Wikipediocracy

Lyallpuri

In that ANI thread, MJL wonders out loud if there was any canvassing involved among LDS editors. I am breaking my silence on here because I need to correct this. The only canvassing being hinted at there was by the roads people. It's a bit cryptic though. Sorry, what? The ANI discussion is here . I...

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When the creator of the file, Wilfredor, was confronted they claimed the VP discussion that it was made with panorama software, which doesn't seem that convincing to me, they later stated in the featured image delisting discussion https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidat...

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...I must really be missing something, because I genuinely don't see how someone can see that image and think it's an actual photograph -- it's quite obviously a flat two-dimensional drawing that would fit well in the Gen IV Pokémon games.

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The hype train just got back from repairs, and it's chugging' faster than ever! https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/download/file.php?id=855 All I see is text saying "image" but no image. What am I missing here? They attempted to embed an image from Sucks into the post, specifically whatever this might...

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:20 pm
Scottish authorities, "O mo dhia, am faigh sinn cuidhteas an fhoill ghlic seo?"

Gaelic is a spoken by a negligible minority in Scotland, and hasn't really been an important language there for several centuries.

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The fact that I made thousands of edits every single day gave me the misconception that I was always in the right, that I was someone more important than others. It made me kind of blatantly arrogant and know-it-all. I didn't realize then how my actions were out of line with what Wikipedia stands f...

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I'm guessing they'll have to call it "Nakba revisionism" or "Nakba distortionism" before the pro-Netanyahu Wikipedians would even consider letting something like this go unchallenged. Just to drop a bit of tangential ancient history somewhere, there's a historian, Tom Holland (author) , who (along ...

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Late Bronze Age collapse While certain cities such as Ugarit and Emar were destroyed at the end of the Late Bronze Age, there are several others which were not destroyed even though they erroneously appear on most maps of destruction from the end of the Late Bronze Age. No evidence of destruction h...

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Back when I developed a strange obsession with remote former highways in Ontario (where I haven't even lived in a long time) during high school, I used to refer to this site very often.

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The last time I posted in this thread, I was swiftly corrected in my ignorance and properly educated on the subject matter by two fellow posters. Here's hoping my judgement is a bit better this time... ... that one way to tell the African dusky flycatcher apart from the ashy flycatcher (example pict...

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The following comment is attracting particular scrutiny (emphasis mine): I don't know about you but the potential for me to be written about on Wikipedia and in the news is a strong motivation for me to not commit crimes . This wasn't an ordinary person making a mistake, but a highly trained individ...

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Note that loginwiki records are also used in some SPIs, which allows CUs to connect accounts that have recently logged in even if they haven't edited. I'm not exactly sure as to the details of which CUs can use it and when, though.

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Ah, mea culpa; thanks, both of you. Somehow it didn't occur to me that this could be in the context of ancient continents and their respective locations.

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... that Mimodactylus (reconstruction pictured) is the first complete pterosaur from the Afro-Arabian continent? While I'm aware that the classification of continents is somewhat arbitrary, the idea that "Afro-Arabia" exists as one is rather new to me. One could argue in favor of a human cultural r...

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*cough* auto-patrolled *cough* Sorry, I had something in my throat. To be fair, if I'm not mistaken, most of the recent removals of autopatrolled have been due to repeated creations of similarly poor articles on the part of the respective authors, whereas this seems to have been a single aberrance ...

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Do You Kare that “that the Nike Phantom Luna football boot considers women's anatomy and the playing style of women's football in its design?” is a blatant commercial endorsement? The Front Page Krewe doesn’t. Came here to post the exact same thing. The entire article is a perfect example of how no...

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I'm not sure where else to ask this, and, for reasons that should be somewhat obvious, I'm rather hesitant to ask onwiki, so I'll just post this here:

Does anyone know if there are any disclosure requirements and/or special procedures on en.wp for articles written using ChatGPT?

Lyallpuri

Chinese expansionism (T-H-L)

Historically, China has been a major empire in history, and throughout its history, China developed from the northern basin of the Huaxia, which is believed to be between modern Yellow and Yangtze rivers, slowly became a major power from ancient era.

Lyallpuri

There's no doubt that enwiki sucks at Indian topics. There aren't enough editors who are both neutral and informed enough to keep POV in check. To be fair, it manages to adhere to WP:NPOV by sucking just as badly when discussing Pakistan. And when both are discussed together, the combined level of ...

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I've expressed thoughts on this matter earlier here.

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(in this case, to the Times of India , which probably counts as a 'reliable source' for India, though that isn't saying much, sadly...) To my knowledge, the Times of India is a respected source, and one of the very few that can actually be considered reliable by international, rather than merely In...

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That wasn't the question, though...

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Sorry about that, folks! :ermm: Is anyone still seeing the expired-certificate warnings? It looks like the auto-updater for the Let's Encrypt! SSL certificate (the one that's included in the hosting plan) ran a little late today for some reason — it's supposed to run every 90 days, so I guess they ...

