Wikipediocracy

MysteriousStranger

Wikipedia shouldn't give a pass to people pushing pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian points of view; Wikipedia has to stay neutral. At the same time, I'm mindful there's an absolutely brutal war started by massive Hamas atrocities now followed by a punishing Israeli attack on Gaza that's causing massiv...

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Wikipedia isn’t reasonable when it comes to nobility. They won’t even acknowledge that Jimbo is the Prince of Wales!

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Jimbo once tried and failed to intervene on Commons. He was in the right for once, but was beaten back. As a result, his special powers as Founder were severely reduced. Is there a thread about that on here? To what extent do those restrictions on his power have legal basis? Could he not simply dis...

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At this point, if reliable sources start printing Zujua's real name, its going to end up in the article. I suppose its too much to hope its a Prioryman sock ;) Because that would royally fuck the outing policy.... Honestly can't see why Prioryman would waste so much time defaming an American lawyer...

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Do you find it surprising that someone here is clearly out for revenge and will go to any lengths to gin up evidence to get said revenge? There's no proof of that. But it's not surprising, that you present it as a fact "clearly". It depends on how you define "proof." I would imagine that to Mr. Bee...

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Here's an interview that Laura Hale did in 2015 about her research on Quora: Laura Hale: Social Media Methodologies . If you have read any of Dr Hale's research, you have probably wondered about the statistical data analysis. In this interview, all will be revealed. You can jump straight to 11 minu...

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Fae made an interesting discovery. A Google search on Henry Kissinger produced an https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGM23miX0AElyN4.png:large,infobox claiming that he "regularly engages in sex with zombies". This was some vandalism by an IP on 2nd October, which didn't last very long. Yet it showed up on...

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First this. Next thing you know...

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Mason wrote:

Who (T-C-L) Edits: 41 Actions: 1

Where (T-C-L) Edits: 5 Actions: 0
How?
Why?
What?

All I wanna know is, which one of them plays first base?

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Bonadea reacted negatively to the proposal for a UCC on the grounds that there was no universal definition of civility. I complimented her on her excellent deduction while simultaneously calling her a bunch of names that some cultures consider insulting. Irony being lost on Wikipediots, my comments ...

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Erika: One solution is, of course, to make sure you're six months or a year out the door, to make sure that your IP address has changed, maybe to switch up the operating system of your computer, and to then register a new account, do fifty low-tech decoy edits to start, and then edit merrily along....

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Many public IPs are blocked, presumably because they have been used for vandalism or they are set up in a way that looks to some checkuser like an open proxy. I find that many public libraries have their IPs blocked. They treat libraries the same way they treat schools: if someone vandalizes from e...

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Yes. Yes, they should.

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I also wonder how many of the people on this list have law enforcement records. That's a great question. Doubt we have anywhere near the data needed to answer it, but great question nonetheless. I can think of a handful who most certainly do have criminal records (WayneRay comes to mind) and ones w...

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All excellent points against an argument I didn't make. Incorrect CU blocks happen and are corrected on appeal. I've voted to overturn several during my tenure, often as a result of new information not available to the CU. Guido made the claim that CheckUsers put false information on the CU wiki to...

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Some of those people, DSM issues or not (and I have a degree in psychology), are just bad human beings. A handful of pedos, guys like Grawp who make graphic threats of murder and rape. That said...I'd have to imagine there are quite a few autists there as well. Some of them, no doubt, began with goo...

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It's kind of funny that what got Alex in trouble was CU'ing "no" votes on otherwise-snowball-y RFAs (if I'm not mistaken). I just had kind of come to believe that was standard procedure.

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We know WP has relevant policy related to CheckUser and how it is to be used, but most of us who have socked have been caught by "fishing" CUs at least a few times. Given that that's in direct violation of the rules, one would think there would be record of someone losing the tool or at least being ...

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Location information varies wildly and is not accurate nor reliable. Indeed, in Britain by far the post popular ISP is British Telecom. It is quite impossible to locate one of its IPs. Further, the IP often changes spontaneously. Also in Wikimedian logic, you have to understand that British Telecom...

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My only problem with DQ is that I believe she goes on fishing expeditions using CU, but quite a few of them do that. Like Fae, she is LGBTQ and has mental health issues. Unlike Fae, she does not take said issues out on Wikipedia editors that I've seen. So...I believe she will do okay as a bureaucrat.

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I don't think that people view "temperament" as as big a deal for crats as for admins. Besides, Lourdes' oppose is so dumb that it may be putting others off from opposing... :facepalm: And from what precious little I've seen of ED, at least some of its contributors subscribe to the "there aren't an...

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I've said it before, but the conundrum with Trump is that the current socio-political conflict at which he is the center is not really about traditional (or classic) conservative vs liberal. Instead, it's economic nationalism vs open-borders, neo-Socialist globalism. Of course if you're a proponent...

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This probably varies by country. In the UK, many people are on dynamic IPs that keep changing. Even if checkusers keep lists of IPs of people they block (which they shouldn't do), the IPs would change after a few weeks, making returning users hard to spot. They are here in the US too and the CU's, ...

