Wikipediocracy

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Speaking of filters: "As of 1936, FRAM produces original equipment for automotive manufacturers."

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Zoloft wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:58 am
Come to us, Fram.

We have your user avatar all ready:

No, no, no. Everyone knows that Fram has no filter.

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The Constitutional Pentumvirate of Kaz is an American Micronation located in New York City themed around cats. When it is created by an Single-Purpose Account, and nominated for deletion within an hour, I don't think it counts here? Crap doesn't take long to smell bad. Instead, take ... (clicks "Ra...

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Ming wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:56 pm
Msumarini (T-H-L)

1. It was mass-added from Geonames and Mangoe hasn't gotten to it yet.
2. If you know anything about geostubs you know it can't be trusted.
3. It's a geostub so there is probably isn't a trusted source.

Mangoe got to it.

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The Constitutional Pentumvirate of Kaz (T-H-L) is an American Micronation located in New York City themed around cats.

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If you are naming industrial spurs at a federal nuclear facility, you can use the names of female railroad employees.

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List of countries and dependencies by area in 1989 (T-H-L)

Just amazing how much work people are willing to put into articles that are certain to be deleted once they are noticed.

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The thing with the Lazarus article is that it begins badly in the way that WP articles are written badly, not because of anything having to do with religion.

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Ming has always had a certain thing for Rhododendrites (T-C-L)-- the name, definitely not the user.

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The only way to make DYK work well is to appoint some hard-nosed assholes to review everything and take the "job" away from the submitters, who after all are mainly interested in getting their own hooks on the front page. Every annoying requirement in the process represents some failure of reviewers...

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rnu wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:26 pm
I thought you were criticizing the use of the word "historic" as more or less meaningless, not the lack of an explanation on why it is on the Register.

Ironically, "significance" (i.e., why should we list this thing) is one of the blanks on the form.

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Elinruby wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:04 am
Purabirbal (T-H-L)

Indian village

1. yes but should we if this is all we know
2. utterly unsourced. But what is there is probably true, for a certain definition of "true".
3, I would not look up information on this topic

Mangoe has you covered this time.

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Msumarini (T-H-L)

1. It was mass-added from Geonames and Mangoe hasn't gotten to it yet.
2. If you know anything about geostubs you know it can't be trusted.
3. It's a geostub so there is probably isn't a trusted source.

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Elinruby wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:46 pm
Hermosa, South Dakota (T-H-L)

1. Mangoe (T-C-L) hasn't noticed it yet.

2. 3. Commenting feels mean

Being an incorporated town, WP:GEOLAND means it's not going to be deleted.

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PirateFood wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:18 am
rnu, why don't you contribute to the DYK process and step in when you see problematic hooks? It can't be harder than posting about them here.

Doing so was a major reason for all the hate against Fram.

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And really, it is possible even for nonbelievers to write about theology without editorializing about how it's all false. But that doesn't seem to be the way of things on FTN. They seem to have a bunch of atheists who are bent that theirs is, in reality, a minority faith. And it is possible for bel...

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The reason AO is posting is because the FTN regulars spent several pages going on about how bad the Methuselah article was because it didn't say he was "alleged" to have lived 939 years . Other than that heinous act of credulity, it's not actually bad; it could be better written, of course, but that...

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rnu wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:13 pm
Of course if DYK had any interest in providing information it would just say that Tautonym (T-H-L)s are used in zoological nomenclature, but not in botanical nomenclature.

If WP had any actual editors it would be a redirect to the two sentences in binomial nomenclature (T-H-L) that explain tautonyms.

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Is it not simpy because it's been a very long time since the Moonies were in the news, and now they're basically an irrelevance? I literally didn't even know they still existed. I can't be the only one. You're demonstrating that even for news junkies, there's a silo effect. The Assassination of Shi...

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The DYK P rocess has been broken for a very long time, largely because nobody except maybe Fram ever wanted to do it, And certainly nobody involved wanted Fram to do it, because he would actually object to false and misconstrued statements, in his usual less than polite way and then actually rude wh...

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"Legacy admin" is like "legacy admission": it carries the impression that the person wouldn't get the bit if they hadn't gotten in when standards were mostly nonexistent.

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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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According to List of fatal dog attacks in the United States (T-H-L) nobody was killed by a dog before 2005.

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DYK ... ... that Prince Hubertus is the heir apparent to the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a royal dynasty to which Elizabeth II belonged? The article lead: Hubertus, Hereditary Prince Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Hereditary Duke of Saxony (Hubertus Michael Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Goth...

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The thing in the end is that, even in a book length biography at any distance from the present, the whole episode, cancer and all, is maybe a chapter. In WP it should end up as maybe a few paragraphs at most. The whole "we don't have to worry about running out of space" seems to perennially override...

