User talk:Btphelps

Why Wikipedia is a failure
From the April 18, 2024, NY Post'°, a generally unreliable source, of course:

"Katherine Maher, [formerly the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation and now] the newly installed chief executive of National Public Radio [the well known bastion of balanced fair reporting representative of all Americans *cough cough*], said she sought to crack down on the “free and open” ethos at her previous job running Wikipedia because it was based on a “white male Westernized construct” that led to “exclusion of communities and languages.”...

In an interview that was cited by Christopher Rufo, Maher said that the idea of “free and open” was “recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics that existed offline prior to the advent of the internet.”

Maher said that the “free and open” approach was problematic because it resulted in the “exclusion of communities and languages” where “the idea of a written tradition is [not] particular [to them].”...

Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia alongside Jimmy Wales in 2001, has said that the site can no longer be trusted because it has been taken over by left-wing “volunteers” who cut out news that doesn’t fit their agenda...

In [a] video, Maher said Wikipedia under her leadership “took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation” in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.

She said that Wikipedia set up “sort of a clearinghouse of information” to deal with election- and pandemic-related content so that editors of the site could cooperate with the government to “identify threats."

Wokist CEO Katherine Maher, while head of WP, “took a very active approach to disinformation,” coordinated censorship “through conversations with government,” and suppressed dissenting opinions related to the pandemic and the 2020 election.

Maher also said that she viewed the First Amendment as “the number one challenge” because speech protections make it “tricky” to suppress “bad information” and the “influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it." btphelps (talk to me) (what I've done) 02:16, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: May 2024
--evrik (talk) May 22, 2024

2023-03-01

Nomination of Philmont Leadership Challenge for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Philmont Leadership Challenge is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Philmont Leadership Challenge until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Graywalls (talk) 21:14, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Admin noticeboard discussion
I have mentioned your blatant personal attacks in WP:AN. You are invited to join that discussion. Fram (talk) 08:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)


 * You and Evrik sure are making Scouting look like a fantastic way to raise good, respectful, non-cheating adults. I'm sure you know this - I suspect it was an attempt at goading someone into blocking you so you can further claim you're being censored - but if you say crap like that again you will be blocked indefinitely. If you want to leave, then just leave.  Childish insults on the way out the door make you, and Scouting in general, look sad. Floquenbeam (talk) 15:40, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Mount Diablo Silverado Council for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mount Diablo Silverado Council is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Mount Diablo Silverado Council until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. --evrik (talk) 13:53, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

June 2024
 You have been blocked from editing for a period of 2 weeks for making personal attacks towards other editors. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Aoidh (talk) 19:55, 14 June 2024 (UTC)


 * You were previously warned about personal attacks and continued to make them regardless. - Aoidh (talk) 20:00, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I've extended this to be indefinite, since this account has done nothing but attack other editors and generally been disruptive. Any unblock request will need to address this. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 01:07, 15 June 2024 (UTC)