Wikipediocracy

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Why isn’t there a fair and formal process to help article subjects and autobiographers? I mean, at least part of the reason is people like this guy who come in and just start throwing their weight around, expecting to be treated as a VIP, and blow a gasket when they don't get it. I don't hate the i...

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I acceded to the demand because I did indicate previously I would remove it if told by an admin, so as a matter of honour I had to abide by that promise. The issue of policy or admin authority never occurred to me, as I erroneously thought individual admins could make these judgements unilaterally....

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In case anyone is wondering why Ad Orientem thinks the essay should be deleted: https://ad-orientem.blogspot.com/search/label/gender%20ideology https://ad-orientem.blogspot.com/search/label/wokery OMG! Teh OUTING! Is it outing, though? I mean that's just a blog with the same name as a Wikipedia edi...

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In case anyone is wondering why Ad Orientem thinks the essay should be deleted: https://ad-orientem.blogspot.com/search/label/gender%20ideology https://ad-orientem.blogspot.com/search/label/wokery OMG! Teh OUTING! Is it outing, though? I mean that's just a blog with the same name as a Wikipedia edi...

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Why isn’t there a fair and formal process to help article subjects and autobiographers?

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rnu wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:53 pm
In case anyone is wondering why Ad Orientem thinks the essay should be deleted:
https://ad-orientem.blogspot.com/search ... 20ideology
https://ad-orientem.blogspot.com/search/label/wokery

OMG!

Teh OUTING!

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This will end well.

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Ryuichi wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:48 am

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:46 am
Harsh
... but fair.

Simmer down, Judge Dredd.

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Wikiguy.DC wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:25 am

Hi Joe, I've been away a couple of years. What's going on, you still 'crat and all that? The Rambling Man (T-C-L) (Been a while, I know......) 7:59 pm, Today (UTC−4)
LMAO

Harsh

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Stephensen's Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon were thoroughly enjoyable.

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I would tend to distrust a site called "Trust Cafe" since it sounds like the usual Orwellian names that shady operations tend to pick. What exactly is the point of pushing the idea of "trust" for a social media platform? They started out as the SandpaperSodomy Cafe, but that was unsuccessful, as we...

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I enjoy gibson’s early work more than his later work.

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I can't even spite vote in that shit, I don't know these people I was going to vote against everyone but Barkeep is on the list. And he really would try to make it work, bad idea as it may be. So then I went to the candidates' page and ... pretty much what you said. Why are we electing these people...

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She's, at most, spook-curious.

She's obviously an opportunistic vapid buzzword pusher and nothing more.

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Credit where credit is due

"Framming"

I'm not sure how Fram felt about it given that they chose to reply to TheAnonme rather than you, but I felt "framming" to be a disrespectful verb. Barkeep49 (talk) 20:30, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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I saw their early contributions where they were trying to determine someone’s identity.

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Is it just me or is The Anome a smug prick?

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As you explain, there's an edge case there.

The VAST majority of 'concerned opinions' held about this are simply garden variety bigotry.

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What do you run?

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Some of us live on the other side of the globe, and slept during most of the buffoonery. The claims of "non-trivial" amounts of stock were absurd, since I never said I owned non-trivial amounts. I was intentionally vague because it isn't anyone's business. The concept of an absurd de minimis exampl...

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This was probably predictable: 1220383136 I am just the messenger and intend to convey neither approval nor disapproval This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. WP:CIR would like a word. oh it's not going anywhere. It was a matter of time before someone made this point however It's a dumb point ma...

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This was probably predictable: 1220383136 I am just the messenger and intend to convey neither approval nor disapproval This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. WP:CIR would like a word. Just take all the bits from all the fucking mouthbreathers who started and supported that thread. This. This ri...

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Like a meth addict scrabbling around on the slippery linoleum for a 'rock' he dropped behind the toilet in the last men's room stall.

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How ironic

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They'll cherry pick the 'data' and come up with whatever narrative they wanted to come up with.

Reminds me of their A/B testing for the VisualEdsel.

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Randy from Boise wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:19 am
And you, Yngvadottir (T-C-L)!

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"Vote for sanity for a change."

