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User:Othmas biaggio came in and in their first edits started censoring a bunch of articles, related to Serbian nationalism. I didn't notice them before and am involved in one case, but I did give them the standard sanctions warnings. Do you recognize this perhaps as repeat business? -- Joy ( talk) 13:17, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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2023 British Library cyberattack. If anyone is interested. Softlavender ( talk) 10:55, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
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Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! The Nativity scene on the Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery by Nicola Pisano is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod ( talk) 02:59, 24 December 2023 (UTC) |
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Jerium ( talk) 16:57, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies,
Sorry to interrupt the holiday cheer but I think I might have stumbled upon a sockpuppet of User:MBNO. User:Amzkw started editing on December 4th, like MBNO, and is also focused on substandard articles on Middle Eastern football teams like those from Yemen and the West Bank. I'm bringing this to you since you blocked MBNO but you also have CU goggles. Thanks for any help you can supply and happy holidays! Liz Read! Talk! 20:31, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
You spammed hoax templates on my sandboxes for no reason, their just for fun, there not hoaxes. SnowieLuna1212 ( talk) 17:13, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Talk:Offramp (album) TlonicChronic ( talk) 03:04, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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NW1223< Howl at me• My hunts> 19:38, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
You seem to have expertise on English, and I was wondering if you would be willing to answer a question on prepositions for me. (I'm the same guy you're annoyed with, I'm not trying to phish, I'm trying to break bread; I came across something on Wikipedia that confused me, and I was hoping someone could help me with parsing.) TlonicChronic ( talk) 18:36, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Drmies: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:01, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
I'm not sure why but Daxtonlab appears to be mass reverting edits of yours. ThaddeusSholto ( talk) 17:20, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
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Today's story is about parts of my life. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I managed to get the pics to snow (on 28 Nov), and heard a lovely concert, after listening to a miracle of meditative dreaming on 6 December (or just click on music). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:57, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:53, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:53, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
I try to finish uploading images of 2023 before it ends, and reached 17 December. Happy to see Rebekka Habermas on the Main page. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:36, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop a wee note, was part of a chat with the author of the above draft on IRC and they mentioned possibly putting a {{ db-g7}} tag on it. Your edits kind of muddy the waters some, so I just wanted to check and see if you were okay with it should the creator go ahead with the self-nom. (please do not ping on reply) Primefac ( talk) 16:43, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. It think this range may be too broad to block. It appears to be blocking a lot of innocent users on AT&T broadband. While it may be the case that there are some vandals within this /36 that are using a IPv6 ranges broader than a /64, everything I am seeing indicates fairly consistent /64 ranges for users.
For example, the vandal mentioned in this post on your talk page does use a variety of IPv6 addresses for those example edits, but they are all on the same /64 even though they are changing.
Similarly, the vandal based in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin using 107.217.40.7 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) also used multiple addresses in the IPv6 range 2600:1700:c3e0:50e0::/64 ( block range · block log ( global) · WHOIS (partial)). However, if you broaden the range to the /48, you start seeing unrelated users.
Since the block, these specific IPs have appealed:
Location | Talk page | Contributions for /64 | Notes |
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Springfield, Ohio | 2600:1700:C260:5CD0:D990:C211:BB72:BAA2 | 2600:1700:C260:5CD0::/64 | no prior history, but more math than most appeals |
El Cajon, California | 2600:1700:C221:FA0:0:0:0:49 | 2600:1700:C221:FA0::/64 | only one previous edit, same IPv6 over 30 months |
Homer Glen, Illinois | 2600:1700:C960:2270:5D08:5878:58AF:F6F0 | 2600:1700:C960:2270::/64 | Chicago-area LTA that I recognize, same IPv6 /64 over 5 years |
El Paso, Texas | 2600:1700:C070:9EF0:25A7:1C00:E5F6:4BB4 | 2600:1700:C070:9EF0::/64 | no prior history |
Chicago, Illinois | 2600:1700:C9C0:8B50:15FD:C8AA:752D:26CB | 2600:1700:C9C0:8B50::/64 | no prior history |
Houston, Texas | 2600:1700:C7C0:3100:A4AE:696A:4BA8:1BAC | 2600:1700:C7C0:3100::/64 | very sporadic minor edits, same IPv6 /64 over 5 years |
San Jose, California | 2600:1700:C460:A220:149E:F857:9CB8:3EDE | 2600:1700:C460:A220::/64 | looks like good faith, but a lot of reverts, same IPv6 /64 over 18 months |
Bartlett, Illinois | 2600:1700:C990:FBE0:10BC:94EB:8EED:263F | 2600:1700:C990:FBE0::/64 | a few disruptive edits in 2021, but fine afterwards, same IPv6 /64 used over 30 months |
In all of the above cases that had prior history, it looks like they were sticking to the same /64 ranges.
Unless the intention is something like WP:TMOBILE, this block seems to be far too broad. Daniel Quinlan ( talk) 23:39, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
I saw that you had blocked AmigodeMassa as a sock of Holiptholipt. It looks like Justicieroideologico immediately started editing the same articles and may be another. ThaddeusSholto ( talk) 17:01, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Can you please check Jeremiah Bornfield? You deleted it a few months ago as G5, it just got recreated by a user just after their 10th edit, might be a case of WP:SOCK? Can't really tag it as G4 as I don't have access to the older deleted version. Thanks a lot! ChaotıċEnby( t · c) 14:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free and may Janus light your way. Ealdgyth ( talk) 14:30, 31 December 2023 (UTC) |
Sorry, missed the fact that the sections had been deleted by you rather than by the editor trying to remove things in general from the article. I've got it on my watchlist now as well. Naraht ( talk) 16:37, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Drmies,
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That made me laugh.
