Wikipedia talk:Discord
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Unban request[edit]
My dc username is young_robert. I made a joke which was not taken well, i didn't mean any harm and was just trying to be funny. i'm sorry and please unban me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rovi9805 (talk • contribs) 21:22, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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shortcut?[edit]
I expected WP:DISCORD to link to a policy/guideline page or consensus-discussion about the reliability of, the linking to, or the citing of, Discord. Can anybody point me to that which I'm actually looking for? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:42, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Fourthords Discord is a purely WP:USERG platform so by definition anything on it is unreliable. That said, and someone else will have to find it for me, there is an RfC on the VP that resulted in the linking of Discord messages being viewed as an OUTING issue and should not be done. -- ferret (talk) 15:52, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 169#Discord logs, I think, for the outing RFC. –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:54, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- WP:USERG is complicated by WP:ABOUTSELF, though, which says they "may be used as sources of information about themselves, usually in articles about themselves or their activities, without the self-published source requirement that they are established experts in the field". That section specifically calls out Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter as acceptable. Discord, though, is a sort of private chat room, and lacks the access and transparency (and more) of those other services, and we thereby cannot know that any given self-publisher is actually who's being identified. Is there any consensus (codified or not) that contends with these issues? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 16:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- As you said, Discord lacks a real system of user verification, so I would think it would be extremely difficult to properly use it as a primary source. I am thinking you'll want to move this to WP:RSN or some similar area for more opinions. -- ferret (talk) 16:46, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- Definitely where I'm going next; I just came here thinking surely it'd been addressed before. Cheers, all. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 20:26, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter don't have a real system of user verification either, and even if they did, why would we trust it? The principle we apply to those other platforms is that if @JohnSmith is widely believed to be John Smith, we can take that as a given.
- My immediate reaction is that citing Discord would be absurd, but thinking about it, I can't see any meaningful difference between it and other social media platforms that we allow under WP:SOCIALMEDIA. Discord chat rooms are, unless configured otherwise, public (which is why the outing RfC was always completely absurd, but I digress) and such constitute (self-) published information. You have to set up an account and accept their Terms of Service to see the information, but that is also true of Facebook, JSTOR, your local university library, and many other perfectly acceptable sources. Difficulty of access is not something that disqualifies something as a source either; again see Facebook, JSTOR, your local university library... Discord can't possibly be a good source—if you can only source something to there, is it really WP:DUE?—but technically it is permissable under the existing guidelines at WP:SOCIALMEDIA. – Joe (talk) 08:57, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- As you said, Discord lacks a real system of user verification, so I would think it would be extremely difficult to properly use it as a primary source. I am thinking you'll want to move this to WP:RSN or some similar area for more opinions. -- ferret (talk) 16:46, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Appeal[edit]
My username on Discord is the same as my Wikipedia handle, and wish for someone to reach out so as to come to an understanding for what happened leading up to my ban. Akaibu (talk) 02:36, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- I am willing to discuss, but you have made less than 20 edits since your ban in February, so unless there are extenuating circumstances, we are unlikely to unban right now. I have sent you a friend request to enable me to DM you. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:22, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Unable to Join![edit]
Hey, my Discord ID is "wiki_grabup." I joined the Discord server, but now I can't see it on my app, and I'm unable to rejoin the server. Could you please tell me what went wrong? GrabUp - Talk 12:20, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Grabup You were banned. This relates to the issues surrounding your current partial blocks, as you came into the server to further that same conflict through friend requests and direct messages to multiple people. -- ferret (talk) 20:21, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- I just messaged Josh to apologize and make things better. I explained to him why I suddenly started doing this. My intention was not to bother him at all. I didn't message anyone else, just sent friend requests to 3 others whom I know. Anyways I respect the ban. GrabUp - Talk 03:27, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
Requested move 10 June 2024[edit]
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Wikipedia:Discord → Wikipedia:Wikimedia Community Discord – Almost all of this page concerns a single Discord server, referred to as the 'Wikimedia Community Discord'. But #Other servers lists at least ten other servers specifically targetting the English Wikipedia plus many more within the wider Wikimedia movement. All of these are community-organised and it doesn't seem like any of them is more 'official' than the others. So why is WCD singled out for special treatment here? I suggest we move this page to Wikipedia:Wikimedia Community Discord and turn Wikipedia:Discord into either a disambiguation or information page listing all the existing servers. – Joe (talk) 07:15, 10 June 2024 (UTC)