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MrErnie wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:58 pm
Tamzin just blanked Vami IV’s rfa. That was a bad one, and a sign of why Wikipedia would be losing credibility.

What point would there be in keeping it around? It's not like he's going to run again.

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This poll is clearly biased since unregistered users can't vote.

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The Main Page wrote:In fiction, the planet Mars, fourth from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in at least 5,000 works, portrayed differently as planetary science has advanced.

On Wikipedia, "Mars in fiction", today's featured article, is poorly written, edited by random people.

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The question isn't whether it can write Wikipedia articles, the question is whether it can write talk page comments. Write a one-paragraph guideline on when a person is sufficiently important to be included on a list of 100 people who died in a recent year, along with three paragraphs of arguments ...

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Mojito wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 13, 2023 11:30 pm
What's up with Jax 0677 (T-C-L)'s web of about 20 redirects for this (created from 28/12 to 13/1)? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =&limit=50

Shades of Neelix.

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Not sure this one is dead yet, but I have to say I’ve never seen worse behavior from nominators in the RfA itself. Badgering the opposers, especially once it’s clear the opposition is significant, is pretty much textbook “what not to do as an RfA nominator”. Kudpung really wasn't the best choice of...

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I offer my condolences to the nation of India in the hopes that they may one day recover from having seen "Nude woman spreading legs to show shaved vagina and anus.jpg".

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I think it is well-established that middle-class white North American males are over-represented in the demographics of English language Wikipedia editors . I don't know why anyone would expect that the list of English language Wikipedia editors with Wikipedia articles would reflect the makeup of t...

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LordBstard wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:32 pm
Could that be because while India has the second highest number of English speakers in the world, the lower class racist White male admins on EN.WP block educated Indians like myself from editing over there ?

No.

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I'm not sure what's worse, the COI editing or the mass creation of content-free stubs like Cinemagic Theater , Statue of Rocky Colavito and Circunvalación Country metro station . Moore's article boasts that "Moore is among the most active editors by edit count on the English Wikipedia". I guess writ...

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Which seems more likely? Stephen logged out and got some petty revenge with poor ITSec or there's a separate mysterious person who closely follows trivial conflict on en.wp and decided to get involved without telling Stephen? There isn't any evidence that Stephen logged out. The editing came from a...

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As mentioned earlier in this thread, the idea that someone close to Stephen would randomly choose to hound the same user with whom Stephen himself had drama seems ludicrous. Why does it have to be random? Why can't it be someone close to him who was following him closely on Wikipedia and knew who h...

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I guess he just happened to coincidentally share an IP and user agent with someone who is invested in the same petty wikidrama as he is.

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At WP:ANI Racist comment by User:Sca at WP:ITNC Not so much of a feeding frenzy there... I wonder why that is... Resurrecting a dead convo, but I just noticed that admin Stephen , who reported Sca to ANI, was desysopped for "editing while logged out in a manner that harasses another user" . I'm gue...

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The Blue Newt wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:21 pm
PS: checking further, it is sourced. It is also however, untrue; Chilloway died of smallpox at Fort Pitt.

It's almost like a book from 1892 isn't a reliable source for Native American history...

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Within a few hours of Geraldo Perez deleting his userpage, Crawdad Blues (T-C-L) updated their userpage with a remarkably similar notice: link.

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Blooxo wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 15, 2022 1:08 pm
It was my attempt at writing a stub in 2022 at Standing charge (T-H-L) that got my new account blocked because I dared to speak back at the deletionists who mercilessly abort fetus sized articles.

How big is a fetus-sized article? Are we talking 8 weeks or 35 weeks? Is late-term draftification ethical?

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I would add this to his Wikipedia article but David Mark Purdy doesn't seem to exist... A candidate for the missing articles thread, surely. * Meet the man with 130,000 Wikipedia edits * King's instructor top 50 Wikipedia editor * Boobs and Tits: The Story of Wikipedia's Great Titty Trial * Renunci...

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As it happens, Andersson's PhD thesis was released under a Creative Commons license, so people have wasted no time in uploading it to Wikisource and Commons.

TE(æ)A,ea. (T-C-L) is an interesting character.

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The Iyke Uzorma article is interesting. Most of the references are to his own book and website. One is to a textbook chapter titled It’s All Academic: Google Scholar, Scirus, and Windows Live Academic Search . The full text is behind a paywall, but I'd be surprised if it had anything to say about Ni...

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From Lou Sander , member of the fifteen-year club: When I was seven years old, I was shot at by a group of nonwhites who didn't like the names my friend Henry told me to call them. The (expletive deleted) missed. I am a faithful husband, and I am safe around women and girls, even if they are stunnin...

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I suspected some stupid discussions might come out of this, and indeed, a truly stupid proposal has come about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Mandatory_retirement/maximum_age_for_admins? It's a proposal for a forced retirement age for admins. I don't think it is inte...

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David Dobrik is a guy who makes Youtube videos that are popular with the Kids These Days. The article lays the promo on so heavy that it would make a PR agent blush: Dobrik's appearance on the show alongside Martin Short and Yola was credited for the show being ranked as the #1 most-social late-nig...

