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- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:25 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Gerbic rants again
- Replies: 4
- Views: 175
Gerbic rants again
https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ufo-conspiracy-on-wikipedia-claimsa-conversation-with-gsows-susan-gerbic/ And I repeat something I've said before on various fora and in email: I still think she enjoys fighting with cranks on WP, because she IS a crank. I say again: this problem could be made...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
- Replies: 343
- Views: 185982
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Unnoticed paid edit war of the week: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stankey See the talkpage. Fleishman Hillard is openly biasing it to make Stankey look like a great hero. Completely controlled by Jon Gray . It is not difficult to find scandals and "bad news" involving Stankey. "Pac Bell and th...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:15 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: A farewell to Andrevan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 137
Re: A farewell to Andrevan
That's only one item about Andrevan's stupidity in the book wiki. Wasn't the worst admin, not the best--more of a side character. From the Ryan Bushby/Chillum/HighinBC article: Andrevan gave sysop power to one of Bushby's sockpuppets. I never found any "official approval" of this. Bushby was one of ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Research Article: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
- Replies: 229
- Views: 26563
Re: Research Article: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
I really don't think that anti-Semitic bias is one of the big neutrality problems on Wikipedia - far from it. Generally it isn't. There's no shortage of editors who devoted to making sure of that, sometimes to a fault. What made this different was the obscurity of the dispute to anglophone advocacy...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
- Topic: Section 230 is in trouble -- at last !
- Replies: 75
- Views: 21280
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Larry Sanger found out about Jimmy Saville
- Replies: 6
- Views: 291
Re: Larry Sanger found out about Jimmy Saville
Both Sanger and Wales just appear to be random web1.0 guys who were in the right place at the right time and possibly nothing else. People who were planning on competing like GNUpedia either gracefully let them have center stage and others like htg2g were a bit too jokey. But neither Sanger or Wale...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:53 am
- Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
- Topic: Stephen Harrison is releasing a book about Wikipedia in August
- Replies: 2
- Views: 100
Re: Stephen Harrison is releasing a book about Wikipedia in August
https://www.stephenharrison.com/the-editors It's a NOVEL. Instead of spewing his usual propaganda, he's going to make fiction about Wikipedian-like freaks. I detect incoming cringe here. That nit can barely write "plain journalism" and making a fictional story seems like he wants to screw himself.....
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
- Topic: New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1356
Re: New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"
From the pathetic babbling on the "Workshop" page : @Jessintime: my understanding is different than yours. While ArbCom was aware of the COI article on WPO, the only person who brought it up to us was an Arb. For me ArbCom acting on its own initiative should be reserved for exceptional circumstances...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:58 am
- Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
- Topic: New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1356
Re: New WPO blogpost - "Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty"
A decision should be forthcoming "real soon now". There has been VERY little public discussion of this case other than the evidence, and a few stupid comments like this (things which I fully expect Piotrus to say). Some insiders continue to be "perfectly okay" with people paid-editing and making mon...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:48 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: MB
- Replies: 1
- Views: 101
Re: MB
Count on it. Also count on MB's owner being on IRC and Discord right now, sucking up as hard as possible. It's always funny to see bureaucrats and arbitrators talking like "well, maybe it isn't the best idea to admin a patroller who likes to scream threats at people, ya know". They NEVER talked like...