A couple of things: first, please remove the url from your signature (per our signature guidelines). Second, your edit to kangaroo court was disruptive, please keep disputes to the Talk pages and project space. Guy 13:56, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Stop trolling Wikipedia. Go hang out in Hot Topic. 137.165.210.41 03:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Edward G. Nilges —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.198.25.77 ( talk) 13:20, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I contributed a lot of content which remains at the Poussin, Adorno, Kant and other sites because I can writ gude wif korrect speling and gramer. But my literacy offends your basic Wikinerd, who's an unemployed software developer still in denial and working at Costco and a member of the right wing of organized religion: a Trogdolyte rattling his chains thinking them music.
I posted an analysis of why Rand is no philosopher that you as an anarchist may find interesting.
In my view, a "philosopher" is someone recognized recursively by an already recognized member of the set of philosophers, going back to Heraclitus in the West, and Kong Fu-Zi (Confucius) in China. This is because self-organized civil society predated institutions.
I would call myself a socialist and not an anarchist, because I believe civil society institutions can be reformed, and because anarchism in the USA is generally right-wing.
You may contact me at spinoza1111@yahoo.com. I blog at spinoza1111.wordpress.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.198.25.77 ( talk) 13:28, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Would you have the original language for the ottawa panhanders union article? I am creating a subsection on the IWW main article about the IWW in canada, and it is going to be mostly flushed out with that. Thanks and Solidarity! Transcona Slim 23:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)(UTC)
Let's see, a big fan of Phyllis Schlafly, Matt Drudge, Richard Nixon, Robert Taft, et al., and you have an obsession with associating a far-left black activist with crack cocaine. Gee, could there be a political agenda here? Your racism is not appreciated. SmashTheState 05:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
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Hey Smash -- awesome username! I saw your note about the deletion of the article. I feel like I'm in a pretty good position to respond to this, since I've been involved in anarchist activism for about 10 years, and since I'm also an admin here on the English WP. I think you're jumping the gun by getting upset. The article was deleted as non-notable, but that doesn't mean that the organization itself is unworthy of an article. It just means that the article in the state it was in at the time did not do a good enough job of explaining how the group's notable.
The logs of the article still exist, and I can get them for you if you'd like to work on the article in your userspace (that is, any page beginning with User:SmashTheState/... such as User:SmashTheState/Sandbox). That way you can work on the article and I can let you know whether the article's likely to be kept with the progress you make with it. When folks decide it's ready, we can move it back into the mainspace (the article space). I've had a great deal of experience doing this. See for example Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pittsburgh Organizing Group (closed as delete) and Pittsburgh Organizing Group (a blue link!).
I have to have a look at the article and the deletion discussion - it may be that the group actually doesn't meet the notability criteria for organizations just yet. I suspect it does if it's true that it's been featured in multiple news sources (that's basically how you construct an argument for notability - cite sources). However, I want to be clear: if the article doesn't meet the notability criteria, we can't keep it. The argument about how the article is important for the group's organizing is irrelevant here; Wikipedia is a project to provide free, high quality information to as many people as possible, not a vehicle for promoting anything. If you want an article on Wikipedia, it has to be on Wikipedia's terms.
So anyway, I'm glad to help you with any of this. I hope we can deal with this calmly, your anger kind of intimidates me, to be perfectly honest. Plus, you'll find that being calm and friendly gets you a lot farther around here :)
Peace, delldot talk 14:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Please keep your own personal (incorrect) political views out of articles. Your edit here: False Political Statement is not appropriate. Please stop.-- InaMaka ( talk) 02:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Please keep your impolite (rude) comments off my userpage. Your edit here: passive-aggressive trolling is not appropriate. Please stop. SmashTheState ( talk) 10:11, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
That article is intended to be solely about military history. That is clearly stated. There are several fine articles devoted to CIA operations. Why do you feel the need to clutter this article with off topic entries that belong elsewhere? Niteshift36 ( talk) 06:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
I removed the inappropriate level-3 warning for personal attacks since this was not a personal attack. If you have a citation for shoop being used for photoshop, and it's notable, it should be added to Photo manipulation#Photoshopping, and afterwards that entry should be added to Shoop. Cheers! -- JHunterJ ( talk) 11:03, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
just letting interested editors know i'm going to attempt to get this back in, see talk:Shoop-- Mongreilf ( talk) 10:34, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey man, I just call em like I see em. I didn't think those articles were particularly relevant so I nominated them for deletion. Did I find them through each other? Yes. I'm sorry if they're all related to your particular brand of "activism". Anyway, take care, TastyCakes ( talk) 15:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello SmashTheState. Your name has been mentioned in a discussion at WP:Suspected sock puppets/MiltonP Ottawa. You are welcome to comment there. EdJohnston ( talk) 03:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello SmashTheState. I just wanted to drop a quick note to say I look forward to working on the Denis Rancourt article with you. Biographies of living persons are always tricky, so I want you to know that I have no agenda for or against him, you, his views, actions or anything even tangentially related to the subject. I simply desire to improve the article. Cheers. Letsgoridebikes ( talk) 06:51, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Can I request that you remove the so-called 'definition' of Wikipedia from your userpage? It violates WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL by a massive amount. If you do not remove it I will tag it as an attack page and request to have it deleted as such; the end result overall, really. Ironholds ( talk) 09:53, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
I find myself wanting to delete my Wiki account and never come back again. Wow, this place really is run by "angry, white, male, overprivileged, socially-dysfunctional nerds with serious personality disorders". -- Nik ( talk) 23:18, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
User:SmashTheState, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:SmashTheState and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:SmashTheState during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ironholds ( talk) 15:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself." -- Joseph Sobran
I have nominated Solidarity unionism, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solidarity unionism. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Guy ( Help!) 20:17, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
STS, so on a single day, after minding your own business for three years, your user page was nominated for deletion, you were blocked indefinitely (your first block) and the blocking admin helpfully also nominated an article you created for deletion, inviting you to participate in the deletion discussion but you can't participate in the deletion discussion because you're blocked. (Did I get everything right? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.)
