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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823082
Re: Crap articles
This one just came up in a help desk thread: List of company name etymologies . It contains such critical information as telling us that Ernst & Young is named after two guys by those names and that Skyline Chili was named for the view at its first location. Why anyone would come to this list lookin...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:04 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3231
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823082
Re: Crap articles
Michael Lodahl A theology professor from the Church of the Nazarene . The article includes this gem: He has published over 10 books, some of them held in many libraries.[1] His best-known literary work is Story of God. His most widely held book is Shekhinah/spirit : divine presence in Jewish and Ch...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Coolest Wikipedia user names
- Replies: 23
- Views: 830
Re: Coolest Wikipedia user names
Here's three names that are interesting. In this thread at AN, Haven't I seen your nipples somewhere before? , Delicious carbuncle brings attention to the fact that Jacknipples was blocked for a violation of the username policy. Hands of gorse, heart of steel makes a persuasive argument. Now I was ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
It's all very "meh" to me.
Editing protected templates isn't something normally going to be impacted by a COI, so it's pretty low-risk. The main argument against him having it back was that he didn't immediately need it, not that he couldn't be trusted with it.
Editing protected templates isn't something normally going to be impacted by a COI, so it's pretty low-risk. The main argument against him having it back was that he didn't immediately need it, not that he couldn't be trusted with it.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Email from Jimbo Wales (and a book?)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 456
Re: Email from Jimbo Wales (and a book?)
Hehe. I saw something like this in real life, only it was reality itself that screwed this guy's book up. I was a field supervisor and co-led a training for the census in which he was a student. Then he was assigned to be on my first field team. He called me up and said he had just gotten the edit b...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Email from Jimbo Wales (and a book?)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 456
Re: email from jimbo wales (and a book?)
I suppose it is only natural that the guy who -didn't- become a tech billionaire despite being instrumental in founding one of the most popular websites on the planet would be looking for some other way to get paid, having failed at every other venture he's involved himself in. However, as Clovermos...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
After some back-and-forth on the subject, Joe did manage to get the template editor user right restored, by an arb no less, as template editing was not part of the reason for the desysop. link
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823082
Re: Crap articles
If you are naming industrial spurs at a federal nuclear facility , you can use the names of female railroad employees. Wow, the support rationales there are completely removed from reality. That this was even close shows how far some people will bend/ignore logic and reason to "save" completely unw...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3231
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
P.S.. That page had to have been watch-listed, it was a zombie thread from months back on someone else's user page... The only other way to be attuned to that is to have been stalking the poster's activity and that is not the complainant's style... I regularly see people's talk pages pop up on my w...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Email from Jimbo Wales (and a book?)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 456
Re: email from jimbo wales (and a book?)
I can't say I haven't made the same error of forgetting that internal wikilinks don't work in emails, but even if they did, Dan Gardner is a dab page identifying two individuals,. one is a 34-year-old English football player and the other is a 66-year-old lobbyist for the International Brotherhood o...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
Your turn to run for Arb, Dennis. t You got my vote. For what that's worth these days.... Mine too. Along with Fram. And Beeblebrox, again. And my shrug. And my axe!!! Wait... what are we doing? One does not simply walk into arbitration. Its black gates are guarded by more than just admins. There i...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4028
Re: Was Maher fired?
