Wikipediocracy

Anroth wrote:

MadManz wrote:

milowent wrote:

Moral Hazard wrote:A putz with predictable proclivities in friends.

wikipedia may be an incel cult!

No wonder being on wikipedia makes it impossible to get laid.

You're doing it wrong.

Seconded.

Poetlister wrote:

But for some people it isn't a hobby. Some people earn money from it, don't forget.

Okay: "hobby/job" then.

That sounds dirty. "Hey baby, want a hobby job?"

Anroth wrote:Everything except the BLP one is correct...

I should have said "Controversial BLP". It doesn't apply to Bob Ross, for example.

Midsize Jake wrote:"Alteration vector."

I prefer "Idiot who needs a better hobby."

tarantino wrote:

No Ledge wrote: Wasn't she a member here? What happened?

Her post on her "departure" from WO is here. We did help her track down Scalhotrod (T-C-L) and get him banned by the foundation, though, so we've got that going for us.

Why did Scalhotrod end up banned?

Moreover, the people on this list are (by definition) the WP'ers who freely admit to being conservatives. Which is to say that I also suspect the really extremist types are mostly not on the list at all, because anything done openly under Wikipedia's auspices can't possibly be conservative enough f...

Randy from Boise wrote:I don't think rogue administrators are a particularly big problem and I think ArbCom does a tolerably good job doing what it needs to do.

I generally agree, but with the caveat that even good admins are not immune from temporary rogueitis. Everyone has bad days. Everyone.

For the curious, I presume this and this are parts of the said run-in. Yup. Here's a permalink to where most of it went down. There were a few trailing comments spread around various user pages, but nothing too important. I will say that Fram thanked me for the edit that finally removed the link, w...

Take a neutral point-of-view and have some sympathy for their plight. Colt isn't directly responsible for how their products have been used and they can't control how the news media reports about shootings where the weapon was an "AR-15" without always bothering to report the specific make and mode...

I actually mostly* disagree with the position of that author. The WP page for a weapon should be about the weapon, not about assholes who used it, nor assholes who blame it for what the first group of assholes did. People who go to the article Colt AR-15 to learn more about Gun politics in the Unite...

For the record, and to anyone who actually cares: My run-in with Fram ended amicably enough. But they managed to give me a bad impression of themselves. As I said in reply to one of the more understandable emails I got; his comments went back and forth between reading as reasonable comments and read...

But what about the theory that Agent Cooper and Laura Palmer actually traveled back in time at the end of Season 3 and Laura screamed because she finally realized who she actually was? Well, this is where I seem to agree with you that we use a different standards of neutrality. For issues such as t...

I can see both advantages and disadvantages of it. I'd be prepared to give it a try. Not disagreeing, just noting that this applies to the current RfA process, as well. There would be some advantages to certain trusted members appointing admins, or having a long list of "qualifications" such that a...

I have been skimming through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators/RfC_for_BARC_-_a_community_desysopping_process , and I was wondering after two years, if the political landscape has changed on English Wikipedia. Do you folks think it's time to re-visit some variations of this pro...

If you want to talk with Crow's Nest, you'll need to go over to WS . He says he is banned here; Zoloft said, I think, that he was muted. In any case, he can't reply. I saw that in another forum, but it was after I responded here. But who knows, maybe Larry'll stop by. That could be fun. :banana:

On the talk page of Intelligent Design, he recently noted the complete failure of Wikipedians to understand, let alone comply with, his original visions of what NPOV is and how to achieve it. As one of the participants in that (probably the one you're hating on), I can explain this "complete failur...

Alex Shih wrote:I don't mind being confused with Anarchyte anyway

I wouldn't mind it, either, to be honest. He was the other half of one of the longest collaborations I've had on a single article, and was a joy to work with.

Welcome, MjolnirPants! Speaking of admins doing a bad job... I'm kidding, of course. :D Apologies for confusing you with Anarchyte (by suggesting you were new to the bit) at ANI a week or two ago, by the way. I was on a lot of medicine and said a lot of stupid things that weekend. tbh, I don't reme...

I just had a run-in with Fram and the outpouring of support via email was a little overwhelming... I'm used to getting emailed a lot, but today my phone was just beeping at me non stop. I don't know why all of them emailed me (most of the emails were words that should have been said on wiki), but i...

I just had a run-in with Fram and the outpouring of support via email was a little overwhelming... I'm used to getting emailed a lot, but today my phone was just beeping at me non stop. I don't know why all of them emailed me (most of the emails were words that should have been said on wiki), but in...

Ironically, employees at Apple's new HQ have https://futurism.com/apple-employees-windows-headquarters/,problems with windows . This is rather like Wikipedia editors bumping into rules and policies that they've never noticed. :D I read this as "Microsoft Windows" and was half a paragraph into the l...