It's not often that you see the results of Wikipedia POV pushing in the news media--in this case, about the leader of Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Muslim sect. The government has been trying to repress them, along with various minor Muslim and other religious/political groups. Pakistan is (still) a silly pl...

Please, since when does an admin need a "reason"? Honor among thieves and all that rot.

I was reminded about the existence of Cris Shapan today--he's a near-legendary hoaxster who uses Facebook to spread his phony vintage advertisements, book and album covers, etc. And millions of FB users are stupid enough to think they're real. https://dangerousminds.net/comments/everything_on_the_in...

Can't follow you--which of these comments are yours? Also: be DAMN careful dealing with Johnuniq. He is a rigid, thoughtless drone with a sociopathic dedication to the "rules". He spent FOURTEEN YEARS sucking up and parroting "policies" until they gave him adminship last year. They like him because ...

This time he managed to talk a 12-year-old girl into accompanying him on a commercial flight. Oopsie!
Posted by Alison on Facebook, I would have missed this otherwise

She's a new admin, and damn she's popular. Excellent asskisser. I hadn't looked at her RFA closely. This is a prime future candidate for bureaucrat, checkuser, Arbcom, and possibly thereafter a paid job of butt-sniffing at the WMF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Valer...

Not only was the MediaFLO system a joke and a massive flop......the Wikipedia article about it is a shredded mess:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaFLO

We had this discussion years ago. Proposals (some of them not bad ones) included getting rid of all BLPs, forcing a short moratorium on "breaking news" items, and modifying WP's miserable PHP code to disallow edits of more than a certain size without adding a reference. None of that happened and wil...

she found another one