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- Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:01 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823070
Re: Crap articles
Negative and positive rights (T-H-L) - no real lede, not written like an encyclopedia article (beginning a sentence in the first paragraph with "So"), potentially confusing
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 10:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419972
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
Seems like they're talking about the ratio of support/oppose votes
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: "Genocide against Palestinians"
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3597
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:01 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823070
Re: Crap articles
There's something wrong with the way this person writes ledes: Thomas J. "Tom" Burrell[1] (born March 18, 1939)[2] founder and chairman emeritus of Burrell Communications, became one of the first African Americans in the field of advertising.[3] Flatbush Jewish Journal (FJJ) is a Brooklyn-based week...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: "EmergencyCaptcha mode in effect"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3019
Re: "EmergencyCaptcha mode in effect"
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1168422575
IPv4 editing was only disabled for a couple of minutes. Automatic (edit filter) reports at AIV just before editing was disabled/emergencycaptcha was reintroduced
IPv4 editing was only disabled for a couple of minutes. Automatic (edit filter) reports at AIV just before editing was disabled/emergencycaptcha was reintroduced
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:47 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikimania or other like events
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1103
Re: Wikimania or other like events
WMF global bans cannot be repealed. I believe T&S briefly hinted at the possibility of implementing an appeal process around two years ago but that seems to have been forgotten already. I would recommend a quick look at this user's talk page for anyone wondering how little/much they care about being...
- Sun Jul 16, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823070
Re: Crap articles
Women in the Mexican drug war (T-H-L) (very) Poor sentence structure, also a lack of coherence after the lede, listing information without greater context
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is Wikipedia Broken?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2638
Re: Why is wikipedia so hostile to socks?
Not at all. I would wager that at least 1/10 of accounts with 1k+ edits registered after a certain point in time are operated by users who had previously been blocked indefinitely. And the ratio seems to only increase, sockpuppets calling out other sockpuppets...
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 5:06 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is Wikipedia Broken?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2638
Re: How can we make TMSFE a featured article on Wikipedia!
their post history over on sucks does not leave a good impression either - with thread titles like "It's 3 days till Hitler's Death Day!" and "Tomorrow is Hitler's Birthday! Sieg Heil!"
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 7:08 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: WMUK at it again
- Replies: 126
- Views: 8141
Re: WMUK at it again
Is this the first time an unblock request has boomeranged into consensus for a community ban (or any other sort of sanction beyond the block)? Cannot recall seeing this happen before but I am sure it has
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 5:58 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823070
Re: Crap articles
I've never seen a tweet be included in a Wikipedia article as an example of public (coming from someone not otherwise mentioned by name within the article) commentary on the subject
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 12:14 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jimbo asks Bradv if he encouraged paid editing
- Replies: 137
- Views: 8392
Re: Jimbo asks Bradv if he encouraged paid editing
Has an enwp admin ever been credibly accused of paid editing? Not that that would exactly be the same as this, or that Jimbo's claim is necessarily credible. It feels like it should have happened at least once.
- Sat Apr 01, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Block and unblock of AndewNguyen
- Replies: 102
- Views: 6579
- Sat Oct 15, 2022 4:09 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Banned Wikipedia editor runs for Congress
- Replies: 141
- Views: 12667
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:30 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Russian Wikipedia and toeing the line
- Replies: 3
- Views: 549
Re: Russian Wikipedia and toeing the line
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%83_%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83_%D0%B2_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%87%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B5 this pages history shou...
- Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:07 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Russian Wikipedia and toeing the line
- Replies: 3
- Views: 549
Re: Russian Wikipedia and toeing the line
yes, at least one person has been imprisoned in Belarus over wiki edits related to the war
- Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:01 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Russian Wikipedia and toeing the line
- Replies: 3
- Views: 549
Russian Wikipedia and toeing the line
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83_(2022) This is a page about the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which uses the phrase "Russian-Ukrainian war" in its l...
- Sun May 29, 2022 9:55 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Poetlister immortalized (sort of, not really) in NCIS fanfic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1862
- Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:27 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Why does Wikipedia allow anonymous editing?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 2920
Re: Why does Wikipedia allow anonymous editing?
PortugueseBeeblebrox wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 7:44 pmAt least one Wikipedia already does this but off the top of my head I can't recall which one it is.
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:16 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Signpost editorial causes a tempest in a teapot
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5089
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 11:57 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Waitroom
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1965
Re: Waitroom
why does jimbo keep launching new websites?
- Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:12 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Undetected vandalism
- Replies: 207
- Views: 71599
- Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:04 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Crow back up to his old tricks
- Replies: 85
- Views: 8179
Re: MetaWatch
I feel for poor crow. He's an attention vampire and without a certain amount of his nourishment, he starts to shrivel. Given the population of sucks is Crow and the GoogleBot, he's gotta be getting hangry about now. + GRP https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/viewforum.php?f=33&sid=1d8f21ed6ec8ad01b23cbc...
- Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:01 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823070
Re: Crap articles
Persecution of Christians in North Korea (T-H-L) which has survived 2 AfDs and a speedy delete tag (?)
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 9:54 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: MetaWatch
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2122
Re: MetaWatch
between this and rodhullandemu, it seems a lot of wp editors will defend anyone who edits the same language wiki/same project as them
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 11:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Kintetsubuffalo
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1411
Re: Kintetsubuffalo
asking again
- Thu Nov 18, 2021 1:47 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Kintetsubuffalo
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1411
Re: Kintetsubuffalo
yo @beebs can you block kintetsu? or arbcom consensus needed?
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 1:18 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Kintetsubuffalo
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1411
Re: Kintetsubuffalo
even if hes not a pedophile, hes a kkk member? wp:nonazis?
