Wikipediocracy

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This is some Reddit level discourse right here. You people are basket cases.

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Okay then, as soon as I'm granted the power to make entire countries (and everyone in them) magically disappear for the good of th...

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The world would be a thousand times better off if that whole country and everyone in it just vanished into thin air. (And personally, I'm not sure I'd even say that about Wikipedia at this point.) Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you ...

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BHG may have went overboard but her intentions were noble. I don't understand why people have to virtue signal their opposition to the war on every possible platform in the least productive way possible. How about publishing a crowdfunding appeal for Mark Bernstein's legal defense? That will both br...

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Ukraine has issued a call for foreigners to join their military as volunteers. Its time for Giano to walk that walk, maybe he will be lucky enough to kill some Russian WP editors in the process as well.

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Smiley wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:12 am
Use of Commons File:Reichsadler der Deutsches Reich (1935–1945) - 02.jpg
in Ukrainian userspace: link

A lot of people are interested in the history of the 3rd Reich. Doesn't necessarily mean they are all nazis, although Lunarpoetry8814 certainly is.

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Why are people surprised by this? Homophobia is the norm rather than the exception countries like Russia and Ukraine.

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Got 17 on my second try, ez.

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The people who are diligent will keep being diligent, but if the Asian Month contests have taught us anything those drives/contests are going to attract people who either don't give a shit or don't know what they are doing.

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There is a GAN Backlog Drive going on so naturally one must sweep any doubts about an article's quality under the rag to get those sweet imaginary barnstars.

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I see at least one on the front page almost every week. Are you a poster of front page stuff yourself by any chance? I can't get my head around who even reads the Main Page at all, least of all enough to detect such an obscure pattern. And to be fair, according to Wikipedia, the guy you named was g...

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A specter is haunting the Recent Deaths section on the front page and that specter is Indonesian politicians. What is up with this obsession with highlighting the deaths of mid-level Indonesian officials (e.g. Frans Lebu Raya )? I see at least one on the front page almost every week, when there are ...

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The Talleyrand partition plan for Belgium article was created in 2005 by Karel Anthonissen . Two years later two users realized that it contained original research and reworded a small portion of it. Little did they know most of the barely referenced article was at worst a hoax and at best original ...

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Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:20 pm

AngelOne wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:01 am
If Cake and Cunnilingulus Day is April 14, why isn't it appearing as a DYK for that date?
To give editors time to book a sex worker and read up on how to do cunnilingus.

You would cunnilingus on a sex worker? Damn you people are wild.

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One might wonder what goes on in smaller Wikipedias that were created with the purpose of preserving a language (e.g. Catalan). They are run almost exclusively by nationalists and there aren't any stewards fluent enough to understand their contents.

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Deletionist Pride Worldwide!

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Dhar Mann (T-H-L), written and subsequently whitewashed by a group of single purpose paid editors. Bachir Boumaaza (T-H-L) AKA Athene, a serial scammer and cult leader is presented as a "philanthropist".

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There are many examples in English of different spellings of for example Russian names, such as Rachmaninov, Rakhmaninov and Rachmaninoff. The last of these spellings is used for the title of Sergei Rachmaninoff , although the first spelling is used in several quotations in the article and indeed o...

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Oshwah (T-C-L) fails to notice a popular Twitch meme in The Uganda Scouts Association (T-H-L), the vandalism has been there for over a year.

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JessWade88 very properly does not query the objections to the Jess Wade article. However, she admits "Other than Ben, and Tabitha through researching her, I don't know the people I make pages for. I don't think there is anything in Ben's page which is impartial." Here's a Guardian article about her...

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As for the Women in Red, I think it's possible they're both right. There's no reason why it can't be a highly effective means of redressing the unfair imbalance in the number of biographical articles about women vs. men, and be ridiculous. This is about equality, and we all know that if there were ...

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Personally if the presence of a discussion about a given RFA torpedoes said RFA, then I'm fine with that. Of course not everyone here feels that way, but that's my opinion. Its a matter of how well you spin it. A candidate can be portrayed as a Wikipedia hate site infiltrator or the last hope of WP...

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WIR is infected by recentism. Had they focused on improving articles the dozens of stub-start level articles on women who are accepted as notable in the context of traditional encyclopedias I wouldn't have minded helping. As for POTD it seems as useful as portals, that being not much. I doubt people...

