NadirAli wrote:I suspect he's on the payroll of the Indian mob on Wikipedia.

He's a nut but you've lost me there.

And the screaming about "the new fascism" is insulting. The USA has ALWAYS had a tendency toward banana-republicanism and crackpot right-wing ideas. I don't know, you could make that argument for much of the 19th century but the rise of the institutional technocracy in the civil service a...

It's a joke, man. If anything, Wikipedia could use a little more levity and a little less self-importance.

MedCom is a throwback to a more innocent time, when people thought Wikipedia dispute resolution would be about deep deliberation and strength of argument, and a strong Administrator corps would ensure fair play. Bingo. Editors fall into two camps, those who know how to leverage the internal mechani...

Wow... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:JzG/Politics Classic Guy Chapman bullshit. You can spot the "real insiders" just by the keep/delete votes--the suck-ups will fight to keep this crap. It does serve as a remarkably concise cheat sheet.

I'm pretty new to the off-wiki circuit. I only joined after my site ban. Is there a Cliff Notes version of why people hate Wikipediocracy and Jake so much? I understand accusations that he leaks stuff to the in-crowd on Wikipedia, but other than that?

Seems like he outed himself.

Also, we occasionally need to remind the world that the Internet Archive has had extremely friendly relations with Wikimedia for more than 10 years . So it is not inconceivable to think that someone will ask the Archive to remove some of those links--in order to keep covering something up. I don't ...