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To take a disputed article on Wikipedia, I don't see the issue with Lazarus of Bethany in broad strokes—it's clear where the stories are coming from, and doesn't present the idea that Lazarus was a real person or the miracle actually happened. Let's take that article, shall we? Lazarus of Bethany (...

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Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:01 am
It always irritates me when large organizations try to brand themselves as "a movement", or as we would say in Germany "eine Bewegung".

It always reminds me of the riddle "What was the brown object Beethoven left behind on his piano stool?" (Ans: His last movement.)

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Thomas Forbes . It lasted almost 18 years. Its entry on the List of hoaxes on Wikipedia rather confusingly characterises its demise as "Speedy deleted as G3: Blatant hoax". That seems like an inordinately long time for its deletion to be characterised as "speedy". In fact, an earlier version of the...

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engadget: Getty flags another British royal family photo for being digitally altered The princess' absence from public events since Christmas last year has, as you might have expected, spawned all kinds of conspiracy theories. It even gave rise to a whole Wikipedia article entitled "Where is Kate?"...

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Today I've been struggling to figure out why all the Mormons on Wikipdedia are insisting on treating the Book of Mormon as a creative work or worthy of literary analysis. It's pretty wild: like do you really want people to do a close reading of a pretty shitty biblical fan fiction from 1830? Then I...

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An actor commits ritual abuse of a child if the actor, as part of a ritual, intentionally or knowingly; Causes a child to participate in or witness: the torture, mutilation, or sacrifice of an animal; the dissection, mutilation, or incineration of a human corpse: the causing of serious ...

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... ✂️ ... ... ✂️ ... He [viz. Lazar] claims one of the flying saucers, the one he coined the "Sport Model", was manufactured out of a metallic substance similar in appearance and touch to liquid titanium . Given that the boiling point of titanium is 3287 °C, the discoverer of this factoid must hav...

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glad I popped in while it was still open to add my oppose for Vituzzu. If I had a say in it, I'd also vote to remove all the other Italian admins who had any part in the Gitz affair. You misplaced it, after the "<section end="comments" />" line, so it doesn't show when it's transcluded (and I can't...

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...a veiled insult... In the context of the Arbcom enforcement case, I think that this refers to the "dumb goiym" phrase Nishidani posted which has severely antisemitic undertones as it was taken from Mein Kampf. I think this is what they were referring to, though I could've missed something. "Take...

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I wanna play. I submit: Though Theodosius calculated the date correctly, God intervened to have Ahimaaz' ancestor win, according to the chronicle. Theodosius of Oria I did move the attribution to to top of the sentence to make it clearer WP does not ascribe to this. I am about to go see if I can id...

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OTD ... 1990 – NASA's Voyager 1 space probe took the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth (pictured) from a record distance of 40.5 au (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi). Spot the dot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png/177px-Pale_Blue_Dot.png It's not a...

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I recently fixed a syntax error in a biography of living person Jenilee Harrison . Let's take a look at how you "fixed" that. You added as a reference a site that lists court documents related to a divorce case. If one paid, they could access those documents. Without paying, I'm not even sure if th...

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RoySmith is now asking " do we really need articles on individual latitudes? " Here's a random example of a latitude article: 18th parallel north . The 18th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 18 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, th...

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Anton Webern Webern's earliest works primarily comprise lieder, the genre that most testifies to his roots in Romanticism, specifically German Romanticism; one in which the music yields brief but explicit, potent, and spoken meaning manifested only latently or programmatically in purely instrumenta...

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Split networks Wow, that's next-level impenetrable. There isn't much for the layperson to even work out what the topic is about (before following some links, I'd have guessed mathematics or computer networks) It looks to me like a "split" is a pair of trees (in the sense used in phylogenetics ) obt...

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It's not nearly as easy as that to do it undetectably. If the .eml file contains a purported DKIM signature (and I've checked that Gmail doesn't strip them out when you ask it for the original source of an email), then that will contain the name of the domain supposedly responsible for adding the s...

