Cirt revisited Options

[cookiehead]

This just in the from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rest...s_in_New_Jersey (who have welcomed Daryl's with open arms!):


We'd like to welcome Daryl's Wine Bar, a great place to meet vulnerable chicks who have been hurt before (El Ron, you scoundrel!) to our prestigious "Restaurants in New Jersey" category. Only a select few restaurants merit this inclusion, such as:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s_Luncheonette

Regards,
The Restaurants in New Jersey category


P.S.
You too can put your personal website as a sole reference for an article, and upload photos out of your family scrapbook! Wikipedia: The encyclopedia that anyone can edit to keep track of their favorite restaurants and family photos!


PS2: Other winners in our exclusive category

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_Taco ("cult following", none of whom work for any WP:RS apparently)

This post has been edited by cookiehead: Mon 2nd August 2010, 4:59pm

[HRIP7]

Well, Daryl's was saved! Hallelujah! (not sure how they say that in Scientology Church. "Travolta!"?)

At least DGG rewrote the thing before it was kept.

[cookiehead]

Well, Daryl's was saved! Hallelujah! (not sure how they say that in Scientology Church. "Travolta!"?)

At least DGG rewrote the thing before it was kept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_wine

Oh my. Can you say "overweight"? or even "WTF does a restaurant have to do with this article on New Jersey wine? They maybe serve Renault?" (in the See Also section).

This post has been edited by cookiehead: Mon 2nd August 2010, 7:38pm

[jayvdb]

Well, Daryl's was saved! Hallelujah! (not sure how they say that in Scientology Church. "Travolta!"?)

Meanwhile, the prolific and venerable John Vandenburg has recommended that the doubly-notable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_(restaurant) should be merged into the article of the hotel in which it resides.

Hmm.....Daryl's Wine Bar and Scientologist Refugee Farm is also located in a well-known hotel. So I'm sure Vandy would want to merge this pedestrian grape juice bar into the main hotel article?

http://www.theheldrich.com/

I'm sure this suggestion will be made shortly.

I was looking at that AFD at the same time as the Renaissance article, and was thinking that The Heldrich would make a good merge target. I was a bit surprised to find there were not many readily available sources about The Heldrich. If it had been deleted, Mzoli's was sure to be renom'd, as most of its sources are also local. That would have been interesting to watch. Oh well, this will have to do. p.s. it is Vandenberg

[CharlotteWebb]

I'm sure Cirt gets the joke. I wish I knew how to make images smaller here - can someone clue me in?

Use the copy stored on commons then adjust the number of px after the final slash in the thumbnail url.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Wikipe-tan_in_navy_uniform2_transparent.png/220px-Wikipe-tan_in_navy_uniform2_transparent.png


But no, generally speaking I don't believe there's any forum markup to expose the img width attribute and effect scale reduction by the browser (which tends to come out looking like shit anyway). Maybe Somey could be persuaded to install imagemagick.

[Somey]

But no, generally speaking I don't believe there's any forum markup to expose the img width attribute and effect scale reduction by the browser (which tends to come out looking like shit anyway). Maybe Somey could be persuaded to install imagemagick.

There's [imgx] to limit a large image to 100% of the table-cell width (so that it doesn't expand the table to where you have to scroll horizontally)... And ImageMagick actually is installed, but if we allowed people to enter their own preferred width attribute, pretty soon we'd have Awbrey posting those little GIF smileys at about 10 million times their original size.

[CharlotteWebb]

There's [imgx] to limit a large image to 100% of the table-cell width (so that it doesn't expand the table to where you have to scroll horizontally)... And ImageMagick actually is installed, but if we allowed people to enter their own preferred width attribute, pretty soon we'd have Awbrey posting those little GIF smileys at about 10 million times their original size.

Better switch to svg smileys in that case. You know, so the contours remain smooth.

[Moulton]

If we allowed people to enter their own preferred width attribute, pretty soon we'd have Awbrey posting those little GIF smileys at about 10 million times their original size.

That's one of the unfortunate consequences of operating the site under the inchoate terms of an Anti-Social Contract.

[HRIP7]

If we allowed people to enter their own preferred width attribute, pretty soon we'd have Awbrey posting those little GIF smileys at about 10 million times their original size.

