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Do you mind replying to me?[edit]

I'm happy with the article as a whole but the presentation of some parts (and one of the sources) is somewhat poor. We can mive the discussion here if you wish since the talk page is cluttered.--Trade (talk) 03:53, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@Trade: Ack, sorry about that. Saw your question but wasn't able to reply right then, and then the edit got pushed out of visible page history by other discussions. I've replied there. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 02:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Maybe i'm missing something but none of the sources seems to say that Rodger was an 'self-identified incel'? --Trade (talk) 00:54, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
@Trade: Citations 33, 68, 4, etc. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 01:11, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Didn't the attack happened years before the subreddit even existed? I'm still trying to make sense of this--Trade (talk) 01:56, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
The incel subculture did not begin with r/incels, this is explained in the Wikipedia article. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 02:03, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users[edit]

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A WikiCookie for you![edit]

Question about talk page procedures[edit]

I wasn't sure where to ask this question, but you are very knowledgable about Wikipedia's rules and guidelines, and have been very helpful in my learning of the platform, so I thought I'd ask you. Is it customary for user's to remove notices from their talk pages? SquareInARoundHole (talk) 20:58, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

@SquareInARoundHole A user can remove notices on their own talk page per WP:REMOVED guidelines, and worth noting if a user removes a notice, they definitely saw it then. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 21:10, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
@Shushugah: Thank you for your guidance. SquareInARoundHole (talk) 21:17, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Massachusetts data[edit]

Hey GorillaWarfare, I just saw your comment in stattracker24's talk page. Originally, I was able to find the recovery data using the "released from isolation" that was updated weekly or using the active case counts. Released from isolation has not been updated since 23 June, 2021, and active case counts have not been updated since 30 June 2021. So yes, as of now the recovery data aren't available.

--Horizon Sunset (talk) 04:26, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I'd pretty much given up hope on that. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 04:32, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Gridcoin[edit]

I commented on your proposal, and am curious about your thoughts about Gridcoin? I've been using BOINC for years and only recently found that Gridcoin is based on it. It struck me as something of a win-win. Victor Grigas (talk) 15:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Gridcoin is probably one of the better of what I believe to be a universally negative concept. There is no "good" cryptocurrency, there are only ones that are less harmful, or which have positive impacts in addition to their negative ones. If we wanted to compensate people for donating their computing resources, why not just do that with real money? GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 19:25, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
One would need real money to hand out in the first place... So I've been generally skeptical about bitcoin since it came out - that it's basically a money-launderers dream come true - I like your proposal but the idea to me of using an actual deliverable, useful commodity (in this case processing time spent towards scientific problems) as a form of currency makes sense to me like how the dollar was based in silver or how M-Pesa is based in cellphone minutes. The compensation/reward/incentive is to create a new asset, not exchange one for another. Gridcoin is not accepted by WMF. I am not advocating it, I only want to be sure that it's not going to be outright blocked by an overly broad policy, if Gridcoin has any 'good' to it. I just want it to be well-considered. Victor Grigas (talk) 18:55, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
The compensation/reward/incentive is to create a new asset, not exchange one for another. What is the value of Gridcoin aside from exchanging it for other assets? GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 19:03, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
None aside from bragging rights for advancing science. Maybe you misunderstand or I misunderstand, I mean that anyone using a computer could start creating it, without someone else needing to have cash-on-hand initially, it's no different than any cryptocurrency in that regard.Victor Grigas (talk) 19:26, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

GuzzyG[edit]

Hi there, I noticed your warning on my Talk page earlier r.e. the sharing of the Twitter details. I’ll keep what you said in mind - though what this user said about myself (including outright posting screenshots of my Wiki profile and making comments ridiculing and insulting me) and other Talk:2021 contributors (referring to us as “ignorant cunts”, among other things) on other public platforms is completely unacceptable & undermines any claim of good faith on his part (especially when he protested our reservations about his good faith on the Talk:2021 page while at the same time insinuating that we weren’t acting in good faith). I would also like to let it be known that if there’s any way at all that this can be done, I would like for any and all references (all of which were written in April, December, and today - and of which they are all of a negative, disparaging and utterly misrepresentative nature that borders on slander) to myself and my Wiki activities on his public Twitter account to be deleted immediately. In any case, I won’t share the link to his Twitter profile here again. TheScrubby (talk) 23:51, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