And delta is for dog, presumably. Although it is alpha Canis Minoris.
Uncle G ( talk) 18:29, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
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Doktoro will be pleased to learn that the University of Georgia lets its emeritus professor of keeping fish write a whole source that is yet to be mined for Sharks in popular culture.
In Popular Culture and youth cred star status awaits you, Doktoro. You can cite a professor stating that there are no known shark-from-other-planet movies (p.210) or that The Deep (1977 film) has the wrong species of shark for the Carribbean (p.211) or what Halle Berry's character got wrong in Dark Tide (p.211) amongst many other popular culture facts.
I followed up on you in more detail at Talk:Haile Selassie. There is too much on my plate to help much more than that with the wikignoming, though. Uncle G ( talk) 08:52, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Two minutes after you draftified that article it was copied back without change to a main page at Robert K. Montoye, leaving behind the draft you created. I have done an AfD if you want to comment. Ldm1954 ( talk) 20:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I see you removed the process + installations gallery from this article. I restored the processes, which are informative and rare in such articles, and were a pain to track down and get released under a free license. Now there are two five-up galleries, which looks alright to my eye; let me know what you think.
I know it's [still] not typical to have multimedia illustrations of procedural work, but I'd like to see much more of it, not less; the best educational material like this is on youtube and we've still done precious little to make it easy to get incorporated here... – SJ + 09:18, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
New sock just made his debut: CulturalHuya. ThaddeusSholto ( talk) 21:55, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I know you were the one to just handle the BeFriendlyGoodSi block. I know they’ve submitted an appeal, but they keep editing the page and I keep getting the ping notification. From the revision history, they seem to keep moving content around for some reason? Does this rise to the level of disruptive? Or is it just annoying and unfortunate I’ve previously offered advice there. Thanks, microbiologyMarcus ( petri dish· growths) 00:17, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
weren't/aren't acting.😛. Too get full flavor, you could look at the penultimate UTRS. -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 02:29, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of that. It looks like this has been going on for years. I've found another half dozen stale sock accounts going back as early as 2007. MrOllie ( talk) 15:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Well, this, Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Sanda Max, got populated nicely. We should probably write up an SPI. But I'm still going through the articles as well. Drmies ( talk) 17:31, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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Like how we can give a right for a set amount of time, we should be able to do trial unblocks :P -- ferret ( talk) 15:18, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions to Jewish cemetery, Hoorn. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources and it has too many problems of language or grammar. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. BoyTheKingCanDance ( talk) 18:00, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
The Tijme Loords instructed me to pass this on to you, Doktoro. I have no idea what it is; as it is in Gallifreyan. Isn't that the bloke that did the Avengers: Age of Ultron movie? Perhaps it is another script. I wouldn't accept unsolicited scripts, if I were you.
Uncle G ( talk) 13:26, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Why did you remove “area served” in Draft:Turkcell TV+ (Turkey)? Just curious ~ eticangaaa ( talk) 16:39, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey, can you take a look at these contributions? I came across the article via New Page Patrol, but it looks like Coat of arms (heraldy crown) [sic] has already been deleted (today), re-created, moved to draft space, and been re-created at least once in article space. I honestly don't know what to make of the talk page engagement. There is already a Crown (heraldry) article, so to my mind, that's an unambiguous speedy deletion? Do I bring this to AN/I? Or what would you suggest? Cheers, Bastun Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 23:36, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Earlier this week, I ran into an issue with an editor who is now banned for 72 hours (beginning yesterday) for personal attacks and disruptive editing. That editor, User:SniperLight47, has now created a sockpuppet account, User:SniperLight46, to evade the block. I know that you focus a lot on sockpuppetry, so I thought I would let you know about this in seeking help with the situation. Anwegmann ( talk) 00:33, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
The history is a bit confusing, but are you going to expand this article or something? -- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:47, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Lach 1965, p. 586 is luckily in Human, Doktoro, and tells you about Glanius, who plagiarized Struys apparently. I don't know what page that is in your revised edition.
If you can read Human, M. Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, you can tell Doktoro all about the book at length. Apparently some Gallifreyan professor who left Gallifrey to live in Canadia before becoming a Florida Man says that Struys couldn't even spell his own name, and the truth is even worse than the professor from Some Place Near Ontario has made it out to be.
How typical of Doktoro, Lurkers, to have managed to find a case of paid editing from the 17th century!