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The article, while not offensively bad, reads like the typical CV of a successful but not particularly remarkable businessperson that gets deleted by the dozens every day. One suspects that if it had been created by someone without friends, it would have been quietly moved to draft or PRODded and th...

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Sorry to interrupt the pizza discussion, but this thread wouldn't be complete without some of Freeknowledgecreator 's greatest hits: Chimpanzees talking Why can't chimpanzees reproduce the sounds of human languages? Is it because they aren't smart enough, or are they just not physically capable of i...

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Since the site's main purpose is to host pornography, it only makes sense for Commons to adopt the OnlyFans model.

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Category:Rear views of road cyclists with bicycle helmets during the COVID-19 pandemic The category was created and the photos were uploaded by Florentino Floro , who has uploaded a couple of million images under various accounts. From his FA. While serving as a judge, Floro made a number of claims...

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Category:Rear views of road cyclists with bicycle helmets during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Some lines reproduced verbatim from Josiah Holbrook : The teacher aid items made by Holbrook's company that were designed for the common school of the nineteenth century in the United States included: Geometrical solids, each as spheres, cones, pyramids, prisms, parallelopipsds of various forms. All...

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I don't know if I'd call it "wondrous", but the upload history of Corn cheese (T-C-L) certainly paints a picture. A rather sad one.

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Speaking of navel-fucking, the "Celebrities" section of the article Navel fetishism presents the reader with a highly encyclopedic and not-at-all-creepy compilation of every time a female celebrity has mentioned her bellybutton. Highlights include: British actress Billie Piper stated that her bellyb...

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The article Dick joke (T-H-L) would have us believe that a "balls joke" is "a joke that makes a direct or indirect reference to a human penis". Surely it's a joke that references the human balls? The remainder of the article is a haphazard collection of quotes.

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The Wikiquote entry for https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Child_pornography,child pornography was written by Nathan Larson and CensoredScribe . Related, the Wikiquote entry for Nathan Larson was written by the single-purpose account Intl lv . We can only speculate on who that might have possibly been.

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Barefoot (T-H-L) is largely a gallery of creepshots of women's feet.

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Weird. Maybe it was done to keep the users' IP information private - if you checked an admin's log and saw that they granted IPBE to several users immediately after blocking a range, you could easily draw the conclusion that those accounts are using that IP range.

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How about Category:Women wearing dotted bikinis and high-heeled shoes while smiling and standing?

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Instructor With Bursting Tits Instructor With Bursting Tits (Japanese: 爆乳インストラクター) is a Japanese adult video series. The incredibly popular series has sold over 400,000 DVD copies to date as well as millions of views after being upload to porn sharing sites on the Internet. Now this is encyclopedic...

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Tulsi has gotten into hot water over suspected paid editing. He has global rollback rights, which for some reason come with global autopatrolled, and he created an article on enwiki ( Gautam Kumawat ) which was promptly deleted as spam. Turns out he's been advertising his "social media promotion" s...

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Tulsi Bhagat was globally locked for cross-wiki socking and trolling in 2017, somehow managed to get unblocked, and since then has been building an impressive hat collection. He seems to be aiming for stewardship.

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...and these can be yours for only €300.00!

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Anurupa Roy (T-H-L)
Typical terrible article about something from India. Has been in this state since 2015.

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Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_crimes_involving_a_silicone_mask (T-H-L)
Dreadful...

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About the Book In The Definitive Guide to Naked Play, Dr. Michael Christianson, JUD, has broadly attempted to clarify some gross misconceptions about classical pedosexuals in the modern vigilante age and has clearly defined the boundaries for naked play based on the 5 Pillars of naked play classica...

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Cock and ball torture (T-H-L) (Not safe for work, obviously)

Is it really necessary to have TEN images in this article?!

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So you'd need to be a checkuser to rangeblock IPs. Great news for all the 12 year olds adding "poop" to articles, bad news for everyone else.

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List of Warriors characters (T-H-L): Over 30k words of godawful fancruft. This article is probably longer than most of the books in this children's series.

Edit: I missed List of Warriors ThunderClan characters (T-H-L), which is an additional 20k+ words.

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Ridiculous. A totally offensive and dehumanizing way to "celebrate" intersex awareness day.

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On June 8 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation released a statement regarding their ban of the administrator Fram. The Foundation stated that Fram was banned due to: a) His involvement in the Wikipedia scandal, including allegations of hacking and censorship. b) His involvement with pedophilia and organi...

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Nulla_poena_pro_vitium_Abyssus (T-H-L) - Blatant hoax gone unnoticed since 2008. See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nulla_poena_pro_vitium_Abyssus (T-H-L)
Always improving!

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Minimalist photography Minimalist photography is a form of photography that is distinguished by extreme plainness and simplicity. It emphasizes spareness and focuses solely on a small number of objects in the process of composition. ... Minimalist photography arises from the notion of minimalism in...

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