I'd like to make a couple of things clear. I am to the left of Maher. I feel Rufo is a right-wing thug, and Elon Musk is a loon. My opinion about Maher was built up over a period of years and is not connected to the flap with Berliner. As someone else who feels they are to the left of Maher, I have...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3231
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
I'll throw my hat in on why Molly didn't make the block herself: sometimes that's the smart move. Raise the alarm instead of just swinging the hammer yourself. if somebody else, (or multiple somebodies) who was previously unaware of the issue is just as outraged, you got something like a consensus ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wondrous commons images
- Replies: 164
- Views: 5422
Re: Wondrous commons images
Shit happens. This link horrifying image from the Civil War was mislabeled for about 140 years.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Unflattering portraits
- Replies: 229
- Views: 89710
Re: Unflattering portraits
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Dieter-Rexroth_%281%29.jpg Dieter Rexroth Derp I did a google image search, he seems to have some sort of condition in that eye, it never looks as open as the other. Unlike a lot of these this is not a picture someone just snapped when he wasn't expect...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823082
Re: Crap articles
Computer network naming scheme In computing, naming schemes are often used for objects connected into computer networks. This might as well just say “ Naming schemes are often used for objects”, because the article doesn’t explain why naming computers is a separate topic from naming cats or dogs or...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823082
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3231
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
I'll throw my hat in on why Molly didn't make the block herself: sometimes that's the smart move. Raise the alarm instead of just swinging the hammer yourself. if somebody else, (or multiple somebodies) who was previously unaware of the issue is just as outraged, you got something like a consensus a...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
We don't want Arbcom making new policy, that is not their job. Their job is to arbitrate protracted problems that the community CAN'T solve, and find solutions that are equitable and put the interests of the Project first, using existing policy as a basis. Policy changes should happen by consensus ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
Bizarre turn of events. I hadn't noticed our old friend Travis Lee Bailey aka Ikip posted a load of conspiracy gibberish on Nihonjoe's talk page back on the 9th, fishing for real life details about Beebs and diannaa . https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nihonjoe&diff=prev&oldid=121...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Self-immolation of Maxwell Azzarello
- Replies: 9
- Views: 490
Re: Self-immolation of Maxwell Azzarello
Whatever the fate of the article, Laura Cotes is probably heading for a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (T-H-L) for her live coverage. I can only imagine what that must have been like, both the sight and the smell, which she describes in detail.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3231
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
I could be wrong, but I don't recall having any specific interactions or conflicts with this Troutman fellow before. A brief review of just a few comments highlighted in the recent discussion shows someone who has no problem making openly contemptuous comments about women and trans women. That he is...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1852
Re: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
The more I think about it the more I suspect BK's upset is a more general thing, and not entirely about just this one incident. During my time serving with them, there was more than one arbitrator who was MIA for a very prolonged period but hypothetically could waltz back in at any time and just sta...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1852
Re: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
It does seem odd that the committee apparently did not immediately ask GN whether they wanted to keep the functionary tools, which is a pretty standard thing to ask in such circumstances. I can't recall it being an issue in any other resignations. Barkeep should become a clerk when his term is over....
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: P. J. Sudhakar
- Replies: 2
- Views: 171
Re: P. J. Sudhakar
I can't believe this was moved out of draft space in this condition https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P._J._Sudhakar&oldid=622848445 which is even worse than how bad it is now. It is also just sad that anyone would think having lots of degrees is in and of itself a meaningful accomplishment...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2910
Re: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
Some rights being "unbundled" from the admin toolkit made perfect sense. Rollback being the obvious one as it does not require and admin to recognize vandalism. I had a minor part in the genesis of the template editor right. As I recall, I was looking through reuests for edits on proteced items, and...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419973
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
DYK ... ... that a "pedophilic" relationship between two fictional adults led to an era of ship wars ? Did you know that a relationship between adults (whether real or fictional) can by definition not be "pedophilic" and that this "era of ship wars" is not an era, has nothing to do with ships and i...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:07 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
:XD Rollback: denied Even rollback, which is usually dished out as confetti :D I probably would've granted that one, because who cares, anyone can use Twinkle and I find its rollback function far superior, but I also can't disagree with the given reason for denying it. Autopatrolled, on the other h...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about religious editors
- Replies: 31
- Views: 954
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
:XD Rollback: denied Even rollback, which is usually dished out as confetti :D I probably would've granted that one, because who cares, anyone can use Twinkle and I find its rollback function far superior, but I also can't disagree with the given reason for denying it. Autopatrolled, on the other h...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2764
Re: Server issues
seems fine right this moment, was really bad yesterday. Somehow in all the error reports I posted the same thing twice, I tried three times to flag the duplicate post for deletion before I gave up.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
