Hey that's me! I swore off editing WP years ago, like most sane people.Randy from Boise wrote:Second edit of the year for Santa Claus of the Future (T-C-L) is his endorsement of Fram in the Support column.
The well is running dry...
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- Fri Sep 27, 2019 3:47 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Fram's RFA
- Replies: 317
- Views: 8382
Re: Fram Request for Administration 2 — Now with more words!
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 3:40 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617392
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
From List of Major League Baseball perfect games (T-H-L):
Well, yeah, that would explain it.Braden's mother, Jodie Atwood, was not in attendance because she died of cancer when Braden was in high school.
- Fri Mar 27, 2015 12:43 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Political spin
- Replies: 97
- Views: 2050
Re: Spin Control: Governments altering Wikipedia pages
Maher also forgot that Wikipedia prefers verifiability, not truth . Even in that essay, there is some systemic bias... Yet, there is nothing about the veracity of Romance of the Three Kingdoms , one of the Four Great Classical Novels about the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history. I'm not sure ...
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 2:39 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822906
Re: Crap articles
Surf's Up (album) , apart from a vast bounty of citation needed tags, contains this marvellously useful piece of "information": Many of the articles related to The Beach Boys are in terrible shape. Aside from the proliferation of "citation needed" tags you get cringe-inducing paraphrasing of the ly...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:28 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: What is a douche bag?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 429
Re: What is a douche bag?
I have no idea what this is in reference to, as I can't get Fox Sports 1 without shelling out more $$$, but Joe Buck is usually charged with being prejudiced towards the Cardinals. (Because of his dad, I assume)
- Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822906
Re: Crap articles
List of songs with chromatic harmony This is a list of songs with chromatic harmony from the year 1950 to the present. The following list contains examples of popular music which employ chromaticism. So really it should be called List of popular songs with chromatic harmony since 1950 "Till There W...
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 9:20 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: "Unimportant" featured articles
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1090
Re: "Unimportant" featured articles
It doesn't really work because practically no one has a frame of reference as to these numbers. This sentence means nothing to 99.99% of people.Scott5114 wrote:Stating the AADT of 442,000 is just a means of concretely illustrating this point.
- Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:37 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822906
Re: Crap articles
1577 in music (T-H-L)
I now have everything that happened in music in 1577 memorized. Next stop, Jeopardy!
I wonder how many "articles" there are like this... Hundreds?
I now have everything that happened in music in 1577 memorized. Next stop, Jeopardy!
I wonder how many "articles" there are like this... Hundreds?
- Fri Sep 12, 2014 2:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822906
- Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia article stats
- Replies: 19
- Views: 912
Re: Wikipedia article stats
I couldn't tell if you meant Colbert or some Dilbert character I wasn't familiar with.Johnny Au wrote:What do you expect?Zoloft wrote:Are you referring to Stephen Colbert?Johnny Au wrote:Whenever a comedian, most often Clownbert, mentions something, its Wikipedia article view skyrockets.
- Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: On This Day (main page idiocy)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 522
On This Day (main page idiocy)
On This Day today (June 4th) consists of these items: June 4: Day of National Unity in Hungary; Independence Day in Tonga (1970) German submarine U-505 1792 – Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain. 1944 – A United States Navy task group ca...
- Tue May 27, 2014 3:26 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: 2014 Isla Vista Massacre
- Replies: 65
- Views: 2437
- Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:55 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Death of Eisenhower Tree
- Replies: 19
- Views: 735
Re: Death of Eisenhower Tree
Boy, this Rusted AutoParts (T-C-L) appears to be a complete asshole.
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:37 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822906
- Thu Dec 26, 2013 8:38 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Something I've noticed about Redditors
- Replies: 8
- Views: 459
Re: Something I've noticed about Redditors
These are BBT episodes with the laugh track (mostly) stripped out. It shows how painfully unfunny the show is, and its dependence on a laugh track: jKS3MGriZcs Good point. But then, you could say the same thing about practically any US sitcom. I think that the last one I bothered to follow at all w...
- Sat Dec 14, 2013 3:10 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: "On Smarm"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 409
- Tue Nov 26, 2013 2:48 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: 2013 ArbCom candidates
- Replies: 327
- Views: 141181
Re: 2013 ArbCom candidates
You can vote 'oppose' on everyone. That's what I'm doing.enwikibadscience wrote:Oh, I am eligible to crawl out.Alison wrote:Interesting to note some of the characters that are coming out of the woodwork to vote
They are all so repugnant, though.
Except Gerard. He gets a 'support'.
