I figured since I'm getting mentioned here I've earned my admin stripes and might as well join.

Now it is. I guess someone should bounce this over to Editors.

And point for this.

Is there someone who is keeping with the admin counts? How many are now members of WR?

James sometimes comments on Wikipedia Review, a forum for criticism and discussion of Wikipedia, frequented by a number of people banned from Wikipedia as well as some Wikipedians in good standing. Though critical of many aspects of Wikipedia administration, James's main contribution to that forum has been in defending Wikipedia and correcting misconceptions on how it works. In one thread on the forum a person was curious about the contents of a deleted revision of an article. James responded saying he didn't see anything interesting about that revision but suggested he might post it. The person in question then asked for the revision but James, realizing he had made a mistake in offering it, didn't post it and let the matter drop. Some days later the Arbitration Committee was informed of the exchange and decided to desysop James for it. Though naturally disappointed with the result, James has not let it stop him from continuing his usual sterling encyclopedic work on subjects such as contemporary African politics and early Anglo-Saxon history.

Well, points for the SNES controller avatar.

That's Super Famicom for our non European readers.

Now it is. I guess someone should bounce this over to Editors.

Ah quite right, apologies!

Actually I was wrong It is very confusing as the USA version was also called Super Nintendo Entertainment System/SNES but had a different square body. The japanese had the same more attractive curved body of the European version but was called the Super Family Computer/Super Famicom. :wacko:

No, you were right, it is known as the Super Famicom (Family computer) in Japan, and a different name in Korea as well.

I figured since I'm getting mentioned here I've earned my admin stripes and might as well join.

Ah yes the "Super Comboy "

I figured since I'm getting mentioned here I've earned my admin stripes and might as well join.

I have absolutely no idea what any of you are talking about.

Welcome,

As the Anti-Janitor In Chief of The Wikipedia Review I'll be the one with the vacuuum cleaner switched on reverse — I make The Wikipedia Review not suck, as it were — hurling a constant stream of chalk dust, cigarette butts, dust bunnies, and used condoms in yer face. Don't take it personal, it's just so yer buddies back in Wikipukia don't feel like yer getting too cozy with us. It's a dirty job, but somebuddy's gotta do it.

I temporarily derailed the thread, and at the risk of doing so again I'll answer your question briefly. The controller in his avatar is a part of a video game console known as the Super Famicom in Japan, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in America (and Europe I believe), and the Super Comboy in Korea.


Stick close with Jonny and you'll be safe on Wikipedia.

I've had my eye on you for a few days, east.718. I was building a case that you were a Durova sycophant/meatpuppet. Either that, or a process uber-wonk. Am I basically correct, or have you changed your stripes in the past 24 hours?

Regardless, I'm always willing to listen and talk to someone brave enough to enter here at WR. Welcome!

Greg

I figured since I'm getting mentioned here I've earned my admin stripes and might as well join.

Considering I've been going for Durova's head, I would hardly consider myself her sycophant. I am but a humble admin with a silly userpage who rides alone.

It's commonplace now for editors to be blocked for opposing RfAs, questioning administrators' actions, expressing contrary opinions on policy pages, and other things which when I joined in 2004 would have been considered part of what made the Wikipedia experience feel relatively liberal and enlightened.

Finally, Wikipedia's leadership has made it a perverse point of principle to never under any circumstances admit error or offer credible paths for the redress of its excesses.

It's natural, then, that we gather here, where we're outside of the control of an increasingly unbearable, unaccountable, incompetent and morally bankrupt leadership.

The flip side of that lament is that Wikipedia offers the world a remarkble fishbowl where we can observe, chronicle, and measure the systemic dysfunctionality arising from a regressive dominance hierarchy operating at the lower rungs of the Kohlberg-Gilligan Ladder of Moral Reasoning.

More and more Wikipedia editors are joining Wikipedia Review. The first reason is because this site has a higher profile and as it's read more, it has a greater influence on what goes on at Wikipedia. Just last night, I found a scathing post of mine quoted there (though without attribution) within hours...