Wikipediocracy

culeaker

I remember him. Particularly stupid and authoritarian, even for that place. DeltaQuad once blocked an Indonesian student for using an "open proxy" that another CheckUser had confirmed was in Indonesia and was simply a multi-tenant apartment complex's IP address. Then SilverSeren came along and accu...

culeaker

The WMF doesn't beg for anything; it invites donations. Do you headline a thread that say the Red Cross begs for donations? And why shouldn't the WMF accept Bitcoin?

culeaker

Oh, when I saw this thread title with Greg as the last contributor, I assumed that he was going to insist he was Mister Jim's number one fan.

culeaker

So, just for the record: if in future someone who doesn't post here identifies a vandal and contacts that person's employer, and as a result the vandal is sacked, will you be praising or condemning the action?

culeaker

Partially, but you have to remember I have created accounts on about 30 different networks and dozens of IP's. Collateral damage is almost guaranteed because of 2 primary factors, the folks blocking don't care what damage they cause as long as they block me and most importantly the checkuser tool i...

culeaker

Is Mason about?

culeaker

So is it your contention that it is fair game to write an article about anyone who has had substantial newspaper coverage? I'm aware of at least one regular poster here who would strongly disagree. Substantial newspaper coverage over a span of years, not just for one event, and in major large-circu...

culeaker

People write about what they want. There is no central directive and there is no organized effort to accumulate specific information. If it moves you, if you feel it important, you write about it. Now obviously there are differing senses of what is important, of what should or should not be include...

culeaker

So someone's been confused by a death notice for a person with the same name as someone else. That can happen to anyone.

culeaker

Am I the only person who finds the idea of an ED admin worrying about BLP violations to be totally surreal?

culeaker

Is there any possibility that the trustees and mods will find time to discuss if any of the criticisms of this site are valid? You never know; this might be a learning opportunity.

culeaker

I think that you're asking the wrong question. The question is "should some admins be trusted to ban "obvious socks" of their own accord?" To that question I would answer with an emphatic no. And I don't exempt some admins who may be popular with many people here - no name, no pack drill.

culeaker

So why does the WMF keep it open? It's sometimes been useful to prevent deletion of images on Commons. ("Oy, mate, that image is in use on a project!") :evilgrin: Wikiversity, unlike some projects, allows uploads, so that sort of rubbish could be ported to Wikiversity to avoid cluttering up Commons...

culeaker

I have always said that if Greg just sticks to being a sensible editor and doesn't go aroiund annoying influential people, he ought to be welcome anywhere in WMF. I do urge him to make lots of constructive edits over and above his paid ones, which willl increase goodwill for all of his accounts. On ...

culeaker

What I find especially amusing is that I have worked in marketing research for over 20 years now. I've personally earned nearly two million dollars doing this, and I've managed a cumulative total of perhaps $30 million worth of research project work over my career. I co-authored a marketing report ...

culeaker

I can see Eric's IP addresses on here :blink: for the last few months and guess what - that IP isn't in there. Wrong location, wrong ISP, etc, etc ... Alison You know as well as I do that you can't prove a negative with Checkuser. How often do suspect sockpuppets ask for a checkuser to prove their ...

culeaker

EricBarbour wrote:Yeah, I know Ottava won't listen.

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s= ... t&p=308285

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=39806

He did!

culeaker

Are you guys bored? If you want something to do, try to figure out who SandyGeorgia is in real life. That'll keep you busy for a loooooong time. Who is Sandy Georgia? - "Sandy is a complicated person in real life. She passes her time in simple surroundings, trying to deflect the worship of those wh...

culeaker

HRIP7 wrote: Quite true. Apparently, history articles may be dodgy, but science should be excellent.

I wouldn't take that for granted. It is by no means unknown for totalitarian regimes to have their own unique brand of "science".

