Wikipediocracy

FelinaLavandula

Would be genuinely curious to know if you would change anything about that RFA vote with the benefit of hindsight.

FelinaLavandula

rnu, I feel like you don't understand DYK. You're supposed to be left with questions after reading a hook. The hook is supposed to be exciting. That's the whole point. You click on the article and satisfy the questions the hook raised for you. Perhaps the question shouldn’t be “why was I stupid eno...

FelinaLavandula

Can’t believe they indeffed Fram over this!

FelinaLavandula

Look, I know this is so routine as to be practically not worth commenting on, but today I happened across the article 2024 Ra'anana attack , which was created the same day the attack occurred. It was last updated 5 days ago and nobody seems to have questions about the enduring legacy of one attack d...

FelinaLavandula

Your second link is broken btw

FelinaLavandula

I would have never thought one of the many pro-Israel POV-pushers on Wikipedia would do such a thing as be dishonest. Truly shocking. And off-topic political PvP at my beautiful wikicriticism site? Such a thing has never been seen!

FelinaLavandula

Thank God I don’t play sports or my subclinical paranoia about one day having a Wikipedia article would never be assuaged…

FelinaLavandula

Anyone in this thread smoke weed?

FelinaLavandula

It would be funny if it was true though

FelinaLavandula

Never mind, just reviewed the talk page. Wikipedians using their classic BLP-subject tact over there…

FelinaLavandula

“Israeli-born Palestinian” goes against MoS unless his Israeli citizenship is important in any way, which it seems not to be. I want to say “either change it to Palestinian or take it out”, but we know they’re just going to take it out lol.

FelinaLavandula

I think we should create 10,000 more terrible stubs, saved or not, and then 10,000 more, and let’s just keep doing that indefinitely since no one is ever going to look at them again anyway, so who cares? Not my problem!

FelinaLavandula

LOL, LMAO, even

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I feel like the project benefits if I type out a cogent reply to this comment instead of just 'stfu' &c -- not just me and you, but everyone else who has to see the conversation or God forbid has to participate in it, everyone who looks through it in archives years down the line and thinks "Ah, I s...

FelinaLavandula

Not sure if this counts, but Phonetic series on Wiktionary. Never explains what phonetic series are and it doesn’t appear to be anywhere on Wiktionary. Then I went to Wikipedia and looked it up there, but while the article is actually quite helpful, there wasn’t a redirect to it from the search term...

FelinaLavandula

I bet they’d be hype to approve those hooks. Someone should propose ’em and write a blog post about it.

FelinaLavandula

Do you get anything for this except points and pride? I might sign up.

FelinaLavandula

I am a regular reader of ANI so none of these names are new to me, but I’m not going to do a deep dive because who cares.
This, however,

Mojito wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:01 am
5 of 13 are above 50%

literally surprises me. I wouldn’t guess that any of the top 25 editors at ANI had more than 50% mainspace edits.

FelinaLavandula

GhostofDanGurney has quietly unretired 13 days later. LOL.
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FelinaLavandula

Thank God for this close review. I’d never have been able to plan my flight to Montréal without Wikipedia. There’s just no other way. When I look at the articles for major airports, I want two-thirds of it to be taken up with an uncollapsible table of information I truly care about as a reader, and ...

FelinaLavandula

Yeah, block looks good IMO (but also IMO if you’ve been in trouble multiple times for the same crap you should be insta-indeffed) but Wbm logging off right after doing it is not so good. Do people here also think this is an involved violation?

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Can someone tban andre on this website too?

FelinaLavandula

I like Nableezy, and this is pretty vibes-based, but appealing a *temporary* tban immediately isn’t a good look. Like, at least spend a few weeks puttering around in a different topic area first.

FelinaLavandula

This anti-joke really is a million times funnier than the original joke. Well… a million times zero is zero innit?

FelinaLavandula

Literally the day before yesterday I looked up this article when one of his songs came on my playlist and thought it was a bit weird they called him faceless considering there was a photo of his face right there. I don’t know anything about him besides his music* but this kind of stuff happens often...

FelinaLavandula

When I used to hang out with the Japanese voice actor fandom (a long time ago), mentioning companies like 81 Produce was quite normal, but I don’t know if this was for normal reasons or like, marketing stuff. DYK ... ... ... that Dustin Wolf (pictured) has been named his league's goaltender of the y...