Uncle G ( talk) 16:13, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, could you take a look at the above sandbox and explain why it was a hoax? I deleted it, but for some reason the deletion form didn't populate it with the WP:G3, just the WP:U5. I've undeleted it just to redelete under both criteria. Given your knowledge of football, I pretty much took your word for the hoax part. However, the user has asked that it be undeleted, so I feel like some education would be helpful. Also, the user has edited football articles, and it doesn't look like they've been reverted as disruptive. Is he just venting his whatever in his sandbox? It's a bit confusing. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 20:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Drmies' redirection of Michael J. Fox Foundation. Thank you. Usedtobecool ☎️ 13:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
I like to request more eyes on this discussion: Talk:Economic Freedom Fighters#Regarding Antisemitism description. IMO there is an issue with NPOV here, plus the Gaza-Israeli conflict. Would Israeli sources really be a reliable source to brandish an organisation antisemitic? The Banner talk 11:43, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Re: [2], things are great here and I hope it's the same for you! I saw Saban is retiring; my condolences on your loss. :-) Ed [talk] [OMT] 19:05, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
I just heard the big news. Couldn't be prouder! I know some people in your position figure too little too late, why even bother, but there's lots of possibilities for a gay man of a certain age! Let me know if you need any help downloading Grindr, composing a delicately-worded email to friends and family, or selecting an obnoxiously large rainbow userpage banner. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed ( they|xe) 20:24, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there, I noticed you (I think rightfully) reverted some edits by an IP editor on my article earlier today. Thank you for that! I don't think the article violates anything in WP:Living, so I was wondering if you know whether there is another Wikipedia policy relevant to the "sensitive info" argument they're making. Just want to ensure this article is above board. ForsythiaJo ( talk) 04:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for helping cleaning up EDGE Group! Between copyvio and COI, the page is quite messy. Hopefully we can bring it to a decent level :) -- Broc ( talk) 08:50, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. I don't know how closely you looked into what's been going on at John Crist (comedian) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), but from what little I've gone over so far it appears that there's been back-and-forth between supporters and detractors. I've avoided MeToo-related articles like this one, and expect that there's been some major RfCs and ArbEnf around such BLP articles. I'm thinking of requesting help at BLP. Any suggestions? -- Hipal ( talk) 02:50, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your modifications to make it more neutral. Bsskchaitanya ( talk) 19:16, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
OK to unblock? I asked 331dot, but not you. UTRS appeal #83037 Thanks. -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 22:50, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
If you have 5 minutes see WP:ANI#Charmetric / Sikder Group and in particular this . Not very nice speaking to a lady like that. I'm surprised an admin hasn't picked up on the ANI thread. W C M email 18:22, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
PS Babe magnet? I thought you came out as gay recently? :) W C M email 18:22, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Like 2019, remember? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:33, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:10, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:13, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Today a friend's birthday, with related music and new vacation pics -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:20, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies,
I was about to PROD this promotional article and found that you had recently PROD'd yourself and it had been de-PROD'd. Think it should go to AFD? Most of the sources are pretty dated. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:45, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
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Even after your Level 4 warning, this user continues to edit war and make unconstructive, apparently WP:OR edits. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Kalari_cheese&action=history
Thank you. - Ram1751 ( talk) 03:06, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
User:Drmies, after their block expiration, this user is edit warring again. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Umayyad_campaigns_in_India&action=history
Thank you. - Ram1751 ( talk) 02:25, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Amusingly, I had this one lined up. I had not even got to it yet as there is still more to mine from the sociology professor.
Uncle G ( talk) 01:26, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Ha, I'm trying to get my hands on a copy. Drmies ( talk) 17:58, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
And Bbb23 says my sense humor is impenetrable I guess this wasn't the sudden realization of having made a terrible mistake. BTW, Bbb23 asked me about jumping his car, but I don't know where he lives and, I was wondering if you were available. 😋 Best -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 09:11, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Would you mind semi-protecting mine and others talk pages that are the target of that LTA, it is getting annoying. Thanks, v/r - Seawolf35 T-- C 02:40, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, asking you about this because I reached a point of wondering who had perpetuated the thing and whether it had been through articles for consideration etc, and saw you had been in the article just now and were equally appalled. I normally rather like to repair bad articles on important topics, but this comes with the assumption that the author isn't currently writing more.
It isn't just the cutting and pasting that bothers me here; there is little to no effort made to integrate the parts of the whole, and there's little wonder that the article has been tagged as incomprehensible. Who, for example, is Cencelly? A Chinese national named "Eng - Cang", which seems unlikely... Anda was apparently a governor, but he is mentioned out of the blue with no context or timeframe. Ditto Ali-Mudin. "Generals Corcuero and Almonte made peace with Corralat": that's great but who are these people? It all seems pretty careless.
A 1905 Filipino schoolbook is cited. What could possibly go wrong? I have changed "any Chinaman" to "all Chinese" and Mussulman to Muslim but I am not confident that I have gotten everything of the kind.
Good luck to anyone who wants to know more about the Sultanate period, as this editor seems to be involved in all of the related articles, and surprise, was just at ANI over something about Japan in World War II, which concerns me deeply. I guess I should go check out that thread but lookee here:
Japanese women in Manchukuo were repeatedly raped by Russian soldiers every day including underage girls from the families of Japanese who worked for the military and the Manchukuo rail at Beian airport and Japanese military nurses. The Russians seized Japanese civilian girls at Beian airport where there were a total of 1000 Japanese civilians, repeatedly raping 10 girls each day as recalled by Yoshida Reiko and repeatedly raped 75 Japanese nurses at the Sunwu military hospital in Manchukuo during the occupation. The Russians rejected all the pleading by the Japanese officers to stop the rapes. The Japanese were told by the Russians that they had to give their women for rape as war spoils.[158][159][160][161][162][163]
It might even be true but that kind of reference stack usually indicates something that someone wants, maybe even believes to be true. Lots of times they are wrong. Do you have tools to determine the authorship of that paragraph?
I am reluctant to ANI this. Maybe they are new and mean well; also the likely outcome is that I will be told to assume good faith and the editor will tell me to piss off and I will become the bad guy because Lourdes once said so. I stumbled into this while taking a break from trying to settle the incompatible histories of WW2 in Lithuania so I seriously don't have time for all this shizzle, but something needs to be done and it is genuinely difficult to improve the article because the article text and the reference quotes are identical but need to be edited in different ways. (I keep having to backtrack because I just edited the quote, or losing my place when I scroll up to see where I am, etc)
help? Elinruby ( talk) 05:47, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Is there precedent from making him go through AfC? That would require ANI, right? I guess I can try to ask him about it but based his behaviour at that ANI I'd expect that to go poorly. AfD won't work as there clearly are sources. Thanks for deleting that section btw, that was what I was talking about when I said the sources were meh. I didn't doing anything about it because I can't check Jstor on this laptop, but the other reference says the Chinese killed a "minor Spanish official" which could be taken to support "constable"... I was going to see what the Jstor was. But you are right, it's very weak to begin with, regardless. Elinruby ( talk) 23:36, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
I did wonder how one could possibly create a 71KiB article in its first edit. I've tried that and I know how difficult it is. I wondered even more when I looked at the revision and it didn't seem particularly long. Then I noticed that almost half of the bulk was taken up by lengthy quotes of the sources in the citations.
