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http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/the-st-louis-cuisine-wikipedia-page-is-goddamned-hil-1690071082,The "St. Louis Cuisine" Wikipedia Page is Goddamned Hilarious and St._Louis_cuisine You might think that with all the mockery of St. Louis that goes on, we Gawker Media writers are being unfair to the cit...

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Vigilant wrote:
Hex wrote:
Vigilant wrote: One of the better signposts.
"By Kevin Gorman"
I admit I hadn't noticed.

That's ... ironic.

Good work, Kevin.

Despite his many flaws, his writing's not bad.

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I read it as more: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. the why point to User:Worm That Turned? Maybe because the other wllm also wrote: To whom ...

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Malik Shabazz wrote:Technically, they died of separate heart attacks.

At least 5% of your posts are funnier than hell.

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I've just been informed (bless them, only 5 days after being alerted to the problem) by the English Wikipedia Oversight team that they agreed that Ktr101 had defamed me with an "inappropriate" edit summary, and so it has been revision deleted . Remember, the other Kevin (that would be Gorman, with ...

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Drew University seems http://www.drew.edu/graduate/academics,not to offer Master degrees in any social-studies discipline . (It appears to have a history and culture M.A. program.) Its sociology department does offer a course in http://drew.catalog.acalog.com/preview_entity.php?catoid=10&ent_oid=15...

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Excellent work, folks. This: For the time being, this decision implies that using Wikipedia from the protected perch of a pseudonym account to defame a political opponent is perfectly acceptable and legal, if a certain level of care not to appear “malicious” is exercised. is a little extreme. The ri...

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Vinegar Monk wrote:... I still won't have consistent internet access for a few days as I'm travelling: if I'm not here, it's not because I've been frightened off, it's because I have limited net access ...

Great minds think alike ... but the converse does not necessarily hold.

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Un-American jerkwad, in this country we let people participate and speak even if they are unpopular. And your Wikiconference USA host New York Law School said the same thing. New York Law School was perfectly happy to have us have a friendly space policy in place . They're also one of fancy places ...

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In any case, one good thing that's come out of this is an actual explanation for why Greg was banned. Here it is, extracted from the wall of text on the talk page, for anyone who's interested: I am all for equal representation and whatnot here, but what concerns me is that we're reporting on somethi...

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It would make me chortle if the edit war over including this incident made it to AN/I. Ask and you shall receive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Uncivil_editor_needs_to_be_told_to_back_off Yeah, I'd say that was about the most efficient $150 you guys e...

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Hersch wrote:Rand Paul remains an utter buffoon on economics and some other issues, but he some smart person whose salary he pays did manage the wittiest assessment of Obama's speech on the NSA. He said that it sounds like "If you like your privacy, you can keep it."

FTFY

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Notvelty wrote:Fortunately, now that you've chimed in to disagree, I can easily see where the apologist line lies and I now know better.

+1
As my mother used to tell me: "Be the student, don't be the lesson."

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I clicked on all these. Sometimes she's argumentative, she seems to have missed out completely on the Folly Wildlife Rescue Trust being notable, and she has some COI on a couple articles. Is that the gist? And she's running for adminship, and all signs are that the insiders will grease her way in, ...

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By Jinkinson (T-C-L) if only for a moment. Well, thanks to Beetstra (T-C-L) only for two moments.

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enwikibadscience wrote: This mess revealed the nasty in some, User:Sandstein (T-C-L) for example. Assume Good Faith, indeed.

If that revealed anything about Sandstein to you you must not spend much time at WP:AE. His little rant in this case is him on a good day.

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Zoloft wrote:Wikipediocracy plans to lavish upon its most thoughtful contributors a handful of warm tapioca pudding.

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I don't know, I think there's a reasonable chance that MilesMoney might be NaymanNoland . I have no evidence for this beyond a consonance in the usernames, a similar style in the edit summaries, a similar style in the talk page edits, a kinda sorta overlap between NaymanNoland's months-long wikibrea...

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We discuss prospective blog posts in a private area, because sometimes embarrassing things are brought up. And found out recently that one of the longtime participants was hiding his WP identity (arbitrator!). Long story short, it made some people very unhappy. Ah, well if he didn't misrepresent hi...

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Interesting: More seriously, I wonder if we are witnessing the “death of expertise:” a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between students and teachers, knowers and wonderers, or even between those of any achievement in an area and those with none at all. By this, ...

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Even if you knew someone's token, how could you use it to view their watchlist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Syndication#Watchlist_feed_with_token You can set up an RSS or Atom feed of your watchlist that is accessible even when logged out[1]: 1. Go to Special:Preferences 2. Click the "W...

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If you don't think that at somepoint, especially when the youngest generation now comes to power, that government will adopt new and more efficient technologies and the principles that are inherent to them then I don't believe you've really thought this through. If you think governments aren't effi...

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If you don't think that at somepoint, especially when the youngest generation now comes to power, that government will adopt new and more efficient technologies and the principles that are inherent to them then I don't believe you've really thought this through. If you think governments aren't effi...

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Silk Tork brings him the hemlock, Jclemens drinks it for the good of the city. It's like the Phaedo re-imagined by Lewis Carroll and then run through google translate 200 times.

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'It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.' , Joe Stalin. This is a phony baloney Fox News/International Right Wing Conspiracy meme. Stalin never said that. RfB It seems that he did say it. From the Boris Bazhanov book Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary , available http://lib....

