Wikipediocracy

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"As a convicted felon, Larson was barred from seeking state office in Virginia from 2009 until Governor Terry McAuliffe restored voting and candidacy rights to thousands of felons in 2016." "In 2009, Larson pleaded guilty to sending a letter in December 2008 to the U.S. Secret Service threatening to...

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Can you prove that Sefidari Huici was in touch with Trust and Safety on this matter? Maher and, I think, Dennis said this never took place. At most Sefidari Huici would have had to recuse herself, but if she was never consulted by Trust and Safety, then no recusal of what she was unaware was happen...

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Maria Sefidari Huici and Laura Hale are now shown, incontrovertibly and by the WMF's own words, to have been at the heart of the Frammageddon and to have baldly lied, at the very least by omission, about their conflict of interest. :popcorn: BOOM! I don't see an alternative course that was open to ...

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Despite all the perennial claims on RFAs that it's hard to desysop an admin later, Arbcom has been gleefully making a show over the last 2 years of how easy it actually is by simply pandering to the whims of the usual pirchfork club and sometimes even to the personal the vengeance of their own memb...

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I've been away so long I forgot the name of the site.

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https://www.twitteraudit.com/noclador

Looks like it's giving me stats from six years ago.

Thomas C. Theiner @noclador

2,528 Real

326 Fake

Followers

88%

Audit score

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I thought this already existed in the form of WWIR writing tons of NN stubs about women.

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The most interesting thing to me is some small snippets of the bot's answers don't just imitate human writing, they contain original insights and ideas, even one very good joke. Suppose we run bots like this on Amazon or Google's clouds, spewing out mountains of content twenty-four hours a day? The...

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Just read a few of this bots comments and it speaks just like Pete Buttigieg. It's surely more intelligent than Pete Buttigieg, though. I'm impressed. The MIT Technology Review called GPT-3 shockingly good after it was released in June of this year. GPT-3 is not an AI entity or an agent, it has no ...

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That would be a true test of whether this ArbCom is "different", as has been suggested.

Any of the current members who participated in the Fram case would obviously not even consider it.

Worm, Mkdw, Joe Roe, KrakKatie

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Strongly disagree. Most of the people voting have never even read the ArbCom case. That's just the way it is. People are lazy and unwilling to do the research. ArbCom gets things wrong all the time. I've only skimmed the BHG case, so I won't comment on that. Fram never should've been desysopped in t...

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ArbCom and whatever supporters they have would rally to oppose him, I wouldn't bet on that. Remember that many of us were not on the 2019 committee, and ran because we din't like what we saw. OK, so the members of the ArbCom that desysopped Fram would rally to oppose him. From what I've seen, ArbCo...

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Was the Worm saying that BHG was desysopped because The Office stripped Fram?

I don't follow that logic.

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I remember an RfA where the Eastern European cabal rallied the troops and tanked an RfA that was looking like an easy pass.

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ArbCom and whatever supporters they have would rally to oppose him, plus the WickedWomeninScarlet group.

It's not that hard to tank an RfA. Just need one cabal.

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It says it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_de-adminship Unless otherwise mentioned, users are free to reapply at WP:RFA at any time. Unnecessary to mention it at EVERY ArbCom decision just to rub it in. "He may regain the administrative tools at any time via a successful r...

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I find it disingenuous when ArbCom says the admin is free to pursue another RfA, as if a future RfA would have a chance. How is it disingenuous? Because it sounds like ArbCom is inviting the desysopped admin to run again, which would just result in a lot of aggravation. There's no need for that sen...

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The Worm posted: "The freshly elected committee had witnessed a fiasco last year, we all know what I'm referring to, and I do believe the outcome of a desysop was excessive due to the proximity of that case." Which fiasco? There are so many to choose from... "What I ask is that you do not knee-jerk ...

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Hmm... I've always been under the impression that Change.org keeps all the money, but I've never actually started a petition. They have an FAQ , but it doesn't just come right out and explicitly say "we keep all the money for ourselves." Still, I'm about 90% sure that's what they do. Mind you, I'm ...

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Seems to be a misleading title. There's no war over Harris' race.

There were a few instances of vandalism to a high profile article. Quite common. An admin should've made it extended confirmed as soon as she was announced as the VP nominee.

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On en.wiki it was a disambiguation page as recently as yesterday, thanks to an IP edit from 4 years ago.

Yesterday Black Kite noticed this thread and changed it to a redirect.

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Apparently the article was written about a Chinese Wikipedia article.

Considering Wikipedia is banned in China, an entry being inaccurate on the Chinese Wikipedia is even less newsworthy than it would be on en.wiki.

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This is not on the English Wikipedia.

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Fairly obvious delete and pretty shameful this article was allowed to stand for all these years.

The person who created the article should not be allowed to create BLPs.

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Is this like when they had a gay pride banner across all wikimedia projects for several weeks?

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Hmm... I've always been under the impression that Change.org keeps all the money, but I've never actually started a petition. They have an FAQ , but it doesn't just come right out and explicitly say "we keep all the money for ourselves." Still, I'm about 90% sure that's what they do. Mind you, I'm ...

