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Unicorn food (T-H-L)
"Unicorn Food can be any type of food that is dyed rainbow colors with natural ingredients, though the style is most often seen in drinks or confectioneries. The color scheme of the food is reminiscent of the legendary unicorn."

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Was he a member here so he might explain what he was up to? I'm looking at some of the socks and it looks like he was using them to troll SmokeyJoe for voting at AfDs, and possibly using them to "harass" himself? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive277#And_an...

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Alicia_Machado If you watched the presidential debate you might remember they started discussing Donald Trump allegedly referring to a Miss Universe beauty pageant winner as "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping" twenty years ago (although I think they made it sound recent?). Alicia Machado was who t...

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Drmies has jumped the shark and is now accusing Auerbach of "off-wiki harassment" for tweeting about Drmies' wiki actions. Oversight was also used on Auerbach's talk page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Auerbachkeller#Twitter.21 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Auerbachk...

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"Some people there are reasonable. Others are spiteful banned Wikipedia editors who just want to see the world burn. I've seen Wikipediocracy members say I should accept that I'm a teacher and focus on grading papers, and criticize me for citing a journal article I wrote (the post calls it a "term ...

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Gamma posts a fairly self serving account of the drama. https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Danielle_Citron_speaks_at_WikiConference_USA_2015&oldid=6316964#Question_.233:_Coordinated_offsite_harassment "And what about their right to access the encyclopedia." Questioner #5: (male voice) Hell...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramp!_Tr ... ar_culture

This looks like a mess.

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Aloe vera#Cultivation In Florida, aloe vera is known as a sentry plant. Traditionally it is planted to stand guard underneath a daughter's window to keep boys out; hence the sentry in sentry plant. It's formidable spikes and razor sharp leaves made it effective and is planted to-date with this use ...

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Gamaliel resigned. This would seem to moot quite a bit of the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel_and_others&curid=50223773&diff=721477104&oldid=718047696 Not surprising. He was probably told offline that it wasn't looking good and sinc...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard#Wikipedia:Arbitration.2FRequests.2FCase.2FWikicology_closed That Arb notice has a date on it. Does the user have archiving? I didn't check. That is one of the reasons tags are helpful. It isn't about shaming, it just info...

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/wikipedia-open-access/479364/ Researchers say the online encyclopedia should have a source-o-meter on each page, reflecting the quality of citations. The Pacific Northwest tree octopus existed years before Wikipedia was founded. I’m using “existe...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard#Arbitration_motion_restricting_Gamaliel Gamaliel asked for this? If he doesn't want to take any action to enforce any arbitration decision within the GamerGate topic, why doesn't he just not take any action to enforce any...

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arkon wrote:Arbitration motion restricting Gamaliel

That seems odd to me.

Was the discussion in private or did the arbs state reasons for support/oppose votes somewhere?

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Dennis Brown's evidence section has been removed as "outside the case scope." They also removed some of milowent's tomfoolery. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel_and_others/Evidence&diff=prev&oldid=716830702 Arbitration evidence statement removed ...

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It took the ArbCom three weeks to figure out how they wanted to unban Ottava. While I see your point, there is benefit to reviewing bans/blocks only once the user has appealed: it took three weeks for us to come to a decision and draft the terms of the unban in this case, so it's good to know that t...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Callanecc#Left_Euryalus_message_that_his_rev_del_left_a_spurious_charge_but_have_seen_no_response. I put it here as you asked on the evidence page. You commented that it was my comments that were rev-deled when my reading of Euryalus statement was that my comm...

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Pssst! the number after 3 is 4 . Oh, dear, he really did do that. :D What exactly is the throatpuncher giving his ever so valued opinions about? "Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program is aimed at enabling communication with non-English-speaking populations and identifying important ...

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There was a self-selected poll of Gamergaters who identified as left more than right. Not particularly useful, but it's hard to poll such an ill-defined group anyway. A lot of them claim to be left-leaning libertarians, which isn't a big surprise since most of the surveys are of the reddit communit...

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We might want a thread retitling and/or merging. It's apparent that the WMF is going to continue to hemorrhage employees for a while here. Keeping track of the bleeding should be fairly hilarious. The foundation's legal director, Yana Welinder , has quietly departed. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-04-13/Op-ed Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia? By Lane Rasberry 00:45 (UTC), 14 April I assisted a prison inmate in placing a request for Wikipedia edits (see this week's In the media). I want to explain what I did, w...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-04-13/Arbitration_report The first case of 2016—Wikicology In this week's Arbitration Report: The first case of 2016 has been accepted, and we'll be talking about its background and what's going on at this time. Background Wikicology fi...

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Gamaliel is just another example of the non editor asshats that have taken over Wikipedia and are driving it into the ground. Does anyone know why Kirill recused? Does he have small hands too? He, and Keilana, are on the Wikimedia DC Board of Directors with Gamaliel, maybe Kirill thought he was too...

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Permalink to the closed discussions: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... lved_Admin

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Do any of the, um, "good ones" use the WP IRC or is generally the cancerous, toxic types like Ironholds?

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:popcorn: Wow, this has just gone completely out of control over there, huh? Now both MarkBernstein and Gamaliel are saying this is all because of their favorite boogeyman, Gamergate, somehow. This is very much about Gamergate, it's why 90% of the participants are here and it's exploded out of contr...