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Did You Kare That ... that one Baltimore Orioles player compared the 2024 Major League Baseball jerseys to knockoffs from TJ Maxx? Well, lots of people hate this year's uniforms, and there's probably plenty of much ruder comparisons out there that could have been quoted. But 2024 Major League Baseba...

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Did You Know That it's not true that Latvian-Soviet artist Karlis Johansons exhibited a skeletal tensegrity form of the Schönhardt polyhedron seven years before Erich Schönhardt 's 1928 paper on its mathematics? In fact the cited source does not mention Schönhardt, and it's immediately evident from ...

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From Timeline of the 1993 Pacific hurricane season , the very first sentence: The 1993 Pacific hurricane season was an event in the annual formation of tropical cyclones over the Pacific Ocean north of the Equator and east of the International Date Line. Well, no, it wasn't an "event", unless you wa...

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On this day... Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io (pictured), a moon of Jupiter. Well, not exactly. This makes it sound like it confirmed something that people suspected or were arguing about. In fact, they had no idea: it was a chance discovery found during examinatio...

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Encino Park and Ride The article starts off strong with six citations in the first sentence, one to say that there is a place with that name and five to say that buses drive past it from time to time. It packs in far more information per word than the typical Wikipedia lead, trusting that readers w...

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Encino Park and Ride (T-H-L)

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Well, there's plenty of drama NOW, with even a reference to good old WP:BADSITE (T-H-L), which Ming thought has been laid to rest over a decade ago.

And it seems obvious to Ming that using admin powers to protect COI should result in automatic loss of those powers.

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Winning streak (T-H-L)

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Let us not forget the 2023 Rainbow Bridge "bombing".

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Sort of a 6,800,000 card loosely organized Hypercard deck. I will accept that. The quicker that people wipe the notion of a 55-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica out of their minds, the better. That's what drives the deletion monster. t I looked out the window and saw a plastic bag floating by. You sh...

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Ming went to the kind of school that cranks these people out, so Ming has several schoolmates with articles.

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Today's Featured Bad Lead: The Annunciation is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling. It depicts the Annunciation, the archangel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, described in the Gospel of Luke. Dudes, you kno...

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... that W. Seavey Joyce (T-H-L)'s presidency of Boston College (T-H-L) was dominated by frequent, large student protest (T-H-L)s?

...and could you guess that his term in that office was 1968-1972? Ming sure did.

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The funny thing about this particular article is that it actually makes it clear that the GNIS data is crap. Oh, it's hardly in the running compared to these bad examples , not to mention that WP:GEOLAND has been argued about for years now. There's been a run of Washington state locations which are...

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Mimsville, Georgia Mimsville is an extinct town in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.[1] History The first permanent settlement at Mimsville was made about 1880.[2] A post office called Mimsville was established in 1884, and remained in operatio...

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DYK: . that the church of St James the Less, Pockthorpe , now the home of the Norwich Puppet Theatre, once contained a rood screen with portraits of saints painted in 1479? OK, first of all, this is utterly unremarkable for a late medieval English church. But second, yes, that's not what the source ...

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I agree with all the grumbling that Google has been getting less useful for a while now. In related news, one of their useful features is going away: Ars Technica: Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead Cached pages were helpful when you followed Google search result l...

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If I'm looking for facts, this kind of search engine is great, but a lot of the time when I am searching, I don't want "the answer" or a summary, I'm looking for where the search words exist so I can find their context or connections to other things. ...for which Google has gotten increasingly bad ...

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One of the issues with LLMs in the past was that it was impossible to work out why a particular answer was being given.

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The thing is that obviously nobody wants to update all these stubs. And Ming doesn't think it matters why people don't, as though we could somehow fix that lack of will. The question is what the value of these stubs is, because they're likely going to stay that way. And that seems to Ming to largely...

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When I push random article it seems like half of them are sports stubs. Today after three clicks, I got 1896 South Bend Commercial-Athletic Club football team , which played three games total. The article averages six views a month. Sports stubs, geography stubs and one line species stubs are a dim...

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He benefits hugely by living in an area and time with good local newspaper coverage, and playing a sport the papers care about. But of course, you have to do the research, and the newspapers have to be accessible.... One has to think that for the many Olympic competitors this is much harder to come...

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He benefits hugely by living in an area and time with good local newspaper coverage, and playing a sport the papers care about. But of course, you have to do the research, and the newspapers have to be accessible.... One has to think that for the many Olympic competitors this is much harder to come ...

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Today's Featured Article blurb, on Ancient Egyptian literature : Ancient Egyptian literature was written in the Egyptian language from Ancient Egypt's pharaonic period until the end of Roman domination. ...after which point they wrote in Greek or Latin instead. Ming thinks maybe this sentence is sup...

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From Manfeild: Circuit Chris Amon (T-H-L): "The name "Manfeild" was derived from "Manawatu" being the region the circuit is in and "Feilding" the town it is in."

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