User talk:Giovanni Potage

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bfdi article

I got a message saying I was in an edit war (most likely with you) and I just want to say im extremely sorry! :( I didn’t really knew to much about edit wars and I thought it was just vandalism but it was reverting edits back to back. So I just want to apologize about it and I will try to not do it! the bfdi guy… not really it’s actually raveCrowny (talk) 17:46, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Bolding

Have a look at MOS:BOLDREDIRECT concerning these edits. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 01:03, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

I did not know Wikipedia policy allowed terms that redirect to an article to be highlighted in bold, thanks for enlighting me. I edited the article accordingly. Giovanni Potage (talk) 01:06, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Policy info

See here. While I believe your edits have been good, that specific portion of policy is fairly inflexible if brought to bear. You may wish to moderate relevant editing activity accordingly. This is just a friendly notice so you don't end up finding yourself ensnared unawares. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 00:50, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

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November 2025

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Giovanni Potage EC gaming. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 19:50, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Extended confirmed right revoked

You have been gaming the extended confirmed right by making a large number of meaningless edits to your sandbox. I have therefore revoked your EC right, and you will have to appeal to an administrator to have it re-added once you have made 500 non-gaming edits. Bishonen | tålk 20:16, 29 November 2025 (UTC).

I've now restored the right since you've made well in excess of 500 non-gaming edits. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:28, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

December 2025

You have new message/s Hello. You have a new message at Talk:Battle for Dream Island#Crossreference's talk page. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 14:02, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Giovanni Potage!

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Volten001 ☎ 05:38, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of Battle for Dream Island episodes § Featured List?. sjones23 (talk - contributions) 05:54, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Regarding block

@EvergreenFir, was a statewide block necessary? Was the LTA only using a specific county-wide IP range? Giovanni Potage (talk) 17:32, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Which block are we discussing? EvergreenFir (talk) 18:00, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
The entire state of Virginia was blocked a few hours ago; it now seems to be lifted. Giovanni Potage (talk) 18:01, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
@EvergreenFir, 2600:387:F:4310:0:0:0:0/60. Giovanni Potage (talk) 18:15, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
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Giovanni Potage (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log) • SI)

Request reason:

Hello, @EvergreenFir! I unfortunately seem to be affected by a state-wide IP block regarding a LTA (2600:387:F:4310:0:0:0:0/60). I request my specific address to be exempt as I am a semi-experienced editor (2 year account age and over 800+ contributions) with no history of account abuse and evading bans. I also believe the change of the LTA using another Virginia IP is low; there's a non-zero change they will use another state's VIP code as a workaround. Giovanni Potage (talk) 18:51, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Accept reason:

My apologies for the collateral damage with that block. I've removed it and will reduce it to /64 if needed in the future. EvergreenFir (talk) 20:28, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

at List of Battle for dream Island Episodes you reverted my edit.

A lot of people care that is the shortest episode and you dont need a source for that because you can just read the page??? ---Carf--- Walkie-talkie The Editz 15:33, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

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Your AfD merge nomination

Please make sure that you follow the instructions at WP:AFD2 step for step when nominating articles for deletion or merging. You nominated WP:AFD itself for merging with twinkle after you had already created the discussion page for the merge (the steps are backwards and you clearly didn't intend to nominate the AfD project page for deletion or merging, but that's where you placed the template). Other editors had to clean up the malformed nomination. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 09:46, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! It's 4am where I live and I made the fatal mistake of assuming that using Twinkle would be simply enough. Giovanni Potage (talk) 09:49, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

sorry dont know if this is the right place...

But what do you mean i cant use "torture chamber"? My edit did not claim the property was a torture chamber. It cited sources, where past visitors described it as a torture chamber...

If someone that went through this experience is not a source, then what is? Knowledge, I Say In All Caps (talk) 16:52, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

there are two sources which claim it as a torture chamber. multiple participants interviewed on reckless ben's video, and multiple interviews from the "torture on demand article". So there are multiple sources, and it's not presented as an opinion of the article, but as an opinion of the victims.
So I really don't understand what is the issue of citing multiple instances of people that feel traumatized by this experience, and thus help prevent anyone from joining this, which are expecting an actual haunted house, or the 2.5mile zipline. Not only for free, but you get paid, 20k dollars!!!!
This is genuinely ridiculous, this article is helping market this property, the exact same way that the owner has done all this time.
I can't cite multiple victims, but the page can cite multiple articles where the only source is the owner, which crafted a unique experience for those journalists? Knowledge, I Say In All Caps (talk) 16:59, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
When we write contentious material, it is required to cite independent reliable sources. To my knowledge, Fortune Ben's video are self-published (not from an organization/company with a editorial team) and not independent. So, your edits unfortunately fall under WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH and WP:UNDUE, and runs into WP:BLP issues. Feel free to ask any more questions. Giovanni Potage (talk) 17:04, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
And for the record, I am not doubting the validity of the survivors' first-hand experiences. But the videos published are classified as WP:PRIMARY sources and citing them is against our guidelines. Giovanni Potage (talk) 17:11, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
I can't find a single mention of "editorial", "company", or "self" in the WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH. So I don't understand this claim that an independent journalist is not considered a reliable source? On the contrary, I see only mentions about the type of journalism, and not the organization doing the journalism itself. This piece of investigation, was imparcial, with interviews from victims, employees and the owner. How can it not be considered an actual piece of journalism?
I also don't understand the mentions of WP:UNDUE the series seems to give fair weight to every involved participant, and reaches the conclusion that it is indeed not a haunted house... And WP:BLP is kind of hard to avoid, considering there is not even a haunted house, at the end of the day, this is all a personal operation for some weird entertainment of the owner.
And regarding WP:PRIMARY, the only primary accounts are when the journalist/youtuber actually takes place in the event, to prove that there is no haunted house. Multiple parts of the video should be considered secondary sources, which is exactly why I put timestamps. To take the user directly to the presentation of secondary accounts. Although some of the timestamps would fall under primary sources, so I can fix that.
Let's see if I understand what is happening, a journalist, that actually went and performed the activities, and ended up exposing this entire thing as a hoax, is not a reliable source, because he actually took part in the activities? Which were obviously required to expose this? But the other articles, which don't participate, and the only source is a obviously biased interview with the owner, is considered a legitimate and impartial source?
The ones that did literally zero investigative work are cited as sources that this is a haunted house, when all evidence points to the fact that the house on the property is the personal living space of the owner, and the entire haunted house, is the field outside, and a barn inside. Knowledge, I Say In All Caps (talk) 17:25, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

The Huangs

On your edit here , UNDUE is a valid argument, but since the cite was correctly formatted as such, WP:EL has nothing to do with it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: Whoops! I assumed they were someone else who repeatedly tried to add external links to the body without using a citation template. Thanks for pointing that out! Giovanni Potage (talk) 07:23, 15 June 2026 (UTC)