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by ericbarbour
Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: Jess Wade
Topic: Jess Wade hasn't made a single talk post for 200+ days
Replies: 2
Views: 29

Re: Jess Wade hasn't made a single talk post for 200+ days

Long story short.............................................................................................. Wade isn't an "asset" in regards to Wikipedia content. She's simply copying Jimbo and using it as a self-aggrandizing online ego conduit. HER fellow workers at Imperial College toil unnotic...
by ericbarbour
Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: 2024 NFL Draft
Replies: 4
Views: 59

Re: 2024 NFL Draft

It's only football obsessives who want literal live updates once you get down there in the NFL boonies. There are people who claim Wikipedia has a dual use. It can be both a general reference work and an almanac. And it is implied that its ability to update in real time, applies to both. Clearly, t...
by ericbarbour
Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: BOZ the Barbarian
Replies: 1
Views: 30

Re: BOZ the Barbarian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard/Archive_46#Desysop_request_-_BOZ He was a habitual copyright violator. Extremely close paraphrasing. Shocker. It gets worse. The Bureaucrats were seemingly blind to the real story. There was a good chance he might have even got an h...
by ericbarbour
Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:15 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Kraken banned by Zoloft
Replies: 25
Views: 504

Re: Kraken banned by Zoloft

she found a way to make the community think her request that they use the block tool as a mechanism for punishment was actually a decision they arrived at all by themselves and not as a result of her evil woke witchcraft lol She's too crazy to be "woke", it would imply she had a coherent political ...
by ericbarbour
Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:52 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: The practically perfect Clovermoss
Replies: 4
Views: 46

Re: The practically perfect Clovermoss

One can only hope she hasn't exchanged one cult for another, having gently pushed back on the suggestion the JWs are a cult. It happens more often than they would ever admit. Anecdotally, It seems to show Wikipedia still recruits mainly by being rubbish. Thereby causing the impulse to fix something...
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:34 pm
Forum: Misc
Topic: Scotland implodes
Replies: 4
Views: 60

Re: Scotland implodes

:roll: :shrug:
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:25 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Bobak the throwback
Replies: 4
Views: 70

Re: Bobak the throwback

But that's the hilarious thing, the guy isn't even close to the inactivity threshold. You have to be almost dead for that to kick in. He even shows up in the "Active Administrators" list (the flaw of which is that it only measures edits, not Admin actions). But with a handful of admin actions a yea...
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
Replies: 33
Views: 15971

Re: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR

Of course, since that alone is insufficient by itself to push the situation to the tipping point. But lately there's been an avalanche of scandals already such as pro-Iranian distortions and so on, and already there are signs of change in Google's Youtube that they are beginning to use other source...
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: Political
Topic: Has Wikipedia gone woke? (Chris Troutman blocked for sexis
Replies: 4
Views: 224

Re: Has Wikipedia gone woke? (Chris Troutman blocked for sexis

As long as we are mentioning the idiot Beeb: does anyone think we should have a "Doxing Discussion" subsection on this forum? Might as well put all the "most evil" discussion in one place.
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:33 pm
Forum: Political
Topic: Has Wikipedia gone woke? (Chris Troutman blocked for sexis
Replies: 4
Views: 224

Re: Has Wikipedia gone woke? (Chris Troutman blocked for sexis

Because that's just what you do when you're an independent turner over of the rocks of Wikipedia, isn't it? Once again: do not waste your time trying to do it on Wikipediocracy. Failure is inevitable, followed by ol' Wee Billy tossing you out and disappearing threads. Still think you should toss it...