Wikipediocracy

Black Kite

Troutman has been persistently irritating for a very long time. He makes *very* blunt comments that are not exactly personal attacks, but hover around it. He reminds me of ASD young people that I work with that don't have that filter. You know when you're reading an interminable Support/Oppose threa...

Black Kite

Uhlan winning the Auckland Cup at Ellerslie Racecourse (T-H-L)

1. No*.
2. No.
3. No.

*Though the title of one of the sources suggests that it's the first film shot in New Zealand; it wasn't.

Black Kite

Where is Kate? Tabloid speculation with some conspiracy theory thrown in about Catherine, Princess of Wales plus an edited photo. Unsurprisingly the deletion discussion is the most active ongoing AfD ( permanent link ) with 42 votes in three days (second place has 23 votes in 22 days). Just as unsu...

Black Kite

I don't recall HistoryOfIran engaging at ANI in other people's threads, but (impression formed by reading ANI regularly like it was Soap Opera Digest) he opens more threads than anyone else. HistoryOfIran is also reported regularly for alleged edit warring or POV pushing. Usually with the result th...

Black Kite

A better question is "Which admins down in the A's have already been used?" and why hasn't anyone found out? Looks like they just skipped past me. Unless they're just picking semi-active admins ... in which case why Bradv? Bradv was inactive at the time. No edits from August 2022 to about a week-an...

Black Kite

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:26 am
A better question is "Which admins down in the A's have already been used?" and why hasn't anyone found out?

Looks like they just skipped past me. Unless they're just picking semi-active admins ... in which case why Bradv?

Black Kite

Someone asked me in a different thread about editors who were obviously an issue regarding ARBPIA, and I refused to answer them per WP:BEANS. I think I can say now that two of them were EytanMelech and Homerethegreat. The third is still unblocked, but hasn't edited for a while.

Black Kite

% main space stats Thanks, that's a useful addition. Hmm, only 5 of 13 are above 50% Not unusual for long-term admins that do a lot of moppy stuff, especially blocking. You end up leaving a lot of notices on talk and usertalk pages. Monitoring contentious pages that have a lot of edit requests also...

Black Kite

For evidence, stick "Black Kite" into Google. You get the (decapitalised) Wikipedia article first, and then .... Prevent unrecognized risk across your supply chain with Black Kite —the only cyber ratings tool dedicated to third-party risk intelligence. That's properly capitalized. :lol: Dick also g...

Black Kite

I don't get why Dick and crew are going so far with the battleground tone and aspersions over such pointless crap. Even against race science POVpushers or extremist meatpuppets I'd be dumb to use that tone onwiki. Oh, this isn't even the biggest battle over capitalisation. Having said that, conside...

Black Kite

Floquenbeam, Ritchie, Sandstein, BBb23, Drmies, for starters. Probably Bishonen by this point but that’s closer. Black Kite, El C, David Gerard, Michael Hardy, Ymblanter. Yeah, me probably *shrug* On the other hand, it's always a tricky one when you're trying to tell people who are being fuckwits, ...

Black Kite

Just out curiosity, care to name any? And why haven't they been Tbanned yet. Say what you want, but Nableezys' conduct was on the verge of a Tban, if it had continued. If other editors are worse in your mind, then they've definitely crossed the line into Tban territory. No, I'm not going to give yo...

Black Kite

I had a funny feeling Black Kite was going to weigh in and support Nableezy. His shift from Corbett enabler, to whatever you want to call him now, has been beautiful to watch. Two completely different editors. I have no skin in the game, but Levivich's evidence is persuasive, for me. Your mileage m...

Black Kite

And he might end up spending some time in the hellhole that is Chelmsford Prison. He'll be feeling homesick for Scotland in no time.

Black Kite

I'm going to be very interested as to why Skyerise (T-C-L) has been added to the case by ArbCom.

Black Kite

I had a lot of sympathy for BHG during Portals, not only because her equally-as-disruptive "opposition" such as NA1000 got off scot free, but also because of some of the very dubious Findings of "Fact", some of which diverged significantly from reality.

