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Note to admins reviewing any of my admin actions (expand to read).

I am often busy in that "real life" of which you may have read.

Blocks are the most serious things we can do: they prevent users from interacting with Wikipedia. Block reviews are urgent. Unless I say otherwise in the block message on the user's talk page, I am happy for any uninvolved admin to unblock a user I have blocked, provided that there is good evidence that the problem that caused the block will not be repeated. All I ask is that you leave a courtesy note here and/or on WP:ANI, and that you are open to re-blocking if I believe the problem is not resolved - in other words, you can undo the block, but if I strongly feel that the issue is still live, you re-block and we take it to the admin boards. The same applies in spades to blocks with talk page access revoked. You are free to restore talk page access of a user for whom I have revoked it, unless it's been imposed or restored following debate on the admin boards.

User:DGG also has my permission to undelete or unprotect any article I have deleted and/or salted, with the same request to leave a courtesy note, and I'll rarely complain if any uninvolved admin does this either, but there's usually much less urgency about an undeletion so I would prefer to discuss it first - or ask DGG, two heads are always better than one. I may well add others in time, DGG is just one person with whom I frequently interact whose judgment I trust implicitly.

Any WP:BLP issue which requires you to undo an admin action of mine, go right ahead, but please post it immediately on WP:AN or WP:ANI for review.

The usual definition of uninvolved applies: you're not currently in an argument with me, you're not part of the original dispute or an editor of the affected article... you know. Apply WP:CLUE. Guy (Help!) 20:55, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Admin statistics
Action Count
Edits 146479
Edits+Deleted 156355
Pages deleted 16865
Revisions deleted 537
Logs/Events deleted 5
Pages restored 320
Pages protected 1669
Pages unprotected 45
Protections modified 120
Users blocked 2639
Users reblocked 118
Users unblocked 115
User rights modified 18
Users created 5
Abuse filters modified 92

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

— - Robert A. Heinlein
Obligatory disclaimer
I work for Dell Computer but nothing I say or do here is said or done on behalf of Dell. You knew that, right?

About me

JzG reacting to yet another drama

I am in my early fifties, British, have been married for over quarter of a century to the world's most tolerant woman, and have two adult children. I am an amateur baritone and professional nerd. I do not tolerate racism, or any kind of bigotry. I sometimes, to my chagrin, mention that I have been an admin for a long time: some people think this is me invoking admin status in order to subdue dissent, actually it's just me as a middle aged parent of young adults saying "oh no, not this shit again". I am British, I have the British sense of humour (correctly spelled) and I absolutely do not have an accent, since I went to a thousand-year-old school. Everything I do or say could be wrong. I try always to be open to that possibility. If you think I am wrong, please just talk to me nicely, and it can all be sorted out like grown-ups.

On politics

My politics are centre-left by current UK standards, centre right by the average since WWII (see Overton window). In US terms I guess that makes me a Communist since the centre of US politics is well to the right now. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan would be seen as too liberal for the Republican party of 2018.

Politics is full of subjects where reasonable people may differ, but there are objective truths as well. Here's an objective truth: Donald Trump is the worst President in living memory, and quite possibly the worst ever. He has no interest in the job, no sense of public service, he is in it purely for himself and he is not able to even pretend to care how anyone other than his base views him. He was elected with a minority of the popular vote, helped by Russia, dark money, Fox News and fraudulent payments to women - and if a total of under 80,000 Republicans in three states had stayed home, he would not be President. Compare and contrast his titanic arrogance with the much more humble attitude of George W. Bush on election. Bush recognised that he was President of the whole country. He still did shitty things, but he at least showed awareness that the Republican base was not his only constituency.

Trump lies all the time, and even when he's not lying, he doesn't tell the truth. There are many reasons for this.

  • He is incredibly arrogant. He believes he has unique and peerless insight even when he is woefully uninformed. He does not read good. He may be dyslexic, but that's not an excuse: he has some of the best intelligence sources in the world, and they will present the material however they need to, but he just doesn't listen, because he doesn't want to hear things that show his prejudices or gut feel to be incorrect.
  • He filters everything through ego-tinted glasses. Why does he claim that millions voted illegally in 2016? Because the alternative is that he is not the most popular person in America, and that is unacceptable to him. Why does he reject the overwhelming evidence that Russia put a thumb on the scales in 2016? Because that would imply that he could not be elected on the strength of his own self-evident brilliance, and that again is unacceptable.
  • He does not care whether what he says is true or not. He has probably never checked a fact in his life. The factual accuracy of a claim has no bearing on its utility to him, he has never suffered any personal penalty from lying or being wrong.
  • He has been getting away with it for ever. His business is built on shady deals, stiffing suppliers and customers, and then walking away form the wreckage. If he started to feel empathy or conscience he would be unable to sleep at night, it's not in his interest to learn.
  • He is surrounded by goons. You don't last long around Trump unless you flatter his ego. Telling him he's wrong will get you fired, especially if he actually is wrong. He's never run a public company, he has no experience of accountability or consensus, he ran a private corporation - he was a petty autocrat, and now he's the real thing. History is full of examples of people with Trump's leadership style. Most end up on the end of a rope, but in every case the real losers are the people they govern.

Trump is a malignant presence in US politics. The Republican Party, in protecting Trump, has shown that it has lost whatever soul it may ever have had. Ailes built Fox News because in his view the real villain of Watergate was the press. He did his work well. Any previous Congress would have impeached Trump by now, but instead they are still banging on about Benghazi and emails. They are not asleep at the wheel, they have handed it to Alex Jones.

You can believe he has done some good things (we will almost certainly disagree on that) but it is an undeniable fact that he is corrupt, dishonest, untruthful, a racist, a misogynist, and where he probably does not personally care about an issue (e.g. gay rights, abortion) he is happy to cede it to interest groups in exchange for support. The Federalist Society is choosing judges, not Trump. The Heritage Foundation is writing environmental policy. And civil rights are being driven by an unholy alliance of racist Southern evangelicals and, well, just plain racists.

So, in my view, believing that Trump is a good President indicates that you are probably not competent to edit Wikipedia.

The elephant

Predatory open access publishing

These publishers are on Beall's list, feel free to suggest others with DOI roots I can work on.

Vanity press

An on-demand print house, masquerading as an academic publisher:

Spam

Web hosts

Citation spamming and Vanispamcruftisement

Multiple additions of citations to the same author from predatory and other journals, by multiple editors with no history other than adding that material (i.e. probable citation spamming):

Think-tankery

University-but-not-a-university

Unofficially official and personal pages

Egregious fake news and other "fuck no" violations

58 links, sources in 2 articles including self-source as of 08:34, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
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910 links as of 08:36, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
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Woo

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