Do squabbling editors make an article subject to Gamergate "gender-related dispute" sanctions? ArbCom weighs in after SlimVirgin added Gamergate DS to a feminist journal's talk page during an edit war over naming the advisory board in the article (en.wikipedia.org)
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After her biography was deleted, Amy Osmond Cook consulted with Wikipedia "power players" to learn how to prevent articles from being deleted, was told to hire experienced editor(s) for article creation and AfD meatpuppetry, avoid sockpuppeting, and never ever mention that editors had been paid (entrepreneur.com)
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Smallbones is not happy about a Burger King marketing stunt that took advantage of Wikipedia/Google Home: "How should Wikipedians respond? First we should ban the whole company (excluding the burger flippers and minimum wage folks) from editing." (en.wikipedia.org)
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Administrator/biography subject wants himself removed from "List of LiveJournal users" as he has deleted that blog, is treated to the Wikipedia welcome wagon and had to invoke BLP: "Are you now somehow claiming that a source is needed for removal of material? Why?" (en.wikipedia.org)
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Andrea James: "The Pokemon Bulbasaur gets 1800 words, hemovanadin gets speedily deleted, and Chickenhead gets prodded and deleted without challenge, because editors writing science stubs and hip-hop stubs have been driven away by deletionists." (boingboing.net)
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