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by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:32 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "Adumb" and his "graph of Wikipedia"
Replies: 0
Views: 120

"Adumb" and his "graph of Wikipedia"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4 I could tell this hapless nerd (with an annoying nasal voice) EXACTLY why he found the article "communities" shown. Because they correlate with the chart of articles I made more than ten years ago. See below. Wikipedia loves sports (especially Association ...
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:25 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Gerbic rants again
Replies: 4
Views: 176

Gerbic rants again

https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ufo-conspiracy-on-wikipedia-claimsa-conversation-with-gsows-susan-gerbic/ And I repeat something I've said before on various fora and in email: I still think she enjoys fighting with cranks on WP, because she IS a crank. I say again: this problem could be made...
by ericbarbour
Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 343
Views: 186175

Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible

Unnoticed paid edit war of the week: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stankey See the talkpage. Fleishman Hillard is openly biasing it to make Stankey look like a great hero. Completely controlled by Jon Gray . It is not difficult to find scandals and "bad news" involving Stankey. "Pac Bell and th...
by ericbarbour
Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:15 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: A farewell to Andrevan
Replies: 2
Views: 137

Re: A farewell to Andrevan

That's only one item about Andrevan's stupidity in the book wiki. Wasn't the worst admin, not the best--more of a side character. From the Ryan Bushby/Chillum/HighinBC article: Andrevan gave sysop power to one of Bushby's sockpuppets. I never found any "official approval" of this. Bushby was one of ...
by ericbarbour
Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:48 pm
Forum: Political
Topic: Research Article: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
Replies: 229
Views: 26594

Re: Research Article: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust

I really don't think that anti-Semitic bias is one of the big neutrality problems on Wikipedia - far from it. Generally it isn't. There's no shortage of editors who devoted to making sure of that, sometimes to a fault. What made this different was the obscurity of the dispute to anglophone advocacy...
by ericbarbour
Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Larry Sanger found out about Jimmy Saville
Replies: 6
Views: 297

Re: Larry Sanger found out about Jimmy Saville

Both Sanger and Wales just appear to be random web1.0 guys who were in the right place at the right time and possibly nothing else. People who were planning on competing like GNUpedia either gracefully let them have center stage and others like htg2g were a bit too jokey. But neither Sanger or Wale...
by ericbarbour
Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:53 am
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: Stephen Harrison is releasing a book about Wikipedia in August
Replies: 2
Views: 101

Re: Stephen Harrison is releasing a book about Wikipedia in August

https://www.stephenharrison.com/the-editors It's a NOVEL. Instead of spewing his usual propaganda, he's going to make fiction about Wikipedian-like freaks. I detect incoming cringe here. That nit can barely write "plain journalism" and making a fictional story seems like he wants to screw himself.....
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:48 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"
Replies: 21
Views: 1357

Re: New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"

From the pathetic babbling on the "Workshop" page : @Jessintime: my understanding is different than yours. While ArbCom was aware of the COI article on WPO, the only person who brought it up to us was an Arb. For me ArbCom acting on its own initiative should be reserved for exceptional circumstances...
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:58 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"
Replies: 21
Views: 1357

Re: New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"

A decision should be forthcoming "real soon now". There has been VERY little public discussion of this case other than the evidence, and a few stupid comments like this (things which I fully expect Piotrus to say). Some insiders continue to be "perfectly okay" with people paid-editing and making mon...