Wikipediocracy

Pudeo

I wonder if Lugnuts will make a post expressing his desire to commit suicide like the last time he came to ANI. It is not inconceivable that someone who's devoted fifteen years of their life to a charity may feel more than a tad upset when hauled before a baying mob to have their motives questioned...

Pudeo

I received an email today from a new user who says they represent the " Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM)" (links added) and that they would like to interview me and the rest of the SPI team. I'm guessing I'm not the only one to receive it...

Pudeo

Yikes.

But I'm not sure if they are that Kiwi Farms member. They could have just screenshotted many of his posts, i.e. seems like it's only certain that the Twitter, Medium and Wikipedia accounts are operated by the same person.

Pudeo

Their Twitter account is anti-Nazi. On another note, a bit in the article, namely the part about five Finns being arrested for abusing children, has a source that doesn't link them to Atomwaffen at all. Or the O9A for that matter (they're also mentioned in the O9A article). Sadly there's a lot of s...

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I thought it was pretty funny that Kiwi Farms is being used as a source for neo-Nazism allegations of BLPs in Wikipedia. Atomwaffen Division#Finland (AWD Finland) In August 28, 2021, a Tampere nexion member Tero Pekkanen was detained by the Finnish police and sent to psychiatric evaluation for threa...

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I hate to nitpick (no I don’t) but anti-communist mass killings do not necessarily target communists. In fact, they often don’t. Are you suggesting that every person killed in the incidents on this page (by communist regimes) was an anti-communist? My great-grandfather, whose surname I have, was ac...

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Coming soon to Wikipedia: Mass killings under regimes ruling countries previously invaded by western powers Mass killings under regimes led by men who claim to be carrying out God's will Mass killings under regimes led by men with beards and/or moustaches Mass killings under regimes led by men The ...

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snip The problem is though is that none of the sources you cite actually discuss the crimes of communist regimes collectively, but individual regimes, which are clearly notable and better discussed in their own articles. Nobody is suggesting that we delete Excess mortality in the Soviet Union under...

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There is very serious scholarship about communist regime mass killings, but of course such a large article will combine sources and sub-topics which can turn into "SYNTH". IMO, it seems pretty obvious what the link between a) revolution and violence, & b) revolutionary movement which wants to revamp...

Pudeo

It's not that hard to buy an admin account because dozens of admins lose interest and are desysopped for inactivity each year. And what's the best part? You can use a proxy for that because all admin accounts are WP:EXEMPT from IP blocks by default. So "the community" has decided to, instead of hold...

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Well, I've just sent a tip to the Swedish police through their web form with the diff link, IP address and a short explanation because the IP actually geolocated to where the gang is based in. Most likely it's just some kid fooling around, but hey it could result in some gang hangaround being invest...

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No, don't you get it? Someone had accounced him to be dead before he actually was, like it was a death threat. Since the IP geolocates to Huddinge, Stockholm, it's possible that it belongs to someone in the gang. Or then Einár was commonly seen as a dead man walking due to the court ordering him to ...

Pudeo

This is epic! :XD Really makes you think about many other editors who were promoted as admins within 1-2 years of active editing recently. There might be one or two socks among them. Content creation / long editing career requirements are barriers to entry for socks. If you had to edit for 5 years, ...

Pudeo

*scrolls over Foxnews.com search result* Fox News (also known as Faux News) is a far-right, antisemitic[1][2][3], white nationalist[4][5] propaganda network owned by the American media mogul and propagandist[6][7][8] Rupert Murdoch. Atleast that's how I imagine it will work the Wikipedia 'stick a fo...

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NETSCOUT, which K.e.coffman works for, does enterprise clouds, cybersecurity, communication services etc. for a wide variety of industries: https://i.imgur.com/Qvmb2NK.jpeg In July 2021, she declined: Draft:Cobalt (company) (cybersecurity) Draft:Tridge (application) (market data platform) Draft:Vidi...

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And, so it begins. Poor guy walked right into the buzz saw. 05:19, 10 September 2021 Bradv blocked MPS1992 with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked) ({{ArbComBlock}}) Boom. He was told to email the COI concerns to ArbCom, and was apparently blocked in the meantime. I mean, ye...

