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by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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

Zoloft wrote:
When pigs fly wrote:
Zoloft wrote:I've burned American flags. Trolling a bit close to the edge there.
Worn or damaged flags are supposed to be burned.
Correct. That's why I burned them.
I'm lazy. I drop mine off at the local American Legion post.
by When pigs fly
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

Zoloft wrote:I've burned American flags. Trolling a bit close to the edge there.
Worn or damaged flags are supposed to be burned.
by When pigs fly
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.
by When pigs fly
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.
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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?
by When pigs fly
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?
by When pigs fly
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 ...
by When pigs fly
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.
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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.
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
Wed Jun 17, 2015 2:59 am
Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
Topic: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner
Replies: 118
Views: 6882

Re: Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner

Zoloft wrote:*edit*
No, I made a joke, and then deleted it as offensive even to myself.
Amateur.
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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.
by When pigs fly
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 ...
by When pigs fly
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?
by When pigs fly
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.
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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?
by When pigs fly
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
by When pigs fly
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 ...
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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?

Zoloft wrote:Wikipedia as a weapon of state?
That's one fucking sad state.
by When pigs fly
Fri Jun 12, 2015 5:00 pm
Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
Topic: Grant Shapps again...
Replies: 364
Views: 22833

Re: Grant Shapps again...

Larp?
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:15 am
Forum: Jimboland
Topic: Jimmy in Korea
Replies: 8
Views: 505

Re: Jimmy in Korea

Image

What rhymes with anchor?
by When pigs fly
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
by When pigs fly
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!!!!!!
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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

Randy from Boise wrote:
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.
Correct.


RfB
Unless you are attacking BLP's the house disproves of, then slander away
by When pigs fly
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...

Vigilant wrote:Perhaps, one of Molly's ancestors from another galaxy.
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.
by When pigs fly
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?
by When pigs fly
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.
by When pigs fly
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 ...
by When pigs fly
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.
by When pigs fly
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 ...
by When pigs fly
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.
by When pigs fly
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...
by When pigs fly
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?
by When pigs fly
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...