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… and you can have the kudos of doing better than I did, too, for whatever that is worth. ☺
We don't want xyr fellow youths to find Drmies editing any more articles about very dead people, especially very dead people where Doktoro has to consider the moral qualities and large muscular person (and indeed sweet voice and missing teeth) of a man that
Joseph Cooper Walker had never met and credited a "friend" for knowledge thereof. Doktoro does not need such stimulation at xyr age.Doktoro's fellow youths do not rispec' knowing the teeth of very dead people, and rispec' from one's peer group is important. Doktoro is neither friend of Walker nor Dorothy.
So gently guide Dr mi estas away, and shield xyr eyes; and please find a historian who does not simply regurgitate a clearly unreliable 18th century memoir. You might observe that I have found a clearly annoyed Ulsterman that doesn't like the memoir, and quite a lot of people over the centuries that have plagiarized it without attribution. So the bar is rather higher than an off-handed Google Books search now. Those of you with High Beaming, Tex-Mex Lexus, JSTORrery, and the like might care to use your exceptional capabilities.
Uncle G ( talk) 10:46, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Maybe someone else will have more Limericks for Doktoro. Uncle G ( talk) 18:41, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
It is because you like Limericks. So there were three Limericks for you. Uncle G ( talk) 00:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
This one is huge. The lurkers might want to chip in here. I've given you a good substub. But there's no mention of Roddy McCorley, the granite block of St Patrick, the Gaelic football club, the Irish Folk Song Society, the Irish Peasant Home Industries, the Belfast Art Society, or the Irish Decorative Art Association. Uncle G ( talk) 00:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
The Ulster Literary Theatre has bypassed Articles for creation, because it was about plays and writing and history and stuff, and no-one is interested in that here. I argued that Doktoro might be tricked into it if it were misrepresented as popular culture … of 1909, having xem think that it would help that youth cred, but failed to make the case. Uncle G ( talk) 03:46, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
No, no, no, Doktoro! If you want the youth cred then you need to focus upon finding sources for Jada Facer ( AfD discussion) not very dead priests. Do not even let the fact that those of us without all of that High Beaming, Tex-Mex Lexus, and JSTORrery cannot read the likes of doi: 10.2307/29740597, whereas you can, distract you. Nor http://allhallows.ie/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Missionary.pdf . Nor even David Bigger and Robert Magill Young. Uncle G ( talk) 09:27, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/SwoopSwing just changed something like 600 "infobox Hollywood cartoon" to "infobox film" with no edit summaries. Was there an RfC I missed? otherwise, I'm kinda wishing I had mass rollback rights now :). Please take a look. Hydromania ( talk) 03:05, 24 June 2019 (UTC) And I found it. Was eight months ago so I'm surprised it's just getting implemented now. Sorry to bother. Hydromania ( talk) 03:15, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Mr. Reputable.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:10, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
I don't mean to stir the drama pot, but can someone point me to whatever silencing of unwelcome voices WMF is meant to have done? I've been out-of-the-loop,and my curiosity is perhaps getting the better of me now. Ladyof Shalott 02:33, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
As I have been supporting Doktoro's quest for youth cred for — Hmmm! … it is probably self-defeating to say — many years, including even a recent course correction here at AFC above, at #Course correction, I must oppose Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb's attempt to out Doktoro's age. A Time Lady does not care to be asked.
On that subject: Onion Lady, EngVar's Daughter, and others, if writing articles is more to your taste, I hope to present a quite interesting one to AFC shortly. It's next in line after I make some more improvements to I Monetary Advisory, mentioned in a fairly big news story quite recently that has been linked to R. Roshan Baig#Decline in Indian National Congress and that we at Wikipedia were going to inappropriately call IMA scam.
If in the meantime you want a stub to turn into a featured article, just to prove that it can be done but without touching stuff that you might be saving up, we've been discussing entire books with respect to International Legion (Proposed) ( AfD discussion). Don't let the involvement of UN secretary generals in the history of the subject fool you; this one is written about by professors, English Professors and Australian ones. Doktoro, do not get excited by the 1995 involvement of Gallifey in that subject.
Uncle G ( talk) 16:54, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Oh dear. There actually is Bacon. Uncle G ( talk) 22:57, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
You are most welcome sir.
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I could have sworn that I had it here, just a moment ago.
As you might have already seen, I am having to draft my next submission to Articles for creation in a holding area. It is rather long. This is one of the elephants in the room mentioned at User:Uncle G/Missing encyclopaedic articles, that I bumped into from doing AFD Patrol.
I have not found a connection to Gallifrey but, as I mentioned earlier here at AFC, I am dismayed to discover the involvement of Bacon when checking out the |author1-link= possibilities. Alas, there are no free-content images of said Bacon that I could use in a sidebar here to entice you, the nearest being non-free CC-BY-NC-ND licensed.
There are no very dead people involved, so this will definitely help with Doktoro's quest for youth cred. There are a pop singer and a kid off the TV involved. It is hep and in the now, man! Protestors at Berkeley and everything. On the streets! How much more street cred can one get, dude?
Doing the reading inspires a series of questions that are perhaps, this time, addressed to people other than readers of Wikipedia's main page, perhaps to its writers this time; a whole week's worth of thoughts for the day to muse upon.
Would that there were an encyclopaedia around here with history that everyone could learn from! ☺
I am in the process of writing a tiny part of it.
Uncle G ( talk) 11:02, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
He is also a sock-check out the report I put Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Parveen raaj hisampur (I'm sure there are others) Wgolf ( talk) 02:19, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello Drmies, can you please find a citation to one of the "every other book". Washington Post is not an authoritative source about Rilke's life. And once again there was no "dressing as a girl" in the 19th century among young children. Rilke's mother may have treated him "like a girl" or believed he's a girl but it wasn't about clothing. Please find a historically correct source. Cheers, The Terrible Mutant Hamster ( talk) 02:04, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia is a rotten place to edit. I trimmed significant material from this article, which has clearly been written by fans. I should have trimmed more, but I got tired. It was full of excessive detail and tangential material. It even had a table for all of of his own appearances (I removed that entirely). The Directorial style section is principally a self-aggrandizing quote farm. I should have removed all three quotations but I only did the last as it was unsourced. At the same time, I corrected a plethora of formatting errors. I also deadlinked a Daily Mail cite in the Personal life section supposedly supporting that Yvonne Walcott is Yates's partner. Even if the DM cite were live, we should have better sourcing for that sort of material (then there's the trivia about Walcott). At the same time, I corrected the infobox so it doesn't say that Walcott is his spouse.
