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Collusion (software)

Back in April you deleted Collusion (software) under WP:CSD#A7. After seeing it mentioned on WT:CSD#Complaint I undeleted it and expanded it with multiple sources. I wanted to point out that a piece of software is not subject to A7 speedy deletion in the first place, and examples like this are the reason why -- it is too easy for subjects which are in fact notable to be deleted when a short stub is created. DES ^(talk) 21:24, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Hm, so I did. Thank you for pointing out my mistake. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 23:44, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Have you deleted any other software products under A7, GorillaWarfare? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 01:32, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Not that I recall. – GorillaWarfare (talk)

Would you help us check? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 02:26, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

If you know of a specific error I've made, please point it out so I can correct it. Given that I don't recall deleting any other software articles, I am not going to sift through over three years of deletions. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 02:42, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

As far as you know, you have not deleted any articles related to software, under A7 ?

Please could you give us a list of the articles you have deleted under A7 in the last year? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 02:44, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

You can view my list of A7 deletions as easily as I. This is seeming less and less good-faith; if you know of a deletion I've made in error, please have out with it and end the inquisition. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 02:49, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to participate at Stalking Cat

Hello, I'm Just Tidying Up. I'm commenting because, at some point in the past, you contributed to the Stalking Cat article or talk page. I recently performed a major rewrite of Stalking Cat, and I am interested to increase further expansion and improvement of the article, with other editors. If you are interested in this topic, please join us at Talk:Stalking_Cat#Major_rewrite. Thank you. Just Tidying Up (talk) 14:58, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Searching for adopters

Hello, I am looking for adoption and have just seen your post on Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee's Area/Adopters. I am not a native English speaker and a beginner in Wikipedia. I would be appreciated if you could provide some mentoring.--Sari9th (talk) 20:44, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Sari9th. As it says on that page, I am not currently available to adopt you. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 21:53, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

UTRS Account Request

I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. – GorillaWarfare (talk)

JustBerry Adoption

Hello GorillaWarfare,

I would just like to inform you that I have submitted my test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare/Adopt/JustBerry). I understand you may be very busy now, feel free to look at it when you get a chance. Thanks.

--JustBerry (talk) 03:58, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Walnuts go kapow

Hi. You recently blocked User:Walnuts go kapow indefinitely as a vandalism only account, and they have submitted an unblock request. I had a quick look at some of their recent edits and I didn't spot any obvious vandalism. I wonder if you could have a second look, just in case there has been a mistake. Thanks TigerShark (talk) 10:56, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

I have unblocked and left an explanatory message on the user's talk page. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 17:15, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Precious

articles for creation
Thank you for quality articles such as Epic Meal Time, for fighting vandalism and help with articles for creation, for thoughtful answers in your quest for responsibility, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (6 November 2010)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:17, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

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Catverine Adoption

Hi, I would just like to inform you that I have submitted my test. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Catverine (talk • contribs) 18:52, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

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A kitten for you!

Congratulations on your election to ArbCom. It's kind of unusual for a candidate that I vote for to win. But you're an unusual candidate. Good luck!

Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:10, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

• Congratulations and good luck! I voted for you, too, and am happy to have done so. :) Best. Acalamari 18:44, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you to both of you :) – GorillaWarfare (talk) 21:47, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations on your appointment. I have heard others say that they enjoyed the role and found it gratifying. I am grateful to have you in the position because I feel that you serve the interests of the community consensus. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:31, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

May I add my congratulations, and best wishes. Matty.007 17:31, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

• Congrats! I'm glad my vote helped put you there near the top. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:02, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
• Congrats. I genuinely hope you've learned how to be fair and impartial after the drama at [1] [2], and that you'll do a good job. Orderinchaos 00:04, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

• Well done and best of luck with no grudges! Timeshift (talk) 00:21, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Cold?

	Best wishes
	for the holidays and 2014 from a warmer place than where you probably are ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:09, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

GOCE December 2013 Blitz wrap-up and January Drive invitation

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Seeking an Unblock, Can You Help

Hi GorillaWarfare. Excuse me for block-evading to ask, but I feel I've no other choice really. Would you consider overturning my permanent block for socking. I simply didn't do it. Your fellow arbitrator Timotheus Canens no-warn/no-discussion/no-diffs blocked me in May 2012. Well, it was prior to his being elected to Arbcom. There was simply never any truth to it. I had a single prior account that I abandoned for privacy reasons. I was 100 percent honest about this from my first edit in this account[3]. My prior account had no blocks or sanctions or even warnings. Neither did this one until the first thing it got: a permanent block.

