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- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2909
Re: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
Does anybody know the story behind successful May 2021 RFA candidate Ashleyyoursmile , which was renamed to Viridian Bovary and then vanished off as Renamed user 7z42t3k8qj ??? The RFA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Ashleyyoursmile Passed 224 / 6 / 4. t I nominated ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2909
Re: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
I've previously said that at RfCs to change RfA or make the desysop process easier, all views of admins should be given lower weight in the discussion because of a conflict of interest. It did not go down well.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
Nihonjoe added the title/year/publisher/ISBN of a book published by Hemelein Publications to the Wikipedia biography of an author. It is inarguable that Nihonjoe is Joe Monson and thus he is the Managing Editor of Hemelein Publications. Is Primefac seriously trying to suggest that this edit is unco...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
And, Fram is gone. Oversight block, so no drama onwiki. Same people who refused to take action against Nihonjoe, and blocked Fram, will be the ones reviewing the unblock request, assuming Fram appeals. Although I have butted heads with Fram more than a few times, I have generally observed: * They a...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: POLL: Do you know anyone (friends, family, colleagues) with a Wikipedia article?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1150
Re: POLL: Do you know anyone (friends, family, colleagues) with a Wikipedia article?
I'm mentioned on Wikipedia, for something I did when I was about 14. Or at least I was ten years ago, it was unsourced so hopefully it's been removed.
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Never try to help!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1056
Re: Never try to help!
Bbb23 has something seriously wrong with him. He's like an alien who learned how to mimic humans by watching Youtube but is clueless how normal interactions work and doesn't know what empathy is. He shouldn't be an admin. He sends nice friendly messages when somebody disagrees with him. And in this...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Presenting the history: cultural bias on music pages
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1717
Re: Presenting the history: cultural bias on music pages
I see people arguing about opinions, especially on musical genres, on music article infoboxes day in, day out.
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The autobiographers
- Replies: 98
- Views: 27560
Re: The autobiographers
Stanton Williams (T-H-L)
Updated for quite a few years by Stanton Williams (T-C-L). Amazingly, talk page is red.
Updated for quite a few years by Stanton Williams (T-C-L). Amazingly, talk page is red.
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15492
Re: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
There's another litmus test to this : Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/M-132 (Michigan highway)/1 (T-H-L)
Will be interesting to see who turns up to that debate.
Will be interesting to see who turns up to that debate.
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Brendanconway - how is he still an admin?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1691
Re: Brendanconway - how is he still an admin?
Looks like I've got a while to wait before they contact me. And even then I'll probably miss the email buried in the "EXCLUSIVE discount from this website you ordered something from 6 years ago!!!!" messages.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Worm that Turned has quit
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2040
Re: Worm that Turned has quit
I do remember a conversation between us in the Pendrel's Oak around September 2019 which pretty much stopped me from quitting Wikipedia, so thanks must especially go to that.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4447
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4447
Re: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
Assuming that you actually mean that, could you elaborate on why you thing you wouldn't get reelected? Of course it's completely fine if you don't want to answer this. Off the top of my head..... * I told Rschen7754 to fuck off. * I wrote "I silently cheer from the sidelines when Wikipediocracy fir...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:54 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4447
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia Sucks email spam
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5604
Re: Wikipedia Sucks email spam
Jeez, what an absolute bell-end.tarantino wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:15 pmOh, #60627 is OvskMendov1, also known as Bbb23sucks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... vskMendov1
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Mzajac and Bbb23 Wheel War
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4625
Re: Mzajac and Bbb23 Wheel War
I am slightly amused, however, at a sitting arbitrator reaching a conclusion that Bbb23 had a brain fart.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Mzajac and Bbb23 Wheel War
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4625
Re: Mzajac and Bbb23 Wheel War
What he said.AndyTheGrump wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:44 pmAs much as I dislike Bbb23, his 'I screwed up' defence seems entirely plausible. So yes, hit everyone with a trout (optionally deep-frozen), and tell them to get back to doing imitation-encyclopaedia-stuff.
