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{{User Ten Year Society}} |
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==Conflict of interest statement== |
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This was the finding of March 3, 2022 by the ArbCom committee. I'm stating that this is true and they have determined that I have a COI which I am clearly stating here. |
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2) Sgerbic is Susan Gerbic, an activist for scientific skepticism who has a focus on exposing people claiming to be mediums, and who is a columnist for the Skeptical Inquirer. She joined Misplaced Pages in 2010 and has not been previously sanctioned. Because of her work off-wiki, Sgerbic has a conflict of interest with respect to the people and organizations Gerbic is involved with, which notably includes her work in Skeptical Inquirer and the people she has written about therein, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, where she has been awarded a fellowship and which publishes the Skeptical Inquirer. |
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Passed 12 to 0 at 04:47, 3 March 2022 (UTC) |
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==The effort== |
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... to ban GSoW and I from Misplaced Pages by FRINGE characters, often using non-FRINGE enablers. |
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*My side of the issue from the stressful months that I and GSoW were under attack here on Misplaced Pages. |
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*Behold the Power of Misplaced Pages - ''Skeptical Inquirer'' |
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*Explaining Jan/Feb 2024 drama. |
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*FYI - A collection of screenshots from Jan-April 2024 directed at GSoW and Susan Gerbic - with additional claims about other Misplaced Pages editors. Threats of lawsuits, petition to remove GSoW and others from Misplaced Pages, vile comments mostly towards me being female calling me ugly, old and a cu@t and more. These screenshots are almost all from the UFO/UAP community. They have been very clear that in April 2024 they would be escalating their "research" and would make our lives editing Misplaced Pages uncomfortable and are hoping for bans. It is only a matter of time that these "researchers" will petition Misplaced Pages admins with their "evidence" of wrongdoing that of course will NOT be shown to the accused. These are a small percentage of the cr@p I receive. Don't look at all if you can't look at this entire document to understand what it is like. When I went though the ARBcom trial in 2022 I stressed many times that "outing" members of GSoW was only going to bring attacks outside of Misplaced Pages on us. That was ignored and I was hand-waved and poo-pooed. Recently an anti-vaxxer has been stalking one of our team in real life because he had the nerve to edit a Misplaced Pages article and remove the non-reliable sources that had been added. There are hours of videos from the FRINGE community in the last few months attacking GSoW, myself and other non-GSoW editors ... what do all these detractors have in common? #1 They don't like that we are editing Misplaced Pages about topics they support #2 They are spreading conspiracy theories and dehumanizing us which allows some of their unwell supporters to escalate. #3 They are all male. - '''Do we want a safe Misplaced Pages, where editors are supported?''' Think about that. |
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=='''FLotGSoWSC'''== |
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Congratulations to the GSoW project! On March 16, 2022 we uploaded our 2,000th completed Misplaced Pages page. I'm so proud of this team - we uploaded our first page on 2010-04-26 - almost 12 years ago, and we are still at it, in fact we are growing stronger all the time. As you know - we never ever write stubs - so the pages we count in that 2,000 are full completed brand new pages OR a page that was a stub and we rewrote into a full page. Just look at this number of page views. It seemed like just a couple months ago we celebrated 100 million page views, and already we are at 110 million page views. Remember the GSoW works in many languages (45% of all the work we complete are in languages other than English) And remember that we focus on all people and topics that fall under the skepticism, pseudoscience or science umbrella - that is a wide net. I would call this a wonderful success, thank you to all who have helped make this possible.] (]) 06:42, 18 March 2022 (UTC) {{tinc}} |
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|+ GSoW - Stat Badger Stats - ALL Languages |
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! As of Date!! Total completed !! Total page views |
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|March 13, 2022 || 1,997|| 109,605,260 |
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|March 16, 2022 || '''2,000'''|| 110,011,858 |
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|April 19, 2022||2,032||112,135,431 |
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|May 2, 2022||2,044||113,000,778 |
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||June 2, 2022||2,068||115,111,661 |
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||July 3, 2022||2,080||116,951,502 |
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||September 2, 2022||2,101||121,032,029 |
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||November 2, 2022||2,109||125,040,206 |
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||November 6, 2022 - Stat Badger #'s audited||2,111||'''125,732,279''' |
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||January 1, 2023||2,120||129,047,940 |
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||January 31, 2023||2,129||131,068,267 |
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||March 6, 2023||2,140||133,359,589 |
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||May 4, 2023||2,157||137,791,730 |
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||July 25, 2023||2,167||144,004,322 |
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||August 15, 2023||2,170||145,570,084 |
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||October 16, 2023||2,179||150,213,991 |
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||November 19, 2023||2,183||152,870,161 |
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||January 1, 2024||2,188||155,858,119 |
