Wikipediocracy

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Arbcom motion to ban pro-Israel editors over canvassing. Not canvassing per se but being canvassed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions#Motions:_PIA_Canvassing Not the first time this has come about. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/CAMERA lobbying Though at least...

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Is "Reliable Source of the Year" a literal thing they vote on at the Wikipedia nowadays?

It seems too on-the-nose and navel-gazing to be genuine. But at the same time, I would not be surprised.

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I could always be wrong, of course. You aren't wrong but off the top of my head I really do not readily recall what he's whining about. And given his current state of Hamas support, I really don't care. I mean, who keeps track of decades-old internet beefs besides this guy and TDA. I only pop in he...

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It is rather peculiar to see such a dramatic shift in power in this topic area from 10-15 years ago. Jayjg, 6SJ7 (something like that), Slimvirgin, my old buddy Zeq. Now the bias has swung the other way. SFR tried to nip a problematic Untouchable, and is about to get reversed at ArbEnforcement it ap...

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Beefsoup wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:56 am
TFD has been arguing for many years

Really? And who the fuck are you?

that political labels should generally be sourced from academia rather than media. I don't see this as a departure.

He's whitewashing extremism, when he didn't whitewash extremism before. It's not rocket science.

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Now it's The Four Deuces turn to try to protect the far-right make sure we only use the best of sources: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Fascism_and_the_extreme_right Pepperidge Farm remembers when TFD used to be one of the relatively sane, good guys back in the raging Wiki-politics days of the 0...

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The Blue Newt wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:36 pm
Or, you know, he’s just a generic stand-in for the next generation.

Or, y'know, the ol' white savior complex.

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This is the Thing that Tamzin is REALLY good at, so... At a very casual first read here, it appears that Tamzin has just completely upended to lives of two Wikipedia editors who edit from the same physical location, and being like-minded New Age hippies, yea, maybe vote the same way on things. So i...

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This is the Thing that Tamzin is REALLY good at, so... At a very casual first read here, it appears that Tamzin has just completely upended to lives of two Wikipedia editors who edit from the same physical location, and being like-minded New Age hippies, yea, maybe vote the same way on things. So i...

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Y2K (1999 film) has contained the line Other disasters around the country include power failures crippling the entire Eastern seaboard, computers unlocking all doors in a Texas prison and Jay Leno of ‘’The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’’ continuing to broadcast . since the article was first created on...

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Why would you pay to have someone influence your Wiki bio when you can have a rabidly partisan POV pusher like Andrevan https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hunter_Biden&curid=21140283&diff=1170797368&oldid=1170793590,do it for you for free? Coming from someone who has a bee up his ureth...

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Didn't Jimbo get stripped of both his founder rights and admin bit? I think he's forgetting that these aren't the halcyon days of 2011, when he threw his weight around in the Foxy Knoxy situation.

He's "Just a Guy"(tm) now.

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Koala Claw Cuts wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 08, 2023 9:17 pm
...filed by BeanieFan11.

This guy is so obviously a once-vanquished Rescue Squad jackass.

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orangepi wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 28, 2023 10:03 pm
I literally don't know what the accusations are.

Then, maybe, y'know, shut up til you do?

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I'm not sure what the accusations are other than "engaging with her fans" and a bit of Tom Sawyer-esque chicanery around social media. Casually brushing off child grooming as "lol fans" is a bit deplorable. I wonder what the reaction would be if some guy accused of grooming responded with a 10-minu...

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Colleen Ballinger (aka Miranda Sings ) has a very long and detailed biography, 213 references. It presents such a nice picture of the subject that one could be forgiven for almost missing the scant, tiny section on her recent troubles. It gets all of 4 sentences at the end of the "Reception" sectio...

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Qirtaiba claims his block is being reviewed by Trust & Safety.

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Whoever this was;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk ... ave_a_seat (perm)

I love you. In a totally platonic way.

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Speaking of "Preferring to prop up the corpse"...

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Reddark It is working again.

Any idea who moderates r/wikipedia, it is anyone known or connected to the WMF? They have joined the blackout as well.

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Aww, seems https://reddark.untone.uk/ shit the bed, that was a pretty neat interface to see who was up and who was not.

It was only supposed to go through the 14th, exact time varies, but some of the big ones are coming back online now. I need my AITA fix.

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 02, 2023 5:09 am
lol

I always forget that that forum still exists. I looked there once and found they really don't like me for some reason.

I am, above all, a people person. It's puzzling.

Tarc

The Wikipedia essentially had a carbon offset mentality for the project's bad actors; "write a lot of articles, we'll let some behavioral issues slide."

Malleus/Corbett was an absolute dumpster fire of a human being.

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Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑
Wed May 24, 2023 6:02 pm
Responding to a comment from @Talix30 ("MAP (exclusive gay hebephile)..."),

That person's twitter bio also includes "soon to be father".

What the literal fuck...

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Sanger is a clown, just using this antivaxxer's death to rail against the Wikipedia's leaning on "mainstream media" for their reliable sourcing.,

What a useless sack of offal.

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AndyTheGrump wrote: ↑
Fri May 19, 2023 6:40 pm
Just out of curiosity, have the 'keep King Jimbo' crowd sorted out a line of succession? Who's next, if Jimbo ever proves to be a mere mortal? Logic might suggest that co-founder Larry Sanger should be next in line...

Rachel Marsden.

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Now there's a pile-on aimed at Bbb23 (T-C-L), who initially and wrongly blocked the complainant in all of this;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... _for_Bbb23

Even another admin got in on it.

x10

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Mon May 15, 2023 11:43 pm

I realize I am an outlier on this topic, but if they've already offended, this is too little, too late.

