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- Tue Dec 06, 2016 2:24 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Massive vandalism on Boglins Wikipedia article
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3148
Re: Massive vandalism on Boglins Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sterling I don't see this guy as notable enough to even have a Wikipedia entry (which he probably himself wrote). Anyway, I'm going to try and undo all the vandalism that has occurred and restore the old information on the boglin article. Jim Sterling is one of the...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:30 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: December 2016 Arbitration Committee Elections
- Replies: 94
- Views: 8868
Re: December 2016 Arbitration Committee Elections
Shouldn't we really promote voting oppose on New York Brad because even if the consensus is that he'd do a fine job, I think he's more then earned his retirement from that cesspool. Reading the voter guides, I find it somewhat interesting that Guerillero does not at the time of this writing support ...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:26 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: December 2016 Arbitration Committee Elections
- Replies: 94
- Views: 8868
Re: December 2016 Arbitration Committee Elections
So unless there's a flood of last minute candidates, it looks like we're going to have quite a few empty arbcom seats for 2017. Is that a good thing? I've seen quite a few people argue Arbcom would be more functional with less members.
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 4:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: responding to every comment/!vote
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1649
Re: responding to every comment/!vote
aaaand, closed as keep. Looks like bludgeon may be an effective strategy after all. :blink: Most of the delete votes were unambiguously just wrong and merging it into Mitt_Romney_presidential_campaign,_2012 is a terrible suggestion due to the specialized nature of the article and sheer size of the ...
- Sun May 29, 2016 8:05 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: responding to every comment/!vote
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1649
Re: responding to every comment/!vote
United_States_presidential_transition Yes, nobody disputes the concept of transitions is notable, and that Romney's may have some important examples in it for that topic area. but there is a big difference between a planned for transition, and an actually executed transition. There are at least 3 "...
- Sat May 28, 2016 3:16 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: responding to every comment/!vote
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1649
Re: responding to every comment/!vote
I'm going to have to actually side with LavaBaron here in that most of the people voting Delete do not appear to have actually read the article or what it is about. The fault probably lies in the misleading title, the article content is not about what would happen if Romney had won the election but ...
- Thu May 26, 2016 11:16 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
It seems to me that both the arbitrators and most of the people commenting on the issue appears to have forgotten that like blocks, removal of user rights is supposed to be preventative, not punitive. The question shouldn't be if Gamaliels actions rise to whatever level of awfulness but rather if he...
- Wed May 18, 2016 8:56 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: European Graduate School
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1675
Re: European Graduate School
This shows how US-centric Wikipedia can be. If it's recognised in Malta, a member of the European Union, then its degrees will be recognised throughout the European Union, a body with a greater population than the USA. Of course, those in the know may consider its degrees to be of low value, but th...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 7:50 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
Well, obviously it is a mistake...but that nobody has pointed that out after this many days: I find that worrying. It makes me wonder: do people generally just take the claims in the evidence sections as "proven", without actually checking? I can't speak for anyone else, but I just follow the evide...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 7:02 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's pro-gun misinformation
- Replies: 204
- Views: 8857
Re: Wikipedia's pro-gun misinformation
Don´t worry; he will never get out. In addition to 21 years he got something called "forvaring": he is kept in jail until the authorities judge him fit to be released. Which I´m basically willing to bet my life on will be: never. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Norway,this )...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 6:57 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
Does anyone actually check those diffs on the evidence-page? On the 18th, Yngvadottir added https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArbitration%2FRequests%2FCase%2FGamaliel_and_others%2FEvidence&type=revision&diff=715918732&oldid=715899422,this That statement include a claim that Gam...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 6:52 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
Does anyone actually check those diffs on the evidence-page? On the 18th, Yngvadottir added https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArbitration%2FRequests%2FCase%2FGamaliel_and_others%2FEvidence&type=revision&diff=715918732&oldid=715899422,this That statement include a claim that Gam...
- Fri Apr 22, 2016 12:33 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
I find it somewhat interesting that the drafting arbitrators are DGG , Callanecc and Doug Weller but the only member of Arbcom appearing to be willing to (evasively) answer any questions has been Opabinia regalis while Drmies and the clerks are busy talking about how impossible it would be for them ...
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:11 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
It would appear that Montanabw thinks that Wikipedia is run by the US government.
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:51 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
The purpose of private submission of evidence is not to withhold the evidence from the accused, but rather to allow evidence to be considered that cannot be published. The right of an accused person to be confronted with the evidence is fundamental; without it, we might as well proceed with the ver...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 4:53 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The BLP policy
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1488
Re: The BLP policy
My preferred solution is for Wikipedia to no longer cover any event less then 10 years old. Wikipedia needs to stop trying to be a collaborative source of news because it will never be able to do it well.