I don't have much here, I'm afraid.

Black Kite

Crabcore (T-H-L)

Thanks for letting us know what a crab is, though.

Black Kite

Allergic reaction to a wasp sting, apparently.

I know Bild is a bit flaky, but I doubt if they'd print this otherwise.

https://www.bild.de/regional/stuttgart/ ... .bild.html

Black Kite

One oppose from someone who says they'll oppose every RfA until an alternative desysop procedure and also term limits are imposed, the latter of which is virtually certain never to happen. Sometimes, whether a candidate can pull a unanimous vote solely comes down to whether annoyances like this sho...

Black Kite

The first page I tried it on was ITN/C, where as an admin you scan down the TOC to see if anything can be posted (i.e. "(Ready) Dead Person)". Except you can't in Vector 2022, as the TOC is now in the left hand pane and is collapsed. Shite, basically. It's almost as if they designed the default log...

Black Kite

The first page I tried it on was ITN/C, where as an admin you scan down the TOC to see if anything can be posted (i.e. "(Ready) Dead Person)". Except you can't in Vector 2022, as the TOC is now in the left hand pane and is collapsed. Shite, basically.

Black Kite

Meanwhile, in that same BLP/N thread, Masem is tying himself in knots trying to defend the word "alleged".

I used to think Masem was the voice of reason; I've changed my mind significantly over the last year or two.

Black Kite

Black Kite, on-wiki, with what I must assume is shit-stirring: Regardless of my personal opinion on this one, I am intrigued by the fact that it appears to be OK for certain Arbs to pretty much come out and call Stephen a liar, which is of course a personal attack. Perhaps they should look at WTT's...

Black Kite

I think that's the fewest candidates I've ever voted for. Five (including Tamzin, because why not?)

Black Kite

And yet Binksternet himself supports edits by Sockpuppets when they suit his worldview, and appears to have a burner account for the purpose of edit-warring - FMSky, which just cropped up in 2021, has been reverting my edits in all the same ways that Binksternet has been. I doubt very much that FMS...

Black Kite

And yet Binksternet himself supports edits by Sockpuppets when they suit his worldview, and appears to have a burner account for the purpose of edit-warring - FMSky, which just cropped up in 2021, has been reverting my edits in all the same ways that Binksternet has been. I doubt very much that FMS...

Black Kite

Damn, now that I glanced at the user page, the violation of policy is pretty clear and should be deleted if not entirely. Joe was actually pretty diplomatic about it. Soapbox, RGW, involved, NPA, polemic, battleground… This is like playing policy violation bingo. The irony being that if Barkeep and...

Black Kite

I'm not sure the spirit of WHEEL is violated if Lourdes has no complaint. I can see a variety of ways to dismiss the INVOLVED accusation. The checkuser use seems defensible since they suspected off wiki collusion. Tell me you don't understand WP:WHEEL without telling me you don't understand WP:WHEE...

Black Kite

It actually appears to have been deleted G5 (banned author), 3 minutes after your account that created it was blocked as a checkuser-confirmed sock.

I doubt very much if anyone looked at the sourcing.

FWIW, it is definitely a notable subject.

Black Kite

So I just read through Isabelle Belato's RfA again. Unless I skimmed over it, no one mentioned that Isabelle Belato was trans until Athaenara brought it up. And her comment doesn't seem like it is directly relevant to Isabelle Belato becoming an admin. It seems like Athaenara is opposing simply bec...

Black Kite

For some context to this little exchange here, the admin MrErnie is most directly referring to here: In the past couple weeks we’ve seen admins opine and defend their beliefs that Christians shouldn’t close RFC’s about Hunter Biden’s laptops is Black Kite. Well, it is if you are unable to read stan...

Black Kite

What's interesting about that CBAN discussion (and the others) is not the number of people that are saying things that make them appear dumb as rocks, but the fact that a number of our more ... gender-critical, shall we say ... editors that you'd have expected to be defending Athaenara straight awa...

