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by ericbarbour
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:52 am
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: Jimmy wales launching a twitter and facebook rival
Replies: 18
Views: 9348

Re: Jimmy wales launching a twitter and facebook rival

wt.social now returns a 500 error: trustcafe.io does not return any errors. yet. :^) Yup, wt.social is abandoned. Another wonderful Jimbo invention goes to pot. Don't be too surprised if spammers seize it and fill it with garbage within a few months. Trust Cafe hasn't changed much--just the same po...
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 480
Views: 184937

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Newslinger tried to soak WMF for $10,000 but they apparently didnt go for it. s/he shouldve consulted with Harej and Isarra. the domain for sourceror dot org is "1337 Services LLC". they apparently host some antifa stuff and some German stuff. :shrug: Most of the sites Newslinger's "company" hosts ...
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:58 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 480
Views: 184937

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Wanna see a 2019 editwar that resulted in nothing but a tagged article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Medicaid_Estate_Recovery_Program FYI: nearly the entire article was written by NormSpier . Exactly the type of editor Wikipedia really needs more of. He tried to write an article about the MERP...
by ericbarbour
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:05 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 480
Views: 184937

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Here we are in the 21st century. Millions of people are driving hybrid electric/combustion vehicles today. It is a major submarket in the enormous global automotive business. But if you want to read about hybrid cars, the principal WP article is a semicoherent, broken, sad mess that apparently hasn'...
by ericbarbour
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 480
Views: 184937

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy size: 127,179 bytes If you ever want examples of wrong priories over at Wikipedia I would like to think this is one of the clearest examples. Nice example, thanks. I might also p...
by ericbarbour
Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:58 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: The Anonymous Comrades Collective has figured out who StoneToss is....
Replies: 4
Views: 5851

Re: The Anonymous Comrades Collective has figured out who StoneToss is....

The notorious neo-Nazi cartoonist StoneToss , who started out as RedPanels (which are/were the names of their online strips) has been revealed as Hans Kristian Graebener , an IT guy for a firm in Houston, Texas. Gee, I knew this already. He was "doxed" on 4chan a few years ago---they just didn't bo...
by ericbarbour
Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:29 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Wikipedia trannies beauty show
Replies: 22
Views: 2026

Re: Wikipedia trannies beauty show

I think that's the TWELFTH major WP insider and early FOJ to "switch teams". At least of those I know of--could easily be several others who are anonymous and unidentified.

And because I can't think like a hardcore nerd/whatever, the reason for this escapes me completely.

Thanks for catching it.
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:33 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"
Replies: 14
Views: 662

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

How charming--someone posts more evidence , and gets banned an hour later for "abusively using multiple accounts" etc etc. Of course there was an edit war on Brad R. Torgersen. He is one of the "Sad Puppies". Wiki-leftists despise them, despite knowing little or nothing about that whole story. They ...
by ericbarbour
Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:15 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 480
Views: 184937

Re: Crap or questionable articles

citation.jpg It's NOT a joke either. Last year there was an editwar over the stupid {citations} box. Which has been placed and removed over and over since 2018. 22 October 2023 curprev 13:33, 22 October 2023‎ Sable232 talk contribs‎ m 24,511 bytes −21‎ article is adequately referenced undo 20 Octob...
by ericbarbour
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:07 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Is Wikipedia broken?
Replies: 8
Views: 1112

Re: Is Wikipedia broken?

What wait they over threw Jimbo? :? You need to keep up. Wikipedia is SO unhinged, the newer "patroller" types started efforts to unseat him as "leader" back in 2010. Partly because he tried to delete their rude little peepee photos on Commons. Many of the old-timey insiders still regard him as the...