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by Echo
Fri Sep 06, 2013 2:52 pm
Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
Topic: Fake your life on Wikipedia
Replies: 93
Views: 4153

Re: Fake your life on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion&curid=26803395&diff=571786155&oldid=571782935,Mr. Penny is not happy: LMAO!!! Maybe I'll do a follow-up expose entitled, "How I offended a couple elitest Wikipedia editors, who removed an article that was clearly sourced v...
by Echo
Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:44 pm
Forum: Governance
Topic: Down with Ironholds?
Replies: 783
Views: 83722

Re: Down with Ironholds?

These are not masks you can take on and off as the moment requires. You're supposed to have SOME sense of ethics. You know, what I don't understand at all is that the main case page states that the "Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter" is five accept, four decline, and two recuse. Cases are...
by Echo
Wed Jul 24, 2013 6:43 pm
Forum: News and Media
Topic: Tenure awarded based in part on Wikipedia contributions
Replies: 11
Views: 578

Re: Tenure awarded based in part on Wikipedia contributions

DanMurphy wrote:Press release published early April 2011. The subject Dr Aaij (T-C-L) quit Wikipedia for good two weeks earlier.
No, he didn't: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedi ... 8Drmies.29
by Echo
Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:42 pm
Forum: Governance
Topic: Oversight masks the danger
Replies: 71
Views: 2724

Re: Oversight masks the danger

Wer900 wrote: Pending changes for BLPs. All reviewers must be regularly checkusered.
Checkuser is not all it's cracked up to be: it's only useful to catch the dumb sockmasters...
by Echo
Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:36 am
Forum: Governance
Topic: Activity of the average registered WP user
Replies: 26
Views: 1913

Re: Activity of the average registered WP user

EricBarbour wrote: "Known" way? All I can tell you is, go to the user creation log.
See how many of them are marked "automatically created"?
No one is telling us who is doing it, or why, or how. It just happens, every day.


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