WIP Radio Philadelphia: LOOK: 2024 Eagles draft pick's link on NFL Draft Wikipedia page goes to…a former WWE Superstar's page? (It has been fixed -- kind of. Dylan McMahon is now a disambiguation page with only one entry: Dylan McMahon (American football) .) Yeah, I ran into something similar. The ...
This is the end of the High Holy Days for NFL fans: the three days of the annual draft of college players into the league — when hope runs eternal and the cacophony of carping about the decision-making of general managers sounds like a factory farm in Arkansas for the production of starling eggs... ...
I can't even spite vote in that shit, I don't know these people I was going to vote against everyone but Barkeep is on the list. And he really would try to make it work, bad idea as it may be. So then I went to the candidates' page and ... pretty much what you said. Why are we electing these people...
Another article from Christopher F. Rufo. Katherine Maher’s Color Revolution During the volatile Arab Spring period..., Maher went to multiple countries.... Beginning in 2011, for example, she traveled multiple times to Tunisia.... In 2012, she traveled to a strategic city on the Turkey-Syria borde...
Matt Taibbi wrote a column about her a few days ago , but unfortunately you have to subscribe to his newsletter to read the whole thing. Katherine Maher, the new head of NPR, was a minor character in the Twitter Files. She was CEO of Wikimedia when the company was (like Twitter) being invited to el...
I appreciate the compliment, gents, but me? sane?? (Anyway, my utter unsuitability aside, I refuse to identify to the WMF; not effing safe.) You don't need to identify. You just need to electronically sign the Wikimedia Foundation Confidentiality Agreement for Nonpublic Information . Yeah, see, now...
1947 Gator Bowl 1. Not to me anyway 2. Taxslayer? 3. blank stare According to Gator Bowl TaxSlayer is the current sponsor. (That doesn't mean it is a good source.) I'm gonna stand up for a bowl game in 1947 as a YES to question 1 all day long. There were damned few bowls in that era. t
I feel about the same. My dislike of Maher is from her time at the WMF and the shitty way she acted during Framgate, which backfired on her pretty badly with the rank and file. I think what a lot of people find off-putting about her is the tendency to resort to vague buzzword-speak with no real sub...
I'll throw my hat in on why Molly didn't make the block herself: sometimes that's the smart move. Raise the alarm instead of just swinging the hammer yourself. if somebody else, (or multiple somebodies) who was previously unaware of the issue is just as outraged, you got something like a consensus ...
We don't want Arbcom making new policy, that is not their job. Their job is to arbitrate protracted problems that the community CAN'T solve, and find solutions that are equitable and put the interests of the Project first, using existing policy as a basis. Policy changes should happen by consensus ...
*So here I am, outing someone again. Sure, someone practically asked me to do it, but I could have sent them a PM with the answer to their question, but I know that you want to know, too. Don't deny it. YOU....MONSTER! When will the pearl-clutching tear-dispenser crowd be along to pillory you for t...
Having read the backstory, other than digging out the original Signpost article, I'm not quite certain whether this is the first AN/I party of the UCoC era or the 32,415th episode of Corbetian Game of Thrones. Probably the latter because UCoC was not invoked. I still want my Kumbaya Block ™ royalty ...
I guess it is morning now, I will see if I get this typed up before Bennie demands dog frisbee and Bella wants her apple. 1. Care zero about this Jordan Peterson character. I've kind of assumed he's the new Milo — a far-right provocateur who is a bomb-thrower beloved by dumb people for "owning the l...
I've been collecting 25 cent royalties every time my phrase "San Fran Ban"™ is uttered. In my never-ending desire to keep those quarters rolling in, I'm gonna come up with a fresh trademarked expression for this, ummm, manhandling of our right-wing friend: this is a Kumbaya Block .™ Get used to dic...
I've been collecting 25 cent royalties every time my phrase "San Fran Ban"™ is uttered. In my never-ending desire to keep those quarters rolling in, I'm gonna come up with a fresh trademarked expression for this, ummm, manhandling of our right-wing friend: this is a Kumbaya Block .™ Get used to dick...
Jake, you are being a rude host not welcoming Ahypori to WPO. This was, after all, just his third post — and I reckon that's a newcomer by any reasonable standard save account registration date...
