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New legal article

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I have finished enough of Consciousness of guilt (legal) to go public with it. Further development will be appreciated. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 18:38, 2 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Shane Valdez

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The second edit was unintentional, as I thought I’d done something wrong and it simply hadn’t updated.

I do not know how to add the citation the information regarding his arrest came from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and is listed on a local page which displays local arrests.

if you can tell me how to add the citation, I will do so.

This is the link.

(Redacted)

I am not a random person, I know Shane and his family personally. It wasn’t my intent to unfactually defame him but rather give a more accurate glimpse at who he is. 2601:203:284:C70:5C2E:3499:E6BC:2CA9 (talk) 22:05, 3 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please see WP:BLPCRIME and WP:BLPPRIMARY: "Do not use trial transcripts and other court records, or other public documents, to support assertions about a living person. ... A living person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until convicted by a court of law. Accusations, investigations and arrests do not amount to a conviction. For individuals who are not public figures—that is, individuals not covered by § Public figures—editors must seriously consider not including material—in any article—that suggests the person has committed or is accused of having committed a crime, unless a conviction has been secured." GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 22:10, 3 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Got it. Thank you for clarifying. 2601:203:284:C70:5C2E:3499:E6BC:2CA9 (talk) 22:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Podcast feature

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Hey! I was pleasantly surprised to see your name popping up in my feed for yesterday's episode of Better Offline, I really enjoyed listening to it! Was great to hear somebody talking on a public platform about how Wikipedia works and why it's so important. I particularly enjoyed the discussion towards the end about the rise of AI and the 'enshitification' of the internet, and why that has made maintaining Wikipedia is so important in this context. When I started editing a few years ago, I had similar thoughts about the oligopolisation of the internet by big social media companies, but now with AI and the dead internet theory, having a community-based source of reliable information is all the more vital.

I do hope this leads to more people contributing to the platform, as Ed Zitron pleaded for at the end; a recent feature by The Guardian succeeded in bringing at least one or two new people into the Women in Red project, so I'm really pleased to see folk actively promoting more people getting involved. Anyway, I digress. Thank you so much for doing this podcast episode, I really appreciated it. :) --Grnrchst (talk) 10:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Bounced onto here to say thanks as well, I parasocially knew you before EdZ, but was happy to see your name pop up. tedder (talk) 04:29, 6 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks to you both, I'm so glad to hear it's being well received! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 15:33, 6 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Miyosmart

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Hi there! I'm reaching out to you as a new page reviewer. I noticed you just deleted the page Miyosmart as A7 within three minutes of the page creation. Can you explain your reasoning? Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 00:23, 6 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes, the page made no credible claim of notability and lacked any references. It was created by a user whose only other contributions have been vandalism and apparently trying to game autopatrolled. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 00:29, 6 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Given that the article had just been created (by a very new user) and it didn't appear to be outright vandalism, why not let it sit for at least an hour (or send to draft) to see if the editor improves it? A quick Google Scholar search shows multiple hits for the lenses. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 00:34, 6 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Further, the lenses are a product, which do not qualify under A7. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 00:35, 6 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
I deleted it rather than moved it to draft per WP:DRAFTIFY. However, since you seem interested in working on it, I've draftified it. You're right that it's a product — that's my mistake, I misread it to be the name of the company. Best of luck with the article. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 00:39, 6 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! Mostly, I was just curious about your decision as I had saw it pop up during a page review, and I went in to copy edit and format, then it had been deleted before I could publish, which was surprising. At NPP, we have a guideline to wait at least an hour to recommend deletion and/or draftify unless there are serious content concerns to avoid being bitey. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 00:44, 6 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Recreating an article that you deleted in 2023

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Hi. Is it okay if I recreate draft article (about fever dreams), that was deleted by you in 2023? This time I have better sources. (User Masem advised me to ask this question from the admin who deleted the article.) --Pek (talk) 17:06, 20 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

I would recommend drafting it first, and going through WP:AFC. I'm concerned that you don't seem to have a much better grasp of the sources needed for new articles (a concern I see is shared by some others, e.g. User talk:Pek#New articles and sourcing), and especially with topics that brush up against WP:MEDRS I think it would be best if there was a second set of eyes on the article before it went to mainspace. If another editor reviews it and finds it acceptable, I certainly have no qualms with the page being recreated at that point. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 17:26, 20 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi. I made an draft article. Could you please review it, check if the sources are good enough and if they are, could you move it to mainspace? Here is the article. --Pek (talk) 11:13, 21 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
I see Drmies has already left you some feedback, which is pretty much what I would have said. I have to say I'm disappointed to see that, although you've swapped out a few sources, the article is largely the same poor quality as your previous attempt. I'm really not sure where the disconnect is here, but can you not see the vast difference between the types of sources you've used in this draft and the types of sources used in high quality medical articles like, say, Oxygen toxicity?
Popsci sources like Discover's "Bizarre Fever Dreams Are Common, But Science Hasn't Figured Out Why", or sources from mattress companies, are not WP:MEDRS — and the latter are probably not even plain WP:RS. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 15:42, 22 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Women in Red May 2024

