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The Adversary |
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Whaw: who would have guessed: after years of complaining and raging again "the cabal" on wp; the person to force me out of turns out to be...Dr. Blofeld (T-C-L-K-R-D)
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May I introduce myself, I am Huldra (T-C-L-K-R-D) on wp (Btw; I have criticized SlimVirgin every way I could for these last few years....except for her silly user-name. As I am probably the only person on WP to have chosen an even sillier user-name (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/biggrin.gif) ) Now, about 3 years ago, utterly pissed off by Jayjg and Slim, I found my own quiet little corner of Israel/Palestine -articles: Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War It was a strange little corner of Wikipedia; every now and then some newbie would start a horrible stub, often half in Arabic, with tons and tons of WP:OR. Typically they would only do a few edits (less that 20) and then disappear from WP totally......which then the "clean-up-task-force" (read: mostly me, Al Ameer son, Tiamut, Ashely (when he´s not blocked) ) would come along and clean up. So we would turn this into Al-Muzayri'a . And this into Al-Nabi_Yusha' . And this into Saqiya. Not superb any of them, but at least a decent start. This last one is typical: I think someone simply put the Khalidi-text (in Arabic) through some automatic translation ..so you get gems like "in recent years on the assignment," ...meaning: "in the last years of the (British) Mandate (of Palestine)" (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/tongue.gif) Oh, and some we just never got around cleaning up: Al-Ja'una So, slowly, steadfast during the last couple of years we have been progressing. The huge template has been invaluable...but I could only navigate around it because many of the links were red. Until yesterday. Blofeld comes along and find he does not like red links, and decides that he will start all the red-linked villages...and turn the whole template into on huuuge green soup. And does just that. Now, I cannot manage to navigate with it anymore. Oh, well, Blofeld say he will work on the articles, and he does, but he does not have the sources (books). So far he has added nothing to the "public knowledge", he only copies from web-sites which were freely available, anyway. Re-inventing (or: re-writing) the wheel, so to speak. Now, if actually got hold of the books and educated himself on the topic: great. But I fear that in a short time he will be gone (he has a million other articles to attend too, as he has informed us.) I liked this comment about reaching 3 mill articles on wp: "great, I've managed to poo in every room in the house" Well, I leave it to Blofeld to clean up his own |
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Fantastic example of his narcissism:
QUOTE I happen to be lightening quick. The fastest editor on here. Infoboxes will be added later and translated from French. Basically I am half way through putting 36,000 new French articles on wikipedia to develop and I should be thanked. Notability is without question if you saw these places you;d realise you could actually write many articles on places within the towns. Fast forward a year or two and theres no reason why most of these stubs can't become decent articles. As for a robot, I must be the least robotic person on here. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 7:00 pm, 17 February 2008, Sunday (1 year, 6 months, 3 days ago) (UTC−5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...identArchive370 March 1, 2008. AN/I about creation of French village and commune sub-stubs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...identArchive377 May 7, 2008. AN/I about creation of "{{subst:PAGENAME}}''' is a [[museum]] in Bangkok, Thailand. [[Category:Museums in Bangkok]] {{thailand-stub}} {{museum-stub}} {{asia-struct-stub}}". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...feld_of_SPECTRE March 10, 2009. AN/I about creation of unsourced sub-stub biographies transwiki'd from the German Wikipedia about Swiss painters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...186#Dr._Blofeld There are more, because I brought up the aforementioned issue with German Politicians on AN/I, but I didn't see it in the search results. |
The Adversary |
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CT (Check Troll) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Regulars Posts: 801 Joined: Member No.: 194 ![]() |
Fantastic example of his narcissism: QUOTE I happen to be lightening quick. The fastest editor on here. Infoboxes will be added later and translated from French. Basically I am half way through putting 36,000 new French articles on wikipedia to develop and I should be thanked. Notability is without question if you saw these places you;d realise you could actually write many articles on places within the towns. Fast forward a year or two and theres no reason why most of these stubs can't become decent articles. As for a robot, I must be the least robotic person on here. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 7:00 pm, 17 February 2008, Sunday (1 year, 6 months, 3 days ago) (UTC−5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...identArchive370 March 1, 2008. AN/I about creation of French village and commune sub-stubs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...identArchive377 May 7, 2008. AN/I about creation of "{{subst:PAGENAME}}''' is a [[museum]] in Bangkok, Thailand. [[Category:Museums in Bangkok]] {{thailand-stub}} {{museum-stub}} {{asia-struct-stub}}". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...feld_of_SPECTRE March 10, 2009. AN/I about creation of unsourced sub-stub biographies transwiki'd from the German Wikipedia about Swiss painters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...186#Dr._Blofeld There are more, because I brought up the aforementioned issue with German Politicians on AN/I, but I didn't see it in the search results. From that last one was a typical quote: "Does Friday realise that several thousand stubs I've created on wikipedia are now full flourishing articles?????????????????? Does he realise that I am responsible for around 1/65th of all our articles? " What he should ask is: how many of his stubs are *not* flourishing articles? If he has, by now, created 1/60 of 3 mil.= 50 000 articles. -and "several thousand" are flourishing, does that mean that there are tens of thousands that are *not* "flourishing"? I really wish someone with scrip-writing ability could write a script, and see how the developement of Blofelds articles compared with other articles started the same time. Say, just as an example; if he started 50 articles on March 10, choose 50 other articles created the same day (in some specific fashion; say the 50 *first* articles) ..then compare the 50 Ba´s (Blofelds articles) to the 50 Oa´s (Other articles). It would be facinating to see the result. Are the Ba´s as "flourishing" as the Oa´s? |