As a free-market hardliner I could hardly be more opposed to your political views. Yet allow me please to express my support in your present Wikiquandary. I find that it helps to "laugh at the frozen rain" and the absurdity of it all, as Steely Dan sing in their song Bad Sneakers. Cheers, -- Goodmorningworld ( talk) 11:26, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there...Based on consensus at AN/I, as well as a look at your contributions, I've unblocked you. I'd like to suggest, politely, that maybe it would be in your best interests here to either tone down your rhetoric on, or flat-out stay away from, all things Randian--but it's only a suggestion and you can make of it what you will. I can't promise your userpage won't get deleted, but at least you have an option to speak on it now. And one more friendly request: now that you can edit again, please, please don't make a complete ass of me by turning into some ranting troll-vandal on a vengeful rampage through Wikipedia. I think you have a right to be irked, mind you, but just for myself I'd appreciate it if you stayed calm in the face of it. (Not happy-smiley calm--just not-killing-anyone calm would be fine. Thanks... GJC 15:19, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm glad you were unblocked. I've been reading your comments at Ayn Rand. You are superior to all your opponents, combined. Please don't get yourself permanently blocked. It's possible to do good work while jumping through their hoops and playing their games -- unnecessarily complicated, and infuriating, but possible. It would be a great loss to the project if you were purged. -- 71.241.206.81 ( talk) 19:07, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
You have reverted 4 times now on Denis Rancourt. Please don't repeatedly revert. It can lead to blocks. Please discuss the matter in more detail. JoshuaZ ( talk) 18:45, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Regarding your fairly rude remark on my talk page: I don't read French well and the link given isn't searchable text either so I'll take your word for it that it contains somewhere in it the relevant retraction(in the future, at least giving page numbers would be nice). Now, taking that as an assumption:
First, you might want to learn how to use the history button on pages. And then point me to where I ever made an edit adding anything about a claimed "Jewish lobby" . Let's see all the edits I've made to that page.
In fact, the phrase was added with sourcing after my final edit to the page as can be seen here
I don't know where you got from that the idea that I ever had anything to do with adding the "Jewish lobby" phrase into the article. Maybe I supported such an edit on the article talk page? Oh wait, I've never made a single edit to the article talk page. Oops. The only logical explanations are 0) You've made an honest mistake 1) you've decided that since I've made other edits you don't like I must have made these edits as well or 2) have a problem yourself distinguishing between "Israeli" and "Jewish" and thus confused my adding the well sourced quote in about the Israel lobby with the incorrect statement about the Jewish lobby. Since 1 and 2 are most likely not the case, I presume that we are in situation zero and that therefore an apology or clarification from you to me will be arriving on my talk page shortly.
Moreover, if I had made such an edit, I'd have nothing to apologize for. Wikipedia works based on using reliable sources. The source in question was reliable. If a source then prints a retraction that's not our fault. Wikipedia as always relies on WP:V. If we have nothing but your personal say-so to take something out of an article that's not terribly helpful. It might possibly have made sense to have taken out such an edit per WP:BLP until such an issue could have been clarified, and if I had been paying more attention to the issue may very well have ended up deciding to do so. However, quoting otherwise reliable sources is not something we need to apologize for.
On an unrelated topic I noticed that you argued for deletion of QubeTV. I'm curious how you came by this discussion. Also, regarding that discussion, you wanted to delete the article since it is "poorly written" and "stubby." Aside from reminding you that neither of those are reasons to delete an article, I'm curious as the primary writer of said article what you found to be poor writing in that article. Points so I can improve both the article and my own writing in general are always appreciated. JoshuaZ ( talk) 21:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I've undeleted both the article on you and the union, with the former redirecting to the latter. If this causes any problems, let me know. Cheers, Skomorokh 21:21, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Well! Talk of those I didn't expect to see back....welcome, indeed! GJC 01:50, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry you feel that way, but your changes to the article were unsupported and unacceptable.
I'm afraid you'll have to provide examples of my insertion of "mean, muckraking demagoguery" if you want me to respond to it, I don't know what you're referring to. Do you not sense a bit of irony in that accusation, given that in the case of
Georges Bedard it is you that is unabashedly engaged in muckracking, and you that's now having a little hissy fit because it didn't remain? If you really believe your changes presented the man in a neutral way, I don't really know what to tell you other than that you're wrong. You present facts on Wikipedia, not your opinion, and you don't slant the language of the article in such a way to try and turn the reader to your point of view, all concepts you either do not grasp or choose to ignore. On a wider note, I think any impartial observer would be excused in thinking that it's you that's a douchebag for your constant aggressiveness and
uncivil behaviour. I think I have made my position quite clear: if you make edits that are any good I will leave them. If you make edits that are unsupported, hopelessly biased outlets of your transparent "activist rage" or whatever, then no I'm not going to leave them and nobody should.
