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Peter Damian
post Tue 8th November 2011, 2:42pm
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I suppose we have all noticed the new fundraiser today. Random pictures of people claiming to have generated lots of valuable yet free content. For example Alan Sohn – user:Alansohn – who says “On Wikipedia, I’ve created 2,463 articles. All of them for free. “

Great stuff, Alan, your most significant contribution seems to be ‘List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey’, 68 edits, but I couldn’t be bothered to check any further back than this year. Nearly all of your 2,463 articles are about High Schools in New Jersey. This does not persuade me to part any of my hard-earned cash to WMF, particularly not if I have to divert it from my current financial support of institutions like the Warburg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_Institute . Interesting that the Warburg article is far smaller than any of the voluminous articles about New Jersey schools.

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Malleus
post Tue 8th November 2011, 5:40pm
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And here's another one . I think whoever chose the "I've created X articles" approach has made a fundamental mistake; just makes the editors look smug.

I notice as well that they're all being called authors, not editors. Significant?

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post Tue 8th November 2011, 7:55pm
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QUOTE(Malleus @ Tue 8th November 2011, 5:40pm) *

And here's another one . I think whoever chose the "I've created X articles" approach has made a fundamental mistake; just makes the editors look smug.

I notice as well that they're all being called authors, not editors. Significant?


Were you not asked, Malleus? You seem to have written more than that useless lot.
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post Tue 8th November 2011, 11:40pm
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QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Tue 8th November 2011, 7:55pm) *

QUOTE(Malleus @ Tue 8th November 2011, 5:40pm) *

And here's another one . I think whoever chose the "I've created X articles" approach has made a fundamental mistake; just makes the editors look smug.

I notice as well that they're all being called authors, not editors. Significant?


Were you not asked, Malleus? You seem to have written more than that useless lot.

I was eventually asked after I took the piss about not being asked, but of course I refused, as the WMF and I see eye-to-eye about very little. Here's a link.
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post Wed 9th November 2011, 8:31am
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QUOTE(Malleus @ Tue 8th November 2011, 11:40pm) *

I was eventually asked after I took the piss about not being asked, but of course I refused, as the WMF and I see eye-to-eye about very little. Here's a link.


That's a great thread.
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QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Wed 9th November 2011, 12:31am) *

QUOTE(Malleus @ Tue 8th November 2011, 11:40pm) *

I was eventually asked after I took the piss about not being asked, but of course I refused, as the WMF and I see eye-to-eye about very little. Here's a link.
That's a great thread.

Yeah, but I still think Malleus is a supermasochist.

And the more I think of it, The Young Ones seems to be the perfect Wikipedia sitcom.
It's crude, filthy, disgusting, hostile, trollish, insane, and ultimately worthless.
This could be an Arbcom get-together.
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Peter Damian   Personal appeals from prolific Wikipedians   Tue 8th November 2011, 2:42pm
Malleus   And here's another one . I think whoever chose...   Tue 8th November 2011, 5:40pm
Ottava   [quote name='Malleus' post='288072' date='Tue 8t...   Wed 9th November 2011, 4:12am
radek   [quote name='Malleus' post='288072' date='Tue 8t...   Wed 9th November 2011, 7:21am
Malleus   [quote name='Malleus' post='288107' date='Tue 8th...   Thu 10th November 2011, 6:54pm
SB_Johnny   And the more I think of it, The Young Ones seems ...   Sat 12th November 2011, 9:23pm
radek   [quote name='EricBarbour' post='288129' date='Wed...   Sat 12th November 2011, 9:41pm
thekohser   And here's another one . Roger sounds like ...   Tue 8th November 2011, 7:56pm
The Joy   [quote name='Malleus' post='288072' date='Tue 8th...   Tue 8th November 2011, 8:14pm
EricBarbour   [quote name='thekohser' post='288086' date='Tue 8...   Tue 8th November 2011, 8:31pm
that one guy   Can we have one saying "I deleted X articles...   Tue 8th November 2011, 5:47pm
It's the blimp, Frank   Or I OWN x articles?   Tue 8th November 2011, 6:30pm
lilburne   Can't they pay for their own entertainment?   Tue 8th November 2011, 6:32pm
lilburne   Where can you claim compensation for them having w...   Wed 9th November 2011, 7:51am
It's the blimp, Frank   Here's an odd character. You can't see ...   Thu 10th November 2011, 6:51pm
Abd   [url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?t...   Sat 12th November 2011, 3:41pm
NuclearWarfare   Here's an odd character. You can't see...   Sat 12th November 2011, 4:16pm
Ottava   [quote name='It's the blimp, Frank' post='288...   Sat 12th November 2011, 6:07pm
Abd   [quote name='It's the blimp, Frank' post='2882...   Sat 12th November 2011, 7:39pm
RMHED   [quote name='It's the blimp, Frank' post='288...   Sat 12th November 2011, 7:59pm


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