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User talk:Bongolian
Attention trolls: Don't bother me here. I am busy impersonating Michael Coombs on Gab.
Enshittification[edit]
You might like this. Acei9 21:17, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, good to hear from you! Bongolian (talk) 23:04, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Couldn't help but stop by and needle Ken that despite his "operations" a wave of christianity and creationism has not hit NZ at this stage (according to the recent census results). Anyway - hope you're well. Acei9 00:35, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've been busy IRL. I hope you are keeping well. Bongolian (talk) 01:20, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
Nominated[edit]
You've been nominated in the upcoming moderator elections. See the nomination at RationalWiki:Moderator elections/Nominations.
—cosmikdebris talk stalk 20:23, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
Eh?[edit]
I was light heartedly suggesting we burn GK. What's the matter? Acei9 01:51, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Generative AI and its safety and legal issues[edit]
You're adding good stuff in ChatGPT, but it's more general and I think it may be better to put e.g. "AI is not your friend" in Large language model. Other things in ChatGPT where non-OpenAI products are mentioned also bring to mind the old "to do later" idea of a separate "Generative AI" article, since both ChatGPT and LLM are a bit too specific for some things. That may be a better idea but a bit more work. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 20:15, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree. You're welcome to start work on disentangling the things that are not strictly ChatGPT/OpenAI from the article. Bongolian (talk) 20:20, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
Allowing The Editing, Adding Info & Tidying-Up Of Article Indo-European languages[edit]
Hey There Mate! So, I Wanna Tell You, That I Was About To Actually Add Many Wikipedia Links, & Adding Info & Tidying-Up This Page/Article "Indo-European languages"; But I Couldn't! So, I Hope You Kindly Remove This Requirement Of Autoconfirmed Users & Again Unlocking It For Everyone! Regards... Ānvīkṣikī (talk) 00:41, 24 December 2024 (IST)
- Thank you for registering an account, @Ānvīkṣikī. OK, then can we get clear about some of the problems:
- Adding links to non-existent RationalWiki articles ("red links") is discouraged unless the page is likely to be created shortly.
- Changing British to American spelling or vice versa or between any other legitimate spelling variants (pretence/pretense, inflection/inflexion) is strongly discouraged.
- Edit warring is a no-no.
- Bongolian (talk) 19:25, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- On the second point, what if a page has a mixture of two [or more] English variants due to having different editors? KarmaPolice (talk) 20:42, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- I personally have left them as is. The only time that I might have changed spelling is when rewriting a whole paragraph or more, making the change only within the paragraph. The idea behind leaving spelling variants alone is reducing the likelihood of pointless edit wars. Bongolian (talk) 20:49, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- I personally go on the [I think] WP rule of nationality; that if it's a British topic that British SPAG goes, if it's an American it should be American etc. International topics I will go with the prevailing system already present in the article, though if I create the page it's gonna be in UK-Eng. KarmaPolice (talk) 21:30, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- I could have sworn that my treatment of spelling was somewhere in the help sections, but your treatment seems to be the prevailing view (:Help:Manual of style#Spelling, grammar, and abbreviations). That said, I'm still not sure what Ānvīkṣikī was up to spelling-wise, changing to "inflection" to "inflexion" (the latter almost exclusively Australia/New Zealand), where as Australia as I understand it is quite lax about flipping between British and American spelling. Bongolian (talk) 00:43, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- I personally go on the [I think] WP rule of nationality; that if it's a British topic that British SPAG goes, if it's an American it should be American etc. International topics I will go with the prevailing system already present in the article, though if I create the page it's gonna be in UK-Eng. KarmaPolice (talk) 21:30, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- I personally have left them as is. The only time that I might have changed spelling is when rewriting a whole paragraph or more, making the change only within the paragraph. The idea behind leaving spelling variants alone is reducing the likelihood of pointless edit wars. Bongolian (talk) 20:49, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- No, I Have No Intention Nor Desire To Edit-War! Rather, I Initially added additional information, many a Wiki links, etc..., Both when I was logged in & out! Hope you at least include my constructive edits (such as correcting the typos, adding Wiki links, etc)...! Ānvīkṣikī (talk) 13:46, 24 December 2024 (IST)
- On the second point, what if a page has a mixture of two [or more] English variants due to having different editors? KarmaPolice (talk) 20:42, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Emily Willoughby AFD[edit]
I see that the Emily Willoughby AFD page has been fully protected to stop trolls, but I was intending to post another comment there. Can you suggest a way around that issue? Tetrapteryx (talk) 12:39, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Tetrapteryx I changed the protection level of the page, now autoconfirmed users like you will be able to post there. GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 12:57, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- @GeeJayK Thanks. Tetrapteryx (talk) 13:01, 27 December 2024 (UTC)