Cool, I never knew that about Yorkshire. What about the cuisine?

An interesting question that would probably draw howls of protest from both sides of the aisle if this were posed over to the Wikipedia. The image removers would cry that you're painting all opposition as terrorists, the keepers would harden into an extreme "fuck them all" bunker.

Cool, I never knew that about Yorkshire. What about the cuisine?

Indeed, I have always found such parts of Yorkshire as I have visited to be most civilised.

The native traditional dish is roast beef, boiled carrots and Yorkshire pudding. However, there is a high concentration in some areas of Indians and Bangladeshis so if you like their food you can find it done well.

Indeed, I have always found such parts of Yorkshire as I have visited to be most civilised.

The native traditional dish is roast beef, boiled carrots and Yorkshire pudding. However, there is a high concentration in some areas of Indians and Bangladeshis so if you like their food you can find it done well.

The reason why the forum has fallen apart is that yes, there was indeed a representative here from the Lyndon LaRouche organization who became a staff member and used Wikipedia Review for LaRouche-related business (i.e. controlling Wikipedia and disseminating propaganda). He was also a Holocaust denier. The rest of the mods and staff rather than distancing themselves from him, instead circled the wagons.

I'm pretty sure Selina doesn't think you're all LaRouche supporters, but at some point you have to judge people by how they act, not by how you think they should be acting.

I was watching an episode of Wallace and Gromit and, when Gromit had to dispose of a bomb, he chose Yorkshire as the place to throw it rather than at the nuns carrying kittens. I see a lot of poking at Yorkshire on British shows and I figured Yorkshire was like the Detroit, East St. Louis, or New Jersey of Great Britain? I did have a college classmate from Manchester (in fact, most British students at my college were from Manchester) and he seemed to describe it as a fairly rough place. Web Fred and Malleus would disagree, though the BBC News website likes to point out the gun violence and stabbings that go on there.

So, Southern England is the land of gun nuts and right-wingers? I never thought of places like Eastbourne, Portsmouth, Ventnor, Southampton, and the Channel Islands as the British Wild West.

(and, yes, this still has nothing to do with Islam, and that's probably for the best. )

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I'm not calling these out to condemn ED, I have always found such entries quite funny. I'm calling them out to show Suarez in an extremely hypocritical light, as he has no standing to call on this forum to remove such language (especially when it was not used in a specifically racist manner) when he is an admin on a forum where the intent and aim is to be as racist as humanly possible For the Lulz.

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I was watching an episode of Wallace and Gromit and, when Gromit had to dispose of a bomb, he chose Yorkshire as the place to throw it rather than at the nuns carrying kittens. I see a lot of poking at Yorkshire on British shows and I figured Yorkshire was like the Detroit, East St. Louis, or New Jersey of Great Britain? I did have a college classmate from Manchester (in fact, most British students at my college were from Manchester) and he seemed to describe it as a fairly rough place. Web Fred and Malleus would disagree, though the BBC News website likes to point out the gun violence and stabbings that go on there.

So, Southern England is the land of gun nuts and right-wingers? I never thought of places like Eastbourne, Portsmouth, Ventnor, Southampton, and the Channel Islands as the British Wild West.

(and, yes, this still has nothing to do with Islam, and that's probably for the best. )

Do be aware of the traditional roses rivalry across the Pennines. So a Mancunian, as someone from historic Lancashire, might be prejudiced against Yorkshire.

When research was done on people's attitudes to regional accents, the Yorkshire accent, was one of those most favourably received when considering someone's suitable to get a business position. This contrasts with the Brummie, Geordie and West Country accents which would be negatively received in that context. Leeds is Englands's second biggest financial centre after London.

Yorkshire as rough would strike me more as part of a generic North-South contrast. A traditionally parochial Southern middle class view is that civilisation ends at the Watford Gap. The M1 motorway goes through the Watford Gap on the way from London to Yorkshire.

A specific Yorkshire characterisation is for blunt-speaking.

I don't have any desire to censor your comment. All I wanted was for Selina to read my post (and The Joy's post), realize that this forum needs active moderators, restore Somey's moderation abilities, and save this forum.

Considering the provenance of this website and the fact there is no current moderation I'm pleasantly surprised that things aren't that bad.

Everything that is the slightest bit controversial is being voluntarily kept to one thread and there seems to be a lot less animosity towards each other...or that could just be the consequence of all the wankers disappearing off to the Other Placeâ„¢.

Still, I never saw any instance of Holocaust Denial by the staff member here. Can you point to any instance?

Go back and reread the ask Hersch about his views thread. HK asserts that the Holocaust was a forced labor plan created by Hitler's "sponsors" in Britain. Then dogbiscuit jumps in to say that it's trivia whether 1.5, 3, or 6 million were killed.

Beware people who will bring up a topic without linking it, then tell you what to think about it.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Go back and reread the ask Hersch about his views thread. HK asserts that the Holocaust was a forced labor plan created by Hitler's "sponsors" in Britain. Then dogbiscuit jumps in to say that it's trivia whether 1.5, 3, or 6 million were killed.

Go back and reread the ask Hersch about his views thread. HK asserts that the Holocaust was a forced labor plan created by Hitler's "sponsors" in Britain. Then dogbiscuit jumps in to say that it's trivia whether 1.5, 3, or 6 million were killed.