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That's one hell of an expensive way to protect your virginity.

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It's worth noting that Drmies wrote that largely targeted as an insult to me. To a point though, he is right. Individually, myself included, the wiki doesn't need any one of us. The problem is the wiki culture on the WMF projects has gotten the attitude that people are an expendable commodity and t...

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No offense to Mr. Matetsky but I love it when Wikipedians pat each other on the back. Case in point: Jesswade88 (T-C-L) wrote Ben Britton (T-H-L) about a colleague of hers. BenBritton (T-C-L) wasted no time returning the favor with Jess Wade (T-H-L).

edit: fixed link to Jess Wade bio - t

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Yikes. Lots of familiar names being lambasted in the article.

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Got my second notification yesterday (sitting at 10 failed attempts).

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What is the point of paying for Google ad in the first place? They should have used the money they get to digitize a rare book or something..

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Found a http://paroutsas.jmc.gr/dances/macedon/makedon.htm,video of this dance. Its also called Macedonian Dance not Makedonia. The source says that it used to part of mandatory education in Greek Macedonian schools for patriotic purposes. Maybe it's called Makedonia in Greek? You are right its cal...

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Makedonia (dance) "a form of the Greek folk dance Hasapiko that has evolved over the years to the patriotic song "Makedonia Xakousti" (Famous Macedonia), unofficial anthem of the Greek region of Macedonia." That's the text (transcriptions removed). No references. Anything to do with the dispute abo...

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Looking at the event's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Asian_Month#So_when_do_I_get_my_certificate?,talkpage one might see multiple people asking for the postcards they were promised. I don't know about them by I have yet to see mine, even though the event took place over 4 mo...

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What is the politically correct term for those kind of people? Prostitute would be a lot less offensive than using the word whore. It's a profession, not a comment and a slur. At least not as much. I can't believe this isn't obvious to you. Some of the comments here are pretty bad. I guess I naivel...

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... that at the inquest into the death of Catherine Lynch (pictured), the presiding coroner described her as "one of a class who were a nuisance to themselves, their husbands and everybody else"?" Cheap early 20th century whore propelled to celebrity status by Wikipedia's deranged minds. Yo - There...

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... that at the inquest into the death of Catherine Lynch (T-H-L) (pictured), the presiding coroner described her as "one of a class who were a nuisance to themselves, their husbands and everybody else"?"

Cheap early 20th century whore propelled to celebrity status by Wikipedia's deranged minds.

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Trump will resign once he sees this on the front page.

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Peter W. Bodde (T-H-L)

He has served as the United States Ambassador to Nepal and as the United States Ambassador to Malawi, during which time he was credited for promoting HIV/AIDS.

I knew AIDS was created by the damn Yankees all along.

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The reason BLPs exist as a concept on WP is to avoid being dragged into an endless spiral of kafkesque legal battles.

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Operation Uphold Democracy : The infobox's results section states "Peaceful occupation of Haiti with no combat between the two sides". The Casualties and losses section of the same infobox counters with 101-201 casualties. The article ends with the following sentences: "During the operation, one U....

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Recently stumbled upon the following video (English subtitles included): sxjYgclmV_E It alleges the existence of an Orthodox Lobby on Russian WP. The video includes interview with a banned Russian WP user, an Ukrainian WP bureaucrat and Massimo Introvigne . They then attempt a penetration test of th...

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Only US-, Canada-, or UK? That's unfair. Okay, your persuasive argument has swayed my obstinate framework. I shall allow entries from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, as well. Continue in your quest for victory! P.S. The entries are just pouring in, so this is going to be a high...

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Only US-, Canada-, or UK? That's unfair.

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Most of the content it generated is stub to start class. A complete waste of time and effort.

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He was held in Adra Prison of all places, did anyone seriously think that they could save him?

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... %27s_shoes

*sigh*
*unzips*

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How are they going to enforce this? Everyone can make an account and reinstate the controversial information back into the article.

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Right. Around a dozen B class articles would suffice as far as the content creation part is concerned.

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I doubt it possible to do it in under a year.

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milowent wrote:

Excellent.

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It should be noted that Geraki has rejected Saintfevrier's accusations and her position was not supported by the two witnesses. Saintfevrier was asked to move the discussion from the Village Pump and into the Administrators Noticeboard. She refused claiming to be censored and then posted the followi...

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