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Known alias of J. Random Troll ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Regulars Posts: 10,209 Joined: Member No.: 5,156 ![]() |
I really wish someone with scrip-writing ability could write a script, and see how the developement of Blofelds articles compared with other articles started the same time. Say, just as an example; if he started 50 articles on March 10, choose 50 other articles created the same day (in some specific fashion; say the 50 *first* articles) ..then compare the 50 Ba´s (Blofelds articles) to the 50 Oa´s (Other articles). It would be facinating to see the result. Are the Ba´s as "flourishing" as the Oa´s? Here's another suggestion which would be harder to implement, but which would produce interesting results: fix the dead-link color so that it is anything but RED. Another: Fix things so that really short stubs still show up as deadlinks (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ohmy.gif) . Say anything shorter than 500 Bytes. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wacko.gif) That would force anybody who stubs something just to de-deadlink it, to actually add some content. Of course, adding "filler" content added just get over the stub size limit, would be a penalty.... |
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Can't actually moderate (or even post) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderators Posts: 11,816 Joined: From: Dreamland Member No.: 275 ![]() |
Another: Fix things so that really short stubs still show up as deadlinks (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ohmy.gif) . Say anything shorter than 500 Bytes. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wacko.gif) That would force anybody who stubs something just to de-deadlink it, to actually add some content. Of course, adding "filler" content added just get over the stub size limit, would be a penalty.... I believe you may be falling for a red herring here, Milton - people like Blofeld say they do what they do because they "don't like red links," but the real reason is because they like to brag about their "new-article count." Any aesthetic issues regarding link-coloring are of no real concern to them whatsoever - if anything, they love red links because they act as a visual signal, like a big sign that says "piss here." |
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CT (Check Troll) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Regulars Posts: 801 Joined: Member No.: 194 ![]() |
Another: Fix things so that really short stubs still show up as deadlinks (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ohmy.gif) . Say anything shorter than 500 Bytes. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wacko.gif) That would force anybody who stubs something just to de-deadlink it, to actually add some content. Of course, adding "filler" content added just get over the stub size limit, would be a penalty.... I believe you may be falling for a red herring here, Milton - people like Blofeld say they do what they do because they "don't like red links," but the real reason is because they like to brag about their "new-article count." Any aesthetic issues regarding link-coloring are of no real concern to them whatsoever - if anything, they love red links because they act as a visual signal, like a big sign that says "piss here." But you could fix it so that people couldn´t start articles, unless they were above, say, 500 bytes? |
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Known alias of J. Random Troll ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Regulars Posts: 10,209 Joined: Member No.: 5,156 ![]() |
Another: Fix things so that really short stubs still show up as deadlinks (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ohmy.gif) . Say anything shorter than 500 Bytes. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wacko.gif) That would force anybody who stubs something just to de-deadlink it, to actually add some content. Of course, adding "filler" content added just get over the stub size limit, would be a penalty.... I believe you may be falling for a red herring here, Milton - people like Blofeld say they do what they do because they "don't like red links," but the real reason is because they like to brag about their "new-article count." Any aesthetic issues regarding link-coloring are of no real concern to them whatsoever - if anything, they love red links because they act as a visual signal, like a big sign that says "piss here." But you could fix it so that people couldn´t start articles, unless they were above, say, 500 bytes? By gad, another good suggestion! You wouldn't want to give WP TOO many good suggestions to ignore in a single day, would you? And especially not from WR. I can almost feel the bad karma back-propagating from future historians. You know that one day some poor bastard will have to study this whole mess chronologically for his Ph.D. in sociology. It will be like Fumbling the Future, only more tragic. |
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Devils Advocaat ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Regulars Posts: 836 Joined: Member No.: 3,466 ![]() |
Another: Fix things so that really short stubs still show up as deadlinks (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ohmy.gif) . Say anything shorter than 500 Bytes. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/unsure.gif) (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wacko.gif) That would force anybody who stubs something just to de-deadlink it, to actually add some content. Of course, adding "filler" content added just get over the stub size limit, would be a penalty.... I believe you may be falling for a red herring here, Milton - people like Blofeld say they do what they do because they "don't like red links," but the real reason is because they like to brag about their "new-article count." Any aesthetic issues regarding link-coloring are of no real concern to them whatsoever - if anything, they love red links because they act as a visual signal, like a big sign that says "piss here." But you could fix it so that people couldn´t start articles, unless they were above, say, 500 bytes? By gad, another good suggestion! You wouldn't want to give WP TOO many good suggestions to ignore in a single day, would you? And especially not from WR. I can almost feel the bad karma back-propagating from future historians. You know that one day some poor bastard will have to study this whole mess chronologically for his Ph.D. in sociology. It will be like Fumbling the Future, only more tragic. I wonder if a bot could be written to auto delete stubs (those classed as stubs by whatever bot is used for that) that are below a certain size - 250kb for a two short or one long sentence? - and have not been edited for over a year? This returns that potential article to a red link, one which will hopefully be either created as a substantial article or at least quickly expanded as per Adversary and her (strange how quickly a brief comment changes a username into a person) co-editors were wont to do. Might even consider floating the idea at the Village Pump. |
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