On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Andrew
Turveyandrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
Does that mean we should have the same process for delisting admins - not
really fair that candidates today are held to a higher standard than
candidates who got through three years ago!
Actually it is fair,
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:02 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
The point is that discussion of the matter is much more likely to be
effective there rather than here, because there is specifically where
the official discussion is being conducted!
It's an open list, anyone can subscribe
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Neil Harrisuse...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
I find it rather difficult to understand exactly what you want here.
Could you please give an example, even a rough one, of the sort of
syntax you are proposing?
For example, how would you write something like, say,
Steve Bennett wrote:
Oh, this is so easy in MOO code[1], it's not funny:
{{`tostr(args[1], + , args[2], = , args[1] + args[2]) ! ANY =
that's an error'}}
(yes that's a backquote at the start and a normal one at the end.
Semantics of + may differ from what you intended.)
I think it
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Sheldon Ramptonshel...@prwatch.org wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
Oh, this is so easy in MOO code[1], it's not funny:
{{`tostr(args[1], + , args[2], = , args[1] + args[2]) ! ANY =
that's an error'}}
(yes that's a backquote at the start and a normal one at
Steve Bennett wrote:
RfA is supposed to be purely a
risk management exercise: we subject prospective admins to a couple of
tests to reduce our risk that they go feral.
I thought it was mainly an exercise to see if you cared enough to look
up the standard acceptable answers to the standard
2009/7/16 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com:
Steve Bennett wrote:
RfA is supposed to be purely a
risk management exercise: we subject prospective admins to a couple of
tests to reduce our risk that they go feral.
I thought it was mainly an exercise to see if you cared enough to
2009/7/14 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
I fear the first thing that would spring to the community's beautiful
collective mind would be a mass deletion of all stubs.
I have, interestingly, been noticing it moving in exactly the opposite
direction; articles with a couple of paragraphs of text,
Saturn's moon Triton; not my nomination. That delisting nomination was a
particularly bad example of two trends: FPC reviewers failing to read the
article for encyclopedic context, and the valued pictures program
functioning as a parasitic growth upon the FP program. VP ought to be
casting a
2009/7/16 Joseph Reagle rea...@mit.edu:
Does anyone know if during the NYT/Rohde case the Oversight function was used
to hide edits?
When the story broke, I could see all the edit history, but I presume the
function can be deployed
against select revisions and then removed? Or maybe it was
Update: I've now checked the case, and yes I had heard of this matter. But
being on a break for the last few weeks to deal with real-world matters, I
hadn't made the connection just from the words Rohde/NYT. I checked which
article with Rohde in the title, also covered the NYT as well. Luckily
Many thanks for that reply - very useful to have the facts out in the open and
I hope it helps to build trust.
When oversight or suppression are used, it's book policy that oversighters
almost never discuss or disclose anything, beyond what can be seen openly
in
the public logs.
In
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Andrew Turvey
andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
As you mentioned, oversight wasn't necessary in this case. However, it's
not inconceivable that another case where oversight is used might also be
temporarily sensitive. Perhaps, for instance, if it has been
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Turvey
andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
In many cases, that makes sense. However, in this case, the sensitive
material was only sensitive at the time - once the subject was released
there was no continuing risk.
As you mentioned, oversight wasn't
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Andrew Grayandrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
I have, interestingly, been noticing it moving in exactly the opposite
direction; articles with a couple of paragraphs of text, a reference
or two, an image or an infobox, being marked as stubs. There's
standards
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Sheldon Ramptonshel...@prwatch.org wrote:
I think it needs more squiggly brackets. And a couple of @ symbols.
Can you sprinkle in some hash marks too, pretty please?
Sorry, would you prefer
PLEASE MISTER COMPUTER I HAVE TWO NUMBERS CAN YOU ADD THEM TOGETHER
AND
2009/7/17 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
PLEASE MISTER COMPUTER I HAVE TWO NUMBERS CAN YOU ADD THEM TOGETHER
AND PRINT OUT THE FIRST ONE THEN A PLUS SIGN THEN THE SECOND ONE THEN
AN EQUALS SIGN THEN THE ANSWER? OH AND IF THEY'RE NOT NUMBERS, PRINT
OUT ERROR. KTHXBYE.
Insufficient
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Insufficient politeness.
Mmm, INTERCAL.
Steve
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2009/7/17 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Insufficient politeness.
Mmm, INTERCAL.
I am most pleased you spotted that.
But OH MY GOD we need template syntax written in LOLCODE. I mean, we
REALLY REALLY need template
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