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by Dysklyver
Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:08 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: EEng
Replies: 22
Views: 12750

Re: EEng

In case it's not immediately obvious EEng is a joker. How exactly he hasn't been permanently banned numerous times is incomprehensible. But somehow all the admins let him deface the admin noticeboards, vandalise talk pages, sock, encourage others to sock, pass off crappy GA's to get political DYK's ...
by Dysklyver
Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:01 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Posting traffic seems to be fading again
Replies: 10
Views: 7135

Re: Posting traffic seems to be fading again

Just popping in cause I was mentioned. I am undoubtedly a sock of... um... my foot. But seriously, I am an ephemeral Cornish lawyer posting here and there because IRC is not for me anymore. As far as moderation is concerned, there is little, none of my posts have ever been rejected. Who knows, I mig...
by Dysklyver
Thu Jun 21, 2018 5:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Wikipedia killer
Replies: 36
Views: 22073

Re: The Wikipedia killer

Once someone said to me, how do you eat a mammoth? In slices. And that is where it went wrong with every study. Wikipedia as a reference work, encyclopedia doesn't exist. It's only a brand, a name, because as long there is no editorial office there is no consistency, and the different language vers...
by Dysklyver
Thu Jun 21, 2018 10:27 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: The cowards of Wikipediocracy
Replies: 78
Views: 44075

Re: The cowards of Wikipediocracy

Verifying town/village/etc. articles is a largely thankless and usually fruitless task. There are lots of third world dumped-from-some-map or the like places which won't verify from the air, but it's usually impossible to delete them. Said in a thread discussing a case of a US place, where "du...