An editor came along and undid a lot of my changes, as a result of which there are now factual errors, unsourced material, and the list goes on. I undid their changes, but that was quickly reverted telling me to go to the Talk page. Not me. This post here is the only thing I'm willing to do, and if no one's interested, which I can completely understand, that'll be an end to it. In this area and in so many others lately I don't know why I bother.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:02, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
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The block should be amended. If they allowed to edit their own talk page they will just restore the libellous material and they are clearly an associate of the banned user User:Option 16. Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 02:40, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Klomp (that was actually the family name of my girlfriend when I was living in Amsterdam inn 1967). I won't be going to Stockholm most unfortunately, because I really can't afford $3,000 just for 5 days in the far north of Europe. I'll leave that trip to the Europeans and the 70-strong WMF junket. But next year Wikimania is right on my doorstep. I hope you will be able to come. I will be making absolutely sure that my friends who are able to come will have a great time. Regards, Chris. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:41, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Abusive_behavior_and_controversial_edits_by_an_IP. While this started as my question on the applicability of talk page guidelines, I have grown increasingly concerned about Bbb23's behavior (i.e. lack of response to the question I and other have raised), and his refusal to discuss this on his talk page ( [1]). I am sure acted 'to protect the project', but there are limits to such protection, particularly given the potential for admin abuse of power. I would not be pursuing this IF Bbb23 did not use the veiled thread 'this is an administrative action'. But he did. This all could have ended if Bbb23 said 'ok, I made a mistake, won't do it again', with a simple 'sorry' being nice but not necessary (my ego will survive without it). But given Bbb23 refusal to address this issue outside saying that Cirt socket, it seems to me that they have not demonstrated any remorse, or anything to demonstrate they made a mistake. This is worrisome. Admin abuse, where admins believe they are near perfect, have no need to explain themselves or apologize is a problem on Wikipedia. As an OP, I don't believe this issue is closed until Bbb23 explains themselves, apologizes, OR the community decided it is not necessary. Your closure of this thread, as a fellow admin, is sending a wrong message - that admins are beyond critique, and if critiqued, well, such threads will be closed by their fellow admin, no need for them to be stressed out and subject to such a terrifying thing as critique... Again, I am not seeking anything else but a simple statement from Bbb23 that they made a mistake and they won't do it again. If you are not going to reopen that thread, and in light of Bbb23 removing my posts from their talk pages, I'd appreciate if you would tell me which forum is applicable to pursue this matter further. Because while this started as a small matter, Bbb23 refusal to back down even a little bit suggest to me this may need to be investigated further, because this community does not need admins who are unwilling to accept that they can make an occasional errors. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:49, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
You feel like taking a look at this? Beyond My Ken ( talk) 11:25, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
You might want to take another look at this. Besides [2] this, basically all their contribs are pursuing this fool vendetta from Talk:Romford. Pinkbeast ( talk) 14:02, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
For what it's worth, I don't see much different in the (poor) level of contributions between the talk page jeering by MickGriff ( talk · contribs) and the edit summarries of the other account. My personal view is that Wikipedia would be better off without both of them. 86.29.117.62 ( talk · contribs) geolocates to the next town along. 31.127.146.196 ( talk · contribs) is plainly from the edit summaries MickGriff logged out. They both do nothing else and neither presents the sort of case that Wikipedia needs. Uncle G ( talk) 09:36, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Maybe Wiki would be better off publishing the fact that Romford is in Essex instead of incorrectly showing Romford as London. As for the sort of case that Wiki needs I would think up to date government and NHS websites stating Romford is in Essex is what Wiki needs but no Wiki via people with no connection to Romford are allowed to impose their fakery and have Romford showing as London. Reminiscent of the old Soviet Union. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MickGriff ( talk • contribs) 09:03, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
On 6 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1 the Road, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an artificial intelligence wrote a novel in the spirit of Jack Kerouac's On the Road? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1 the Road. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, 1 the Road), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass ( talk) 00:02, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Drmies I just Reverted it since an experienced editor put it back? Since the Nazi did persecute Clergy Just a Example /info/en/?search=Priest_Barracks_of_Dachau_Concentration_Camp /info/en/?search=Holocaust_victims#Roman_Catholics Jack90s15 ( talk) 00:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Jack90s15, if you have specific questions you could drop them on my talk page. Some very nice people stop by here occasionally, and they might could help you out. Drmies ( talk) 01:36, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
I intended to go through and restore edits we can agree on, one by one. And I started to do this. Most of these edits can not be undone on a single basis. What else could I do? Jason from nyc ( talk) 14:51, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
After over a decade and a half finally someone — me! — has read a book. I've related the unfortunate truth that I found out at AFD. Alas, I have things to do. Lurkers here at Doktoro's talk page might relish the challenge of reading books, and pick up where I left off. You'll discover that Aquapasto is a name of one company's product, for starters, and we probably could do with using the generic name for the stuff. Uncle G ( talk) 13:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
Pinging User:MaskedSinger and User:William2001: please look at this again: the AfDs, the associated pages, the comments here by Uncle G, etc. But for y'all's delete votes I could simply close them and be done with it. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 14:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
I don't know what seasoning Doktoro is covered in that makes xem smell, but all that I am asking is that people check out what is said in books so that we have what is right rather than what User:Daniel C. Boyer gave us. If pressed on the subject, I would argue that a prophylactic redirect at soufflage is the best course of action, because people are going to read these books that plagiarized Wikipedia and it is best that they get pointed to the right place. Maybe I am wrong about how much there is on the subject, but both the nominator and another person seem happy for a redirect to the section in the larger article. As for the others: please read sources and find out what is correct. I've been slightly busy with the ₹4,000 crore (equivalent to ₹50 billion or A$900 million in 2023) scandal that is threatening to rock the Karnataka government. I've even had to hand over the German buckets at User talk:Hans Adler#Respite, although it seems that the pigeons came home to roost there based upon my past history.
