Wikipediocracy

Ihatemyusername

Terrible idea. Unjustified block will inevitably end up meaning "block against someone the admin/'the community' likes." I highly doubt the use of the redaction tool and the unjustness of the block will have any significant correlation.

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In real life: A is a surgeon who has saved numerous lives on the operating table. B is a Silicon Valley billionaire who has created a new industry and brought work to thousands of people. C is a senior police officer. D is unemployed and livng off welfare. Each of A,B,C and D has driven their car d...

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I remember more than once people being dragged to ANI for casual use of the word "defamatory." A lot of editors seem to look for anything vaguely resembling legalese to use as a weapon against their opponents. I wrote an ArbCom decision that specifically addressed this problem, and then incorporate...

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I remember more than once people being dragged to ANI for casual use of the word "defamatory." A lot of editors seem to look for anything vaguely resembling legalese to use as a weapon against their opponents.

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Today you put on the radio and hear something awful has happened in Azerbaijan.

Of course sometimes Wikipedia is the instrument for something awful that has happened in Azerbaijan....

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Should I link the articles about wikipedia "banning 5 feminist editors" ? You got me there. Reporting about internet culture is generally horrific. I do feel like on a more general non-internet culture scale however, you find more absolute trash in Breitbart than any left wing British mainstream ne...

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They took Vordrak/Matthew Hopkins as a serious and authoratative source of Wikipedia criticism. He published a blog post saying Gamaliel had banned him from Wikipedia soon after he was banned, when actually it was Floquenbeam.. My guess is he pre-emptively wrote it before he was banned and was doing...

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Wikipedia as an oligarchy is something that Jimbo Wales seems to have been pushed for since 2001.https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji ... se_a_cabal

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I looked at the article on Leni Riefenstahl and it does seem to be a little light on the criticism in the "Legacy/Reception" section. However, otherwise, the article appears to meet WP's NPOV policy. As active as the Israeli supporters are on WP, if the article wasn't balanced it would have already...

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Kingsindian wrote:
As for fascists writing history, David Irving comes to mind, especially his earlier work, which was well regarded.

Are you referring to his Dresden bombing stuff? I swear his figures ended up being debunked later?

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So I noticed this pop up on ANI a few months ago, and only now thinking back on it have I realised how incredibly fucked up this is. Don't think there's ever been a thread on it here either. So there's this guy called Jonas Vinther (now changed his account name to Doctor Papa Jones ), he's some kind...

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I'm not sure which is more idiotic: threatening to out the real name of someone already using their real name on Wikipedia, or giving an oversight block and oversighting everything in response. This is basically the same as oversight blocking someone for threatening to reveal the name of this myster...

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Poetlister wrote:
Vigilant wrote:Can anyone name one person who has been able to recover and get a better job after leaving the WMF?
Mike Godwin?

As a WO thread about the failed careers of former WMF staffers grows longer, the probability of Mike Godwin being mentioned as the only exception approaches 1.

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These constant claims that Bassel was a "Wikipedian" seem incredibly sketchy. It's claimed "he was an early and frequent, if anonymous, editor on the Arabic Wikipedia," but no one has ever linked to any account he supposedly edited from. While Jimmy Wales deserves some praise for drawing attention t...

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Last week the Oxford Internet Institute uploaded series of presentations by academics researching Wikipedia. I haven't watched any of them yet, but thought I may as well link them here for discussion. http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/webcasts/?id=762,Cultures of Wikipedia by Dr Bernie Hogan http://www.oii.ox...

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I really can't for the life of me see how anything Vote (X) for Change writes can be considered "criminal harassment," and I wouldn't even consider myself a particularly thick skinned person. Does (X) do some incredibly dodgy stuff through email or something, because all I ever see her do is accuse ...

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Wikipedia's main content deformity isn't its "maleness," it is a skew towards contemporary news stories vs. historical events, a skew towards modern popular culture vs. other forms of culture, and (most significantly) a skew towards US/UK content vs. the rest of the world. I see the "gender content...

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In Azerbaijan, Wikipedia volunteers last year issued a desperate SOS, saying Wikipedians had been subjected to torture at the behest of an administrator with government connections. Holy crap. Is this the only press mention this event has received? This is incredibly fucked up, and I can't believe ...

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Princess Leia's bikini (T-H-L)

I can't possibly describe it. Just read it.

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Surprised no one has commented on the incredibly cringeworthy intro songs yet.

Randy from Boise wrote:Red patent leather boots with 5-inch spike heels...

Hmmmmmm.

RfB

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Is she hungry, sitting there with her laptop? She gets paid to edit Wikipedia in order to get money and buy food. I assume that when we say "little African girls", we mean under 16s. They'd struggle to become admins, let alone paid editors. Didn't Keilana become an admin at age 12 or something? And...

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Not sure if it's that creative but some pedo IP successfully vandalised an article in a gross way, by pretending they were reverting vandalism. So over the course of 3 days an article in which 13 year old Maddie Ziegler was described as "the prettiest girl in the world who got hit by pubes like a tr...

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No thats why she barely passed, because people recognized that trait and said so when they opposed. Just read the comments on the RFA opposes and the crat chat and it will confirm. Actually quite a few of the opposes are from people think she was too sympathetic towards pseudoscience on the Richard...

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If you seriously want to be on ArbCom, here's some political advice: 1. Change your user name to something that sounds serious ASAP. Real names are good. Pseudonyms that sound like real names are good. Lose the Seaton, Illinois zip code or whatever that thing is. Well, that was quick. Also almost d...

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The Debagging article is continuing to have more crap added to it by the hour. Today someone finally noticed. Oshwah reverted a single vandalism edit to the lede but left the rest all in place. The lede now reads: Depantsing or "debagging" (the term used in Britain, especially historically at Oxford...

