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You learn something new every day... -Adolphus79 (talk)05:55, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Dorian Gray Wild,

If you don't know, well, זור987 now has an interaction ban to prevent them from interacting with you or articles that you created. Looking through their contributions, I see they have tried to get a lot of your articles deleted here and on other projects. This article was PROD'd which means it can be restored upon request but when I looked at the last version, it was poorly sourced. I can restore it to Draft or User space if you'd like to continue to improve it but I think it might be tagged for an AFD discussion if it is put back into main space in the condition it was in when it was deleted.

Would you like to continue to work on this article or have you moved on to pursue other work on the project? Just let me know.Liz^Read!Talk!22:27, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DearLiz,

Thank you for your nice addressing.

I did not notice that you were an admin. Now things are much more clear, like your dealing with Meta, but not with the He WP. Sorry for my disinvolvement.

Thank you formerging the deleted article intoUser:Dorian Gray Wild/Disabled, Not Half a Human Being.

The name of this organization refers toWP:EN as well asBrazilian Association for Self-Defense. I asked you it in the email which I sent. If I get no reply in a week, I will editAlex Fridman, and you may restore if needed.

Thank you again,_Dgw|Talk14:22, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not that acquainted with merging articles. I'll restore it to you User space and then see what I can do. As for email, give me a bit more time, I don't check email very often but I'll look tomorrow.Liz^Read!Talk!05:33, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Wasn't so hard after all!Liz^Read!Talk!05:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much,Liz! The merge was useful, because I sawthis deletion. I amnot 2A02:14F:2:58FF:3537:E017:F209:22F8. It seems that they were Hanan Tal. I am not so involved with this organization.

Please hide this edit summary, because nochekuser has been applied, and it is a severe accusation.

The subject of the email is WP:English.

Thank you,_Dgw|Talk09:46, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello Dorian Gray Wild, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on thisseasonal occasion. Spread theWikiLove by wishing another user aMerry Christmas and aHappy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025. Happy editing,Gooners Fan in North London (talk)15:14, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply] Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Gooners Fan in North London (talk)15:15, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much,Gooners Fan in North London! I copied it to my user page!Dgw|Talk21:20, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Dorian Gray Wild: Enjoy theholiday season andwinter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers,Abishe (talk)14:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Abishe (talk)14:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much,Abishe! I copied it to my user pageDgw|Talk21:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Dorian Gray Wild,

In case you were not aware of it, זור987 was indefinitely blocked from the English Wikipedia in January after this discussion,Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1176#User trolling and tracking me. So, at least on this project, you don't need to worry about them harrassing you any longer. Happy editing.Liz^Read!Talk!05:12, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HelloTamzin,

As you might know, yesterday a letter was sent to the WMF.
The letter inquired about theARBPIA and requested the i.p. of involved parties, as it wrote:Records showing identifying and unique characteristics of accounts (such as names, IP addresses, registration dates, user activity logs) for editors subject to actions by ArbCom.

Therefore, I ask you toremove my name from thislog. I do not want to reveal my i.p. nor any other log.

I suggested an image for deletion which was advertised following the policy ofHamas. Unluckily, your interpretation was that I "claimed" against the policy of the user who uploaded it, and they were TBANed. "TBAN" might cause the wrong interpretation, but I meant that Hamas made the picture, not the uploader. The TBAN was an additional reason to delete the image, not the main reason. The main reason was Hamas policy, and the letter wrote it:Editing for Hate: How Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Bias Undermines Wikipedia’s Neutrality, ADL, (MAR. 18, 2025), https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-israel-and-anti-jewish-bias-undermines-wikipedias-neutrality.

On the 7th of October, Hamas was aimed at the Israeli population (as well asforeign citizens andMuslims), not at the Gazan population.

Therefore, I ask you also to void the editing restriction, which wasunlimited as you wrote._Dgw|Talk20:45, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tamzin, I am quite sure you have seenit._Dgw|Talk22:24, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, DGW. FYI, the{{np}} template means "no ping". I didn't get your ping above, and only happened to notice your latest edit to this section in my watchlist. Use[[User:Tamzin|Tamzin]] or{{ping|Tamzin}} to ping, or the @ dialog built into the Reply Tool.

I doubt Congress is going to be able to get your IP (as far as I know, they haven't even formallysubpoenaed it), but if the courts do allow that, I'm afraid it will make no difference whether I remove your name from the AE log, since you have already been "subject to [an] action[ ] by ArbCom" (at least, under the theory that AE actions are defined as an extension of ArbCom actions), and removing the log wouldn't change that. If you have concerns about this, you should talk to the Wikimedia Foundation's legal department; there isn't anything I can do as a local admin to decrease the likelihood of your IP being subpoenaed.

Ican give some general advice, though: CheckUser records only go back 90 days. As I understand it, the WMF will checkuser a user to preserve their IP for the records once they receive a formal request, but the breadth of Congress' request makes me guess (and this is just a guess) that they haven't done so yet. So, if you're really worried about having your IP turned over, you should stop editing from any IPs that could be traced back to you, or even stop editing at all; if you don't get CU'd in the next 90 days, then there's nothing for the WMF to turn over even if forced to. Also, make sure your email address inSpecial:Preferences isn't one that ties back to you. For maximum security you'd want something like aProton Mail account, the inbox of which you only access through a VPN that doesn't keep logs.

If you wish to appeal the balanced editing restriction, you can follow the instructions I gavepreviously. --Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]}(they|xe|🤷)05:58, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tamzin,

Following the points which I wrotehere, it became clear that I havenot supported Hamas. SinceComer andMace are convinced that I amnot a part of their investigation, my ArbCom log is less relevant.

