User:Guylaen

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Guylaen

Master's Degree student in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS)

About me

This editor is a **Grognard** and is entitled to display this **Wikipedia Little Red Book**.

I am not employed by the Wikimedia Foundation, but I am in the city of San Francisco roughly every month or so for Wikipedia-related activities. I have also been donating to the organization for as long as I have been an editor, and I encourage every editor to do the same, especially given the current controversial climate surrounding the tax-exempt status of the Foundation.

I am an active member of the Bay Area Wikipedians User Group (BAWUG), which has taken over the organizing of monthly Wikipedia meetups in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I have also attended occasional functions at the Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, in the Seattle region.

I've lived a lot of my life in the Pacific Northwest, but I am currently living in Monterey, California. I was born and raised on Whidbey Island. I've also spent time in Honolulu, Manhattan, Dongducheon, and Fort Leonard Wood.

I'm an aspiring spy fiction novelist.

I'm also big time into the work of the United Nations and talking about things instead of having wars, so you might see some work of mine on these subjects.

My work here

I'm pretty much trying to bring to light big characters and stories that the world needs to know, but aren't on wikipedia yet. I primarily write on English wikipedia.

I am primarily an article content creator and writer on Wikipedia. I value creation and inclusion of new content here, and I greatly value article improvement over deletion. When I have the time, I prefer to find sources for information rather than delete unsourced sentences. Like everyone on this website, I suppose, my interest waxes and wanes in certain topics and areas, however there are specific areas that I just keep coming back to; espionage, Cuba, and true cloak and dagger histories.

My work on wikipedia is mostly to bring attention to the world the stories and people I've come across in the world of cloak and dagger, intelligence and espionage - and the cops and robbers associated with them - that the world should know about.

I absolutely and wholeheartedly reject payment to edit or advocate on anyone's behalf. I understand that some companies are authorized by the Foundation to create articles, but I find the practice unusual and it kind of makes my skin crawl.

Disclaimer: Know that I esteem my editorial independence.

Even though:

I have been the victim of well-over 30 data breaches
I used to be employed by the United States Military
I used to be employed by the government of Washington state
I have been professionally associated in some form with current or former employees or elected officials of the governments of;
- Somalia
- Canada
- China
- Pakistan
- India
- Russia
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Nigeria
- Australia
- the United States of America
- Mexico
- Costa Rica
- Eritrea
- Taiwan
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- South Korea
- Japan
- France

Witty ditty of the dizzle

In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control,
Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticize, to know, and in imagination to create.
To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs;
and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

~ Bertrand Russell

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Awards

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For your recent creation of Jorge Villaverde. — Biohistorian15 (talk) 18:32, 6 September 2024 (UTC) Disclaimer: the user who issued this barnstar is a confirmed sockpuppeter.

	The Writer's Barnstar
	I've been so impressed by your thorough, well-written, and interesting articles on Cuban history and espionage! Keep up the excellent work. — Moriwen (talk) 03:34, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Stuff I done did and do

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This user is a member of the Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

This user is a member of the Bay Area Wikipedians User Group

This user is a member of the Rebel Alliance.

This user is a member of WikiProject Espionage.

This user is a member of the
Intelligence task force
of WikiProject Military history.

This user is interested in maps.

This user participates in
WikiProject United Nations.

This user is a graduate student in Nonproliferation & Terrorism studies.

MIIS

This user is a student, faculty, staff, or alumnus of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, formerly the Monterey Institute

CWU

This user is a student, alumnus, faculty or staff member of Central Washington University.

WWU

This user attends or attended Western Washington University.

This user wears aloha shirts.

This user is a monkey who contributes using a typewriter.

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This user is interested in Shavian.

This user enjoys looking at images that they do not understand.

This user is a book collector.

This user is a Bibliophile.

This user has access to
The Wikipedia Library Bundle.

This user has access to JSTOR.

T & F

This user has access to Taylor & Francis.

This user has access to Cambridge University Press resources.

OUP

This user has access to Oxford University Press.

Foreign Affairs

This user has access to Foreign Affairs through The Wikipedia Library.

EBSCO

This user has access to EBSCO resources through The Wikipedia Library.

EUP

This user has access to Edinburgh University Press resources

MUSE

This user has access to Project MUSE through The Wikipedia Library.

Hein
Online

This user has access to HeinOnline through The Wikipedia Library

This user is a Twainiac.

This user is a fan of
the Hitch.

This user is a fan of the works of Douglas Adams.

This user is an officer of "The Circus".

This user enjoys heavy reading, such as Shakespeare and other dead guys.

This user knows that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

This user is an advocate of open research and open access.

This user enjoys fighting the Covenant and the Flood as any marine does.

This user is an atheist
who defends the
rights of people of faith.

This user is an atheist because they were raised Roman Catholic.

This user believes the First Amendment was written to protect freedom of religion, not abolish it.

This user believes religion should stay out of politics.

This user acknowledges that they were born on Whidbey Island (Tschakolechy) the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the many tribes of Coast Salish peoples.

This user believes that the Hawaiian Kingdom was illegally overthrown. Long live Queen Liliʻuokalani!

Despite this user's Confederate States of America heritage, this user recognizes and is against the actions of the Confederacy.

This user supports the Cuban thaw.

This user supports the independence of Tibet.

I am Charlie
Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo.
following this terrible attack

This user recognizes Sealand as an independent country.

This user supports the peaceful re-unification of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

this isn't a userbox

This user is active in simulating the United Nations.

This user was active in Scouting America.

This user is an Eagle Scout.

This user supports protection of the environment.

This user is a mammal.

This user is an ape

This user is elated that the Boy Scouts of America is finally admitting girls!

This user is interested in Fossils.

This user received poor-quality copper from Ea-nāṣir.

This user is interested in
art history.

This user is a child of the Enlightenment.

This user knows that diversity, equity, and inclusion are among the founding principles of the United States.

An ancestor of this user fought for the independence of the United States of America.

An ancestor of this user fought for the United States in World War I.

This user is a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution.

This user is a Combat Engineer.

This user is a veteran of the
United States Army.

This user is secretly a member of the Illuminati. Shh, don't tell anyone!

This userbox was put here by mistake.

This user supports public transit.

This user may take a ferry to work.

This user farts in your general direction. This user also believes that your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

This userbox is crooked.

Mr projects list

Currently building or editing:

My to do lists

Espionage and Intelligence

Ukraine

Pochaina River [UK]
Nina Alekseevna Savytska (Ніна Олексіївна Савицька)
Commission on Journalism Ethics [UK]
National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting
Television Industry Committee (ІТК/TIC)
Ukrainian Television Academy
Rybalsky railway bridge or Rybalskyi Railway Bridge [uk]
Kyiv Bus [UK]
Yuriy Artemenko (needs major fixing)
Stereo Plaza (Стерео Плаза)
Chernomorki Games
Tavria Games [UK]
- (Not to be confused with the Ancient Roman holiday)
- Tavria Games Holding / TGH
Radio Bayraktar [UK] + Russian Radio Ukraine
Ukraine Law No. 2310-IX / Ban on Russian Music in Ukraine (https://freespeech.dslua.org/decree/ban_on_rus_music/)
Freedom Hall
Kyiv fixed-route taxi [UK], redirect Kyiv route taxi
Kyiv Urban Electric Train
- Kurenivka railway station
- Obolon railway station
Olexander Buzyuk
Volodymyr Mostovyi
Freedom of Speech (ICTV) [UK] or The Freedom of Speech (ICTV)
- (I think "the" sounds much more impactful in English, due to the anglosaxon impact of the "th" sound)
Stone Guest [UK], redirect Kamyanyj Hist