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- Thu May 09, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
- Topic: Section 230 is in trouble -- at last !
- Replies: 76
- Views: 23060
Re: Section 230 is in trouble -- at last !
It's Tuesday and someone famous is whining about Section 230. So OF COURSE Mike Masnick has to whine about the whiner. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/07/raging-ignorantly-at-the-internet-fixes-nothing/ Wenner always WAS a raging coke-addled asshole. Now he's an old coke-addled asshole? BTW, the we...
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Common names invented on Wikipedia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 54
Re: Common names invented on Wikipedia
So the point is; someone invents a name for a fish species and posts it on the WP article, it ends up on a "WP mirror" called inaturalist, and no one noticed for TWO YEARS? When someone does notice, "indefinite block for vandalism"? As far as I can tell, most of Alomomola's "common names" were prope...
- Wed May 08, 2024 6:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia Sucks the Song
- Replies: 2
- Views: 94
Re: Wikipedia Sucks the Song
Nice work, very amusing--I'll pass it around.
- Tue May 07, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
- Replies: 346
- Views: 191776
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Chamber of Commerce bullshit of the week: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearfield,_Utah Do you see any references in the "History" or "Government" sections? It took them TWO YEARS to figure out they should block this account. And more than ten years later, no one has seen fit to fix the content. ht...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
- Replies: 105
- Views: 619
Re: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
BD2412 Bruce Abramson. "Well known as administrator BD2412, he has been a major contributor to Wikipedia's otherwise-spotty coverage of American law. He has also shown blind patriotic zeal towards "protecting" Wikipedia, and supporting other administrators, right or wrong. Otherwise Bruce is a rema...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
- Replies: 346
- Views: 191776
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolie_Holland Semi-well-known indie folk musician. Never heard of her? Neither did I....until TAPE OP magazine ran an item on her recently. Did she edit her own bio? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jolie_Holland It mentions one of her recording engin...
- Mon May 06, 2024 1:10 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: subtle vandalism may persist
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2942
Re: subtle vandalism may persist
Personally have not seen any outstanding examples of subtle vandalism recently. Though I could fill up a long thread with examples of bad writing on WP content.
Vandalism continues to be stupid and obvious 99.99% of the time, and this continues to be even more stupid. And incomplete.
Vandalism continues to be stupid and obvious 99.99% of the time, and this continues to be even more stupid. And incomplete.
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:50 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
- Replies: 105
- Views: 619
Re: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
So far so good. I'd suggest adding their personal interests from their "Top edits" page.
(If possible. Apparently XTools recently implemented an option where a wiki-asshole can disable their XTools pages for anyone not logged in. Bbb23 is using it--predictably.)
(If possible. Apparently XTools recently implemented an option where a wiki-asshole can disable their XTools pages for anyone not logged in. Bbb23 is using it--predictably.)
- Sun May 05, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
- Topic: Zoloft plans to increase the number of mods
- Replies: 6
- Views: 195
Re: Zoloft plans to increase the number of mods
Several arbitrators were kicked off or even banned. Correct, and evidence is difficult to find. I could rattle off a long list of arbitrators who quit during their terms, were forced out, and/or were later banned. Some of the worst things happened pre-2008, when Wales still ran Arbcom like a privat...
- Sun May 05, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread
- Replies: 359
- Views: 178252
Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread
You wanna talk "insane"? How does this work for ya?