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by ericbarbour
Mon Mar 27, 2023 3:30 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Replies: 181
Views: 75506

Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.

Bbb23sucks wrote:
Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:01 am
"But Wp:OnE", they would scream about creating an article about a very notable person and forum who was featured in many reliable sources over several years. Yet articles that are textbook "WP:ONE" examples are created.
Post it on the talkpage. Dollar sez there will be no response.
by ericbarbour
Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:37 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Replies: 181
Views: 75506

Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.

Pompompurin, the founder of BreachedForums who was recently arrested by the FBI. TONS of news coverage - yet neither have an article. He's a "famous hacker" and "famous hackers" usually end up with WP coverage--but not him! The only mention of Breached Forums is in the Twitter article . That's TWO ...
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 26, 2023 9:14 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Thoughts on Reddit?
Replies: 44
Views: 15391

Re: Thoughts on Reddit?

Redditors are just as stupid and conformist as any other internet "subclass".

This video has been reposted dozens of times in the last two days, in dozens of assorted subreddits. Why? Karma farming my ass.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FUCKYOUINPARTI ... articular/
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 26, 2023 8:16 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Lunatics from Aotearoa
Replies: 1
Views: 72

Lunatics from Aotearoa

Normally on en-Wiki, New Zealanders keep to themselves. And just grind local subjects. Because NZ politics can be extremely fractious and unhinged, this results in some "local colour" of a type. It's a small and isolated country of little real economic importance, so its political messes tend to be ...
by ericbarbour
Sat Mar 25, 2023 8:27 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.
Replies: 181
Views: 75506

Re: Articles Wikipedia should have--but doesn't.

Might've mentioned this a long time ago. Wikiepdia has no article about Charles Eisler, 'BENEFACTOR OF THE RADIO TUBE AND LAMP INDUSTRY". Who? A friend posted a scan of Eisler's obscure and long-out-of-print 1960 autobiography. He is a minor, yet important, figure in the early development of electro...
by ericbarbour
Sat Mar 25, 2023 8:18 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Is WP:NOPUTIN going to follow after WP:NONAZIS and WP:NOCONFEDERATES?
Replies: 5
Views: 172

Re: Is WP:NOPUTIN going to follow after WP:NONAZIS and WP:NOCONFEDERATES?

this has been going on for a long time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys/Workshop#Allegations_of_Putin_being_a_paedophile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive58#Insulting_other_editros_as_paid_Pro-Putin_edit...
by ericbarbour
Sat Mar 25, 2023 7:04 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 346
Views: 126161

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Wikipedia as a motivation for the murders.. nope not in the Wikipedia article... (it has been "Wikipedia has been white washed") crickets on Wikipedia as a murder motive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow_killings I would expect no less. An obsessively detailed article, except about the mo...
by ericbarbour
Fri Mar 24, 2023 10:33 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Brianna Wu article sperging
Replies: 4
Views: 140

Re: Brianna Wu article sperging

A reminder: this was one of the most hacked-at articles I've ever seen. And most of the hacking has been oversighted or rev-deleted, because she was Target #1 for the Gamergater nerds in 2014-17. It will never be revealed but I would not be a bit surprised if Wu's useless little article was subjecte...
by ericbarbour
Thu Mar 23, 2023 7:18 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Archive.org and their biggest threat ever
Replies: 5
Views: 144

Re: Archive.org and their biggest threat ever

lol, the Genderdesk loon isn't finding any "news" in the WP "cult world" so it's time to scrape thru forum threads. Hilarious.

She/whatever has to support Kahle blindly, OF COURSE, because the IA is a donor to the WMF and supports Wikipedia unquestioningly. "Fellow travelers" and all that.
by ericbarbour
Thu Mar 23, 2023 7:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How to become a steward without being elected (or even editing at all!)
Replies: 2
Views: 117

Re: How to become a steward without being elected (or even editing at all!)

It's possible, but it will be a hell of a lot of work and probably take at least a couple of years. You don't rise in the Wikimedia gang by actual achievements, you rise by sucking up and gaining the trust of untrustworthy people.