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I now get to truthfully say that I have just dumped a bucketload of pigeon crap on User talk:Hans Adler. Uncle G ( talk) 18:22, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
On 5 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ali Eisami, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ali Eisami (pictured), a Kanuri man, dictated his memoirs of his captivity to German missionary and linguist Sigismund Koelle, and helped him produce a Kanuri grammar? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ali Eisami. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Ali Eisami), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Thank you for another good one. Slave memories, banned memories, admonished memories ( short version, + hope is precious) ... thanks from cabal of the outcast. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
Did you ever add Adriaan de Bruin and the other to the stats? Or do I have to do that? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:41, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
A controversial article receiving far too much attention. User:FRANCISBONNICI has been repeatedly attempting to whitewash the article. I have reverted him (more than I should but I'm considering it quasi-vandalism), but he keeps doing it. I warned him he'd be blocked if he persisted, but that's not stopping him, and, much as I think he deserves to be blocked, I don't feel comfortable doing so. In addition to the reverts, I've also done some editing of the article, so I'm WP:INVOLVED. If you could at least keep an eye on the article, that would be helpful.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:42, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Anyone stepping into this should also see:
and the OTRS ticket (given on the article's talk page). Uncle G ( talk) 09:01, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
I think the check user bit would help me sift unblock requests, but there's no way to request it and I'm afraid of rejection. Is their anything I should know? Thanks Dlohcierekim ( talk) 20:10, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Thanks y'all, though I won't comment on what I think Starbucks coffee tastes like. Yes, I know the Cu's are busy, and if I could just check some of these sock block appealers myself, it would lessen their load. Dlohcierekim ( talk) 01:54, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
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Sorry I didn't see your ping, but until Yoshida Shoji is done, I effectively cannot be pinged. Thanks for handling it. I actually chose to go with no action, since the edit in question is from February (they both edit the same articles, so there's bound to be some overlap), but I suppose it was, technically, a violation. Oh well. El_C 19:09, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
I read your comment about the hook. I actually use the same term listed on Guinness World Records for that. Do you have any other suggestion for that? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moon Gin ( talk • contribs) 07:26, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Maybe this last exchange can shed some light on your question ( /info/en/?search=User_talk:Hippo43). Like i said in my thread in Matty's page, that person feels i am the ONLY editor in football that needs cleaning up, all the time everywhere. Most of the time (if not ALWAYS) articles are left in worse condition than they were after their "cleanup", last example being Juan Antonio Anquela.
No point engaging in a WP:ANI report, or proving or disproving WP:HOUND, i'm done with this crap! If the other user wanted this outcome they can pat themselves on the back (and maybe one day, if/when someones does to them what they have done to me, they will understand), if not this was all pointless in the end, but all in all WP is in good hands (in 2019 as it was in 2006 when i started).
Cheers, take care as well -- Quite A Character ( talk) 18:17, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Thank you very much for taking care of that IP! I was lying on the couch trying to figure out whether to drag the IP to ANI or request semi-protection or wait for a 3RR violation, but you nipped the issue quickly and saved me a lot of diff-digging for which I greatly appreciate! I'm sure the range block will be very helpful. Aoi (青い) ( talk) 18:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Der Artiklefürdeletionnomminator nicht gefounden sources hast, parce que het Googlen Searchenengine upturnen les Veryoldenbooks in der Blackletter und Foreign gewritten. Hilf das Nomminator mit lo gefinden auf des sources pour le Mittleeuropeanen State von Isenburg-Kempenich, voor Artikle miglioramento! Bitte. Uncle G ( talk) 19:38, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
How do I initiate an arbitration and enforcement request against Snooganssnoogans? - JohnTopShelf ( talk) 02:56, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi-Many thanks for starting the Clyde Foster article. I found the Clyde Foster obituary and added it to the article as a citation. You may want to look at it. Again my thanks- RFD ( talk) 14:24, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Doktoro, you get paid in units of currency. You do not get paid in units of temperature. You have not got the hang of paid editing at all. Uncle G ( talk) 18:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
It is spot the difference time. And there are differences.
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Uncle G ( talk) 21:57, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Lancegate. Since you had some involvement with the Lancegate redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 ( talk) 22:44, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
Maybe I am overly suspicious, but I get a very bad vibe about editor DartsforWindows. His username is the same as his (personal??) website and a darts game. And in most of his edits he is mentioning that website. (S)He denies any wrongdoing at User talk:DartsforWindows, but it still gives me the creeps. Can you (or one of your TPS) take a look at it? The Banner talk 08:42, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey there, just wondering in relation to the Costa Coffee page, would you support the inclusion of a table similar to List of countries with IKEA stores as part of the Costa Coffee page, as seen in other retail chains' pages as well? Looking for consensus since I have no interest in an edit war but I do believe this to be valuable information worthy of inclusion. Cheers. SharkyIzrod ( talk) 14:47, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for the review and the better refs, - I am sorry not to get to it soon, - another person died whose in article is poor, Werner Müller (politician), so that will come first, + RL, see my talk for the evening. The "kostbarstes Kunstwerk des Bistums Limburg" thing about the altar is found several places, but nothing serious so far. Patience please. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:52, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
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One day I will be in your area ~ and I would like to have (it appears I've been missing out) ~ of some great BBQ ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 15:30, 16 July 2019 (UTC) ~ This was the Last time I got directions in Mobile via I~10 to Corry Station Pensacola ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 16:02, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hey Drmies ~ did you know about an edit made here ~ I don't know who would have done such a thing ~ total disrespect ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 02:53, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
I just read a fascinating new book, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, which informed me in a major way about the Netherlands during World War II. Amazing stuff! Since the Netherlands was a neutral non-combatant I don't think many Americans etc. have any idea of what happened in that country (even if they've read The Diary of Anne Frank or viewed A Bridge Too Far, both of which obviously miss virtually everything). I had no idea of the deepening nightmare (and the strong resistance and intrigue) that went on in the Netherlands -- particularly in the towns of Arnhem, Velp, and Oosterbeek, which are precisely the towns Hepburn lived in. The book also mentions The Hague, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam, but most of the action takes place in the three towns I mentioned, which coincidentally got the brunt of the misery of the five long years of war.
I highly recommend this book to anybody interested in the Netherlands during World War II. It is a wonderful, personalized, "you are there" recreation.
-- Softlavender ( talk) 06:14, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
By the way, The Cut Out Girl can be gotten very cheaply (a couple of bucks) via bookfinder.com: [3] (prices include shipping). The same will be true of Dutch Girl once it's been out longer (was just published in April). Softlavender ( talk) 23:38, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Just noticed this mess: Richard Rappaport. Written by the artist himself or close associate (IP from Pittsburgh). Christ much of it's even written in present tense. Plus 16 of his own paintings. Softlavender ( talk) 02:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
UPDATE: I AfDed it. Softlavender ( talk) 02:48, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this article? IPs are objecting to the focus on fringe in the article and want to remove fringe from the lead and change a few other things. There is also a somewhat difficult to follow discussion about this at WP:BLPN, although in my view there's no reason it can't be held on the article Talk page. I imagine the IPs have a COI with respect to Schoch. In my view, it's a lousy article, but unless it's expanded in some way, I don't see how fringe can be taken out of the lead because at the moment the only issue discussed in the article is Schoch's fringe theory. Anyway, you're an academic (smile), so this should be right up your alley. And, of course, you have Uncle to help (second smile).-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:59, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
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I heard from a little birdie (you on a talk page) that you are traveling to Nevada in September, wearing new shoes? What city? Cullen328 Let's discuss it 03:50, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that you OS'd Michael's edit summary on his legal threat edit, but the diff itself is still publicly available. I thought you might have intended to OS the entire diff so I'm posting this here as a heads-up. Thanks! -- letcreate123 ( talk) 19:05, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
Drmies ~ I just saw the bot come by ~ So how's it feel ~ sitting on your front porch and letting someone else take care of your business ~ you know it reminds me of the time that a few yahoo's changed the name of an Island ~ I don't care what their intentions were ~ I still think that when you look at a Frozen piece of land ~ you better get your shoes on ~ because it's going to get real cold ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 04:07, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
I once rescued Jugging ( AfD discussion). I recently likewise turned my hand to Figgy pudding ( AfD discussion). In the course of it I discovered a very useful source that I plan to wave at anyone who thinks that infomercials in a Pommie newspaper or the Smithsonian quoting NPR quoting Debbie Waugh are good sources for conflating fig pudding and plum pudding. It was written by an English Professor who knew about food.
