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ratemycop.com appears to be offline as of 5-7-13. I have no details, but cannot access the site. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
99.67.228.210 (
talk) 18:55, 7 May 2013 (UTC)reply
There seems to be a connection issue. I wonder why that hasn't been resolved yet? --
76.212.149.187 (
talk) 01:05, 27 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Rate My Cop Seems to Be No More
OK, RMC's website has been gone for at least a few months now. Why hasn't anyone put this in the main article?
I know why! Everyone's scared to! Well, in that case I'm not going to, either.--
76.212.146.224 (
talk) 02:46, 20 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Well, now it seems to be back online! Or, partially on line, anyway. The Forums are hard to :access, and finding a specific police department might not work too good, but it's there now.
So, why isn't this fact included in the main article? Or, at least change the "inactive" to something else in that little box on the page's upper right corner? If everyone else is too scared to, I'm not about to, either. That's the end of that subject! I did find this post, though, and it dates back to about when RMC started having connection problems:
http://ratemycop.com:/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=162&func=view&id=78410&catid=11 . Not long after this post appeared they started getting a lot of weird spam on the forums, then basically the whole thing shut down. Lots of people think spammers are bad people!--
76.212.144.106 (
talk) 00:01, 24 May 2014 (UTC)reply
@
PCN02WPS: I've fixed the issues with the article. Also "frequently cited" doesn't require a hyphen (at least according to
Merriam-Webster).
ArcticSeeress (
talk) 20:28, 17 June 2022 (UTC)reply
Article corrections look good, and I'm happy with the article's quality. Reference spot-checks check out, and I'm happy to give this nomination a pass. Well done.
PCN02WPS (
talk |
contribs) 04:28, 18 June 2022 (UTC)reply
History
"changed the site to one for rating police" → perhaps "changed the site's purpose to one for rating police" or "changed the site's purpose to rating police"
"if the officer in question had been acquited" → should be "acquitted"
"A day later, the website was hosted on Rackspace for a short while" → this is worded a touch awkwardly, perhaps it could be reworded like this: "A day later, Rackspace began hosting the website, which it did for a short while" or something similar
"personal E-mail address" → the article
Email gives abbreviations of "email" and "e-mail" as opposed to the capitalized "E-mail"
"sued the city of Tallahasse" → city spelled incorrectly
"received 60,000$ in damages" → dollar sign goes before the number (also, use {{
USD}} to indicate US Dollars)
Content
No comments here.
Reception
"February 2008, the website had been receiving 100,000 visitors a day" → the tense here is a bit awkward, perhaps "the website was receiving 100,000 visitors"?
"with for example Kevin Martin of the San Francisco Police Officers Association" → this is worded awkwardly, particularly "for example"
"danger of RateMycop.com and similar websites" → "Cop" in website name should be capitalized for consistency
The Times and
Ars Technica is italicized in their articles, so they should be italicized here
Legacy
"most frequently cited examples" → I could be wrong, but I think "frequently-cited" needs a hyphen
"It has been cited by associate professor at The College at Brockport, State University of New York Ed Downey as an example of a larger trend" → for ease of reading, I'd give the guy's name and then his position (I'd also strongly recommend giving a short-form name for the school, as the full name is rather unwieldly long): "It has been cited by
SUNY Brockport associate professor Ed Downey as an example...".
Did you know nomination
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
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... that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com, and prosecuted under a 1972 statute that made it illegal to publish the personal information of police officers? Source:
Wired (2010)
ALT1: ... that a bill was proposed in the
Utah State Senate to hide police misconduct reports from the public after RateMyCop.com requested reports on every police officer in the state? Source:
KUTV
ALT2: ... that
GoDaddy stopped hosting RateMyCop.com due to "suspicious activity", before later stating that the website reached a
bandwidth limit? Source:
Wired (2008)
Reviewed: None needed (less than 5 nominations)
Improved to Good Article status by
ArcticSeeress (
talk). Self-nominated at 06:45, 18 June 2022 (UTC).reply
An interesting article,
ArcticSeeress and interesting hooks to choose from! Formalities: QPQ not required, Earwig only picks up direct quotes, article appears to be reliably cited throughout, within policy, hooks directly cited in the article. ALT0 piqued my interest the most - and it's correct, because he was prosecuted, just never convicted, per source and article. As for the other two, I can confirm from the sources. I think ALT0 and ALT1 are more interesting than the ALT2 and prefer them, but I leave it to the promoter. Good to go, and thanks for working this to GA!
Urve (
talk) 08:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC) PS: I'm (genuinely) unsure on the image licensing on
File:RateMyCop.com logo.gif because it contains a fingerprint and may meet the threshold of originality. It's been looked at by others, so I assume OK, but leaving this note.reply
Revisiting this, I think a shorter hook might be better, so here's a new one:
ALT0a: ... that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com?
Sure, that's OK too. I like the original ALT0 more, but tastes vary.
Urve (
talk) 16:15, 5 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Shut down?
I could be wrong, but I see no information on when or why this site was shut down, which seem like important details to include.
71.11.5.2 (
talk) 13:40, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
I was thinking along the same lines. And when did it close? Reading the article suggests it was still running in April 2010, but nothing after that. So has it been defunct for a decade or more, or did it close last week? LugnutsFire Walk with Me 15:08, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
There are no sources that say when it was shut down.
ArcticSeeress (
talk) 15:09, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Undue emphasis
The reception section appears to provide undue weight on the views of individual police officers and minor police departments. :3
F4U (
they/it) 00:38, 9 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Maybe. What changes are you proposing for the article in light of your concerns?
