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@ Shibbolethink's talk page is semi-protected. Special:Diff/1108664708 is not accurate, the citation [1] says:
Right from when I first talk to Meepsheep, in December 2017, he wants me to understand the trolling universe isn’t just made up of one type of person, despite how it may appear to me. He suggests asshurtmacfags as a great person to consider, or IRL (in real life), transgender woman Jaime Cochran. She was president of the GNAA and also a former member of Rustle League (RL), a group most well known for trolling and hacking Anonymous.
84.250.14.116 ( talk) 18:55, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
I do not believe the focused attention on any specific member's sex or gender is warranted more attention in the article than any other GNAA members that can be cited from the sources (book) – i.e. Meepsheep ("he"), weev ("he"), etc. If special attention is due for Jaime (which I think it may not be in this article) because of the explicit mention in the book, then the neutral viewpoint way of expressing it is linking to the aforementioned article or citing another source to support your statement. The context and timeline are okay as of Special:Diff/1108693054. Fine to also acknowledge wikt:Jaime says it's an unisex name (as unreliable as Wiktionary is).
I presume from Troll Hunting and other unmentioned sources that Jaime is dead. Troll Hunting says:At the start of 2018, Meepsheep plans to contact Cochran on my behalf to see if she’d like to talk.84.250.14.116 ( talk) 20:28, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[...]For a few days, he waits for her to come online. Then sends another message: ‘asshurtmacfags was found dead yesterday so I doubt you’d be able to contact her now.’[...]The Facebook page for her memorial – held on 13 January 2018 – is still live. There’s a photo of Cochran’s angular face nearly smiling as she snaps a selfie in the mirror. Below the image, her friends and family have written: Jaime Cochran: Memorial of a Psychedelic Hackress. In a scratchy video of the speeches made that day, her friends pour out their love and laughter.[...]
* If your bold edit was reverted, then do not re-revert to your version. If your reversion was reverted, then do not re-revert to your version. Instead, take it to the talk page (see below). If you re-revert, then you are no longer following BRD.— Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 21:42, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
The source talks about it as notable, so we do as well. That is the essence of WP:DUE. If you disagree, you have quite a few other things you can do other than edit war. A) start an WP:RFC, B) take it to a relevant noticeboard, or C) seek a third opinion. Edit warring is none of the above.— Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 22:12, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
When there is a discrepancy between the term most commonly used by reliable sources for a person or group and the term that person or group uses for themselves, use the term that is most commonly used by recent reliable sources. If it is unclear which is most used, use the term that the person or group uses.Your edit Special:Diff/1108905790 also added a citation to Vice, where Cochran was quoted:
I don't agree with their message as a trans-woman. We're also back to square one with the issue of past tense:
Cochran is also the only known... I am not disputing MOS:GID here. I am not happy with you pushing your POV on the general topic of dispute to articles, that was never the point, I don't reflect my opinions of how I see Cochran myself in these conversations or edits. It makes me question if you read your own sources at all. 84.250.14.116 ( talk) 22:28, 6 September 2022 (UTC)edited 22:32, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
It makes me question if you read your own sources at all
Please remember to
assume good faith. Given MOS:ID, then I suppose we should say "trans woman." Happy to do it. Also: I am not happy with you pushing your POV on the general topic of dispute to articles
again, this is a failure to assume good faith. Please redact it.—
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@ Felt friend: I think Special:Diff/1123505958 should be reverted. Specifically for what I've said about MOS:ID above in this conversation (self-identification) and what the sources say. @ Shibbolethink had agreed to this. 84.250.15.152 ( talk) 03:06, 20 September 2023 (UTC) I am the same IP84 editor as in above discussions.
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Sceptre ( talk) 11:59, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
Gay Nigger Association of America → GNAA – I want to be clear that this RM is not born of any desire to censor this title. There are plenty of articles where including the N-word or another slur in the title is the correct thing according to policy and guidelines. I do not think, however, that this article is one of them. I'm hesitant to reach that conclusion after the massive amount of attention this article got in yesteryear, but it seems pretty clear to me.
Wikipedia:Article titles § Avoid ambiguous abbreviations advises, Abbreviations and acronyms are often ambiguous and thus should be avoided unless the subject is known primarily by its abbreviation and that abbreviation is primarily associated with the subject
(emphasis added). The latter is clearly met here, given that
Talk:GNAA (disambiguation) § Requested move found consensus to redirect
GNAA to this article. As to the former question, that of known primarily by its abbreviation
, here is an assessment of the English-language independent sources cited in the article and available online (omitting dupes and ones that don't name it at all). "Full name" includes censored variants, and typos etc. are counted as their intended meaning.
