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User:FredrickBrennan has submitted proof of his identity as Fredrick Brennan. He notes that he has also sent ID confirmation to OTRS, although not being an OTRS agent, I can't help with it. Nyttend (talk) 04:05, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
@Lucasoutloud: In regards to this edit - can you explain why the pain of 120 broken bones is some kind of joke? Is there a way to phrase this to explain that brittle bone disease in no way reduced the pain associated with the breaks that you won't consider a sick joke? --GRuban (talk) 08:32, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Two days ago, 74.12.92.201 (talk · contribs) deleted some content and a lot of references to The Daily Dot in a series of edits, the main reasoning for which was Major BLP concerns, questionable source reliability, and also doesn't support that being a 4chan alternative was the original intent.. I disagree. Let's take the reasoning in reverse order.
Restoring. --GRuban (talk) 15:47, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
@SSTflyer: re your edit, want to say what you think is missing from the lead? --GRuban (talk) 14:01, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
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"Because of his hardships, Brennan wrote an article supporting the voluntary sterilization of people with similar severe inheritable genetic conditions. In the article Brennan states only The Daily Stormer, a white nationalist and Neo-Nazi organization, would agree to publish it.[5][6] He has since become a Christian and no longer believes in compulsory sterilization. He is even considering having a child with his wife, but still believes in genetic testing for perspective parents.[7]"
Can you spot what's weird about this paragraph? It says that Mr Brennan supports voluntary sterilization, then it says that he no longer supports compulsory sterilization. If he used to support compulsory sterilization, shouldn't that be mentioned first? For those who don't know, compulsory sterilization is what it sounds like, and voluntary sterilization is (in this case) paying people with genetic diseases $50,000 dollars or so if they agree to be sterilized. What makes it voluntary is that those with genetic diseases can forgo this payment and have as many kids as they want. I'm reading the source, and I think it's possible he never supported compulsory sterilization and the source got something wrong. I'm reading the tortoise media article and it does kind of seem that way. There's no mention of the distinction between compulsory and voluntary. I know most people find them both strongly objectionable (I don't actually know for a fact that that's true, I've never ran a poll on the subject), but hopefully we can all agree that it's a distinction worth making? Anyways, I'm not sure there's anything that can be done, since the source is the source. (The getreligion quotes the tortoisemedia profile, and that's where the compulsory thing originates, to my knowledge). I'd love to get input and see if others agree with me, and if so, whether or not there's anything that can be done. I admit the dailystormer essay has a few sentences which look like they could support compulsive when taken out of context, but if you read the whole thing it seems clear to me that he isn't advocating compulsory sterilization, although I admit he doesn't spend much time denouncing it. Is it enough to say that there is no direct quote of him supporting compulsive eugenics, and therefore it is possible that no such quote exists? I guess one thing that could be done is to find another interview where he specifically says he doesn't support compulsive sterilization. I only have a cursory knowledge of Wikipedia's rules. Thank you for your help, and your consideration. 142.254.1.208 (talk) 04:59, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
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I request that the final sentence be changed from In February 2020, the Philippines issued an arrest warrant ... to
In February 2020, a Regional Trial Court judge issued an arrest warrant for Brennan on this charge after an indictment filed in court by the Pasig City Prosecutor's Office,[1][2] although the case is currently suspended due to an appeal to the Department of Justice.[3][4]
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"In the Philippines, it is routine to appeal an indictment to the DOJ, and they routinely quash indictments," Brennan said. "So that's basically our legal strategy that I've decided to take with my lawyer's advice."
This may be somewhat controversial, but I think it's improper to cite the arrest warrant to "the Philippines" in this case...it obscures vital information about how the system actually operates. If the DOJ appeal fails, a revert is OK, but I might have another WP:ER at that time to change the wording slightly, or to include context about extradition.
(Note: I have a WP:AN/I thread where I explain why I'm using this account and not User:FredrickBrennan.)
