The 5th annual "WP:DICK of Distinction" electioneering thread Options

[Herschelkrustofsky]

Member of the Academy are invited to post appealing blurbs about their favorite candidates between now and February. List their achievements, post 8" x 10" glossy promo pix, etc.

[radek]

Member of the Academy are invited to post appealing blurbs about their favorite candidates between now and February. List their achievements, post 8" x 10" glossy promo pix, etc.

Wait, before we get there, I actually want Cla68 nominated for the Dick award, based on this request against Science Apologists. I know people here like Cla and all that and gots problems with SA but the whole request just encapsulates numerous problems with Wikipedia:
*The whole request is based on some Wikilawyering bullshit about how SA is violating some civility or topic ban guidelines - I've looked through the relevant diffs and they're all about removing total crap from articles, though sometimes with snarky edit summaries. Hey all you folks (*cough*Malleus*cough*) who always complain about the "civility police" and bitch about how content contributors are under appreciated, where are you now?
*As far as I can tell, though I'm not as knowledgeable in Wikipedia lore and history as others, Cla's not involved in these articles at all, but is just bringing it up because he's got some kind of problem with SA prolly stemming from some kind of personal grudge. Again, typical crap that makes Wikipedia a social hellhole. Maybe I'm missing something.
*As far as I can tell, I'm sure SA is an asshole but that's what you turn into when you have to deal with moronism repeatedly on Wikipedia. I probably wouldn't like him if I ever got to interact with him. But part of being intellectually honest, not to mention grown up, on Wikipedia as in real life, is admitting that certain people, however obnoxious they may be, happen to be right at certain times.

I've been depressed lately because none of the candidates on the list are ones that I can really get behind. This deserves to be on there.

[Peter Damian]

Member of the Academy are invited to post appealing blurbs about their favorite candidates between now and February. List their achievements, post 8" x 10" glossy promo pix, etc.

Wait, before we get there, I actually want Cla68 nominated for the Dick award, based on this request against Science Apologists. I know people here like Cla and all that and gots problems with SA but the whole request just encapsulates numerous problems with Wikipedia:
*The whole request is based on some Wikilawyering bullshit about how SA is violating some civility or topic ban guidelines - I've looked through the relevant diffs and they're all about removing total crap from articles, though sometimes with snarky edit summaries. Hey all you folks (*cough*Malleus*cough*) who always complain about the "civility police" and bitch about how content contributors are under appreciated, where are you now?
*As far as I can tell, though I'm not as knowledgeable in Wikipedia lore and history as others, Cla's not involved in these articles at all, but is just bringing it up because he's got some kind of problem with SA prolly stemming from some kind of personal grudge. Again, typical crap that makes Wikipedia a social hellhole. Maybe I'm missing something.
*As far as I can tell, I'm sure SA is an asshole but that's what you turn into when you have to deal with moronism repeatedly on Wikipedia. I probably wouldn't like him if I ever got to interact with him. But part of being intellectually honest, not to mention grown up, on Wikipedia as in real life, is admitting that certain people, however obnoxious they may be, happen to be right at certain times.

I've been depressed lately because none of the candidates on the list are ones that I can really get behind. This deserves to be on there.

Agree 100%, all your points. Cla68 was defending a complete moron called Zulu Papa 5 whose work I have now looked at more closely.

[Cla68]

Member of the Academy are invited to post appealing blurbs about their favorite candidates between now and February. List their achievements, post 8" x 10" glossy promo pix, etc.

Wait, before we get there, I actually want Cla68 nominated for the Dick award, based on this request against Science Apologists. I know people here like Cla and all that and gots problems with SA but the whole request just encapsulates numerous problems with Wikipedia:
*The whole request is based on some Wikilawyering bullshit about how SA is violating some civility or topic ban guidelines - I've looked through the relevant diffs and they're all about removing total crap from articles, though sometimes with snarky edit summaries. Hey all you folks (*cough*Malleus*cough*) who always complain about the "civility police" and bitch about how content contributors are under appreciated, where are you now?
*As far as I can tell, though I'm not as knowledgeable in Wikipedia lore and history as others, Cla's not involved in these articles at all, but is just bringing it up because he's got some kind of problem with SA prolly stemming from some kind of personal grudge. Again, typical crap that makes Wikipedia a social hellhole. Maybe I'm missing something.
*As far as I can tell, I'm sure SA is an asshole but that's what you turn into when you have to deal with moronism repeatedly on Wikipedia. I probably wouldn't like him if I ever got to interact with him. But part of being intellectually honest, not to mention grown up, on Wikipedia as in real life, is admitting that certain people, however obnoxious they may be, happen to be right at certain times.

