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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 lookin...

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Zoloft wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:35 am
I removed a lot of off-topic and toxic posts.

If anyone not banned would like any of their removed post content sent to them for reuse, PM me.

Thanks!

you're doing the Lord's work

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Michael Lodahl A theology professor from the Church of the Nazarene . The article includes this gem: He has published over 10 books, some of them held in many libraries.[1] His best-known literary work is Story of God. His most widely held book is Shekhinah/spirit : divine presence in Jewish and Ch...

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Here's three names that are interesting. In this thread at AN, Haven't I seen your nipples somewhere before? , Delicious carbuncle brings attention to the fact that Jacknipples was blocked for a violation of the username policy. Hands of gorse, heart of steel makes a persuasive argument. Now I was ...

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It's all very "meh" to me.

Editing protected templates isn't something normally going to be impacted by a COI, so it's pretty low-risk. The main argument against him having it back was that he didn't immediately need it, not that he couldn't be trusted with it.

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Hehe. I saw something like this in real life, only it was reality itself that screwed this guy's book up. I was a field supervisor and co-led a training for the census in which he was a student. Then he was assigned to be on my first field team. He called me up and said he had just gotten the edit b...

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I suppose it is only natural that the guy who -didn't- become a tech billionaire despite being instrumental in founding one of the most popular websites on the planet would be looking for some other way to get paid, having failed at every other venture he's involved himself in. However, as Clovermos...

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After some back-and-forth on the subject, Joe did manage to get the template editor user right restored, by an arb no less, as template editing was not part of the reason for the desysop. link

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If you are naming industrial spurs at a federal nuclear facility , you can use the names of female railroad employees. Wow, the support rationales there are completely removed from reality. That this was even close shows how far some people will bend/ignore logic and reason to "save" completely unw...

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P.S.. That page had to have been watch-listed, it was a zombie thread from months back on someone else's user page... The only other way to be attuned to that is to have been stalking the poster's activity and that is not the complainant's style... I regularly see people's talk pages pop up on my w...

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I can't say I haven't made the same error of forgetting that internal wikilinks don't work in emails, but even if they did, Dan Gardner is a dab page identifying two individuals,. one is a 34-year-old English football player and the other is a 66-year-old lobbyist for the International Brotherhood o...

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Your turn to run for Arb, Dennis. t You got my vote. For what that's worth these days.... Mine too. Along with Fram. And Beeblebrox, again. And my shrug. And my axe!!! Wait... what are we doing? One does not simply walk into arbitration. Its black gates are guarded by more than just admins. There i...

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I'd like to make a couple of things clear. I am to the left of Maher. I feel Rufo is a right-wing thug, and Elon Musk is a loon. My opinion about Maher was built up over a period of years and is not connected to the flap with Berliner. As someone else who feels they are to the left of Maher, I have...

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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 ...

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Shit happens. This link horrifying image from the Civil War was mislabeled for about 140 years.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Dieter-Rexroth_%281%29.jpg Dieter Rexroth Derp I did a google image search, he seems to have some sort of condition in that eye, it never looks as open as the other. Unlike a lot of these this is not a picture someone just snapped when he wasn't expect...

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Computer network naming scheme In computing, naming schemes are often used for objects connected into computer networks. This might as well just say “ Naming schemes are often used for objects”, because the article doesn’t explain why naming computers is a separate topic from naming cats or dogs or...

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Ming wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:42 pm
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.

yeah...that's....pretty random and obviously not going to survive that AFD.

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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 a...

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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 ...

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Bizarre turn of events. I hadn't noticed our old friend Travis Lee Bailey aka Ikip posted a load of conspiracy gibberish on Nihonjoe's talk page back on the 9th, fishing for real life details about Beebs and diannaa . https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nihonjoe&diff=prev&oldid=121...

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Whatever the fate of the article, Laura Cotes is probably heading for a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (T-H-L) for her live coverage. I can only imagine what that must have been like, both the sight and the smell, which she describes in detail.

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I could be wrong, but I don't recall having any specific interactions or conflicts with this Troutman fellow before. A brief review of just a few comments highlighted in the recent discussion shows someone who has no problem making openly contemptuous comments about women and trans women. That he is...

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The more I think about it the more I suspect BK's upset is a more general thing, and not entirely about just this one incident. During my time serving with them, there was more than one arbitrator who was MIA for a very prolonged period but hypothetically could waltz back in at any time and just sta...

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It does seem odd that the committee apparently did not immediately ask GN whether they wanted to keep the functionary tools, which is a pretty standard thing to ask in such circumstances. I can't recall it being an issue in any other resignations. Barkeep should become a clerk when his term is over....