ArcticSeeress (
talk) 12:09, 10 August 2023 (UTC)reply
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ratemycop.com appears to be offline as of 5-7-13. I have no details, but cannot access the site. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
99.67.228.210 (
talk) 18:55, 7 May 2013 (UTC)reply
There seems to be a connection issue. I wonder why that hasn't been resolved yet? --
76.212.149.187 (
talk) 01:05, 27 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Rate My Cop Seems to Be No More
OK, RMC's website has been gone for at least a few months now. Why hasn't anyone put this in the main article?
I know why! Everyone's scared to! Well, in that case I'm not going to, either.--
76.212.146.224 (
talk) 02:46, 20 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Well, now it seems to be back online! Or, partially on line, anyway. The Forums are hard to :access, and finding a specific police department might not work too good, but it's there now.
So, why isn't this fact included in the main article? Or, at least change the "inactive" to something else in that little box on the page's upper right corner? If everyone else is too scared to, I'm not about to, either. That's the end of that subject! I did find this post, though, and it dates back to about when RMC started having connection problems:
http://ratemycop.com:/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=162&func=view&id=78410&catid=11 . Not long after this post appeared they started getting a lot of weird spam on the forums, then basically the whole thing shut down. Lots of people think spammers are bad people!--
76.212.144.106 (
talk) 00:01, 24 May 2014 (UTC)reply
@
PCN02WPS: I've fixed the issues with the article. Also "frequently cited" doesn't require a hyphen (at least according to
Merriam-Webster).
ArcticSeeress (
talk) 20:28, 17 June 2022 (UTC)reply
Article corrections look good, and I'm happy with the article's quality. Reference spot-checks check out, and I'm happy to give this nomination a pass. Well done.
PCN02WPS (
talk |
contribs) 04:28, 18 June 2022 (UTC)reply
History
"changed the site to one for rating police" → perhaps "changed the site's purpose to one for rating police" or "changed the site's purpose to rating police"
"if the officer in question had been acquited" → should be "acquitted"
"A day later, the website was hosted on Rackspace for a short while" → this is worded a touch awkwardly, perhaps it could be reworded like this: "A day later, Rackspace began hosting the website, which it did for a short while" or something similar
"personal E-mail address" → the article
Email gives abbreviations of "email" and "e-mail" as opposed to the capitalized "E-mail"
"sued the city of Tallahasse" → city spelled incorrectly
"received 60,000$ in damages" → dollar sign goes before the number (also, use {{
USD}} to indicate US Dollars)
Content
No comments here.
Reception
"February 2008, the website had been receiving 100,000 visitors a day" → the tense here is a bit awkward, perhaps "the website was receiving 100,000 visitors"?
"with for example Kevin Martin of the San Francisco Police Officers Association" → this is worded awkwardly, particularly "for example"
"danger of RateMycop.com and similar websites" → "Cop" in website name should be capitalized for consistency
The Times and
Ars Technica is italicized in their articles, so they should be italicized here
Legacy
"most frequently cited examples" → I could be wrong, but I think "frequently-cited" needs a hyphen
"It has been cited by associate professor at The College at Brockport, State University of New York Ed Downey as an example of a larger trend" → for ease of reading, I'd give the guy's name and then his position (I'd also strongly recommend giving a short-form name for the school, as the full name is rather unwieldly long): "It has been cited by
SUNY Brockport associate professor Ed Downey as an example...".
Did you know nomination
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com, and prosecuted under a 1972 statute that made it illegal to publish the personal information of police officers? Source:
Wired (2010)
ALT1: ... that a bill was proposed in the
Utah State Senate to hide police misconduct reports from the public after RateMyCop.com requested reports on every police officer in the state? Source:
KUTV
ALT2: ... that
GoDaddy stopped hosting RateMyCop.com due to "suspicious activity", before later stating that the website reached a
bandwidth limit? Source:
Wired (2008)
Reviewed: None needed (less than 5 nominations)
Improved to Good Article status by
ArcticSeeress (
talk). Self-nominated at 06:45, 18 June 2022 (UTC).reply
An interesting article,
ArcticSeeress and interesting hooks to choose from! Formalities: QPQ not required, Earwig only picks up direct quotes, article appears to be reliably cited throughout, within policy, hooks directly cited in the article. ALT0 piqued my interest the most - and it's correct, because he was prosecuted, just never convicted, per source and article. As for the other two, I can confirm from the sources. I think ALT0 and ALT1 are more interesting than the ALT2 and prefer them, but I leave it to the promoter. Good to go, and thanks for working this to GA!
Urve (
talk) 08:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC) PS: I'm (genuinely) unsure on the image licensing on
File:RateMyCop.com logo.gif because it contains a fingerprint and may meet the threshold of originality. It's been looked at by others, so I assume OK, but leaving this note.reply
Revisiting this, I think a shorter hook might be better, so here's a new one:
ALT0a: ... that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com?
Sure, that's OK too. I like the original ALT0 more, but tastes vary.
Urve (
talk) 16:15, 5 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Shut down?
I could be wrong, but I see no information on when or why this site was shut down, which seem like important details to include.
71.11.5.2 (
talk) 13:40, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
I was thinking along the same lines. And when did it close? Reading the article suggests it was still running in April 2010, but nothing after that. So has it been defunct for a decade or more, or did it close last week? LugnutsFire Walk with Me 15:08, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
There are no sources that say when it was shut down.
ArcticSeeress (
talk) 15:09, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Undue emphasis
The reception section appears to provide undue weight on the views of individual police officers and minor police departments. :3
F4U (
they/it) 00:38, 9 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Maybe. What changes are you proposing for the article in light of your concerns?
ArcticSeeress (
talk) 12:09, 10 August 2023 (UTC)reply