User talk:Zentomologist

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Possible account compromise
Zentomologist, you stated here that you believed your account might be compromised, and would be contacting the "info email address". Not sure who or what that might be, but what to do in such a case is outlined at WP:COMPACC. I'm taking the liberty of alerting a couple of Stewards, who can help you evaluate what's going on, and take further steps if necessary. Pinging. Good luck, Mathglot (talk) 20:42, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I suggest that you ask local CUs to confirm if someone else has been on your account. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 20:44, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Adding on behalf of Zentomologist, who appeared to imply here that they might be out for the summer, although they did post their compromise note more recently.  Hopefully one of these CUs will be in your time zone and be able to help you. Mathglot (talk) 20:55, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I need more information from Zentomologist as to what makes them think their account has been compromised and what "info e-mail address" do they mean on their userpage.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:12, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

(i apologise if there are formating/spelling errors. i'm writing this in notepad to c&p here.)

hi mathglot, thank you so much! i tried searching for what to do if my acct had been hacked, but all i could come up with was emailing info-en@wikimedia.org. you rock! weak password, oops. yes. but new one is good. and thank you for using they pronouns!

hi ajraddatz, i don't know what "local CUs" are

hi bbb23, i had to give up editing here a couple years aog due to increasing health & visions issues (i can't read the text inside the edit box anymore). there are edits listed for this account after that.

it was the info-en@wikimedia.org address i emailed. email is waaaay easier for me to read/respond to.Zentomologist (talk) 02:03, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * You haven't answered the key question: what makes you think your account has been "hacked"?--Bbb23 (talk) 05:20, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Courtesy pinging User:Bbb23 on Z’s behalf. Mathglot (talk) 04:01, 28 June 2019 (UTC)


 * In a conversation at WP:OTRS ticket:2019062710004711 I shared some ideas and invited Zentomologist to say more here to people who can investigate.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  12:21, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * This is about as garbled a claim of a compromised account as I've seen. Now, according to the user's edit on their userpage, the last edit they made with this account was in October 2017. I don't find that credible. According to my check, the user has made 18 edits between May 4, 2019, and today, and those edits were all made by the same person. It's not my place to comment on the user's health issues, but, at a minimum and assuming good faith, I suspect the user is muddled. Whether they're still competent to edit Wikipedia I'll leave for others to decide.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:34, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Talk page usage conventions
Hi Zentomologist,



Not sure if you're going to be around much, so this message may be moot. However, when you communicate using a Talk page, either at a user talk page like this one, or at an article talk page, it would be helpful if you follow a couple of best practices for talk page usage, in particular, WP:THREAD, which explains how to follow other users' posts by indenting one extra tab stop, and how to notify other users that you have replied, by using the templates ping or replyto, or simply by bracketing their user name, like this:. And of course, always signing your posts, as you already do, with four tildes. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 04:25, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

NOTE: this is all going to bottom of page. apologies that my vision and usage conventions don't work together. i need to have the tiny text edit page in front of my eyes as briefly as possible to avoid making this migraine worse.

quote: User:bbb23 wrote: "You haven't answered the key question: what makes you think your account has been "hacked"?" /quote

hi User:bbb23, yes i did. quote: "i had to give up editing here a couple years ago due to increasing health & visions issues (i can't read the text inside the edit box anymore). there are edits listed for this account after that." /quote

iow -> I HAVE NOT DONE EDITING SINCE 2017 <- (emphasis, not yelling) because trying to use the damned edit box with its tiny print triggers migraines.

there are posts under my acct name that i didn't make. to me that means my acct was hacked. i certainly didn't give anyone permission to impersonate me, nor would my partner do so. my computer is secure.

User:bluerasberry, thank you! are you also the person who emailed? if so, everything after 4 oct 2017 isn't by me. the last thing i contributed was ehlers-danlos syndrome. and some of the subjects before that are things i don't know anything about, so.. frekaing out here.

User:mathglot, it's the editing box on the edit page that is the problem. the text on regular pages is okay; i have my ginormous screen set to extra large resolutoion. but thank you for trying to make it bigger <3 <3

wrt usage conventions, saying this as gently as i can manage (and please take the allcaps as emphasis, not yelling): i'm way more concerned with being impersonated than with usage/style conventions. and I CANNOT READ ANYTHING INSIDE THE EDIT BOX. trying triggers migraines. once i'm migraine, trying to read anything on or offline sucks.

i CANNOT extra reading with migraine.

i HAVE have done the brackets that you showed via example, and thank you for that.

also, specifically mathglot, you seem to have a really, really got rep here, so in case you want you, you and only you have my permission to edit what i type on this page only so that it's easier for others to read. and i certainly don't expect you to do so. but this is one of those "i can't, and if you want to, have at it" things.

i would SO be doing all of this via email if that was an option.

EVERYBODY:

i have updated my user page today with the date of the last edit i made.

is there some way to lock/delete/block/whatever this acct so that no one can ever hack it again? given that i can't contribute any more, that seems like the best plan because of it won't affect me AND will prevent anyone from impersonating me again.

this situation is being more than a bit difficult in that respect because someone did that to me back in the 90s. this round is VERY benign in contrast to the last, but it's still stirring up all the old feelings, ykwim?

also, is the only way to safen (of course it's a word!) the acct is via lcoking, is there a way to change the username? a few years ago i got permission to use this name/term from the family of the man who coined it in berkeley in the 60s or 70s, and i'd rather not have it associated with stuff i didn't write.

Zentomologist (talk) 15:36, 28 June 2019 (UTC)