TastyCakes (
talk) 15:13, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
RE:
As with so much of the rest of Wikipedia, this discussion has turned into another popularity contest among the nerd oligarchy which rules the land. Rather than any discussion of the ethical and legal basis for a decision ( | Kantian ethics dictate a solution most here will find unpalatable), people are blinded to everything but which of the narrow selection of views should be chosen from among Wikipedia's bourgeoisie with no regard for, you know, reality. The amount of Wikipedia traffic dedicated to bureaucracy has been increasing year by year, and the number of contributing editors has been imploding rapidly. Your project is sliding into Jimbo Wales' navel. As near as I can figure it, there is no reason for anyone to help you construct your BLP wikiality unless they want to score points with whichever Wikipedia mandarin's views they're supporting.
The Barnstar of Good Humor | ||
The Barnstar of Good Humor may be awarded to particularly light-spirited Wikipedians who, by their unshakably good humor, consistently and reliably lighten the mood, defuse conflicts, and make the Wikipedia a generally better place to be.
This barnstar is awarded to SmashTheState, who coined the yet to be written essay, Jimbo Wales' navel. Okip (formerly Ikip) 05:09, 14 February 2010 (UTC) |
Thank you for your comments :) Best wishes, I loved the quote. Okip.
Do you suggest I take your friend-making history as a model? Not that it really concerns you, but PhilthyBear made the first move in our troubled relationship some time ago. He left me that nasty note after I accused him of being a sock puppet, and indeed a checkuser showed he was using three accounts to try and bully people around. I'm not particularly concerned with making friends with such people, and I don't think my personality really plays into my distaste for them. TastyCakes ( talk) 01:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
I've restored this list per deletion review. Useful tips how make useful lists can be found in Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia or in in this essay.-- Tikiwont ( talk) 17:58, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:02, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
I prodded that article based on what I saw on it. Sourced back to a couple of her own websites, not much in the article to establish notability, not really any claim to notability. Her myspace link doesnt even work. There just isnt anything here to establish 3rd party coverage. Bonewah ( talk) 20:32, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
That's funny. Neo-cons keep telling me it's liberal.
Like all large organizations, Wikipedia has become just a little dysfunctional.
I'm always interested in reading what things go wrong on wikipedia, it's fun to try to fix them. It's slow going though. ;-)
-- Kim Bruning ( talk) 19:50, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
I am actually a little amused that you would compare The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle -- a Sherlock Holmes novel -- to trifling references from Family Guy and Pokemon. Not all popular culture is irrelevant or insignificant. Try to look at context. -- Magmagirl ( talk) 19:09, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
You've convinced me. I was obviously wrong. We need to add even more pop culture references. I'm helping you find pop culture references for the article now. SmashTheState (talk) 09:22, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Just the kind of mature attitude that thrills Wikipedians around the world! --Magmagirl (talk) 15:49, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, you reported this article to the BLPN, what actually is the problem? is it false name addition, or just the addition of the children's correct names, you called the ip the Chad vandal - as per WP:VANDAL what is the vandalism? Thanks. Off2riorob ( talk) 16:54, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the explanation, the admin has added it to his watchlist as have I and after the months pending protection we can see where to go from there if its repeated, perhaps a rangeblock is possible to stop his antics, anyway, thanks for the detail. Off2riorob ( talk) 18:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
UOJComm ( talk) 23:26, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi -- I've reverted your mass removal. I understand why you're pissed off, and I probably would be too, but removing all that material from the middle of discussions will make the archive incoherent. Note that when you submit material to Wikipedia, even on the Ref Desks, you are releasing it to the world and no longer have the right to control how it is used. Regards, Looie496 ( talk) 05:24, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I just did this. Since you think that I am fellating him, and I suggested that working with you could be considered torture, I thought it might be a good time to turn this over to a third party! I hope we are still bros. Haha seriously tho nothing personal, STS. DBaba ( talk) 03:03, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
You can criticize policy all you want. What you can't do is turn a policy discussion page into a soapboxing rant. We can't fix Magnotta. Assuming the murders would not have happened if we gave him his 15 minutes of fame is ludicrous on its very premise. By that argument, Jodie Foster should have dated John Hinckley, Jr. so he wouldn't have attempted to assassinate the President. It's a complete farce of an argument. — The Hand That Feeds You: Bite 12:40, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Please do not make edits to articles that have the effect of presenting opinions sourced to reliable sources as facts, as you did with this edit to Jeff Dunham. You've already been blocked before for disruptive editing; I suggest you not go down that route again. Nightscream ( talk) 19:59, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:TurtleMelody regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 01:13, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SmashTheState regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 01:13, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
You were indefinitely blocked before, unblocked to participate in a discussion, and we forgot to reinstate the block. You're obviously here on a mission, but one which is not the same as ours, and I reckon people have had enough so I have reinstated the block. I count: disruptive editing, BLP violations, incivility, sockpuppetry, and generally just not getting it. Guy ( Help!) 04:34, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
