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- Fri Jul 04, 2025 5:28 am
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: 2025 Jewish Museum shooting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 223
Re: 2025 Jewish Museum shooting
It's a good thing they caught him before he escaped on a hamas space shuttle to the hamas underground lunar base.
- Fri Jul 04, 2025 5:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What I am doing to save this site.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 185
Re: What I am doing to save this site.
Wikipedia appears to function as intended i.e. as a tool for manipulating public opinion. I think any serious critique of Wikipedia should make this point very clear and disabuse the reader of the notion that Wikipedia merely suffers from some sort of inevitable, garden-variety corruption or cronyis...
- Thu Jul 03, 2025 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What I am doing to save this site.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 185
Re: What I am doing to save this site.
Do not waste your effort and charity on charlatans/propagandists. Wikipedia falsely promotes itself as a public and democratic organization, yet rarely if ever actually uses those words. Wikipedia's nebulous policy avoids granting any rights to members the public. It contains a wealth of open-ended ...
- Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Disputing my block at Justapedia
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2119
Re: Disputing my block at Justapedia
I do agree with you it should be led by a non-partisan though, and that was a reasonable suggestion. Regardless, even though they are very partisan in talk pages, they allow differing views and angles maybe contrary to their own on politics, unlike Infogalactic/Metapedia etc. Dunno how much long th...
Re: He gone
I suspect there's more to the story in this case. I've never seen admins accept an appeal without the appellant's grovelling admission of guilt.badmachine wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 5:56 pmAt least the jackasses didn’t block him/her again but the user left anyway. Well done, jackasses.
Re: He gone
One of many idiotic blocks mentioned in the Wiki threads. Admins probably abuse the block tool far more often than they misuse it. At any rate, the real idiocy comes afterward: "You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia." I am ...
- Sat Jun 07, 2025 6:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The biggest problems with Wikipedia Policies?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 44169
Re: The biggest problems with Wikipedia Policies?
Arguably WP:DUCK could be considered as a problem too because sometimes it's possible to imitate other people's stylometry in order to cause deanonymization attempts against them to falter. It's possible that there are hundreds, even thousands of cases where people have been wrongfully blocked or b...
- Fri Jun 06, 2025 9:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Experiences with RationalWiki and MetaPedia?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26947
Re: Experiences with RationalWiki and MetaPedia?
I think the regulars on there consider themselves centrists. Even people marginally left to them, like social democrats, get run off the wiki. One of the biggest fights on the wiki involved someone getting ostrasized, and that person started "socdem wiki". That doesn't mean they don't like to postu...
- Mon May 05, 2025 8:42 pm
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Pointing at white people and screaming "RACIST!"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5005
Re: Pointing at white people and screaming "RACIST!"
The zen of python ( pep 20 ) asserts Explicit is better than implicit - a self-evident principle that I believe applies to any sort of communication.* So to make the above point explicit, I believe the word "racism" represents a (presumably deliberate) conflation of two distinct concepts - "thought ...
- Mon May 05, 2025 4:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: US Government sent a letter to the WMF
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1454
Re: US Government sent a letter to the WMF
Today is exactly one year before the release of Avengers: Doomsday. https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3330 https://thewikipediaflood.blogspot.com/2025/05/wikipedia-cultists-trash-ed-martin.html Maryana Iskander Chief Executive Officer Wikimedia Foundation 1 Mont...