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Removing sourced content from Progressive International

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Care to explain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.174.63.111 (talk) 15:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Happily. Wikipedia must adhere to a neutral point of view, and editorializing a person's tweet as "celebrat[ing] news of the indiscriminate killings" based on the tweet itself (WP:OR) and an op-ed in an unreliable source falls far short of NPOV, not to mention WP:BLP sourcing requirements. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 15:56, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Why not edit the contribution so it fits within NPOV? I think it's hardly OR that the tweet was made and picked up in the press by more than one source.[1] As the qoute states, in response to his tweet the UK governments antisemitism offered his own advice. The author of the tweet has not distanced himself from it either - quite the opposite. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.174.63.111 (talk) 16:13, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
The onus is on you to find the proper sourcing, and The Sun absolutely isn't it (WP:THESUN). GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 16:14, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
So, the tweet itself is not a source, nor are the hundreds of tweets since, and neither is any mentioning of the tweet in the press, neither an op-Ed, not straight forward report with qoutes from UK political figures such as Lord Mann responding to the tweet? The understanding of the SUN being a non-RS is to do with unreliable reporting of events as to whether they occured, but that tweet occured. It's in the public domain, on the internet archive. Anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world can view it. How can this not be added to the article? 201.174.63.111 (talk) 16:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
There are two issues here: the inclusion of the tweet in the article, and then — if included — how the tweet is described. We should first tackle whether the tweet should be included. In order to justify including it, you need a reliable source, or preferably several, to support that it's noteworthy enough to include in encyclopedia article about the organization. If the mere existence of a tweet was enough to justify inclusion, as you note, there would be hundreds of them in any article about a subject with a Twitter account (or, in this case, many hundreds of tweets in articles about organizations that have employees who tweet). So far you have not been able to come up with any reliable sources. The Sun is so unreliable it has been deprecated from being used at all. If you would like to argue about that, take it to WP:RSN, but in the meantime you'll need better sourcing.
Please recall that people tweet all the time, and political figures respond to tweets all the time. Wikipedia is not a repository for documenting every Twitter spat that's ever happened; it's for describing subjects in an encyclopedic fashion. If there is substantial reliable coverage of a tweet, it can potentially be included, but I'm not seeing that here. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 16:30, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
I don't understand? Without getting into a debate of whether The Sun is a generally a RS, I think you need to answer some specific questions in relation to this article: Did The Sun invent that a) the tweet occured b) the tweet's contents c) that Pawel Wargen was its author d) that Pawel Wargen is Progressive International's coordinator of its secretariat e) that Lord Mann as the government's antisemtism adivsor responded with a qoute in the article f) that Progressive International was organising a fringe event at the Labour Party conference?
Pawel Wargan is the coordinator of the organisation's secretariat, I'd say that would lead it to meet notability guidelines. I think any other conclusion would be almost perverse, but that's me. 201.174.63.111 (talk) 16:41, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
It's not a question of whether the tweet happened, it's a question of if it's noteworthy enough to include.
If merely being the coordinator of the organization's secretariat is sufficient for tweets to be included in the article, then by my count, we would need to get to work including 17,482 tweets in this article, including ones like "It makes more sense to eat ice cream in the winter because it doesn't melt."
But that's ridiculous, of course — we only include tweets if they are particularly noteworthy, and in this case, if they are so noteworthy that they should be included in an article about an organization (rather than one about the person who sent the tweets). How do we establish noteworthiness? Coverage in secondary, reliable sources — which, at least at this time, does not seem to exist. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 20:09, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
So, it meets notability criteria because unlike the tweet you posted, in I'm sorry, but that not at all that convincing and rather absurd ad absurdum, it is a) from when the author took on his role and not a decade prior b) concerns his political views, in so far as he is part of a political movement c) was printed in the UK press, as opposed to any of the other 17,000 tweets, in a daily paper with a daily circulation in the millions d) provoked reactions from the UK government's antisemitism spokespersons and Chair of Jewish Labour as reported in said article e) was then picked up in another daily article f) is highly relevant to that organization's activities and viewpoints as listed in point 8 of their Gaza resolution on their website: (8) Reject the false equivalence of colonizer and colonized, recognize that the violence of the oppressed is a response to the original condition of their oppression, and uphold the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to resist, enshrined in UN Resolution 2625, as "the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means”;[2]
You haven't really convinced me that the tweet shouldn't be referenced. Quite the opposite. The more I look into it, the more convinced I am it should be there. I also see the article somehow fails to mention that the Bernie Sanders Institute never joined the organization once it was up and running for fairly obvious reasons - the tweet author's views being amongst them (the Secretariat is described itself on its own website as the "coordinating body of the Progressive International." So, I imagine its general coordinator has quite a big role, not dissimilar to the general-secretary of the party.)
Lastly, I would say, not including the content in some form is not a good look for the encyclopedia, given how it has been perceived to have behaved on this issue, amongst segments of the world's Jewish population. It comes across as suppression.[3] I don't think this should be dismissed. 201.174.224.174 (talk) 18:10, 29 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
You are certainly welcome to argue at WP:RSN that The Sun (again, a deprecated source) is a sufficient source to include the tweet if you are so convinced that this is my error and not yours, but as I've already explained at length, I don't think you will have much success.
I understand that you feel the tweet is significant and noteworthy, but Wikipedia policy requires that Wikipedia content reflect the prominence of material in secondary reliable sources. As of yet, I have not seen a single secondary reliable source (The Sun excluded for aforementioned reasons) that mentions it, much less describes it as significant to the degree that it should be included in an encyclopedia article about the organization as a whole. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 19:44, 29 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ Sleigh, Sophia (7 October 2023). "Keir Starmer under pressure to stop anti-Israel event at Labour conference". The Sun. Retrieved 28 April 2024. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |qoute= ignored (help)
  2. ^ https://progressive.international/wire/2023-10-28-the-gaza-resolution/en. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-792808