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Thanks for posting, would have missed this. That's a nice story, I guess the part where the military history "gang" awarded K.e.coffman the "newcomer of the year" while she was was trashing them on Reddit's r/ShitWehraboosSay was omitted. I don't know why there's such a focus on Peacemaker67, like t...

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Oppose Wingwatchers (talk) 20:52, 6 September 2021 (UTC) @Wingwatchers: Why are you opposing? NoahTalk 20:57, 6 September 2021 (UTC) Indeed, this account has a mere 120 days of activity and no significant interactions. Unsupportted Opposes seem to be likely not in good faith without further explana...

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Genderdesk has a writeup :popcorn: And after I objected to his edits, along with his tag-team partner, Tsumikira, whose Twitter account was deleted for CP, Fae went on a personal vendetta against Genderdesk on en.wiki, bullying people who had edited the article, and trying to get my dox. There's pr...

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:backtotopic: Apparently proclaiming your support for murderous Marxists is OK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Wikipedia_Endorsing_Murderous_and_Extremist_Ideologies_via_Userboxes? OP blocked. Number 57 put it best: supporting an economic system and ...

Pudeo

So how many bitcoins do you have to pay this Korean guy to get the cabal's secret logs?

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mediawiki_logo_proposal_(gradient_translucent%2C_capitalised).svg/135px-Mediawiki_logo_proposal_(gradient_translucent%2C_capitalised).svg.png British Petroleum ftw! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d2/BP_Helios_logo.svg/135p...

Pudeo

Perhaps Jezebel wrote something you didn't like. Perhaps you'd like to share with us exactly how you came to such a conclusion rather than being roundabout? I see you paraphrased them (I would argue rather uncharitably) while quoting the Associated Press. Well, it is a pop culture website that star...

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"I have never beaten my wife." WP:MANDY ! That's exactly what a wife-beater would say! This cutting-edge BLP essay created by JzG in Dec 2019 has recently seen increasing usage. Ritchie333 even inserted the essay in official BLP policy, though I just reverted that (leaving the other improvements in ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Deb Here's a reconstructed 2003 RfA of a still active admin. RfAs certainly looked a bit different and so did community trust. Reconfirmation vote wouldn't be a bad idea for those. Every time I've encountered her, she has insulted either...

Pudeo

Even if the system is imperfect, it would be a step in the right direction. Or not? I get the feeling from the proposal that it wouldn't be used to remove abusive admins, but to extend the currently dominant Big Tent mob's power to remove unpopular admins (but not popular and abusive) . A while ago ...

Pudeo

"It’s easier to find an open Marxist rather than a center-right conservative", true but mostly because all kinds of Marxist userboxes are somewhat popular, whereas most center-right conservatives don't display a box. And not all people who have an userbox are necessarily POV-pushers. Well, it would ...

Pudeo

It's been established in an ArbCom setting that thanking someone after being told to " don't thank me, thanks " is a blockable offence, although thanks from an individual can be blocked in WP settings. Perhaps thanking could be UCOC-violation worthy harassment. The WMF could establish an inquiry whe...

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A case of mistaken identity or a nightmare turned inside out? A simple loss of memory or the end of MediaWiki? Tom Radulovich may never find the answer, but you can be sure he's looking for it in the Twilight Zone.

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Long story short, if you're going to "challenge" such people, you really have to do the genealogy, and genealogy is almost never as easy or simple as the folks at ancestry.com, etc., would have you believe. It also helps to have valid credentials, to more to the point, I spent some time trying to f...

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I believe the proper term is not a "boss-fight" but monster infighting :lol: I think Valjean aka BullRangifer has had four straight AE warnings without any sanctions? Seemingly not really a blemish on anyone's record. Warnings only matter when they are given as an admin is already looking to place s...

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So, Mr./Ms. Coffman is saying that calling something a "massacre" is tantamount to describing that thing as a war crime? I I read that she only changed her Wikipedia email name to "Kevin" after the dark forces had deduced the username to relate to some female Soviet Lithuanian émigré that had compl...

