Wikipediocracy

Kingsindian

I was recently re-listening to the catchy and nonsensical 90s song "Who Let The Dogs Out?" I randomly found this article discussing the song and its origins in The Daily Beast . It’s been 20 years, and we still can’t be sure who, really, let those damned dogs out. “How can a question be asked that m...

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Not exactly related, but some similarities.

I have mentioned the website Wesearchr and its owner Charles Johnson before. One of his websites GotNews.com filed for bankruptcy recently. Mark Randazza was their attorney as well.

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Am I missing something? As far as I can see, the thread on Jimbo's talkpage is completely irrelevant. Some random people talking random stuff. There's absolutely nothing about Wikipedia policy there. As for Nocturnalnow, he claims to be an old man with Alzheimer's, and says that people shouldn't tak...

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Anyone is welcome to read the subsection "Plausibility" in the "Resurrection Hypothesis" section and decide for themselves whether the author has any clue about mathematics, inference (Bayesian or otherwise) or statistics.

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No, I'm pretty sure that they just don't understand it.

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Wonder why the anti-Quack & pro-science Wikipedians are bothered so much by theology. But they're not opposed to Sokal hoax related postmodernist nonsense like feminist journals publishing excerpts from Mein Kampf or an article about dog park humpings constituting "rape culture" ( USA Today article...

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I skimmed the paper (available here ). They only considered three hypotheses, and concluded that one of them is most likely. The methods are simple: declare any inconvenient fact as "controversial" (and thus not part of the "minimal facts" approach), and handwave vigorously. Also, iii's suspicion ab...

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There's nothing wrong with having lots of "neutral" votes, in theory or in practice.

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It seems Tim only got 3/6 correct this year. TDA seems to have gotten 5/6. I don't know if Crowsnest made a prediction.

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There's no meatpuppeting involved there.

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Is there any easy way to generate the same set as a database (or an Excel document) with the account name only in one field and a tally of total votes (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) in a second field? CSV: https://paste.ee/p/PiTYV Wow, thanks so much. VERY interesting... There are only 345 editors out of the pool...

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Looks to me like the Dawg is the advocate here. This is an abstract of the journal article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28652796 "Very low impact journal"? Says who? Deputy Dawg and who else? It appears that the Deputy and a few other users police these articles as reps of the Medical Establ...

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That makes sense. However, let's separate out the two issues here: (a) Jytdog's behavior (b) The issue of "advocacy"/conflict of interest. On part (a) everyone (including Jytdog in hindsight) agrees that calling them on the phone was a bad idea. Beall4 also reports that Jytdog's tone on the phone wa...

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Let me elaborate on this a bit. Basically the point is that there is a spectrum of "unsolicited contact". Talk page is the bottom level (accepted), email is the next level (sometimes accepted), next step is phone call, and highest severity is face-to-face contact. Here's an example: When I was deal...

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Long live vi, down with Emacs!

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Anyway, most people use vim (vi improved) nowadays. It's much more user-friendly. In the worst case, you can press the "Insert" key and pretend that it's Notepad.

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Jytdog could have simply meant that someone who (among other things) invites people to "sample tasty SCD treats" might be someone who views SCD positively, and is trying to get people to adopt it. To me, the thing almost reads like an ad. Anyway, that is not very important. The important fact is tha...

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ArbCom case permalink . From Jytdog's statement: I first asked if they wanted to talk at their talk page, but given the difficulties they were having with the platform itself and the fact that they have never edited their own talk page, I was not confident they would even know to respond. I recalle...

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Beall4 hasn't commented on the matter at all. It's not clear to me if they're aware of this drama at all (since they don't seem to read or respond on their talk page). Perhaps the person who is the supposed target of harassment can clear things up a bit? According to Jytdog's story, he called Beall4...

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It turns out Jytdog's story is a bit, um, embellished: I agree this is something we should handle, potentially as a motion or an extremely shortened case with a focus on principles. I think what disappoints me most here is that the link presented by Kingsindian here makes it clear that Jytdog does k...

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ArbCom case permalink . From Jytdog's statement: I first asked if they wanted to talk at their talk page, but given the difficulties they were having with the platform itself and the fact that they have never edited their own talk page, I was not confident they would even know to respond. I recalle...

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ArbCom case permalink . From Jytdog's statement: I first asked if they wanted to talk at their talk page, but given the difficulties they were having with the platform itself and the fact that they have never edited their own talk page, I was not confident they would even know to respond. I recalle...

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No. I don't disclose my phone number publicly.

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ArbCom case permalink . From Jytdog's statement: I first asked if they wanted to talk at their talk page, but given the difficulties they were having with the platform itself and the fact that they have never edited their own talk page, I was not confident they would even know to respond. I recalle...

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So trustworthy. OliverKamm Hmmm... :dubious: I guess there are two main points in his favor. First, his last edits (in 2010) were in an effort to get his BLP deleted , so he did at least try to opt out as best he could. Second, most of his edits are to the talk page of his BLP, and most of them are...

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The material in question has been un supressed, so that sideshow is over. Frankly, this whole case is over and I don't expect to have much more participation in it. All I ever actually intended to do was submit my proposals but then Fred made his ass-backwards trolling accusations blaming it all on...

