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by ericbarbour
Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:44 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Clarice Phelps
Replies: 20
Views: 12910

Re: Clarice Phelps

Even funnier/suckier is the Metafilter thread about this item m This comment was hilarious: Metafilter to the rescue! Jessamyn agreed it was "irritating as hell" there was no article and got a good enough start of a new page there that it's managed to stick. Partly because she used her sup...
by ericbarbour
Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:08 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 343
Views: 189109

Re: Paid Editing

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Golly, (notorious former Wikipedia admin), thanks for pointing this one out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite
Major editors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... ersweet475
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... oshubandit

You tell us.
by ericbarbour
Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:15 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Clarice Phelps
Replies: 20
Views: 12910

Re: Clarice Phelps

Also: if you have the stomach, read the Article Rescue Squadron "discussion". m Oh looky, it's Andrew "Colonel Warden" Davidson! Screaming, and being screamed at! Whoo hoo. (blah) Your happy little Wikiworld has a serious problem, Andrew. And you're one of the reasons. Further: J...
by ericbarbour
Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:00 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Clarice Phelps
Replies: 20
Views: 12910

Clarice Phelps

One of the purest examples I've ever seen of Wikipedia's human failures. This is even meaner and pettier than the Katie Bouman squabble. m m The decision set off a heated debate. I copied the full discussion into a document; it fills 18 pages and runs more than 16,000 words. “Put up or shut up,” one...
by ericbarbour
Thu Apr 25, 2019 3:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: And here Somey hit on the key to the whole thing.
Replies: 17
Views: 7830

Re: And here Somey hit on the key to the whole thing.

This is mook-food. Rotten stinking mook-food. And the WMF office is full of young and evidently-inexperienced lawyers who think it smells like the finest chateaubriand. They don't care. Every year the WMF sucks down millions in donations from the public (and Google and Amazon and Microsoft etc), an...
by ericbarbour
Thu Apr 25, 2019 3:45 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: German court says WMF is liable for libel in old revisions
Replies: 19
Views: 9757

Re: German court says WMF is liable for libel in old revisio

it seems to me that these removals would affect the attribution required by many free content licenses The changes to copyright law being considered by the EU might have similar effects. Wikipedia cannot function "as usual" in that legal climate. Someone call the whaaambulance, we got a s...
by ericbarbour
Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:24 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 490
Views: 196933

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Even by Wikipedia standards, this article is biased beyond saving. Yeah, I know, he's a right-wing nationalist politician and a semi-competent businessman and an Australian political lightning-rod. It seems that Australian politics in general attracts lightning (not to mention shit fountains). But i...
by ericbarbour
Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:25 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: And here Somey hit on the key to the whole thing.
Replies: 17
Views: 7830

Re: And here Somey hit on the key to the whole thing.

This case has got sod all to do with Trump or the Republicans, Jake is into saying that because from his vantage point in his cabin in the woods, everything is about Trump. It's worthless noise. Jake/Somey always was a fount of non-sequiturs and obviousness..... WMF has done the only right thing, t...
by ericbarbour
Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:12 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 490
Views: 196933

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Oh, just another autistic fit by Blofeld.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocotepec

He stubbed it in 2009, then an IP lazily copied raw text from a tourism website. And it's been a pile of crap ever since. All the articles about Lake Chapala and its environs are crap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chapala
by ericbarbour
Sun Apr 21, 2019 7:38 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Catch-all Google thread
Replies: 15
Views: 12430

Re: Catch-all Google thread

I use Firefox whenever possible, partly because Google's "Chrime" was notorious for feeding info back to Google servers, and for not accepting third-party ad blockers or security plugins. It turns out that things are even worse: m Nightingale is not the first Firefox team member to come fo...