This story comes from WikiInAction. The user Whowrote created a Wiktionary account on May 12 and changed a large number of Moabite pronunciations. Chuck Entz banned him for "abusing multiple accounts" without a proper sockpuppet investigation. When Whowrote appealed, Metaknowledge deleted...

Unsurprisingly, Bishonen has a record at GGHQ. Today at ANI , Bishonen banned a user named Aspencork as a "time sink" for knowing that Freidrich Engels (as in "Marx and Engels") advocated for the extermination of the Slavic people and having the sources to back up his arguments a...

While researching everyone's favorite Wikipedia controversy I noticed that Zack Exley, who co-founded the Democratic Party's New Organizing Institute, oversaw a large expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation staff. How many of these new hires were from Exley's group of PR operatives? This could explain...

I can only imagine the drama that would erupt if a Wikiproject Guns+Dominionism were to hijack someone else's project and delete their comments for complaining about it and then have likeminded admins block them and a supporter for complaining about that. Erika overreacted under stress and caused mo...

Somehow it has become a problem on Wikipedia to say that Jews trace their origin to Judah. Four users call it a myth and ridicule the one user opposed to the removal of this fact. Judah/Judea was contemporary with and documented by the Romans, and no one calls the Romans a myth.

I disagree about the antisemitism in the British Left; mostly this is built around the belief that a Corbyn Labour government will be less slavish towards Israel's interests than Theresa May's Conservatives; It turned out to be worse than you had heard. Jeremy Corbyn accused of belonging to third a...

Back in September 2007 Tony1 added a section on "gender-neutral" language to the Manual of Style and pushed it by insulting everyone who pointed out that gender-neutral words were already gender-neutral. But some of the language of the draft is inaccurate: The meaning of The Ascent of Man ...

There may be another political angle here. The Daily Mail has been one of the few sources to report on the influence of the Common Purpose group run by Julia Middleton and Stephen Heintz of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The same organization is known in the United States as Demos. They once tried t...

User_Talk: Jimbo Wales / Archive 226 Mongo complains that Wikipedia's biographies are biased against conservative subjects while Sir Joseph complains that the site culture is hostile to Jews. So EllenCT calls Mongo and Sir Joseph "Nazis", Guy Macon accuses Sir Joseph of making a legal thr...

... if you are a mere normal user. On the other hand, when there was an editor who questioned whether Wikipedia should say definitively whether or not Shaun King was black when there was an open controversy about it... This editor is, quite simply, a racist conspiracy theorist, and should not be per...