Middle English and food, including pig product. And a pop-culture page on IMDB, too. This is definitely completely the wrong user talk page.
You are good if from this you can find the UChic Press book reviews from 1973. ☺
Uncle G ( talk) 16:29, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
-- ferret ( talk) 15:51, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Uncle G ( talk) 19:32, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Hasn't the editor writing this article had enough warnings by now? I have the article watchlisted because I removed the WP:BLPPROD tag, but it's impossible for me to get to grips with the topic properly, to determine whether this article should even be here, while such editing without explanation or discussion is happening. Don't you think that, in the absence of any reply to the previous warnings, it's time for a block? Phil Bridger ( talk) 18:10, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
This leads me to believe that this is undisclosed paid editing, becuse the pattern is:
For what it's worth, this quacks like a duck, but is obviously stale:
I have my suspicions about these:
I have reverted the egregious infringements of the BLP policy (q.v.) at Nirmal Singh (Haryana) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), too. Uncle G ( talk) 20:58, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
I leave looking at these to other people:
Uncle G ( talk) 21:13, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
I just want to protect the article of List of ABS-CBN drama series as well as doing the article of List of GMA Network drama series ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/839995081) thank you. Barneysss ( talk) 14:52, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
What are the options. I just wanted to protect you in the List of GMA Network drama series in the same way you do the List of ABS-CBN drama series. Barneysss ( talk) 15:00, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Try WP:RFPP because i just want to protect the article of ABS-CBN drama Thank You. Barneysss ( talk) 15:47, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey, Drmies, I noticed you removed the list of radio shows here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Buono!&oldid=907847619 This was the group's radio show and it was also endorsed by Pizza-La, one of their biggest sponsors. But I also noticed Kim Jong-hyun (singer) had a radio show listing as well? lullabying ( talk) 18:49, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
This is one of your checkuser blocks, and you left instructions to use the main account. Xe wants the main account, now OTRS verified, unblocked and the autobiography undeleted. See the rest of the talk page for details. Uncle G ( talk) 05:00, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies.
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Please pass this on to your fellow checkusers, who will know why. Uncle G ( talk) 23:49, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
Deckoffa ( talk · contribs · count) is adding material to this article that is clearly inappropriate. Worse, as you can see from their contribution history, they are adding the same material to multiple articles. I warned them of BLP violations at BLPN (after I removed the material from many pages), but they have undone all my removals. The issue of whether their edits are in fact BLP violations is dicey. Jascha Brodsky, the alleged molester, died in 1997. However, his accuser, Lara St. John, is very much alive, Graffman is alive, as is Roberto Díaz. The user has been reverted by others than just me, mainly SPECIFICO, but regardless of whether Deckoffa is violating BLP, adding WP:COATRACKy material, or simply being disruptive, it's not a clear enough policy violation for me (INVOLVED) to block the editor, which is what I think they deserve. Based on their latest comments at BLPN, their crusade seems to matter more to them than anything else.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:01, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey, Drmies! I hope you don't mind me asking but I saw your edit on King & Prince where you removed tables and information about the members in the group (seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=King_%26_Prince&oldid=887192957). I've actually been really confused because there are a lot of J-pop related articles like Angerme, Iris (Japanese band), Camellia Factory, etc. that insist on listing birthdates and assigned colors for members. Since J-pop doesn't have large international appeal compared to other mainstream bands like X Japan and Luna Sea and K-pop groups like Iz One, the pages are largely maintained by fans who think this sort of information is important (I even had a long discussion at Talk:Buono! with an editor who insisted on keeping this info). I asked around but Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians seems mostly inactive and I'm not sure what to do. Thanks! lullabying ( talk) 16:05, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
I'm getting out the iron brush out for that page. The members should be listed as Hi-5 (Australian band) AngusWOOF ( bark • sniff) 18:30, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
I think that the Portuguese disruptive user is back as 85.243.225.246 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) (formerly 85.242.48.58 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). SLBedit ( talk) 21:12, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
So I'll just leave this here.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 02:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
user:Warren Cook Alan Cook is abusing his talkpage. CLCStudent ( talk) 00:51, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Ahem! Come on, Doktoro! Try harder at the old youth cred. You will have to learn who Isabela Moner is at some point. Uncle G ( talk) 16:25, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Then the kids will know you to be really rad and hep to the now. Uncle G ( talk) 17:54, 2 August 2019 (UTC)Have you seen that new Isabela Moner movie? I saw her in 100 Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead and Transformers: About Last Night, you know.
It's August. It's 10,000 degrees outside. Permission to one-click archive the Xmas messages (from literally unknown years) at the top of this page? Softlavender ( talk) 00:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
I was surprised to see this user be blocked for violating the username policy. I was just curious about which policy she violated. CLCStudent ( talk) 23:38, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
It's not he-who-must-not-be-named, but that was pretty good. A ticklish edit at best.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 23:46, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
If you (or any stalker) can spare some of your valuable time, can you take a quick look at User talk:Wehwalt/Archive 21#Richard Nixon resignation? I questioned an edit the user made on a section (the lede) that appears to me to be against consensus. The user persists in this, even after a month of further discussion ( Talk:Richard Nixon#Resignation in lede).
I am asking for no more than enough of your time to determine if there's some quick and simple resolution that I've missed, such as I (or anyone else) being way off base here. A more detailed analysis would be welcomed, but if it involves anything more than a simple judgement, it's probably not worth your time. It's all over a small textual difference; the reason I haven't just dropped this is that I'm perplexed on why such an experienced and valued editor seems to be at odds with basic WP policy just on this one small issue; I'm left wondering if I'm the one very mistaken, and need education on WP policy. That's why I'm asking for a quick review.
