User talk:Jpgordon

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Re ChatGPT unblock request

Hey, JP. Did you see that Srj.cooldude denies using an AI to compose the unblock request you declined? "Everything I wrote was 100% my original and no third person or tools used, it's extremely sad to see entire appeal rejected on mere suspicion of chatbot disregarding the points raised in it." (What points? There were no points.) Also, they complain about you assessing their request too soon (some five-six hours after they posted it!), before it was ready. Yes, really. "I felt it was basic like a formal apology without going into the details and I was already in the process of revising and rewriting it but it got rejected before I could update the 1st appeal with description". It's all a very unusual way of proceeding. All I can say about the use of ChatGPT is, if they're telling the truth (frantically assuming good faith here) that they used nothing like that, then they're one of the world's worst actual human writers and thereby not a good fit for Wikipedia. Bishonen | tålk 11:30, 7 May 2023 (UTC).

I'd be curious to see just what it takes for a human to write something that the chatbot detectors think is AI. I've had some cases where I thought it was AI but the detectors disagree; I've not had any marginal ones I thought were human but detectors tagged as AI. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 13:31, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Unusual ownerless page

Hi, I sometimes monitor Wikipedia:Database reports/Ownerless pages in the user space noticed that User talk:Emergency-user-slap was there. I was curious and saw in the logs that it has been deleted four previous times, most recently by you. I wonder if it'd make sense to salt it and/or track down what's linking to that page? I fruitlessly did some searching. (I'm leaving it un-CSD tagged for discussion purposes but I assume I or someone else will CSD it soon.) Thanks. Skynxnex (talk) 01:35, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Talk page stalker here. If I had to guess it's being linked from the template of the same name, specifically the template page itself. Maybe there's a way to fix it so that doesn't happen? SkyWarrior 01:42, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

@SkyWarrior ah yes, thanks. I had just looked at the source and hadn't quite connected the way it generated the destination URL will go to that user talk page from the template page itself. Skynxnex (talk) 14:23, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Someone clever with such things could make it not work on its own page. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:04, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Since I've never tried to do this level of template editing on Wikipedia, I decided to try in Template:Emergency-user-slap/sandbox to make it so it only renders those preloaded links if placed on a User or User talk page. I'll move it over to the main template at some point if there are no objections, in case either of you wanted to look. (And with this, I'll depart this talk page about this. Thanks SkyWarrior and Jpgordon.) Skynxnex (talk) 18:53, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

@Skynxnex and Jpgordon: I have a much simpler idea: maybe we could actually create User:Emergency-user-slap and use the user talk page as a sandbox for the template? I'm aware that a sandbox already exists, but we could also redirect that sandbox to the user talk (or vice versa). Of course, if someone with knowledge could "make it not work on its own page", then that's great too. I meant to comment this a couple days ago, but couldn't due to an erroneous global block placed on my IP (since resolved). SkyWarrior 01:22, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:03, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Possible new sockpuppet

Back in March 2023, you blocked User:Pinespunned as being a sockpuppet of User:Bertrand101, and I believe there could be another sockpuppet, User:Bigbossgab, that has been editing some of the same articles that Pinespunned edited and started two weeks after Pinespuuned was blocked. Here is the Editor Interaction Analyser between the two editors, [2]. I never really know how to deal with sockpuppets and any help you could give me would help out. Aspects (talk) 18:49, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Yup. Blocked. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 23:52, 26 May 2023 (UTC)