That Spirit of '76 magazine that you still have an enormous quote from is a little magazine published in New York and was the official magazine of the Sons of the American Revolution. It folded in 1906. [1]: 114–115 It's not exactly the best and most academic of historical sources for a conflict that was on the other side of the planet one and a quarter centuries earlier.
Uncle G ( talk) 03:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
References
You and Doktoro, Elinruby might enjoy that this magazine is currently the only sourced content at Sons of the American Revolution#Merchandise. ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 04:30, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Sorry to trouble you again, Drmies. Since you're familiar with the background, could I ask for your input here? Thanks. Jean-de-Nivelle ( talk) 12:00, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
I know that I say youth cred, Doktoro, but writing about penises in an encyclopaedia takes that down to the youngest of youths. ☺ Anyway, if you want what the modern kids say, I went and Google Booked for "world's oldest" and many of the modern texts in the 21st century cite this fella:
That Grafton Elliot Smith fella is still on the shortlist, as you can see from page 1. And it seems to pretty much support, as of 1999, the sentence that you and Joe Roe are disputing; although if you wanted to go deeper you could always look at the 1958 and 1956 sources that Dunsmuir and Gordon in their turn cite.
You three owe me for what's now in my Google search history.
Uncle G ( talk) 12:15, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Is circumcision the oldest known surgical procedure? The oldest operation for which there is tangible physical evidence is trepanning, since several Neolithic skulls […] However, iconographic evidence puts circumcision much further back — well into the Paleolithic period […] The other basis for assigning a vast antiquity to circumcision […] It is probably not stretching the evidence too much to suggest that modern man evolved as a circumcising species.
— Cox, Guy; Morris, Brian J. (2012). "Why Circumcision? From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century". In Bolnick, David A.; Koyle, Martin; Yosha, Assaf (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781447128588., pp.243–244
Guy Cox and Brian J. Morris are respected cobbers from the University of Sydney.
I am saddened to tell you that you are up against pretty much every urology and circumcision surgery textbook in the 21st century that there is, on this one, from Al-Salem's 2016 An Illustrated Guide to Pediatric Urology to Heyns's and Krieger's entry on Circumcision in Andrology for the Clinician (Springer Science & Business Media, 2006). And not only are the modern day urologists massed against you, so too are the neurologists:
trephining […] Osler states that this operation is the oldest known surgical procedure, but it is likely to have been preceded by circumcision.
— Pryse-Phillips, William (2009). "trephining". Companion to Clinical Neurology (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199710041., p.1021
Pryse-Phillips is a Newly found Canadianian, and what xe tells us is that your idea about trepanning was a Victorian idea from William Osler which modern scholarship thinks is wrong. Which seems ironic given that you want to dismiss Victorian ideas. ☺
Uncle G ( talk) 14:30, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
There's a noticable communist in that sea of blue in your cemetery, Doktoro. Are we still waiting for the keeper of the Hank Williams Museum to write us a biography? All that I have is what I could get from the souvenir shop, and you know what the souvenir shop stuff is like: glossy and superficial. The tour guide skipped over the bit about the Lanier House slaves in 1861, and it isn't in the souvenir shop stuff at all.
Uncle G ( talk) 10:17, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Beware of gazumpers whilst you are there, Doktoro, and of land grabbers, and (even more importantly) why is the One Armed Man not on your list?
Uncle G ( talk) 22:34, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Enjoy, Lurkers, the bind that Doktoro is now in: xe has to admit that F. Scott Fitzgerald is either not popular or not culture. ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 08:32, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
You should take another walkabout and fix the article on NewSouth Books now. You also need to track down a source for your popular culture fella and that Sam bloke, who just weren't in anything that I had. Amusingly. even the Neely going weekend walkabout news item was more interested in your popular culture fella's girlfriend and her family's plot.
Hi. I'm pretty sure that this is a proxy- [5]. It shows a bogus ISP of Agile Networks, Ohio and is being operated by a well know block evader who is known to geolocate to Pennsylvania when he edits logged out. If I'm not mistaken, almost all proxies will have some sketchy, non existent ISP listed and often times doing a cursory search of the ISP leads to fake websites with defunct services. Your insight would be appreciated as I dont particularly have much knowledge on these topics but have to deal with a persistent block evader who employs a large number of proxies. Thanks. Southasianhistorian8 ( talk) 01:50, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
I'm the first to admit my understanding of BLP policy is not the greatest but I think I'm right on this one. I have an article in which editors claim that by quoting the original remarks from a twitter controversy via a secondary source WP:BLPSELFPUB and WP:BLPPRIMARY are irrelevant. I have commented that the secondary sources are only used to source the original remarks not for the commentary added by secondary sources, which includes the fact that some of the claims made are untrue.
So whilst they've added a degree of separation, they're simply quoting the original remarks ie back to the original primary self-published source. I also point out that not including the commentary the remarks are untrue is a WP:BLP violation and risks victimising the subject of the controversy once more violating WP:AVOIDVICTIM. The subject of the controversy was driven to consider suicide at the time. Having suggested we have a responsibility to consider the victim here, in response, I'm getting WP:PUBLICFIGURE means we don't have to consider the feelings of the victim.
