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Newyorkbrad

Another lede from the Wikipedia 'say it twice to define it' sausage machine: The kilometre per hour (SI symbol: km/h ; non-standard abbreviations: kph, km/hr ) is a unit of speed, expressing the number of kilometres travelled in one hour. As to whether one needs an article at all for something as m...

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There’s a bias against admins and sometimes even editors who date back to the 2000s. I don't think this is right. Nine of the 14 current arbitrators registered their accounts in 2010 or earlier (although some only became more active or had their RfAs more recently). I don't recall anyone ever havin...

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Obvious compromise: Rename Commons to Dickipedia.

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Instant Noodle wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:15 am
Is there anywhere someone can ask to be sent a copy of a deleted article?

WP:REFUND (T-H-L) may also be relevant, depending on the reason for the deletion.

Newyorkbrad

When I was on ArbCom a few years ago, there came a day when we had no open cases, no requests for cases, no clarification or amendment requests, and no enforcement requests. I suggested on the mailing list that we should declare our work finished and go home, but then someone came along and filed a...

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When I was on ArbCom a few years ago, there came a day when we had no open cases, no requests for cases, no clarification or amendment requests, and no enforcement requests. I suggested on the mailing list that we should declare our work finished and go home, but then someone came along and filed a...

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WP:AN earlier today: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&oldid=1177016020 Yup. Nothing on there beyond the headers, after the bot archived all the non-active threads. Is this a good thing? A bad thing? A good reason to shut WP:AN down so we can get all...

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My favorite is Fear of Music . Mine too, and it's the most on-topic Talking Heads album for Wikipediocracy purposes too, since it has the songs "Mind," "Paper," and "Memories Can't Wait" on it. "Life During Wartime" Transmit the message to the receiver Hope for an answer someday I got three passpor...

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Out of curiosity, would there be any interest in a 'Potential Autobiographers' section? I have a nearly complete archive in my email account of the unblock mailing list from 2007 to 2014, when we fully transitioned to UTRS. And unlike UTRS, where I had to identify to the foundation and agree to pol...

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I'm not looking to discuss this case, but as a general statement, cries of "selective enforcement" based on recognizing a person's prior positive contributions can be overstated. If you hire an employee who is late on his first three days of work, you might decide to let him go. If you have a ten-y...

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I'm not looking to discuss this case, but as a general statement, cries of "selective enforcement" based on recognizing a person's prior positive contributions can be overstated. If you hire an employee who is late on his first three days of work, you might decide to let him go. If you have a ten-ye...

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I've never understood what drives some people to make placeholder votes. Either express an opinion, or don't. Nobody is waiting to specifically see what you think, especially not ten minutes before it is scheduled to be closed and the result is so obvious you can see it from space. I might respond ...

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Mojito wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 15, 2023 2:34 am
Hi. Does anyone know...
[1]Can any other people see what is on a user's Watchlist?

[2]Are the Arbs able to get CU information without creating a sockpuppet investigation?

Thanks.

1. No. 2. Yes.

Newyorkbrad

Perhaps a more interesting example of this, also from the UK: The British media report that in April 2022, an unnamed Member of Parliament was ordered not to set foot on the parliamentary premises while he is under a police investigation. It seems straightforward enough to identify which MP used to ...

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Searching administrators who were desysopped in response to concerns of misuse for "ban", I only find six. I suppose there could be more banned former admins if an administrator turned in their tools in good standing or under some form of clouds before they were banned. Bedford was desysopped on Ju...

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With all due respect to NYB, 1) there is nothing ambiguous about how the policy is written and 2) you're not an arbitrator anymore. I know very well that I'm not an arbitrator anymore. I've never claimed to be an arbitrator anymore. In fact, this has been a very good year not to be an arbitrator an...

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With all due respect to NYB, 1) there is nothing ambiguous about how the policy is written and 2) you're not an arbitrator anymore. I know very well that I'm not an arbitrator anymore. I've never claimed to be an arbitrator anymore. In fact, this has been a very good year not to be an arbitrator an...

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The " formal ratification policy ", I must admit, is something I did not pay close attention to until this business. Now that I see it in action, I think it's really bizarre. Anyone else find it weird that it first requires 100 signatures and then that triggers a voting period where the policy is e...

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Johnny Au wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 28, 2023 8:03 pm
Did you know that I hold the record for the longest editing streak on Wikipedia?

Wikipediocracy might not be the best place to brag about that.

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Pardon my ignorance, but is there anything preventing an arbitrator or clerk from enacting the desysop motion? It's had majority support for over 24 hours at this point. I'm not impatient or anything and I understand that there isn't really any urgency; I'm just curious. The arbitrators seem to sti...

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Honorable mention in this category goes to Donald Trump, whose talkpage archive includes multiple threads from 2017 like this one:

Talk:Donald_Trump/Archive_60#Photograph_chosen_is_biased_to_the_point_of_being_a_joke! (T-H-L)

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I was hoping this thread was about Johnny Ramone.

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Midsize Jake wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:16 am
... I might just add that "GeneralNotability" is kind of a dumb name for a Wikipedia account. What was the thinking behind that?

He asked if there were any guidelines for a good username.

