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The top ten most embarrassingly unreferenced articles on Wikipedia:

10. Inquiry
9. Cross-reference
8. Citationality
7. Written language
6. Master of Fine Arts
5. Doctor of Business Administration
4. Teacher training
3. Teaching qualification
2. Term paper
1. Scholarly method

Addendum: there are 35 footnotes at the article for diploma mill.

Fred the great

I miss the old days of arbitration. Fred Bauder read the evidence, read the diffs, and determined whether the claims held up. Then he'd figure out who the primary antagonists were and write up a decision to deal with them. He didn't sanction everyone willy-nilly and he didn't try to pass the buck. Usually he got it right. Then Fred Bauder's term ended. Slowly this website drifted away from the notions that arbitration is the final step in dispute resolution and that it has something to do with justice.

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Image credit: self-portrait by Fred Bauder.  Slightly edited for color balance.

Proof positive that not enough women edit Wikipedia

Read 'em and weep:

• French braid
• Shaving

The POV pusher's lexicon, continued

More guidance for deciphering ANI:

• Consensus: I think so.
• No consensus: I don't think so.
• Groupthink: Nearly everyone disagrees with me.
• Canvassing: They disagree with me twice.
• Cabal: They disagree with me three times.
• No cabal: Six of my buddies join the thread in the space of eight minutes, all copy/pasting my opinion.

The POV pusher's lexicon

To a POV pusher:

• Impartial: anyone who hasn't said no yet.
• Fair: anyone who agrees.
• Biased: anyone who's said no.
• Corrupt: anyone who's said no and made it stick.