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- Sun May 12, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17606
Re: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo/ Thanks. Although I don't get the "regime-change actor" descriptor (aren't they robotically opposed to any actual "regime change" in their own countries?), this is basica...
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
- Replies: 348
- Views: 192315
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
From a private email discussion: >> Look up the non-science fiction work of Samuel R. Delany; his novel Hogg (1969/1995) has one of the most grotesque title characters ever, a truck driver and rapist for hire who never bathes and craps in his pants, who is surrounded by a cast of characters who are ...
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Woke Wikipedians are trying to ban the Daily Telegraph now!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 94
Re: Woke Wikipedians are trying to ban the Daily Telegraph now!
And also: I predict that David Gerard is, or soon will be, heavily involved in this bullshit somehow.....
- Sun May 12, 2024 2:34 am
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Woke Wikipedians are trying to ban the Daily Telegraph now!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 94
Re: Woke Wikipedians are trying to ban the Daily Telegraph now!
lol, this is how Arbcom cases get started. Idiots who post this kind of ranting crap eventually make too many enemies, regardless of the "house bias", whatever that is this week. Patterns get corrected in the British system. This isn't America. We aren't retarded. Point taken, but just remember: one...
- Sun May 12, 2024 1:38 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Common names invented on Wikipedia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 171
Re: Common names invented on Wikipedia
It also makes me think of the insane, abusive ways WP handles the creation and deletion of articles. Was reminded of this by the ugly story of the 2011 attempt to delete the Old Man Murray article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-03-07/Deletion_controversy Which menti...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: 30 (thirty) accounts G-LOCKED based on erroneous English Wikipedia CheckUser findings
- Replies: 2
- Views: 69
Re: 30 (thirty) accounts G-LOCKED based on erroneous English Wikipedia CheckUser findings
How ABSOLUTELY FUCKING TYPICAL. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/JJMC89&type=&user=JJMC89&offset=20240509 14:22, 8 May 2024 JJMC89 talk contribs changed status for global account "User:Sticky v. Speedwagon@global": set (none); unset locked (erroneous enwiki CU findings) 14:22...
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Has Wikipedia gone woke? (Chris Troutman blocked for sexis
- Replies: 15
- Views: 938
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Michael Shermer discovers that "science has a liberal bias"
- Replies: 0
- Views: 37
Michael Shermer discovers that "science has a liberal bias"
Brace yourself, this item will set off a lot of TRIGGERING. Why did Scientific American fire Shermer in 2019? https://www.city-journal.org/article/unscientific-american Shermer aside, this IS something I've noticed about current American progressives: a weird tendency to harp about how A*W*F*U*L eve...
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
- Replies: 116
- Views: 1258
Re: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
Highly active 2006-09, but been bumbling along at 100-200 edits per year since 2014. A very common pattern for early admins. Burnout occurs after 4-8 years of supporting the "cult" and fighting with random idiots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive...
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
- Topic: Section 230 is in trouble -- at last !
- Replies: 76
- Views: 23254
Re: Section 230 is in trouble -- at last !
It's Tuesday and someone famous is whining about Section 230. So OF COURSE Mike Masnick has to whine about the whiner. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/07/raging-ignorantly-at-the-internet-fixes-nothing/ Wenner always WAS a raging coke-addled asshole. Now he's an old coke-addled asshole? BTW, the we...