Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

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Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by SkepticalHistorian » Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:39 pm

Most of Earth: “The MSM is biased.”
Wikipedia: “Cite MSM source to confirm this claim.” 🤣🤣

Wikipedia has a non-trivial left-wing bias.

@jimmy_wales, what are your thoughts?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/160 ... sOH5TLoLBw
In regards the [[Twitter Files Investigation]] article for deletion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_F ... estigation

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Re: Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by wexter » Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:43 am

SkepticalHistorian wrote:
Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:39 pm
Most of Earth: “The MSM is biased.”
Wikipedia: “Cite MSM source to confirm this claim.” 🤣🤣

Wikipedia has a non-trivial left-wing bias.

@jimmy_wales, what are your thoughts?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/160 ... sOH5TLoLBw
In regards the [[Twitter Files Investigation]] article for deletion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_F ... estigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... estigation

My sock, emilio mole socks, thinks this AFD discussion will work its way up into an afd appeal and then into ANI..

The wiki-idiots don't understand the power of "click-bait" and propaganda - this article is the honey-pot of click-bait and propaganda from all sides (left and right) WP:NEVERWILLBEanENCYCLOPEDIA, or even a good yellow journalistic news outlet. Yep, it is a parrot farm.

Even, By the power of Grayskull.. this kind of click-bait-nonsense will never be watergate
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Re: Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by ericbarbour » Wed Dec 07, 2022 3:08 am

Thank you for catching that. It's difficult to find, because the cult wants it hidden.

And a reminder: both Taibbi and Weiss are generally despised by WP's many "crank" left-leaning insider types, because both are compulsively honest journalists, and because Weiss is widely hated by certain notorious Twitter "cancelers". They love to claim Weiss is a "right wing troublemaker", because she stands for actual free speech. Despite being extremely Jewish and left-leaning (plus apparently bisexual, which HAS to be in her bio because LGBTQ+- is automatically "WikiLuvved") in real life.

I'm surprised Weiss's article hasn't been AFDed lately. She's just too damn "notable". Sorry, pricklets.

All of this story becomes toxic because it is a honey-trap for toxic people, left OR right. The sort of people who want totalitarian control over society, albeit for totally different "reasons".

Allow me to show some examples of Wikipedia-Luvers sniping at Weiss and Taibbi indirectly. Anyone Taibbi or Weiss writes about favorably is likely to be a target. Mark Ames is often dragged into it because Taibbi used to work for him, and he's also "not of the Wikibody" and so forth. Peter "Smallbones" Ekman, a constant asslicker on Jimbo's talkpage and a former Moscow Times columnist, has a personal hatred for Ames and anyone else who wrote for The eXile back in the 1990s and 2000s, because they mocked him repeatedly in print. Ekman has UNQUESTIONABLY been trying to use Wikipedia to shit on them. Got further proof if you want it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... l_Dark_Web
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... rdon_Klein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... bra_W._Soh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... newspaper)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... omination)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... _Mat%C3%A9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... omination)

Are Wikipedians really this petty? Yes they are. And it will be most entertaining if Musk makes Jimbo blow a fuse. It should happen more often.

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Re: Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by ericbarbour » Wed Dec 07, 2022 3:27 am

Oh dear, this is becoming "notable". Boo hoo for Jimboo. Expect to see more coverage soon.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk ... -wing-bias

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Re: Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by wexter » Wed Dec 07, 2022 5:32 am

ericbarbour wrote:
Wed Dec 07, 2022 3:27 am
Oh dear, this is becoming "notable". Boo hoo for Jimboo. Expect to see more coverage soon.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk ... -wing-bias
Wait for it,, wait for it; Tamzin is "managing" the AFD shit-show by removing comments from the discussion

Wikipedia is about to alienate folks far and wide.

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To Tamzin! it has done more to destroy Wikipedia in a day than emilio mole and his socks could do in a lifetime.
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Re: Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by ericbarbour » Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:39 am

https://www.opindia.com/2022/12/elon-mu ... yclopedia/

And Wales denies denies denies, because of course he would

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/internat ... ut-twitter
Wales came to Israel to attend the Atlas Award ceremony that takes place on Monday. He will award the best Israeli start-up of this year. Sharing his excitement about the event Wales pointed out the “entrepreneurial spirit of Israel.”
:flamingbanana:

Tomorrow, when the miserable button-pushing clods of the American "news media" wake up, some of them will notice coverage of this pile of steaming feces. And they will go "oh god not another musk tirade, we love wiki and must always give it a wide berth" and most will dismiss it. (Also predicting that the WMF will put out a shit-filled press release.)

