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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:57 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about religious editors
- Replies: 31
- Views: 954
Re: Let's talk about religious editors
To take a disputed article on Wikipedia, I don't see the issue with Lazarus of Bethany in broad strokes—it's clear where the stories are coming from, and doesn't present the idea that Lazarus was a real person or the miracle actually happened. Let's take that article, shall we? Lazarus of Bethany (...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: “We love our charter, Oh Lord, we love our charter...”
- Replies: 7
- Views: 405
Re: “We love our charter, Oh Lord, we love our charter...”
It always reminds me of the riddle "What was the brown object Beethoven left behind on his piano stool?" (Ans: His last movement.)rnu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:01 amIt always irritates me when large organizations try to brand themselves as "a movement", or as we would say in Germany "eine Bewegung".
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Oldest hoax yet, discovered
- Replies: 18
- Views: 949
Re: Oldest hoax yet, discovered
Thomas Forbes . It lasted almost 18 years. Its entry on the List of hoaxes on Wikipedia rather confusingly characterises its demise as "Speedy deleted as G3: Blatant hoax". That seems like an inordinately long time for its deletion to be characterised as "speedy". In fact, an earlier version of the...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:13 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
- Replies: 205
- Views: 6022
Re: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
engadget: Getty flags another British royal family photo for being digitally altered The princess' absence from public events since Christmas last year has, as you might have expected, spawned all kinds of conspiracy theories. It even gave rise to a whole Wikipedia article entitled "Where is Kate?"...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about LDS editors
- Replies: 257
- Views: 12613
Re: Let's talk about LDS editors
Today I've been struggling to figure out why all the Mormons on Wikipdedia are insisting on treating the Book of Mormon as a creative work or worthy of literary analysis. It's pretty wild: like do you really want people to do a close reading of a pretty shitty biblical fan fiction from 1830? Then I...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:26 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494962
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
An actor commits ritual abuse of a child if the actor, as part of a ritual, intentionally or knowingly; Causes a child to participate in or witness: the torture, mutilation, or sacrifice of an animal; the dissection, mutilation, or incineration of a human corpse: the causing of serious ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:15 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Over 500 people sign petition against skeptic Wikipedia editors "suppression" of information regarding UFOs
- Replies: 58
- Views: 2272
Re: Over 500 people sign petition against skeptic Wikipedia editors "suppression" of information regarding UFOs
... ✂️ ... ... ✂️ ... He [viz. Lazar] claims one of the flying saucers, the one he coined the "Sport Model", was manufactured out of a metallic substance similar in appearance and touch to liquid titanium . Given that the boiling point of titanium is 3287 °C, the discoverer of this factoid must hav...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2920
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
glad I popped in while it was still open to add my oppose for Vituzzu. If I had a say in it, I'd also vote to remove all the other Italian admins who had any part in the Gitz affair. You misplaced it, after the "<section end="comments" />" line, so it doesn't show when it's transcluded (and I can't...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: All the Israel/Palestine infighting on Wikipedia
- Replies: 144
- Views: 2896
Re: Yet more bad faith allegations by pro-Israel POV pusher Drsmoo
...a veiled insult... In the context of the Arbcom enforcement case, I think that this refers to the "dumb goiym" phrase Nishidani posted which has severely antisemitic undertones as it was taken from Mein Kampf. I think this is what they were referring to, though I could've missed something. "Take...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617405
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
I wanna play. I submit: Though Theodosius calculated the date correctly, God intervened to have Ahimaaz' ancestor win, according to the chronicle. Theodosius of Oria I did move the attribution to to top of the sentence to make it clearer WP does not ascribe to this. I am about to go see if I can id...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 796
- Views: 420028
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
OTD ... 1990 – NASA's Voyager 1 space probe took the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth (pictured) from a record distance of 40.5 au (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi). Spot the dot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png/177px-Pale_Blue_Dot.png It's not a...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Apparently this is how things work now
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2699
Re: Apparently this is how things work now
I recently fixed a syntax error in a biography of living person Jenilee Harrison . Let's take a look at how you "fixed" that. You added as a reference a site that lists court documents related to a divorce case. If one paid, they could access those documents. Without paying, I'm not even sure if th...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:39 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Do we really need over 600 articles on individual Samsung products?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 938
Re: Do we really need over 600 articles on individual Samsung products?