Even a lack of response here is fine; I'll assume there's no simple answer, and I'm prepared to start an RFC to resolve and understand this. -- A D Monroe III( talk) 16:33, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
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… and you can have the kudos of doing better than I did, too, for whatever that is worth. ☺
We don't want xyr fellow youths to find Drmies editing any more articles about very dead people, especially very dead people where Doktoro has to consider the moral qualities and large muscular person (and indeed sweet voice and missing teeth) of a man that
Joseph Cooper Walker had never met and credited a "friend" for knowledge thereof. Doktoro does not need such stimulation at xyr age.Doktoro's fellow youths do not rispec' knowing the teeth of very dead people, and rispec' from one's peer group is important. Doktoro is neither friend of Walker nor Dorothy.
So gently guide Dr mi estas away, and shield xyr eyes; and please find a historian who does not simply regurgitate a clearly unreliable 18th century memoir. You might observe that I have found a clearly annoyed Ulsterman that doesn't like the memoir, and quite a lot of people over the centuries that have plagiarized it without attribution. So the bar is rather higher than an off-handed Google Books search now. Those of you with High Beaming, Tex-Mex Lexus, JSTORrery, and the like might care to use your exceptional capabilities.
Uncle G ( talk) 10:46, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Maybe someone else will have more Limericks for Doktoro. Uncle G ( talk) 18:41, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
It is because you like Limericks. So there were three Limericks for you. Uncle G ( talk) 00:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
This one is huge. The lurkers might want to chip in here. I've given you a good substub. But there's no mention of Roddy McCorley, the granite block of St Patrick, the Gaelic football club, the Irish Folk Song Society, the Irish Peasant Home Industries, the Belfast Art Society, or the Irish Decorative Art Association. Uncle G ( talk) 00:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
The Ulster Literary Theatre has bypassed Articles for creation, because it was about plays and writing and history and stuff, and no-one is interested in that here. I argued that Doktoro might be tricked into it if it were misrepresented as popular culture … of 1909, having xem think that it would help that youth cred, but failed to make the case. Uncle G ( talk) 03:46, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
No, no, no, Doktoro! If you want the youth cred then you need to focus upon finding sources for Jada Facer ( AfD discussion) not very dead priests. Do not even let the fact that those of us without all of that High Beaming, Tex-Mex Lexus, and JSTORrery cannot read the likes of doi: 10.2307/29740597, whereas you can, distract you. Nor http://allhallows.ie/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Missionary.pdf . Nor even David Bigger and Robert Magill Young. Uncle G ( talk) 09:27, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/SwoopSwing just changed something like 600 "infobox Hollywood cartoon" to "infobox film" with no edit summaries. Was there an RfC I missed? otherwise, I'm kinda wishing I had mass rollback rights now :). Please take a look. Hydromania ( talk) 03:05, 24 June 2019 (UTC) And I found it. Was eight months ago so I'm surprised it's just getting implemented now. Sorry to bother. Hydromania ( talk) 03:15, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Mr. Reputable.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:10, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
I don't mean to stir the drama pot, but can someone point me to whatever silencing of unwelcome voices WMF is meant to have done? I've been out-of-the-loop,and my curiosity is perhaps getting the better of me now. Ladyof Shalott 02:33, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
As I have been supporting Doktoro's quest for youth cred for — Hmmm! … it is probably self-defeating to say — many years, including even a recent course correction here at AFC above, at #Course correction, I must oppose Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb's attempt to out Doktoro's age. A Time Lady does not care to be asked.
On that subject: Onion Lady, EngVar's Daughter, and others, if writing articles is more to your taste, I hope to present a quite interesting one to AFC shortly. It's next in line after I make some more improvements to I Monetary Advisory, mentioned in a fairly big news story quite recently that has been linked to R. Roshan Baig#Decline in Indian National Congress and that we at Wikipedia were going to inappropriately call IMA scam.
If in the meantime you want a stub to turn into a featured article, just to prove that it can be done but without touching stuff that you might be saving up, we've been discussing entire books with respect to International Legion (Proposed) ( AfD discussion). Don't let the involvement of UN secretary generals in the history of the subject fool you; this one is written about by professors, English Professors and Australian ones. Doktoro, do not get excited by the 1995 involvement of Gallifey in that subject.
Uncle G ( talk) 16:54, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Oh dear. There actually is Bacon. Uncle G ( talk) 22:57, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
You are most welcome sir.
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I could have sworn that I had it here, just a moment ago.
As you might have already seen, I am having to draft my next submission to Articles for creation in a holding area. It is rather long. This is one of the elephants in the room mentioned at User:Uncle G/Missing encyclopaedic articles, that I bumped into from doing AFD Patrol.
I have not found a connection to Gallifrey but, as I mentioned earlier here at AFC, I am dismayed to discover the involvement of Bacon when checking out the |author1-link= possibilities. Alas, there are no free-content images of said Bacon that I could use in a sidebar here to entice you, the nearest being non-free CC-BY-NC-ND licensed.
There are no very dead people involved, so this will definitely help with Doktoro's quest for youth cred. There are a pop singer and a kid off the TV involved. It is hep and in the now, man! Protestors at Berkeley and everything. On the streets! How much more street cred can one get, dude?
Doing the reading inspires a series of questions that are perhaps, this time, addressed to people other than readers of Wikipedia's main page, perhaps to its writers this time; a whole week's worth of thoughts for the day to muse upon.
Would that there were an encyclopaedia around here with history that everyone could learn from! ☺
I am in the process of writing a tiny part of it.
Uncle G ( talk) 11:02, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
He is also a sock-check out the report I put Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Parveen raaj hisampur (I'm sure there are others) Wgolf ( talk) 02:19, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello Drmies, can you please find a citation to one of the "every other book". Washington Post is not an authoritative source about Rilke's life. And once again there was no "dressing as a girl" in the 19th century among young children. Rilke's mother may have treated him "like a girl" or believed he's a girl but it wasn't about clothing. Please find a historically correct source. Cheers, The Terrible Mutant Hamster ( talk) 02:04, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia is a rotten place to edit. I trimmed significant material from this article, which has clearly been written by fans. I should have trimmed more, but I got tired. It was full of excessive detail and tangential material. It even had a table for all of of his own appearances (I removed that entirely). The Directorial style section is principally a self-aggrandizing quote farm. I should have removed all three quotations but I only did the last as it was unsourced. At the same time, I corrected a plethora of formatting errors. I also deadlinked a Daily Mail cite in the Personal life section supposedly supporting that Yvonne Walcott is Yates's partner. Even if the DM cite were live, we should have better sourcing for that sort of material (then there's the trivia about Walcott). At the same time, I corrected the infobox so it doesn't say that Walcott is his spouse.
