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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:38 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
Re: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
James Wren Slave-owner 1. George Washington. George Mason, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson etc 2. Over-referenced if anything 3. Meh. Is there some reason the article keeps talking about "enslaved persons"? Did I miss a memo or something? Ming believes it is the euphemism of choice these days among...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:26 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Commons photographer demanding payment for images lacking correct attribution
- Replies: 11
- Views: 561
Re: Commons photographer demanding payment for images lacking correct attribution
Someone thought it would be a good idea to put one of Iliff's photos on the Main Page. What could possibly go wrong? Today's POTD We should not be featuring a photo used for copyleft trolling on our Main Page. We are endangering our users! Please switch it to a different photo. Nosferattus (talk) 1...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
Re: Crap articles
This one just came up in a help desk thread: List of company name etymologies . It contains such critical information as telling us that Ernst & Young is named after two guys by those names and that Skyline Chili was named for the view at its first location. Why anyone would come to this list looki...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Framming
- Replies: 21
- Views: 671
Re: Framming
Speaking of filters: "As of 1936, FRAM produces original equipment for automotive manufacturers."
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Framming
- Replies: 21
- Views: 671
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
Re: Crap articles
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
Re: Crap articles
The Constitutional Pentumvirate of Kaz (T-H-L) is an American Micronation located in New York City themed around cats.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:37 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
Re: Crap articles
If you are naming industrial spurs at a federal nuclear facility, you can use the names of female railroad employees.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
Re: Crap articles
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.
Just amazing how much work people are willing to put into articles that are certain to be deleted once they are noticed.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about religious editors
- Replies: 31
- Views: 951
Re: Let's talk about religious editors
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.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Coolest Wikipedia user names
- Replies: 23
- Views: 828
Re: Coolest Wikipedia user names
Ming has always had a certain thing for Rhododendrites (T-C-L)-- the name, definitely not the user.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
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...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:49 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
Doing so was a major reason for all the hate against Fram.PirateFood wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:18 amrnu, 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.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:45 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about religious editors
- Replies: 31
- Views: 951
Re: Let's talk about religious editors
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...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:26 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about religious editors
- Replies: 31
- Views: 951
Re: Let's talk about religious editors
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...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
If WP had any actual editors it would be a redirect to the two sentences in binomial nomenclature (T-H-L) that explain tautonyms.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:24 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about Unification Church editors
- Replies: 22
- Views: 724
Re: Let's talk about Unification Church editors
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...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
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...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:28 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3113
Re: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
"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.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
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...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:05 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
Re: Crap articles
According to List of fatal dog attacks in the United States (T-H-L) nobody was killed by a dog before 2005.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
- Replies: 205
- Views: 6020
Re: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
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...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:19 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
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...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:46 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
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 ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:38 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617392
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
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...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:05 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
Re: Crap articles
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...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
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.
And it seems obvious to Ming that using admin powers to protect COI should result in automatic loss of those powers.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Breaking News
- Replies: 5
- Views: 438
Re: Breaking News
Let us not forget the 2023 Rainbow Bridge "bombing".
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Lucky Benson: That's one way of getting a BLP article deleted
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1028
Re: Lucky Benson: That's one way of getting a BLP article deleted
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...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:44 pm
- 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?
Ming went to the kind of school that cranks these people out, so Ming has several schoolmates with articles.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:29 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
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...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:07 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
DYK...
...and could you guess that his term in that office was 1968-1972? Ming sure did.... 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?
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
Re: Crap articles
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...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822907
Re: Crap articles
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...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
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 ...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Perplexity
- Replies: 15
- Views: 839
Re: Perplexity
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...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Perplexity
- Replies: 15
- Views: 839
Re: Perplexity
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 ...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: an LLM experiment: Cheese
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1373
Re: an LLM experiment: Cheese
One of the issues with LLMs in the past was that it was impossible to work out why a particular answer was being given.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Can 10,000 Terrible Sports Stubs Be Saved?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2104
Re: Can 10,000 Terrible Sports Stubs Be Saved?
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...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Can 10,000 Terrible Sports Stubs Be Saved?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2104
Re: Can 10,000 Terrible Sports Stubs Be Saved?
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...