I would very much appreciate your thoughts on this. W C M email 08:41, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
If I said that I can name two editors who have stood largely alone on the talk page over the years about glib misrepresentations that go back to Tweets when it is known that the Tweets were challenged, and there is now an open administrator discussion about banning one of those editors for repeatedly objecting to how people want to re-expand the article with raw quotations again, even though there are now talk page discussions where other editors opposing the lone voice are drawing parallels between the article subject and Adolph Eichmann and throwing around random conflict-of-interest accusations in response to the lone voice's objections that editors making BLP-violating accusations of their own against the article subject on the talk page is not a good thing, you'll know which biography this is, too.
Yes, more people are following this than you might realize, Wee Curry Monster, and given that historically, from the days of Siegenthaler onwards, it has so often been the case that one person stands alone against a lot of people who need their heads knocked together (such as about not drawing Nazi parallels even on the talk page) this whole situation seems problematic. And I share the viewpoint expressed that this is but a short step away from Arbitration. Which is bound to give you flashbacks, Doktoro. ☺
Uncle G ( talk) 06:55, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Can you block 128.194.2.38 (who you just reverted on my talk page). He is banned user Thespeedoflightneverchanges, confirmed off-wiki. Thanks. Cpotisch ( talk) 19:08, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Asking you because the "recently active admins" tool pointed me to you: would you mind WP:REVDEL this reverted vandalism revision? It has Unicode special characters in the edit summary which are annoying when looking at the revision history of that article. I think deleting this revision should be non-controversial due to WP:REVDEL criteria RD3. Thank you very much. SomethingForDeletion ( talk) 01:52, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
I've got a few socks that should be added to Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Go im so horny based on edit summaries. Based on the evidence I've provided below, all of these can be proven without a checkuser. Is it alright if I add them to the category?
Thanks! Philipnelson99 ( talk) 19:06, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, this edit suggests your change was minor, but you did remove enough content and a citation that I wouldn't consider it "minor". Could you provide more context when reverting edits like this in the edit summary in the future? Cheers, -- Engineerchange ( talk) 17:20, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
Patrolling Recent changes gets me into so many weird areas of the project. Shirke, an Indian clan (worse than other Indian articles), is being mutilated by WP:SPA Anvesh.rajeshirke. I restored a much earlier version of the article (pre-mess), warned the user, who promptly reverted me, was themself reverted by another user, reverted again by Anvesh, then me (leaving a final warning), and now restored by Anvesh. No point in my continuing to edit-war, and WP:INVOLVED stops me from doing what I want to do, which is to indef the user, so if Uncle G doesn't object to my distracting you with Indian clan stuff (at least it's not socks, although the edit history of the article alludes to socks), maybe you could tear yourself away from flowers and attempting to educate me (hopeless, although I did read what you wrote) ... -- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:18, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I came across this page (linked from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards/Archive 20) while doing some barnstar-related wikiarchaeology. I noticed that you deleted it in 2012 under G6 - I was wondering if you would mind undeleting it for historical reference (& turning it into an {{ R from merge}} to Wikipedia:Barnstars). Let me know if you have any queries, or if I'm missing anything. All the best, — a smart kitten[ meow 01:58, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Jewish cemetery, Hoorn at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Daniel Case ( talk) 22:02, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
I'd take you away from Arbitration flashbacks ("Incoming!") Doktoro, with some happy quest for youth cred material; only now I'm stuck with some very dead people and something that Victor Hugo claimed that fails verification. Uncle G ( talk) 10:16, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
You blocked SniperLight46 indicating in the block log that they were a sock of SniperLight47. For whatever reason, you chose not to block 47. Right after your block, OnlySL (notice the SL in the username) was created and edits the same articles. I think there's enough for me to block the new account and 47 (now that there are at least two socks), but I thought a check might be helpful.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
We need to drag Doktoro away from staring at xyr socks again, M. Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb. Otherwise xe might notice that Blanchefleur ( AfD discussion) is nominated for deletion. We don't want Doktoro upset by Mediaeval romance literature topics that connect to Carl Orff. That's not a way to youth cred. If Kurt Hugo Schneider has not done a cover of this Orff fella's "Blanziflor et Helena", can it even be called music at all?
We should distract Doktoro with more Eastern European womens' football, with which xe is justly synonymous. Ștefania Donica ( AfD discussion) is currently listed for deletion.
Uncle G ( talk) 13:45, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
And this guy, Woods, was a lecturer at Tulane at the time, and then became associate professor of Romance languages at the University of South Carolina--which is a significant jump in pay and status for someone who was as interested in praising the lovely but delicate ladies as he was in philology. I do not think that User:AllTheUsernamesAreInUse is very up to date on the study of women in medieval literature. I can't blame them for that, or for the poor quality of the article, but it's a fact that these characters are not non-notable, as any quick search in JSTOR will show to those who don't read romance. The ones who do read romance--well, one of them is working on the article. Drmies ( talk) 16:43, 17 February 2024 (UTC)Among the many good qualities of Marie de France found in the Lais, one of the most endearing is her feminine attitude and style in a great number of places. Although some of these characteristics are not peculiar to Marie, yet all of them used by her suggest various facets of her personality and add piquancy to the poems. The passages where these womanly touches occur may be divided roughly into stylistic and psychological passages. [1]
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As we know, M. Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, Doktoro's quest for youth cred is on-going.