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So any predictions on if this Arbcom will be more or less dysfunctional then the previous one? Having Drmies on the same Arbcom as Gamaliel and Kirill will surely be interesting. I'm somewhat optimistic about this new batch of arbs, especially Opabinia regalis. She came out of absolutely nowhere af...

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So someone on /r/Wikiinaction/ seems to be implying they've leaked the election results:

Are they trolling? Casliber in 12th and MarkBernstein in 9th makes me think so.

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Part of me wants to revert, but I'm kinda tempted to wait and see how long this can go on for. Observe. One must never interfere in a study one has initiated. It's unscientific, and you may be INVOLVED. :XD It's evolving: Depantsing or 'debagging' (the term used in Britain, especially historically ...

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I'm just glad the voting ends this Sunday. :duck: The results will probably be available in time for the next election. It took over 10 days last year with a third of the votes. Indeed. :rotfl: Does anyone know if Jimbo still does his Queen Elizabeth II impression and announces the winners in his c...

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Since I brought attention to this here, lozacking, dodding, jugging, schmegging, and zwantsing have been added to list. Part of me wants to revert, but I'm kinda tempted to wait an see how long this can go on for.

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From Debagging Depantsing or 'debagging' (the term used in Britain, especially historically at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England, and derived from "Oxford bags", a loose-fitting baggy form of trousers), also known as kecking, sacking, dacking, downtrouting, downtrailing, dudding, jocking,...

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With the exception of giano, I have *never* seen an editor get the sort of leeway Eric does, and I've been on Wikipedia for nearly a decade. A list of things I have seen editors who are not Eric Corbett do without getting any form of block or sanction: [*] Rant about burning another editor (coincid...

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...I'm undecided about or follow the advice I've heard to Oppose everyone you don't support. I hate to send that kind of message to editors that are perfectly fine but who are not in my Top 9 but I understand why it is considered a strategic tactic. If the system is set up to allow for strategic ga...

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I suspect the apparent increase in the editor count is due to influx of social-warfare competitors due to GamerGate, and the general ramp-up due to US national and world political events, and people wanting to use Wikipedia as part of a "social-media" campaign. They've gotta score 100 edits in a mo...

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I just noticed that WP deleted the article on Bare chestedness (male top nudity) because of links to Neelix but the Toplessness article (female top nudity) is a very lengthy article on what seems like a pretty simple topic. Of course, there are lots of images because one would not be enough. There ...

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... Did nobody notice the GG/8ch slate vote I found? Nobody? The vote for the GG/8chan slate (possibly :nsfw: due to the integrated chat on the poll) WiA thread Misleadingly titled KiA thread I wouldn't think they'd have more than 20 voters among them though. Still amusing. :popcorn: Looking at the...

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Doesn't seem to be a thread for this. What do people think of this? I participated a lot in the case and already said a lot, so I won't say much to start with. Link: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 3/Proposed decision Noteworthy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia...

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Kelly Martin wrote:Referenced on Quora here. Upvotes/comments/suggestions for improvement welcome.

I am specifically trying to remember the name of the guy who inserted thousands of bogus claims and citations, which Wikipedia has never bothered to clean up completely, but I'm blanking on it today.

Jagged 85 (T-C-L)?

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Roger Davies dropping the Bradspeak, and suddenly going all sassy on everyone is definitely the best/only good thing to have come out of this election.

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Zironic wrote:I find myself questioning the value of the institutional memory of a committee that noone has ever been satisfied with.

I don't think anyone's ever been satisfied with the non-arbcom, dispute resolution areas of Wikipedia either.

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cyofee wrote:
Ihatemyusername wrote:This happens to me every so often when browsing WO. Any idea how to fix it?
are you on ios6?

No, Windows 7 or 8 or something (some point after XP they all started looking the same to me). Usually if I switch tabs a few times it disappears.

Ihatemyusername

This happens to me every so often when browsing WO. Any idea how to fix it?

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AusLondonder is a content creator who's written over 180 articles. One day he decides to edit the article on International reactions to the November 2015 Paris attacks . This is the reaction he receives from someone who doesn't like his overly rambly writing style. stop being a twat and find a reli...

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I don't recall retracting anything. I considered your "EDIT" a retraction as you're no longer promising to get ryulong meatpuppets banned only if you're getting elected to ArbCom, but instead saying its something you'd consider either way. Apologies if I misunderstood and this is still a campaign p...

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Boy, none of these candidates are good, save for maybe Salvidrim. The guy practically made a campaign promise to ban Ryulong's alleged meatpuppets on reddit if elected (although thankfully he kinda retracted it). Even if it wasn't his intention, and he only inadvertently made a secret offsite campa...

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We should convince Mark Bernstein to run for Arbcom. You, sir, are a prophet. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2015/Candidates&diff=prev&oldid=689699997 I actually quite liked his candidate statement and was kind of tempted to vote for hi...

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Anthonyhcole wrote:Opabinia Regalis (T-C-L) Usually right.
Zad68 (T-C-L) Subtle and intelligent.

+1

Pity Zad68's pretty much retired.

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Another spot opens up

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Ent seems to be quite lenient and tactical when it comes to Valued Content Creator types.

I guess someone like HJ Mitchell would fit well on that sort of trigger happy "ban everyone" slate. I remember him writing that he was considering running for Arbcom.

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Things seem to have gone tits up for Neelix. It's times like this that I wish non-admins could see deleted contributions so that the full gamut of absurd redirects could be seen. One, two or even a dozen doesn't convey the scope of the hundreds and hundreds of deleted redirects...for example, there...

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