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tarantino wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:45 pm
Another article from Christopher F. Rufo.

Wait, Maher is a spook?

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You may have noticed an editor named Big Money Threepwood (T-C-L) treading clumsily through this topic area recently. Looks like they created a sock named Mormon Avenger (T-C-L) for a bit of trolling and got their main account blocked as well. Apparently socks of someone called Raxythecat (T-C-L)?

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Dan Gardner's frequent co-author is someone named Bent Flyvbjerg (T-H-L). It appears that maybe Flyvberg is not unfamiliar with Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sonderbro.

Dan Gardner wouldn't happen to be related to Sue Gardner, would he?

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Hava Mendele, the author of the Spectator piece, interviewed about Wikipedia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niHKAmNMNO0

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Chris Troutman is a serial asshole who has got away with far too much for far too long for the usual reasons. He got away with a slap on the wrist. He's lucky the discussion was shut down almost immediately. The interesting question for me is "who is Tonymetz ?" He has 666 edits since joining six y...

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Whatever Molly wants, Molly gets. And little man, little Molly wants you. Make up your mind to have no regrets. Recline yourself, resign yourself - you're through.

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Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:01 pm
I know a man who is paid by a council at Israeli embassy to edit the Albanian Wikipedia and honestly it is so based, I am not paid to do so but I still do

That is very interesting. Thank you for such an interesting story.

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During the current Trump court case, a man named Maxwell Azzarello lit himself on fire in a park near the court. Wikipedia wasted little time in creating an article about the event: Self-immolation of Maxwell Azzarello . Azzarello has subsequently died, so it is unlikely that this will ever amount t...

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excellent overview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkL4ME-8dQ I think Molly White did a great job of putting the Maher quotes in their proper context, but her audience is not people who get their news from Twitter. It will be interesting to see where this goes in the next couple of days. The ...

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KSL.com: Judge gives man extradited from Scotland 4 more weeks to find attorney ( archive ) PROVO — Nicholas Rossi appeared in court Tuesday and asked 4th District Judge Derek Pullan for even more time to retain an attorney to represent him. The judge gave him four more weeks. He has had an attorne...

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As a wild guess, the General has probably given the Committee no firm commitment as to his planned future engagement with Wikipedia. This has caused a rift between the Committee, between those who think policy should be followed and both his OS and CU rights should be revoked, and those who think t...

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From the file name and category, this is Canadian model James Lam , presumably taken by fashion photographer Greg Swales ... TIL that if you want to find hats like this online, you have to type " wide brim bucket hat" into Google Images, not "large bucket hat" or "oversized bucket hat." Or just typ...

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From the file name and category, this is Canadian model James Lam , presumably taken by fashion photographer Greg Swales ... TIL that if you want to find hats like this online, you have to type " wide brim bucket hat" into Google Images, not "large bucket hat" or "oversized bucket hat." Or just typ...

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I happened across the biography of Joseph Rescigno . It's quite something. Full of puffery, unnecessary detail, and obvious family pictures. It's almost entirely the work of Valuenyc . They created it in 2007 and have been working on it ever since. By strange coincidence, Joseph Rescigno's wife Jean...

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Looking through Joe's page creations I think his COI editing goes much further than what was cited in the arbcom case. Sure, he got caught writing about the companies he has worked for, but see how many articles he has written about books by Mormon authors with ties to the AML or that sci-fi sympos...

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TheSpacebook wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:26 pm
I'm not informed enough on this report to comment...

And yet, you did comment.

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This paragraph blows my mind. @Joe Roe: The decisions claims I made three paid edits, out of over 123,000 total edits. There is no article (nor has there ever been an article) for the company for whom it is claimed I made paid edits , and I have never planned (nor do I have plans) to make an article...

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Looks like things might be getting difficult for Duc d'Anjou, although they are not blocked. The replacement sock appears to be Orrouy . Orrouy has shown up on Laurent de Gourcuff's English Wikipedia article now. They aren't subtle. They created an article for Eva Léandre, now moved to a draft and ...

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It's quite likely that I've already complained about this, but I would benefit from a "notes" field in my watchlist. I often wonder why something is on there and have to look at the article or the history to figure it out. I would like to be able to just jot down "edited by sockpuppets of x" or "ped...

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Kraken wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:17 pm
Wikipedia is not Ministry.

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Working fine for me so far today.

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Come on, bolding and sorting by only the women, where the man also has a Wikipedia article, in the Celebrity sex tape list is objectively sexist. Don’t you think? No, I don't think it is "objectively sexist". I think it accurately reflects why people are watching these videos. Do you think people w...

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Let's be realistic here. Are people watching a sex tape with any celebrity because the celebrity is in it or because of who else is in it? That doesn't explain the other list items where there is a man (who also has a Wikipedia article) and the woman is the one that's accredited. Do you have an exa...

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Let's be realistic here. Are people watching a sex tape with any celebrity because the celebrity is in it or because of who else is in it? That doesn't explain the other list items where there is a man (who also has a Wikipedia article) and the woman is the one that's accredited. Do you have an exa...

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Let's be realistic here. Are people watching a sex tape with any celebrity because the celebrity is in it or because of who else is in it? That doesn't explain the other list items where there is a man (who also has a Wikipedia article) and the woman is the one that's accredited. Do you have an exa...

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OK, this is some funny shit right here. Rachel_Helps_(BYU) just added "adding paid connected contributor templates for pages I've contributed to per community request" to several HUNDRED articles... :popcorn: One more sign that Rachel Helps has acted and is acting in good faith and the fault lies m...

