Wikipediocracy

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Previously, on my PC at home and my phone at work, whenever I viewed a thread here, the cookies (umm, that internet whatchamacallit) and not 25 Apr 2024 topically not Anzac biscuit ) would un-orange the thread. Lately, when I view a thread here, it's still in orange, unless I log out and view it aga...

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The Kraken at his best... But if you're gonna go with "bananas" for condom machines, I'd expect a more off-color metaphor. t A taco may be what you're looking for. In 2019 you said "He's the Eric Corbett of Wikipedia criticism: generates good content but scares away the normies with his bile." Krak...

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On This Day in 1824, American explorer Benjamin Morrell departed Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud. Did he, though? The claims of fraud extend to almost everything Morrell wrote about the voyage, down to the most basic details of time and place. In the article, the OTD fact...

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I was going to leave this as a single reply in the Crap articles thread, but before I knew it I had a whole topic on my hands. Enjoy! ✂️✂️✂️✂️ Princess Anne is a trooper, literally, but it doesn't look like she will be replaced. Certainly not on a like for like basis. </✂️✂️✂️✂️> Anne - born into a...

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C&B wrote: ↑
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A C&B, yesterday (下京町 3-1)

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I recall it being hyped as the next big retro thing as far back as 2008.
For context:

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
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I get the SQL error about 10 times a day.
F5 is my friend.

Vigilant, is your F5 friend electric?

Mods: please feel to delete this post. I'm just having a bit of fun here.

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<✂> about 800 words </✂> Wow, that's a... lot of free time you appear to have on your hands there. Anyhoo, don't you love it when you come across a little gem that you completely missed at the time? Written by Paul Kelly, who is pretty much Australia's Bob Dylan, and sung by the utterly delightful ...

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... ... ... at least Belgium ... [youtube]YouTube Video[/youtube] The accent! You'll have to explain this to us. M Bertrand's French - français Wallon? - sounds pretty much like standard French to me. Admittedly, my very sparse knowledge of the difference between Langues d'oïl and Langues d'oc is f...

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Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑
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There would also appear to me something else of note here: relatively new editors who regularly post at teh Dramah Board, then get a slippering on their talk pages. OK, here's the last 1,000 posts to WP:AN/I: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incident...

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This is probably as good a time as any to take up where I left off in 2015. https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6389&p=138934&hilit=Korean#p138934 <clears throat> The China of classical antiquity invented, inter alia, writing, paper and public service graduate entry programs*, whic...

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I am convinced there are several American “old country” foods that show up at various holidays mostly to remind of us why we left. Lutefisk comes quickly to mind. Winkles The Sven and Ole jokebook wrote: The lutefisk got rid of the racoons all right, but now we've got a family of Norwegians living ...

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ancientofmumoo wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:54 pm
True Crime Looser

Quite the contrary: it would appear that he is pretty tightly secured.

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Was going to make a joke about the Russian crooner with the bad picture. Something like 'the wish.com version of Wayne Newton.' Until I saw this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Wayne_Newton_2023.jpg Looks like Mickey Rourke in a Wayne Newton biopic. Can't link to the image itself...

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Ok, sure. I hereby declare myself Emperor Grump the First, Guardian of the Galactic Core, Cazique of the Magellanic Clouds, and Pastafarian Prelate of the Interstellar Void. Bow down before me, peasants... ... ... .... * Well, surely there should be a competition to design a flag for the Grumpian E...

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Ritchie333, I would certainly vote for you over Sandstein. Not that that's saying much... but I value your judgment. Maybe WIkipedia could have an Athenian-style ostracism vote each year. I'm Spartacus and so is my wife! Actually I easily passed an RFA a long time ago, and a process server served m...

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Stranger Pond (T-H-L)

A wombat enjoying the sunset on Stranger Pond.

Been there since 2007. (The picture+caption, not the wombat, that is.)

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Tonstant Wiki-er fwowed up. えぇ？何これ？ Learn your Parker, you ignorant heathen. I see. Not a part of the cultural lexicon in the places in which I find myself to have been. greyed.out.fields wrote, "erm.. how do I link this (https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=12974&p=326489&hilit=To...

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orangepi wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:46 pm
I didn't notice the Mike Hawk homonym...

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I can explain why some people pronounce the words "boxes" and "boxers" differently and some some pronounce them as the same, if required later.

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DYK ... ... ... that Dustin Wolf (pictured) has been named his league ' s goaltender of the year the last four years in a row? Sounds like he won the award in the same league four times in a row, right? Nope. First he won the Del Wilson Trophy twice in the Western Hockey League which is a junior le...

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... You're right about "Let them eat cake", "Homo homini lupus" does have an article with 6,968 (place 9). Here is the full list: ... 12) No stand-alone article -- Martin Luther: Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen. ... Would a redirect to Luther in Worms (Meinardus) count? ...

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Hjared (T-C-L)
Draft:Felipe Vasquez (T-H-L)
https://shop.thephoneupstudios.com/

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... ... Apparently, back in 2008, nobody had Immanuel Kant watchlisted. The Vienna Circle was also a tightly-knit social group. They regularly met to play cards, including a bridge-like game of their own devising called Whistenschaft. :B' A pastime recalled fondly by Friedrich Nietzsche in his memo...