An editor came along and undid a lot of my changes, as a result of which there are now factual errors, unsourced material, and the list goes on. I undid their changes, but that was quickly reverted telling me to go to the Talk page. Not me. This post here is the only thing I'm willing to do, and if no one's interested, which I can completely understand, that'll be an end to it. In this area and in so many others lately I don't know why I bother.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:02, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
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The block should be amended. If they allowed to edit their own talk page they will just restore the libellous material and they are clearly an associate of the banned user User:Option 16. Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 02:40, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Klomp (that was actually the family name of my girlfriend when I was living in Amsterdam inn 1967). I won't be going to Stockholm most unfortunately, because I really can't afford $3,000 just for 5 days in the far north of Europe. I'll leave that trip to the Europeans and the 70-strong WMF junket. But next year Wikimania is right on my doorstep. I hope you will be able to come. I will be making absolutely sure that my friends who are able to come will have a great time. Regards, Chris. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:41, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Abusive_behavior_and_controversial_edits_by_an_IP. While this started as my question on the applicability of talk page guidelines, I have grown increasingly concerned about Bbb23's behavior (i.e. lack of response to the question I and other have raised), and his refusal to discuss this on his talk page ( [1]). I am sure acted 'to protect the project', but there are limits to such protection, particularly given the potential for admin abuse of power. I would not be pursuing this IF Bbb23 did not use the veiled thread 'this is an administrative action'. But he did. This all could have ended if Bbb23 said 'ok, I made a mistake, won't do it again', with a simple 'sorry' being nice but not necessary (my ego will survive without it). But given Bbb23 refusal to address this issue outside saying that Cirt socket, it seems to me that they have not demonstrated any remorse, or anything to demonstrate they made a mistake. This is worrisome. Admin abuse, where admins believe they are near perfect, have no need to explain themselves or apologize is a problem on Wikipedia. As an OP, I don't believe this issue is closed until Bbb23 explains themselves, apologizes, OR the community decided it is not necessary. Your closure of this thread, as a fellow admin, is sending a wrong message - that admins are beyond critique, and if critiqued, well, such threads will be closed by their fellow admin, no need for them to be stressed out and subject to such a terrifying thing as critique... Again, I am not seeking anything else but a simple statement from Bbb23 that they made a mistake and they won't do it again. If you are not going to reopen that thread, and in light of Bbb23 removing my posts from their talk pages, I'd appreciate if you would tell me which forum is applicable to pursue this matter further. Because while this started as a small matter, Bbb23 refusal to back down even a little bit suggest to me this may need to be investigated further, because this community does not need admins who are unwilling to accept that they can make an occasional errors. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:49, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
You feel like taking a look at this? Beyond My Ken ( talk) 11:25, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
You might want to take another look at this. Besides [2] this, basically all their contribs are pursuing this fool vendetta from Talk:Romford. Pinkbeast ( talk) 14:02, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
For what it's worth, I don't see much different in the (poor) level of contributions between the talk page jeering by MickGriff ( talk · contribs) and the edit summarries of the other account. My personal view is that Wikipedia would be better off without both of them. 86.29.117.62 ( talk · contribs) geolocates to the next town along. 31.127.146.196 ( talk · contribs) is plainly from the edit summaries MickGriff logged out. They both do nothing else and neither presents the sort of case that Wikipedia needs. Uncle G ( talk) 09:36, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Maybe Wiki would be better off publishing the fact that Romford is in Essex instead of incorrectly showing Romford as London. As for the sort of case that Wiki needs I would think up to date government and NHS websites stating Romford is in Essex is what Wiki needs but no Wiki via people with no connection to Romford are allowed to impose their fakery and have Romford showing as London. Reminiscent of the old Soviet Union. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MickGriff ( talk • contribs) 09:03, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
On 6 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1 the Road, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an artificial intelligence wrote a novel in the spirit of Jack Kerouac's On the Road? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1 the Road. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, 1 the Road), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass ( talk) 00:02, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Drmies I just Reverted it since an experienced editor put it back? Since the Nazi did persecute Clergy Just a Example /info/en/?search=Priest_Barracks_of_Dachau_Concentration_Camp /info/en/?search=Holocaust_victims#Roman_Catholics Jack90s15 ( talk) 00:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Jack90s15, if you have specific questions you could drop them on my talk page. Some very nice people stop by here occasionally, and they might could help you out. Drmies ( talk) 01:36, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
I intended to go through and restore edits we can agree on, one by one. And I started to do this. Most of these edits can not be undone on a single basis. What else could I do? Jason from nyc ( talk) 14:51, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
After over a decade and a half finally someone — me! — has read a book. I've related the unfortunate truth that I found out at AFD. Alas, I have things to do. Lurkers here at Doktoro's talk page might relish the challenge of reading books, and pick up where I left off. You'll discover that Aquapasto is a name of one company's product, for starters, and we probably could do with using the generic name for the stuff. Uncle G ( talk) 13:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
Pinging User:MaskedSinger and User:William2001: please look at this again: the AfDs, the associated pages, the comments here by Uncle G, etc. But for y'all's delete votes I could simply close them and be done with it. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 14:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
I don't know what seasoning Doktoro is covered in that makes xem smell, but all that I am asking is that people check out what is said in books so that we have what is right rather than what User:Daniel C. Boyer gave us. If pressed on the subject, I would argue that a prophylactic redirect at soufflage is the best course of action, because people are going to read these books that plagiarized Wikipedia and it is best that they get pointed to the right place. Maybe I am wrong about how much there is on the subject, but both the nominator and another person seem happy for a redirect to the section in the larger article. As for the others: please read sources and find out what is correct. I've been slightly busy with the ₹4,000 crore (equivalent to ₹50 billion or A$900 million in 2023) scandal that is threatening to rock the Karnataka government. I've even had to hand over the German buckets at User talk:Hans Adler#Respite, although it seems that the pigeons came home to roost there based upon my past history.
