Re: [WikiEN-l] Custom Google search engines for finding RSs for subject areas

2010-01-23 Thread Carcharoth
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:45 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: ...snip... I started with all the links listed in

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

2010-01-23 Thread Bod Notbod
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote: 2) Delete all unreferenced BLPs - or BLPs referenced only to own website or IMDB etc What's the rationale behind this? ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

2010-01-23 Thread Nathan
The new arbitration case is an utterly predictable outgrowth of the BLP mass deletions and their endorsement by the arbitration committee. The committee didn't see it coming, apparently, which means the candidate field in the last election was far worse than we thought. Nathan

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

2010-01-23 Thread Charles Matthews
Nathan wrote: The new arbitration case is an utterly predictable outgrowth of the BLP mass deletions and their endorsement by the arbitration committee. snip What price reduction of arbitrators' terms, so that a January ArbCom might have even less collective memory and experience?

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

2010-01-23 Thread David Goodman
He was not in this group, having been dealt with years ago. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/22 David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com: Chicken Little is a fairly good

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

2010-01-23 Thread David Goodman
Sorry -- what I was replying to did not get included; I was relying to a suggest by David Gerard that [[John Seigenthaler]] would have been a counter- example. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:35 PM, David Goodman

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

2010-01-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 January 2010 23:00, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote: Repeat after me: Pure Wiki Deletion. Last time the subject came up, I believe the advocates were asked for any examples, anywhere, of wikis that use Pure Wiki Deletion. I don't think they came up with any at all. Are there

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

2010-01-23 Thread SPUI
David Gerard wrote: On 23 January 2010 23:00, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote: Repeat after me: Pure Wiki Deletion. Last time the subject came up, I believe the advocates were asked for any examples, anywhere, of wikis that use Pure Wiki Deletion. I don't think they came up