Wikipediocracy

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Board Index page still directing me to {redacted} view. I'm assuming it's the same {redacted} as the others above. Clicking into any sub gets me back to my own name and clicking into the ones I shouldn't have access to results in "no access" message. I tried it just for troubleshooting purposes.

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Kieche Not to be confused with Quiche. Kieche is a village and rural commune in Niger. Off-Topic: I also found a redirect from "keesh" to Quiche which led me to the redirects from misspellings category. Some of these must have been created just to boost edit counts because the misspellings are spec...

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As if to prove that indefinite is not infinite, the crisis is over and life on WP may continue on its merry way.

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Congratulations to the Wikipedia version of a Sovereign Citizen.

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In fairness, the amount of porn on commons has been greatly reduced and it makes up only a small portion of the database. Sure there is some there and I would like to see some of that get deleted but it's not realistic to delete it all nor should we. Frankly, that isn't even the biggest problem on ...

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Checking in about a year later.

Article attracts persistent vandalism as expected. Vandalism is usually reverted within minutes or hours.

Surprisingly, the article does describe how he took up French horn to help him get over a divorce 22 years ago.

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I will not discuss the founders' English here. The topic is Wikipedia's pro-gun misinformation. The bias exists on both (actually several) sides of the disagreement. The disagreement, in large part, exists because of different interpretations of the language. Discussing the bias without discussing ...

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The extremists on this issue are the absolutists on one end - that the Second Amendment mustn't be "infringed" (regulated) at all - and those who want to abolish it. I am neither. Your conflation of two terms is problematic on Wikipedia as well. Using the word "infringed" as it is used in the secon...

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I'd like to see a cost-benefit analysis of repealing the Second Amendment and gathering up firearms in the US. This should include any anticipated casualties during the confiscation period, lives saved in the long term and the effects of the remaining firearms being even more likely to be in the han...

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We seem to have missed the left turn at Albuquerque.

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This seems to be a good time to give a shout out to a few arbitrators whose votes seem a bit off. Kelapstick whose talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AKelapstick&type=revision&diff=700328596&oldid=700327025,dialog with TRM is diametrically opposed to their votes on the a...

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In an epic battle of imperfect heroes, Future Perfect at Sunrise has been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#Future_Perfect_at_Sunrise,dragged to ArbCom by a third party for his actions against The Rambling Man and a couple of others. Arbitrator reactions are mixed. Some su...

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Any time you have to beg for the assumption of good faith is an indication that you probably do not deserve it. Now immortalized on my User Page as "Chicago Kelly's Rule." RfB I mean, really, don't I deserve at least a little credit? ;) I know I had no direct part in the formulation of this rule, b...

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C'mon...am I the only one chuckling to see this type of language on JimboTalk?

It's immaterial how many cofounders are claimed by the subject of an article.

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Konveyor Belt wrote:This thread is an absolute mess. I'd appreciate it if some kind soul with a mop would come here and scrub away the junk.

Wikipediocracy: Always Improving

I'll second that emotion.

The thread topic may have led to all of the mansplaining and womansplaining that has ensued but it is tiresome.

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Zoloft wrote:"Cannot Understand Normal Thought" - capitalized just that way (I checked) is an immature way of calling someone a cunt.
Just wanted to point that one out.

I did not know that. This fulfills my online learning goals for the week. See you next Tuesday.

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I find the logic behind the protection of holy warriors on Wikipedia interesting. The editor in question is no longer edit warring article X so any block would be punitive rather then preventative. What do you mean their history of edit warring means they'll inevitably edit war on some other articl...

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I guessed who flipped the unblock switch before clicking over to WP for the background. Do I win a prize?

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The Joy wrote:
Sorry all!

I enjoyed the read. Some of these old discussions remind me of my earliest days on the web. You start in one place and you are three clicks away from spending hours online that should have been spent sleeping.

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This is the first Article for Discussion (AfD) listed, though I think VfD (?) was used before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Wikicide Link doesn´t work... I discovered the same but was too interested to give up searching for a fix. Click link and remove everything be...

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SB_Johnny wrote:Next RfA beginning in 3... 2... 1...

Unsuccessful. 57% Not close.

Due to nefarious off-wiki harassment, according to one source.

Edit: Just noticed this was already mentioned. The topic shifted back so quickly I missed it.

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I am a constant source of disappointment to myself that despite the fact I can happily nitpick minor grammar errors until I'm cross-eyed, I still regularly confuse "rebut" and "refute". I shall now go and flagellate myself in penance. OK, but be sure to upload some video of that to Youtube so the G...

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... the Archives is answerable through the Archivist of the United States to the Congress and the General Accounting Office. The views of the current Archivist David Ferriero have been summarized on-wiki: [link]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferriero#Relationship_with_Wikipedia[/link] Mr. Ferr...

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Notice Thanks for that. I won't be participating any longer, so there should be no trouble from my end. I felt obliged to set a few records straight which would have become (and probably now have been once again) obfuscated in the verbosity, but now I have no appetite to continue, so will allow the...

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SB_Johnny wrote:(Link to the discussion after closing for future reference.)

I guess Sparky is more "respected" than Emporer or emesee were back in the day....

