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Coordinated abuse of WP:NOTE process

Talk:Liz_Fong-Jones -- having moved on from vandalising the page about me, there's now what appears to be a campaign by anon & infrequent contributors to out of the blue propose deletion under WP:NOTE. Raising for your awareness as I know you work on extremism topics and care about the issue, and I'm obviously conflict of interested. Lizthegrey (talk) 00:18, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Ugh. Thanks for the heads up, I've watchlisted it. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 00:28, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

I've also watchlisted, and will keep an eye out for any of these sorts of issues :) Sideswipe9th (talk) 00:32, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Helen and Mike Webberley

Not sure of the proper tags to add (notability? npov?) but this article looks problematic to me. Funcrunch (talk) 05:49, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

I've just nominated it for deletion (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Helen and Mike Webberley) given the BLP concerns. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 14:18, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Misleading edit on Stephen Bonnell

There is a debated allegation about a living person (Stephen Bonnell) that was added and subsequently removed. Instead of bringing this allegation to the talk page or undoing its deletion with a response, you added the allegation in as a new edit and claimed it was made to "Avoid passive voice". I really hope this was some weird bug where you started to edit the section of text, and then maybe it was deleted and by the time you submitted the edit, it was saved in a weird way... I don't know, but as it looks, it appears malicious, so please consider this a warning that doing this again would lead me to report to administrators for vandalism. Grenvilledodge (talk) 15:50, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Please discuss the content concerns at Talk:Destiny (streamer)#Keffals edit war. I'm glad you at least recognize what happened with the edit conflict due to rapid edits to the page—I clicked save after resolving the conflict without fixing the summary, which can't be edited after the fact. You might check out WP:AGF rather than leaping to "maliciously, purposefully misleading" and threats to report vandalism—it's a pretty common issue with MediaWiki software. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 15:55, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

@Grenvilledodge: Perhaps you don't realize this, but GorillaWarfare is an admin herself and has been a Wikipedia editor for over 15 years. That doesn't mean she's infallible, of course, but do assume good faith, as she advises. Funcrunch (talk) 20:00, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Peter Eckersley (computer scientist)

I'm not proficient in Wikipedia markup, so forgive me for bad formatting.

In https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Eckersley_(computer_scientist)&diff=next&oldid=1108515044 you removed the cause of death.

The cause of death is clear from this tweet: https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/1565930964252905473

I know that in general Wikipedia dislikes tweets as information sources, but another information source in the article (https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/peter-eckersley-may-his-memory-be-a-blessing/183854) specifically referred https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Zhu (who is https://twitter.com/bcrypt) as information source as they are close to Peter Eckersley.

What would be a good way to still get the cause of death included?

(Note I'm almost through my energy budget for today, see https://twitter.com/jpluimers, so I might not respond quickly). Jpluimers (talk) 12:22, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Given that he passed so recently I am hoping that a proper obituary will be published soon that includes that detail. While I personally agree that Yan is a trustworthy source on this, a tweet can't really be used as a proper source (and the forum post is pushing it also, even though Schoen is also pretty clearly trustworthy on this subject). See WP:SPS. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 13:57, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks!

Are you going to try to keep an eye on an obituary? Jpluimers (talk) 14:49, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Yes, I set up a Google alert for it so I don't forget. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:23, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Jpluimers (talk) 09:23, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Please vote in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Board of Trustees election

Hello hello. I hope this message finds you well.

The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Board of Trustees election ends soon, please vote. At least one of the candidates is worthy of support. --MZMcBride (talk) 14:59, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Kiwi Farms

Would it not make more sense to try and get their URL globally banned instead of just English Wikipedia? Trade (talk) 15:28, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

You could suggest it at meta:Talk:Spam blacklist#Proposed additions, but my guess is it'll end up being a wiki-by-wiki decision. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:27, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Does linking to Kiwi Farm violate global policy or does it not? People can't seem to decide --Trade (talk) 23:05, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

I think it does; others apparently do not. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 23:15, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Peter Eckersley (computer scientist)

On 6 September 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Peter Eckersley (computer scientist), which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 03:22, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Have a nice day/night

Just felt like wishing you a good day/night! Also that Dr. Strangelove meme is hilarious Stephanie921 (talk) 22:42, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 01:01, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Yw :) Stephanie921 (talk) 01:01, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Question about policy

Hello,

If a user is topic-banned but I see them still editing in the area they're banned from, pls can u tell me where I can report this vio? I tried looking it up but couldn't find anything Stephanie921 (talk) 18:10, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

@Stephanie921: If the topic ban was imposed via an Arbitration Committee decision or by an administrator as a part of the discretionary sanctions regime, violations can be reported at WP:AE. Otherwise it should probably go to WP:AN. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 19:17, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Awesome, ty! Stephanie921 (talk) 19:31, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Kiwi Farms and that artist