RoySmith is now asking " do we really need articles on individual latitudes? " Here's a random example of a latitude article: 18th parallel north . The 18th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 18 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, th...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Personal touches
- Replies: 194
- Views: 52673
Re: Personal touches
Anton Webern Webern's earliest works primarily comprise lieder, the genre that most testifies to his roots in Romanticism, specifically German Romanticism; one in which the music yields brief but explicit, potent, and spoken meaning manifested only latently or programmatically in purely instrumenta...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:17 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823119
Re: Crap articles
Split networks Wow, that's next-level impenetrable. There isn't much for the layperson to even work out what the topic is about (before following some links, I'd have guessed mathematics or computer networks) It looks to me like a "split" is a pair of trees (in the sense used in phylogenetics ) obt...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Pro-Israeli Canvassing 'n' Meatpuppeting at Arbcom
- Replies: 153
- Views: 7260
Re: Pro-Israeli Canvassing 'n' Meatpuppeting at Arbcom
It's not nearly as easy as that to do it undetectably. If the .eml file contains a purported DKIM signature (and I've checked that Gmail doesn't strip them out when you ask it for the original source of an email), then that will contain the name of the domain supposedly responsible for adding the s...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:00 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Pro-Israeli Canvassing 'n' Meatpuppeting at Arbcom
- Replies: 153
- Views: 7260
Re: Pro-Israeli Canvassing 'n' Meatpuppeting at Arbcom
"An .EML file is, in the simplest terms, an email saved in plain text ." Just a smidge more than that. Well, no, not really. That addresses different issues - email spoofing (or pretending to send as someone else) & modification of email in flight. It doesn't address the issue that I have mentioned...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Thabo Mbeki death hoax
- Replies: 1
- Views: 351
Re: Thabo Mbeki death hoax
The article on Thabo Mbeki falsely claimed that he had died. The edit in question included two sources( * ). However both are now 404, so I can't tell you whether they ever existed. But apparently several news sites reported it, so it is very possible that this one did not originate on Wikipedia. A...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:27 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jesus becomes subject of ARBPIA
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1316
Re: Jesus becomes subject of ARBPIA
There are good reasons to suspect that the whole 'virgin' thing was a mistranslation - possibly intentional. Only two of the four canonical gospels make any mention of it. Definitely a mistranslation. I don't think it was a deliberate mistranslation... more likely an attempt by Aramaic-speaking, ea...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 1:35 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Always improving
- Replies: 217
- Views: 50079
Re: Always improving
Cesàro summation An "improvement" made some 5 years ago to this article was drawn to my attention by this post on Mathematics StackExchange , whose author had been misled by it. Until the talk page donnybrook leading up to that change, the article had given the following correct definiton https://i...
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:41 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 796
- Views: 420028
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
I've now corrected the article on this point.lonza leggiera wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:33 am... you're right about the author of the entry. It's not the editor of the encyclopedia, Levillain, but the French historian, Jean Durliat.
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:33 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 796
- Views: 420028
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
[centre]…[snip]…[/centre] Now to the alleged quote by Philippe Levillain . It is from The Papacy: An Encyclopedia (translation of Dictionnaire historique de la papauté ), a three volume work edited by Levillain. I can't access the full text, .... Yes you can (sort of). All three volumes are availab...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:41 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 796
- Views: 420028
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
The 12-minute flight time,[8] which also included a sack of groceries and 50 copies of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat,[8] established the world's first airmail service.[7] The total flight time was considerabely shorter because it took Wiseman two days to complete the journey, which included two for...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 1:36 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213073
Re: Admin refuses to read
LoL. I was slightly startled that Wikipediasucks noted that I joined Wikipediocracy. Weird, isn't it. Are you kidding? They're almost as obsessed with Wikipediocracy as they are with Wikipedia. Hi suckers :wave: er, no I wasn't but I guess I am learning that To be precise, What Wikipediocracy parti...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:27 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823119
Re: Crap articles
Goo-goos . … In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, in telling George about his preferred "parlour", Whit observes that in addition to clean girls, and comfortable chairs, the proprietress (Susy), "Don't let no goo-goos in, neither." However an earlier version says: In John Steinbeck's novella, Of M...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 7:01 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The "Jess Wade Problem" Problem
- Replies: 94
- Views: 15301
Re: The "Jess Wade Problem" Problem
…[snip]… — and remember, it's not over until the fat lady sings! (Please excuse me for body-shaming, I'm sure she's a very nice and desirable lady!) …[snip]… Adiposely challenged she may well have been towards the end of her career, but for anyone with a voice as divine as hers a few extra centimet...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia, Overwolf, and NPOV
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2702
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 2:28 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The Devil's Wiktionary: A Wikipedia Glossary (merged)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2371
Re: A Wikipedia Glossary
The topic of this thread appears to be much the same as that of this one. Maybe they could be merged.
