning, but that didn't deter Roll Call , Capitol Hill's "paper of record" from hiring him. I only know this because I remember reading about Strong being picked up by Brie...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 1:47 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: How Hosting an Edit-A-Thon Made Me Trust Wikipedia
- Replies: 18
- Views: 662
Re: How Hosting an Edit-A-Thon Made Me Trust Wikipedia
Well, with Triptych on vacation, (forced or not) someone had to step up to be the yeast in the petri dish.
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:37 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Another day, another Gamergate ArbCom case
- Replies: 988
- Views: 64139
Re: Another day, another Gamergate ArbCom case
I think I proposed once that WP punish activists by removing the affected articles from Google searching. In other words, don't allow the articles to show up in Google searches. I don't know if it's technically feasible, but if it is it would probably work because the reason people fight over the c...
- Wed Jun 17, 2015 2:59 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner
- Replies: 118
- Views: 6882
Re: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner
Amateur.Zoloft wrote:*edit*
No, I made a joke, and then deleted it as offensive even to myself.
- Wed Jun 17, 2015 12:21 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner
- Replies: 118
- Views: 6882
Re: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner
Dolezal who? I was mostly out of pocket last week inasmuch as following the news goes -- I highly recommend trying it a few times a year. Think of it as an enema for the brain. She was a prominent black rights activist and claimed to have African-American heritage, even claiming that her white fath...
- Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:10 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner
- Replies: 118
- Views: 6882
Re: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner
Dolezal who? I was mostly out of pocket last week inasmuch as following the news goes -- I highly recommend trying it a few times a year. Think of it as an enema for the brain.
- Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:27 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6511
Re: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
Briebart just lacks basic editorially oversight which is why it always fails being a RS except for opinions. I'll disagree with Zoloft that they deliberately falsified the Sherrod video. The intent was to show that Sherrod had an original agenda to only help black people. What had people so mad was ...
- Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:19 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Jimbo wants a British "entrepreneur visa"
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4372
Re: Jimbo wants a British "entrepreneur visa"
If we have to take him back, can we trade him for Piers Morgan?
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:29 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: £30,000 to teach pupils how to use Wikipedia
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2749
Re: £30,000 to teach pupils how to use Wikipedia
Wikipedia has enough editors that act like 13 yo already. Do they really need actual 13 yo? Well, the pedophiles might think so but fuck them.
- Sun Jun 14, 2015 7:48 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6511
Re: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
4. It is up to content writers to sift through the universal set of facts and to present information which readers can reasonably assume to be accurate, and to present this information in reasoned and neutrally phrased manner. Such as how many runs the Detroit Tigers scored in tonight's game? And t...
- Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:50 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: WMF get things the wrong way round
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3608
Re: WMF get things the wrong way round
Are flagged revisions in place on en.wikiepdia?
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 10:59 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Articles that should be missing
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1708
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 5:03 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Articles that should be missing
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1708
Articles that should be missing
Ignoring da rules of RfD give some examples of articles that are well sourced but have no business being in an encyclopedia. Bonus: no cruft subjects, such as anime
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:35 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Dead tree encyclopedias
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1543
Dead tree encyclopedias
I was at a 7th graders "graduation" ceremony and while we were waiting for stuff to get started I was poking around in the library. They had a 15-20 volume pedia (wish I thought to remember the name) from 2009. Just randomly flipping through it I compared it to en.wikipedia on jazz (with a focus on ...
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:21 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6511
Re: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
4. It is up to content writers to sift through the universal set of facts and to present information which readers can reasonably assume to be accurate, and to present this information in reasoned and neutrally phrased manner. Such as how many runs the Detroit Tigers scored in tonight's game? And t...
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 12:07 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is Azerbaijan the new Kazakhstan?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 37692
Re: Is Azerbaijan the new Kazakhstan?
That's one fucking sad state.Zoloft wrote:Wikipedia as a weapon of state?
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 5:00 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:28 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: ArbCom announces to McDonalds customers I'm public enemy #1
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2316
Re: ArbCom announces to McDonalds customers I'm public enemy
:offtopic: Please, this thread is about another instance of a long stream of injustices that Ms. Neotarf had been subjected too despite her being the most rational, sane and agreeable person to ever grace the pages of en.wikipedia. She is now forced to edit at meta and "simple" and that's a darn sha...
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:15 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Jimmy in Korea
- Replies: 8
- Views: 505
Re: Jimmy in Korea
What rhymes with anchor?