That's one of the unfortunate consequences of operating the site under the inchoate terms of an Anti-Social Contract.

Meanwhile, Wikipedia's drive to cover New Jersey's standouts of the year has moved on to the Pithari Taverna (T-H-L-K-D).

[A Horse With No Name]

Meanwhile, Wikipedia's drive to cover New Jersey's standouts of the year has moved on to the Pithari Taverna (T-H-L-K-D).

Impossible! There is something worse in New Jersey than Snooki...and it is Cirt!

[Somey]

Meanwhile, Wikipedia's drive to cover New Jersey's standouts of the year has moved on to the Pithari Taverna (T-H-L-K-D).

Hmm... Until someone finds the (not-so-obvious) Scientology connection here, I'd say we have to assume he's either being paid for this article, or it's a feint to cover the other restaurant advertisements, i.e., "see, I write lots of these! I just happen to like the food!"

Personally, I can't stand Greek food, so I can't give him a pass for this one.

[tarantino]

Meanwhile, Wikipedia's drive to cover New Jersey's standouts of the year has moved on to the Pithari Taverna (T-H-L-K-D).

See also Light Horse Tavern (T-H-L-K-D). It is misdirection aimed at reviewers and Scilons.

[Somey]

And here's the obligatory main page reference, which I assume he gets a cash bonus for.

And here's the one for the Light Horse Tavern... at least that one contains an historical reference...

[EricBarbour]

And here's the one for the Light Horse Tavern... at least that one contains an historical reference...

And once again, regardless of how historical or good the Light Horse Tavern is, this whole situation smells.

The Light Horse gets an article of length 11,066 bytes, while far more famous
restaurants get shorter ones--why? Because they're not in New Jersey?

[thekohser]

If Cirt is not being paid for these, he or she is one of the stupidest Wikipedia editors on Earth.

[HRIP7]

Meanwhile, Wikipedia's drive to cover New Jersey's standouts of the year has moved on to the Pithari Taverna (T-H-L-K-D).

See also Light Horse Tavern (T-H-L-K-D). It is misdirection aimed at reviewers and Scilons.

No. Cirt couldn't give a shit about what people at WR think. It is misdirection aimed at fellow Wikipedians, just in case there should ever be any scrutiny of her actions. It enables her to play the innocent victim, pursued by mad conspiracy theorists -- who should ideally be site-banned, for not assuming good faith and pursuing a vendetta against her.

It's a strategy that works handsomely. And she doesn't mind doing some extra work, because she loves writing anyway, and is far better at it than the average Wikipedian. That's one thing you have to grant Cirt. She can pull a well-written article out of the hat in less time than it takes most other Wikipedians to find one source in google books.

She is a bit like an indispensable secretary -- slightly round the bend, but no one would like to sack her, because she does such good work. And in a way, her heart is in the right place. She does her advocacy out of compassion for the victims of cults. That gives her a moral authority and integrity that people, on some level, respect.

This post has been edited by HRIP7: Wed 4th August 2010, 1:09pm

[Moulton]

If Cirt is not being paid for these, he or she is one of the stupidest Wikipedia editors on Earth.

Um, Greg. Wikipedia isn't on Earth. It's in Cloud Cuckooland.

[DoctorHver]

If Cirt is not being paid for these, he or she is one of the stupidest Wikipedia editors on Earth.

Um, Greg. Wikipedia isn't on Earth. It's in Cloud Cuckooland.

Hum, make sense to me I wonder if Jimbo is the first monarch of Wikipedia Cloud Cuckooland?

[rockyBarton]

This Article created by Cirt yesterday has been nominated for deletion. He seems to be working feverishly. People seem to be really impressed with his ability to add content and format to the article but are oblivious to how that same work is furthering his obsession

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&action=history

[Somey]

This Article created by Cirt yesterday has been nominated for deletion. He seems to be working feverishly. People seem to be really impressed with his ability to add content and format to the article but are oblivious to how that same work is furthering his obsession

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&action=history

Jeez...

I guess aside from the fact that it's pure navel-gazing from WP's perspective, it's actually a fairly good summary of what's happened over the years. It would have made for a pretty good WR blog post... In fact, if they delete it, we should probably run it here! This is the more appropriate venue, after all. (The article could stand to be a little shorter, of course.)