SmashTheState ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I believe this block has been instigated as a matter of personal animus for having a previous block against me by the same administrator overturned. I believe this to be the case for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I've left my user page untouched, so that the entire text of the previous episode is visible. JzG claims that the removal of his block the last time was simply a temporary measure to allow me to participate in a discussion. This is not the case, as anyone can clearly see. The last time JzG applied a block (also of indefinite duration) he was criticized by everyone involved, including other administrators, most notably for immediately initiating a bad-faith deletion review of an article I had written, then mocking me on my user page to participate, knowing full well that he had just finished blocking me. Secondly, you can see from the checkuser review Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SmashTheState that I am not a sockpuppet. My "crime" was to speak up in favour of a user who shares my view on the removal of fancruft from "trivia" and "in popular culture" sections in scholarly articles. Because this user and I have used the term "neckbeard" and over a period of years have an overlap of 6 articles, I was proclaimed to be a sockpuppet. My protest that I was not was taken as proof that I was. Any reasonable person can see the problem in a system where you're guilty 'because' you claim innocence. JzG's decision to institute an indefinite ban, to lie about the circumstances of the last ban (which he, himself, had made in violation of Wikipedia policy), and to arbitrarily declare me to be sockpuppet without even bothering with such unimportant matters as a checkuser, has left me little choice but to see his action as vindictive and vengeful. I ask that his actions be reviewed, that the block be lifted, and that he either recuse himself from any further actions against me - or be compelled to do so. EDIT: Very well, you may consider this my resignation from Wikipedia. You have proven to me that the corruption is now complete, from one end to the other. Apparently JzG may lie, fabricate, and take revenge upon anyone he wishes. I am not at all surprised by this, only that it's taken this long for the rot to set in. I predict that it will not take long for this talk page and my user page to be blanked to hide the evidence.
Decline reason:
There's consensus for your block on ANI, you have to address this. You are blocked not only for sockpuppetry (which looks plausible by the way) but also for blatant and aggressive incivility - you have to address this. Also, we don't act upon unblock requests that discuss other people's behaviour instead of their own. Max Semenik ( talk) 07:20, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Since I'll never be editing Wikipedia again, I thought I'd add a few notes here for the benefit of the few people involved who aren't delusional. One day, I logged on to discover that I had been accused of being someone else and was facing being banned as a result. When I objected, instead of being banned for being someone else, I was banned for objecting. The person who did the banning had been carrying a grudge for literally years, having been caught trying to ban me for similar ludicrously and transparently self-serving reasons years earlier, only to have his malicious action overturned. In the years since he had been initially caught, the administrators who had cared one way or the other slowly dropped away as Wikipedia slid into its own navel. A larger and larger proportion of Wikipedia's dwindling contributions are being directed towards bureaucracy and petty politics. This is always the sign of a community rapid decline. I do not anticipate that Wikipedia will be relevant for much longer, though it may linger for decades as an increasingly toxic MMORPG for authoritarian sperglords.
The proof that this ban has nothing to do with my contributions and everything to do with my legitimate criticism of Wikipedia is that my user page (containing criticism of the systemic biases within Wikipedia and the noxious atmosphere within its community -- which had already survived one attempt at censorship through official channels) was gleefully blanked once I no longer had the power to fix it, complete with mocking "buh-bye" commentary.
Eric Hoffer wrote, "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." I never cared about Wikipedia; I came here because a blatantly libellous biography about me had sat untouched for months and only when it was corrected to make it factually correct, only then action was taken to have it removed on the basis of being a "non-notable" and a "vanity" article. In the years since that initial experience, nothing I've experienced has done anything to contradict my distaste with the bullying, authoritarian culture within Wikipedia, and serves to confirm my suspicions about the sort of society Randroids like Jimbo would like to foist on us. It is, however, telling that the worst punishment Wikipedia's brownshirt enforcers can think to enforce upon me is to prevent me from contributing to their project. If I was a troll and an agent provocateur, clearly I wouldn't care and, in any case, could easily create more accounts. I know several people who do just that. It's obvious that the people who want so desperately to silence me and my unthinkable criticism of the wildly dysfunctional culture within Wikipedia don't really think I'm a troll or a sock puppeteer or whatever other excuses they've dragged up for silencing me; it's that I infuriatingly refuse to consider it some kind of glorious reward to give free labour to Wikipedia.
It's an odd situation, to be forcefully barred from rowing the oars on a sinking ship, for the apparently inexcusable crime of noting that the ship is sinking. Even now, I suspect that this final commentary will be removed, because the presence of discordant voices inside the echo chamber of Wikipedia is intolerable, even when those voices are trying to draw attention to a problem which will ultimately destroy the very community which is providing the milieu in which the echo chamber ostensibly exists to protect. Some of the people involved clearly have a long and well-documented history of cognitive distortions which leave them largely unable to either control or be held morally culpable for their actions. It's not these people, the sadly delusional acolytes of Jimbo, to whom I address this, but the few remaining people within Wikipedia who have closed their eyes to what's occuring. I don't have any desire to be re-chained to the oars, so this isn't about shaming anyone into overturning the decision of the kangaroo court which silenced me on Wikipedia. This is about getting the more-or-less sane people to feel some sense of personal responsibility for refusing to either make the attempt to stand up to the bullies or remove themselves from the culture which fosters and supports the bullies.
