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Gurkubondinn

— Wikipedian —
Name	Ben
Born	Benedikt Kristinsson 1987 (age 37–38)  Sweden
Nationality	Icelandic
Country	Germany
Time zone	Europe/Berlin
Education and employment
Occupation	Programmer
Employer	Care.com
Education	Computer Science, B.Sc.
University	Reykjavik University
Contact info
Website	sudo.is
GitHub	benediktkr
Bluesky	ben.sudo.is
Matrix	@ben:sudo.is
Codeberg	benk
Account statistics
Joined	November 26, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-26)
Signature	--Gurkubondinn (talk)

Benedikt (Icelandic pronunciation:[ˈpɛːnɛtɪxt]; born 1987), best known asBen, is an Icelandic programmer,hacker andWikipedia user, who lives inBerlin.

Userboxes This user isEuropean. This user lives in theGerman capital and state ofBerlin. This user has beenon Wikipedia for16 years and 20 days. This user uses thepersonal pronouns they, them This user is pro-Ukraine. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. This user supports thede-criminalisation of illegal downloading. This user supportsdrug policy reform; knowing thatprohibition is immoral, counterproductive, illiberal anddoesn't work. This user recognizes that theWar on Drugs is racially motivated. This user supports the legalisation of allrecreational drugs under aharm reduction scheme. This user supports the legalization of alldrugs.

Welcome to my user page. My name isBen, I am aWP:GNOME and long-time Wikipedia reader.

An index of Wikipedia articles that I find interesting, often refer to, or watch for changes, categorized by subject matter, spanning Wikipedias of the languages that I speak.

More than anything, this is a personal collection ofbookmarks.

• Iceland in the Cold War (is)
• Berlin Wall (de;is;sv)
• Russian espionage in Germany during the Cold War.
• IB affair (sv): former intelligence service withinFörsvarsstaben (sv), exposed byJan Guillou in 1973.

• Grigory Mairanovsky: ran secret poison program in the NKVD and participated in political assassinations, arrested in thedoctors' plot.

TODO: expand usingWhatLinksHere/Grigory Mairanovsky articles.

• John Cairncross: Alleged fifth member of theCambridge Five.

• Mitrokhin Archive: Handmade copies of secretKGB documents made byVasili Mitrokhin in the 70s and 80s and given toMI6 in 1991.
• Oleg Gordievsky: former KGB rezident and MI6double agent, betrayed byAldrich Ames and exfiltrated from the Soviet Union in 1985 under Operation Pimlico.
• Michał Goleniewski (SNIPER): Defected to the US, knewCIA was compromised, so he only trusted FBI (but CIA intercepted without his knowledge). No record of his death.
• Oleg Penkovsky
• Robert Hanssen

• Catalina affair (sv): Two Swedish aircraft shot down by theSoviet Air Force overinternational waters in June 1952.
• "Whiskey on the rocks" (sv): Standoff in 1981 after theSoviet Navy submarine ran aground on the south coast of Sweden, close to aSwedish Navy base.
  • Swedish submarine incidents (sv)
• 1961 F-84 Thunderstreak incident: TwoGerman Air Force jets land at the French-controlledTegel after accidentally violatingGDR airspace and successfully evadingSoviet fighters. Ordered byUSAF ATC controllers atTempelhof to land inWest Berlin.
• 1961 Ndola Transair Sweden DC-6 crash: The crash that resulted in the death ofDag Hammarskjöld.

• 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident
• 1998 Sokcho submarine incident

Contributed minor rewrites.

• Baneheia murders (no): Double murder andmiscarriage of justice that happened in Norway in 2010.
• Werner Pinzner (de): German contract killer who became known as the "St. Pauli Killer".
• 2003 Angola Boeing 727 disappearance
• 2012 Alps killings
• 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators

• Supraventricular tachycardia
• Rat Park: A study into addiction that has served as a basis for current understanding of addiction, but has not been reliably replicated.
• Head-twitch response

Editing
My drafts Aneurysm (band) Ryanair Flight 4978 Strategy and Tactics of the ANC
Infoboxes (unknown parameters) musical artist comedian spy airport airline criminal organization criminal
Pages to improve Grigory Mairanovsky Berlin Police
Categories with pages to improve Suspected AI-generated texts Expand icelandic Bare URL citations Category:CS1 errors Women in Red/Iceland
Anti-vandalism tools AntiVandal Twinkle (settings)
Searches LLM generated refs
Recent changes
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Documentation andHelp: pages that I often refer to.

• Wikipedia:Department directory
• Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia: The most useful Wikipedia link of supreme guidance (or so claimed byTurboSuperA+).
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • MOS:GNL: Gender-neutral language.
  • MOS:CITEPUNCT: Punctuation and footnotes.
  • MOS:DATE: Dates, months and years (see also:Automatic date insertion).
  • WP:REPEATCITE: Multiple uses of the same inline citation or footnote.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking
  • Help:Diff#Linking to a diff
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
  • Help:Citation Style 1: There is alsoWP:CS2 (but it ends there, there is no WP:CS3).
  • WP:RSP: Theperennial sources list, classifies sources by degrees of reliability.
  • Help:Footnotes
• Wikipedia:Large language models
  • Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing
  • WP:LLMCOMM: Comments that do notrepresent an actual person's thoughts arenot useful.
  • WP:AIREMOVAL: Handling suspected LLM-generated content
  • WP:AIC: WikiProject AI Cleanup
    • WP:AINB: Noticeboard
• Template:Interlanguage link: Linking to other Wikipedia languages.
• Template:Icelandic name
• Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines
• Help:Wikitext
• Help:Magic words
• WP:DUMPS: Database download and mirrors

• Help:Simple guide to vandalism cleanup
• Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy
• Wikipedia:Vandalism
  • WP:RfPP: Requests for protection (both increase and decrease in protection level).
  • WP:NOTHERE: Some people are not here to build an encyclopedia.
• Help:Reverting
  • Wikipedia:Rollback

Some old vandalism that went undetected for an embarassing amount of time.

• Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir: 2,5 years

I often refer to the wikisource ofarticles that I have contributed to myself for practical examples of how I've done something, or how to use wikitext syntax that I know I've used but can't remember the exact syntax for.

Interesting essays about life on Wikipedia, some less serious than others, some are practical and useful, but all are good reads.

• Just drop it: Some people just thrive on arguments.
• Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
• The Cynic's Guide to Wikipedia: If you wrestle with apig, both of you will get muddy. And the pig will enjoy it (found this essay onUser:MelanieN, there's an interesting list there).
• Deny recognition: Don't feed the trolls.
• Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass: Becausedead horses can't be made to go anywhere, no matter howhard you keep beating them. Speaking ofhorses, do you knowhow many legs they have?
• How to lose: Great advice for life in general, though scaresly learned.
• No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man: Take the lift, orgo on a tour instead.

There's a lot of good essays on or about Wikipedia.

• User en
• User en-N
• User is
• User is-N
• User sv
• User sv-N
• User no
• User no-2
• User de
• User de-1
• Wikipedian WikiGnomes
• Wikipedia pending changes reviewers
• Members of the Fifteen Year Society of Wikipedia editors
• Wikipedians in Germany
• Wikipedians in Berlin
• Wikipedians interested in United States politics

• Noindexed pages