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Why would ArbCom apologize to Cross?

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You make a good point about initiatives such as Women in Red as well, but anyone who appears to be critical of that in particular will soon find themselves pigeon holed as a misogynist; if you're anti the project then you're automatically anti-women. Can you explain how you can be anti the WiR proj...

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I'm basing my votes on the response to K.e.coffman's question. Partly because I think it's a relevant and important question, but also because it's the kind of unorthodox question which is good at revealing the character of the responder. So: *Fred Bauder - don't see the question there. But I'm gon...

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As the election plods along, TParis is up with a Voters' Guide. He puts Drmies in Fred Bauderland with a strong oppose, other than that, pure milquetoast... It seems that TParis is basing his complaint on the "MisterWiki" case, where Salvidrim was desysopped. There's a WO thread here . See this Arb...

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I'm basing my votes on the response to K.e.coffman's question. Partly because I think it's a relevant and important question, but also because it's the kind of unorthodox question which is good at revealing the character of the responder. So: *Fred Bauder - don't see the question there. But I'm gon...

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Most of the Kyiv Post (T-H-L) article was written by a certain Bsbonner (T-C-L), who seems to do nothing else. Could this person be the chief editor Brian S Bonner?

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We're so lucky to have Eric here. Whatever the topic, he knows more about it than anyone else. :applause: Did I miss something? I don't see Eric posting anything for quite a while on this thread. I believe Poetlister is talking about this post and this reply by Dysklyver. IANAL and have no idea of ...

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I have absolutely no idea if Jytdog is some employee of Big Pharma. However, on the question of whether pharma companies treat "alternative medicine" as competion, one should realize that especially in Asia, "alt-medicine" is huge. In Europe, it's pretty significant as well. This category includes "...

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As usual, the https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yird,Scots version is written in a weird parody of Scots: Yird, itherwise kent as the Warld or the Globe, is the third planet frae the Sun an the anerly object in the Universe kent tae herbour life. It is the densest planet in the Solar Seestem an the la...

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So, looking back at the page where this fracas took shape, he actually did finally answer my question after a lot of off topic stuff about Trump and so forth was also posted. I had quit watching the page after he answered so I hadn't noticed this until now when he decided to try and put this all on...

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Wikipedia has always had a somewhat weird demographic. In the early days there was the usual disproportionate amount of frauds, freaks, basement dwelling ne'er-do-wells seeking affirmation, and the usual sort of people who latch onto online social projects with a low barrier to entry. But mostly it...

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I obviously haven't read his article, as I thought Carlson won everything he played. Well, Carlsen and Caruana are currently the two highest-rated chess players in history. And they're so close in rating that if Caruana wins one game, he'll go to world number one in the live ratings (see 2700chess....

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This has absolutely no connection to Wikipedia, but I saw that Jimbo made the ceremonial first move in the currently ongoing World Chess Championship game 5. The game was pretty interesting, and ended in a draw (like all games so far). https://en.chessbase.com/portals/all/2018/11/chess-world-champio...

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Big NYT story . One excerpt: And when that failed — as the company’s stock price plummeted and it faced a consumer backlash — Facebook went on the attack. While Mr. Zuckerberg has conducted a public apology tour in the last year, Ms. Sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Fa...

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Cool story

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Apart from the different climate, Tim also takes into account voting guides by Wikipedia regulars, which all put GW in a high position.

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I'm not sure what you mean by "meta" space, but the questions were on a page for ArbCom candidates, and were thus not in article space; rather they were in the "Wikipedia" space. In my experience, most people don't even know that talk space exists. Even fewer people know that Wikipedia space exists....

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I don't understand the "Inspector Javert" and "pitchforks and torches" reference. Javert was a cop; he had the law on his side. "Pitchforks and torches" are usually carried by a mob who are trying to get something done by extra-legal means.

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I'm not sure how you can possibly have read the policy and not think you've run afoul of it. You went though an editor's Reddit posting history to outrageously insinuate that they're a danger to children, all in order to derail their candidacy. In what universe is that not "conducting opposition re...

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But then what will be the truth value of the statement: "Kingsindian is right and Eric Corbett is wrong"?

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There are many ways to define a "membership function" for true (depends on exactly what you mean). One of them is given on the Wikipedia page for Fuzzy Logic . So to decide the "truth" of the statement "This kettle of water is hot", one can use the function defined there (one can think of other func...

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Things can certainly be "true to an extent", though one has to define the concept carefully so as to not become muddled. There are at least two well-known ways to do so: fuzzy logic and probabilities.

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Drmies is a bit prickly. I always put it down to him being Dutch. His RateMyProfessors page is interesting. Rather polarized views: split between "awesome" and "awful". Quite a few of them mention politics (both people who rated him well and those who didn't). Have you been reading my draft Voter's...

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This is off topic, but I read the case against Bauder, and while I'm not a lawyer, understand it to be as follows: A lady asserts Bauder said something, Bauder "vigorously denied" saying that, but a hearing board found the lady's account more credible than Bauder's, and therefore publicly censured ...

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The site is useful, but should be treated with caution. The reviews are anonymous; it could be simply someone who was pissed off because they got a bad grade. There should be plenty of conservative students in Montgomery, Alabama; someone would have complained if some teacher was failing students ju...

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