"[[GodKing]]" for several years encouraged new Wikipedia leaders to use cult-like lang
:In other words, if you have a [[GodKing]] maybe you get a [[priestly hierarchy]] without meaning to, and you can ne
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#REDIRECT [[GodKing]]
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The GodKing is the owner of the site, or its administrator, or any [[sysop]] with ultim
...ssive and limits the quality of participation, since no one wiser than the GodKing will be heeded in its decisions.
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A [[sysop power structure]] with a [[GodKing]] is a good example of this.
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...] which is not [[independent board|independent]], and continue to act as [[GodKing]], while making the others take the heat for stupid decisions.
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...assertion that "everything is ok" and no legal trouble will result. That GodKing is not a lawyer, however, so this belief in his opinion is only [[groupthin
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...ing any action or making commitments or promises. It is the opposite of [[GodKing]] rule and usually relies on means of [[consensus decision making]].
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''God Save The GodKing'' (sarcastic)
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...the following are caretakers of the Wikipedia project and often defy the [[GodKing]] and other [[usurper]]s to try to keep it "on track" as an encyclopedia:
...y rational fear that some sysops agree with the caretakers more than the [[GodKing]].
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...or_antisocial_editors the proposed Wikipedia policy] but without special [[GodKing]] status reserved - as it is in that policy.
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...ipedia, which permits [[outing]] without consequence, and insists on one [[GodKing]] being informed of all details of all decisions, and begging to Him for an
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...made that reduces their control. This is of course never true. Even if [[GodKing]]s are hit by buses, and sometimes they are, the will of the broad masses o
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...at day) they actually mean "we can exclude this without angering our great GodKing." That is ''all'' they mean, that is, there is no possible objective defin
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...as [[driven off by trolls|driving off advocates of unfair systems]] and [[GodKing]]s and such.
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The "'''usual happy NPOV talk'''" according to [[Jimbo Wales]], [[GodKing]] of [[Wikimedia]], [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2004-
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2. fascism as a [[sysop power structure]] and perhaps [[GodKing]] take root - some [[sysop vigilantiism]] mostly dealt with informally; so
...ding of [[why wiki works]]; [[usurper]]s have managed to get close to the GodKing personally, and use his approval as a mask to push their own agendas - labe
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...ically, and none of this is characteristic of a little tin god sysop, or a GodKing.
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...Jimbo") is the co-founder of [[Wikimedia]]. He is sometimes known as the [[Godking]] of wikipedia, or the benevolent dictator. There has been some controversy
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...aved, [[trolling]] will intensity to absolute white hot heat! Down with [[GodKing]]s!
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*that [[Jim Wales]] is a [[GodKing]] or can be referred to same as if that were harmless
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The term was actually coined by Wikipedia's [[GodKing]], "Jimbo" Wales.
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...ot put any one source at the centre of the universe, and strongly oppose [[GodKing]]s on all wikis. This is just one more issue in [[wiki governance]].
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:It can't be one of your [[AWR]] unless you think the [[Wikipedia]] [[GodKing]] makes such rants, and is also a [[142.X.X.X]]. Which is not out of the q
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'''Ethics''' is whatever a [[GodKing]] says, as interpreted by a [[priestly hierarchy]]. This is [[neutral poin
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...ght be [[driven off by trolls]] if their positions, e.g. pro-Nazi or pro-[[GodKing]], are very unpopular
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...regarding [[Simple English]] and the degree to which Wikipedia abandons [[GodKing]]s to become [[troll-friendly]]. This seems unlikely in the near future.
...ocess deletion at SEW or indeed any [[Wikimedia]] project ruled by their [[GodKing]].
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...[bootstrap]] would prove that it is quite possible to function without a [[GodKing]] or even a [[representative democracy]] model, though some [[sysop power s
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...ns as how to deal with the [[Red China block]], which the still-reigning [[GodKing]] chooses to deal with unilaterally via the "[[usual happy NPOV talk]]". '
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::It also reveals how afraid the [[GodKing]] and his cabal are - they have to actually use blocks that ordinary sysops
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...the projects they have been involved in into [[enemy projects]] or done [[GodKing]] worship without question (almost the same thing, not quite). These shoul
...all the [[GFDL text corpus]] so we can work with it without MySQL, perl, [[GodKing]]s, or dreaded "Wikipedians". They may even beat [[Metaweb]] to the punch,
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...d strongly frowned upon even when it is done under the direct order of a [[GodKing]]. It makes it obvious that there is a [[power structure]] that is quite d
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...have a [[Number of the Beast]] branded on them to buy or sell. Like the [[GodKing|Roman emperors of old]], he would impose horrible martyrdoms on surviving C
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...trust me" situation that is not necessarily better than just trusting a [[GodKing]] to make all the decisions - at least one ''knows'' one is doing that!
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...Lowest Troll''' with a [[GodKing]]. However, they are clearly not, as the GodKing claims moral superiority when he exercises his technological superiority or
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...in English from now on! I must understand! I will understand! I am the GodKing! YEEaarraaggh!)
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...m]] - the group is the [[sysop power structure]] - see [[Wikimedia]] and [[GodKing]] and [[undelete page]] for issues
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Pi back rightfully to 3.1 as has been declared rightful by our GodKing.
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...ftware ([[mediawiki]]), running governance with a mailing list, having a [[GodKing]], encouraging [[ad hominem delete]] and other [[sysop vandalism]]. MANY p
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...ly, foes of [[philosophy as usual]] have included many tyrants, but some [[GodKing]]s have also embraced [[philosophy]] as a way to turn dissent and calls for
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...t also refers to the final legal and political confrontation between the [[GodKing]]s and the [[trolls]] on all [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s, and the remo
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Some [[large public wiki]]s have a single [[GodKing]] to declare what constitute '''false''' or '''unsubstantiated'''. This pe
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...e to the "[[neutral point of view]]". Where a [[priestly hierarchy]] or [[GodKing]] rules, this is wholly appropriate.
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*No [[GodKing]].
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...a [[cabal]], [[clique]] or [[sysop power structure]] ruled by same or by [[GodKing]], who will ensure that the text does not return, valid or not. This is an
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...a [[sysop power structure]] accountable only to themselves, consort with [[GodKing]]s, or be cowed by [[libel chill]] or the invention of [[spun threat]]s for
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...view]]) is the view of the [[sysop power structure]] and (if applicable) [[GodKing]].
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..., even if it made sense, which it doesn't. It is really all about their [[GodKing]] and what makes him personally comfortable or not, and the same is true fo
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See also: [[GodKing]].
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...special about the [[Sysop Vandal point of view]] and no reason to let a [[GodKing]] or [[priestly hierarchy]] determine the discourse on any wiki.
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...pressure]] and [[class-hatred]]." Accordingly once authority (such as a [[GodKing]] is identified, all forms of hate and abuse that are not specifically prev
...o any that elevates or seems to worship the final-resort sysop (the term [[GodKing]], like "[[politically correct]]", seems to provide a kind of authority to
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