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by ericbarbour
Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:07 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Josh Gordon and eBay
Replies: 21
Views: 11299

Re: Josh Gordon and eBay

More than a month later: it's still there. And links to the stalking-scandal article. (Which is included in three categories, but NOT in Category:EBay. Betting $100 that Josh "had a few words" with various people.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay#Stalking_scandal
by ericbarbour
Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:09 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Fae indeffed on EnWP
Replies: 7
Views: 4074

Re: Fae indeffed on EnWP

Might as well list the Wikipediocracy thread, even it if is full of Vigina spluttering. http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=11693 Even funnier: Scott "Scottywong" Wieser, one of Wikipedia's worst administrators of all time, is now on Wikipediocracy shrieking at all and sundry for "o...
by ericbarbour
Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:49 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Vigilant!!!
Replies: 143
Views: 86811

Re: Vigilant!!!

Is he finally starting to lose any touch with reality? Watching him complain about Fae is bizarre: pot vs. kettle kind of thing. http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=278547#p278547 hmmmm...... Ashley, my man, you're a radioactive waste ship sailing in international waters. Nobody wants yo...
by ericbarbour
Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:25 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 482
Views: 188543

Re: Crap or questionable articles

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Importance_of_Brevity Which is not an "official policy" and ever if it were, no one would pay attention to it.... Wikipedia 30 words, main point, and then and then and then and then Joanne Rowling CH, OBE, HonFRSE, FRCPE, FRSL (/ˈroʊlɪŋ/ ROH-ling;[1] bo...
by ericbarbour
Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:19 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Fae indeffed on EnWP
Replies: 7
Views: 4074

Re: Fae indeffed on EnWP

In case you didn't see it, let me post one of Andreas's old comments from that last Signpost item. Ashley was pushing (relentlessly) to set up the "Wikimedia Chapters Association" as a nonprofit. With himself as the leader. With an annual salary. I profoundly resent the attempted establishment of th...
by ericbarbour
Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:15 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 482
Views: 188543

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Few references here, not searchable under synrm <-the main keyword https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reluctance_motor Because there's no practical way to search for such articles other than to write a VERY complicated script, no one has any idea how many such poorly referenced articles exist on en-wp...
by ericbarbour
Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:46 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Fae indeffed on EnWP
Replies: 7
Views: 4074

Re: Fae indeffed on EnWP

Lol, what again? I figured he'd have given up, especially after the immense shit-explosion Ashley created between 2011 and 2013, as a trustee of Wikimedia UK who was also banned from Wikipedia ....have a few reminders, some of which require digging around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...
by ericbarbour
Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:29 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Vigilant!!!
Replies: 143
Views: 86811

Re: Vigilant!!!

That's where my old theory that tarantino was a skip tracer working for a private investigator came from. Now I think he does online security as a job. Chances of this are better than even. As it was since the beginning, Wikiverse is full of "IT professionals", of wildly differing levels of compete...
by ericbarbour
Sat Dec 05, 2020 5:42 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 482
Views: 188543

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Here's a thought:

If you are editing any WP article, and some officious jerk starts lecturing you about "references", ask the asshole about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisti/De- ... Wilderness
by ericbarbour
Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:49 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 341
Views: 182946

Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible

Besides the autistic and mentally ill there are lots of low level technology guys who dont fit in anywhere else. There are human robots at wikipedia but no human critical thinking. You got it. Even the editing for pay is often miserable robotic quality. "This damn thing's busted". I saw Laura Kight...