When did the FBI start making disclaimers inspired by Major League Baseball? -- Moni3 ( talk) 18:06, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
This signpost hails from the future.. 66.236.8.30 ( talk) 00:01, 4 August 2010 (UTC) Lee
That note about the bot is very strange. [1] shows TXiKiBoT to be ahead of SieBot by almost 800,000 edits. Also, the Wiktionary interwiki bot Interwicket has about 2 million edits more than Thijs!bot, contradictory to what is said in this article. -- Yair rand ( talk) 03:43, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Left: Kayau Voting IS evil 14:58, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Isn't better that the true FBI image should be well known so that a false imitation would be more easily distinguished ?
"As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain."
As this image on WP was (as I understand from the license data) "extracted" from an FBI document, isn't is just as easy for anyone intending fraud or crime to extract such an image in exactly the same way ? Hasn't this publicity given them a whole lot of ideas for new scams ?
By now, after the publicity & fuss, doesn't the image exist in a million more computers than it ever did before ?
The FBI have actually shot themselves in the foot !
Darkman101 ( talk) 11:50, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello all, JWS pointed out to me here the recent post concerning research on wmf - and referring to the previously controversial wikiversity project 'In March, a page on the English Wikiversity about researching Wikipedia by "Ethical Breaching experiments", which contained some suggestions to vandalize it on purpose, generated controversy (see Signpost coverage.)' - I wanted to ask if the author had had the chance to review the content of the project page, or on what basis otherwise it was reported that it 'contained some suggestions to vandalize it on purpose' - here's the page in question for review, and perhaps others might agree with me that the description isn't really apt or appropriate - it's more in line with repeating some misunderstandings and misreadings which spread somewhat like wildfire after the page was deleted, and hence unavailable for review.
As somewhat of a permanent record, does the signpost have any policy on correction or retraction for the sake of accuracy? And if so, could I please ask that someone take a look at applying it here, and perhaps amending the article. I'd happily do so (properly attributed to an involved party, of course!), but don't think that's wise before dropping this note in first :-) cheers, Privatemusings ( talk) 01:26, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
When did the FBI start making disclaimers inspired by Major League Baseball? -- Moni3 ( talk) 18:06, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
This signpost hails from the future.. 66.236.8.30 ( talk) 00:01, 4 August 2010 (UTC) Lee
That note about the bot is very strange. [1] shows TXiKiBoT to be ahead of SieBot by almost 800,000 edits. Also, the Wiktionary interwiki bot Interwicket has about 2 million edits more than Thijs!bot, contradictory to what is said in this article. -- Yair rand ( talk) 03:43, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Left: Kayau Voting IS evil 14:58, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Isn't better that the true FBI image should be well known so that a false imitation would be more easily distinguished ?
"As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain."
As this image on WP was (as I understand from the license data) "extracted" from an FBI document, isn't is just as easy for anyone intending fraud or crime to extract such an image in exactly the same way ? Hasn't this publicity given them a whole lot of ideas for new scams ?
By now, after the publicity & fuss, doesn't the image exist in a million more computers than it ever did before ?
The FBI have actually shot themselves in the foot !
Darkman101 ( talk) 11:50, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello all, JWS pointed out to me here the recent post concerning research on wmf - and referring to the previously controversial wikiversity project 'In March, a page on the English Wikiversity about researching Wikipedia by "Ethical Breaching experiments", which contained some suggestions to vandalize it on purpose, generated controversy (see Signpost coverage.)' - I wanted to ask if the author had had the chance to review the content of the project page, or on what basis otherwise it was reported that it 'contained some suggestions to vandalize it on purpose' - here's the page in question for review, and perhaps others might agree with me that the description isn't really apt or appropriate - it's more in line with repeating some misunderstandings and misreadings which spread somewhat like wildfire after the page was deleted, and hence unavailable for review.
As somewhat of a permanent record, does the signpost have any policy on correction or retraction for the sake of accuracy? And if so, could I please ask that someone take a look at applying it here, and perhaps amending the article. I'd happily do so (properly attributed to an involved party, of course!), but don't think that's wise before dropping this note in first :-) cheers, Privatemusings ( talk) 01:26, 20 August 2010 (UTC)