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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.


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On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his ], where the group's name was caused to appear on the website's front page.
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== Large number of citation-needed tags ==


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.
I've gone through and replaced many of these with actual footnotes where possible, but there remain a lot of them. Someone extremely pedantic has gone through here and spammed them about liberally, thankfully they seem to have gotten bored about half way through and stopped. I'm reluctant to just remove them but in my opinion they're making a mess of the article when someone feels every single sentence needs a citation. The article Hitler doesn't even have a single reference until the fifth paragraph of the second section. I'm aware of the need for sources but a lot of the 'documentation' about the GNAA is going on in transient media that's going to make these things very hard, not to mention the fact that their work will be frequently deleted and covered up by its underground nature.


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: Shrey K.
Honestly I don't think there's much if any deliberate or accidental misinformation here, but keeping up this level of citation is going to be near impossible. Links to things like the ASIAN flooder did exist but has since been removed from their webspace so I can't refer to these places any more. Other requests for citation are just difficult to meet to a high level of specificity, e.g. that the GNAA have members from all over the world. Anyone can join their IRC channel and look at the hostnames to see some international country codes if they (for god knows what reason) believe this might be untrue and wish to check it, but this isn't really something that fits in a ref tag. As mentioned above also, the fact that their floods get deleted makes things like that they "often link to Lastmeasure" difficult to provide references for. Does anyone actually doubt they link to lastmeasure, considering they made it and host its homepage? Still, due to the nature of the GNAA it's difficult to provide an actual citation here because said links will be deleted by webmasters as they are posted.


On February 11, 2007, the GNAA attacked the website of former US president Obama at the time of his ], where they caused their name to appear on the website's front page.
I don't think removing all this "uncited" information is doing anyone a favour since it's something a lot of people could probably attest to and frankly obvious a lot of the time, but neither is it something the NYT reports on. I'm almost inclined to simply remove the most utterly pedantic of citations, e.g. the one on the opening sentence, not only because they're creating meaningless clutter but because in the big picture, I doubt their addition served any purpose short of intentionally trying to degrade the quality or increase the deletability of this article. Thoughts? --] 20:35, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


If it's the latter:
:I don't think the point of Misplaced Pages is to publish material that we know is true, but material that has already been documented in reliable secondary sources. That's what we mean when we say Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia, it turns out. "Encyclopedia" doesn't just connote collection of true facts, but also carries connotations of reliability grounded in solid research. It's very tempting to bypass the whole research-in-secondary-sources bit with web related content that we can attest to because, hey, it's the Internets. That's something we have to fight against, and I would support removing any content from this article that can't be cited to a proper ].


On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his ] by causing the name of the GNAA to appear on the website's front page. It's unclear whether the GNAA was responsible.
:I think the real purpose of all those citation needed tags is to indicate to readers and editors alike that most of this article is a bunch of ], and as such is in violation of Wikipedias core policies. -]<sup>(])</sup> 20:44, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


If that assumes too much or is too leading:
::What's the fate then of an organisation apparently notable enough to deserve an article yet for which there are zero (or close enough to) citable sources that meet RS guidelines? I think holding an article like this to ] is simply unrealistic, the rules therein are not universifiable enough to require strict enforcement without destroying a massive amount of potential content here and in other articles. Obviously there is a paradox of purpose here when we evidently want an article (as evidenced by GNAA's VfDs) which we cannot write. Is the solution to provide an article with less than ideal source attribution or a little stub saying we can't write about this because it doesn't appear in a published journal, but hey it does exist? Perhaps this is an ideological issue but I think it's better to break ] and provide the article than to provide nothing. RS is well-intentioned but frankly doesn't reflect the environment Misplaced Pages operates in. --] 21:04, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


On February 11, 2007, an unknown attacker defaced the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his ], where they caused the name of the GNAA to appear on the website's front page. ] (]) 13:16, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
:::An alternative solution would be to insist that Misplaced Pages is defined by its core policies of ], ] and ], and therefore accept that Misplaced Pages is actually not the place for an article on GNAA, or on any other Internet group that hasn't been documented in reliable sources. Whether a sufficient number of people "want" the article and have managed to exploit the weakness of AfD until now isn't really relevant to the question of whether this article complies with our policy. You might prefer that the policies change (and there's a place to suggest that), but I would prefer that the unsourced content be hosted on some other Wiki, where different standards are in effect. There's currently a lot of tension here between those who want Misplaced Pages to document the minutiae of internet culture, and those who would rather hold to our founding principles. I guess it's clear which side I identify more closely with. -]<sup>(])</sup> 21:18, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