@TheScrubby: Any concerns about off-wiki behavior need to be handled privately, via the Arbitration Committee. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 04:42, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Just popping in; how exactly would you set something like that up? I've found and blocked this users twitter acc right after my original post; did a casually non-descriptive recap on my twitter of these events today (no identifying information); and within an hour an a half this user posted this. (after having my profile private since my last inquiry); the repeated grudge holding this user has had agains't me has now descended to him seemingly creating another acc to view my twitter? This has gone too far; i've retired since Jan 26 and he is still mentioning me and following me to offline spaces. He continually implies bad faith to other editors and cites this behaviour due to times of him not being in the best mood on these nights; as per [1]; i can't control people's moods; so have largely stepped away from that space. I made (and admitted in the subsequent admin report) a few off jokes in April, but i came back later to offer genuine view points regarding the list, which were met with continuous bad faith accusations. The "ignorant cunts" comment on my personal twitter - never posted on here was in response to the assertion that African music recording artists have to chart to be listed on the death pages; which there isn't any charts - such this is a certified ignorant comment of how the music industry works. Cunts is admittedly flowery language said in a rant (i'm Australian); i use it describing everything because this is my personal twitter. I don't think in that circumstance it generally implies anything but frustration at the consensus leading to a very ignorant view of how international entertainment works. The initial joke was about being a socialist and reporting me to upper management because i said not listing Michelle Obama would be racist and that by definition the set in stone rules are structurally racist (as the charts line for African artists shows); i'm a socialist myself and it's just banter to me; but since the admin report; i've understood this is inappropriate for wikipedia (no disciplinary measures happened with that report). I've retired now - i just wish this user will stop following me around past blocks or bringing me up. My twitter is my diary, i will always do non-descriptive takes on my day, i will not take it private or change my name, so i understand there's no way to stop this user on Wikipedia from creating multiple accs to see it; but i hope the on-Wiki behaviour of bringing up such a twitter or mentioning me will cease. I would love a thorough look at my recent behaviour and Scrubbys if this is needed, it's time to sort this issue out. GuzzyG (talk) 05:27, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
I didn’t create another account; you do realise that anybody can see your profile and tweets if they’re not logged into an account (which is the case for me most of the time anyway as I rarely ever log into and use Twitter)? As I explained on my report, the accusations of harassment are totally unfounded; I made precisely one reference to you, and that was in relation to you and Jim Michael being the only users to outright support a particular proposal on Talk:2021. My issue with you is your derogatory statements bordering on slander about myself on your public Twitter account. I don’t want anything except for you to delete any and all references to myself on your public Twitter account, of which your tweets are open for anybody to see and of which every reference towards myself (and Jim Michael and others) are of a derogatory nature. TheScrubby (talk) 06:32, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
@TheScrubby: I clearly needed to be more specific: handled privately, via email to the Arbitration Committee. Not by a public case request. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 06:10, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
I wasn’t aware, my apologies. As you can probably tell I’m not exactly experienced with these matters. It’s hardly an ideal situation to be in at all. TheScrubby (talk) 06:32, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
I have ARCA on my watchlist and if you need any encouragement I would say it's pretty much WP:COMMONSENSE to use your oversight abilities that you have here to get rid of the questionable material rather than to wait for WP:ARBCOM at this hour. There's 811 watchers at ARCA who cares if you're somewhat WP:INVOLVED do something! Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 06:34, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
I can see the big red warning "Under no circumstances should you remove requests from this page" and I would say a possibly attempted outing in an arbcom case request is probably the one time you can IAR on this. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 06:41, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Technology predictions[edit]