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It amazes me how many of them think that it's a cogent complaint about this site that the criticism here is not "constructive." If something is wrong, harmful, dangerous, evil, it is actually OK to criticize it without trying to be constructive. If we don't share Wikipedia's goals, why in the world ...

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Wiki-PR is based in Texas so that's likely where they'd file. Texas http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/anti-slapp-law-texas,has a new, high-quality anti-SLAPP law but it is limited to speech about matters of public concern, which is defined as being related to health or safety; environmental, economic,...

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He paid who knows what for a "Marquis Who's Who" biography: http://bios.marquiswhoswho.com/michael_james_lowrey/advocate_writer/5418979 . One doesn't pay Marquis to be listed. Their business model is that they list you for free without even asking permission and then hassle you for the rest of your...

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Vigilant wrote: This will never catch on unless there's drinking involved.

My principle is that if the rules of a game don't explicitly forbid drinking then drinking is mandatory.

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Vigilant wrote:Can everybody please calm the fuck down for a bit?

Y'all might want to think that when I'm the voice of reason here that things might have strayed just a bit too far.

It is a pleasure to watch the truly self-aware in action.

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mac wrote:It's quite possible Luka Magnotta murdered a man for a Wikipedia article.
Glenn Beck Raped And Murdered A New Article In 1990

Karma is a bitch. I know it's not funny. And yet...

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Wonder how much it would cost to have a batch of those tiles crafted for Wikipediocracy, complete with name, Upside-down W logo, and (nonQRPedia) QR code? We need a gift shop for server fees and such. Sell T-shirts and crap. Put some of those tag lines from that one thread with the tag lines on cof...

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SB_Johnny wrote:
Vigilant wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... n_Ban_lift

It's like watching Game of Thrones, but not as well directed.

But with far more full frontal nudity.

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I should have said 'garden' instead of cathedral. Garden designers, not cathedral designers. Although the idea was that a cathedral of knowledge would grow there. Well, garden designers (if they're any good) select very specific plants for very specific qualities, then arrange them with a mind to w...

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I think that with VisualEditor we might actually solicit more contributions from professors and such, who simply don't have the time or patience to learn our obscene WikiCode. I think that with VisualEditor we might actually solicit more contributions from Texas governors and such, who simply don't...

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For God's sake, when will they license their content under CC-BY- NC -SA? That is a particularly idiotic piece of sacred dogma, not doing that. "Wikipedia is free like in free range chickens not free like in beer..." or whatever the slogan is... Basically "we want every image to be public domain so...

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Volunteer Marek wrote:Dude, is there a leak or no?

You don't care for fly-fishing, do you?

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To whomever here said to a potential releaser, paraphrase, "as a matter of potential liability, it'd be foolish to rely on opinions provided by essentially random people on an essentially random web-forum," well that is certainly true. He or she could possibly find pointers to issues he or she feel...

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OK, here's my final answer! Any emails from the ARBCOM mailing list would be prima facie parodies of themselves, and therefore publishable in full as fair use...

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It seems likely that the publisher would have no liability in the US given the fact that it's generally not even against the law here to publish illegally obtained, government-classified documents, only to illegally obtain them in the first place. the US Federal Government is prohibited by law from...

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It seems likely that the publisher would have no liability in the US given the fact that it's generally not even against the law here to publish illegally obtained, government-classified documents, only to illegally obtain them in the first place. What liability the leaker might have, I don't know. ...

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Hello Kitty: "Hello all, I want to work for Romania again. I used to go by Nicolae Ceaușescu . I promise I won't do bad things anymore." And not only that but "hello kitty" doesn't mean what you think it means, it's actually a combination of completely harmless terms that I just called myself for n...

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Honestly, I think women should feel a tad insulted at the suggestion that they stay away from Wikipedia because they can not handle its hostile atmosphere. The nicer answer is that far more men lack active social lives in the outside world and are thus drawn to Wikipedia by its promise of self-assu...

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DanMurphy wrote:Can we leave this kid alone until he gives us a reason, at least, to have to pay attention? I would like us to think more of kids like him as victims rather than perpetrators.

You know, "they know not what they do."

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He's back.... Charmlet (T-C-L)

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The Signpost announces WikiLang . Wikilang is a free language resources site to document and share all languages worldwide, including endangered and dead languages. Wikilang also encompasses a project to compile and share best practices in language revitalization. A worthy goal. Anyone want to star...

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The Signpost announces WikiLang . Wikilang is a free language resources site to document and share all languages worldwide, including endangered and dead languages. Wikilang also encompasses a project to compile and share best practices in language revitalization. A worthy goal. Anyone want to start...

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Does it never end? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prioryman/Tunnels_of_Gibraltar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Hardy_Town,_Gibraltar Are we to be tormented forever with the minutiae of Gibraltar? What's next? Houseplants of Gibraltar? List of plants in the Gibral...

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Triptych wrote: I am not 100% on the question of whether http://Www.whois-search.com is a reliable source. Unless my PC is broken, "Alf.laylah.wa.laylah" put this in your BLP at time-stamp 03:31, 4 June 2013.

Your PC is broken. It was Aymathh2 at 14:02, 3 June 2013.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Interaction_ban_proposed,Fram (like Fetchcomms before him) has proposed an interaction ban between myself, Demiurge1000, and GiantSnowman. Fram does seem either to have been underestimated by me or to have responded exceptionally ...

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