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia Sucks email spam
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5604
Re: Wikipedia Sucks email spam
I don't know who specifically, but I'd be amazed if there wasn't a former Sucks editor who quit due to infighting and was sufficiently riled up by this to retaliate.Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:35 pmWho would want to make Sucks look bad by spamming blocked users?
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 158
- Views: 101873
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519221
Re: News from RFA
The candidate has socked extensively and been checkuser blocked for it, (diff) although not recently. Still, they should have disclosed their socking up front; that they haven't will sink the RfA stone dead in my view.
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Unblockable? Beyond My Ken
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4518
Re: Unblockable? Beyond My Ken
I think User:Beyond My Ken/thoughts (T-H-L) is quite insightful, personally.
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 2:41 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822915
Re: Crap articles
Embryo (Pink Floyd song) Now, I'm a bit of a Floyd nut, to the extent I have, on at least one occasion, challenged a claim in one of Andy Mabbett's books as being factually incorrect. However, I was surprised to find this article has been chock full of unreferenced fancruft for over 16 years . Else...
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:29 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Outdated good news
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2206
Re: Outdated good news
I got introduced at a meet-up once with reference to User:Ritchie333/Monopoly (T-H-L).
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 1:13 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 158
- Views: 101873
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
I've been asked to stand in the past, but my principal reasons against it are: * I don't have the time, and there is no way I'd ever, ever get on top of the Arb caseload. * Half the time I'd disagree with all the other Arbs simply because I'm that way inclined. * I'd probably unblock every single pe...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:36 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822915
Re: Crap articles
Birotron Jesus H Christ, where do I start? I would quote some of the unreferenced drivel in the second paragraph, but as far as I can tell, that's a copyright violation of http://www.synth-db.com/synths/Birotron/B90/B90.php so you can just read it there. When I tried to clean it up some time back a...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:16 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The "Jess Wade Problem" Problem
- Replies: 94
- Views: 15301
Re: The "Jess Wade Problem" Problem
I’ve never said much about Mr Mick Nack Crowsnest before, but I’m sitting here reading this while my fiancée’s cooking breakfast in the kitchen, thinking “hooo boy I’m so glad I’m not him, what a pillock.”
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 10:17 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519221
Re: News from RFA
I seem to recall that JPxG didn't have the time back then, and I guess now he does. There a couple of these parked in "development hell" like Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Joris Darlington Quarshie (T-H-L).
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15492
Re: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
A bunch of blocks, I'd imagine.ArmasRebane wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:12 pmAs to the actual canvassing, unless someone knows what it was about it's hard to grok what's going on, but if the roads people went off to create their own wiki, why are they still trying to coordinate offwiki to influence Wikipedia content? What do they gain?
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:08 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15492
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519221
Re: News from RFA
This would have been a stronger RfA if 0xDeadbeef had gotten a nomination from someone like Ritchie333, which apparently the applicant was too impatient to wait for. Yes, I was going to write a nomination to get it to potentially pass along the lines of Cyberpower678 and Pppery who don't have much ...
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 11:10 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15492
Re: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
I checked out Rschen7754's recent contributions. They include nominating a load of London streets for AfD and claiming the Survey of London is a primary source (hint: it isn't) that all closed as keep (eg: this and this ) and un-redirecting a load of unsourced Nigerian highway articles with GEOROAD ...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 8:39 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Victuallers
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3876
Re: Victuallers
Have I missed something?eppur si muove wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:47 pmLooking at e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoda_Felgate and https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/felgat ... mary-12481 I do wonder how well Bamkin understands the rules on close paraphrasing.
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:25 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Victuallers
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3876
Re: Victuallers
There's an article here Australian Dictionary of Biography (T-H-L). Assuming it's the Australian equivalent of the Dictionary of National Biography (T-H-L), it's probably generally reliable, although there have been criticisms of bias and lack of updates.
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 3:14 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Victuallers
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3876
Re: Victuallers
And me, with a side order of "well if Fram's being an obnoxious jerk it probably means he's right and onto something, but .... meh".Boing! said Zebedee wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 1:58 pmMaybe it's partly "Oh, god, it's Fram again..." and people switch off? That's what I did.