-- SmashTheState ( talk) 02:42, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
A couple of things: first, please remove the url from your signature (per our signature guidelines). Second, your edit to kangaroo court was disruptive, please keep disputes to the Talk pages and project space. Guy 13:56, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Stop trolling Wikipedia. Go hang out in Hot Topic. 137.165.210.41 03:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Edward G. Nilges —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.198.25.77 ( talk) 13:20, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I contributed a lot of content which remains at the Poussin, Adorno, Kant and other sites because I can writ gude wif korrect speling and gramer. But my literacy offends your basic Wikinerd, who's an unemployed software developer still in denial and working at Costco and a member of the right wing of organized religion: a Trogdolyte rattling his chains thinking them music.
I posted an analysis of why Rand is no philosopher that you as an anarchist may find interesting.
In my view, a "philosopher" is someone recognized recursively by an already recognized member of the set of philosophers, going back to Heraclitus in the West, and Kong Fu-Zi (Confucius) in China. This is because self-organized civil society predated institutions.
I would call myself a socialist and not an anarchist, because I believe civil society institutions can be reformed, and because anarchism in the USA is generally right-wing.
You may contact me at spinoza1111@yahoo.com. I blog at spinoza1111.wordpress.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.198.25.77 ( talk) 13:28, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Would you have the original language for the ottawa panhanders union article? I am creating a subsection on the IWW main article about the IWW in canada, and it is going to be mostly flushed out with that. Thanks and Solidarity! Transcona Slim 23:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)(UTC)
Let's see, a big fan of Phyllis Schlafly, Matt Drudge, Richard Nixon, Robert Taft, et al., and you have an obsession with associating a far-left black activist with crack cocaine. Gee, could there be a political agenda here? Your racism is not appreciated. SmashTheState 05:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. On many keyboards, the tilde is entered by holding the Shift key, and pressing the key with the tilde pictured. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! -- SineBot 02:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey Smash -- awesome username! I saw your note about the deletion of the article. I feel like I'm in a pretty good position to respond to this, since I've been involved in anarchist activism for about 10 years, and since I'm also an admin here on the English WP. I think you're jumping the gun by getting upset. The article was deleted as non-notable, but that doesn't mean that the organization itself is unworthy of an article. It just means that the article in the state it was in at the time did not do a good enough job of explaining how the group's notable.
The logs of the article still exist, and I can get them for you if you'd like to work on the article in your userspace (that is, any page beginning with User:SmashTheState/... such as User:SmashTheState/Sandbox). That way you can work on the article and I can let you know whether the article's likely to be kept with the progress you make with it. When folks decide it's ready, we can move it back into the mainspace (the article space). I've had a great deal of experience doing this. See for example Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pittsburgh Organizing Group (closed as delete) and Pittsburgh Organizing Group (a blue link!).
I have to have a look at the article and the deletion discussion - it may be that the group actually doesn't meet the notability criteria for organizations just yet. I suspect it does if it's true that it's been featured in multiple news sources (that's basically how you construct an argument for notability - cite sources). However, I want to be clear: if the article doesn't meet the notability criteria, we can't keep it. The argument about how the article is important for the group's organizing is irrelevant here; Wikipedia is a project to provide free, high quality information to as many people as possible, not a vehicle for promoting anything. If you want an article on Wikipedia, it has to be on Wikipedia's terms.
So anyway, I'm glad to help you with any of this. I hope we can deal with this calmly, your anger kind of intimidates me, to be perfectly honest. Plus, you'll find that being calm and friendly gets you a lot farther around here :)
Peace, delldot talk 14:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Please keep your own personal (incorrect) political views out of articles. Your edit here: False Political Statement is not appropriate. Please stop.-- InaMaka ( talk) 02:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Please keep your impolite (rude) comments off my userpage. Your edit here: passive-aggressive trolling is not appropriate. Please stop. SmashTheState ( talk) 10:11, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
That article is intended to be solely about military history. That is clearly stated. There are several fine articles devoted to CIA operations. Why do you feel the need to clutter this article with off topic entries that belong elsewhere? Niteshift36 ( talk) 06:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
I removed the inappropriate level-3 warning for personal attacks since this was not a personal attack. If you have a citation for shoop being used for photoshop, and it's notable, it should be added to Photo manipulation#Photoshopping, and afterwards that entry should be added to Shoop. Cheers! -- JHunterJ ( talk) 11:03, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
just letting interested editors know i'm going to attempt to get this back in, see talk:Shoop-- Mongreilf ( talk) 10:34, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey man, I just call em like I see em. I didn't think those articles were particularly relevant so I nominated them for deletion. Did I find them through each other? Yes. I'm sorry if they're all related to your particular brand of "activism". Anyway, take care, TastyCakes ( talk) 15:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello SmashTheState. Your name has been mentioned in a discussion at WP:Suspected sock puppets/MiltonP Ottawa. You are welcome to comment there. EdJohnston ( talk) 03:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello SmashTheState. I just wanted to drop a quick note to say I look forward to working on the Denis Rancourt article with you. Biographies of living persons are always tricky, so I want you to know that I have no agenda for or against him, you, his views, actions or anything even tangentially related to the subject. I simply desire to improve the article. Cheers. Letsgoridebikes ( talk) 06:51, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Can I request that you remove the so-called 'definition' of Wikipedia from your userpage? It violates WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL by a massive amount. If you do not remove it I will tag it as an attack page and request to have it deleted as such; the end result overall, really. Ironholds ( talk) 09:53, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
I find myself wanting to delete my Wiki account and never come back again. Wow, this place really is run by "angry, white, male, overprivileged, socially-dysfunctional nerds with serious personality disorders". -- Nik ( talk) 23:18, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
User:SmashTheState, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:SmashTheState and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:SmashTheState during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ironholds ( talk) 15:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself." -- Joseph Sobran
I have nominated Solidarity unionism, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solidarity unionism. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Guy ( Help!) 20:17, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
STS, so on a single day, after minding your own business for three years, your user page was nominated for deletion, you were blocked indefinitely (your first block) and the blocking admin helpfully also nominated an article you created for deletion, inviting you to participate in the deletion discussion but you can't participate in the deletion discussion because you're blocked. (Did I get everything right? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.)