This comes out to 10–5 or 12–3 for the acronym, depending how you count it. Beyond this, most relevant Google News hits
for the organization's full name are emphasizing it in the context of
weev, not treating that as the name used in general discourse. Almost no one called this by its full name. Not today, not then, not in casual discourse, not in reliable sources. I remember getting into an argument with another Wikidata admin in 2013 about whether it made sense to revdel the letters "GNAA"... the takeaway from that being, even GNAA trolls were just using "GNAA", not the expanded acronym. So is the subject ... known primarily by its abbreviation
? I would say yes. And in that case
WP:COMMONNAME says we should move. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 10:02, 13 February 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. ❯❯❯
Raydann
(Talk) 09:02, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( non-admin closure) ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 20:18, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Gay Nigger Association of America → Gay Niggers Association of America – The official website calls themself that and it makes sense as there are more than 1 person in the association. PalauanReich ( talk) 19:51, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
I don't have an account and this page is locked. (Looks like it's locked for good reason lol.) I think this line is phrased poorly:
On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of US presidential candidate (and future US president) Barack Obama, where the group's name was caused to appear on the website's front page.
Suggested edit:
On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his
first presidential campaign, where the group's name was caused to appear on the website's front page.
Original version makes it sound like we're awaiting a 3rd term. Update clarifies that he was president in the past but the incident happened before he was president. It could probably be phrased even clearer, but I couldn't think of anything, so I added a link. If there's a better, more specific link, then that could be used instead.
Also using passive voice makes the phrasing awkward and obscures whether the attack was committed by the GNAA or if it's intentionally not naming an attacker because there's no source providing evidence who the attacker is. If it's the former:
On February 11, 2007, the GNAA attacked the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his first presidential campaign, where they caused their name to appear on the website's front page.
If it's the latter:
On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his first presidential campaign by causing the name of the GNAA to appear on the website's front page. It's unclear whether the GNAA was responsible.
If that assumes too much or is too leading:
On February 11, 2007, an unknown attacker defaced the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his first presidential campaign, where they caused the name of the GNAA to appear on the website's front page. 2601:98A:4181:2610:D442:6516:AFEF:E506 ( talk) 13:16, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
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Gay Nigger Association of America was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | |||||||||||||
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Current status: Former good article nominee |
This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||
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On 13 February 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to GNAA. The result of the discussion was not moved. |
On 22 March 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to Gay Niggers Association of America. The result of the discussion was not moved. |
@ Shibbolethink's talk page is semi-protected. Special:Diff/1108664708 is not accurate, the citation [1] says:
Right from when I first talk to Meepsheep, in December 2017, he wants me to understand the trolling universe isn’t just made up of one type of person, despite how it may appear to me. He suggests asshurtmacfags as a great person to consider, or IRL (in real life), transgender woman Jaime Cochran. She was president of the GNAA and also a former member of Rustle League (RL), a group most well known for trolling and hacking Anonymous.
84.250.14.116 ( talk) 18:55, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
I do not believe the focused attention on any specific member's sex or gender is warranted more attention in the article than any other GNAA members that can be cited from the sources (book) – i.e. Meepsheep ("he"), weev ("he"), etc. If special attention is due for Jaime (which I think it may not be in this article) because of the explicit mention in the book, then the neutral viewpoint way of expressing it is linking to the aforementioned article or citing another source to support your statement. The context and timeline are okay as of Special:Diff/1108693054. Fine to also acknowledge wikt:Jaime says it's an unisex name (as unreliable as Wiktionary is).
I presume from Troll Hunting and other unmentioned sources that Jaime is dead. Troll Hunting says:At the start of 2018, Meepsheep plans to contact Cochran on my behalf to see if she’d like to talk.84.250.14.116 ( talk) 20:28, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[...]For a few days, he waits for her to come online. Then sends another message: ‘asshurtmacfags was found dead yesterday so I doubt you’d be able to contact her now.’[...]The Facebook page for her memorial – held on 13 January 2018 – is still live. There’s a photo of Cochran’s angular face nearly smiling as she snaps a selfie in the mirror. Below the image, her friends and family have written: Jaime Cochran: Memorial of a Psychedelic Hackress. In a scratchy video of the speeches made that day, her friends pour out their love and laughter.[...]