Dammit! I hope Sparkzilla's record doesn't reflect on people with similar nyms on BADSITES. Folks here can't even tell us apart.

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To be fair, I'd be fairly befuddled by the sight of a Federation officer carrying a lightsaber, too. Thank God I wasn't the only person who noticed that. She is obviously an imposter. Just look at whatever the hell she's wearing on her feet. Those are obviously not Federation standard issue. Given ...

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If someone emailed ArbCom trying to grab someone's tool(s), I would never bet against the person who has attempted to grab tool(s) from at least a half dozen people on multiple WMF projects over the past year.

Sucker bet.

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Arbcom is discussing whether they should reward grandiose levels of assumption of bad faith by the pitchfork wielding crowd.

Another example of WMF's Agile Policy division at work.

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The AfD discussion you link to was March 2007 and it was judged as no-consensus. How bloody typical of the “community”! So I went through the history of all the 55 AfD contributors since then just to see how this group of Wikipedians is faring today (I ought to reinvent myself as a Wikgnome). 0nly ...

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I also found it amusing that he said, "We changed it." Has anyone blocked that COI account yet?

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Kelly Martin wrote:
Sparky wrote:Governor Bruce Rauner (D-IL)
Rauner is not a Democrat.

You are correct.

I can't believe I did that.

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Governor Bruce Rauner (R-IL) was recently asked about his Wikipedia biography. An elementary school student asked if he still played the English horn. “This is a good life lesson for all of us," the governor told the class. "I never — I didn’t play the English horn. This is a good lesson and it’s OK...

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DuhHello wrote:Consensus on Wikipedia means the opinion of the noisiest voices on Wikipedia.

Witness Wikimedia Commons. Consensus as a method of governance is deprecated.

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@Ktr101: "OTRS cabal" is your way of putting it, presumably to marginalize anyone alarmed at potential ungoverned and unaccountable closed wikis, closed email lists and decisions made through personal networks and private emails appear to be a nutty extremist shouting conspiracy theories rather tha...

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Harry Mitchell checks in with his analysis summarized in the following paragraph. Tl;dr: Based on my analysis of the evidence, to which I came cold, and my own research, the effect (I offer no conclusion on the intent) of Wifione's edits, over a period of around four years beginning from when they r...

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The relevant page on a certain online encyclopedia is set at Pending Changes Level 2. This was put in place by the new article owner HJ Mitchell. When asked why he is using a tool that failed to gather the consensus of the community, he invoked IAR. Discussion of this can be found at https://en.wiki...

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It was an easy mistake to make, Ross. What does you great credit is that you apologised once you realised. That's a vanishingly rare character attribute. People see that. Now it's just something mildly funny that happened. It used to be annoying when certain users did the same thing with their sign...

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Is this still Wikipediocracy or did I stumble into a subreddit along the way?

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Loved the summary.

Concise, colorful and on-target.

"...as they spit tobacco juice on passersby..."

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Sparky wrote:It's a negligibly useful locus for where three users under interaction ban can passive-aggressively unavoid interaction providing thousands of words of untertainment at AN/I every few weeks.

Cleaned up my mess above. My apologies to anyone else who cringed when reading the original.

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It's a negligibly useful locus for three users under interaction ban can passive-aggressively unavoid interaction providing thousands of words of untertainment at AN/I every few weeks.

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If there is much of interest in this thread over the next few weeks, it will only have us kicking ourselves in the ass over not finding it a few weeks earlier.

Having said that, I'm still interested to see what pops up.

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While they cannot override WMF, I believe they still retain the right to fork. When they get the first bill for the server space, they may decide to unload a few thousand penises.

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Given that exchange on Herbythyme's talk page, perhaps someone at WMF Legal or OC got a tingly feeling about the extent to which russavia 'doth protest' about being checkusered.

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A Wellness Program which provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, massages, cooking classes and much more. 401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions of 4% of annual salary. Say goodbye to worries about whether you can charge that massage to your...

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Looks like Spiderman to me.

I understand his point. In fact, I've mentioned it here before and we've all seen evidence of it.

The tendency for the pitchfork brigade to shout DUCK or otherwise berate new users is a well known issue.

I would be shocked if any good came from this exercise though.

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Zoloft wrote:
Michaeldsuarez wrote:Fae agrees with Russavia's scheme.
Perhaps Wikimedia UK should hold a bake sale.

WMUK should hold an auction for ownership of the MacMini and send a photographer with the new owner so that the change of custody can be posted to Commons.

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Triptych, please revise your guide. Hahc21 should not be anywhere near Arbcom. Given the recent AN/I and the evidence shown there , I must agree. Considering that voting closes tomorrow and a shipload of people have already voted, perhaps the thing to hope for is that he gets the votes for a seat. ...

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Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:
Triptych, please revise your guide. Hahc21 should not be anywhere near Arbcom.

Given the recent AN/I and the evidence shown there, I must agree.

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Johnny Au wrote:I much prefer the news being anti-US. Why? Much more current events happen outside the United States than within it. Oh, and less than 5% of the world's population is American.

You aren't suggesting that ITN have 5% content regarding America, are you?

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