- Tue Nov 16, 2021 4:13 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Kintetsubuffalo
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1411
Re: Kintetsubuffalo
i wrote a thread about this guy back in 2018 too i think, dont feel like looking but it shouldnt be hard to find
- Sun Nov 14, 2021 1:03 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Kintetsubuffalo
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1411
Kintetsubuffalo
remember back in 2013-2014 when a bunch of WPO articles were written exposing various enwp editors pedophilic behavior? well all of them were blocked, except for one - Kintetsubuffalo , who is not only most likely a nonce, but also a literal klan member, he's not very active anymore but he still edi...
- Mon Nov 01, 2021 10:07 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Bodiadub / Crazyalien / Wikibusines
- Replies: 5
- Views: 562
Re: Bodiadub / Crazyalien / Wikibusines
https://web.archive.org/web/20211101220606/https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibusiness a bit more info people who work for the company: https://twitter.com/_wikibusiness_/status/1320761977577365513 looks like there are at least 3 official writers; the one in the green shirt seems to be @bodiadub on t...
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Bodiadub / Crazyalien / Wikibusines
- Replies: 5
- Views: 562
Re: Bodiadub / Crazyalien / Wikibusines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Bodiadub https://wikibusines.com/ https://twitter.com/_wikibusiness_ This is very impressive, and if it is associated with paid editing is of course utterly beyond the pale in Wikiworld. https://mobile.twitter.com/_wikibusiness_/stat...
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 5:22 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Bodiadub / Crazyalien / Wikibusines
- Replies: 5
- Views: 562
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 2:03 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Eostrix, current RfA candidate, ArbComBlocked as a sock of Icewhiz
- Replies: 312
- Views: 20148
Re: Eostrix, current RfA candidate, ArbComBlocked as a sock of Icewhiz
Hi everyone, I am Eostrix. First of all I want to say I am not Icewhiz. Icewhiz is the kind of despicable troll that I've been spending time thwarting on Wikipedia. I intend to appeal. I am investigating Icewhiz and his sockpuppets, and writing up a detailed report on why I am not Icewhiz. I will p...
- Wed Sep 08, 2021 2:39 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Foundation revises access to nonpublic personal data policy
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4720
Re: Foundation revises access to nonpublic personal data policy
looks like they resigned on their owntarantino wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 2:03 amThe foundation has removed five users from the list at Access to nonpublic personal data policy/Noticeboard in the last week, two are Persian and three are Chinese.
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:45 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Commons: why does it take so long to get anything done there?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1621
Re: Commons: why does it take so long to get anything done there?
wtf they have CFDs from 2014 still open
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:20 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: User:Jimbo Wales now semi-protected
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2314
Re: User:Jimbo Wales now semi-protected
This is 100% because of LTAs. some of them are really obsessed with jimbo's page, his talk page is probably going soon too
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:12 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Massive sandbox goes boom
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2611
Re: Massive sandbox goes boom
it got deleted in oct 2018
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:16 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823070
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 12:07 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Drmies involved block and censorship
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3642
Re: Drmies involved block and censorship
Tbf ExplosiveResults should have just been blocked for being a far right weirdo none of this would have happened
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jonathon/Jessica Yaniv
- Replies: 85
- Views: 4312
Re: Jonathon/Jessica Yaniv
The Jessica Yaniv page should be deleted. dont doubt that this person is trans gender but its obvious all of her online activity is part of a sad attention seeking marketing scheme, wikipedia shouldnt feed into that
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:45 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Interesting edit I found
- Replies: 4
- Views: 346
Re: interesting edit I found
it's some troll being a troll. I don't know that I'd call User: Blacklisablack a "troll" per se. She showed up in January 2019 to write a decent-enough article on artist S. P. Harper , and then left, having not made any public complaints or accusations against anybody (unless they're on now-deleted...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:08 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Interesting edit I found
- Replies: 4
- Views: 346
Interesting edit I found
Someone tried to cover this up with rev del, thankfully they didnt do a great job - https://web.archive.org/web/20210103020650/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_Women_in_Red%2FMeetup%2F184&oldid=997840621 i looked up the editor mentioned in the edit on twitter and fo...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:49 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Banned Wikipedia editor runs for Congress
- Replies: 141
- Views: 12667
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:08 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Automated article creation gone wrong
- Replies: 59
- Views: 2951
Re: Automated article creation gone wrong
Mass page creation from bots has been a problem for a while now. just look at this https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request ... Wiktionary
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 12:55 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Question about Wikinger
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4914
Re: Question about Wikinger
Ive found out a bit more about Wikinger since this thread. He thinks every language comes from "proto indo german" (?)
- Mon Oct 26, 2020 7:14 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: What We Know And Can Agree On
- Replies: 24
- Views: 871
- Thu Oct 15, 2020 6:57 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Wiki vandalism is too addicting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 921
Re: Wiki vandalism is too addicting
i mean a lot of LTAs/sock masters see wikipedia like an mmorpg, keep vandalizing, fill up user name logs, get an lta page, srg/aiv/uaa reports etc i think the account report system should be private and LTA has been dead for years so might as well delete most of it
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:46 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Wiki vandalism is too addicting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 921
Wiki vandalism is too addicting
the way vandals are currently dealt with on wikipedia/wikimedia is way too addictive and only makes the LTA situation worse, sure theres weirdos like the george reeves guy who will disrupt the projects no matter what you do but stuff like the fuerdai vandal and my royal young could have been complet...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:46 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: IP editors now blocked on Russian and Portuguese wikipedias
- Replies: 22
- Views: 669
Re: IP editors now blocked on Russian and Portuguese wikipedias
this reminds me i need to get that vandalism leak out soon