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:53 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Springee is concerned about "far-right"
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4363
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 11:01 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia will not perform UK Online Safety Bill age checks
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2917
Re: Wikipedia will not perform UK Online Safety Bill age checks
I realize things are much more complicated now Compared to when? Was there some time when people didn't have sex or talk about it online? Maybe not, but I believe it's pretty much little more than plausible conjecture as to what medieval peasants (for instance) chatted about on their mobiles, witho...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:43 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF employees are getting bullied.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2268
Re: WMF employees are getting bullied.
Thin, thick, or something in between?Shaun Spalding, quoted by Vigilant, wrote: ... I like contributing and talking to everyone here and on meta because I have relatively think skin. ...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930646
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Speaking of dirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center,The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center This is a Hunter-Thomps...
- Sat Sep 09, 2023 8:14 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 796
- Views: 420028
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour - Dead o’ the Day section
María Teresa Campos ran a “vindicative” radio program. This was somehow a good thing. I wonder if this is some kind of false friend problem. Note the "a" in "vindic a tive, a word which I didn't even know existed. I had to go to the Oxford English dictionary to discover that one of its supposedly m...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:31 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Minor-attracted person
- Replies: 197
- Views: 11905
Re: Minor-attracted person
In a semi-related note, I don't think publicly identifying underaged editors is a great idea. It looks like "youth" here might mean something like "under 30". From a desultory browse through the nominees, the two I found whose ages would appear to be reasonably well circumscribed, Lajmmoore and Sir...
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 8:42 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: A modern-day whodunnit on Caroline Overington’s rinsed Wikipedia page
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2163
Re: A modern-day whodunnit on Caroline Overington’s rinsed Wikipedia page
Article subjects can donate pictures of themselves. I think if we can have a system where people can send in their pictures and say "you can now legally use this" then it should be possible to have a system where people can say "hey I got a divorce". One of the reasons that Wikipedia relies on "rel...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:55 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: SashiRolls gets back on the bandwagon
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1274
Re: SashiRolls gets back on the bandwagon
Kinda unsure if y'all are serious, but in case you are, I searched for Sashi's WPO handle in the AN thread and it's not there. Since it had been mentioned along with various threads where said ID was alleged to have said mean things about Wikipedia users, and since the diff by Primefac, who's handl...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: SashiRolls gets back on the bandwagon
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1274
Re: SashiRolls gets back on the bandwagon
Here "You cannot view this page revision because it has been suppressed ." :blink: At ANI? For what reason? Something Elinruby wrote at 22:24, 21 August 2023 was redacted Sorry, as a mere administrator without oversight privileges, I don't know any more about that than you do. It may not have been ...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 9:05 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Nigerian Princes have found the WMF grant trough
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3842
Re: Nigerian Princes have found the WMF grant trough
Contributions Registered March 2022, edited through June 2022, disappeared for 9 months, went to work shitting things up. Click through on any of his 'contributions' that are over 100 bytes, They're uniformly bad. Really, really bad. Appears to be a woman , as I'd guessed from the "Stella" in the f...