FelinaLavandula

I mean, even if this professor was the stupidest most incompetent person on Earth I think it would still be WikiEdu’s fault that his students are running around mucking things up.
Edit: I’d love to edit Wikipedia for credit, personally, but I can only imagine most other students would not be so eager.

FelinaLavandula

There is the Mentorship feature of Wikipedia:Growth Team features , which essentially puts a newcomer in touch with an experienced user who can answer their questions on editing Wikipedia. Thanks Redbaron. If I'm understanding the FAQ page correctly, en-wp has mentoring turned on, so every new user...

FelinaLavandula

Might explain the weird vibes, since Canadians are just Americans 6cm to the left. Had an American friend here for a couple days last week and he said something similar about how everybody was like Bizarro Americans.

FelinaLavandula

Opening that link and seeing John immediately misspell taxonomy gave me a good giggle.

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It’s certainly beyond the capabilities of a few human editors I could name…

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Zoll, there is literally nothing you can say that will convince admins or checkusers that you aren’t/weren’t a sock. I know that because I’m not buying it and I don’t have access to CU data. You have to drop it and try something else. The posters upthread know what they’re talking about, you should ...

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Do You Kare…

… that at the end of her Weekends with Adele shows, Adele vanishes?

I sure don’t.

FelinaLavandula

It may be relevant to note that Elijah Schaffer, the person who made the tweet, is a far-right (alt-right?) podcaster who was fired from Glenn Beck’s The Blaze for being a sex pest. He definitely shared that video because he is racist. I don’t know if Larry Sanger shared it directly from him or if ...

FelinaLavandula

It may be relevant to note that Elijah Schaffer, the person who made the tweet, is a far-right (alt-right?) podcaster who was fired from Glenn Beck’s The Blaze for being a sex pest. He definitely shared that video because he is racist. I don’t know if Larry Sanger shared it directly from him or if t...

FelinaLavandula

But this raises the fundamental question, wouldn't bias in sources, translate to bias in Wikipedia? I'll take an extreme example, and say country X attacked country Y. The source which is biased towards country Y, will say country X bad. Because it's human nature to view war as bad, and the aggress...

FelinaLavandula

If bias in curating stories/articles was a mark against reliability on Wikipedia, we would have zero usable sources.

FelinaLavandula

Aww. Toronto is a nice city. This conference sounds awful but the location seems pretty nice, it’s near some great restaurants and my beloved Glad Day Bookshop (recommended). I hope everybody has fun and eats some good food and buys cool books or whatever.

FelinaLavandula

There are a few underrepresented languages there. The English translation of the search page isn’t so great though, it uses the French “genre” instead of “gender”.

FelinaLavandula

Pueblo This article is about like four different things and still manages to not answer the question I was looking to it for, which is “is a modern-day pueblo (the type of settlement) at all like a reservation?” I didn’t know a pueblo was a Native-specific thing in New Mexico until I accidentally s...

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Ron Lybonly wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 26, 2023 5:24 am
At ANI today. Their 3rd edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... orrections

A couple days later, this odd edit summary goes unnoticed: diff

FelinaLavandula

I also thought it was about Jimbo; what a pleasant surprise that it isn’t, and is in fact about something actually interesting. The more you know?

FelinaLavandula

You know, the snippet from her experience at 8 really made me think that she is still a child/young adult, not 43 years old.

FelinaLavandula

Googleguy007 wrote: Is Fox News reliable for GENSEX (gender and/or sexuality related) articles/topics?

Springee (T-C-L)

FelinaLavandula

I would be so mad if I was a perma-IP user, though I understand that’s very few people. Also, if it’s stored via a cookie, couldn’t you just clear browser cookies to get a new temp account?

FelinaLavandula

Not to mention a ridiculous UNDUE problem.

FelinaLavandula

Subjective, but the Palestinian Territories flag map image is quite ugly too.

FelinaLavandula

Now at AfD (no votes yet):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... kba_denial

FelinaLavandula

So what do you guys think? I think some elements might be mergeable to Nakba (T-H-L), but DIYeditor (T-C-L) threatened to take Iskandar323 (T-C-L) to ANI over this so maybe we’ll get an indef or two before the content dispute is settled.

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