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Just going through a quick overlook of the article. A small spruce-up, and it for sure needs a bit of a proof-read.

At least...

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in Oswah's world Oswah's world is #wikipedia-en IRC, where... Oct 01 11:25:05 * TJWood (b83a5ac7@wikipedia/TJW) has joined Oct 01 11:26:47 * Josve05a (uid46873@wikipedia/Josve05a) has joined Oct 01 11:31:03 <ToAruShiroiNeko> NotASpy can I ask you to ask people to ask others not to stab people? Oct ...

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This escalated quickly, now Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Bellezzasolo/Scripts/meganuke.js has been opened to get rid of it, although there are users with copies of it. In the meantime it has been classed as an unauthorised bot script and at least two other admins have joined the "will blo...

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I'm seeing the same old stuff come up on the ArbCom thread by some editors saying that banning Jytdog would be a net negative to the project. You might be the world's greatest software engineer, but then leak the code to another company. You might be the world's greatest lawyer, but then lie to Cong...

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Well, at least it would put my evil pipe dream of placing the enforced wikibreak code into the common.js to sleep

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Sounds like a plan!

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There has been a proposal to close the Simple English Wikipedia.

At the moment, most people are voting no, even if the original proposer does make some salient points.

I put in a weak oppose.

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It was bad enough when he tried to screw over ride share drivers. He was quite right. The standard of these drivers was in many cases appalling. Londoners are rightly proud of the very high standard of taxi drivers here. Helping them is different than outlawing them and stranding thousands of peopl...

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As I said here, much like Europe and immigration, the process and structure of adminship may have to simply die a slow death, and we'll simply have to find a solution at the bottom of the well.

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Dysklyver wrote:this is something that can can be potentially extracted from the database. It's not clear when this is done, or even if it is. But it's there as an option for nosey devs.

I think, that unless there is evidence of this ever happening, we're going into conspiracy theory territory with that.

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https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/statu ... 8326622208

Good catch by Mr. Mabbett. The answer? 'Soon!'

Oh dear.

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I wonder how long until someone finds Checkuser data that has been posted on Pastebin or something from EnWP checkusers! It's happened several times in the past. What numpty puts CU data on pastebin? They have cuwiki, right? Unless you mean that someone stole CzechUser data (sorry, can't help but m...

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There is no shortage of rather pointless language wikipedias (even if you think there's any point at all in a wikipedia). For example, there are two Norwegian ones, due to differences in spelling conventions. There's also the Simple English Wikipedia as well. I could see some point on Simple Englis...

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tarantino wrote:
mynameisnotdave wrote:It is all over for these videos (at least for now).
Doc James has again demonstrated he can't string together two or more sentences without errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation.

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Alexander Leitch, Baron Leitch -- a prime example of an article truly forgotten about with grossly incorrect information on it (before I came and removed it). It has only around sixty edits since 2008. The article said that he was born in near poverty and paralysed from side down due to a lesion in...

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It is all over for these videos (at least for now).

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Alexander Leitch, Baron Leitch -- a prime example of an article truly forgotten about with grossly incorrect information on it (before I came and removed it). It has only around sixty edits since 2008. The article said that he was born in near poverty and paralysed from side down due to a lesion in...

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Bezdomni wrote:
Wait... shouldn't Maître Bannioni be goin' after M. !dave?

Yikes...me preceptor!

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tarantino wrote:This is why. He doesn't like me

Forgive my ignorance, but was that written in English?

))))))))))

What a load of ramble.

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Kumioko wrote:[...]Backlogging hundreds of articles for months before allowing them into the project is bad for Wikipedia, burns out the reviewers[...]

I know about that. AfC is a slog. Easy to get bored with continuously sifting through some bollocks that a UPE/SPA wrote. Good to find a proper article there.

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Yay, right? Every little bit helps... :) I mean, I think I can speak for most of us when I say that we don't want to pooh-pooh or otherwise "meh" them on occasions when they do the right thing, but it should always be noted that these are common-sense measures that they should have taken years ago,...

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So, at time of writing, the proposal for ACTRIAL to become permanent is 90-12. So unless the extraordinary happens (hi WMF), non-autoconfirmed users will not be able to create articles. Yay, right? The discussion is Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed_article_creation_trial/Request_for_comment_on_permanent_impl...

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Battle_of_Odžak (T-H-L). Christ. This article is terrible and is full of 'better source needed' tags. I am a few inches away from moving it into draftspace, but that would be a move which would break a few things. I would really love to do it.

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3,450 words focused on gender, indigenous communities and art were added to Wikipedia during an all-day communal editing session Wednesday at Algoma University. Wikipedia's entry about recording artist Crystal Shawanda got a much-needed update yesterday. Also on Wednesday, Anishinaabe artists Jaimi...