Jada Facer's first YouTube video defines the beginning of the modern era, and Kurt Hugo Schneider has to be the definition of what constitutes modern music. You can see the twain together at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPM6E19Cg8M where they dug up a museum piece, whose marginalia on old records revealed it to be written by some bloke we believe was named "Shakespeare or summat, lad" but whom conspiracy theorists have long asserted to be Bacon and someone only whose first name is known to history, and performed it on modern instruments. The museum piece itself contained references to much earlier works such as the old Latin folk song Redi, Puer, Iterum!, which indeed in its turn can be traced to an earlier Britannic work from a millennium ago.
The same is true here, of course, as history repeats itself; or at least rhymes. It is a good thing that Doktoro is writing this, I hope with the aid of other Lurkers who know the botany, such as The Onion Lady and others. Because if it were me writing about this, it would be just another "In popular culture" article sourced to the writings of people who lived back in the 1900s and who went around saying "SUP!" and suchlike to one another:
Uncle G ( talk) 09:52, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Very interesting, Uncle. I want to have a look at that Robertson article. I was busy with this. Wish my students luck: I'm quizzing them on it, God knows why. Drmies ( talk) 15:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Does she appear in Wolfram's Parzival? Ladyof Shalott 13:57, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Well, I'm a Boniface junkie, so anything that says "Benedictine" on it is of interest to me. I'll have a look, but unfortunately I got a few other things to do today, plus the tediousness of a class evaluation. One used to go in, observe, and write some notes. Now there's a preliminary interview, a 20-part questionnaire before the class, and an evaluative meeting afterwards, followed by the writing up of what will probably be a dozen pages of platitudes. I'm sure we will get evaluated on how we evaluate. Drmies ( talk) 15:33, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello,
Thanks for rev-del ing that, those were just horrible things for that IP to write, have you considered protection in light of this? Thank you very much!
Geardona (
talk to me?)
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It's a funny thing, but accounts with "cheese" in the name are always vandals, had you noticed? We might as well block them on sight. Bishonen | tålk 19:22, 22 February 2024 (UTC).
Over the last couple weeks, I've crossed your path while dealing with a couple vandals/disruptive editors. In each instance, I've found your responses to their actions to be both patient and effective. Thank you for your administrative work–it certainly does not go unnoticed and it does a lot of good. ~ Pbritti ( talk) 22:47, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Greetings, Drmies. Thank you for your message. I don't have a conflict of interest as far as I know :). I'm a historian living in Brussels, Belgium. Your further advice is welcome. Kind regards Protalina ( talk) 21:44, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I'm a little confused. Why have you reverted 180.195.85.171's edits? They seem harmless to me. The vast majority of them are simply the addition of the {{ Commons category}} template to various articles' External links sections. Is there something wrong with that? – CopperyMarrow15 ( talk | edits) Feel free to ping me! 23:06, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
Three editors are now splitting the article and making massive changes and massive deletions. One of the editors does not leave edit summaries even for massive deletions or massive changes, even though they were reported to ANI 12 days ago for similar behavior on this same article [7]. In my opinion, more eyes need to be on the article and on what is being done. Thank you. I'm tempted to take this to ANI right away because the editor in question is arguing that he doesn't have to explain his edits in edit summaries: Talk:The New York Times#Edit summaries. But I thought I'd stop by here first. Softlavender ( talk) 01:29, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
Definitely considering most of it. But for now, while New York is definitely on my travel list at some point, if you or Acroterion ever find yourself in Belfast, drop me a buzz and I'll show you the best place in the city for a Guinness, if that takes your fancy :) Sideswipe9th ( talk) 03:53, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
I imagine Sideswipe9th might argue there was a context.Yes, and that context is specific to the circumstances of SMcCandlish as I elaborated in this comment. But I don't want to drag that here, SMcCandlish if you want to discuss that context further away from AE, my talk page is open :)
Howdy--hope you're doing well as can be expected in a red state in 2024; at least you don't have Bill Lee as governor. Anyway, I'm hoping to jump back into creating some articles from all of my little red links--just wanted to see if anything sticks out to you because I'm having trouble picking one. All best! Icarus of old ( talk) 15:43, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Did you see this [8]? Also commented on at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#bnnbreaking.com_?. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 17:19, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
For some reason, I still have your Sandra's page open alongside ISBN 9780857287427. According to https://www.hngreenphd.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/133742098/stovall_documentarychapter.pdf , by the way, you should go and see a big block of metal at F and D Auto Repair. Uncle G ( talk) 16:48, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
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For your edits on cleaning up the Academy of Allied Health & Science article. Thank you! My Pants Metal ( talk) 13:40, 29 February 2024 (UTC) |
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Today I am happy about a singer on the Main page (at least for the first hours), after TFA the same day last year. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:17, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks to Seiji Ozawa. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:45, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Listen to music from Ukraine if you like, - I heard it in 2022, and the November concert (at a different church) raised a truckload of winter clothes. My story today is also from my life: I heard the singer in 3 of the 4 mentioned musical items. I sang in yesterday's. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:46, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
Howdy. Concerning the related discussions at List of presidents of the United States & Joe Biden. I'm hoping the editor's pushing of Biden is the 45th not 46th US president argument, is partially a WP:CIR issue & not a self-entertainment one. GoodDay ( talk) 17:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. I think 98.30.252.213 is Scurvy Sevi. Quick transition on Anne Hathaway's page (constant filth). Bringingthewood ( talk) 01:06, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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On 4 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jewish cemetery, Hoorn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Jewish cemetery in the Dutch city of Hoorn was cleared in 1968 to make room for a roadway, and the bodily remains and gravestones removed to the public cemetery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jewish cemetery, Hoorn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Jewish cemetery, Hoorn), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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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I am suspecting 197.132.164.199 as a block evasion sock, is there a way to stop this guy from block evading? AlphaBetaGamma ( Talk/Report any mistakes here) 03:35, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Dear Drmies: I kindly ask for help from you and/or your friendly talk-page watchers to take a look the contributions from User:Hichem872642, including at the Teahouse a couple of weeks ago. I am under a lot of IRL stress right now (capped off by the Sierra storm this past weekend that ripped off much of the outer layer of my roof! At least it wasn't a tornado! But still!) and I recognize that their invocation of the word "engaging" in their most recent response to me on their talk page is something I can't constructively respond to right now. I am grateful for Wikipedia not requiring me to be being "assigned to a case" so I can turn it over to others for multiple opinions. Thanks so much. Hope all is well. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:15, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
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Remember that article? Again being inexorably fattened up. An organ donor! 25 books, wonderful reviews! I've just removed a few bits. Bishonen | tålk 22:09, 5 March 2024 (UTC).