You've probably already read this bit of internet lore, but icymi, thought you might get a kick out of [2]. The crypto discussion on meta made me think of it. Levivich 23:24, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

To be fair, the Newsweek author was right about some things, like computers making us feel more isolated. X-Editor (talk) 19:37, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

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Chelsey Glasson[edit]

Hello! I recalled from some of the things you said in the WP:COIN we were both involved in that you are interested in ensuring that labor advocacy is well represented on Wikipedia. I attempted my first article with Draft:Chelsey Glasson and thought you might be interested in reviewing it. I noted your user page mentions you are quite busy with real life obligations, so hopefully this is not a bother, but I would genuinely be thankful for any input you have time to provide. I hope my editing has improved enough to be close to ready for acceptance. Thank you! SquareInARoundHole (talk) 04:34, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

@SquareInARoundHole: That looks really solid! I just took a fairly superficial pass through and tagged a couple things I noticed. I won't have time to do a thorough review until this evening, but once I can do a thorough reference review I'll be happy to move it to the mainspace (assuming someone else doesn't do it before me—just saw TrangaBellam's comment). GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 16:32, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
@GorillaWarfare: Thank you! SquareInARoundHole (talk) 16:34, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
@SquareInARoundHole: Just took my thorough pass through. I tagged a few things that should be fixed, but once that's done I'm happy to move it to the mainspace. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 00:56, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
@GorillaWarfare: I've gone through and believe I've addressed all of the tags, and furthermore I think I understand the sourcing requirements fully now. We can summarize secondary sources, which interpret primary sources, but for primary sources, we have to stick to verbatim quotes and facts, and avoid summarizing, so we don't interpret them by mistake. Thank you for working with me on this article. I'm incredibly proud of it. SquareInARoundHole (talk) 15:03, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
@SquareInARoundHole: Yes—and it's also important to rely on secondary sources to establish weight. For example, for a legislator there might be hundreds of primary sources available as far as legislation they've introduced or spoken about, and instead of relying on Wikipedia editors to determine which ones should be included (which is WP:OR), we go to reliable sources to determine the most impactful legislation to highlight.
Great work on this article! I've moved it to mainspace at Chelsey Glasson. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 16:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
@GorillaWarfare: That makes sense. Thank you! SquareInARoundHole (talk) 17:28, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Did you get hacked?[edit]

Apologies for the message out of the blue, I know we haven't been on the friendliest of terms, but is there any chance your LinkedIn account may have gotten hacked? I noticed unusual activity today, including a friendly message to me (which is surprising but plausible) but most concerning some seemingly mean comments to other people. I struggle to make sense of it, and I apologize in advance if I have completely misinterpreted everything about this situation. Ben · Salvidrim!  20:38, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

@Salvidrim: That's startling to hear, and I very much appreciate you reaching out to check. I haven't used LinkedIn for several weeks so any messages or comments appearing to be from me were definitely not actually from me. I just reset my LinkedIn password and logged out any active sessions, but the only active session appeared to be my own. I also checked my messages and recent activity and everything looks like me—is it possible it's an impersonation account? Could you send me the link of the profile that messaged you? (My LinkedIn is no secret so even if it's the right address it's not an outing concern). GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:05, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
There seem to be two LinkedIn accounts for Molly White at your place of employment. https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-white-b1ab7a22b/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollyawhite/ ? --GRuban (talk) 21:11, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
Ugh, yep, just found that as you left the message. My real account is the "mollyawhite" account (linked from my website); the other is an impersonator. If you feel like reporting the account it would be appreciated, I've just done so. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:13, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
And it vanished! Just as I was sending it a connect request, in fact ... Face-tongue.svg This being-an-admin thing is frightening. My compliments, condolences, or other nouns! --GRuban (talk) 21:15, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
Wow, LinkedIn is quick on that stuff. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:16, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
(edit conflict)Ah, I suppose that would also be a possibility yes. I just ran a search a quickly found your "real" profile. The fake one is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-white-b1ab7a22b/. Here's a screenshot of the communication from that account that I've seen, the message to me and the public comments, I can't know if any other private messages were sent. It would seem to be a malicious actor familiar with you, not some random bot spam, judging from the content of the communication. Sorry this happened to you, and sorry for being the bearer of the news as well. EDIT: while typing this up and screenshotting the profile page seems to have already been taken down. Ben · Salvidrim!  21:17, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
Gads. Well, it's clearly Wikipedia-connected. So I guess it's a sign you're doing a good job at what you're doing. --GRuban (talk) 21:20, 27
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For suffering harassment like no one should suffer in the course of adminning. GRuban (talk) 21:22, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
@Salvidrim: Certainly no apology needed from you, I'm grateful you let me know! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:24, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
  • That is very unnerving. It's good to know we have WP friends who notice these things. Stay safe, sweetie. Atsme 💬 📧 22:37, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
I'm so impressed by what you have to deal with that I was considering giving you that barnstar a second time. Scorpions13256 (talk) 21:12, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

