User talk:Gurkubondinn: Difference between revisions

Hi Gurkubondinn! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

Happy editing! Mellk (talk) 09:59, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This user’s unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy). Gurkubondinn (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log)) Request reason: If possible, I would like to request an unblock of the IP address 144.76.59.83/32, which is currently blocked as “Open proxy/Webhost”, which makes sense since it belongs to the IP ranges owned by Hetzner. I have this address assigned to me from Hetzner, and I am using it for egress access to the internet when on untrusted networks via my own VPN, but I’m unable to edit Wikipedia while connected through it — even when logged in. I understand if it not practical to unblock one address in a range, or if there are other policy related reasons as to why the block cannot be lifted. Feel free to ask anything you’d need to know related to the address, the VPN or my systems. Gurkubondinn (talk) 09:12, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply] Decline reason: No. However, WP:IPBE may be an option for you. At the moment, you haven’t demonstrated a need for IPBE, however. Simply connecting via untrusted networks would not be sufficient as Wikipedia uses https to secure your connection. Yamla (talk) 10:27, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply] If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Hi Yamla, and no worries! I just included the part about “untrusted networks” to explain the reasons for why I am using this IP address in the first place. You’re correct that it has nothing to do with editing Wikipedia specifically, and I can (and do) disconnect from the VPN when I want to make an edit away from home. There’s other reasons for why I prefer to be connected to my own networks via the VPN, but they have nothing to do with Wikipedia and are probably of no interest to you, so I left that out wanting to keep it brief. I doubt that my own internal network design would count as “good cause” needed for WP:IPBE and given the relatively low count of users granted this exception, I doubt that this would be a realistic option. This is mainly just a nusience to me (as I said, I always have the option to just disconnect from the VPN if I wish to make an edit, though that has often just caused me to forget about the edit), and I probably would not have made this request had I been aware of the strict requirements (that’s on me of course), as I did not realize the IP block was a hard block that is meant to disallow edits while logged in. Just in case I have missed something, I’ll mention that I’m only interested in making edits while I’m logged in, and not in making any anonamous edits. Gurkubondinn (talk) 11:01, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

“No sources have been removed from the Wikipedia article; in fact, they have been expanded. See you again!” 83.34.33.117 (talk) 10:01, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, and apologies if I reverted too much or too early while you were working on the article, but you may want to use your sanbox for drafting edits (or a User:-space draft page). I see that you’ve replaced at least one {{Citation needed}} with a source, though you might want to fill it in with {{Cite web}}. Gurkubondinn (talk) 10:15, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I didn’t remove any text just moved it around a bit ([1]). Yours, 65.88.88.56 (talk) 22:28, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This looks fine to me now 🙂 Gurkubondinn (talk) 22:30, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just a heads-up, the {{infobox musical artist}} no longer uses the “associated acts” field, meaning there’s no reason to put anything in it. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:49, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know, somehow I’d completely missed that it says “deprecated” in the “status” column on Template:Infobox_musical_artist/doc#TemplateData and been wondering why it never showed up the pages. Is there a different parameter that I should when when fixing these Infoboxes or should I just remove associated_acts from the infoboxes, even the parameter has a value set? Gurkubondinn (talk) 08:33, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can use “current_member_of” or “past_member_of” if the person is or was a member of a notable band, or “spouse” if the person is or was married to another notable act. Another option is to use {{infobox person}} with the “musical artist” sub-fields as needed, as is the case on John Michael Montgomery, which allows the infobox to highlight the multiple notable relatives he has.

Otherwise, “associated_acts” can be removed entirely. It was deprecated because people kept using it for “anyone this musician has ever crossed paths with”. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 17:22, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah that explains it, I usually saw pretty far-fetched links there and usually couldn’t figure out where else in the article they could possibly be moved to. Gurkubondinn (talk) 17:23, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’m just checking to ask if we are certain it is AI for this diff [2]? GPTzero output says the output of the user was lightly modified by AI, but wikipedia consensus generally says to use benefit of the doubt with such tools, especially with such high false positive rates?

What i mean to say, would you be willing to revert your collapse if you aren’t 100% sure AI was used? I’m personally not sure myself. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 19:55, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bluethricecreamman: I would say that I’m about as sure as I feel that I can be. There’s also a lot of other comments from this user that I’m fairly sure about and I have not collapsed because I’m not sure enough about them. If you look at the comment that I referenced in my edit summary (which was written 6 minutes before the comment that I collapsed). It reads differently (for example with shorter sentences), writes “wikipedia” in lower case and uses a the “normal” style for quotes and apostrophes. Since these comments are written in short succession of each other, I’m assuming that they would have been written on the same device with the same keyboard and keyboard map, and thus should have used the same style of quotes if they had both been written by the user. I think it’s impossible to be 100% sure, but I do try to give the benefit of the doubt and err on the side of caution. Like I said, there are a handful of other comments from this user that I suspect are written by an LLM, but I have not collapsed those since I’m not sure enough. Gurkubondinn (talk) 20:19, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bluethricecreamman: that being said, if you disagree with my assessment, I wouldn’t protest if you would revert my collapse. I feel that I’m as sure as I can be but if others disagree then I’m fine with that. Gurkubondinn (talk) 23:58, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You convinced me you are right. Just checking to make sure is all. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 01:18, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Dr vulpes (Talk) 06:09, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr vulpes

hello I have no idea how this works. but if anyone could help me I would like to restore the main pages for the realms and God’s and rights for us…. they’re so badly destroyed.. 166.196.65.49 (talk) 19:55, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there, I presume you mean the Soul article? What do you think is wrong with it and why? Gurkubondinn (talk) 20:13, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, could you explain your rationale behind these warnings? You gave two level 4 warnings (escalating from level 1) for what seems to me like a good faith edit by an IP, and reported them to AIV. I don’t see why…? Thanks, Giraffer (talk) 14:40, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It’s a somewhat persistent vandal that has been making anonymous edits to the Doja Cat article from a couple of different addresses. I submitted the ones I’ve found to WP:AIV (which I would guess is where you found this). The reasons that I personally considered it Vandalism is that quotes used in {{Cite}}s are persistently being changed, even after I had pointed that out in an edit summary and warned the user.

I don’t always escalate sequentially through warning levels, sometimes I don’t feel that to make sense. But your points about the warning level escalation is duly taken (though I should also admit that I thought that I had used a level 3 warning). Gurkubondinn (talk) 14:59, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, I thought of this as WP:SNEAKY vandalism, changing quote= parameters on {{Cite}} to something other than what the source actually says. That being said, I also think that I could be wrong here. Gurkubondinn (talk) 15:10, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’m guessing your username might not mean the cucumber farmer. If you haven’t seen this video you might enjoy it. I remember watching Hrafninn flýgur in school in the 80:s, we didn’t stop saying tungur knivur and other pseudo-Icelandic for weeks. Happy editing! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:51, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It actually does mean “the cucumber farmer”, but don’t ask me why I picked that name 16 years ago because I can’t remember why I thought that sounded so clever. 🙂 Thanks for the link, because I remember something from the 90s about prank calls, people named Storm, and “Hej, är det storm?”. I’ve actually only seen Hrafninn flýgur [sv; is] once (but heard the psuedo-Icelandic jokes many times, even in Icelandic) — with Sólstafir performing a soundtrack live with the movie in the background. There’s one decent recording on YouTube, but the one I was was a year or two before. —Gurkubondinn (talk) 11:32, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]