On 21 May 2012 00:09, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
Gwern Branwen wrote:
There's nothing to answer;
Yes, there is. Your methodology has been challenged, and you've yet
to identify the compromised articles, indicate that you've stopped
performing such edits or confirm that the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogscast springs to mind.
A million followers on Youtube, arguably one of the factors in making
Minecraft as popular as it is today, deleted time after time.
Michel Vuijlsteke
On 9 October 2011 01:11, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote:
One good
/The_Yogscast
On 9 October 2011 01:18, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogscast springs to mind.
A million followers on Youtube, arguably one of the factors in making
Minecraft as popular as it is today, deleted time after time.
Michel Vuijlsteke
On 9
on that!
--HTMLCODER.exehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HTMLCODER.exe
(talk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:HTMLCODER.exe) 23:25, 28
April 2011 (UTC)
Awesome in combination with nuking stuff and salting a page? Ack.
Michel
On 9 October 2011 01:38, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org wrote
on white text, etc. Any of
these display methods could have a enough with the spoiler warnings or
don't hide plot points from me anymore -- that's just a UI point.
Of course, it's a little late for that now. All that information was
removed. Too bad.
Michel Vuijlsteke
On 31 August 2010 15:53, Nathan
On 31 August 2010 16:51, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 August 2010 15:16, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org wrote:
Whether a part of an article is a spoiler or not (and it's certainly not
a
black white issue) is an interesting bit of metadata to add. There's a
variety
Add links to [Wadi]? To [Brook of Egypt]? :)
On 25 May 2010 09:05, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
So I decided to fill in a red link I saw on the community portal:
[[List of Rivers of Egypt]]. I started creating the article, then
reached the amusing realisation that perhaps there is
2010/1/21 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
Does anyone have a summary of the articles deleted in the present
blood-crazed axe frenzy? Is there a list up? And/or a description of
the general type of BLP deleted?
I understand many were hardly-viewed articles with no edits in the
last six
2009/9/18 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com
If I were to place restorations under copyleft license it would backfire.
Not necessarily backfire against me personally, but against the free
culture
movement. Look at the paint by numbers analogies within this list
thread:
many people cannot
2009/9/18 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com
A new creative copyright is generated each time a tourist stands beneath
the
Venus de Milo and takes a snapshot due to the inherent creative decision in
choosing angle and lighting when photographing three dimensional artwork.
Creative copyright
2009/9/18 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com
Let's set the Sistine Chapel example to rest: physical restoration and
digital restoration are so different that it clouds the discussion to
compare them.
I could not disagree more. But I get the impression this is a discussion
that would be a lot
2009/9/17 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com
The Louis Brandeis restoration was 20 hours' labor. Extensive staining and
chemical damage required careful reconstruction including large portions of
his face. It is, likewise, shocking to encounter a senior editor--an
arbitrator no less--who
2009/9/17 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org
wrote:
I personally think image restoration is more like painting by numbers
than
creative work.
It's like creating an Ikea bookcase: there is some *skill* involved
2009/9/17 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org
wrote:
2009/9/17 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
snip
And in any cases, some aspects of restoration *are* creative (mainly
the ones that involve filling
I don't see why they didn't indef-protect the entry with a reference to an
OTRS ticket. That eventually happened, but only after much drama, and after
branding a news agency unreliable.
Michel
2009/6/30 Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com
Can I ask what policy this was done under? While I
2009/6/30 Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com
Even if we think *they* were not a RS (which of course they are),
there were still other sources:
Word came close to leaking widely last month when Rohde won his
second Pulitzer Prize, as part of the Times team effort for coverage
of Afghanistan and
2009/5/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431-404BC, was an Ancient
Greek military war, fought by Athens and its empire against the
Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta.
That's 167 characters. Think we could get a 140 character requirement
added to
2009/4/27 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net
wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
If I create a piece of art using Coca-Cola bottles and call it Coca-Cola
Art am I infringing on a trademark? Or am I describing my art piece
accurately?
Was Andy Warhol ever sued for his Campbell Soup cans?
I think
2009/4/23 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
2009/4/23 wjhon...@aol.com:
In this case, there are two pages (yes just two) of biography if you
will, and *six* pages of this nonsense. That's just a tad overweight I
think
we can all agree on that point.
The solution is to add more bio,
2009/4/23 wjhon...@aol.com
The Domesday holdings are not significant to his biography.
We are not trying to build a land holdings database, we are writing
biographies.
We are writing a comprehensive written compendium that holds information
from either all branches of knowledge or a
2009/4/22 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
And Citizendium's coverage is lacking in vital areas.
I tried to look up Macedonia, but no article.
One sentence article:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Mongolia
One paragraph article:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Greece
No articles
2009/4/11 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2009/4/11 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Unreal! And Larry Sanger thought he could come to Wikipedia and lodge
complaints...
Indeed. It's the bit where he's behaving here in a manner that
wouldn't be put up with for a second on Citizendium or
Great stuff, all of this. Seriously, thanks.
2009/4/3 Håkon Wium Lie howc...@opera.com
I've spent the last few days analyzing Wikipedia's HTML code for
images and captions. The current code is quite good, but verbose and
it has redundancies. Here is a proposal that describes how to simplify
2009/3/31 doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com
Today's unassailable
phenomena, which no one can see anyone displacing, is tomorrow's
footnote. BASIC anyone? Sinclair? Plastic records?
[[Visual Basic .NET]]!
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2009/3/31 Håkon Wium Lie howc...@opera.com
In the quest to simplify and improve Wikipedia's HTML code, the turn
has come to footnotes. Here is a proposal that describes how the
number of elements needed to represent footnotes can be halved:
Did anyone see?
http://wikirank.com/en
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2009/1/12 Philip Sandifer snowspin...@gmail.com
On Jan 11, 2009, at 8:56 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Well, not really. If they don't believe a given item can have reliable
sources - the sort of rabid nutters who brag about deletion tallies on
their user pages - then they just won't accept
2009/1/13 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org
wrote:
snip
Anyone any idea where I could find the original AfD? It seems to have
disappeared:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title
2009/1/10 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
Wikipedia editors should really have enough knowledge about their
subject matter to make choices based on good judgement rather than strict
adherence to flawed guidelines. Any guideline, law or contract doesn't
absolve one from using one's brain —
Ah, the irony. This entire episode has produced articles like this:
http://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/wikipedia-muds-and-where-the-sources-are/
Lots of information there for Wikipedia.
2009/1/10 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com
Two centuries ago, Jane Austen was popular culture for teenage
Diffs or it didn't happen!
:)
Michel
2008/12/11 Phil Sandifer snowspin...@gmail.com
Avoiding making this a de facto RFC on a given article...
I've been getting into a fairly nasty feud on a popular culture
article in which I added an academic criticism section, summarizing
articles I
2008/12/6 Eugene van der Pijll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(who is a bit ticked off about this subject because of all the work he's
done to keep incorrect wikilinks off the [[Hoek]] dab page...)
Sorely tempted to add a reference to Ren Höek to [[Hoek]]. :D
Michel
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