February with Women in Red[edit]

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

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  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
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Liz Fong-Jones[edit]

I noted that you had red-linked to Liz Fong-Jones on another article, so I went ahead and started draft:Liz Fong-Jones. SquareInARoundHole (talk) 18:39, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Dropped an image there. I have the strongest feeling of deja vu about this person; unfortunately I'm terrible at remembering people. Maybe it's just from writing Never Again pledge, but in theory I could have run across her in person a few times, years ago. In any case, it's in draft space, so hopefully this won't be considered COI issues. --GRuban (talk) 19:35, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
@GorillaWarfare: @GRuban: The draft:Liz Fong-Jones was swiftly denied for what appears to be WP:NN. I disagree and I'm wondering if you might be able to take a look at some point. Thanks! SquareInARoundHole (talk) 20:02, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
That does seem odd - you've put more references on that page than there are people without masks at a Trump convention. I'm going to ask Stuartyeates what he means on his user talk page. --GRuban (talk) 20:21, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

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For leading the charge against the WMF's acceptance of Bitcoin, which is grossly unethical on multiple levels. Ad Orientem (talk) 19:14, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Galaxy Heroes (Cryptocurrency)[edit]

Hello,

Was referred to you by @Deepfriedokra: What are your thoughts on rewriting the deleted page Regards. Mastetchi (talk) 09:43, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mastetchi: I think you'll have a very hard time finding proper sourcing. Most of the coverage appears to be from crypto blogs and press releases, neither of which are suitable to establish notability. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 20:53, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello @GorillaWarefare:

I already have a draft. Check it out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Galaxy_Heroes_(Cryptocurrency)

Mastetchi (talk) 21:06, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Cher Scarlett[edit]

I thought you'd like to know that I rewrote Cher Scarlett with all you, Teahouse, and a few others have taught me and it's been upgraded to a B! Thank you. SquareInARoundHole (talk) 00:32, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

Wow, nice work! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 01:42, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

America First Political Action Conference[edit]

Something odd is going on here.[3]. Doug Weller talk 16:13, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

I've made a couple of edits to remove some of the unsourced changes, and remove what appears to be an attempt to turn the article into a guest list... I've also requested protection at RfPP—their 2022 event is coming up soon so I imagine the page will see more vandalism. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 00:49, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
And that is probably the reason it's getting all this attention from new editors. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 11:03, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News[edit]

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

  • AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
  • The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Web3[edit]

Recently found your web3 website. It's pretty cool, thanks for doing it.--v/r - TP 16:09, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much for saying so! GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 22:05, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

You might find this funny[edit]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/meet-the-crypto-bonnie-and-clyde-a-tiktok-rapper-who-calls-herself-the-crocodile-of-wall-street-and-her-husband-dutch-we-look-at-their-alleged-links-to-the-bitfinex-hack/ar-AATL9Z1

The part I found most bizzare was that the password for 4.5 BILLION dollars was stored on their unencrypted iCloud/Google Drive account. Rlink2 (talk) 17:00, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

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