As a free-market hardliner I could hardly be more opposed to your political views. Yet allow me please to express my support in your present Wikiquandary. I find that it helps to "laugh at the frozen rain" and the absurdity of it all, as Steely Dan sing in their song Bad Sneakers. Cheers, -- Goodmorningworld ( talk) 11:26, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there...Based on consensus at AN/I, as well as a look at your contributions, I've unblocked you. I'd like to suggest, politely, that maybe it would be in your best interests here to either tone down your rhetoric on, or flat-out stay away from, all things Randian--but it's only a suggestion and you can make of it what you will. I can't promise your userpage won't get deleted, but at least you have an option to speak on it now. And one more friendly request: now that you can edit again, please, please don't make a complete ass of me by turning into some ranting troll-vandal on a vengeful rampage through Wikipedia. I think you have a right to be irked, mind you, but just for myself I'd appreciate it if you stayed calm in the face of it. (Not happy-smiley calm--just not-killing-anyone calm would be fine. Thanks... GJC 15:19, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm glad you were unblocked. I've been reading your comments at Ayn Rand. You are superior to all your opponents, combined. Please don't get yourself permanently blocked. It's possible to do good work while jumping through their hoops and playing their games -- unnecessarily complicated, and infuriating, but possible. It would be a great loss to the project if you were purged. -- 71.241.206.81 ( talk) 19:07, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
You have reverted 4 times now on Denis Rancourt. Please don't repeatedly revert. It can lead to blocks. Please discuss the matter in more detail. JoshuaZ ( talk) 18:45, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Regarding your fairly rude remark on my talk page: I don't read French well and the link given isn't searchable text either so I'll take your word for it that it contains somewhere in it the relevant retraction(in the future, at least giving page numbers would be nice). Now, taking that as an assumption:
First, you might want to learn how to use the history button on pages. And then point me to where I ever made an edit adding anything about a claimed "Jewish lobby" . Let's see all the edits I've made to that page.
In fact, the phrase was added with sourcing after my final edit to the page as can be seen here
I don't know where you got from that the idea that I ever had anything to do with adding the "Jewish lobby" phrase into the article. Maybe I supported such an edit on the article talk page? Oh wait, I've never made a single edit to the article talk page. Oops. The only logical explanations are 0) You've made an honest mistake 1) you've decided that since I've made other edits you don't like I must have made these edits as well or 2) have a problem yourself distinguishing between "Israeli" and "Jewish" and thus confused my adding the well sourced quote in about the Israel lobby with the incorrect statement about the Jewish lobby. Since 1 and 2 are most likely not the case, I presume that we are in situation zero and that therefore an apology or clarification from you to me will be arriving on my talk page shortly.
Moreover, if I had made such an edit, I'd have nothing to apologize for. Wikipedia works based on using reliable sources. The source in question was reliable. If a source then prints a retraction that's not our fault. Wikipedia as always relies on WP:V. If we have nothing but your personal say-so to take something out of an article that's not terribly helpful. It might possibly have made sense to have taken out such an edit per WP:BLP until such an issue could have been clarified, and if I had been paying more attention to the issue may very well have ended up deciding to do so. However, quoting otherwise reliable sources is not something we need to apologize for.
On an unrelated topic I noticed that you argued for deletion of QubeTV. I'm curious how you came by this discussion. Also, regarding that discussion, you wanted to delete the article since it is "poorly written" and "stubby." Aside from reminding you that neither of those are reasons to delete an article, I'm curious as the primary writer of said article what you found to be poor writing in that article. Points so I can improve both the article and my own writing in general are always appreciated. JoshuaZ ( talk) 21:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I've undeleted both the article on you and the union, with the former redirecting to the latter. If this causes any problems, let me know. Cheers, Skomorokh 21:21, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Well! Talk of those I didn't expect to see back....welcome, indeed! GJC 01:50, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry you feel that way, but your changes to the article were unsupported and unacceptable.
I'm afraid you'll have to provide examples of my insertion of "mean, muckraking demagoguery" if you want me to respond to it, I don't know what you're referring to. Do you not sense a bit of irony in that accusation, given that in the case of
Georges Bedard it is you that is unabashedly engaged in muckracking, and you that's now having a little hissy fit because it didn't remain? If you really believe your changes presented the man in a neutral way, I don't really know what to tell you other than that you're wrong. You present facts on Wikipedia, not your opinion, and you don't slant the language of the article in such a way to try and turn the reader to your point of view, all concepts you either do not grasp or choose to ignore. On a wider note, I think any impartial observer would be excused in thinking that it's you that's a douchebag for your constant aggressiveness and
uncivil behaviour. I think I have made my position quite clear: if you make edits that are any good I will leave them. If you make edits that are unsupported, hopelessly biased outlets of your transparent "activist rage" or whatever, then no I'm not going to leave them and nobody should.