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 12:16 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Creative Vandalism
- Replies: 464
- Views: 141813
Re: Schrodinger's cat Milton
Lemme get this straight: somebody vandalized Wikipedia a decade ago, which was caught and corrected, and for eight and a half years Wikipedia hasn't had the misinformation. But there are "many websites" still parroting the now-corrected vandalism — and this somehow is an indictment of Wikipedia? So...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Creative Vandalism
- Replies: 464
- Views: 141813
Schrodinger's cat Milton
Prompted by an exchange of letters in a local newspaper about Schrödinger's cat , I performed a web search to find out whether Schrödinger ever did own a cat, and, if so what its name was. I was confidently informed by many web sites, including a Facebook page of Physics Today , and a web page of IF...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikimania 2023
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1687
Re: Wikimania 2023
Ah she is a computer scientist and mentions this on her linked in: …[ snip] … It's not clear (at least not to me) that she would still claim to be a computer scientist. On her linkedin page she gives her current occupation as a self-employed "Amateur Neuroscience Researcher." It's true that her Wik...
- Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:20 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Italian abuses and vendetta. Gitz6666 globally locked
- Replies: 195
- Views: 26033
Re: Italian abuses and vendetta. Gitz6666 globally locke
Thanks for your patient explanation of what was wrong with that contribution. I'd looked for "censorship" and "wouldn't be too harsh" in the article and, finding neither, ... [snip] ... Now that you've drawn my attention to the fact that Luix710 had enclosed "wouldn't be too harsh" within quotation...
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 3:52 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Italian abuses and vendetta. Gitz6666 globally locked
- Replies: 195
- Views: 26033
Re: Italian abuses and vendetta. Gitz6666 globally locked
With regard to Luix710, my comment on her talk was "if no one explains to her the fundamentals of NPOV, CON, NPA, etc., how will she learn?" Given this complete misrepresentation of the source they added to en.wp, I'm not sure they are really open to "learning". :dubious: Did you mean to link to th...
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617405
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
Reputation Bernardino Corio describes Sforza Veronese, his favorite, to whom he cut off a testicle. The twenty-two-year-old Ambrogio instead, in order to escape his flattery (Sforza was in fact bisexual), castrated himself. He had the young Pietro Drego buried alive and out of jealousy he had both ...
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia hostility and the suggestions to reduce it
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2187
Re: Wikipedia hostility and the suggestions to reduce it
This is heading far off topic, but I do frequently notice it in the phrase "or, what is the same". I googled the phrase and found it in Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, in the first ever definition of utility no less: By the principle of utility is meant that prin...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 11:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia intentionally distorting Holocaust history?
- Replies: 801
- Views: 46459
Re: Wikipedia intentionally distorting Holocaust history?
...why Horse Eye's Back tried to introduce this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive289#Tulsi_Gabbard_again BLPN discussion about... Tulsi Gabbard into evidence? What does Tulsi Gabbard have to do with the topic of "Holocaust in Poland"? What exa...
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 1:05 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494962
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
I finally watched the Dateline NBC episode. I had never watched his interviews before, so I was very entertained by his terrible acting. Link to the full episode? Possibly here . I get the message "This video is not available in your location". But the page says it will be available until October 1...
- Fri Apr 14, 2023 9:50 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823119
Re: Crap articles
Aloha ʻOe Here are the Hawai'ian lyrics, according to the article: Haʻaheo e ka ua i nā pali Ke nihi aʻela i ka nahele E hahai (uhai) ana paha i ka liko Pua ʻāhihi lehua o uka Hui: Aloha ʻoe, aloha ʻoe E ke onaona noho i ka lipo One fond embrace, A hoʻi aʻe au Until we meet again ...and so forth. T...
- Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:33 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494962
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
Case postponed until June. According to the BBC report just cited, his latest barrister (a King's Counsel, no less) said
BBC News wrote: he "very much regretted" asking for the case to be adjourned, but that more time was needed to prepare expert reports.
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 1:51 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia intentionally distorting Holocaust history?
- Replies: 801
- Views: 46459
Re: Wikipedia intentionally distorting Holocaust history
Ampersands in the web links in citations number 11 and 33 of this article , also published on the Taylor and Francis website, do not get converted to %26. Links in the pdf version of Grabowski and Klein's article suffer from the same problem as those in the html web-page version, and it seems unlik...