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:08 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Jimmy in Korea
- Replies: 8
- Views: 505
Re: Jimmy in Korea
Dennis Rodman could provide a more lucid strategy on how to save Wikipedia
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:41 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6511
Re: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
Try telling that to someone who doesn't want to include content that goes against their POV. BRIEBART!!!!!!
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 6:53 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6511
Re: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
Shouting doesn't make you right. Trying to deny facts that are relevant to the topic, simply because you do not like the source, is POV pushing/ censorship. I'm not denying facts, and whether or not I "like" the source is utterly irrelevant. I'm simply telling you that Breitbart.com is not a reputa...
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:00 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6511
Re: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
Larry Flynt looks pleased
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 4:24 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
Re: Grant Shapps again...
An observation I made of him a few years ago - and I haven't followed him to see if this has changed - is if there was a dispute on wikipedia and one side contacted him first, rather than independently investigate and come to a conclusion based on the facts, he'd be so flattered at having been cont...
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 4:16 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
Re: Grant Shapps again...
So in debating whether or not Chase should have kept admin privileges it was pointed out that there are plenty of deleted edits that are not oversighted. Ever the politician GW deflected her initial support for Chase: Of course, and there's an expectation that they will pass it along to the oversigh...
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:32 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6511
Re: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
Unless you are attacking BLP's the house disproves of, then slander awayRandy from Boise wrote:Correct.GethN7 wrote: The answer I got confirms a suspicion I've had for awhile: The BLP policy has been corrupted by those with agendas to safeguard reputations to the point of whitewash.
RfB
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:35 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
Re: Grant Shapps again...
Her term is up this year. I've mixed emotions about that, because on the one hand she's a train wreck, and on the other I like watching train wrecks.Vigilant wrote:Perhaps, one of Molly's ancestors from another galaxy.
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:56 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica
- Replies: 239
- Views: 30280
Browsing encyclopedia dramatica
Wildly entertaining, but so annoying to read content with popups and sending you to the App Store. Is there a technical way to avoid all of this nonsense?
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:51 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6511
Re: Alright, now I'm outright pissed at BLP standards
Geth,
You're more likely to piss into the wind and stay dry then get Johhny Walker added to the article. I agree that it shouldn't be added, but also agree that the article should go into the dustbin.
You're more likely to piss into the wind and stay dry then get Johhny Walker added to the article. I agree that it shouldn't be added, but also agree that the article should go into the dustbin.
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 4:01 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
Re: Grant Shapps again...
Richard Symonds is now being stripped of his last life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sockpuppet_investigation_block/Proposed_decision#Chase_me_ladies.2C_I.27m_the_Cavalry:_Desysopped I see that GorillaWarfare fashioned her shield into a sword . And, ever strong ...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 3:47 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
Re: Grant Shapps again...
GW, DGG and Davies are an embarrassment. Their "oppose" rationale got called out for sheer stupidity on the PD talk page and no amount of back pedaling can excuse the fact they missed Captain Obvious walking naked across the stage.
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 2:47 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: McDoobAU93 and theme park edits
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1769
Re: McDoobAU93 and theme park edits
Gamergate is merely one of the latest flashpoints of the ideological crusades that have plagued the project for years and years, so, yes, a lot of the drama you encounter may be connected to it as many of the editors involved in that mess are entrenched elsewhere on Wiki, pushing the same ideology ...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 2:16 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
Re: Grant Shapps again...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Shapps
So his Bio makes note of the sock puppet accusations, but nothing of the Wikipedia shitshow behind it. Color me shocked.
So his Bio makes note of the sock puppet accusations, but nothing of the Wikipedia shitshow behind it. Color me shocked.
- Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:31 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
- Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:40 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: McDoobAU93 and theme park edits
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1769
Re: McDoobAU93 and theme park edits
Johnny's Law.
- Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:28 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
Re: Grant Shapps again...
Kohs, next interview should be with NPR. What kind of clown college are they running? And why the fuck is Arbcom handling this? You'll get me a booking? Fresh Air with Terry Gross, please. I just pm'ed Greg and suggested This American Life. PRI instead of NPR. The show where hipsters can make any s...
- Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:21 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Grant Shapps again...
- Replies: 364
- Views: 22833
Re: Grant Shapps again...
Kohs, next interview should be with NPR. What kind of clown college are they running? And why the fuck is Arbcom handling this?
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 6:37 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner
- Replies: 118
- Views: 6882
Re: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner
It's good to keep in mind that your everyday well-adjusted transgendered person has about as much in common with the transgender activists as your everyday well-adjusted christian has with the Westboro baptists. OTOH, good for Caitlyn, so far. Hate the name, but then I don't know why people give th...