Hey. There's a couple of editors that in the current flurry of activities at Talk:Kiwi Farms have necroed a discussion from May 2022 to try and mention a certain artist in the article. I've tried to remove a pseudo RfC that seems to have been opened because one of the editors felt as though The discussion didn't seem to be going anywhere, despite it deferring to the longstanding consensus to exclude that person's name, however that has been reverted. Given your familiarity with the topic, and the many past discussions, is there any chance you could look at the discussion and the pseudo RfC if you have a moment please? Sideswipe9th (talk) 04:35, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

@Sideswipe9th: Looks like it's already been handled by a different editor. I'm probably not the best person to handle more administrative things to do with that page, like whether RfCs are legitimate or need to be removed, since I'm also involved with editing the content. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 16:35, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

No worries. I realise now I wasn't clear on this, I really need to stop commenting at 5am, I wasn't actually asking for you to intervene with your admin hat on. I was hoping that with your familiarity with the past discussions on this topic, you'd be able to direct others to the relevant ones, similar to your reply in this discussion. Unfortunately two of the links in your August 2021 comment are broken, I've found one of the threads at AN, but I couldn't find the "Recent Events" discussion in the KF talk archive and unfortunately it seems to have a relative link to that archive. Sideswipe9th (talk) 19:42, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Just updated those links so they can be referred to more reliably. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 22:35, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Wording change?

Hi! I saw you changed the wording of my edit "harassment internet forum" to "harassment forum". I just want to know why, is there some policy on this that I missed? Your edit summary "sp" didn't give me anything useful, WP:SP doesn't seem to be what you're referring to. Thanks in advance! Holzklöppel (talk) 15:33, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

@Holzklöppel: Sorry for the confusing summary, that's short for "spelling" and was in reference to me fixing the spelling of "harassment". I mostly just removed "internet" because it's pretty clear from the context of the sentence that we're talking about internet forums, so it's not really necessary. I don't feel that strongly about it, though. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 16:33, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! Holzklöppel (talk) 16:59, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Change to the CheckUser team

At her request by email to the committee, the CheckUser permissions of GorillaWarfare are removed. The Arbitration Committee sincerely thanks GorillaWarfare for her long service as a CheckUser, and her continuing service as an Oversighter. For the Arbitration Committee, Wugapodes (talk) 20:02, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Change to the CheckUser team

Just saying hi

I've kinda randomly got here through someone called Sergecross's talk page after seeing that he was involved in editing List of music considered the worst. Someone on his talkpage mentioned in an argument someone was having that you were one of the editors they admired, so I clicked through - and then I liked your face! Decided I liked you even more when I saw the pic from Strangelove. And then it took me a while to see the "queer" tag in the box after seeing your reference to outing in your brief bio. Ugh. Articles on incels and all that stuff - rather you than me! I prefer to keep away from all that toxic masculinity bs - but I guess someone has to fight back against that bullshit. --PaulHammond (talk) 11:06, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

is this a parody or copypasta? RRorg (talk) 21:01, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

@PaulHammond: "Articles on incels and all that stuff - rather you than me! I prefer to keep away from all that toxic masculinity bs - but I guess someone has to fight back against that bullshit" bro are you being serious? 💀 — Python Drink (talk) 18:19, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

The Gorilla is a lot friendlier than some of the people stalking her talk page. --GRuban (talk) 00:49, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Cyber Anakin § A mountain out of molehill?

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Cyber Anakin § A mountain out of molehill?. 45.136.197.235 (talk) 19:10, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Question about copyright violation

Primefac has recently deleted about 23 of my blockquotes on the grounds of copyright violation. See for example the "View History" sections of Wanderlust: The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist. In view of Wikiquote, how can Primefac's deletions be justified in terms of copyright violation? Furthermore, I think that instead of the blockquote being deleted, the entire article should have been moved to draftspace. Suslindisambiguator (talk)

Help With Accountability Software Page

Hi @GorillaWarfare! A year ago we had robust discussions on The Babylon Bee page and I thought you were very fair to both sides. I was wondering if you could help regarding the Wikipedia page on Accountability Software. It was completely rewritten a few days ago in an alarming way. I've been trying to have a reasonable discussion with two editors but they routinely ignore valid points of discussion and revert every change I make.

They've fundamentally redefined what the software does in an inaccurate way, based on a new article that describes abuse of the software. For example, the equivalent on Babylon Bee would be to start with "The Babylon Bee is a misinformation site masquerading as a satire site", as opposed to defining it accurately and then including discussion around the misinformation questions. Do you have any bandwidth to assist? Keithgreenfan (talk) 12:23, 27 September 2022 (UTC)