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A4: See answer to previous question. There is currently no way to discern in clear terms who comprises various sub-groups of Anonymous, and individuals may only be judged by their actions in a given situation. A "member" of Anonymous may act as a cause oriented figure in a particular project, and then switch to other projects or non-participation in minutes, without a paper trail to document this. This often presents media sources with confusion, leaving attribution of actions unclear. Lacking citation, this article cannot discern which individuals and sub-groups are and are not members of Anonymous at a given time, and which actions are and are not attributed to Anonymous. Strict sourcing is necessary to reference activities as ventures carried out by Anonymous. This article may reference schisms and group infighting, but cannot exclude any wing of Anonymous from representation if verifiable sourcing is provided.

Q5: Can I leave a message for Anonymous here?

A5: Sorry, but no. This talk page is only for discussing improvements to the Anonymous article. The members of the group do not monitor this page and therefore will not see any messages directed to them. Messages left for Anonymous will be removed as violations of WP:NOTAFORUM.

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Dubious line lacking sources

On the 2022 section the line that goes: "Anonymous also hacked into Russian propaganda channels and played Ukrainian music through them. After that they started showing what is really happening in Ukraine." Lacks source and it is clearly not inpartial. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brujua (talk • contribs) 23:08, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

True, it should be "the events in Ukraine" or something. Dawsongfg (talk) 04:15, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

..sorry for the necroposting.. Dawsongfg (talk) 04:16, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"But they are not your personal army – that's Rule 44 –" LOL Since when? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:40:C480:CA00:94E9:F420:77A4:B6C0 (talk) 15:17, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Russian camera dump

Where it says "On March 9, 2022, Anonymous declared on Twitter[209] that they hacked and broadcast 400 Russian surveillance cameras and broadcast them on a website.[210] They call this operation "Russian Camera Dump"." it's sourced to the Twitter account YourAnonNews when it's clearly sourced by the actual creators of the site days earlier here: https://twitter.com/DepaixPorteur/status/1500943962860924936 . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chimney Sweepa (talk • contribs) 02:52, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can you find a source that would be more detailed than just this Tweet? ScriptKKiddie (talk) 02:31, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

EDIT REQUEST: Please repair quote in Philosophy section

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This is at the very top of the Philosophy section:

"Long-standing political question that has gone unanswered with often tragic consequences for social movements. This is an Internet-based, non-extremist, socialist community movement that looks for answers to questions that are unanswered"

The second sentence is not present anywhere in the cited source. It should be replaced with this:

"[...] long-standing political question that has gone unanswered with often tragic consequences for social movements: what does a new form of collective politics look like that wishes to go beyond the identity of the individual subject in late capitalism?" --Thas (talk) 14:03, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, would be good to fix this. Thanks for bringing this up! Cheers. 98.155.8.5 (talk) 19:59, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That look good to you? Legowerewolf (talk) 22:26, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect thanks, that matches the source!! Cheers. 98.155.8.5 (talk) 00:17, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

#OpIran Operation Iran

The Iranian protest is mentioned as a small paragraph in the Operation Russia subsection of the History section which is unfair to it. #OpIran is a legitimate operation on its own crucial for the Iranian protesters now.

Anonymous Operations Twitter is the first place I was informed of Operation Iran. I followed that channel for Operation Russia until they suddenly initiated Operation Iran aside Operation Russia. I don't know where they get their information from, but I think they're really close to the Anonymous hackers busy with the cyberwar against the Iranian (Islamic Republican) government. They play a role in the coordination of the protests where to sabotage strategic locations with Molotov cocktails, where to protests and where to lookout for snipers and other kinds of Iranian police ambushes. They also give information what to do against Iranian IR spyware on Android devices from Google itself.

It's the first place I personally encountered a sort of Twitter leaflet campaign (not a bot/bumping/spamming campaign, describing it that way is not really appreciated) of Mahsah Amini and other victims, martyrs and heroes that later spread across Twitter and the rest of social media. I don't how to define the Iranians hanging out there in the comments. Politically pretty activists asking for help, giving fellow Iranians hints to combat the cops and all kinds of motivational peptalks that remind me of the 1789 French Revolution. Alexandros des Børgus (talk) 10:48, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you can find reliable reporting on it, not OR, you're welcome to try updating the article with it. Legowerewolf (talk) 13:57, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gaza Strip News - Gaza Times or Bitcoin Magazine etc. Foxnews puplications?

There obciously quite are many sourses around us.

But what one may consider as RELIABLE, the others have the right to disagree with. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kartasto (talk • contribs) 13:11, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has pretty strict standards for what is and isn't a reliable source. Legowerewolf (talk) 15:12, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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History > 2020 section: Replace the word "gibibytes" with "gigabytes" for continuity; both the stated source and the WIRED article used to source that article use "giga" over "gibi". Not worth making an account for a simple typo, but it was bugging the hell out of me. 209.133.34.12 (talk) 17:54, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

fixed Softlemonades (talk) 18:15, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why anonymous do not work for Afghanistan.

why anonymous doesn't work for Afghanistan or Afghan people. Because Afghan people are poor people. Anonymous help Afghans Please help us. 61.5.198.8 (talk) 09:44, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]