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| Some administrators get way too afraid of things they don't understand. could someone make the following edit to the Village pump (news). --] 22:01, 4 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
| == Whitehouse using Misplaced Pages for propoganda == | |||
| Federal employees/contractors are now gaming Misplaced Pages's system to try to control the message on key articles and intimidate legitimate Misplaced Pages editors. Their ultimate goal is to make Misplaced Pages a proganda tool for the Bush Administration. | |||
| The possibility that this was happening was first raised . This is a snapshot of the discussion which will likely be archived soon. Also be sure to check the history, the archives and the archive-history to read further comments on the topic. Several of the suspected federal contractors participated in the discussion to try to redirect the conversation. | |||
| Later an announcement was made regarding this issue across all village pump categories, but it was quickly deleted. These duplicate messages posted to the and the Village Pump: , , , , and . | |||
| The discussion also leaked onto one of the key articles presided over by federal contractors, with calls for them to . The federal contractors maintain a near permanent protection on articles, claiming this is needed for vandalism reasons These claims are wholly unsupported and these articles do not face any more vandalism than any other article we legitimate editors deal with everyday. These federal contractors refuse to even allow a POV template to be placed on their protected pages as . | |||
| Incriminating posts were : , . | |||
| === Confirmed list of federal contractors === | |||
| We have managed to obtain a confirmed list of federal contractors, though there are likely many others: These US federal government representative regularly engage in policy and guideline violations; participate in endless disciplinary actions and dutifully preside over several articles to ensure they present what they call "the official view". The federal contractors also coordinate efforts in administrative actions to create the appearance of a quick-forming consensus. | |||
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| There may be many more. These are merely the confirmed contractors. Examinations of their contributions will provide ample evidence of disruptive and intimidating behavior. However, some notable administrative actions include: | |||
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| This is only a partial list of frivolous and arbitrary administrative actions taken by these federal contractors who have managed to raise themselves up to powerful positions in Misplaced Pages: in order to maintain a slanted POV for Whitehouse officials. . | |||
| === Policy and guideline violations === | |||
| These federal contractors routinely violate and show utter contempt for these Misplaced Pages policies: | |||
| * ]: gaining personally from maintaining a particular POV on Misplaced Pages | |||
| * ] (writing articles to meet no point-of-view): ensuring | |||
| * ] (words to avoid): using editorializing words to inject the Whitehouse point-of-view | |||
| * ]: using malicious and potentially libelous words to describe living persons | |||
| * ] (Assume Good Faith): accusing other editors and administrators in the most frivolous manner | |||
| * ] claiming ownership of articles) to maintain strict Whitehouse or what they call "official view". | |||
| === Satirical pieces === | |||
| A was posted about these contractors, but that too was quickly deleted in a very extended . While the tone of this piece is clearly meant to be funny, trollish and satyrical, the concerns are very real. We include it here to show that there is little fear of retribution from these inappropriate federal contractors. Not only will they not retaliate, but they are quite cowardly and acutely fear being discovered (as is demonstrated by the quick deletion of non-trollish commentary on them). | |||
| === Identifying tainted articles === | |||
| We had sought to identify articles tainted and suspected as tainted by Federal contractors. By including a new category <nowiki>]</nowiki> to indicate an article is confirmed or suspected of being a '''U'''nited '''S'''tates '''E''''xecutive '''B'''ranch '''A'''gents. '''C'''ontrolled '''A'''rticle. However, the federal contractors would not even allow the creation of this wikipedia category. | |||
| === Dangers to Misplaced Pages === | |||
| These editors and administrators have exhibited a virtual immunity to administrative actions due to their coordinated efforts within administrative measures. Not only do they maintain the POV and low standards on key articles throughout Misplaced Pages, they also make edits to policy and guideline pages to create ambiguity and also to degrade the high encyclopedic standards of Misplaced Pages. They continually use inane contradiction in article discussions, intimidate other editors and manipulate the administrative system to purge valuable editors and administrators. If this is allowed to continue. Misplaced Pages will be come a mere parrot of Whitehouse propaganda. Please help spread the word. | |||
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Having recently started following the Village pump (news) pages, I am not sure of the protocol but the addition of these items (aka questions) seems more like disruption than news.
- 37 Comparing the new 64 bit processor
- 38 MFLOP
- 39 DEFFERENCE BETWEEN RISC AND CISC
- 40 how to build a 10 TFLOP calculator
Would any object if I just removed them. Trödel|talk 13:59, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
- Move them to that place for such questions. r3m0t 15:46, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
Using the "post" link in the blue header disrupts the "link to next section" header. The two are not compatible, one should go. Alfio 20:40, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
WikiSysops.com - Where (if anywhere) to post an announcement?
I've just set up a forum for wiki admins, webmasters, developers and any other interested parties at wikisysops.com. I'd like to announce it in a suitable place but I don't want to be accused of spamming. I was thinking of here (wikipedia:Village pump (news)), Misplaced Pages:Village pump (miscellaneous), and/or Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard. Comments anyone? --kingboyk 17:08, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- Wouldn't it be possible instead (somehow?) for Misplaced Pages or metawiki to host phpBB forums? That would be my preference, and not sure if it's been pursued or discussed yet? I noticed your site has no advertising. :) But, if it were really to be significantly used by admins, developers, etc., then the traffic volume to the site could potentially become quite high, along with site maintence costs. Then, would you still be able to host it w/o ads or what? -Aude (talk | contribs) 17:17, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- Well it's not meant to be wikimedia or mediawiki specific, more of a hang out place for people interested in chatting about the technical side of wikis of whatever flavour (people just like me, in other words :) ). Never likely to get much traffic (I have 1TB/month allowance anyhow). I've bought the domain now and it has a host so let's see what happens.
- Anyway, to my actual question - What say you about where if anywhere here it would be appropriate to post an announcement? --kingboyk 17:43, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- I don't know where/if it's appropriate. I'll let others weigh in. --Aude 17:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- On hold for now. Having just a forum didn't grab me. I'll get something better up and return. --kingboyk 09:38, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I found a copyed page from Misplaced Pages. It was on Nationmaster.com and is directly copied from Wikipedias religion site. The entire article is copied! The link is http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Religion
- Actually, we encourage people to copy our information, and credit it under the GFDL. - Nunh-huh 01:56, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
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