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by ericbarbour
Sun May 12, 2024 11:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
Replies: 49
Views: 17564

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...
by ericbarbour
Sun May 12, 2024 8:26 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 347
Views: 192241

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 ...
by ericbarbour
Sun May 12, 2024 8:45 am
Forum: Political
Topic: Woke Wikipedians are trying to ban the Daily Telegraph now!
Replies: 3
Views: 92

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.....
by ericbarbour
Sun May 12, 2024 2:34 am
Forum: Political
Topic: Woke Wikipedians are trying to ban the Daily Telegraph now!
Replies: 3
Views: 92

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...
by ericbarbour
Sun May 12, 2024 1:38 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Common names invented on Wikipedia
Replies: 6
Views: 169

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...
by ericbarbour
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: 68

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...
by ericbarbour
Fri May 10, 2024 6:26 am
Forum: Political
Topic: Has Wikipedia gone woke? (Chris Troutman blocked for sexis
Replies: 15
Views: 922

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

Kraken wrote:
Thu May 09, 2024 10:27 am
You useless cunt.

You docile, knows his place, lost his balls, couldn't criticise Wikipedia/ns even if he tried and Zoloft gave him permission, worm ridden little house pet.
heh
by ericbarbour
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: 36

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...
by ericbarbour
Thu May 09, 2024 7:32 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
Replies: 116
Views: 1244

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...
by ericbarbour
Thu May 09, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: Section 230 is in trouble -- at last !
Replies: 76
Views: 23242

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...