I've been depressed lately because none of the candidates on the list are ones that I can really get behind. This deserves to be on there.

Agree 100%, all your points. Cla68 was defending a complete moron called Zulu Papa 5 whose work I have now looked at more closely.

I think the nomination of ScienceApologist/Joshua P. Schroeder for Miss Incongeniality may be moot because he has just been indef blocked.

This post has been edited by Cla68: Fri 21st January 2011, 5:06am

[Milton Roe]

I think the nomination of ScienceApologist/Joshua P. Schroeder for Miss Incongeniality may be moot because he has just been indef blocked.

That's a weird one. ScienceApol/Schroeder put himself in jail for a year and threw away the key, and yet an admin came along la-de-da and indeffed him anyway. I wonder if the blocking admin Timotheus Canens (T-C-L-K-R-D) has a long memory and an axe to grind? He doesn't qualify as an "involved administrator" under the ArbComm sanction restrictions, simply because he is "not engaged in a current, direct, personal conflict on the topic with the user receiving sanctions." However, these two editors have edited on the following list of articles:

1 Water fluoridation controversy
2 Maryse Ouellet
3 List of common misconceptions
4 Free space
5 Dinosaur
6 Captain Kangaroo
7 Baryon

And it would very much surprise me if they haven't crossed swords in the past. One has been on WP for ~6 years, and the other ~7!

[Collect]

I think the nomination of ScienceApologist/Joshua P. Schroeder for Miss Incongeniality may be moot because he has just been indef blocked.

That's a weird one. ScienceApol/Schroeder put himself in jail for a year and threw away the key, and yet an admin came along la-de-da and indeffed him anyway. I wonder if the blocking admin Timotheus Canens (T-C-L-K-R-D) has a long memory and an axe to grind? He doesn't qualify as an "involved administrator" under the ArbComm sanction restrictions, simply because he is "not engaged in a current, direct, personal conflict on the topic with the user receiving sanctions." However, these two editors have edited on the following list of articles:

1 Water fluoridation controversy
2 Maryse Ouellet
3 List of common misconceptions
4 Free space
5 Dinosaur
6 Captain Kangaroo
7 Baryon

And it would very much surprise me if they haven't crossed swords in the past. One has been on WP for ~6 years, and the other ~7!

A 7 article overlap for long-time users is de minimis. And there is only one controversial subject in the list (and it is not Captain Kangaroo).

[Milton Roe]

I think the nomination of ScienceApologist/Joshua P. Schroeder for Miss Incongeniality may be moot because he has just been indef blocked.

That's a weird one. ScienceApol/Schroeder put himself in jail for a year and threw away the key, and yet an admin came along la-de-da and indeffed him anyway. I wonder if the blocking admin Timotheus Canens (T-C-L-K-R-D) has a long memory and an axe to grind? He doesn't qualify as an "involved administrator" under the ArbComm sanction restrictions, simply because he is "not engaged in a current, direct, personal conflict on the topic with the user receiving sanctions." However, these two editors have edited on the following list of articles:

1 Water fluoridation controversy
2 Maryse Ouellet
3 List of common misconceptions
4 Free space
5 Dinosaur
6 Captain Kangaroo
7 Baryon

And it would very much surprise me if they haven't crossed swords in the past. One has been on WP for ~6 years, and the other ~7!

A 7 article overlap for long-time users is de minimis. And there is only one controversial subject in the list (and it is not Captain Kangaroo).

No, I'm guessing it's the one about pollution of our precious bodily fluids by the Commies.

-- Ripper