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"An .EML file is, in the simplest terms, an email saved in plain text ." Just a smidge more than that. Well, no, not really. That addresses different issues - email spoofing (or pretending to send as someone else) & modification of email in flight. It doesn't address the issue that I have mentioned...

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The article on Thabo Mbeki falsely claimed that he had died. The edit in question included two sources( * ). However both are now 404, so I can't tell you whether they ever existed. But apparently several news sites reported it, so it is very possible that this one did not originate on Wikipedia. A...

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There are good reasons to suspect that the whole 'virgin' thing was a mistranslation - possibly intentional. Only two of the four canonical gospels make any mention of it. Definitely a mistranslation. I don't think it was a deliberate mistranslation... more likely an attempt by Aramaic-speaking, ea...

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Cesàro summation An "improvement" made some 5 years ago to this article was drawn to my attention by this post on Mathematics StackExchange , whose author had been misled by it. Until the talk page donnybrook leading up to that change, the article had given the following correct definiton https://i...

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lonza leggiera wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:33 am
... you're right about the author of the entry. It's not the editor of the encyclopedia, Levillain, but the French historian, Jean Durliat.

I've now corrected the article on this point.

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[centre]…[snip]…[/centre] Now to the alleged quote by Philippe Levillain . It is from The Papacy: An Encyclopedia (translation of Dictionnaire historique de la papauté ), a three volume work edited by Levillain. I can't access the full text, .... Yes you can (sort of). All three volumes are availab...

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The 12-minute flight time,[8] which also included a sack of groceries and 50 copies of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat,[8] established the world's first airmail service.[7] The total flight time was considerabely shorter because it took Wiseman two days to complete the journey, which included two for...

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LoL. I was slightly startled that Wikipediasucks noted that I joined Wikipediocracy. Weird, isn't it. Are you kidding? They're almost as obsessed with Wikipediocracy as they are with Wikipedia. Hi suckers :wave: er, no I wasn't but I guess I am learning that To be precise, What Wikipediocracy parti...

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Goo-goos . … In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, in telling George about his preferred "parlour", Whit observes that in addition to clean girls, and comfortable chairs, the proprietress (Susy), "Don't let no goo-goos in, neither." However an earlier version says: In John Steinbeck's novella, Of M...

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…[snip]… — and remember, it's not over until the fat lady sings! (Please excuse me for body-shaming, I'm sure she's a very nice and desirable lady!) …[snip]… Adiposely challenged she may well have been towards the end of her career, but for anyone with a voice as divine as hers a few extra centimet...

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rnu wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 05, 2023 5:32 pm

rhindle wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 05, 2023 5:24 pm
"Always say 'to whom;' don't ever say 'to who."

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The topic of this thread appears to be much the same as that of this one. Maybe they could be merged.

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Philomath wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:19 am
Sorry, I don't know what Cirt means. It's an acronym for "Critical International Relations Theory", but I don't think that's what you mean. Can you say more?

See here.

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I realize things are much more complicated now Compared to when? Was there some time when people didn't have sex or talk about it online? Maybe not, but I believe it's pretty much little more than plausible conjecture as to what medieval peasants (for instance) chatted about on their mobiles, witho...

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Shaun Spalding, quoted by Vigilant, wrote: ... I like contributing and talking to everyone here and on meta because I have relatively think skin. ...

Thin, thick, or something in between?

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Speaking of dirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center,The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center This is a Hunter-Thomps...

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María Teresa Campos ran a “vindicative” radio program. This was somehow a good thing. I wonder if this is some kind of false friend problem. Note the "a" in "vindic a tive, a word which I didn't even know existed. I had to go to the Oxford English dictionary to discover that one of its supposedly m...

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In a semi-related note, I don't think publicly identifying underaged editors is a great idea. It looks like "youth" here might mean something like "under 30". From a desultory browse through the nominees, the two I found whose ages would appear to be reasonably well circumscribed, Lajmmoore and Sir...

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Article subjects can donate pictures of themselves. I think if we can have a system where people can send in their pictures and say "you can now legally use this" then it should be possible to have a system where people can say "hey I got a divorce". One of the reasons that Wikipedia relies on "rel...