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Re: Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by ericbarbour » Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:54 am

Also, it's being "debated" ha ha on the "other forum"

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtop ... 64#p319864

Same old shit: very few people in there, and with Vigina dominating the fartery as usual.
Jake does his usual wimpy wish-wash. No serious analysis of what's going on.

The Will Stancil thread they quoted is a classic Twitstorm. A well-known liberal platform denizen whines about jackboots murdering poor little Twitter employees and eating their babies (or whatever, it's always overwrought and stupid). A thousand screaming righties descend on him and mock him. Yeah, what wonderful "political debate". Classic Twitter snivelling. Musk is clearly a supermasochist, to go deep into debt to buy that turd.

Fuck y'all and your "nothingburger". Still waiting for Tiny King Jimbo to blow a fuse.

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Re: Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by wexter » Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:16 pm

The "Article for Deletion(AFD)" was shut down with "keep" to keep the contentious rabble at bay. All those holding pitchforks no longer have an outlet to complain about.

Rumors have it that Musk University will be selling an online course "Trolling 101" so others will be able to sell and hype questionable products, inflate their own ego, and trigger shitstorms centered around "nothing-burgers."

AFD discussions and Administrator Notice Boards - prove out how ridiculous Wikipedia is as "an institution."

There is not much difference between Wikipedia and Twitter. ON Wikipedia people are free to fight with each other as to drive the narrative; on Twitter people are paid to drive the narrative on the whim of a single individual. Both are farms for growing trolls.
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Re: Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by Ognistysztorm » Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:36 pm

Hive mind energy in full gear:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwi ... ause_they/
Alright fuck it, just donated $100 to Wikipedia. I never thought someone would condemn this incredible amalgamation of knowledge, but here we are. I cannot stand this anti-intellectualism which is sweeping the nation.

I have spent years in my field spending hours every night trying to learn everything I can. Yet the same fucking people who do not know the difference between your or you’re gain a bigger platform than I could even imagine.

Consider donating to Wikipedia.
SHUT UP, NERD!
I just donated money to Wikipedia. You should too.
Wikipedia has had their “please donate” thing up lately when I visit and I’ve been ignoring it. Seeing this I decided to donate $25. I know it’s not much, but it’s what I can afford. Wikipedia can thank Elon for my particular donation, I guess.
This motherfucker better leave Wikipedia alone! God fucking damn, I wish this clown would fuck off already.
Don’t you fuck with my Wikipedia.

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Re: Elon Musk calling out Wales and Wikipedia for bias: Twitter Files Investigation AfD

Post by ericbarbour » Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:50 pm

wexter wrote:
Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:16 pm
The "Article for Deletion(AFD)" was shut down with "keep" to keep the contentious rabble at bay.
That's not all. It was "closed as SNOW Keep", meaning an overwhelming mess they could not heel or control. And it was the notorious robot-by-the-rooooolz Sandstein who closed it. Long infamous for not caring about anyone's "feelings", nor about the corrosive internal politics of WMF projects. Mister By The Book (even though the book is a load of incoherent crap).

As Dan Murphy said on WPO:
Sandstein has always been an idiot.
The final length: 186,210 bytes, making it one of the longest AFDs in history. AFD statistics are very difficult to study without literal YEARS of effort. And many of the most outrageous ones were completely obliterated. So don't bother asking what the longest ones are.

The only attempt to keep semi-official track of AFDs is this private page, started last year. Rigidly organized by day and month and assembled by a custom bot, not complete, since the first AFD squabble was in 2003. Seventeen years of "history", in a "summary" format no one can read easily. Lovely. Note how many of the recent AFDs attract little or no attention and are basically ignored. Those stats are very likely to be inaccurate thanks to incessant censorship by admins and oversighters. He's got a list of the longest AFDs of all time--again, likely to be inaccurate.

Longest one listed, the SIXTH attempt to delete "Mass killings under communist regimes" held last year. 510,000 bytes. Need some solid evidence that WP is being controlled by manic leftists, who would (OF COURSE) resent actual facts of communist governments slaughtering people? Read thru that giant shitshow. Andythegrump and an Italian socialist named Davide King, with a few supporters, basically fought all comers to a standstill--and failed. Now you know why Andythegrump is a toxic little shit.

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