TastyCakes (
talk) 15:13, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
RE:
As with so much of the rest of Wikipedia, this discussion has turned into another popularity contest among the nerd oligarchy which rules the land. Rather than any discussion of the ethical and legal basis for a decision ( | Kantian ethics dictate a solution most here will find unpalatable), people are blinded to everything but which of the narrow selection of views should be chosen from among Wikipedia's bourgeoisie with no regard for, you know, reality. The amount of Wikipedia traffic dedicated to bureaucracy has been increasing year by year, and the number of contributing editors has been imploding rapidly. Your project is sliding into Jimbo Wales' navel. As near as I can figure it, there is no reason for anyone to help you construct your BLP wikiality unless they want to score points with whichever Wikipedia mandarin's views they're supporting.
The Barnstar of Good Humor | ||
The Barnstar of Good Humor may be awarded to particularly light-spirited Wikipedians who, by their unshakably good humor, consistently and reliably lighten the mood, defuse conflicts, and make the Wikipedia a generally better place to be.
This barnstar is awarded to SmashTheState, who coined the yet to be written essay, Jimbo Wales' navel. Okip (formerly Ikip) 05:09, 14 February 2010 (UTC) |
Thank you for your comments :) Best wishes, I loved the quote. Okip.
Do you suggest I take your friend-making history as a model? Not that it really concerns you, but PhilthyBear made the first move in our troubled relationship some time ago. He left me that nasty note after I accused him of being a sock puppet, and indeed a checkuser showed he was using three accounts to try and bully people around. I'm not particularly concerned with making friends with such people, and I don't think my personality really plays into my distaste for them. TastyCakes ( talk) 01:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
I've restored this list per deletion review. Useful tips how make useful lists can be found in Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia or in in this essay.-- Tikiwont ( talk) 17:58, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:02, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
I prodded that article based on what I saw on it. Sourced back to a couple of her own websites, not much in the article to establish notability, not really any claim to notability. Her myspace link doesnt even work. There just isnt anything here to establish 3rd party coverage. Bonewah ( talk) 20:32, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
That's funny. Neo-cons keep telling me it's liberal.
Like all large organizations, Wikipedia has become just a little dysfunctional.
I'm always interested in reading what things go wrong on wikipedia, it's fun to try to fix them. It's slow going though. ;-)
-- Kim Bruning ( talk) 19:50, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
I am actually a little amused that you would compare The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle -- a Sherlock Holmes novel -- to trifling references from Family Guy and Pokemon. Not all popular culture is irrelevant or insignificant. Try to look at context. -- Magmagirl ( talk) 19:09, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
You've convinced me. I was obviously wrong. We need to add even more pop culture references. I'm helping you find pop culture references for the article now. SmashTheState (talk) 09:22, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Just the kind of mature attitude that thrills Wikipedians around the world! --Magmagirl (talk) 15:49, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, you reported this article to the BLPN, what actually is the problem? is it false name addition, or just the addition of the children's correct names, you called the ip the Chad vandal - as per WP:VANDAL what is the vandalism? Thanks. Off2riorob ( talk) 16:54, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the explanation, the admin has added it to his watchlist as have I and after the months pending protection we can see where to go from there if its repeated, perhaps a rangeblock is possible to stop his antics, anyway, thanks for the detail. Off2riorob ( talk) 18:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
UOJComm ( talk) 23:26, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi -- I've reverted your mass removal. I understand why you're pissed off, and I probably would be too, but removing all that material from the middle of discussions will make the archive incoherent. Note that when you submit material to Wikipedia, even on the Ref Desks, you are releasing it to the world and no longer have the right to control how it is used. Regards, Looie496 ( talk) 05:24, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I just did this. Since you think that I am fellating him, and I suggested that working with you could be considered torture, I thought it might be a good time to turn this over to a third party! I hope we are still bros. Haha seriously tho nothing personal, STS. DBaba ( talk) 03:03, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
You can criticize policy all you want. What you can't do is turn a policy discussion page into a soapboxing rant. We can't fix Magnotta. Assuming the murders would not have happened if we gave him his 15 minutes of fame is ludicrous on its very premise. By that argument, Jodie Foster should have dated John Hinckley, Jr. so he wouldn't have attempted to assassinate the President. It's a complete farce of an argument. — The Hand That Feeds You: Bite 12:40, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Please do not make edits to articles that have the effect of presenting opinions sourced to reliable sources as facts, as you did with this edit to Jeff Dunham. You've already been blocked before for disruptive editing; I suggest you not go down that route again. Nightscream ( talk) 19:59, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:TurtleMelody regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 01:13, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SmashTheState regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 01:13, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
You were indefinitely blocked before, unblocked to participate in a discussion, and we forgot to reinstate the block. You're obviously here on a mission, but one which is not the same as ours, and I reckon people have had enough so I have reinstated the block. I count: disruptive editing, BLP violations, incivility, sockpuppetry, and generally just not getting it. Guy ( Help!) 04:34, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