Trofim Lysenko (T-H-L)

culeaker

It seems to me that war is an extremely important event in the history of most nations. I see nothing odd in war getting more coverage than say international baseball competitions.

culeaker

Ms. Chan's English is probably better than some people's who claim English as their first language. I can also say that she is just the sort of level-headed person who would make a good admin. There are many complaints here about bad admins. Some are even justified. I would be surprised and disappoi...

culeaker

Maybe you're a really sweet guy. Well, I have been called Sweetie once or twice! I know I am done trying to help you. There seems to be a comprehension issue here. I wasn't asking fpr your help; I was offering to help you. I know the real names of nearly all the trustees and moderators of this site...

culeaker

Mr. Kohs, I really cannot comprehend your answer. I am doing my best to help you and others to remedy perceived defects of Wikipedia, but if you have a proposed solution, I need to understand what it is. I am assuming that you do want to have this perceived defect fixed; if you don't, please say so....

culeaker

If in a few decades one of them dies, forgotten by the world, and does not get any obituaries, will Mr. Kohs (if he still owns this site) say that this person should never have had an article? Would he say that the person had been notable but subsequently had ceased to be? If so, when did this happ...

culeaker

Vigilant wrote:This question should get posted in every RFA/RFB for the next year.

The trouble is, there's only one person I know of who could answer that question who would really want to pass RfA. Yes, it would take a quite unusual candidate to answer that one!

culeaker

What does it say of an "encyclopedia" that contains biographies of such notable people, that when they die, their obituaries say nothing more than who they're survived by and where the viewing will be? I suppose I should start by saying that if Helen Bina had still been alive, saying that she had d...

culeaker

" QuiteUnusual " Yep, quite an unusual editor in many ways :) Well, the RfA has lasted for seven days now and it's very close so there's a behind the scenes bureaucrat clusterfuck. " Writ Keeper " Oh, he's a shoe-in. There's a third candidate but he's a bad joke. There was a WP:SNOW close, but it w...

culeaker

EricBarbour wrote:You can usually tell the really incompetent admins. Sooner or later, they end up blocking themselves.

There has been much speculation about how that could have happened. It isn't easy to block yourself.

culeaker

groups of gays in involved situations working together, what is that about? The same as 'groups of straights' working together.... Both very different from a group of people working together and not caring about each other's sexuality. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why gay peop...

culeaker

It's very simple. Wikipedia is not paper. It has no real size limitations; having any number of other articles of any size makes no difference to the size of the George Washington articles. You can argue whether these articles are good enough or long enough, but the existence and length of the Optim...

culeaker

Hi, Simone! Claritas is prone to "Keep - per Cirt" votes. Yep. Show me an editor who agrees with Cirt a lot, and I'll show you a probable Claritas sock. I haven't actually socked for months. {{fact}} Anything particularly wrong with me being convinced by Cirt's fine arguments? Some people call it me...

culeaker

There's nothing that radical here, just as we have stewards and global sysops, or admins and rollbackers.

culeaker

Never heard of the kid though til now. The high schooler got this account on 20 May 2012. Did he develop a grudge quickly? And on the very first day, he set up the STiki patrolling bot and started grinding Recent Changes. ( Badly. ) Just another (admin-angling sock of a) pissed-off teenaged boy. Ma...

culeaker

I really must defend Dennis Brown. He is doing a very competent job, clerking that page. Quite a lot of accusations made on that page are sheer nonsense or motivated by spite or attempts to win arguments. He deals with it all quite calmly and unflappably. The attacks on his clerking say more about l...

culeaker

This is sort of like the list of AMAZING COINCIDENCES!!! between the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and JFK... No doubt Randy is well aware that this list originally had a reliable source, namely an article by Martin Gardner. Of course, various people have extended that list with further "coinci...

culeaker

One might ask whether any child is notable, even if they are the child of notable parents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanta_Leonor_of_Spain Some children definitely are, such as child actors. Would anyone doubt that, had WP been around, Margaret O'Brien would deservedly have had an article befo...

culeaker

You probably know very well that NO outsider has EVER won a seat on Arbcom, ever. And many have tried, from Giano to Greg Kohs to Fat Man to Fish and Karate, etc etc etc, and I've yet to see one get in, or even come close. Virtually all of the successful Arbcommers were deep insiders, friends of Wa...

culeaker

It's very interesting to see a couple of longtime admins publicly pointing out Fae's hypocrisy. Ched Davis and MBisanz are both longtime Wikipedia admins who appear to be trusted and respected within the community; Bisanz is also a bureaucrat, a steward, and an oversighter. If I'm not mistaken, nei...

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