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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:19 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Crap or questionable articles
- Replies: 490
- Views: 194963
Re: Crap or questionable articles
Have some PREMIUM recent-event stupidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immo ... _Azzarello
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... _Azzarello
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immo ... _Azzarello
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... _Azzarello
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...