Hello, Drmies,
I was hoping you could give me your perspective on a new editor, Fhektii. They have been editing for a couple of weeks, less than 200 edits and today they spend lots of time draftifying articles because of suspected "UPE". This just doesn't seem like an activity a new editor would even know about or spend time on much less know that we identify it by "UPE". I have asked them about any previous accounts they might have used but I rarely get a reply to that query.
I'm not asking for any phishing but I'm hoping since you've been doing this longer than I that you could give me your opinion on whether this is a returning editor or just a precocious, helpful new editor. Many thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 22:58, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
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User:Othmas biaggio came in and in their first edits started censoring a bunch of articles, related to Serbian nationalism. I didn't notice them before and am involved in one case, but I did give them the standard sanctions warnings. Do you recognize this perhaps as repeat business? -- Joy ( talk) 13:17, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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2023 British Library cyberattack. If anyone is interested. Softlavender ( talk) 10:55, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
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Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! The Nativity scene on the Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery by Nicola Pisano is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod ( talk) 02:59, 24 December 2023 (UTC) |
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024! | |
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Jerium ( talk) 16:57, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies,
Sorry to interrupt the holiday cheer but I think I might have stumbled upon a sockpuppet of User:MBNO. User:Amzkw started editing on December 4th, like MBNO, and is also focused on substandard articles on Middle Eastern football teams like those from Yemen and the West Bank. I'm bringing this to you since you blocked MBNO but you also have CU goggles. Thanks for any help you can supply and happy holidays! Liz Read! Talk! 20:31, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
You spammed hoax templates on my sandboxes for no reason, their just for fun, there not hoaxes. SnowieLuna1212 ( talk) 17:13, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Talk:Offramp (album) TlonicChronic ( talk) 03:04, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas and a
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NW1223< Howl at me• My hunts> 19:38, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
You seem to have expertise on English, and I was wondering if you would be willing to answer a question on prepositions for me. (I'm the same guy you're annoyed with, I'm not trying to phish, I'm trying to break bread; I came across something on Wikipedia that confused me, and I was hoping someone could help me with parsing.) TlonicChronic ( talk) 18:36, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Drmies: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:01, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
I'm not sure why but Daxtonlab appears to be mass reverting edits of yours. ThaddeusSholto ( talk) 17:20, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
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Today's story is about parts of my life. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I managed to get the pics to snow (on 28 Nov), and heard a lovely concert, after listening to a miracle of meditative dreaming on 6 December (or just click on music). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:57, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:53, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:53, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
I try to finish uploading images of 2023 before it ends, and reached 17 December. Happy to see Rebekka Habermas on the Main page. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:36, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop a wee note, was part of a chat with the author of the above draft on IRC and they mentioned possibly putting a {{ db-g7}} tag on it. Your edits kind of muddy the waters some, so I just wanted to check and see if you were okay with it should the creator go ahead with the self-nom. (please do not ping on reply) Primefac ( talk) 16:43, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. It think this range may be too broad to block. It appears to be blocking a lot of innocent users on AT&T broadband. While it may be the case that there are some vandals within this /36 that are using a IPv6 ranges broader than a /64, everything I am seeing indicates fairly consistent /64 ranges for users.
For example, the vandal mentioned in this post on your talk page does use a variety of IPv6 addresses for those example edits, but they are all on the same /64 even though they are changing.
Similarly, the vandal based in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin using 107.217.40.7 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) also used multiple addresses in the IPv6 range 2600:1700:c3e0:50e0::/64 ( block range · block log ( global) · WHOIS (partial)). However, if you broaden the range to the /48, you start seeing unrelated users.
Since the block, these specific IPs have appealed:
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Springfield, Ohio | 2600:1700:C260:5CD0:D990:C211:BB72:BAA2 | 2600:1700:C260:5CD0::/64 | no prior history, but more math than most appeals |
El Cajon, California | 2600:1700:C221:FA0:0:0:0:49 | 2600:1700:C221:FA0::/64 | only one previous edit, same IPv6 over 30 months |
Homer Glen, Illinois | 2600:1700:C960:2270:5D08:5878:58AF:F6F0 | 2600:1700:C960:2270::/64 | Chicago-area LTA that I recognize, same IPv6 /64 over 5 years |
El Paso, Texas | 2600:1700:C070:9EF0:25A7:1C00:E5F6:4BB4 | 2600:1700:C070:9EF0::/64 | no prior history |
Chicago, Illinois | 2600:1700:C9C0:8B50:15FD:C8AA:752D:26CB | 2600:1700:C9C0:8B50::/64 | no prior history |
Houston, Texas | 2600:1700:C7C0:3100:A4AE:696A:4BA8:1BAC | 2600:1700:C7C0:3100::/64 | very sporadic minor edits, same IPv6 /64 over 5 years |
San Jose, California | 2600:1700:C460:A220:149E:F857:9CB8:3EDE | 2600:1700:C460:A220::/64 | looks like good faith, but a lot of reverts, same IPv6 /64 over 18 months |
Bartlett, Illinois | 2600:1700:C990:FBE0:10BC:94EB:8EED:263F | 2600:1700:C990:FBE0::/64 | a few disruptive edits in 2021, but fine afterwards, same IPv6 /64 used over 30 months |
In all of the above cases that had prior history, it looks like they were sticking to the same /64 ranges.