I'm a bit of an extra hardass on this topic, and IMO if they've dipped in the well once, they'll go back again eventually.

No one eats just one potato chip.

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I'm sympathetic to the views of Allyn Walker et al that paedophilia (the exclusive or primary sexual attraction to children regardless of whether they have offended or not) is a psychiatric disorder that ought to be treated by medical professionals but the swarm of SPAs surrounding this topic reall...

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Ognistysztorm wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 11, 2023 7:37 pm
How true is the statement that "On Wikipedia it isn't about changing anyone's mind anymore, but about removing opponents"?

100%

I did it frequently.

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Moneytrees should have made it an Arbcom block, which could have been done if it was one of the Contentious Topics, which it appears to be (see Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Race and intelligence ). If that had happened, Dbachmann would have been reverting an arbcom block and have potentially got de...

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Scrooges, one and all.

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Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Please_review_my_block I recently imposed a 1 hour block on User:Moops. They have been putting Happy New Years banners on hundreds (maybe thousands) of user talk pages at a high rate. As fast as 4 or 5 per minute. I'm assuming they're using some sort of bot o...

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Dunno who it is, but they posted porn on ANI :dubious: , so I indeffed them for being someone's troll sock. Maybe it was someone from here, so perhaps they could tell us more. :evilgrin: For the record, I didn't see the porn element, it was deleted too quickly. All that was seen was some smarmy tex...

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Ketchivel Post 1 and 2 to user and talk page; Hey I’m not really new to Wikipedia, as I’ve been an IP editor for years. However, seeing the events unfold in a recent request for adminship and all the fallout has prompted me to register. Hopefully, having an account now, someone will not write off m...

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MrErnie wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 12, 2022 11:19 pm
FWIW I categorically oppose hate speech but the language is moving fast and not everyone is able to keep up.

So "Please, don't ban the bigoted TERF, she's too fucking stupid to know better yet" is the best defense you can muster for your comrades, chief?

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I suspect the admin account in question is Paul Erik . Essentially fits the criteria of being a mainly "vandal fighter" account, and the account has blocked IP users shortly after Geraldo Perez reverted them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2A02:8084:8020:2280:C22:A97F:F7A9:B3FF...

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I understand that it likely won't satisfy everyone, but for what it's worth: The admin account is almost exclusively used for recent changes/vandalism patrol, so there are no SYNTH/NOR/similar issues with the admin account (I'm not implying the SYNTH concern with the GP acct is legit or not legit; ...

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Mason wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:09 pm
If there’s not a rule specifying an indefinite block for anyone whining about “cancel culture” after saying something hateful, there ought to be.

In the spirit of the long-gone WP:PLAXICO (T-H-L), we need WP:ROWLING now.

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We probably need a thread of Tarc-isms. Here are some of my favorites: Like Randal , "I am usually full of shit, but have been known to squeeze out a nugget of truth on occasion. :B' Again, can't comment on the specifics of an ongoing case, but I can assure you that nobody on the committee is inter...

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pre-emptively resigned the bit after being hauled to Arbcom for too forcefully using his admin rights to save a precious article ( Henry Earl ) from wrongful deletion. Well that was a stroll down memory lane. I'd entirely forgotten how much of a dick Cyclopia (another sadly still-active ARSehole) w...

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Is that meant to be a canvassing accusation? I don't really know what else "dog-whistling" could even plausibly be referring to here. The comment in question (Tarc's) is really quite direct, if you ask me. Oh my, they really did not like me dredging up the old "ARSehole" epithet, it seems. Most of ...

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Who is this dingbat? User:7&6=thirteen WPO search failed me. One of the few (him, FeydHuxtable, JClemens, Dream focus) of the old-school ARSehole Brigade still left. Of note is his (and Feyd's egging on) bitching over being added as a party to the case and his demand of the Arbs for a bill of parti...

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He's still adding the cat to articles even after the heavy snowfall in the deletion discussion...

These clowns just want that edit-count to keep tic-ticking up.

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Someone made a rundown of it all on Youtube recently Lol, this ranks up there with the rivalry between Harry Potter fanfic camps back in the mid-2000s. What a bunch of assclowns, who thankfully by definition will likely not be reproducing. Also; https://incels.wiki/w/List_of_Wikipedians Sad, no hon...

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Close to a site ban, then collects at least a dozen more reminders and warnings for the exact same behavior. You do know that the deck is purposely stacked against you, a conservative-leaning user, right? Specifico is protected. As was I for quite awhile, until it was inconvenient for them to do so...

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egg wrote: ↑
Sat May 07, 2022 10:09 pm
He wrote an attack bio on the prosecutor in his case, David Leavitt (politician) (T-H-L)

So this attack-laden tripe was approved, and moved from draft to article-space?

Does Gusfriend (T-C-L), the approving editor, bear scrutiny or is this just a garden-variety inclusionist dumbass?

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Wikipedia is only "run" by extreme left wingers to the extent that they've been playing along and chipping away at the policy edges more successfully than their right wing counterparts. But let's be clear, Wikipedia is actually run by a self-appointed mob that curates participation through politica...

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So I have a bunch of family whom, while I love dearly, drive me fucking batty with their conservative political bullshit. But I do try to listen, and they have brought up how Wikipedia is run by all extreme left wingers. I don't talk back other than saying Wikipedia is a site that strives for neutr...

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Trismic wrote: ↑
Mon May 02, 2022 12:28 am
At the rate people have been showing up to oppose over the past 90 minutes, I think we’ll be closer to that point than we are now.

In the last 24h, there have been 38 supports, 38 opposes, and 3 neutrals. Even Steven.

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