Everyone Knows That (Ulterior Motives)

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wdym reddit is unreliable? it's literally where all the discussion from the beginning was taking place and where it was officially announced it was found? tf? what source do you want then? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:BB8:2003:D:455:305C:EF88:7EC0 (talk) 16:42, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

See WP:PRIMARY and WP:UGC. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 20:04, 28 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Arepas origins

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The information that you provided on Wikipedia about the Arepa origins is not true. Please do your research properly. 76.66.100.7 (talk) 21:27, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please see the sourcing in the article, including [1]. If you have sources that contradict these, feel free to provide them. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:29, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi

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Discuss at Talk:Xiongnu. If you need outside opinions to help resolve the dispute, see WP:DR. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 22:27, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

look at this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ulaanzuukh_culture&diff=prev&oldid=1207575411&title=Ulaanzuukh_culture&diffonly=1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ulaanzuukh_culture&diff=prev&oldid=1197891989
And this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ulaanzuukh_culture&diff=prev&oldid=1207108865
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ulaanzuukh_culture&diff=prev&oldid=1222228599
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ulaanzuukh_culture&diff=prev&oldid=1221226250

Same as source 149: "Genetic population structure of the Xiongnu Empire at imperial and local scales" written in "Relationship between ethnicity and status among the Xiongnu" section

source 149 : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10104459
Source 50 and 51:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adf3904
Source 206 and 207:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adf3904

7712Touch74396 (talk) 22:01, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

As I wrote on your user talk page, please take this to the article talk page to discuss with the other editors involved. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 22:04, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Nobody talks there. LaurensAllende (talk) 22:25, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hey, Why are you putting in "Turkic" in everything? What is it for?? LaurensAllende (talk) 22:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Source write it not me 7712Touch74396 (talk) 22:24, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Monster High

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FYI that editor is an LTA WP:LTA/GF36. I have reported her as such where possible. FYI she is on a /40 mobile range and not a /64. wizzito | say hello! 01:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Women in Red June 2024

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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Women in Red August 2024

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A barnstar for you!

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  The Original Barnstar
Thanks for help cleaning up TESCREAL article! Bluethricecreamman (talk) 16:59, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

DYK nomination of TESCREAL

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  Hello! Your submission of TESCREAL at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! PearlyGigs (talk) 20:21, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, GW. Apologies again for my mistake. I like the DYK concept and I'll try and do more there. Best wishes. PearlyGigs (talk) 21:26, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
No problem! Not the first time it's happened, and I've certainly made similar mixups myself. Happy editing! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:49, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you

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Hi GorillaWarfare,

I just wanted to thank you for including your pronouns in your signature. I've wanted to include mine, but I wasn't sure if that'd be welcome because I haven't seen anyone else do so.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you because it means a lot to me.