Thanks, Fredrick R. Brennan (talk) 19:41, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
@GRuban: Hello! I want your feedback before opening an official WP:ER for this, as if you think it's inappropriate, then really I don't think other editors need to get involved. As you've no doubt noticed by now, I've contributed to free culture and open source software for much of my life. I think that this deserves at least a sentence in my article. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) 08:32, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Post-8chan, Brennan developed several open source fonts.
I also work on FontForge, and have taken several contracts to add features to it, but no WP:RS has reported this yet. I will let you know when and if that happens...
Per WP:RSP, BoingBoing is at times an WP:RS.
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I recommend removing these categories:
And perhaps adding these:
Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 04:45, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
The section 8chan contains this sentence:
"Brennan trusted Watkins because he knew he operated the 2channel imageboard, though at the time he was unaware of the claim that Watkins had stolen the site from its founder."
It is always a mistake to state unequivocally what someone believed or didn't believe, or knew or didn't know, because there is no way for a writer to determine this about another person.
It makes no difference whether Wikipedia guidelines are followed in terms of citing references, because there was no way for the references to determine what someone else believed, or didn't believe, or knew, or didn't know, either.
The only acceptable statement of this kind is to state that the person stated that they believed, or didn't believe, or knew, or didn't know something. That is the only acceptable way to phrase such a claim.
I have absolutely no reason to doubt the statement, but that is not a criterion for including it. 2601:200:C000:1A0:E977:A1FF:FA36:C008 (talk) 16:50, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
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This is unfortunately an edit request regarding one of the most touchy subjects that this article touches on and that I've ever had to deal with in my life so for that I apologize. I had not for some reason noticed this in the past until a friend brought it up to me. "Genetic testing for prospective parents" is vague wording. It does not exactly state either my beliefs or what happened. Nicky Woolf was attempting to explain the initial stages of the process of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (note please I am the author of the Commons media used in the lead on the page). The way that it is worded right now is very confusing because why would I undergo genetic testing on myself, only to have children the natural way, I already know that I am affected. So why would I need a test to tell me what I already know? No, the test was to determine my exact genetic mutation in preparation for possible future PGD with her. I still believe that for myself personally were I to have children I would make use of this technology, that is to say, the entire process of PGD, but I do not believe that it should be forced on anyone. Furthermore, I certainly do not believe that sterilization should be forced on anyone, I never have believed that. As other editors have noted compulsory sterilization was opposed by me in the original Daily Stormer article, (a publication I profoundly regret submitting to to this day). I would like the words genetic testing somehow clarified here that this was part of a process of PGD, the same process I wrote about in that awful digital toilet paper as a younger man. @GRuban, GorillaWarfare, and Jorm: I am highlighting you as you are familiar with me and with this article. I may not have time to answer right away this morning. Do not feel obligated to comment, I know that this is touchy, I'm sorry but people are reading this and misunderstanding what happened and it falsely portrays me as a hypocrite. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 12:19, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
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I want to be added to Category:Atlantic City High School alumni. Source: Class of 2012 Graduating Seniors, p. 2 linked on "ACHS list of graduates". Press of Atlantic City. 20 June 2012. Thanks Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 02:53, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
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Per the discussion at Talk:8chan § WP:COI WP:ER in re "Hotwheels" (mostly between @Jorm and I, to a similar COI ER I opened against 8chan), which goes into the sources and provenance of the word, I request the edit [3] by @Spaceman912 be reverted. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 22:14, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
At the time of posting this, the previous once-current revision of the page says that his tool MFEK's original name MFEQ references QAnon, which isn't true. On the Github source listed, the first line of the README says that "This project has nothing to do with QAnon and I oppose QAnon completely". It links to another document giving details about the case, which include the line of "I wrote § Typography on Wikipedia's Q article long before QAnon even began". Checking the edit history of said article, clicking "Find edits by user" and giving it his username here shows a list of edits from before QAnon started, which was on October 28th, 2017; the earliest of those edits was on February 3rd, 2017. Gmestanley (talk) 01:57, 6 November 2022 (UTC)