Timotheus, when he finally explained himself a year later, in order to argue against my unblocking, conflated "prior account" allowed under WP:CLEANSTART with "alternate account" forbidden under WP:SOCK. He pooh poohed the content work I had done even in the short time in the new account, such as creating Rain City Superhero Movement and labeled me a troublemaker based on a single aggravated criticism I made against an editor (Nomoskedasticity) who was calling for another editor (Youreallycan) to be banned at WP:AN/ANI. The background though was that Nomo. had tracked, taunted, and targeted Youreallycan for two years. It wasn't my fight, I had just read Youreallycan plaintively beseech Nomo. "just please leave me alone"[4][5], and then the next day or whatever it was I spot Nomo. once more going at Youreallycan arguing to ban him. I slipped on civility, but I viewed myself as confronting one person bullying another. None of any of that makes me a sock, and Timotheus knows it.

I didn't handle my appeals well at first, I really didn't understand the administrative world, nor who where these WP:AN/ANI personalities that descended en masse on my talkpage to harangue and accuse me. Some of them hatched theories that my prior account is some notorious sanctioned or banned editor. There's neither evidence nor truth to any of that. Anyhow, I don't want to write a novel here at your talkpage. I will answer any questions that you have and cease block-evading if you unlock merely my talkpage to me. I should point out that while Arbcom, WP:AN/ANI, and Jimbo have *declined to unblock* me, I am only actually *blocked* by a single administrator, and thus eligible to be unblocked upon research and discussion by any other administrator per WP:UNBLOCK. The reason I feel I've no choice but to block evade to seek appeal is that the only other thing I could do is email WP:BASC. Timotheus sits there and refuses to recuse, plus they reject statistically 92% of appeals, plus when I previously tried I was rejected without any explanation. So I feel that that avenue is just a sham. There is also WP:UTRS, but I've privacy concerns about that manner of computer fingerprinting, as well it's a technical avenue of appeal, but my block is not based on technical evidence of socking, it's based on wordplay and definition-twisting about what is a "sock." Thank you for reading Gorilla. Colton Cosmic. PS: My comment here will probably be lightning-reverted by one administrative participant or other, I've got quite the pack of them pursuing me courtesy WP:AN/ANI. I may seek to restore, unless it's you reverting it, I feel editors should be allowed to police their own talkpages absent obvious vandalism, and that others should keep their fingers off.

Colton, you don't need to go around harassing new arbs, when you have very clearly been blocked by a consensus at ANI, which requires ANI to review, but since you've exhausted your options onwiki, the Ban Appeals Subcommittee is your only option. At this point UTRS has already heard you out (if i'm not mistaken multiple times) and declined to unblock you. You know your options, take them or leave them.

@GorillaWarfare: If you wish you can read into this, but I see it as an inherit waste of time. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 23:33, 27 December 2013 (UTC)}}

Hi, DQ. The block I placed on this IP was the only action I plan to take. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 23:38, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

DQ, from "harrassment" in the beginning to UTRS at the end, plus everything in between, everything you said is wrong, and spoken like someone who cares nothing that he knows nothing. Gorilla, well with that kind of no-thought/no-explanation block, you'll fit in well at Arbcom. Colton Cosmic.

Added Adolf Fredrik's music school

GorillaWarfare, I surely need some help here, please!

There are apparently two issues in my article: 1. Too few independent sources After the article draft was first turned down on December 5 I have looked at a large number of articles on music schools, most of them in the US. Most of these articles contain no or almost no sources whatsoever. This is a typical or perhaps above average example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Nova_School_of_the_Arts Just so that I don't misunderstand anything, I presume that all articles on music schools are subjected to the same reviewing standards, no? What is it then that the article on the Ars Nova School of the Arts has managed to convey in the way of independent, reliable, published sources that the Adolf Fredrik's music school hasn't?

2. Lacking the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article Well, I will work through the article. That said, is it possible that I bounce it off you informally once or twice, so that I don't need to wait three more weeks betwwen feedbacks. Andersneld (talk) 18:29, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately many of our articles on this subject are lacking; I would not use just any music article as an example, as many are not up to standard. Perhaps you could use a good article on the subject, such as Chetham's School of Music.

I can't promise an immediate response to your requests for feedback so, although you're welcome to ask me, I'd recommend that you also resubmit it in case someone can get to it before I can. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 18:36, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

ACC

I've requested an account on the ACC account creation interface. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 22:53, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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Please

Hello, it's a little too late for that but I'd like to restore my page "Vanilla Beans (japanese band)". I did not know you could do drafts before publishing an article. It also might be me who created the article on the French Wikipedia I also have more sources at my disposal to make the article more eligible Wikipedia. Thank you in advance for your answer. Améthy$te (talk) 12:38, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

hello

you are a sysop right? i was wondering if you could use your admin privs to look at an article that was deleted a month ago. this is the deleted article in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fro-losophy if you could make a copy in my IP Address's userspace, that would be appreciated. if this is against wikipedia's many policies in some way or another please disregard this message. thanks and have a great day!--2605:A000:110A:C05E:7195:CBE2:C96B:29B8 (talk) 06:19, 7 January 2014 (UTC)