Cheers,
u9000 (they/them • talk) 01:25, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

@U 9 000 cheers! Check out essay Wikipedia:Editors' pronouns and the template {{they}} which will use the Wiki editor's specified pronouns. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 12:51, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'm glad you found it helpful! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 14:27, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Happy First Edit Day!

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Trump and cryptocurrency

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Hi Molly. You're the expert on cryptocurrency, so what are your thoughts on what he's said? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 23:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Existential risk studies article

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Hello, how are you?

Given your interest in TESCREAL, I suppose you might also be interested in this topic of existential risk studies, which I have decided to make. If you do have an interest to take a look, it is in my [drafts]. I have also submitted the article to review, a process which I have zero experience with. Feel free to give any advice or proposition of change.

Bye. JoaquimCebuano (talk) 03:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Some crappy crypto Whatsapp scam group - interested?

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This is nothing to do with Wikipedia but this is an easy way to contact you... I keep getting added to a crappy Whatsapp crypto scam group of some kind or another, led by a "Professor Martin" (whose image reverse searches to all sorts of fruity things). The amount of effor they're putting in is quite entertaining. Have you got a burner number you'd like me to suggest they add to it or have you got better things to do? Or maybe suggestions for others who may be more interested (who are welcome to reply to this thread as well as presumably there are lots of lurkers on this page - just give me a number, preferably a UK one but scammers are stupid so probably anything will do and the name of persona and I will pass it on to them) :) - Have reported it many times to WhatsApp but it keeps getting resurrected... 2A02:8011:EB50:0:4DF5:3A4A:51B:8AB1 (talk) 21:37, 6 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Message to general talk page stalkers - I keep on reporting them to WhatsApp but nothing is done lol, what do I do? 2A02:8011:EB50:0:DD5E:3A77:8AB6:1633 (talk) 19:37, 23 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikimania 2024

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Any chance you're at Wikimania 2024? I was looking to see if I could start a critter meetup... C. Scott Ananian (he/him) (talk) 17:52, 8 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sadly not this year! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 18:24, 8 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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Thank you! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 17:12, 16 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

September 2024 at Women in Red

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Festivals disestablished in 2023

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 21:35, 1 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Bitchute page

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Could you please stop reverting my changes to the page? The website had some nazi posters at the beginning of it over 7 years ago, since then it became fully compliant and still describing it as a meeting point for nazi groups is slandering the platform. Please read this Ofcom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xyron1987 (talkcontribs) 02:55, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please continue the discussion on Talk:Bitchute. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 14:11, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

ANI Notice

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  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Brocade River Poems (She/They) 08:34, 12 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello

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I've seen you make WP-themed videos on occasion, perhaps you'll like this one: Explained: What’s ANI vs Wikipedia legal battle all about? by Newslaundry. That's not our ANI. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:26, 18 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image File:Face to Face vs Dropkick Murphys.jpg

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A goat for you!

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thank you so much for all your work !

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Mentioned you at ANI

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  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Meatpuppetry at AfD by Mellis. Thank you. I mentioned you as you'd previously dealt with outing concerns about linking another editor to an off-wiki account. Nil Einne (talk) 09:14, 2 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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User:GorillaWarfareMaster

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Hullo! I just saw this new user User:GorillaWarfareMaster appear in recent changes – no idea whether you need to be concerned, just thought I'd alert you anyway. — ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email) 04:24, 20 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm GorillaWarfareMaster. He's GorillaWarfare
He's only a rookie, I'm the expert
He's like a padawan, I'm like a Grand Jedi Master
Hope this clears things up GorillaWarfareMaster (talk) 04:28, 20 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
And blocked. Ed [talk] [OMT] 04:42, 20 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Category:Manosphere has been nominated for splitting

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Nomination for deletion of Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Massachusetts cases by county

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Women in Red November 2024

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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2024-11 some categories

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Hello GorillaWarfare,

A few years ago you created Category:Alt-tech and there could/may/might be overlap between

  • Category:Alt-tech
  • Category:Alt-right websites
  • Category:Alt-right Internet forums

Also feel free to take a look at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 5#Category:Websites with far-right material. Visite fortuitement prolongée (talk) 13:38, 11 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

There might be overlap, but they’re definitely not synonymous. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 18:05, 11 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

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