And that is precisely why an Administrator can safely delete this article, citing WP:BLP. Weighing up the benefit to Wikipedia of keeping it compared to the potential distress caused to any relatives, is an easy calculation to make. Easy. It only requires one of Wikipedia's increasingly dwindling r...
During the current Trump court case, a man named Maxwell Azzarello lit himself on fire in a park near the court. ... All evidence suggests that Azzarello was mentally unwell. Ya think? I'm totally fine with WP serving its news aggregation function now, followed by the inevitable AfD challenge somew...
excellent overview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkL4ME-8dQ Hey, that's a Molly White video! And the You Know Meter ™ is not ringing. Yaaaay. t P.S. Not sure I buy her conclusion that because the Right Wing onslaught against veracity in media is ongoing, therefore Maher is a good choice to ...
Here's a naive idea: ban stubs. There was a time and place for stubs -- but that time is long past. If you can't write 250 referenced words or more about a subject, it isn't an encyclopedia article. Here's a completely random Colts season stub. Whattaya propose doing about that? https://en.wikipedi...
It always irritates me when large organizations try to brand themselves as "a movement", or as we would say in Germany " eine Bewegung ". It always reminds me of the riddle "What was the brown object Beethoven left behind on his piano stool?" (Ans: His last movement.) Whydoya think they call it a "...
1991 Akron Zips football team 1. Is it immediately obvious why Wikipedia has this article? (Yes/No) Has? Yes. Should? Heck no. 2. Is it immediately obvious you can trust this article? (Yes/No) No. 3. Is the article better than a trusted Wikipedia alternative might offer? (Yes/No/N.A) The article co...
The biggest obstacle to people "seeing the light" about atheism is that atheists tend to be as dogmatic and deeply unpleasant as the deeply pious. The cult of reason ain't any less of a cult. As far Wikipedia's coverage, I don't think every article needs to talk about the historicity of Jesus, but ...
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. That's a fair question. The reason is that I no longer edit Wikipedia and have no intention of ever returning. Wikipedia is the most unwelcoming platform I h...
Okay, I'll play, although I disagree that you're still calling Wikipedia an "encyclopedia." In fact, it's an online information compendium for the profiteers to harvest and has little to do with yesterday's encyclopedia. Jack Welpott Biography of a dead person (1923–2007) 1. Is it immediately obviou...
To review the Nihonjoe case: the edits were found to be pretty unproblematic, the lack of candor troubling, and the use of full protection buttons the main lasting issue. It's completely ridiculous busting a bureaucrat all the way to tenderfoot based on the actual evidence presented at that particu...
:XD Rollback: denied Even rollback, which is usually dished out as confetti :D I probably would've granted that one, because who cares, anyone can use Twinkle and I find its rollback function far superior, but I also can't disagree with the given reason for denying it. Autopatrolled, on the other h...
There is probably something also to the notion of building that is part of the allure of Wikipedia to Wikipedians. I'd be super-curious to learn how many Wikipedians are hardcore collectors. To me, at least, there seems to be a really close parallel to WP content-building and collection-building. I...
There is probably something also to the notion of building that is part of the allure of Wikipedia to Wikipedians. I'd be super-curious to learn how many Wikipedians are hardcore collectors. To me, at least, there seems to be a really close parallel to WP content-building and collection-building. It...
I think there are just some people out there who have like a very specific type of brain where Wikipedia just like sort of tickles it just right, and like doing that kind of editing and curation just appeals to me. I find it really enjoyable. What a verbose way to say, "autism." Close, but not exac...
THANK YOU to Mr. Zoloft for the edit. Here is the money quote for me: So you've edited Wikipedia for about eighteen years. I think the simplest question is why do you still do it? Why did you start? Why do you continue? Well? I started because I was a curious kid who discovered that I could and that...
Well, you know, that was pretty, you know, boring.
t
P.S. Lest you think I am being, you know, mean — I count 145 instances of "you know" in an interview that runs less than 36 minutes, which works out to one "you know" every 15 seconds.
I'm not exactly sure how "donor rights" are being protected. I don't doubt that there's some angle I am missing. It seems to me that this is an attempt to create an elected House of Lords, with about as much power. Visions of Dennis the Peasant with his elaborate system of governance for the anarcho...