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||February 22, 2024||2,201||160,091,251 |
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||July 23, 2024||2,217||172,444,997 |
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* Join Guerrilla Skepticism on Misplaced Pages—and Help Us Find More Science Experts |
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==Hey, why is Misplaced Pages so biased?== |
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See here for the official ]. Also, here is: ] |
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The founder of Misplaced Pages, Jimmy Wales, once said the following. ''(This was borrowed from editor ])'': |
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:"'''Misplaced Pages’s policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Misplaced Pages will cover it appropriately."''' |
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:'''"What we won’t do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'. It isn’t.'''" |
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So yes, we are biased towards ] and biased against ].<br /> |
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I am ''']''', a professional portrait photographer living in ] with 3 cats. I retired from my photography career in October 2016, but still do some work on the side. |
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] inspired me with a lecture to become more active on Misplaced Pages, updating articles with a skeptical theme, and adding pictures from my vast collection of photos. to Wikimedia Commons as often as possible. |
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I am the co-founder of the ], and the fearless founder and leader of the ]. I am a fellow for ] and for the German ]. I have received at least two awards for my work from the ]. I am an unpaid columnist and the position of fellow for these organizations is mostly honorary (I do receive a free magazine subscription). I have a very diverse editing history which is only a click away for anyone curious. I have had a few Misplaced Pages editors tell me that they think because I am a fellow of CSI that I have a COI for editing using '']'' I do not feel that I do. Some editors do not see that I have a conflict. I enjoy browsing though older issues of Skeptical Inquirer (as well as other journals) and using them as citations on Misplaced Pages pages, often fringe and/or pages that receive little traffic. Most of the time I have never heard of the Misplaced Pages page I'm editing, only heard of it from the SI journal. I also am very interested in psychic mediums and often conduct stings and write about what we discovered. I had in the past edited Misplaced Pages pages for some of these people, but once I started researching them, I have stopped editing the page out of caution of someone accusing me of COI. My user name is my real name, which I consider a disclaimer. I feel strongly that once an edit has been published here on Misplaced Pages, it is fair game to be discussed, reverted, thanked, improved, added to, moved to a different place, shortened, expanded, and grammar/spelling corrected. If more discussion is needed then we will move to talk to discuss. |
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Here are a few of the articles I wrote for ] about Misplaced Pages: |
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* <small>This has little to do with Misplaced Pages but it is very charming and one of my favorites</small> |
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I have trained hundreds of Misplaced Pages editors through the GSoW project. I train outside of Misplaced Pages using videos and documents of my own creation, as well as use several Misplaced Pages sites, inducing and . Both of these are in Assignment One of my training. Misplaced Pages Adventure teaches the very basics and I love its simple instructions, gets people making edits right away as well as forces them to open up a user page. Hatnote is so cool and many of my editors tell me that they turn it on when they are editing. I think it explains the big picture better than just stating it. We are a global collaboration working on a very important amazing project, Misplaced Pages. I feel a very strong responsibility to make sure all the GSoW editors understand this on their first day of training. |
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Many other assignments follow, including adding photos, authorlinks and more. I mentor my editors all through the training process (and after as well). I rarely use WP slang and focus on personal attention and humor to create great editors. GSoW has a good (not great) retention rate, we also edit in many languages. Our focus is on scientific skepticism, pseudoscience and science, though we do have strong edit histories that include many topics besides these topics. We exist to create a better, stronger Misplaced Pages. And although our name, ''Guerrilla Skepticism on Misplaced Pages'', seems aggressive, and like we are rule-breakers, I assure you that we are anything but. |
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You will know you are reading a GSoW article when you see that it is detailed, well-written, has photos (and perhaps also audio), many citations, talk page comments, and is complete. You will never find a stub from a GSoW editor. We do almost all work in our user space, and share it among the team in order to make sure it is completely ready before release. We also do a lot of Did You Knows? One reason we do not do a lot of live editing is because we like to see the before and afters. One of my editors explained that editing live is like trying to do office work on a bus; someone will always enter the bus and look over your shoulder and make suggestions to color, size, spacing and content - and before you know it you will exit the bus in frustration, without getting work done. Once the page is finished and live, we usually walk away from the page as we are onto another project. I know and acknowledge and encourage others to come in after and fuss and improve to their hearts content. |
