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The Blue Newt

Previously, on my PC at home and my phone at work, whenever I viewed a thread here, the cookies (umm, that internet whatchamacallit) and not 25 Apr 2024 topically not Anzac biscuit ) would un-orange the thread. Lately, when I view a thread here, it's still in orange, unless I log out and view it ag...

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Zoloft wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:15 pm

Midsize Jake wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:08 pm

underrated post of the topic.

It’s probably not underrated.

Half of us are stunned by its brilliance, and the other half haven’t figured out how to go one better.

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Michael Patrick Coyle (T-H-L).

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[...] Colin Archer Lives! PS: Norwegian? Nahhh. Archer's parents were from Scotland, but moved to Norway before his birth. Archer himself (although not his children, IMS) very much kept Scottish.. There was a large diaspora of Scots around the North Sea and into the Baltic. Some of them remained En...

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Come to us, Fram. We have your user avatar all ready: https://i.imgur.com/3mj5KCx.png No, no, no. Everyone knows that Fram has no filter. :evilgrin: And he sometimes goes dangerously far. So I propose: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Amundsen-Fram.jpg Fram (ship) I was genuinely...

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Richie Williams https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Richie_Williams_NYRB.jpg Not used in his article, but used in New_England_Revolution_in_international_competition#Leagues_Cup What a beautiful example of the bad effects of DiCkLicAtiOn ( and other MoS Minion Madness) on article ti...

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I know a man who is paid by a council at Israeli embassy to edit the Albanian Wikipedia and honestly it is so based, I am not paid to do so but I still do That is very interesting. Thank you for such an interesting story. It’s not true, though. Any fule knos that the Albanian Wiki is cringe .

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... some civilians might die and that's bad but it's okay I think most people will write you off when you say things like this. Also it would help people understand the points you're trying to make if you use proper punctuation. You're on a web forum here, not texting your buddies on your cell phon...

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natoid_23 wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:46 pm
Israel did nothing wrong!!! There is no genocide and I know about Israeli history. They’re doing the right thing.

Natoid, meet Bit Bucket. Bit Bucket, Natoid.

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The problem with your analysis, Crow, fairly accurate as it is, is that it glides over the usual way in which bad things get done: a part of one group misbehaves, a part of another group misbehaves back, and then once the consequences are serious the whole of both groups justify their behavior based...

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Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be." https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/178092926...

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[...] Among other things, he has cunningly outed my DanMurphy account as being operated by Dan Murphy. (Though it must be some other Dan Murphy who worked for National Geographic.) He has made that particular post about 50 times in the past month or so (I get a ping at Wikipedia every time he does ...

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From the file name and category, this is Canadian model James Lam , presumably taken by fashion photographer Greg Swales ... TIL that if you want to find hats like this online, you have to type " wide brim bucket hat" into Google Images, not "large bucket hat" or "oversized bucket hat." Or just typ...

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Today’s Disgrace o’ the day asks “Do You Kare about Censorship by copyright (T-H-L)?”

What a miserable little polemic coatrack of a POV fork.

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From the file name and category, this is Canadian model James Lam , presumably taken by fashion photographer Greg Swales ... TIL that if you want to find hats like this online, you have to type " wide brim bucket hat" into Google Images, not "large bucket hat" or "oversized bucket hat." Or just typ...

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"Please," squacked the baby Crow, "Who will sacrifice themselves for me?" The thing is, this isn’t Crow’s fault, is it? Asking someone to meatpuppet his utterings to WP:ANI is asking someone to fall on their sword for him. Again, that isn’t really Crow’s doing. That is because a large number of wik...

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John Guzzwell (T-H-L).

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:55 pm
"Please," squacked the baby Crow, "Who will sacrifice themselves for me?"

The thing is, this isn’t Crow’s fault, is it?

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rnu wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:14 pm

TheSpacebook wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:49 am
Trisha Paytas (T-H-L) (I’m unsure what the occupation of this person actually is)
[...]
I think the technical term for people like this is harbinger of the fall of civilization.

Waste of Skin.

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Looks fine today so far.

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Screwed up from Hell to breakfast here.

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“In 1986, she published her best selling memoir Board Meetings in the Bath: How We Opened Knebworth House to the Public on her experience opening Knebworth to the public.”

Chryssie Lytton Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold (T-H-L).

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rnu wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:48 pm

The Blue Newt wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:45 pm

Zoloft wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:22 am

TheSpacebook wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:41 am

Well, we don't have a 'Preferred Pronouns' entry in our profile. Perhaps we should.
At the risk of being Athenaeraed off the site, perhaps “birth pronouns” might be more useful.
You were born with pronouns?
As much as I was “born” with a name.

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It seems Molly White is not a good spokesperson in unedited audio. But one thing she is, is an example of a prominent Wikipedian (and a vocal one) who's female. I've said before that I consider "Wikipedia editors are overwhelmingly male" to be a myth nurtured by the WMF for its own purposes based o...

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TFA is the the Flachspüler of the system.