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rnu wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:08 pm

Yngvadottir wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:07 pm

Beeblebrox wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:40 pm

Randy from Boise wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:25 pm
Your turn to run for Arb, Dennis.
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You got my vote. For what that's worth these days....
Mine too. Along with Fram. And Beeblebrox, again.
And my shrug.

And my axe!!!

Wait... what are we doing?

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rnu wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:00 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:47 pm
[...]
In other words, neither Rowling or her critics had any real understanding of the purpose of the law
[...]
People having, and expressing, strong opinions about things they don't understand. I am shocked! "Shocked", I say!

Even worse, about shit that's none of their god damned business.

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I'm just disappointed the thread title wasn't "Must answer me these questions three, 'ere the other side he see "

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Come on, en.wp, try giving Rowling the Brandt treatment.

I dare you.

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Looks like nobody attempted to answer this question: P.S. Hmmmm, GW has buttons. She was not an involved party... Why didn't she do a quick, quiet block on her own? Why go to AN/I at all??? Hopefully she'll drop by and answer this one herself, but if I really had to guess, I'd say it's probably bec...

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Well, we done voted for this new thing. How in the hell are we actually going to do it?! Nice work ARBCOM... Also, what are the new rules, asks nearly everyone. :popcorn: We don't want Arbcom making new policy, that is not their job. Their job is to arbitrate protracted problems that the community ...

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Sounds like a lolcow

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He and Jimbo should team up for the next venture.

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*So here I am, outing someone again. Sure, someone practically asked me to do it, but I could have sent them a PM with the answer to their question, but I know that you want to know, too. Don't deny it. YOU....MONSTER! When will the pearl-clutching tear-dispenser crowd be along to pillory you for t...

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*So here I am, outing someone again. Sure, someone practically asked me to do it, but I could have sent them a PM with the answer to their question, but I know that you want to know, too. Don't deny it. YOU....MONSTER! When will the pearl-clutching tear-dispenser crowd be along to pillory you for t...

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I could be wrong, but I don't recall having any specific interactions or conflicts with this Troutman fellow before. A brief review of just a few comments highlighted in the recent discussion shows someone who has no problem making openly contemptuous comments about women and trans women. That he i...

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And the women In the room share a look. So do the guys. LOL probably. I will go first. It isn't "heavy-handed dominance behaviour" to say that a man should be doing your job sweetie? This is the same Molly White whose hesitant speech patterns we were making fun of the other day? Uptalking is always...

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Elinruby wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:45 am
And the women In the room share a look.

So do the guys.

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excellent overview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkL4ME-8dQ I think Molly White did a great job of putting the Maher quotes in their proper context, but her audience is not people who get their news from Twitter. It will be interesting to see where this goes in the next couple of days. The ...

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Zoloft wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:18 am

EverDissever wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:50 am
Hey I'm a rodeo clown
Spiff up your résumé. I'll write a letter of recommendation.

You could be head of NPR in a week or two.

Seems a bit overqualified.

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I genuinely look forward to Barkeep's holding us accountable both during and after his term (in his words, "when he rails against this as a non-arb"), because I think it makes ArbCom function better when it is subject to external scrutiny when possible. I agree with Sdrqaz's observations, both abou...

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The Garbage Scow wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:41 pm
If he is truly broke he may have to go with a public defender.

Miranda was probably wrung dry and left in heavy debt.

I think it's more like, "No honor among thieves."

Her shenanigans smelled like grifter to me.

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Someone from inside NPR should interview a bunch of en.wp, WMF and WPO types and ask them if Maher was truthful in her enumeration of her accomplishments during her tenure.

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What?!

Miranda isn't sending over flipping great wadges of cash to support her hubby?!

Unpossible!!

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Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be." https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/178092926...

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Here's an idea en.wp types...

Don't shit on people who you think can't fight back.
Hold your most 'powerful' people to a higher standard than the hoi polloi.
Don't shoot the messenger.

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Well, we done voted for this new thing. How in the hell are we actually going to do it?! Nice work ARBCOM... Also, what are the new rules, asks nearly everyone. :popcorn: New procedure: Flail. ARBCOM rendering their next decision via interpretive dance. https://i.imgur.com/1p1uFGQ.gif

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Well, we done voted for this new thing. How in the hell are we actually going to do it?!

Nice work ARBCOM...

Also, what are the new rules, asks nearly everyone.

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