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The GSoW project and myself have been subject to many criticisms from the paranormal world. I'm not going to include the links here but a quick Google for the name Susan Gerbic + Deepak Chopra, Rupert Sheldrake, Burzynski Clinic, Natural News, Astrology.com and who knows who else will give you plenty of reading material. Alternatively you might try using GSoW or Guerrilla in place of Susan Gerbic (Sheldrake forever misspells my name) Most of these claims are ludicrous, and as they did zero research on discovering how Misplaced Pages actually works; there is no point in me trying to point out how wrong they are. The burden of truth is theirs to prove. I really am uninterested in what they think. |
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I travel all over the world talking about GSoW and actively recruiting people to join GSoW. I specialize in training people who have never edited or really had no experience doing anything of this sort. I have trained people who know very little about computers. When I started editing WP in 2007 I found the written instructions so confusing (still do) and I made many mistakes (still do at times). I didn't understand how to ask for help, and many times other WP editors spoke to me as if I didn't know what I was doing, or they explained what to do differently, but it was so over my head that I had no idea what they were talking about. Tim Farley was amazing and helped me understand, and more people came to my aid later. I would not have been able to continue editing without personalized help, which is why I train as I do. Very hands on. |
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People who leave my training are well-rounded amazing editors, it can take weeks to months to completely finish my training. They finish training once they have completely rewritten a stub. All my editors have surpassed my editing skills and are all over WP right now, assisting and helping. We spend almost no time on discussions and almost never in talk discussions that argue ad nauseam about trivial nonsense. We avoid those discussions and move on to actually getting real work done. We have limited time after all. I have discovered that we have low retention rates for people who join GSow as current WP editors, I'm not sure of the reason for this, but it seems that once you are already trained you have a mentality of being a bit of a lone wolf (not that there is anything wrong with that). The GSoW is a very social group, and team oriented, we mentor and train each other all the time, and this leads to familiarity. An element missing with most WP editors I have encountered. |
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If you would like more information about GSoW we are really easy to find, we have a Facebook group that contains all our release, and a mostly-dormant Blogger blog. You can also email us or find us on YouTube with many training videos, lectures and more. I'm not going to give you the URL's because... well you should know how to look for these things, right? |
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File:Last Chemo Today.JPG|17 treatments over 20 weeks. All done December 9, 2013 (Breast Cancer - Stage 2) |
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File:Last Chemo Today.JPG|17 treatments over 20 weeks. All done December 9, 2013 (Breast Cancer - Stage 2) |
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File:Editor Susan Gerbic with reading helpers.jpg|Reading with helpers Hamilton, Imogene and Ariadne - May 2024 |
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== Reference == |
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*Here is the plain and simple conflict of interest guide (COI) |
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*WikiProjects |
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*Principles |
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Citation #4 - how to cite Newspapers.com when the page continues to another page. this is much neater than I had been doing |
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*Edit count |
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*Essay with great tips for creating new BLP articles |
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*Misplaced Pages:Everything you need to know article |
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== Committed identity == |
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This was the finding of March 3, 2022 by the ArbCom committee. I'm stating that this is true and they have determined that I have a COI which I am clearly stating here.
2) Sgerbic is Susan Gerbic, an activist for scientific skepticism who has a focus on exposing people claiming to be mediums, and who is a columnist for the Skeptical Inquirer. She joined Misplaced Pages in 2010 and has not been previously sanctioned. Because of her work off-wiki, Sgerbic has a conflict of interest with respect to the people and organizations Gerbic is involved with, which notably includes her work in Skeptical Inquirer and the people she has written about therein, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, where she has been awarded a fellowship and which publishes the Skeptical Inquirer.
... to ban GSoW and I from Misplaced Pages by FRINGE characters, often using non-FRINGE enablers.
Congratulations to the GSoW project! On March 16, 2022 we uploaded our 2,000th completed Misplaced Pages page. I'm so proud of this team - we uploaded our first page on 2010-04-26 - almost 12 years ago, and we are still at it, in fact we are growing stronger all the time. As you know - we never ever write stubs - so the pages we count in that 2,000 are full completed brand new pages OR a page that was a stub and we rewrote into a full page. Just look at this number of page views. It seemed like just a couple months ago we celebrated 100 million page views, and already we are at 110 million page views. Remember the GSoW works in many languages (45% of all the work we complete are in languages other than English) And remember that we focus on all people and topics that fall under the skepticism, pseudoscience or science umbrella - that is a wide net. I would call this a wonderful success, thank you to all who have helped make this possible.Sgerbic (talk) 06:42, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
Citation #4 - how to cite Newspapers.com when the page continues to another page. this is much neater than I had been doing
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Susan Gerbic does ball and vase trick for author Ray Bradbury at his home 2010
Susan Gerbic performs the ball and vase trick for The Amazing Randi on AA5 2010
Susan Gerbic at 49
17 treatments over 20 weeks. All done December 9, 2013 (Breast Cancer - Stage 2)
Reading with helpers Hamilton, Imogene and Ariadne - May 2024