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It's no more complicated than Wikipedia was addictive, but not nearly as addictive as having social media in your palm. The first iPhone was released in 2007. Wikipedia peaked in 2008. The facebook was going viral just as Wikipedia peaked, but its users did look rather sad to normal folk (non-nerds...

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Today’s Dead o’ the Day features Antonette Mendes (T-H-L), whose article epitomizes the confluence of Babu and Fyne Wrytyng.

Enjoy.

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Does it ever get past the level of “Best there is, thanks to…well, modesty forbids?”

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TheSpacebook wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:14 pm
Mmmm, maybe I am being a bit too ambitious with my thinking then. Maybe I'll just drop it in the talk page and then leave. Thank you for preventing me from starting a TERF war.

Nahh, you just have to bring in bonded labor.

(What, you never heard of serf ‘n TERF?)

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Seems to be at it again.

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“SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] User 'wikiped3_root' has exceeded the 'max_user _connections' resource (current value: 1) [1226] An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.” Is this saying that each user can have only one connection, or that there ...

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In Winslow Homer , we can learn that The Gulf Stream (painting) shows “a Black sailor adrift in a damaged boat, surrounded by sharks and an impending maelstrom.” I am unsure if this is because Scotwriter thinks that whirlpools form out in the Gulf Stream, or he thinks it a fancy word for a waterspou...

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Do You Kare that that Waluigi inspired the name of a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as the Waluigi effect?

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AndyTheGrump wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:11 pm
I look forward to not reading it with much anticipation...

A book not to be tossed aside lightly.

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DYK ... ... that color-changing cats (artist's impression pictured) could help us communicate with the future? OK this is technically just extremely misleading, but since the overwhelming proportion of people will misunderstand it it is just dangerous scientific misinformation. This is PROFRINGE to...

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Stephen King's (former) house in Bangor is one of the city's most noted tourist attractions. :) If someone added the street address to the article, I wouldn't see a problem. (If someone added his current address in Florida, I grant you, I'd have to think about it.) That’s about how I see this. If t...

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rnu, I feel like you don't understand DYK. You're supposed to be left with questions after reading a hook. The hook is supposed to be exciting. That's the whole point. You click on the article and satisfy the questions the hook raised for you. Perhaps the question shouldn’t be “why was I stupid eno...

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From today's featured article Lou Henry Hoover blurb: Her invitation of Jessie De Priest to the White House for tea was controversial in the South. Or for those who don't want to follow the wiki-links to see what this is about: By not excluding the (black) wife of the only black congressman from th...

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I just checked to see how many signatures the petition has now (626). I scrolled down to see what kind of other petitions change.org has. I really wish I hadn't. :facepalm: Oh, you thought it only hosted serious petitions like this one? I was hoping this one was at the stupid end of the spectrum. N...

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I feel like these "niche artist/author/athlete" article types are the easiest to allow to fly under the radar despite being completely fake. Wikipedia's got thousands of permastubs about technically notable subjects whose online documentation is practically nil, so I suppose people just figured it ...

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Graywalls is continuing to piss off the scouting folks. They tried redirecting COPE (Boy Scouts of America) to the main BSA article but they were reverted by Evrik, so now it is nominated for deletion. where the only two keep votes are from Evrik (literally just "keep") and North8000. I guess Btphe...

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The Blue Newt wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:33 am
Today’s Daily Disgrace, Dead o’ the Day section features Emmett Walsh (T-H-L), whose article was disfigured by 7&6=thirteen (T-C-L) with this diff.

Compare that with the source.

M. Emmet Walsh (T-H-L), that should be. Bill Clinton (T-H-L), but M. Emmet Walsh (T-H-L). Go figure.

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Today’s Daily Disgrace, Dead o’ the Day section features Emmett Walsh (T-H-L), whose article was disfigured by 7&6=thirteen (T-C-L) with this diff.

Compare that with the source.

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Zoloft wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:12 pm
Phelps could not have picked a better time to have become more visible on COI issues...

Perhaps he could try some kind of Phelps dodge.

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Bulkhead (partition) (T-H-L).

The etymology section is particularly fragrant.

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:facepalm: You look at stuff like this, and you wonder how anyone could take this Wiki thing seriously. I wonder something, that's for sure. Look Kraken, I am profoundly uninterested in anything to do with the royals. Not just specifically your post. I am sure the whole British media circus was unb...

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rnu wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:54 am

You look at stuff like this, and you wonder how anyone could take this Wiki thing seriously.

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Time for a word limit for Crow. The Mods should add a recipe of something to the end of all their posts. That Doe Snot make any sense. I was in the moment about how people who give out recipes online usually have a long drawn out story before they show what the recipe is. Back in the dear dead days...

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rhindle wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:53 pm

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:13 pm
Time for a word limit for Crow.
The Mods should add a recipe of something to the end of all their posts.

That Doe Snot make any sense.

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She was also married to Mortimer Wheeler , had an affair with Augustus John and she shot Anthony Vivian, 5th Baron Vivian with whom she also had an affair in the abdomen. An affair in the abdomen, you say? :XD I guess the affair happened a little lower than that. “Im leaving before you guys get dow...

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