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 4:04 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
And it seems to me that Wikipedia would be even better served if they, (as SlimVirgin and others have suggested) got some proper enforcement against harassment. (One of the reasons I´m so mad about this, is that I see the length WP has gone to, in order to stop paid editing. Now, I´m against paid e...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:06 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
SlimVirgin supporting GorillaWarfare here does´t help. However, Slim (and others) *do* have an interesting point about being harassed, and what that does to you (...nothing good.) Since I have probably (?) "enjoyed" more harassment than Gamaliel, this is something I *do* know something about. (Than...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 6:32 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
It's on the real-life end of physical abuse though, not SWATting or Internet Tough Guy (not that those aren't harassment but it's low end stuff compared to physical violence). It usually has stemmed from a question at ref desk. Sometimes it's kids. SWATing is as physical as abuse gets isn't it? Hav...
- Sat Apr 16, 2016 6:26 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
Don't get too excited. Like a $99 PPV fight, the hype is more entertaining than the show. I find just clicking the "edit" tab so distasteful but part of me wants to be a parliamentarian dick and calling "point of order" and asking how the recused arbs will stay recused. Will there be a separate lis...
- Sat Apr 16, 2016 6:20 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
- Replies: 1085
- Views: 58938
Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
I've always thought the 500 word limit was idiotic. Let people go on as long as they need to or want to. RfB The word limit makes sense in the context of the stated purpose of that page. Which is to let the involved people make their statements but not replies. Arguably an even better rule would be...
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 10:40 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Does editing article trigger patrolling?Does adding a photo?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10340
Re: Does editing article trigger patrolling?Does adding a ph
I think the music notability requirement on Wikipedia is mentions in 2 significant publications. So easiest way for you to make sure your article stays around is to just convince two music journalists to write about you. Zironic and The Garbage Scow : Thanks - that is good to know about music publi...
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 10:23 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rules
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4583
Re: WikiMedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rul
Swedish Law does not distinguish between civil and criminal law. Copyright infringement is a criminal offence with penalties from fines to 2 years of prison in addition to whatever damages you might be liable for. Kind of scary. Does that mean any artist can bring a lawsuit that has criminal penalt...
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:59 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Does editing article trigger patrolling?Does adding a photo?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10340
Re: Does editing article trigger patrolling?Does adding a ph
I think the music notability requirement on Wikipedia is mentions in 2 significant publications. So easiest way for you to make sure your article stays around is to just convince two music journalists to write about you.
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rules
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4583
Re: WikiMedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rul
But it s a falsehood for WMF to respond that selfies on Facebook are now criminal. It would only be "criminal" (this all seems like civil law to me) for facebook to make them available while claiming they have a right to do so and they have a right to attribute it with a use license. Swedish Law do...
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:38 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rules
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4583
Re: WikiMedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rul
Well, if nothing else it might be in the public interest of the local government to be able to make a public database of the various public arts within their region for purposes of tourism and culture. Since you need a building permit to raise these works in the first place, it would be reasonably ...
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:53 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rules
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4583
Re: WikiMedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rul
One way to handle it would be for the local government to buy the picture rights to all public works on their territory in order to freely license it. Why on earth should they waste public money doing that? It would benefit nobody but the WMF and maybe one or two commercial organisations. Well, if ...
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:19 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rules
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4583
Re: WikiMedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rul
The court all but absolved editors. They said it was the database that had value, not the individual photos. It's commons that has value and it doesn't matter whether it's commercial or not. This is an interesting ruling as it protects the tourists' private photos and places liability on the aggreg...
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rules
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4583
Re: WikiMedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rul
I think this is a complicated problem. What one country allows another may not and there are huge differences in what is allowed where and for how long. Since the internet and Commons is online and crosses boarders, the host country the servers live on should be, IMO, what they go by. As such, sinc...
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rules
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4583
Re: WikiMedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rul
It all makes perfect sense when you consider that the head of Wikimedia Sweden is the former Pirate Party leader.
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:23 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Another indefinite oversight block
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3583
Re: Another indefinite oversight block
Biscuittin's position on COI is made clear on his talk page: "Holding an opinion is one thing. Being an active campaigner for or against a particular cause is quite another". http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7520 Clearly not what is generally understood by the term 'conflict of ...
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 12:23 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Another indefinite oversight block
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3583
Re: Another indefinite oversight block
I can only speak from my experience at the Homeopathy article, but the main problem there was not people arriving at the article claiming that homeopathy had cured their ills, but actual homeopaths complaining that the article, quite correctly, pointed out that there was no actual scientific proof ...
- Mon Mar 28, 2016 1:48 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Another indefinite oversight block
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3583
Re: Another indefinite oversight block
All of his edits have been oversighted, but the text is currently on his user page because JzG asked at WP:ANI what had been oversighted. I suppose that'll disappear soon too. While the block makes sense to me because threatening to out someone if they don't comply with your demands can't possibly ...
- Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:32 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's pro-gun misinformation
- Replies: 204
- Views: 8857
Re: Wikipedia's pro-gun misinformation
OK, may as well get this over with. So I notice my neighbor, who is a nut-job, has an AR-15. Because I have the constitutional right to do so, get myself an AR-15 too. That's rational, right? No. Now you have two nut-jobs with AR-15s. The rational thing would be for neither of us to have guns to st...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:12 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Gawker lawsuit loss
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5782
Re: Gawker lawsuit loss
Does this judgment affect Wikipedia or its participants in any way? Don't see why it would. Wikipedia usually goes with better safe then sorry on anything that could be related to copyright, defamation and privacy. I followed the trial a little bit, and it seems hard to tell on the surface how it w...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:08 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Meet the editors: WayneRay
- Replies: 79
- Views: 28980
Re: Meet the editors: WayneRay
I don't think a convicted [whatever] should be banned from any community based on their criminal record alone. Generally we don't let convicted fraudsters help the elderly manage their savings. We don't let convicted burglers install alarm systems. We don't allow those convicted of animal cruelty s...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:15 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Gawker lawsuit loss
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5782
Re: Gawker lawsuit loss
Rumor is that they ran out of their liability insurance months ago on legal fees. Suppose we'll find out if that's true or not pretty soon.Vigilant wrote: Nobody here has ever heard of insurance?
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:10 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Gawker lawsuit loss
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5782
Re: Gawker lawsuit loss
Personally what I think will happen is they will either declare bankruptcy/change their name (like what Blackwater did a few years back) and keep rolling or someone will just buy them out for pennies on the dollar with the proceeds going to the Hulkster or they may just settle out of court. I think...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 4:28 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Gawker lawsuit loss
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5782
Re: Gawker lawsuit loss
It could still put them out of business. In order to appeal, they have to put up 10% of the judgment (including any punitive damages that come down today) into a bond that isn't refundable. And, I thought I read somewhere, that they have to put 50% of the damages into some kind of escrow account wh...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 4:19 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Gawker lawsuit loss
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5782
Re: Gawker lawsuit loss
Perhaps Terry Bollea will see fit to keep them running, since it's likely he'll end up owning them after this is all over. As much as I really really want Gawker to lose, all legal experts seem quite confident they'll win the appeal due to the traditionally very broad applicability of the first ame...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 3:09 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Gawker lawsuit loss
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5782
Re: Gawker lawsuit loss
I certainly hope that they do not go under, I rather like io9 (sci-fi, movies, tv) and Jezebel. They are all their own islands, and from what I've read on some of them, they're pretty disdainful of the political nuttery that goes on at the main Gawker. Maybe the rest can spinoff like Wonkette did a...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 11:09 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Meet the editors: WayneRay
- Replies: 79
- Views: 28980
Re: Meet the editors: WayneRay
When I read the lede of the blog I first wondered what the problem was, as I don't think a convicted [whatever] should be banned from any community based on their criminal record alone. However the instances you document further into the blog makes a pretty strong case that he engages in predatory b...
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 1:59 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: "Background" of the Wikipediocracy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 472
Re: "Background" of the Wikipediocracy
Adding super-redundant background information to the lede of various articles seems to be OnBeyondZebrax (T-C-L)'s thing if you look through his contributions.
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:04 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Researching Political Bias on Wikipedia
- Replies: 75
- Views: 5201
Re: Researching Political Bias on Wikipedia
So if I understand correctly, serious evaluation of sources is dead, source material is not studied for potential inconsistencies or biases, biases with these materials are also no longer pointed out. Instead, petty squabbles over which source may be accepted are settled via taxing each others pati...
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 10:14 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Researching Political Bias on Wikipedia
- Replies: 75
- Views: 5201
Re: Researching Political Bias on Wikipedia
Are there conflicting groups and is there an understanding or is it more of a constant battle of wits over who can outsmart the other in editing their biases into articles? It's not really a battle of wits. It's more just tag teaming articles together with all your friends to create a local 'consen...
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Researching Political Bias on Wikipedia
- Replies: 75
- Views: 5201
Re: Researching Political Bias on Wikipedia
It sounds like you'll enjoy reading these threads: The gender gap gap Harassment Survey 2015 At The Signpost, Keilana's cussing causes criticism Ironholds quits R development over "exclusionary" variable Ahmed Mohamed However as you can probably tell by the replies you've gotten so far, the communit...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:13 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Swedish Wikipedia seeks nude & underwear models
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7334
Re: Swedish Wikipedia seeks nude & underwear models
Maybe there's a problem in Swedish law with the copyright on tattoos? Good point. It's extremely difficult to be 100% sure that a photograph of a tattoo can actually be licensed under CC, generally speaking most Swedish photographs handle this issue by paying a standard license fee to the relevant ...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 6:49 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Swedish Wikipedia seeks nude & underwear models
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7334
Re: Swedish Wikipedia seeks nude & underwear models
Overall I don't see a problem with the initiative though just like the comment on that blog I'm somewhat puzzled on the requirement of no visible tattoos. I need to know more about just how exklusiva we're talkin' before I'll commit to pose. Well, this is their website http://www.gustafmellbin.se. I...
- Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:05 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Hawkeye7 @ RfA
- Replies: 421
- Views: 12592
Re: Hawkeye7 @ RfA
Are we really doing this?
- Sat Jan 30, 2016 5:32 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Sock Hunting - Done right or not?
- Replies: 169
- Views: 6063
Re: Sock Hunting - Done right or not?
How about: "the percentage of editors who have a reputation for making sock accusations are overwhelmingly female?" Are there any male editors with such reputations? This is not going to be a productive line of reasoning. First we have no way to establish the real identity of self-proclaimed sock h...