* If your bold edit was reverted, then do not re-revert to your version. If your reversion was reverted, then do not re-revert to your version. Instead, take it to the talk page (see below). If you re-revert, then you are no longer following BRD.— Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 21:42, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
The source talks about it as notable, so we do as well. That is the essence of WP:DUE. If you disagree, you have quite a few other things you can do other than edit war. A) start an WP:RFC, B) take it to a relevant noticeboard, or C) seek a third opinion. Edit warring is none of the above.— Shibbolethink ( ♔ ♕) 22:12, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
When there is a discrepancy between the term most commonly used by reliable sources for a person or group and the term that person or group uses for themselves, use the term that is most commonly used by recent reliable sources. If it is unclear which is most used, use the term that the person or group uses.Your edit Special:Diff/1108905790 also added a citation to Vice, where Cochran was quoted:
I don't agree with their message as a trans-woman. We're also back to square one with the issue of past tense:
Cochran is also the only known... I am not disputing MOS:GID here. I am not happy with you pushing your POV on the general topic of dispute to articles, that was never the point, I don't reflect my opinions of how I see Cochran myself in these conversations or edits. It makes me question if you read your own sources at all. 84.250.14.116 ( talk) 22:28, 6 September 2022 (UTC)edited 22:32, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
It makes me question if you read your own sources at all
Please remember to
assume good faith. Given MOS:ID, then I suppose we should say "trans woman." Happy to do it. Also: I am not happy with you pushing your POV on the general topic of dispute to articles
again, this is a failure to assume good faith. Please redact it.—
Shibbolethink (
♔
♕) 22:48, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Sources
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@ Felt friend: I think Special:Diff/1123505958 should be reverted. Specifically for what I've said about MOS:ID above in this conversation (self-identification) and what the sources say. @ Shibbolethink had agreed to this. 84.250.15.152 ( talk) 03:06, 20 September 2023 (UTC) I am the same IP84 editor as in above discussions.
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Sceptre ( talk) 11:59, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
Gay Nigger Association of America → GNAA – I want to be clear that this RM is not born of any desire to censor this title. There are plenty of articles where including the N-word or another slur in the title is the correct thing according to policy and guidelines. I do not think, however, that this article is one of them. I'm hesitant to reach that conclusion after the massive amount of attention this article got in yesteryear, but it seems pretty clear to me.
Wikipedia:Article titles § Avoid ambiguous abbreviations advises, Abbreviations and acronyms are often ambiguous and thus should be avoided unless the subject is known primarily by its abbreviation and that abbreviation is primarily associated with the subject
(emphasis added). The latter is clearly met here, given that
Talk:GNAA (disambiguation) § Requested move found consensus to redirect
GNAA to this article. As to the former question, that of known primarily by its abbreviation
, here is an assessment of the English-language independent sources cited in the article and available online (omitting dupes and ones that don't name it at all). "Full name" includes censored variants, and typos etc. are counted as their intended meaning.
This comes out to 10–5 or 12–3 for the acronym, depending how you count it. Beyond this, most relevant Google News hits
for the organization's full name are emphasizing it in the context of
weev, not treating that as the name used in general discourse. Almost no one called this by its full name. Not today, not then, not in casual discourse, not in reliable sources. I remember getting into an argument with another Wikidata admin in 2013 about whether it made sense to revdel the letters "GNAA"... the takeaway from that being, even GNAA trolls were just using "GNAA", not the expanded acronym. So is the subject ... known primarily by its abbreviation
? I would say yes. And in that case
WP:COMMONNAME says we should move. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 10:02, 13 February 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. ❯❯❯
Raydann
(Talk) 09:02, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( non-admin closure) ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 20:18, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Gay Nigger Association of America → Gay Niggers Association of America – The official website calls themself that and it makes sense as there are more than 1 person in the association. PalauanReich ( talk) 19:51, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
I don't have an account and this page is locked. (Looks like it's locked for good reason lol.) I think this line is phrased poorly:
On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of US presidential candidate (and future US president) Barack Obama, where the group's name was caused to appear on the website's front page.
Suggested edit:
On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his
first presidential campaign, where the group's name was caused to appear on the website's front page.
Original version makes it sound like we're awaiting a 3rd term. Update clarifies that he was president in the past but the incident happened before he was president. It could probably be phrased even clearer, but I couldn't think of anything, so I added a link. If there's a better, more specific link, then that could be used instead.
Also using passive voice makes the phrasing awkward and obscures whether the attack was committed by the GNAA or if it's intentionally not naming an attacker because there's no source providing evidence who the attacker is. If it's the former:
On February 11, 2007, the GNAA attacked the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his first presidential campaign, where they caused their name to appear on the website's front page.
If it's the latter:
On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his first presidential campaign by causing the name of the GNAA to appear on the website's front page. It's unclear whether the GNAA was responsible.
If that assumes too much or is too leading:
On February 11, 2007, an unknown attacker defaced the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his first presidential campaign, where they caused the name of the GNAA to appear on the website's front page. 2601:98A:4181:2610:D442:6516:AFEF:E506 ( talk) 13:16, 29 September 2023 (UTC)