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Osborne wrote:....The removal of those questions is arguable (I agree with the removal of WBG's, but not Carrites), however the RevDel is uncalled for.

Carrite added (1082 + 2) bytes and PFac removed 1084; asking a question in 0 bytes seem impossible to me.

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Over a post about 9 months back, Jaluj speaks about Pitufo/Emans:- This has nothing to do with personal issues. Personally I feel sympathy for the user and I get along very well with him when I see him , I do not confuse Wikipedia with real life. FWIW, it does not take much efforts to discover Eman...

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Incidentally, I hazily recall Tony asserting of someone in an important position, (who knew FRAMBAN's circumstances), having told him in private, that it was a highly justified action. He made some posts around this effect over ACN and other venues in the very initial phases, before swimming away fr...

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I was surprised to see there wasn’t any evidence regarding Elisa Rolle. This is a good point. SlimVirgin et al. were acting like the world was ending when her indef block got upgraded to a siteban. Especially after their on-wiki tutoring seems to have gone belly-up— someone told Victoriaearle that ...

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Hale seems to be currently active over Foursquare and some of her tips are gems. Quite many WMF insiders are in the followers list; Maria is a follower, obviously.

Of late, she has been also trying to be the chair of the Madrid Chapter of Democrats Abroad.

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Fram did it and his current fate is not particularly endearing .....

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....The history between Praxidicae and Ritchie was highlighted to the committee, for a second time (in the past year). On the previous occasion, a single arbitrator dealt with the issue off list . This time, we followed the WP:LEVEL2 process for desysop . Ritchie was asked for his point of view, an...

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The separate Google-Forms survey about CHealth has an interesting question:- "Who should be responsible for taking action against bad behaviour?".

Trust&Safety, obviously.

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Check out the survey over https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d718KRfJ5W3OVYV. These things are run quite often and typically advertised to it's pet clique; same over here:- Rosie advertised it over WiR and the community came to know from there ..... But, this's for the first time that I am ...

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There's a long backstory behind this, spanning for years. The organisation is either corrupt or blatantly inefficient:- (1) Spending/demanding truckloads of money for events run without any prior community consultation, (2) Lofty closed-door-businesses where people who don't belong to the clique are...

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How do we get the WMF Chair to resign? Some have suggested reaching out to media and other stakeholders. That's the only possible way and I guess that some would be interested enough to mention this locus of COI, now that we have a concrete evidence. On a side-note, I thought of mentioning this on-...

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Is there any evidence, any at all, that Laura is actually the person who filed a complaint? If she isn't then, and I recognize this is generally a bad idea, ArbCom would do well to publicly say so in the hopes that just maybe people stop trolling through her entire online existence. She was the ver...

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Came across another article by Laura. Is it just me or does her signature (over Page 1) seem way weird? Also, what eventually happened to that wiki-project, which seemed to be her last/latest pet endeavor? The wiki was up, at-least till 9 January, 2019 . FWIW, she seems to be currently pursuing post...

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From the preface of Hale's Ph.D. dissertation: Could you point me to where I can confirm this for myself. I'd like to take this further, if others have not already, though some care is needed to use the right channels here and to put things the right way. Check Page 4 over here . The other parts of...

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From the preface of Hale's Ph.D. dissertation: Could you point me to where I can confirm this for myself. I'd like to take this further, if others have not already, though some care is needed to use the right channels here and to put things the right way. Check Page 4 over here . The other parts of...

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Giraffe Stapler wrote: ... Note that team member Neha Nair (identified as working in Policy) does not appear on Meta ...

She is a new recruit from India; was there during the Wikimedia Education SAARC conference. Probably the meta-pages will get updated in due time.

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More coverage over Slate.

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In the meanwhile, Rama (who got recently desysoped over the Phelps saga, with certain help from Fram) seem to be quite happy at the ban. And, he has gone gaga over Twitter. Started off on 13th June, by asserting that an editor shall not be subject to a constant stream of negative feedback, irrespect...

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10920 wrote:
Smiley wrote:Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Disputed_Signpost_article (T-H-L)
It is evident that the Signpost is rotten like the WMF and should just be discontinued after this farce.

It used to be quite good during Ed17's time. Was WMF ever so?

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The ArbCom has published a decent statement.

AGK has not supported it. Neither have CallaneCC and Courcelles but I guess that they are inactive, (as they have been since the start of year). All others have signed.

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Honestly the disappointment horn being played for the West Indies cricket team ... Disappointed to see the West Indies' performance? Looks fairly par to me. Bumrah is about to deliver his hat trick ball. Edit to add: Nope, no hat trick. Excellent, that hat-trick delivery was but alas! :-( And, a do...

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Jehochman’s evidence turns out to be....the Laura Hale stuff. Somebody play that disappointment horn. Our Junior Poirot will need another day and another place, to prove his mettle. Spent the first day vilifying the WMF and asking Jan about what he learnt in college. The next day, about how he has ...

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mendaliv wrote:Honestly the disappointment horn being played for the West Indies cricket team ...

Disappointed to see the West Indies' performance? Looks fairly par to me.