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Can confirm that I am seeing this as well

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owl be it wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 15, 2023 3:22 am
Well, look on the bright side: at least someone didn't create an article called Stupid kofuns (T-H-L) whose only text is "Stupid kofuns is a kofuns that is stupid".

sigh

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Saudi Arabia jails two Wikipedia staff in ‘bid to control content’ - The Guardian

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Banu Qurayza Arafat relates the testimony of Ibn Hajar, who denounced this and other accounts as "odd tales" and quoted Malik ibn Anas, a contemporary of Ibn Ishaq, whom he rejected as a "liar", an "impostor" and for seeking out the Jewish descendants for gathering information about Muhammad's camp...

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http://archive.is/pwzZ4/e73876324a39173cb84fec800e6f08ebad77d2cd.png This is a strange map; it seems to be conflating الحجاز with الشرق الأوسط (perhaps the best-known "province"), and including southern Iran as part of the former to boot. It also doesn't label بلاد السودان, despite that being a lar...

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To put it in context, If Wikipedia published as TRUTH, an article based on some Saudi religious scholar's book published by Kind Fxxxd University "proving" (of course in a very scholarly way based on translations of some Dead Sea scrolls) that Jesus Christ was a perverted diseased bisexual pedophil...

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For anyone who may be confused, "incorrect maps of India" refers to maps that do not agree with India's positions on territorial disputes with Pakistan and China; Wikipedia, like most neutral sources, depicts the Greater Kashmir region in terms of its de facto internal boundaries, which are not acc...

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For anyone who may be confused, "incorrect maps of India" refers to maps that do not agree with India's positions on territorial disputes with Pakistan and China; Wikipedia, like most neutral sources, depicts the Greater Kashmir region in terms of its de facto internal boundaries, which are not acce...

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Possibly related ANI thread.

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And another violation Kazi started his career as Principal of the Naushero Feroze Madressah . High schools during those days were called madressahs to dispel the impression that they were averse to religion and this name served to increase the enrolment of students. Even the founder of Pakistan Moh...

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According to CheckUser data, the harassing edits were made using a device that Stephen had not previously used. Is it possible that Stephen switched devices mistakenly believing that this would be enough to fool CU, not realising that that's not how IP addresses work (and that only the UA would cha...

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Now back at AN.

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Dammit El_C, it's *pass*, not *past*. Sheesh. "Come to pass"! (somehow this is the one thing that's been bothering me most about that whole thread since they posted it) I'm sure you already know this, so I apologize for pointing it out, but El_C's native language is Hebrew, not English, and given t...

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For a change, a crap map: https://i.postimg.cc/MTWQD3XQ/I80.png I hope the many Canadians fleeing south from their socialist oppressors find a better guide to crossing the border... :evilgrin: Are you talking about the missing eastern Great Lakes? I live in Michigan, so that's something I tend to n...

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The results for Pakistan are certainly very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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The main argument that I've heard is that bureaucrats can hand out intadmin, which is a privilege to which access should be very restricted. I make no comments as to the validity of this point.

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Nice read; thanks for sharing!

Lyallpuri

Long-time lurker newly de-lurking here. Contra some of what's been expressed here, I've long thought El_C is one of WP's best active admins, based on his activity in the last few years. He strikes me as scrupulously evenhanded in his admin work, and impressively so in the AP topic area, where I've ...

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Well, my point was that I think it's gross to say that a queer person is selfish, or "solipsistic", for caring about anti-queer prejudice. That's all. That's not why I used that word for. Trump was, in her opinion, oppressive to lgbt community. Obama/Biden, in my opinion, were oppressive to say, Ye...

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Wikipedia, as one ought to already know, exists in many languages, and the layout of the main page naturally varies on each one. We have plenty of threads dedicated to ridiculing various aspects of enwiki's version of said page, so I figured I might create a new thread to discuss the individual quir...

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We both know that his writing could never possibly be that grammatical.

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I didn't say anything about whether the BKFIP is actually racist, or making their comments due to racism. (I didn't even use that term, as a matter of fact.) This is my first time interacting with them, so I'm not sure I'm in a position to cast such judgements anyway. My comments were solely about t...

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Fellow ANI lurkers may find that the text quoted in the OP rings a bell; this specific edit was reported to ANI by a user who turned out to be a BKFIP sock, which may be of interest here.

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Could the mods please change the title of this thread, which seems to be worded in an uncomfortably xenophobic manner? Nothing could be further from reality. What exactly do you consider xenophobic? "We are being taken over by [insert 'outside' group here]" is the rhetoric used by xenophobes in the...

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Could the mods please change the title of this thread, which seems to be worded in an uncomfortably xenophobic manner?

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While I'm not as familiar with the history of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as I'd like to be, it's quite possible that what they mean is this: Under Muslim rule, Jewish and Christian populations were accorded the status of Ahl adh-Dhimmah , under which they were officially under state protection ...

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I know this is only tangentially related to the topic at hand, but I can't help but point out the odd wording of the first sentence, which I initially parsed as meaning "born in British India (T-H-L)":

Monisha Shah (September 1969–)[1] is a British Indian-born media professional.

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