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Has any user successfully dodged the checkuser and not been caught so far.That is socking for years and still doing it in Wikipedia Welcome to the boards, Chad! I've been socking for over five years, but I've never been great at avoiding CU. And I don't know if anyone there knows I've been at it th...

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I'm trying to keep the pressure on the powers that be, but can someone help me, please? I'm referring to James and the ArbCom.

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The asswipes are doubling down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk ... hing_wrong

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MadManz wrote:She did nothing wrong (T-C-L)

That was me, and I'm not planning to go away.

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Also, Erika, do you care if I create a bunch of accounts to bug the big shots about how you don't deserve your ban? They'll run CU and realize it isn't you and be confused. I won't do it unless and until you say it's okay, though.

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Congrats, Lynn!

To Erika: I am with those who say you should spread your story as far and wide as you can. Let them know that just because you can't edit anymore doesn't mean you'll kowtow to them.

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I'd totally vote for Kumi, but I'm afraid it would lead to either a long rangeblock or (since you have to give an email address and I don't feel like making a throwaway) them knowing who I am.

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I live in Ohio and I haven't had any problems... Granted, that's a dubious area that's not quite the Midwest and not quite the Northeast, so who am I to talk? You must not be an AT&T user. Berean Hardass had pretty much all AT&T users hardblocked around here (account creation disabled, talk page di...

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We're finally coming around to Authentic Registration and Sign-In-To-Edit through the back door... RfB Yeah, except a lot of these blocks, I assume, also disable account creation. Some even disable editing with an account. I had such a block placed on me that extended to pretty much all AT&T wirele...

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I can't read the article due to WSJ's paywall.

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There is a new feature though that you need to watch out for. From the administrators newsletter "When blocking anonymous users, a [[phab:T152462|cookie will be applied]] that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on ...

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Just realized that I've been talking about when they thought someone else was me. That's not the title of the topic although it's closely related. Some think I'm Catcreekcitycouncil. I've imitated his style before and he has encouraged this, even going so far as to call me "Chief Councillion"...they...

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I'm like five sockmasters, and I think three of them have listed socks that aren't me, most of which did nothing wrong. This is why it pisses me off so much that CUs act like their little tool is infallible. I currently have two different SPIs filed under me, all of which contain only socks of me. ...

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I'm like five sockmasters, and I think three of them have listed socks that aren't me, most of which did nothing wrong. This is why it pisses me off so much that CUs act like their little tool is infallible. I currently have two different SPIs filed under me, all of which contain only socks of me. ...

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I'm like five sockmasters, and I think three of them have listed socks that aren't me, most of which did nothing wrong. This is why it pisses me off so much that CUs act like their little tool is infallible.

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...and while it does catch all the right accounts usually it can also add in wrong ones It is often wrong about the IP/Account and the sockmaster. Basically, the more computers and networks a person uses to edit the higher the chances of that account being accused as a sock. For example, when I was...

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For the record, you sound like a self-satisfied bully. Ferfucksake, man, this is my job! I don't know what your job is, but if someone started shitting all over it on this board, I would hope you might end up sounding like a self-satisfied bully! Shitting all over it? No, he's just saying some peop...

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I find it rather depressing how quickly and how easily these ultra-rationalists become self-satisfied bullies. They behave as if they genuinely believed that there was such a thing as ultimate truth, that early 21st century science possessed in full measure, and that they themselves had privileged ...

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Wikipedia is generally fairly neutral on most issues in my experience, but I have at times thought I noticed a leftward slant. I think your average observer will see the site as having a POV opposite their own. I know when I first started reading the 'pedia I was pretty conservative, and today as mo...

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I've never created an acount with "shit" as part of the user name, and I never will. Between this guy and Pelican shit, it's pretty obvious that "shit" usernames lead to the real-life death of the user.

(In all seriousness, RIP to both of them - but, yikes, Runt was pretty crazy.)

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This is so stupid and obvious, yet it's stood exactly like this for the past eight days:

Hip Hop (mascot) (T-H-L)

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I don't know that the concept is as nebulous as you're stating. There may be a few specific songs that are included in some lists but not in others, but I think everyone who's musically knowledgeable understands that the "Great American Songbook" refers to pre-rock popular music of the Tin Pan Alle...

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The Great American Songbook is a very nebulous concept. There is no reliable source for defining its contents (although various publishers have brought out songbooks of that title, with differing contents), but that has not stopped editors listing the contents. That article has rightly been flagged...

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Anroth wrote:Na hes just on an alternative account.

Which one? EloFoSho? Because I don't think that one edits often either.

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I'm beginning to think Elockid should be added to the list. Disappeared for over three months, came back in June, edited sporadically for a couple weeks, has been gone again for almost a month now. His only real concern with the site seems to be enforcing the ban of Vote (X) For Change (T-C-L).

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The indefatigable WMUK is collaborating with the National Liberal Club ("the spiritual home of Liberals and Liberal Democrats, founded by Gladstone in 1882") "to get better, more in-depth coverage of liberal issues and liberal history in the online encyclopaedia, updating and expanding articles." h...

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I never really interacted with him one way or the other, but I heard horror stories about his behavior. Guess if I'd known he were dying that behavior might've made more sense, I don't know. It's a shame - he was so young - but at least he was a donor.

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