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I’ll just add to this. The page Celebrity sex tape contains a list. The film 1 Night in Paris is accredited, in the bullet list, to Pairs Hilton, and not Rick Salomon. Also, the film Kim Kardashian, Superstar is accredited to Kim Kardashian, and not Ray J. Let's be realistic here. Are people watchi...

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TheSpacebook wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:23 am
I’ll probably just post the draft here, and anyone is welcome to do what they want to it!

Don't post the draft here. It will just lead to uncertainties about copyright. If you want to rewrite a Wikipedia article, do it on Wikipedia.

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I'm a bit confused about LGBT, which is why I haven't gone anywhere near the article, as I certainly will make mistakes. I don't think you should see this as a drawback. Being confused by LGBT issues and terminology just shows that you are neutral about the subject. Don't muddy up your unbiased ign...

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Ahhh, the ol "full rewrite of a contentious article" maneuver. Sure, it's never worked in the past, but maybe this will be the time. I want to be extremely sensitive about it and get a wide range of opinions. I especially would like input from people who edit trans-related articles and see if anyth...

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That's just a single one of the European Parliament's IP addresses, Your head is going to pop when you check out all the edits coming out of that range.

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But what about WP:BEFORE and "AfD is not article cleanup"?! Unsourced BLPs fall under Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people . I just love it when people argue things in deletion discussions about how sources exist (not in the article, but they exist ) or that AfD isn't for art...

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Yes, uppermost in Rosiestep's mind seems to have been retaining a biography of a woman academic, and she should have done a lot more. I've now made 3 edits to it and spent rather too much time searching for sources—Worldcat is now almost unusable, like wrestling with a squid, and I can't read Hebre...

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You are incorrect to say deletion is the correct course of action however. Since there are clearly multiple ways this person could be notable as an academic, and since sources are easy to find on a very quick online search, then the deletion policy supports a course of action where the biography is...

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Rosie Stephenson-Goodnight (AKA Rosiestep ) is a long-time editor. Since 2007, she has made literally hundreds of thousands of edits. She has held a number of positions in WMF groups. She is currently a community-elected member of the WMF Board of Trustees. So what does an experienced and trusted ed...

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Now that this arbitration is coming to a close can we expect that Mormon AN to close? I suspect the implications of blocking a WiR has led to much behind the scenes teeth gnashing. There's an ANI thread about an editor who works for BYU. So.... Mormons No one is being discussed on the noticeboards ...

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Now that this arbitration is coming to a close can we expect that Mormon AN to close? I suspect the implications of blocking a WiR has led to much behind the scenes teeth gnashing. I don't think there are any "Mormon" threads. There's an ANI thread about an editor who works for BYU. No one wants to...

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Well, it was nice while it lasted. Today I am getting frequent "too many connections [1040]" SQL errors.

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The Guardian: Digital trail identifying Israeli spy chief has been online for years Sariel even left traces of his activity on the Hebrew-language Wikipedia, where he used his real name and edited pages ranging from Louis XIV of France to an entry titled “the problem of Palestinian refugees”. On Wi...

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From the study: In addition, we coded for navel piercing which emphasizes a bare midriff. So navel piercings are used as a proxy for midriff baring. The article does not suggest that the navel itself is considered sexualized. In some cultures, it is common for infant girls to have pierced ears. In o...

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It's a fair bet its a pedophilic fetish. Hence why it's no surprise to see it on Wikipedia. The navel is one of the very first things a young girl (emphasis on girl) comes to see as a sexual thing. They're not thinking of sex of course, they're a prepubescent. But those who drive her sense of self ...

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Midsize Jake wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:29 pm
Sorry I've been dragging my feet on this.

You didn't cause this problem and you shouldn't have to be dealing with it. Wikipediocracy is paying Bluehost for a service and they are not adequately providing it. Thanks for the work you do to keep the site running semi-smoothly.

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Some time ago, I wondered why the Wikipedia article for the Unification Church (popularly known as the Moonies) was so, well, different from the article for the Church of Scientology . Sure, there's a long section of criticisms at the bottom, but other than a few sentences in the lede, the first hal...

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My real life (and self) is a LOT more interesting than you make it out to be. But go ahead and assume you know me if it makes you feel better. It changes nothing for me. I would just like to take this opportunity to say that my life (and self) is even less interesting than you probably make it out ...

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Really good work by that reporter. As I was reading about the increased number of edits, I kept thinking "but did they stick or get reverted?" and then there was a helpful chart of article size over time to answer my question.

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What happens to the massive range blocks that are extant if they force the end of IP editing? I think that you can't edit from a blocked id whether you're logged into an account or not. So ip blocks should continue to work (as far as they work now). Exactly. Nothing will change except how they reco...

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I agree it's completely stupid. If you look at WP:AIV on any given day, most of the obvious vandalism on Wikipedia is caused by IP users. Given that vandalism is a crime of opportunity, you wonder how many people would bother with vandalism if they actually had to take the time to register. It woul...

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It was dumb of GeneralNotability to block TheSpacebook in the middle of a discussion about whether they were canvassing when they posted here, but I gotta say that other than the timing of that block, GeneralNotability's instincts were right. TheSpacebook was a waste of everyone's time and attention...

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Displaying IP addresses is a privacy issue that presents legal risks, so the solution is to store tracking cookies in unregistered editors’ browsers, which is not a privacy issue that presents legal risks? Are they going to add a cookie consent popup? It looks like they want to claim the cookies ar...

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I thought it was odd that the Signpost didn't cover an active ArbCom case, but I chalked it up to a lack of resources. Now I think it's because Signpost editor-in-chief JPxG really, really hates us.

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