Tagishsimon

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Privatised rail Rolling Stock Companies (ROSCOs) make huge profits..

All holed-up in tax havens.

Paid £409.7m dividend last year. Profit margin of 41.6%. UK taxes dodged.

UK Govt's rail nationalisation plans will not apply to ROSCOs.

Why might that be?
https://t.co/w4kM4Daiwg

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@TonyVolpon @DarrigoMelanie What part of oligarchy are you not understanding, Tony?

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@TomTugendhat Tom, please consider deleting your account. Your every tweet just reinforces the impression that you're an idiot.

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@PhxSnw @_cageagainst_ @tmorello Things retards say: ☝️

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@PeterReavill @johnhenry185 Good work; thank you.

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@PeterReavill The tramway is the Kington Railway [1816-20]

* https://t.co/rKirt4SKmh

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@PeterReavill Don't know the story. This seems to be the hall in contemporary times; not listed.

* https://t.co/E6DweESmto

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@antib69 @Martin_Abrams @DefraGovUK @SteveReedMP @thameswater TW spends 28p in the pound on servicing debt taken out to pay dividends.

It's a bankrupt company. Nationalise it at zero cost. Require the bondholders to take a massive haircut. The savings obviate the need for a bill increase.

I guess you prefer the status quo, though?

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

Knocking off peers faster than Kind Hearts and Coronets; now at 921 from about 3.5k.

Need to reduce this to about 810 & then add some eligibility qualifiers. Mainly victims of the House of Lords Act 1999 cull, and the odd stray bishop.

* https://t.co/7pSOMOI0LR

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

Me: Ima download this list and sort out Wikidata's peer records.

Parliament dot uk: no.

https://t.co/Lpaz6R3xPw

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

Fortunately, Wikipedia's List of members of the House of Lords looks like a fantastic & well maintained page.

* https://t.co/sbehrWtcUq

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@RealMattCouch What a sexist POS you are, Matt.

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

Okay, so maybe we still do count things (new content pages per month). And actually, that's not looking too shabby.

* https://t.co/hW7sh0h2Qi

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

Hindi Wikipedia does Rambot, 20 years later, but using a much more dodgy source. What could go wrong?

[WikiResearch @WikiResearch]

Paper: "Automatically Generating Hindi Wikipedia Pages using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph: A Domain-Specific Template Sentences Approach" https://t.co/jdVOO4JzmX

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

22 years. Rambot is the little hill of beans around 2003.

* https://t.co/SnkhKNy285

Interesting period, those early years: huge growth on a very small base; then years of moaning about decline, then we just stopped measuring things.

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@tmtm I think few editors understand SPARQL, nor the effect their modelling choices have on reporting.

Misuse of rank is the crime I see most often; but, then, I only visit P39 on special occasions.

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

Wikidata represents that ~450k dead people are current holders of positions (like MP, mayor of this, CEO of that, or whatever).

That's probably not good.

For instance, says there are ~3,000 people sitting in the UK House of Lords right now.

* https://t.co/NEydMkD7XZ

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@tmtm Sure, but it begs the question of whether and how we can get reports which do show current postholders. Mostly, across the board, we cannot.

[Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon]

@karl_amort The incompleteness of the data is wrong. Show me the accurate report on members of the HoL.