Black Kite

Tamzin and company think that since they're on the right side of the issue, they get to play with house money. In reality, their actions have brought them very close to being added as parties to the case, which would allow evidence to be submitted about them. With the amount of people who already h...

Black Kite

That said, people aren't mad at her for the rationale of her vote, they're mad at her for making a transphobic personal attack. Surely describing someone as Republican or even "far-right" is not as bad as describing them as "males masquerading as females". This is the point. She didn't simply say "...

Black Kite

This has irked me before. I've changed it to "Crumpsall tram stop is a light rail station..." which seems logical, because it is.

Black Kite

It's off-topic but John Higgins (comics) ? Not John Higgins (artist) or John Higgins (writer)? I thought he was fictional character for a moment, like Eternity (comics) . Yeah, I thought that was odd as well, but there are 22 others in Category:British comics artists alone (indeed, it seems to be t...

Black Kite

The accuracy of Wikidata causes some issues here. This is especially notable in big cities, even if they have major suburbs. So everyone whose birthplace is given as just "London" don't appear, all of them being supplanted by the most notable "person from London", which is Charlie Chaplin. To give a...

Black Kite

Large parts of the The MOS are nonsense that are "enforced" by people with nothing better to do, and this is an example. However, since Gorlitz has since been indeffed after his seventeenth edit-warring block, it probably doesn't matter anyway.

Black Kite

Isn't there one guy who always pops up to add an oppose in pretty much every RfA? I can't remember the name. Kmweber used to Oppose any self-noms as "I view self-noms as prima facie evidence of power-hunger." (I remember him particularly because he opposed mine). I think he was eventually indefinit...

Black Kite

And just to add, make sure that you haven't been socking during the six-month period that could be picked up by a checkuser.

Black Kite

A specter is haunting the Recent Deaths section on the front page and that specter is Indonesian politicians. What is up with this obsession with highlighting the deaths of mid-level Indonesian officials (e.g. Frans Lebu Raya )? I see at least one on the front page almost every week, when there are...

Black Kite

We disagree there. I am not a fan of regular editors (which this clearly is) using socks to report people, and I don't think it should be rewarded. But it seems it is going to turn out to be irrelevant anyway. Yeah, that's it. Deprive the sockmaster of their sweet reward, which is the normal enforc...

Black Kite

Johnpacklambert made the edits. That doesn't change because someone's sock reported them. We disagree there. I am not a fan of regular editors (which this clearly is) using socks to report people, and I don't think it should be rewarded. But it seems it is going to turn out to be irrelevant anyway.

Black Kite

Well, given your last comment at WP:ANI https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=1061309810 , I'd have to suggest that if JPL was smarter than he appears to be, he'd be a damn fine candidate for the sock himself, seeing as he's get...

Black Kite

He's still at it. ANI thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Johnpacklambert_violates_his_topic_ban_again I look forward to seeing how once again people explain why topic bans don't actually apply to JPL, because reasons.... Yep, completely cut and d...

Black Kite

Smiley wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 17, 2021 6:58 am
Still no help for Darkness Shines.

Imma be startin' decimation proceedings if this is ain't put right soon.

I'd vote for anyone who ran on a platform of unblocking DS.

Black Kite

Seems like Bbb23 is getting back into the swing of things and pulling questionable blocks like this one . Sure, two editors reverting each other over relatively trivial matters while having a bit of a row in the edit summaries isn't exactly best practice, but to fully block one while the other gets...

Black Kite

If it turns out to be Fram, there are going to be a lot of people asking some uncomfortable questions. :dubious: They had the same editing hours as Fram. That's always the first thing I look at, because Fram can't change them. The topics they were interested in don't contradict this possibility. Th...

Black Kite

And now Mrs Hinch is on AFD. Who is well known in the UK notable to the point that having a product recommended by her guarantees instant sellouts..... So well known that I didn't have the slightest idea who she was. And, after reading the article, I'll probably have forgotten again within a couple...

Black Kite

Meh. You're not going to beat the Parmo (T-H-L).

2,600 calories and 150g of fat - splendid.

Search found 331 matches