SmashTheState ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I believe this block has been instigated as a matter of personal animus for having a previous block against me by the same administrator overturned. I believe this to be the case for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I've left my user page untouched, so that the entire text of the previous episode is visible. JzG claims that the removal of his block the last time was simply a temporary measure to allow me to participate in a discussion. This is not the case, as anyone can clearly see. The last time JzG applied a block (also of indefinite duration) he was criticized by everyone involved, including other administrators, most notably for immediately initiating a bad-faith deletion review of an article I had written, then mocking me on my user page to participate, knowing full well that he had just finished blocking me. Secondly, you can see from the checkuser review Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SmashTheState that I am not a sockpuppet. My "crime" was to speak up in favour of a user who shares my view on the removal of fancruft from "trivia" and "in popular culture" sections in scholarly articles. Because this user and I have used the term "neckbeard" and over a period of years have an overlap of 6 articles, I was proclaimed to be a sockpuppet. My protest that I was not was taken as proof that I was. Any reasonable person can see the problem in a system where you're guilty 'because' you claim innocence. JzG's decision to institute an indefinite ban, to lie about the circumstances of the last ban (which he, himself, had made in violation of Wikipedia policy), and to arbitrarily declare me to be sockpuppet without even bothering with such unimportant matters as a checkuser, has left me little choice but to see his action as vindictive and vengeful. I ask that his actions be reviewed, that the block be lifted, and that he either recuse himself from any further actions against me - or be compelled to do so. EDIT: Very well, you may consider this my resignation from Wikipedia. You have proven to me that the corruption is now complete, from one end to the other. Apparently JzG may lie, fabricate, and take revenge upon anyone he wishes. I am not at all surprised by this, only that it's taken this long for the rot to set in. I predict that it will not take long for this talk page and my user page to be blanked to hide the evidence.
Decline reason:
There's consensus for your block on ANI, you have to address this. You are blocked not only for sockpuppetry (which looks plausible by the way) but also for blatant and aggressive incivility - you have to address this. Also, we don't act upon unblock requests that discuss other people's behaviour instead of their own. Max Semenik ( talk) 07:20, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Since I'll never be editing Wikipedia again, I thought I'd add a few notes here for the benefit of the few people involved who aren't delusional. One day, I logged on to discover that I had been accused of being someone else and was facing being banned as a result. When I objected, instead of being banned for being someone else, I was banned for objecting. The person who did the banning had been carrying a grudge for literally years, having been caught trying to ban me for similar ludicrously and transparently self-serving reasons years earlier, only to have his malicious action overturned. In the years since he had been initially caught, the administrators who had cared one way or the other slowly dropped away as Wikipedia slid into its own navel. A larger and larger proportion of Wikipedia's dwindling contributions are being directed towards bureaucracy and petty politics. This is always the sign of a community rapid decline. I do not anticipate that Wikipedia will be relevant for much longer, though it may linger for decades as an increasingly toxic MMORPG for authoritarian sperglords.
The proof that this ban has nothing to do with my contributions and everything to do with my legitimate criticism of Wikipedia is that my user page (containing criticism of the systemic biases within Wikipedia and the noxious atmosphere within its community -- which had already survived one attempt at censorship through official channels) was gleefully blanked once I no longer had the power to fix it, complete with mocking "buh-bye" commentary.
Eric Hoffer wrote, "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." I never cared about Wikipedia; I came here because a blatantly libellous biography about me had sat untouched for months and only when it was corrected to make it factually correct, only then action was taken to have it removed on the basis of being a "non-notable" and a "vanity" article. In the years since that initial experience, nothing I've experienced has done anything to contradict my distaste with the bullying, authoritarian culture within Wikipedia, and serves to confirm my suspicions about the sort of society Randroids like Jimbo would like to foist on us. It is, however, telling that the worst punishment Wikipedia's brownshirt enforcers can think to enforce upon me is to prevent me from contributing to their project. If I was a troll and an agent provocateur, clearly I wouldn't care and, in any case, could easily create more accounts. I know several people who do just that. It's obvious that the people who want so desperately to silence me and my unthinkable criticism of the wildly dysfunctional culture within Wikipedia don't really think I'm a troll or a sock puppeteer or whatever other excuses they've dragged up for silencing me; it's that I infuriatingly refuse to consider it some kind of glorious reward to give free labour to Wikipedia.
It's an odd situation, to be forcefully barred from rowing the oars on a sinking ship, for the apparently inexcusable crime of noting that the ship is sinking. Even now, I suspect that this final commentary will be removed, because the presence of discordant voices inside the echo chamber of Wikipedia is intolerable, even when those voices are trying to draw attention to a problem which will ultimately destroy the very community which is providing the milieu in which the echo chamber ostensibly exists to protect. Some of the people involved clearly have a long and well-documented history of cognitive distortions which leave them largely unable to either control or be held morally culpable for their actions. It's not these people, the sadly delusional acolytes of Jimbo, to whom I address this, but the few remaining people within Wikipedia who have closed their eyes to what's occuring. I don't have any desire to be re-chained to the oars, so this isn't about shaming anyone into overturning the decision of the kangaroo court which silenced me on Wikipedia. This is about getting the more-or-less sane people to feel some sense of personal responsibility for refusing to either make the attempt to stand up to the bullies or remove themselves from the culture which fosters and supports the bullies.
-- SmashTheState ( talk) 02:42, 14 November 2012 (UTC)