Mace may feel empathy for Naama Levy'spicture after Mace's speech at theCongress, which was also accepted by court. I have noticed that Mace's article is not updated regarding the courtdecision._Dgw|Talk18:21, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is not very helpful:1,2 (log1,log2).

Also, the article aboutMace has not been updated yet._Dgw|Talk07:50, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1. Anupdate fromGlobes.
2. Anupdate fromMakor Rishon.
3. Anupdate fromYnet.
4. Anupdate fromLe Point.
5. Al Jazeera did not report it, but reportedkilling journalists by Israel. TheMinister of Communicationsseized and blocked Al Jazeera in Israel._Dgw|Talk00:18, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please see alsoit,it andit.

Editing other userpages as well as creating a bot without an approval as a second account in the case of the main account being blocked, isnot allowed on the English Wikipedia._Dgw|Talk19:12, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hamas does not haveimmunity._Dgw|Talk17:22, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did not know thecobra effect.EPICmentioned it, dealing withHtawmonzel and咽頭べさ which blocked each other.

The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras inDelhi, offered a bounty for every deadcobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. The cobra breeders set their snakes free, leading to an overall increase in the wild cobra population.

Blacklisting me indefinitely, as writtenhere, for nominating aBLP'simage was a result of this effect. NoAE has been submitted due to the replyhere: accusing a user of translating articles to another project, which has a "different policy"._Dgw|Talk21:42, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please see alsoit._Dgw|Talk21:56, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Elizabeth Tsurkov is aWikipedian. It isapproved in the City Square byביקורת, an admin for 9.33 years and a bureaucrat for 7.75 years. She was also a Hebrew Wikipedia administrator and an arbitrator for article disputes._Dgw|Talk09:38, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Naama'sspeech._Dgw|Talk18:02, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The end of edit wars._Dgw|Talk23:36, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On September 2, 2025,IDF Radio (Galei Tzahal) military correspondentDoron Kadosh [he] reported details regardingHamas' propaganda and psychological warfare apparatus in Gaza:

1. The apparatus included about 1,500 operatives – twice the number of regular IDF personnel serving in the equivalent units (IDF Spokesperson's Unit and the Influence Department). DuringOperation Protective Edge, the apparatus consisted of about 400 operatives, meaning it has quadrupled in size within a decade.
2. About 1,000 of these operatives are "field propagandists" embedded within Hamas battalions and brigades. Each battalion and brigade in Hamas' military wing has a propaganda officer representingAbu Obaida, who coordinates psychological warfare efforts. Under him are trained "operational documenters" specializing in field photography. In recent years, Abu Obaida oversaw large-scale procurement of GoPro cameras, protective gear for cameras, carrying cases, and batteries.
3. Every Hamas battalion and brigade maintains a local "propaganda operations room", where video editors create propaganda videos. Every Hamas video showing guerrilla activity against Israeli forces originates there: the field documenter joins a Hamas squad with a camera, transmitting the footage live to the operations room. Even if the squad is eliminated, the footage remains and can be turned into a propaganda product. The apparatus's guiding motto is: the documentation matters more than the action itself. Throughout the war, the IDF struck many of these propaganda operations rooms, but Hamas repeatedly relocated them – to schools, hospitals, and other sites. All that is needed is a laptop with internet access.
4. Another 400 operatives staff centralized "war rooms" across the Gaza Strip. Some are video editors producing Hamas propaganda videos, while others are "monitors" who follow Israeli media, track public discourse trends in Israel, and propose propaganda initiatives accordingly.
5. Abu Obaida was personally involved in every Hamas battle procedure. No Hamas military action in recent years – duringOperation Defensive Shield, the "Great March of Return",Operation Guardian of the Walls, or October 7 – took place without a formal battle plan and an approved propaganda strategy designed by him. Israeli security officials have stated this psychological warfare apparatus was one of Hamas’s most effective weapons, which is why Abu Obaida invested so heavily in it. Today, no Hamas operation is carried out without its propaganda component.
6. Abu Obaida personally managed and invested in the psychological warfare campaign around the hostages. He initiated and oversaw the hostage videos used to influence Israeli decision-making. He decided which hostages would appear, what they would say, and how they would be filmed. He often surrounded himself with hostages, making it difficult to target him during the war without endangering captives. In the strike that killed him this week, Israeli intelligence took great care to confirm no hostages were harmed.
7. During the latest prisoner exchange ceremonies, Abu Obaida personally led the propaganda efforts. He attended the ceremonies, briefing the hostages beforehand on what to say and do (he reportedly spoke Hebrew well). Even the distribution of "release certificates" to the hostages at these events was his brainchild.
8. To date, the IDF has killed over 200 members of Hamas's propaganda apparatus, most of them commanders, but more than 1,000 operatives remain active.

The source for Kadosh's report is availablehere._Dgw|Talk22:41, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A secondletter was sent from the U.S.SenatorTed Cruz (Texas), chairman of theSenate Commerce Committee, to the Wikimedia CEOMaryana Iskander.

A brief summary of the letter was writtenhere in Hebrew (I didnot use thisLLM) as well as its full text.

The relevant text from the letter is here:

The LLM alsoanalyzed the blocking in Wikipedia (I did not make it either):

The Israelinews media alsowrote on 10 October 2025 about the bias against Israel. It was written also in English:1,2._Dgw|Talk20:57, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thisvideo was published in October 2025. Thisvideo was published too._Dgw|Talk15:20, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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