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I now get to truthfully say that I have just dumped a bucketload of pigeon crap on User talk:Hans Adler. Uncle G ( talk) 18:22, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
On 5 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ali Eisami, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ali Eisami (pictured), a Kanuri man, dictated his memoirs of his captivity to German missionary and linguist Sigismund Koelle, and helped him produce a Kanuri grammar? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ali Eisami. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Ali Eisami), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Thank you for another good one. Slave memories, banned memories, admonished memories ( short version, + hope is precious) ... thanks from cabal of the outcast. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
Did you ever add Adriaan de Bruin and the other to the stats? Or do I have to do that? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:41, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
A controversial article receiving far too much attention. User:FRANCISBONNICI has been repeatedly attempting to whitewash the article. I have reverted him (more than I should but I'm considering it quasi-vandalism), but he keeps doing it. I warned him he'd be blocked if he persisted, but that's not stopping him, and, much as I think he deserves to be blocked, I don't feel comfortable doing so. In addition to the reverts, I've also done some editing of the article, so I'm WP:INVOLVED. If you could at least keep an eye on the article, that would be helpful.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:42, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Anyone stepping into this should also see:
and the OTRS ticket (given on the article's talk page). Uncle G ( talk) 09:01, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
I think the check user bit would help me sift unblock requests, but there's no way to request it and I'm afraid of rejection. Is their anything I should know? Thanks Dlohcierekim ( talk) 20:10, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Thanks y'all, though I won't comment on what I think Starbucks coffee tastes like. Yes, I know the Cu's are busy, and if I could just check some of these sock block appealers myself, it would lessen their load. Dlohcierekim ( talk) 01:54, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
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Sorry I didn't see your ping, but until Yoshida Shoji is done, I effectively cannot be pinged. Thanks for handling it. I actually chose to go with no action, since the edit in question is from February (they both edit the same articles, so there's bound to be some overlap), but I suppose it was, technically, a violation. Oh well. El_C 19:09, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
I read your comment about the hook. I actually use the same term listed on Guinness World Records for that. Do you have any other suggestion for that? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moon Gin ( talk • contribs) 07:26, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Maybe this last exchange can shed some light on your question ( /info/en/?search=User_talk:Hippo43). Like i said in my thread in Matty's page, that person feels i am the ONLY editor in football that needs cleaning up, all the time everywhere. Most of the time (if not ALWAYS) articles are left in worse condition than they were after their "cleanup", last example being Juan Antonio Anquela.
No point engaging in a WP:ANI report, or proving or disproving WP:HOUND, i'm done with this crap! If the other user wanted this outcome they can pat themselves on the back (and maybe one day, if/when someones does to them what they have done to me, they will understand), if not this was all pointless in the end, but all in all WP is in good hands (in 2019 as it was in 2006 when i started).
Cheers, take care as well -- Quite A Character ( talk) 18:17, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Thank you very much for taking care of that IP! I was lying on the couch trying to figure out whether to drag the IP to ANI or request semi-protection or wait for a 3RR violation, but you nipped the issue quickly and saved me a lot of diff-digging for which I greatly appreciate! I'm sure the range block will be very helpful. Aoi (青い) ( talk) 18:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
Der Artiklefürdeletionnomminator nicht gefounden sources hast, parce que het Googlen Searchenengine upturnen les Veryoldenbooks in der Blackletter und Foreign gewritten. Hilf das Nomminator mit lo gefinden auf des sources pour le Mittleeuropeanen State von Isenburg-Kempenich, voor Artikle miglioramento! Bitte. Uncle G ( talk) 19:38, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
How do I initiate an arbitration and enforcement request against Snooganssnoogans? - JohnTopShelf ( talk) 02:56, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi-Many thanks for starting the Clyde Foster article. I found the Clyde Foster obituary and added it to the article as a citation. You may want to look at it. Again my thanks- RFD ( talk) 14:24, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Doktoro, you get paid in units of currency. You do not get paid in units of temperature. You have not got the hang of paid editing at all. Uncle G ( talk) 18:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Lancegate. Since you had some involvement with the Lancegate redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 ( talk) 22:44, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
Maybe I am overly suspicious, but I get a very bad vibe about editor DartsforWindows. His username is the same as his (personal??) website and a darts game. And in most of his edits he is mentioning that website. (S)He denies any wrongdoing at User talk:DartsforWindows, but it still gives me the creeps. Can you (or one of your TPS) take a look at it? The Banner talk 08:42, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey there, just wondering in relation to the Costa Coffee page, would you support the inclusion of a table similar to List of countries with IKEA stores as part of the Costa Coffee page, as seen in other retail chains' pages as well? Looking for consensus since I have no interest in an edit war but I do believe this to be valuable information worthy of inclusion. Cheers. SharkyIzrod ( talk) 14:47, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for the review and the better refs, - I am sorry not to get to it soon, - another person died whose in article is poor, Werner Müller (politician), so that will come first, + RL, see my talk for the evening. The "kostbarstes Kunstwerk des Bistums Limburg" thing about the altar is found several places, but nothing serious so far. Patience please. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:52, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
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One day I will be in your area ~ and I would like to have (it appears I've been missing out) ~ of some great BBQ ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 15:30, 16 July 2019 (UTC) ~ This was the Last time I got directions in Mobile via I~10 to Corry Station Pensacola ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 16:02, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
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you know... Grrrr ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 15:24, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey Drmies ~ did you know about an edit made here ~ I don't know who would have done such a thing ~ total disrespect ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 02:53, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
I just read a fascinating new book, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, which informed me in a major way about the Netherlands during World War II. Amazing stuff! Since the Netherlands was a neutral non-combatant I don't think many Americans etc. have any idea of what happened in that country (even if they've read The Diary of Anne Frank or viewed A Bridge Too Far, both of which obviously miss virtually everything). I had no idea of the deepening nightmare (and the strong resistance and intrigue) that went on in the Netherlands -- particularly in the towns of Arnhem, Velp, and Oosterbeek, which are precisely the towns Hepburn lived in. The book also mentions The Hague, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam, but most of the action takes place in the three towns I mentioned, which coincidentally got the brunt of the misery of the five long years of war.
I highly recommend this book to anybody interested in the Netherlands during World War II. It is a wonderful, personalized, "you are there" recreation.
-- Softlavender ( talk) 06:14, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
By the way, The Cut Out Girl can be gotten very cheaply (a couple of bucks) via bookfinder.com: [3] (prices include shipping). The same will be true of Dutch Girl once it's been out longer (was just published in April). Softlavender ( talk) 23:38, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Just noticed this mess: Richard Rappaport. Written by the artist himself or close associate (IP from Pittsburgh). Christ much of it's even written in present tense. Plus 16 of his own paintings. Softlavender ( talk) 02:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
UPDATE: I AfDed it. Softlavender ( talk) 02:48, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this article? IPs are objecting to the focus on fringe in the article and want to remove fringe from the lead and change a few other things. There is also a somewhat difficult to follow discussion about this at WP:BLPN, although in my view there's no reason it can't be held on the article Talk page. I imagine the IPs have a COI with respect to Schoch. In my view, it's a lousy article, but unless it's expanded in some way, I don't see how fringe can be taken out of the lead because at the moment the only issue discussed in the article is Schoch's fringe theory. Anyway, you're an academic (smile), so this should be right up your alley. And, of course, you have Uncle to help (second smile).-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:59, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
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I heard from a little birdie (you on a talk page) that you are traveling to Nevada in September, wearing new shoes? What city? Cullen328 Let's discuss it 03:50, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that you OS'd Michael's edit summary on his legal threat edit, but the diff itself is still publicly available. I thought you might have intended to OS the entire diff so I'm posting this here as a heads-up. Thanks! -- letcreate123 ( talk) 19:05, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
Drmies ~ I just saw the bot come by ~ So how's it feel ~ sitting on your front porch and letting someone else take care of your business ~ you know it reminds me of the time that a few yahoo's changed the name of an Island ~ I don't care what their intentions were ~ I still think that when you look at a Frozen piece of land ~ you better get your shoes on ~ because it's going to get real cold ~ ~mitch~ ( talk) 04:07, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
I once rescued Jugging ( AfD discussion). I recently likewise turned my hand to Figgy pudding ( AfD discussion). In the course of it I discovered a very useful source that I plan to wave at anyone who thinks that infomercials in a Pommie newspaper or the Smithsonian quoting NPR quoting Debbie Waugh are good sources for conflating fig pudding and plum pudding. It was written by an English Professor who knew about food.