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... aggressive nonsensical use of tools; e.g. blocking a user for copyvio based on his own unilateral "research" for the first time, and then citing his own immediate previous block as a justification to assert "history of problematic behaviour" and block for a second time. There must be a term for...

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Fantastic. It's more like stand by for the next self-important big heads. If this wasn't already obvious enough, just read that hilarious "unblock summary". One less toxic personality especially toxic admins is always good news; and hopefully all of her "friends" (not the positive ones, but the neg...

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Nick has now requested a desysop. Surely there's a responsible adult somewhere at the WMF who can issue a competent statement about what's going on. I don't think that they are ever going to do that; the black-box safeguards themselves from certain legal affairs and detailed rationales aren't forth...

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I note that T&S folks have gone into hibernation. AFAIH, they are not replying to any individual mail, after having pointed the very first bunch of emails to the non-answer boiler-plate, that came from their role-account.

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SilkTork writes:-

I shall be inactive on ArbCom until this matter is resolved one way or another. There is frustratingly little information at the moment ...

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Poetlister wrote:Has anyone ever tried doing that after being desysopped?

Hawkeye made it to a crat chat. MONGO finished around the 50% mark.

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They've basically screwed themselves here. For two years now, they've been going on and on about how awful it is that people in Turkey don't have access to the "sum of all human knowledge" and that this is a terrible tragedy that must be remedied! In fact, the Turks did them a huge favor - by simpl...

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Poetlister wrote:How many stewards speak Azerbaijani well enough to monitor the site?

Mardetanha is a native-speaker and Hakan is semi-proficient in the language.

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Bye-bye tools. Super-voting to restore a deleted article is akin to eating a hand grenade for lunch... RfB The glacial pace of a case and it will be at best, an admonishment. If Rama does not get very intent on a suicide by committee (choosing to reverse Fram's draftification or continue with narra...

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A universal right to opt out has been rejected, as Wikipedia will not agree to delete articles on clearly notable people. (I can readily imagine a request to delete the BLP of [[Donald Trump]], for example, if that were allowed.) However, the BLP policy now incorporates a rule that when a BLP is no...

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https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-s ... 346478dd42 -- User-feedback of encountering a shitty software over a shitty interface.

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Any idea as to who runs the Twitter account?

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See https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.207020/gov.uscourts.mad.207020.1.0.pdf . Claims (among other stuff) that:- 3. (on) February 24, 2018, without warning or notice and with no violation of the Terms of Service ("TOS"), WMF published a global ban of plaintiff, and publication con...

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Alternate realities notwithstanding, these users have zero chance of ever being granted one of these board seats ever: Grawp, Willy on Wheels (BU Rob13's current account doesn't count), Beyond my Ken (couldn't even get a job as their waterboy), Russavia, Donald Trung (far more likely to arrested fo...

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If I recall correctly, Subhasish used to be a contractor for WMF and was one of the honchos assigned to run the Wikipedia Education Program in India, which later (quite imaginably) turned into a shit-fest and was called off.

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Whilst; Gamaliel's oppose has certain merits, he ought be the last person to pen it ! Also, Kudpung seems to be having a grossly bad time over anywhere that he is choosing to graze on. Got a fair bit of blow back (oft self-prescribed by him for other opposes) for opposing Evad and now, I see that he...

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There appears to be something else. In an earlier thread on Mr. Sitush's talk page , he and Mr. Godric discuss what they refer to as a "righting great wrongs" (or "RGW," for short) contingent who produced a series of PDFs, one of which was devoted to Wikipedia. They also refer to these folks as "pe...

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Alex might create a record turnout for any Steward-election candidate in the history of Wikimedia.........What's the highest turnout, till now?

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Anyone who follows my posts here knows that I cannot stand Kudpung. However, even I have an element of sympathy for him in light of the despicable bullying campaign you are leading against him. As for RfA, you are apparently at least wise enough to recognize your own limitations. I was beginning to...

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In efficient, did you mean? They would appear to be grossly incompetent from where I'm sitting. Sarcasm. The Ombudsmen Commission practically a division of WMF legal, they are selected from the community by the WMF based on their knowledge and trustworthiness. As for people we should know, I will p...

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:-) It's a mystery to me as to how exactly Kudpung gets on with quite a fame (which finally seems to be going down, these days); despite being such a self-righteous and obnoxious individual, whose whole world revolves around him. For all his aversion to any forms of criticism and sprouting of NPA ov...

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Someone reached out to me with pointers, since this is so obscure even to other functionaries. Here's what I'm seeing: -The thing at RFA everyone already knows about. Alex was not wrong in his suspiscions, but as the RFA nominator was very clearly too involved to be the one running a CU, which tain...

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WBOG is EXACTLTY the kind of editor they should be working to get rid of. They push POV, they are utterly uncivil to anyone who doesn't agree with them, they are constantly in the middle of drama in some fashion and they are responsible for causing other editors to leave. Having said all that thoug...

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He's basically just trolling at this point.... I think anyone who was watching this guy's contributions (even as a member of the august board) would have concluded the same. This was the fellow that wrote a nonsense "three layer cake with frosting" "ruling" that was supposed to solve the demarcatio...

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Days back, I was saying over an email, that Fred can achieve Andrevan 2.0. He did and spectacularly........

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