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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.
Just added a brief trivia entry near the bottom noting that this article currently holds the record for most AFD votes. ] 09:14, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
:I'm not so sure that's something we should broadcast. I wouldn't want to start some sort of partisan competition to see which article can be proposed for deletion the most often. After all, the repeated AfD's aren't exactly a point of pride for this article. ] 03:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
::The bigger issue is that Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia, a ''secondary source'', and that its ]. That is, the GNAA article is about GNAA, not about the article itself or about Misplaced Pages's treatment of the article. For this reason, I removed the section in question yesterday. -- ] 15:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


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== Citations ==


On February 11, 2007, an attack was launched on the website of former US president Barack Obama at the time of his ], where the group's name was caused to appear on the website's front page. ] (]) 14:43, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
I didn't mean to stumble into an edit conflict (Note to self: stupid Wowbagger! ALWAYS read the history before editing!), but the {{fact}} tags were quite a bit overboard. Generally, the lead paragraph doesn't need them, if the statements there are supported in the main body of the article. And, in cases like where we refer to ], we really don't need a citation; we have a bloody article on the other end of the wikilink, after all.


] '''Not done:'''<!-- Template:ESp --> At the time of the attack, Obama was a presidential candidate, not a former president. ] (]) 17:29, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
I only removed the tags I viewed as totally ridiculous; I think most of the rest are uncontested and could stand to go anyway, but that's a call I leave to more regular contributors to this and other Internet-related articles. --] 00:38, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


:That's why the sentence says "at the time of his first presidential campaign". ] (]) 11:27, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
== Technically this article should be deleted. ==
::I don't find the proposed rewording clearer. Since that means there's two editors with differing opinions, it isn't an uncontroversial change. As such it needs a consensus before it can be added using the edit request template procedure. ] (]) 16:04, 18 July 2024 (UTC)


== Semi-protected edit request on 09/04/2024==
Adter all, the mods have already taken down the Myg0t page, Myg0t being yet another association of trolls. ] 23:28, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
:If you really feel that way, then feel free to put up a request on ] &mdash;] 01:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
:Yes this page should be deleted. ] <sup>]</sup> 22:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
:: Not sure whether the page should be deleted, but it should definitely be put on ]. There hasn't been enough drama lately. ] 16:10, 5 November 2006 (UTC)


Maybe add Jax as part of Other members included, as she was more notable than many of the other members that aren't Andrew as the Biden Campaigns cybersecurity expert.
== No reliable secondary sources ==
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== Site ==
I'm sure this has been said thousands of times, but I find it funny that this article has no reliable secondary sources at all. Blog posts and slashdot user pages normally wouldn't be considered reliable. --- ] 06:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC)


There's a GNAA site now called gnaa.africa, we sure it's affiliated with them? gnaa.eu is empty ] (]) 07:02, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
Welcome to the party. You're 17 AfDs late. Now before you spike the punch, why don't you look over the rest of this page on the subject of sources?-- ] 16:21, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
:The arguments, where they are coherent, seem to be "But I KNOW this is true, so it doesn't need reliable sources!" -] <small><sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub></small> 16:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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Suggestion for small edit

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: Shrey K.

On February 11, 2007, the GNAA attacked the website of former US president 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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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.

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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. EO1912 (talk) 14:43, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: At the time of the attack, Obama was a presidential candidate, not a former president. PianoDan (talk) 17:29, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

That's why the sentence says "at the time of his first presidential campaign". EO1912 (talk) 11:27, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
I don't find the proposed rewording clearer. Since that means there's two editors with differing opinions, it isn't an uncontroversial change. As such it needs a consensus before it can be added using the edit request template procedure. PianoDan (talk) 16:04, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

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Maybe add Jax as part of Other members included, as she was more notable than many of the other members that aren't Andrew as the Biden Campaigns cybersecurity expert. details her surprisingly long history with the group and friendship with "weev" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2404:F780:1:3137:0:0:0:14 (talk) 11:14, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

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There's a GNAA site now called gnaa.africa, we sure it's affiliated with them? gnaa.eu is empty 182.253.246.99 (talk) 07:02, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

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