In which the committee forgets it is not, in fact, in charge of the volunteer response team as a whole: (VRT admin hat on) At this juncture, I'm not even sure that a queue like that is possible - the VRT admins have several questions to that effect. It would have been very nice to have a discussion ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
I haven't been following the case too closely, but the result is fairly clear: Nihonjoe will not be an admin or 'crat anymore, and a new VRT Queue is to be established to deal with reports of COI editing that are not appropriate for on-wiki discussion. Fram and Primefac escape unschathed, more or le...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:01 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2910
Re: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
The thing with being an admin, and whether there are enough, comes down to one thing: like everyone else, admins are volunteers. So, they have to want to do the whatever it is they are doing, nobody has a job desciption because nobody gets paid, so when things don't get done, it is because nobody wa...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3113
Re: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
i took a bit of a look at this, the last time I recall it coming up on-wiki, I believe there was general agreement that "legacy admin" was perhaps not the nicest thing to say, but if used in the abstract is probably ok. Directing it at a specific individual does change the context, I agree there, bu...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Chronic bauble addiction
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1270
Re: Chronic bauble addiction
The W Awards (Golden W Award and Platinum W Award) are elite accolades recognizing the highest ability to bring content to the masses. Yeah, the way you get this silly thing is to game the main page. Seriously. It appears to have been awarded three times, two of those times to TTT. This is some pat...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Chronic bauble addiction
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1270
Re: Chronic bauble addiction
I had quite forgotten about this, but I see I had some involvement with this issue nearly eleven years ago, and clearly, nothing has changed. People who contribute just to earn awards confuse me. Having looked into this a bit more, I found Wikipedia:W Awards , a whole other way to pat yourself on th...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Eostrix, current RfA candidate, ArbComBlocked as a sock of Icewhiz
- Replies: 312
- Views: 20148
Re: Eostrix, current RfA candidate, ArbComBlocked as a sock of Icewhiz
Let's ask Jimbo what he thinks.....
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Are you active on WP? Or blocked? (poll)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1012
Re: Are you active on WP? Or blocked? (poll)
I certainly used to make way more than ten edits a month, but it's been way lower the last few months. As I've stated elsewhere that was actually my plan all along and not necesarily the result of the bullshit the committee and the ombuds threw at me. I just don't have the type of job with a lot of ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2920
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
It's official. V is gone, no one else. I can't seem to find any actual documentation on that, where did you see it? Here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stewards/Confirm/2024 I was going in circles from one link to the next, somehow I never hit that one, that is indeed quite clear, thanks!
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:48 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2920
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:28 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2920
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
I knew about Beeblebrox's suspension, I read about it on en.wiki and in the WO thread, but I completely missed that there was an element of it that was related to my global lock. I just read this comment where Beeblebrox explains that "If I hadn't come by this information due to the apparent bad ad...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:58 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.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: POLL: Do you know anyone (friends, family, colleagues) with a Wikipedia article?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1150
Re: POLL: Do you know anyone (friends, family, colleagues) with a Wikipedia article?
I knew the Eagle Lady (T-H-L), just a little bit, but she died in 2009. She was something else.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:03 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Breakdown at MFD
- Replies: 87
- Views: 12075
Re: Breakdown at MFD
For someone lacking admin/crat/functionary status, I think it’s most likely an order to show cause as to why the user should not be indef Arbcom blocked. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s WPO related, by the way, with that being the most logical reason for this to be an Arbcom matter. I mean, he came ov...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:59 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 158
- Views: 101874
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
All three times I was elected I was "beaten" by candidates who got fewer supports than I did, but also fewer opposes and way more neutrals. It's for sure a path one can take, be noticed to be active doing admin stuff, but keep your head down otherwise.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:26 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Minor-attracted person
- Replies: 197
- Views: 11903
Re: Minor-attracted person
yep. He's going to pass with 97% support any moment now, so obviously he can just ignore that question. This caught my eye though link. Boomerang may be in the air.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:21 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Breakdown at MFD
- Replies: 87
- Views: 12075
Re: Breakdown at MFD
I may not be fully on the break I'd anticipated, but I am for sure not up for another go round with these two. I do think a formal sanction of some sort is in order though. I got nothing to do with this one but :popcorn: So what’s the significance of that link? A please email the arbitration commit...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Breakdown at MFD
- Replies: 87
- Views: 12075
Re: Breakdown at MFD
Yeah, this fuckery with just lying about what these pages even are is very tiresome. He thinks he found some clever loophole but it just makes him look dishonest and like he's gaming the system, and not very well at that. And Adrevan, who made such a splash here recently, is his guard dog. Between t...