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Chillum/HighinBC has made another attempt to close the ANI discussion and sweep it under the rug. Fram is sticking to the guns, especially since Gamaliel and others involved with the Signpost/the 'prank' that caused this ruckus have been trying to re-add info about the now-deleted page to a 2010 ind...

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Keithbob has been working on the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tex_Watson&type=revision&diff=714107652&oldid=713781206 Our pal Caitlin Dewey (Washington Post) perpetuates the myth that Beutler was how this story "became public". :hamsterwheel: How pretentious do you have to be...

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Here comes Gamaliel's buddy, MarkBernstein, with another rant about Gamergate. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small hands;. But seriously: the community should think about the growing deployment, chiefly by right-wing extremists working to keep Wikipedia in line, of crocodile tears. The pearl clutc...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =714008232

This ArbCom, especially Gamaliel, is such a stunning pillar of maturity.

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It's my new goal to have this extended to all BLPs.. Which would fuck over some paid editors. I'm sure you'll get it too. That will be a large chunk of the project that no one will be able to edit. I suggest you request that immediately. Get it on all BLPs then extend it to all biographies if/when ...

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More wikiwarring in the vein of the Manning or Jenner wars has been going on over The Wachowskis of The Matrix fame. Both Wachowksis have come out as transwomen, so the same old edit wars over what to call them on Wikipedia have occurred. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Matrix#.22The_Wachowsk...

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Jimbo isn't named, but related: http://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/03/17/guardian-media-group-cut-250-jobs-and-restructure-its-operations-hopes-break-even "Guardian Media Group, which publishes the Guardian and Observer titles, is preparing a restructure and the cut of 250 jobs - 100 of which will be ...

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Anju Bala (T-H-L)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =708141175

Drmies removed four revisions as "Serious BLP violations" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =Anju_Bala

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Don't forget infoboxes! Goodness, how could I forget infoboxes. Wikipediots have sometimes diva quit the project over not getting their way in an infobox war. I want to say there was a big fight over whether Hillary Clinton's article should be titled Hillary Rodham Clinton or just Hillary Clinton, ...

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Can you give me an example of a non-controversial or benine thing that has become controversial? Are these confrontations mostly political or motivated by ego? This is Wikipedia and Wikipedians, there's bound to be massive conflicts over the weirdest things. Look into the edit warriors that occupy ...

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Beeblebrox wrote:Funyuns.

The Funyuns are stuck in the machine!!

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Ched appears to be working on a draft for WP:EMERGENCY in regards to this incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ched/Sandbox-Discussions#WP:EMERGENCY WP:EMERGENCY -- rough draft for when the time is right -- a discussion needs to be had for this page, especially as it pertains to administrat...

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The can of worms this horrific accidentally-cc'ed email has opened is huge. I've asked Maggie Dennis a lot of questions . https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=707613221 Hello, User:Scott. While he is our newest emergency responder, Haith...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=706004957 I am not greatly concerned about the "knowledge engine" kerfuffle -- it seems like the sort of confusion and infighting that happens in every organization. And I certainly disagree with people who think that i...

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I'm not offended by the language, I'm offended that it's being referred to an op-ed or a column, which generally consist of some kind opinion or argument and ideally by someone who has the ability to communicate effectively in writing. Nice to see Ironholds always able to find the time to fit his u...

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I went to someone's talk page just now and saw they were subscribed to The Signpost updates, so I started reading over the headlines. One seems a bit strange and reads like clickbait: "Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_...

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Evasion of a block is the reason given, but I couldn't see any indicator as to who it is meant to be. Maybe this editor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/JVollenhoven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yngvadottir#Lady_Agnew Lady Agnew It's not just an IP, as you know. I have...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_puffer The oceanic puffer, Lagocephalus lagocephalus, is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found in all tropical and subtropical oceans, at depths of between 10 and 475 m. Its length is up to 61 cm. It is thought to be responsible for fatal poisoning, t...

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An editor wonders where his lawyer is as he tries to appeal a topic ban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Arbitration_enforcement_action_appeal_by_Ollie231213 P.S. I don't understand how this works - how is this a "fair trial" if just some editors turn up and ...

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He never fails to disappoint . And some comedy gold here . Shut down for characterizing it as "comedy gold", by a non-admin per newyorkbrad: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=704153875#Personal_attack_by_a_WP_admin https://en.wikipedi...

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Drijfzand wrote:Here's your problem!

Nice detective work, Drijfzand! I found those percentages really hard to believe, but wikipediot incompetence on the other hand is definitely believable.

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Way back in the late 90s people on usenet would sign up their rivals to multiple porn sites. The Christian fundamentalists tended to sign people up for daily gay porn, the survivalists gay bondage stuff, or anime porn of the type that wikipedia favours. The survey did define what it considered 'rev...

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"Someone edited Wikipedia articles about criminals and replaced their names with mine." On page 17, it says 1,215 people responded to a 'Forms of harassment' question, with 85% reporting content vandalism as their most frequent form of harassment. 63% are claiming they've been hacked and 61% are cl...

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:backtotopic: How many staff currently at WMF are really competent to perform the functions that the ArbCom does, or should do? Would the WMF be able to recruit additional high-calibre staff to do the job? I'd hire community managers from MMORPG land. Let's be clear, these arguments that end up bef...

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Checking the checkers has now been indefinitely blocked by Future Perfect at Sunrise for "trolling, ban evasion." Carrite laid the smackdown on Smallbones at ANI: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=693393525 Lemme tell you a s...

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