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OK, so I may be a contrarian against contrarians:
Remain in Light (T-H-L) for all its Eno and Afrobeat, is arguably not the Heads best album. That would be Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album) (T-H-L) where they moved all their influences to approachable pop in an undeniably art rock record.

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What about an AbdBot? Ishmael' s mention of the padlocks on the sharks on swimming around the wreck of the Pequod is quite possibly a reference to when the Queen of the Night puts a lock on Papageno's mouth to stop him lying about, well, various stuff. As for AhabBOT - spoiler alert - everyone dies...

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If you’re really trying to execute malicious code, you might try an escape character first. But I’d rather try to escalate my privileges. An escape character? Is this like when Melville's character Ishmael bobs to the surface of wreck of the Pequod on Queequeg's coffin, and quotes the three instanc...

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from Tidal force As expected, the table below shows that the distance from the Moon to the Earth, is the same as the distance from the Earth to the Moon. Back when Ming was a naive young Mingling, Ming would have assumed it unnecessary to spell this out. Recent history has shown otherwise. I guess ...

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List of Telecaster players#A-E (T-H-L)
Emerging in the mid 1960s with the Yardbirds, Beck proved that a ragged Fender Esquire could moan like a fuzzed-out violin. His lines in “Heart Full of Soul” and “Evil Hearted You” defined psychedelic guitar.
MOS:PEACOCK (T-H-L) much?

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Hmm... Kohelet, hey?

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Unless this is about a person that physically boarded a sailing ship or saddled their horse for a quest from Tang China, any article that in includes the phrase "He began his journey" should trigger an WP:EDITFILTER and add an automatic WP:G11 tag. (For those of you who grok regular expression - and...

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Feast your ears: I've heard worse. Heck, I've sung worse. Including the fluffy-bunnies-and-feudalist-propaganda All Things Bright and Beautiful the C of E primary school I attended imposed on us. I really, really wanted to be a Jehovah's Witness when I was at primary school, because they didn't hav...

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eppur si muove wrote: ↑
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Hmm... the 1990s and bandanas. Well of course I've read Infinite Jest.

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Imcdc (T-C-L)
Qube Research & Technologies (T-H-L)

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I understand it isn't healthy, I'm just aghast that this individual has seemingly dedicated his Wikipedia career to simply annihilating everything I ever wrote, even completely removing sourced and appropriate material just because I added it to bait me into editing. Contrary to all the people sayi...

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If Jimmy wants to retain some kind of theoretical veto power, there's nothing to stop him from running for ArbCom. He may have to step up his editing and community engagement a bit... :rotfl: Ex-monarchs don't run for Parliament. Well, unless it's Bulgaria. Presumably not this Bulgaria: https://sta...

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"NotReallySoroka" is currently trying to bait me into editing again by leaving articles in broken states by taking out references and rewriting things just because he wants to wind me up. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&diff=prev&oldid=1151935032, 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/...

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This no doubt bought to Herr Schtapler's mind - and to most of us, I'm sure - that scene in Tom of Finland's Aubrey Beardsley's Mozart's The Magic Flute where the queen of the night puts a lock on greyed.out.fields' everyone else here Papageno's mouth to stop him from luge ing - ahem, not that luge-...

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Messalina#Early life Messalina was the daughter of Domitia Lepida and her first cousin Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus. Her mother was the youngest child of the consul Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major. Her mother's brother, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, had been the first husband of t...

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... ... the "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory" ... https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/325/699/4fc.jpg ... I was reading this thread on a "bathroom break" at work on my $80 not-particularly-smartphone, and at first thought the caption over the last picture on the backboard was "Tom of F...

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OK, let me get this straight. So: Encycloreader scrapes content from, inter alia, Wikipedia, Rationalwiki and Conservapedia, right? Into one website? Those three are quite different things. * Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia * Rationalwiki is knowingly satire website, self-consciously written to...

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OK, let me get this straight. So: Encycloreader scrapes content from, inter alia, Wikipedia, Rationalwiki and Conservapedia, right? Into one website? Those three are quite different things. * Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia * Rationalwiki is knowingly satire website, self-consciously written to ...

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No Ledge wrote: ↑
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Fuse Kofun The Fuse Kofun is located on the east bank of Lake Koyama, and is a keyhole-shaped zenpō-kōen-fun (前方後円墳), which is shaped like a keyhole, having one square end and one circular end, when viewed from above. So, this is keyhole-shaped "前方後円墳" (literally "straight front, round end burial m...

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Kagher Neiber-Shieg (T-H-L)
Quite obviously teh madeup, back in 2006.
Mentioned as real in the Literary Review of Canada (T-H-L) in 2009.

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https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12427&p=303239 Though his Twitter account was not protected the last time he was discussed here :dubious: I think this snapshot will give the flavour. Did I miss something? Why are you bringing this up again now? What's the deal with those monke...

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to attempt.

Ocean's Eleven#Production (T-H-L)
In 1987, an attempt to remake the 1960 film was attempted by David Permut...

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Anyone? In this context "reading for the bar" is UK/Canada/New Zealand/Australia legal slang term for when a solicitor applies to become a barrister In previous times and some legal jurisdictions it was possible to qualify for practice even though one had no law degree. Such a person could work in ...

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The Garbage Scow wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:52 pm
Citizendium has a big note on their front page that says "Please read about who we are in 2022". Click the link and it goes to a page entitled "Who we are in 2021".

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