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The first thing that caught my eye on his Xtools page is that he has 407 edits on Δ aka Betacommand's talkpage (apparently Betacommand has also appealed his indef block just last month). Hammersoft compiled a list of Betacommand's achievements to defend him during the ArbCom case named after the lat...

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https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/twitter-checkmark-verification-wikipedia-notability.html Wikipedia factors heavily into the categories for companies, brands, and nonprofits and activists, organizers, and other influential individuals. Companies and brands must satisfy two of the three requireme...

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I was in the process of writing a SPI too, but good to see that he was blocked already. That was really lousy socking as there were numerous obvious signs, some not mentioned there, such as Commons uploads. Right cite managed to stay away from politics for 1.5 months after registering, then went ful...

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This year's litmus test questions: There is at least a perception of left-wing bias on Wikipedia, both regarding content and internally (for context see [2]. One of the examples given is that for matters relating to Donald Trump, the 2016 US election and Brett Kavanaugh, editors making broadly "pro-...

Pudeo

Something I noticed in Toby Young's article is that the Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO, John Cummings , recently added "information on promotion of the cultural marxism conspiracy theory". Then if you go check the references, the Independent.co.uk article simply says he has used the term in one o...

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The UCOC has been revised and a change log has been posted: Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review/Change log The first change is probably the biggest one. They've added that the UCOC also applies to private interaction between Wikipedians. Gaslighting was also revised to " Psychological manipulatio...

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Access_to_nonpublic_personal_data_policy/Noticeboard/Archives/2020&oldid=20484062 Never realised that Alex Shih had received a permanent ban from advanced rights through NDA disclosure, and that Bbb23 had his access revoked here as well on recommend...

Pudeo

I understand Ad Orientem's point, but I'd say the polarization levels in Wikipedia are still well below that of Reddit or Twitter, where complete echo chambers exist. Wikipedia:Userboxes/Politics There are hundreds of political userboxes in the subcategories there. It's weird if you go check who use...

Pudeo

Apparently this is a whole thing now, from what I'm reading the problem is promotional materials released by Netflix without consulting the director. People felt those materials were too sexual in their portrayal of the girls in question and therefore that the entire film is porn. The film was not ...

Pudeo

Overall though, most of the serious objections to this are probably going to come from the anti-PC crowd, which is basically what we (and, I assume, they) expected. As far as I see it, it doesn't really matter what's in the code of conduct, because even vague wordings can be 'weaponized' if needs b...

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The draft has been published. Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review Next phases UCoC Draft: Community comment period September 7 - October 6 Committee Revision period: final draft revised in light of community comments October 6 - October 12 Final stage: UCoC Draft delivered to Board of Trustees fo...

Pudeo

Trading up the chain is a marketing tactic by which a message is seeded in a less-credible forum, with the purpose of being quoted or repackaged by publications and people who appeal to a wider audience. Those more authoritative sources are then cited to build up the message's credibility and publi...

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Wikipedia is a website where you can anonymously scrape the bottom of a barrel to insert every possible negative piece of information than can be found from a source deemed reliable to a biography, and then gate-keep and wikilawyer the article indefinitely. It's a good choice to simply embrace and r...

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Gansoo(ganssnoogans?)

MONGO was de-sysopped in 2006, how long is he going to have to hold his head down in shame, though?

Pudeo

This was preceded by the deprecation of some peerage websites: Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_295#Two_genealogy_sites Apparently just 6 editors can decide the community consensus that these websites are verboten. They also have been removed wholesale from various External links secti...

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administrators — who are also volunteers, but who go through a rigorous vetting process to acquire admin powers That's one way to describe the IRC circlejerking @Freenode. I read about Viginia Tech media prof Jim A. Kuypers' 2014 book Partisan Journalism . He claims that American journalism has alw...

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This is a month old story that I noticed from the draft of The Signpost's next issue: A network of progressive groups that’s seeded some of the most influential Democratic activist groups in the country is turning its attention and considerable resources to another task: sanitizing its Wikipedia pag...

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