Middle English and food, including pig product. And a pop-culture page on IMDB, too. This is definitely completely the wrong user talk page.
You are good if from this you can find the UChic Press book reviews from 1973. ☺
Uncle G ( talk) 16:29, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
-- ferret ( talk) 15:51, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Uncle G ( talk) 19:32, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Hasn't the editor writing this article had enough warnings by now? I have the article watchlisted because I removed the WP:BLPPROD tag, but it's impossible for me to get to grips with the topic properly, to determine whether this article should even be here, while such editing without explanation or discussion is happening. Don't you think that, in the absence of any reply to the previous warnings, it's time for a block? Phil Bridger ( talk) 18:10, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
This leads me to believe that this is undisclosed paid editing, becuse the pattern is:
For what it's worth, this quacks like a duck, but is obviously stale:
I have my suspicions about these:
I have reverted the egregious infringements of the BLP policy (q.v.) at Nirmal Singh (Haryana) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), too. Uncle G ( talk) 20:58, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
I leave looking at these to other people:
Uncle G ( talk) 21:13, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
I just want to protect the article of List of ABS-CBN drama series as well as doing the article of List of GMA Network drama series ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/839995081) thank you. Barneysss ( talk) 14:52, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
What are the options. I just wanted to protect you in the List of GMA Network drama series in the same way you do the List of ABS-CBN drama series. Barneysss ( talk) 15:00, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Try WP:RFPP because i just want to protect the article of ABS-CBN drama Thank You. Barneysss ( talk) 15:47, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey, Drmies, I noticed you removed the list of radio shows here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Buono!&oldid=907847619 This was the group's radio show and it was also endorsed by Pizza-La, one of their biggest sponsors. But I also noticed Kim Jong-hyun (singer) had a radio show listing as well? lullabying ( talk) 18:49, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
This is one of your checkuser blocks, and you left instructions to use the main account. Xe wants the main account, now OTRS verified, unblocked and the autobiography undeleted. See the rest of the talk page for details. Uncle G ( talk) 05:00, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
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Please pass this on to your fellow checkusers, who will know why. Uncle G ( talk) 23:49, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
Deckoffa ( talk · contribs · count) is adding material to this article that is clearly inappropriate. Worse, as you can see from their contribution history, they are adding the same material to multiple articles. I warned them of BLP violations at BLPN (after I removed the material from many pages), but they have undone all my removals. The issue of whether their edits are in fact BLP violations is dicey. Jascha Brodsky, the alleged molester, died in 1997. However, his accuser, Lara St. John, is very much alive, Graffman is alive, as is Roberto Díaz. The user has been reverted by others than just me, mainly SPECIFICO, but regardless of whether Deckoffa is violating BLP, adding WP:COATRACKy material, or simply being disruptive, it's not a clear enough policy violation for me (INVOLVED) to block the editor, which is what I think they deserve. Based on their latest comments at BLPN, their crusade seems to matter more to them than anything else.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:01, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey, Drmies! I hope you don't mind me asking but I saw your edit on King & Prince where you removed tables and information about the members in the group (seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=King_%26_Prince&oldid=887192957). I've actually been really confused because there are a lot of J-pop related articles like Angerme, Iris (Japanese band), Camellia Factory, etc. that insist on listing birthdates and assigned colors for members. Since J-pop doesn't have large international appeal compared to other mainstream bands like X Japan and Luna Sea and K-pop groups like Iz One, the pages are largely maintained by fans who think this sort of information is important (I even had a long discussion at Talk:Buono! with an editor who insisted on keeping this info). I asked around but Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians seems mostly inactive and I'm not sure what to do. Thanks! lullabying ( talk) 16:05, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
I'm getting out the iron brush out for that page. The members should be listed as Hi-5 (Australian band) AngusWOOF ( bark • sniff) 18:30, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
I think that the Portuguese disruptive user is back as 85.243.225.246 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) (formerly 85.242.48.58 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). SLBedit ( talk) 21:12, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
So I'll just leave this here.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 02:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
user:Warren Cook Alan Cook is abusing his talkpage. CLCStudent ( talk) 00:51, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Ahem! Come on, Doktoro! Try harder at the old youth cred. You will have to learn who Isabela Moner is at some point. Uncle G ( talk) 16:25, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Then the kids will know you to be really rad and hep to the now. Uncle G ( talk) 17:54, 2 August 2019 (UTC)Have you seen that new Isabela Moner movie? I saw her in 100 Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead and Transformers: About Last Night, you know.
It's August. It's 10,000 degrees outside. Permission to one-click archive the Xmas messages (from literally unknown years) at the top of this page? Softlavender ( talk) 00:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
I was surprised to see this user be blocked for violating the username policy. I was just curious about which policy she violated. CLCStudent ( talk) 23:38, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
It's not he-who-must-not-be-named, but that was pretty good. A ticklish edit at best.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 23:46, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
If you (or any stalker) can spare some of your valuable time, can you take a quick look at User talk:Wehwalt/Archive 21#Richard Nixon resignation? I questioned an edit the user made on a section (the lede) that appears to me to be against consensus. The user persists in this, even after a month of further discussion ( Talk:Richard Nixon#Resignation in lede).
I am asking for no more than enough of your time to determine if there's some quick and simple resolution that I've missed, such as I (or anyone else) being way off base here. A more detailed analysis would be welcomed, but if it involves anything more than a simple judgement, it's probably not worth your time. It's all over a small textual difference; the reason I haven't just dropped this is that I'm perplexed on why such an experienced and valued editor seems to be at odds with basic WP policy just on this one small issue; I'm left wondering if I'm the one very mistaken, and need education on WP policy. That's why I'm asking for a quick review.
Even a lack of response here is fine; I'll assume there's no simple answer, and I'm prepared to start an RFC to resolve and understand this. -- A D Monroe III( talk) 16:33, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
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