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by ericbarbour
Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:53 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
Replies: 30
Views: 15730

Re: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR

Now most if not whole of the liberal-progressive /r/Destiny subreddit has turned against Wikipedia because of pro-Hamas biases in latter. It seems like the tide is starting to turn after so many false starts, which would've been unimaginable in 2022. https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1c8dxi...
by ericbarbour
Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:33 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 490
Views: 194963

Re: Crap or questionable articles

the guy who put himself on fire You should tell that story someday. I've got another criticism of a WP list. This time, YouTuber Doug DeMuro and friends tears into the " Production car speed record " article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJWrs39B2F4&t=1321s Look at the talkpage . For years, peop...
by ericbarbour
Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:21 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
Replies: 30
Views: 15730

Re: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR

threads from 2019 https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1451 https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1149 2018 thread https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=682 Remember that Wikirev was destroyed after only a couple of months. What little remains on archive...
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:08 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto
Replies: 71
Views: 15334

Re: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto

Funny WPO thread about a podcast featuring Molly claiming that "Wikipedia is all there is left of the internet" or something..... https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13477 The transcript is a formless horror, so I edited out 146 instances of 'you know' - broke it up into readable ch...
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:32 pm
Forum: Political
Topic: The Thacker Pass article
Replies: 0
Views: 55

The Thacker Pass article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thacker_Pass_Lithium_Mine Started in 2013 when the mine was first proposed. It was a "stub" that no one paid attention to--until 2021, when the media coverage and political/legal wranging went full-throttle. It is now 97k bytes long, one of Wikipedia's longest articles ...
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Abd Lomax died
Replies: 5
Views: 166

Re: Abd Lomax died

Sorry to hear it. He was unquestionably annoying quite often and had some kooky ideas, but did considerable useful work for those ungrateful Wikipedians.
by ericbarbour
Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
Replies: 30
Views: 15730

Re: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR

Eric, can you dig up your book wiki notes about Katherine Maher? There isn't a lot in there, that wasn't already posted on this forum. She came along late in the history. By that time I'd given up on keeping track of the endless revolving door of obscure figures. But here's the main gist of it. She...
by ericbarbour
Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Off-air recordings dumped on archive.org
Replies: 36
Views: 25650

Re: Off-air recordings dumped on archive.org

WWCR. Sign On And USA News. 2024-03-19 T 15-06-03 Z 12160.0kHz https://archive.org/details/wwcr.-sign-on-and-usa-news.-2024-03-19-t-15-06-03-z-12160.0k-hz (6 mins.) "Give yourself a mouthwatering treat! Go to www.omahasteaks.com!" Wonder how effective advertising on a Christian shortwave station re...
by ericbarbour
Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
Replies: 30
Views: 15730

Re: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1780962477011796287 He's one to talk. Mr. Free Speech But Not for People I Don't Like. EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized cons...