Wikipediocracy

Yep, here we go..

Sometimes you need the right person to be in the right place at the right time. The fact that it has stuck without anyone unblocking is amazing.

Edit: Even was brought up by an IP and dropped. (and brought up multiple times actually...).

rnu wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:41 pm

Was there something revdelled or were they really blocked almost a year after their last edit?

I swear I remember something there here was discussing Kintetsu, Catfish Jim saw it, and well, you see the block reason. But for the life of me I can't find that thread.

Mr. Phelps, if I were you, I would look a lot deeper into the user that you "admired" and quote on the COI noticeboard. Especially as the BSA fanatic that you are.

Nuked.

tarantino wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2023 2:14 am

rnu wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:38 pm

Is anyone familiar with Marokwitz (T-C-L)

Marokwitz is also known as Gilabrand (T-C-L), although I don't think he's told anyone that.

And Gilabrand was just indeffed for breaching their topic ban.

Add SilkTork (T-C-L) to the list of those not coming back. diff

Why do I have "Super Mario" effect screaming in my brain right now? I can point to at least three other pairs/groups of people who were blocked for lesser evidence than this.

I wonder why any proposal involving disciplining admins always have disproportionate admin opposition...

Current tallies:
Admins 6-5 in favor
Editors 7-1 in favor

You would think if admins were just like the community they were part of, you'd see similar percentages support/opposition.

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I did not see this coming. Basically, there is now a reliable source being retransmitted nationally backing up everything that was ever revdel'ed from that article.

Oops.

He works as a journalist and he's authored several books on Pink Floyd. He's a fan boy is all. I updated Andy's Wikipedia page The Amazing Pudding to figure out his credentials. They are slim pickings. And he's not a great Wikipedia editor by any stretch. Mabbett seems well liked (enough) to be sup...

I'm just wondering at this point why they gave Cirt so much rope. How many names and blocks did that person have?

Off the top of my head...

Curt Wilhelm Von Savage
Smee
Smeeglova
Cirt
Sagecandor

I've never even heard of this editor, so I am suspecting that he or she was not an influential player. Interesting as he was an admin frequently chiming in on ANI and AE requests. It's hard to pinpoint any defining moment but just present quite a bit. I've never even heard of this editor, so I am s...

Ricky81682 (T-C-L) just got nailed for sockpuppetry. Interesting way to go out after 11 years, especially as he has come across as a hard-ass to those who've puppeted in the past. It seems the powers that be found out sometime in early September as that's when ArbCom first pinged him.

And blocked...

I wonder how many scenarios we can document that match this MO and who is involved in each.

Racepacket, is that you?

Sorry, skimmed, saw that. Didn't want to derail the karma that the steamroller may be getting. A paradox if you will.

That applies to things they create/change after they have been blocked.

With that said, let the process work itself out. Foaming at the mouth only hurts what needs to be done to remedy this issue.

Dot those i's, cross those t's. Category:Burger King restaurants in Dortmund Only one picture in it so far. You don't get it. Burger King is a "special" corporation on Wikipedia, thanks to an insider named Jerem43 . An admitted Burger King employee, who purified WP articles about Burger King starti...

No, but it does remind me of when another user did it an he went apeshit.

I'd rather not be in a place to even be put on that site but in my mind, what they are doing is tantamount to extortion. I am not a lawyer so I can't provided relevant commentary.

The fact that site allows comments is a prime example of what is wrong with society. How do you feel about a multi-count felon becoming Chief Operating Officer of a charity that runs one of the world's top 10 websites? I personally would not hire such a person as it shows poor judgement on her part...

The fact that site allows comments is a prime example of what is wrong with society.

I believe one of the arbiters called it the "Super Mario Situation". He or she was talking sense at the time and said if you violate a rule that would get a user blocked, why wouldn't an admin be blocked the same instead of being demoted.

Thanks for the reply guys. I saw the article posted at another forum (humorous poke at "which one of yall are shills..") and after reading it and the content, it sounded dubious yet all too familiar. I missed the myspace part (though it is still alive and in zombie form...).

...how many in the I-P debate are employed by companies described in this article.

The tactics sound all too familiar.

Note: Not sure of the veracity of that article but reading it really hit close to what I've witnessed on WP over numerous topics but especially the I-P debacle.

I seem to keep harping on this issue but... Be done with this. Ban Cla68. There's no amount of quality edits that could possibly be worth the amount of time this man wastes.—Kww(talk) 16:43, 18 December 2012 (UTC) I don't ever recall interacting with Kww but my gut tells me I didn't like him for a f...

Welcome!

Despite the tone of the original post, I do wish you a speedy recovery. I don't wish you any ill will, just wish you would change your methods.

And it keeps rolling IP posts courtesy notices , Someone else posts an SPI , Before even waiting for a SPI result , he's waiving the AE notice at people without any clear evidence it IS Echigo Mole. And traps three more into a one-way IBAN. At this rate soon nobody will be able to interact with Mat...

16. Once you have a "record", you will be tarnished with this "record" for the rest of your experiences on the wiki. Even though this "record" probably doesn't matter for the "issue" at hand, the fact that you have a "record" means you are bad and must be punished, err, prevent harm to the encyclope...

I am disturbed by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#TrevelyanL85A2,action going on against TrevelyanL85A2. User gets banned from R&I. Fine. User gets i-banned from discussing Mathsci. Fine. Mathsci goes around poking the user with terms such as sockpuppet, m...

The points being, if you don't like what someone is doing, invent/modify a rule and accuse them of breaking it.