Can you imagine what it must be like to look back on your life as the henchman of of fruitcake? As for Dogbiscuit, he turned into such a sniveling ass-lick toward the end of WR that it was kind of sad.

But enough nostalgia. Let's say we have a wake and bury this bitch before it starts to smell.

Can you imagine what it must be like to look back on your life as the henchman of of fruitcake? As for Dogbiscuit, he turned into such a sniveling ass-lick toward the end of WR that it was kind of sad.

But enough nostalgia. Let's say we have a wake and bury this bitch before it starts to smell.

WR should stay open because there are new people out there who need to read this stuff. It wouldn't be too hard once everyone's cooled off to get things going again.

Not really. Even when it was good WR was more of a conversation than a reference work. Think river, not fishbowl. It doesn't, and shouldn't, mean much to people who were not part of the conversation.

Go back and reread the ask Hersch about his views thread. HK asserts that the Holocaust was a forced labor plan created by Hitler's "sponsors" in Britain. Then dogbiscuit jumps in to say that it's trivia whether 1.5, 3, or 6 million were killed.

It looks to me as if Hersch is saying what LaRouche thinks, without actually saying he agrees with it. We might assume that he does, but he's being clever and not nailing his colours to the mast.

The cracy place?

They're repeating what was largely done here and they're getting the same results. In fact, Peter didn't get too far, as predicted by Glass Boy.

We therefore do not consider you to be person ‘affected’ by the registration of Wiki UK Ltd and therefore entitled to request a review of our decision to register the charity or to request its removal.

I'll take my victory dance here because I don't post there and they don't seem to "recall" that I predicted this outcome.

That's generally how douchebags are treated, yes.

We therefore do not consider you to be person ‘affected’ by the registration of Wiki UK Ltd and therefore entitled to request a review of our decision to register the charity or to request its removal.

Who exactly would be a person ‘affected’ by the registration of Wiki UK Ltd? Suppose you went to them with proof that you had nasty things in a BLP about you, or your child had been disturbed by pornography? Would you be affected by Wikipedia? I'd have thought so. Would you be affected by the registration of Wiki UK Ltd? No, because they didn't cause it and it was of course beyond their power to do anything about it.

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Muhammad images (T-H-L-K-D)

After closely examining the arguments put forth in each section, we have concluded that the status quo of the Muhammad article should largely be retained. For proposal 1, we found there to be no consensus to put any type of hatnote in the article. In the discussion of question 2, we found that there was the strongest consensus to put a calligraphic depiction of Muhammad in the infobox. With regards to the placement of other figurative images, we found that the current status quo -- of using figurative images of the highest encyclopedic value to illustrate important events in the subject’s life -- had the most support. This was accompanied by a general sentiment that figurative images were not necessary before the “Life” section, but would certainly be necessary after that point. However, editors should remember that calligraphic representations are the most common, and should not add images, especially figurative ones, without a clear encyclopedic reason to do so. Furthermore, there was a clear consensus to avoid any quota of figurative or calligraphic image, and to let the text of the article dictate the images used. There was no consensus for how the principle of least astonishment should apply to Muhammad.

Just as I called it quite awhile ago, the status quo is upheld.

I think that never was there any doubt as to the outcome. Indeed given those who were likely to take part it was easy to foretell. What has been discussed in this thread is what ought to happen in a sensible world. That they are different says much about WP, no?

Just as I called it quite awhile ago, the status quo is upheld.

They aren't different at all, no. The "real world" of the West here doesn't defer to prehistoric religions either.

Just as I called it quite awhile ago, the status quo is upheld.

A nice, shiny



to Somey and AssBeadGame. Better luck next time, fuckwits.

I was certain that enlightened Wikipedians, who always represent the best in all human endeavors, would do the right thing.

Ok, a tonne of complaints received over this stuff, and it's really hard to work out where to break it off, since some comments that are nothing but insults are mixed in with actual comments over the issues, but yeah. Train of tit-for-tat insults moved to here, try keep at least vaguely on topic!

I declare myself the thread-winner.

/pats self on back

(Moderrration [should we really have to?])

Ok, a tonne of complaints received over this stuff, and it's really hard to work out where to break it off, since some comments that are nothing but insults are mixed in with actual comments over the issues, but yeah. Train of tit-for-tat insults moved to here, try keep at least vaguely on topic!

If that makes you feel smug and lcever, then no doubt you now feel smug and clever.

Nah, I was feeling smug and clever way before then.

Nah, I was feeling smug and clever way before then.

If it wears off drink some more and pick on some poor immigrant. You'll be your old self in no time.

I doubt it not. But to say that you now feel smug is surely not to deny that you have felt thus for many years.

GBG, I love immigrants. As long as they come in the front door. You're not one of those limp-wristed amnesty-for-illegals types, are you?

I dunno about GBG, but I support amnesty. I'm also a "son of the revolution", so presumably my opinion matters much more than yours does.

You're a low-life scab last time I checked.

Is this an attempt to be the stupidest thread in WR's history?

I question the 'an attempt' part.

So you say that Jay should say "Is this to be the stupidest thread in WR's history?" As I understand it that would be a future construction. Yet surely it is already the stupidest!

So you say that Jay should say "Is this to be the stupidest thread in WR's history?" As I understand it that would be a future construction. Yet surely it is already the stupidest!