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I can't believe this was moved out of draft space in this condition https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P._J._Sudhakar&oldid=622848445 which is even worse than how bad it is now. It is also just sad that anyone would think having lots of degrees is in and of itself a meaningful accomplishment...

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Some rights being "unbundled" from the admin toolkit made perfect sense. Rollback being the obvious one as it does not require and admin to recognize vandalism. I had a minor part in the genesis of the template editor right. As I recall, I was looking through reuests for edits on proteced items, and...

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DYK ... ... that a "pedophilic" relationship between two fictional adults led to an era of ship wars ? Did you know that a relationship between adults (whether real or fictional) can by definition not be "pedophilic" and that this "era of ship wars" is not an era, has nothing to do with ships and i...

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: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...

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Cheryl wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:28 pm
it reminds me of reading Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (T-H-L) with its constant incantation of "leper! unclean!"

That's a deep cut right there.

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: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...

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seems fine right this moment, was really bad yesterday. Somehow in all the error reports I posted the same thing twice, I tried three times to flag the duplicate post for deletion before I gave up.

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In which the committee forgets it is not, in fact, in charge of the volunteer response team as a whole: (VRT admin hat on) At this juncture, I'm not even sure that a queue like that is possible - the VRT admins have several questions to that effect. It would have been very nice to have a discussion ...

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I haven't been following the case too closely, but the result is fairly clear: Nihonjoe will not be an admin or 'crat anymore, and a new VRT Queue is to be established to deal with reports of COI editing that are not appropriate for on-wiki discussion. Fram and Primefac escape unschathed, more or le...

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The thing with being an admin, and whether there are enough, comes down to one thing: like everyone else, admins are volunteers. So, they have to want to do the whatever it is they are doing, nobody has a job desciption because nobody gets paid, so when things don't get done, it is because nobody wa...

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i took a bit of a look at this, the last time I recall it coming up on-wiki, I believe there was general agreement that "legacy admin" was perhaps not the nicest thing to say, but if used in the abstract is probably ok. Directing it at a specific individual does change the context, I agree there, bu...

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The W Awards (Golden W Award and Platinum W Award) are elite accolades recognizing the highest ability to bring content to the masses. Yeah, the way you get this silly thing is to game the main page. Seriously. It appears to have been awarded three times, two of those times to TTT. This is some pat...

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I had quite forgotten about this, but I see I had some involvement with this issue nearly eleven years ago, and clearly, nothing has changed. People who contribute just to earn awards confuse me. Having looked into this a bit more, I found Wikipedia:W Awards , a whole other way to pat yourself on th...

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Let's ask Jimbo what he thinks.....

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I certainly used to make way more than ten edits a month, but it's been way lower the last few months. As I've stated elsewhere that was actually my plan all along and not necesarily the result of the bullshit the committee and the ombuds threw at me. I just don't have the type of job with a lot of ...

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It's official. V is gone, no one else. I can't seem to find any actual documentation on that, where did you see it? Here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stewards/Confirm/2024 I was going in circles from one link to the next, somehow I never hit that one, that is indeed quite clear, thanks!

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utbc wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:39 pm
It's official. V is gone, no one else.

I can't seem to find any actual documentation on that, where did you see it?

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I knew about Beeblebrox's suspension, I read about it on en.wiki and in the WO thread, but I completely missed that there was an element of it that was related to my global lock. I just read this comment where Beeblebrox explains that "If I hadn't come by this information due to the apparent bad ad...

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glad I popped in while it was still open to add my oppose for Vituzzu. If I had a say in it, I'd also vote to remove all the other Italian admins who had any part in the Gitz affair.

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I knew the Eagle Lady (T-H-L), just a little bit, but she died in 2009. She was something else.

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For someone lacking admin/crat/functionary status, I think it’s most likely an order to show cause as to why the user should not be indef Arbcom blocked. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s WPO related, by the way, with that being the most logical reason for this to be an Arbcom matter. I mean, he came ov...

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All three times I was elected I was "beaten" by candidates who got fewer supports than I did, but also fewer opposes and way more neutrals. It's for sure a path one can take, be noticed to be active doing admin stuff, but keep your head down otherwise.

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yep. He's going to pass with 97% support any moment now, so obviously he can just ignore that question. This caught my eye though link. Boomerang may be in the air.

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I may not be fully on the break I'd anticipated, but I am for sure not up for another go round with these two. I do think a formal sanction of some sort is in order though. I got nothing to do with this one but :popcorn: So what’s the significance of that link? A please email the arbitration commit...

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Yeah, this fuckery with just lying about what these pages even are is very tiresome. He thinks he found some clever loophole but it just makes him look dishonest and like he's gaming the system, and not very well at that. And Adrevan, who made such a splash here recently, is his guard dog. Between t...

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