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 4:16 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: How good are Wikipedia's paleontology articles?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 2212
Re: How good are Wikipedia's paleontology articles?
macronychopteran pterosaurs It's kind of funny that the former word redirects to the latter. And I could understand this Novialoidea article, but one of my best buds growing up is a fairly well-known-and-respected paleontologist now. We had lots of long conversations about dinosaurs and a lot of it...
- Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:24 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822906
Re: Crap articles
Fences in Saint Petersburg people has nothing better to do with their lives. How does this article not have a picture?? ----------- Featured on Did You Know right now: History of the Jews in Namibia , which is kind of ridiculous: Some Namibian Jews even managed to become famous, such as "businessma...
- Thu Aug 15, 2013 7:53 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia criticism
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1761
Re: Wikipedia criticism
Is anyone here familiar with Piero Scaruffi ? I remember back when I was editing Wikipedia five years ago or so, links to his rock music reviews were all over the place on Wikipedia, despite the fact that no one had really ever heard of him. And I know that just today, Soul Crusher added them again...
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:23 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: The Visual Editor is a huge failure
- Replies: 1609
- Views: 268666
- Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:18 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: adopting an editor = a successful RFA?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2267
Re: adopting an editor = a successful RFA?
Lots of NFL coaches never played in the NFL? You betcha. But all of them played for at least six years (and usually longer) at a very high level. The point is they played and they knew the game before anyone would let them be a coach. Not so at Wikipedia. I haven't done the legwork on this one, but...
- Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:42 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba
- Replies: 10
- Views: 921
Re: Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba
Apparently, and don't ask me why, how, what, etc., but the visual editor is "unusable for mathematics articles".DanMurphy wrote:Didn't anyone take the time to tell all these mathematicians about the new visual editor?
- Wed Jun 05, 2013 8:47 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipediocracy: The Wikipedia article
- Replies: 337
- Views: 15182
Re: Wikipediocracy: The Wikipedia article
Alright, which one of you clowns posted this ? Delete Hello, ok, this might sound a bit weird but I had this dream last night after eating a giant heap of prawns with some mayonnaise that might have gone off and i was in deep sleep and then this hooded figure comes up to me out of the gloom and the...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:22 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617392
- Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:39 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Long-lasting hoax (and "Good Article") deleted
- Replies: 60
- Views: 52638
Re: Long-lasting hoax (and "Good Article") deleted
...I've been looking at the Tauroctony article and rescuing whatever seemed actually reliable. That means checking every reference, which, I have found, almost nobody does. When I used to give a reference, I quoted the source, so readers could see that I wasn't faking. After all, anyone can claim t...
- Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:55 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Obvious paid editors are obvious
- Replies: 954
- Views: 247694
Re: Obvious paid editors are obvious
Not that obscure- He had a good chance to break Maris's home run record in 1994; the strike did him in.EricBarbour wrote:obscure retired baseball player Matt Williams.
- Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:04 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Under Armour, via Deadspin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 363
- Tue Nov 20, 2012 3:55 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Rhett Allain (Dot Physics, Wired science blog) about wikiped
- Replies: 17
- Views: 981
Re: Rhett Allain (Dot Physics, Wired science blog) about wik
You guys are right, as expected. There are even two articles about Boolean algebra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra_(logic) Made me laugh: It has been suggested that Boolean algebra (logic) be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) P...
- Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:28 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Jim Hawkins to the white courtesy phone, please...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2513
Re: Jim Hawkins to the white courtesy phone, please...
(credit: Jeanne boleyn. Of course.) Hey, no fair! The subject of a photo doesn't own the copyright. The photographer does. Please credit the photographer. One can tell a genuine Shankbone without any attribution. Dear Lord. I was watching the MLB network in a bar during the World Series a few weeks...
- Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:20 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Death hoaxes
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2139
- Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:38 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Gibraltarpedia - rock solid
- Replies: 877
- Views: 76750
Re: Gibraltarpedia - rock solid
You owe SB Johnny $.01.Anroth wrote:I will give someone a shiny penny if they revert prioryman for having a COI in editing articles related to Gibraltar and related to Bamkin
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:15 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822906
- Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:20 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Worst Wikipedia article titles
- Replies: 155
- Views: 20631
- Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:04 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Worst Wikipedia article titles
- Replies: 155
- Views: 20631
Re: Worst Wikipedia article titles
More contenders: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Colorless green ideas sleep furiously James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft Boys are ...
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:53 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: What should be the name of this site?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2884
Re: What should be the name of this site?
"Wikipediocracy" also brings up one of the biggest cult films of the last decade, Idiocracy . Anyone under the age of 30 will instantly make that connection. That's why I made that Brawndo logo. I was thinking that it was an Idiocracy reference. Bit disappointing, that film... great idea, poor exec...