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Yes. The request for the money comes after you've already signed.

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I am willing to sign, but them asking me for $8 was a bit much. change.org has a nice racket going. They skim off each donation. The betting windows are open as to whose petition ultimately accrues more signatures. We're up to 7. Also, not to overly nitpick, but it seems like half the websites on th...

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Petition directed at Trump. Funny.

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change.org is an annoying website.

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1)It seems to me that Mr. Kosner is unfamiliar with the Talmud. That's scarcely surprising given his upbringing. However, that doesn't disqualify him from being Jewish, any more than a lack of knowledge of the writings of the Church Fathers disqualifies anyone from being Roman Catholic. No, I'm not...

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1)It seems to me that Mr. Kosner is unfamiliar with the Talmud. 2) I asked the foundation how it had reached that conclusion. It turned out that Patapsco913 has been a volunteer editor for nine years and has made an astounding 98,000 “edits,” but the pattern of the work did not support suspicion of ...

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Ron was notified. The notification was...wait for it... archived by a bot. I'm thoroughly confused by what's going on with that talk page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ronhjones/Archive_45 The warning was not archived there. He should've had two warnings. One for the bot, and one for him...

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RonBot should've had the admin flag removed last year when they deactivated it.

So Ronhjones has been warned about RonBot's inactivity but not about his own account. Ron is an admin and has not edited since April 2019, like the bot.

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I guess Bbb has powerful supporters because the surprise to me is how long he got away without even a reprimand. He's been checkusering everything in sight for years . This is not new behaviour. Admins have been desysopped by Arbcom for far less abuse than this. Even now, rather than stripping him o...

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It seems he did not like being held accountable and being answerable to anyone else for his actions. Not a good characteristic in a CU or an admin. Yeah, he didn't like to be answerable to anybody. Many questions on his talk page regarding his actions were either unanswered or the answer sounded li...

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I actually don't have an issue with the way Bbb23 does CU, even when a lot of the times they violate policy as written per se. Arbcom did explicitly allow them to violate CU policy because it is convenient to do so, and it is this double standard that I find troubling. Good for them if this is not ...

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Randy from Boise wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:12 am
Title of this thread notwithstanding, sounds like this is a real quit.

RfB

Seems real to me.

Would be shocked to hear this is a prank because it wouldn't make much sense as one.

A long time coming, really.

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https://news.yahoo.com/frances-macron-cancels-events-focus-115848892.html French President Emmanuel Macron canceled two scheduled events this week to focus on France's response to the coronavirus crisis, his office said on Monday. A visit to southwestern France on Wednesday was postponed while his a...

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He also posted information about the death beforehand on the biography's talkpage . Death High grade cancer diagnosed: fall 2019. Voluntary assisted death: January 2020, Pegasos, Switzerland. (But wait for reliable source, of course.). Happy editing (and ultimately, happy exiting, if you like). Bor...

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Every forum I've seen has had this in recent years.

Low activity from actual humans, but always a lot of 'active users', which can be a wide variety of bot-types.

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Speaking only for myself, I tend to only support sanctions that actually do something , and this wouldn't do anything. In every arbcom case you have "User is admonished for blah blah blah". I didn't say the whole committee agrees with me, they don't. If you look at the cases I've participated in si...

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It's really a waste of everyone's time to keep reasserting the same things. There should be a page somewhere of what the Americans call "Motherhood and apple pie" statements that no Arbcom is ever likely to disagree about. Agreed, and half the time the meaningless statement that everyone ArbCom mem...

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I don't know who that is, but evidently he's "identifying" as gay going forward, but obviously he reserves the right to change his mind in the future. Nowadays, people base "coming out" decision on whether it's advantageous for them at the time. Schofield decided it's in his best interests to curren...

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Speaking only for myself, I tend to only support sanctions that actually do something , and this wouldn't do anything. In every arbcom case you have "User is admonished for blah blah blah". In fact, the findings in every arbcom case are mostly meaningless. "Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Pass...

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I'd like to see ArbCom "admonish" the various WMF accounts on Wikipedia for poor behaviour.

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Curiousityandthecat wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 02, 2020 3:28 am

RHaworth has also lost their tools. Is this some kind of record? I don't remember hearing about 2 desysops in a week before.

What? There have been multiple past ArbCom cases which resulted in multiple admins being desysopped.

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sounds like a joke wiki, created by trolls.

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There's a long history now of people using social media to troll Wikipedia.

Bill Simmons used to do it through his articles, back in the days when he wrote. Now I guess he does it on Twitter.

Mark Dice declared war on Wikipedia because he wanted to be called a top whatever Youtube icon.

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Bbb23 is the new Betacommand. An emotionless robot who continually steps all over people and violates the spirit of the project but is allowed to do so because "he does useful work others don't want to do". And a lot of CUblocks are done against accounts as Fram describes. Simply having multiple ac...

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Bbb heavy-handed? Never.

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