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Didn't the committee have a thing for dismissing people that disappeared without trace for a long while? Even assuming it might otherwise be warranted (I have no idea in this case), declaring a vacancy for inactivity during the second year of an arbitrator's term would be pointless, as there's no m...

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 15, 2022 7:27 pm
Someone prove to me that we wouldn't be better off just selecting a bunch of people at random.

We have a place on Wikipedia where random people can help resolve disputes. It's called ANI. If you are suggesting that the ArbCom should be more like ANI then I demur.

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Now, what would really be awesome would be actual clerks like judges have. Someone to sort through evidence submissions and separate the wheat from the chaff. For now that super fun task falls to the drafting arbs. I've worked on cases where doing that was by far the most laborious aspect of the en...

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This guy makes me look succinct.

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Everyone should know that word. "Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account ... of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse ...." - Dr. John H. Watson, "The Adventure of the Five Orange Pips." Is there no culture left ...

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Okay, but can we talk about Ritchie333 's longstanding habit of assuming that his interpretation of every policy is the correct one in the eyes of the public, and any admins disagreeing must be doing so against consensus? I get that we have an unwritten policy of not criticising fellow WPO members ...

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Since Smiley was upset that I didn't comment here last night, I'll do so now. I'll try to keep this as brief as I can, but I've been scolded for not explaining myself earlier, so I'm going to get my points in. 1. Yes, I was following this thread yesterday. When Smiley said there had been a sock-iden...

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Maybe don't make people wait until November, allow an individual to submit a "request for Arbcom membership" at any time, with open, public discussion and voting running for seven days. Just a thought. This would have the serious disadvantage of potentially encouraging people to run and vote based ...

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Talk:Ramones#Survey (T-H-L)

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Exactly where the line is can get a bit blurry when it comes to paid editors, but this clearly went over that line, for no real benefit. Smallbones' thing is undisclosed paid editing. [...] It's just a really weak story. So, is this an inevitability for any "CoI Crusader" for lack of a better term?...

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Vain probably isn't a fair characterization when aging impacts their ability maintain their careers. I put this issue on my radar several years ago California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb to Remove Actor Ages on Request Revealing an actor's age is illegal? IMDb website sues California I'd be intereste...

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Laura Duncan performed both live and on recordings into the early 1950s, was closely associated with Pete Seeger and the Weavers, and recorded an important version of "We Shall Overcome," among other things. She is certainly notable and article-worthy, although doing a good job on the article probab...

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I remember one critic, who was generally very astute and whose voice here I miss, wondering how much longer I'd bide my time before turning into Emperor Palpatine. But they weren't wrong? Aren't you the longest serving emperor... er, I mean arbitrator, ever? Unless your point isn't that you didn't ...

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When I was first discussed a few years ago on the old Wikipedia Review, some critics saw me "amassing power" on Wikipedia and spent a fair amount of time speculating on what my secret agenda there might be. I think some of them were actually quite surprised when it turned out I didn't have one. Wit...

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When I was first discussed a few years ago on the old Wikipedia Review, some critics saw me "amassing power" on Wikipedia and spent a fair amount of time speculating on what my secret agenda there might be. I think some of them were actually quite surprised when it turned out I didn't have one.

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Poetlister wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 06, 2021 5:43 pm
At least we know who it includes. One or more of them, or indeed people we think even less of, could be involved with T&S and we can never know unless there is a leak.

Hopefully it doesn't include you under three different names.

Newyorkbrad

RfA's are now automatically announced at the top of everyone's watchlist, which leads some new editors to find them much earlier than they otherwise might.

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Why do vacancies on ArbCom not get filled routinely by some procedure, such as appointing the runner-up? If the assumption is that ArbCom can work perfectly well with fewer members, why are so many elected initially? Or is that deliberate redundancy so that there is no need to fill vacancies? :dubi...

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The "blue slip" procedure applies only to nominations to lower courts, not the Supreme Court.

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For me, a major difference between writing on Wikipedia versus writing elsewhere is the No Original Research policy. If I'm going to take the time to write a law journal article (usually on Supreme Court history) or a quasi-scholarly article (usually on detective fiction), it will be about a new dis...

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Isn't this thread off-topic for Off Topic?

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I suspect that "nubile" was an autocorrect of "newbie."

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"If non-admins are elected, would they automatically be made admins or would they need an RfA?" The WMF's position on this has been that they require something "RFA equivalent" and that ACE is enough of a vetting process for adminship. So they would go straight from being rank-and-file users to hav...

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I don't recall that NewYorkBrad was ever a checkuser. He was https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/rights?page=User:Newyorkbrad@enwiki Arbitrators have been given CheckUser and/or Oversight automatically but only if they request it. Most request it, but not all. I was a CheckUser for most of ...

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María is up for re-election as WMF Board chair Does she think that this will boost her chances of re-election? Obviously, this will lhave no effect on people unaware of what is happening on ENWP, but quite a lot of people are likely to be aware, even if they don't edit ENWP regularly. I can't see t...

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I agree it is the right thing to do, but one is left to wonder why it took him nine months of contributing absolutely nothing to the arbitration process to figure out he didn't have time for it. The same could be said of Courcelles. And why is it that no fuss been made, outside of here, that this l...

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mendaliv wrote:
Newyorkbrad wrote:"As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor."
Same could be said for Wikipedia generally.

Stop Hounding me.

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