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Kinda unsure if y'all are serious, but in case you are, I searched for Sashi's WPO handle in the AN thread and it's not there. Since it had been mentioned along with various threads where said ID was alleged to have said mean things about Wikipedia users, and since the diff by Primefac, who's handl...

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Here "You cannot view this page revision because it has been suppressed ." :blink: At ANI? For what reason? Something Elinruby wrote at 22:24, 21 August 2023 was redacted Sorry, as a mere administrator without oversight privileges, I don't know any more about that than you do. It may not have been ...

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Contributions Registered March 2022, edited through June 2022, disappeared for 9 months, went to work shitting things up. Click through on any of his 'contributions' that are over 100 bytes, They're uniformly bad. Really, really bad. Appears to be a woman , as I'd guessed from the "Stella" in the f...

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Lemme get this straight: somebody vandalized Wikipedia a decade ago, which was caught and corrected, and for eight and a half years Wikipedia hasn't had the misinformation. But there are "many websites" still parroting the now-corrected vandalism — and this somehow is an indictment of Wikipedia? So...

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Prompted by an exchange of letters in a local newspaper about Schrödinger's cat , I performed a web search to find out whether Schrödinger ever did own a cat, and, if so what its name was. I was confidently informed by many web sites, including a Facebook page of Physics Today , and a web page of IF...

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Ah she is a computer scientist and mentions this on her linked in: …[ snip] … It's not clear (at least not to me) that she would still claim to be a computer scientist. On her linkedin page she gives her current occupation as a self-employed "Amateur Neuroscience Researcher." It's true that her Wik...

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Thanks for your patient explanation of what was wrong with that contribution. I'd looked for "censorship" and "wouldn't be too harsh" in the article and, finding neither, ... [snip] ... Now that you've drawn my attention to the fact that Luix710 had enclosed "wouldn't be too harsh" within quotation...

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With regard to Luix710, my comment on her talk was "if no one explains to her the fundamentals of NPOV, CON, NPA, etc., how will she learn?" Given this complete misrepresentation of the source they added to en.wp, I'm not sure they are really open to "learning". :dubious: Did you mean to link to th...

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Reputation Bernardino Corio describes Sforza Veronese, his favorite, to whom he cut off a testicle. The twenty-two-year-old Ambrogio instead, in order to escape his flattery (Sforza was in fact bisexual), castrated himself. He had the young Pietro Drego buried alive and out of jealousy he had both ...

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This is heading far off topic, but I do frequently notice it in the phrase "or, what is the same". I googled the phrase and found it in Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, in the first ever definition of utility no less: By the principle of utility is meant that prin...

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...why Horse Eye's Back tried to introduce this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive289#Tulsi_Gabbard_again BLPN discussion about... Tulsi Gabbard into evidence? What does Tulsi Gabbard have to do with the topic of "Holocaust in Poland"? What exa...

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I finally watched the Dateline NBC episode. I had never watched his interviews before, so I was very entertained by his terrible acting. Link to the full episode? Possibly here . I get the message "This video is not available in your location". But the page says it will be available until October 1...

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Aloha ʻOe Here are the Hawai'ian lyrics, according to the article: Haʻaheo e ka ua i nā pali Ke nihi aʻela i ka nahele E hahai (uhai) ana paha i ka liko Pua ʻāhihi lehua o uka Hui: Aloha ʻoe, aloha ʻoe E ke onaona noho i ka lipo One fond embrace, A hoʻi aʻe au Until we meet again ...and so forth. T...

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Case postponed until June. According to the BBC report just cited, his latest barrister (a King's Counsel, no less) said

BBC News wrote: he "very much regretted" asking for the case to be adjourned, but that more time was needed to prepare expert reports.

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Ampersands in the web links in citations number 11 and 33 of this article , also published on the Taylor and Francis website, do not get converted to %26. Links in the pdf version of Grabowski and Klein's article suffer from the same problem as those in the html web-page version, and it seems unlik...

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