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 3:03 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15492
Re: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
Google Maps counts as a reliable source?? That's a terrible idea - it's not reliable. I don't like this whole thing about "x is reliable / not reliable". Google Maps in my opinion is reliable for stating something exists, like "Oxford Street connects Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford C...
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 8:16 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15492
Re: Admin resignations, a wacky fork and tiktok tea-spilling: the US Roads project takes their ball and leaves.
The roads thing is weird to me, in that I feel like there is for sure a trend of obsessive behavior and over-describing every single bend and turn in a road, and yet, when you actually find errors and try to help make the content better, in my experience anyway, the result is ...crickets... nothing...
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 8:01 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Roads Go Ever On
- Replies: 180
- Views: 8718
Re: Roads Go Ever On
British and Irish roads go here : https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/ - established 15 years ago, and some of the important editors there would never go near Wikipedia and think it's rubbish.
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 7:05 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Roads Go Ever On
- Replies: 180
- Views: 8718
Re: Roads Go Ever On
The roads people are among the most insane on en.wp. Yeah, but come on, Wikipedia does need in-depth coverage of all the major areas of human knowledge... Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Roads... It also doesn’t need people who flounce when others disagree with them or consensus doesn’t go their way.
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 3:05 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The biggest problems with Wikipedia Policies?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 4448
Re: The biggest problems with Wikipedia Policies?
Copyvio cleanup.
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 5:28 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519221
Re: News from RFA
I can see how you might have interpreted it in that way, but it was more along the lines of "You can hold that opinion, but you're not going to get favourable responses to it, so I'd highly advise ignoring this discussion".
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 5:13 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519221
Re: News from RFA
The first oppose came in, and the rationale is... lackluster. I was very close to not responding at all, since I don't want to be badgering, but I really just want to see the opposer justify themselves. One of my major weaknesses is attempting to have logical discussions with people I disagree with...
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:41 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jimbo wades into a minefield
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1109
Re: Jimbo wades into a minefield
If Wikipedia was going to be usurped by another online encyclopedia, this site wouldn't exist - anyone disgruntled with it would just wait for it to lose traction. I don't think there's a Truth Social criticism site, or if there is, it's far more obscure than this one.
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 9:57 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148266
Re: BrownHairedGirl
The ones placed on Eric Corbett managed to generate two further arbitration cases in the process.
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:34 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519221
Re: News from RFA
I didn't have anybody in mind specifically, but particularly not SandyGeorgia. I was more thinking of the numerous "Eric Corbet blocked for civility" threads you can find at the ANI archives.casualdejekyll wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 11:37 pmAnd, for the record, I'm pretty sure SandyGeorgia is who Ritchie333 was talking about here.
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519221
Re: News from RFA
I think RexxS was right on the merits, then got pulled down for telling Pppery not to fuck about (or something like that).casualdejekyll wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 4:00 amThe reason nobody's opposing over the RexxS stuff is because history proved Pppery the "winner" of that conflict.
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148266
Re: BrownHairedGirl
With the only decline vote so far switching to accept, this looks pretty clearly headed for a full case. The flak Paul August got for his attempt to enforce the civility probation (notwithstanding his silly, overly literal rationale for thinking he was unable to lift his own block) confirms that th...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519221
Re: News from RFA
This closed as successful, so with the recent two Arbcom desysops, we're at 895 active admins. People have predicting Wikipedia won't have enough admins for at least ten years now; yet there generally seem to be enough people jumping to action when somebody posts a "backlog" message on AN. I think i...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:28 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Roads Go Ever On
- Replies: 180
- Views: 8718
Re: Roads Go Ever On
My point was all these WP:Roads editors really have no interest in making Wikipedia better. They just want to win their AfDs and pretend that all their work actually matters without doing much of anything. Yup, they were all over Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Autovia C-13 but none of them actuall...
- Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822915
Re: Crap articles
... and a bunch of edits from Martyhaugen (T-C-L) thrown in for good measure.
- Mon Jun 12, 2023 7:42 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Wikipedia and Neal Schon: Who's Sorry Now?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3478
Re: Wikipedia and Neal Schon: Who's Sorry Now?
I think there's enough respect for this site now that when we bark, others listen.