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Johnjackson1066 is a SPA; every edit is to London Grid for Learning . Of course, WP:AGF, given that the article is about a charity, he might be editing as an unpaid volunteer. However, given that the chief executive of the charity is called John Jackson and is probably earning https://issuu.com/lgf...

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Ben Franklin effect . Quote from the lede: a person who has already performed a favor for another is more likely to do another favor for the other than if they had received a favor from that person Welp. 'Favor' appears three times, causing some level of interference in my head, leading me unable t...

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tarantino wrote:
mynameisnotdave wrote:Cleanup in aisle thread.
Done. You wikipedians should take your off-topic bickering back to wikipedia.

Cheers, milk and biscuits mod.

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Edited my post title to reflect this slight off-topicness, but I'm always interested in how we can vote less on hypotheticals at an RfA. Just an idea, but what if one were able to approach the 'crats, say 'I'm interested in adminship', they look at your suitability, then if you are good enough then ...

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I do think a "recall"-based system would be an improvement, but I don't think anything is going to pass. I'd personally support requiring re-confirmations (every 7 years, perhaps?), and an "admin emeritus" status for admins who don't try to get re-confirmed. Some of the problems of devolving admin ...

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I can see both advantages and disadvantages of it. I'd be prepared to give it a try.

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Cleanup in aisle thread.

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Those MBTI subreddits are venomous. I used to hang around some of them, depending what test said what my personality type was. Hey: it changes every month!

Even then, most seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the pseudoscientific MBTI/Jungian functions.

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An indefinite block for B2C something that was truly in the best interests of the encyclopedia.

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I saw that Guy was vehemently opposed to the page title Sarah Brown née MacCauley. I don't quite get what could possess someone to be vehemently opposed to such a simple solution. Because it is indicative of an archaic fixation on a woman's "maiden name". In France, men can change their names when ...

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Well anyway, Fram has written up an apology (diff). We'll wait to see if this is a sorry makes action, or it becomes Joefromrandb version two.

I accept the apology nonetheless.

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As soon you have made it personal you have lost. That's why you're getting the crap thrown back at you. Not annoyed with you -- this is probably our first interaction with each other, but that's what it is. Thanks. Making it personal wasn't my intention, though perhaps I could have used better lang...

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I never wanted to return to Wikipedia. My motivation was at an all time low and I truly felt uplifted when I stopped editing. I felt like a fool to come back to the cultists, but when I saw Fram was being his usual obnoxious self I couldn't just sit there that time. By all means they need to revoke...

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I just noticed that Jaguar submitted an ANI request to desysop Fram . I'm glad to see it and he brought up a lot of good points. Not surprisingly, it was closed as out of process because, the community only has the authority to promote people to admin, not demote them. For that, they must go to Arb...

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Unfortunately, though Wikipedia is crowd-sourced, it isn’t a pure democracy. Earning a dedicated Wikipedia entry isn’t quite as easy as purchasing a top domain and spinning up a new website with an out-of-the-box WordPress template. It takes skill, determination and a bit of luck. Here’s what you n...

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AndyTheGrump wrote:If ever there was a dead-horse thread, this is it...

Another thread to lock, maybe!

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This thread needs to be locked.

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The Garbage Scow wrote:I feel kind of bad for him. He's one of the best current examples of someone addicted to Wikipedia. That honestly has to suck.

Unfortunately, there are too many people in the same situation.

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This will always stay with me. Brilliant stuff.

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Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) was found guilty of numerous copyright violations and a list of 6539 articles needing to be checked was compiled and published in November 2011. Some six years later, less than a third of these have been checked, so at the current rate of progress, the cleanup will be...

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This all relates to a deleted post by Lynn, which was wondering about my location. Well, nonetheless, :welcome: So tell us, your LTA stuff states that "Original problem was mass socking combined with massive copy and paste copyvio from source materials in addition to behavioral issues noted here. U...

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I did a thing with it. Jolly good. Only umpteen thousand articles to go before this thread can be closed. As far as I'm concerned, the purpose of the thread is to illustrate just how easy it is to find crap articles and give examples of new and exciting forms of craptitudinacity. My personal rule i...

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Wherstead , a village near Ipswich in Suffolk. A friendly tag warns the reader This article needs to be updated. Let's see. A short ride by electric railway through Ipswich streets carries one to Bourne bridge, which marks the boundary of Wherstead parish. ... The village is devoid of stores or pub...

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'twas waiting for a SanFranBan, considering the access he had to CU, OTRS and whatnot, and comparing it to what he did. It happened.

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MrErnie wrote:Is there any way that case doesn't end with infobox topic bans, or worse, for Cassianto and SchroCat? I guess Singora will be happy...

The case request page is a stinking mess, with the clerks having to come and remove unsubstantiated allegations made in some statements.

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