Unless the intention is something like WP:TMOBILE, this block seems to be far too broad. Daniel Quinlan ( talk) 23:39, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
I saw that you had blocked AmigodeMassa as a sock of Holiptholipt. It looks like Justicieroideologico immediately started editing the same articles and may be another. ThaddeusSholto ( talk) 17:01, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Can you please check Jeremiah Bornfield? You deleted it a few months ago as G5, it just got recreated by a user just after their 10th edit, might be a case of WP:SOCK? Can't really tag it as G4 as I don't have access to the older deleted version. Thanks a lot! ChaotıċEnby( t · c) 14:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free and may Janus light your way. Ealdgyth ( talk) 14:30, 31 December 2023 (UTC) |
Sorry, missed the fact that the sections had been deleted by you rather than by the editor trying to remove things in general from the article. I've got it on my watchlist now as well. Naraht ( talk) 16:37, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Drmies,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
That made me laugh.
And delta is for dog, presumably. Although it is alpha Canis Minoris.
Uncle G ( talk) 18:29, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
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Doktoro will be pleased to learn that the University of Georgia lets its emeritus professor of keeping fish write a whole source that is yet to be mined for Sharks in popular culture.
In Popular Culture and youth cred star status awaits you, Doktoro. You can cite a professor stating that there are no known shark-from-other-planet movies (p.210) or that The Deep (1977 film) has the wrong species of shark for the Carribbean (p.211) or what Halle Berry's character got wrong in Dark Tide (p.211) amongst many other popular culture facts.
I followed up on you in more detail at Talk:Haile Selassie. There is too much on my plate to help much more than that with the wikignoming, though. Uncle G ( talk) 08:52, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Two minutes after you draftified that article it was copied back without change to a main page at Robert K. Montoye, leaving behind the draft you created. I have done an AfD if you want to comment. Ldm1954 ( talk) 20:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I see you removed the process + installations gallery from this article. I restored the processes, which are informative and rare in such articles, and were a pain to track down and get released under a free license. Now there are two five-up galleries, which looks alright to my eye; let me know what you think.
I know it's [still] not typical to have multimedia illustrations of procedural work, but I'd like to see much more of it, not less; the best educational material like this is on youtube and we've still done precious little to make it easy to get incorporated here... – SJ + 09:18, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
New sock just made his debut: CulturalHuya. ThaddeusSholto ( talk) 21:55, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I know you were the one to just handle the BeFriendlyGoodSi block. I know they’ve submitted an appeal, but they keep editing the page and I keep getting the ping notification. From the revision history, they seem to keep moving content around for some reason? Does this rise to the level of disruptive? Or is it just annoying and unfortunate I’ve previously offered advice there. Thanks, microbiologyMarcus ( petri dish· growths) 00:17, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
weren't/aren't acting.😛. Too get full flavor, you could look at the penultimate UTRS. -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 02:29, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of that. It looks like this has been going on for years. I've found another half dozen stale sock accounts going back as early as 2007. MrOllie ( talk) 15:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Well, this, Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Sanda Max, got populated nicely. We should probably write up an SPI. But I'm still going through the articles as well. Drmies ( talk) 17:31, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contributions to Jewish cemetery, Hoorn. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources and it has too many problems of language or grammar. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
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The Tijme Loords instructed me to pass this on to you, Doktoro. I have no idea what it is; as it is in Gallifreyan. Isn't that the bloke that did the Avengers: Age of Ultron movie? Perhaps it is another script. I wouldn't accept unsolicited scripts, if I were you.
Uncle G ( talk) 13:26, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Why did you remove “area served” in Draft:Turkcell TV+ (Turkey)? Just curious ~ eticangaaa ( talk) 16:39, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey, can you take a look at these contributions? I came across the article via New Page Patrol, but it looks like Coat of arms (heraldy crown) [sic] has already been deleted (today), re-created, moved to draft space, and been re-created at least once in article space. I honestly don't know what to make of the talk page engagement. There is already a Crown (heraldry) article, so to my mind, that's an unambiguous speedy deletion? Do I bring this to AN/I? Or what would you suggest? Cheers, Bastun Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 23:36, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Earlier this week, I ran into an issue with an editor who is now banned for 72 hours (beginning yesterday) for personal attacks and disruptive editing. That editor, User:SniperLight47, has now created a sockpuppet account, User:SniperLight46, to evade the block. I know that you focus a lot on sockpuppetry, so I thought I would let you know about this in seeking help with the situation. Anwegmann ( talk) 00:33, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
The history is a bit confusing, but are you going to expand this article or something? -- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:47, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Lach 1965, p. 586 is luckily in Human, Doktoro, and tells you about Glanius, who plagiarized Struys apparently. I don't know what page that is in your revised edition.
If you can read Human, M. Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, you can tell Doktoro all about the book at length. Apparently some Gallifreyan professor who left Gallifrey to live in Canadia before becoming a Florida Man says that Struys couldn't even spell his own name, and the truth is even worse than the professor from Some Place Near Ontario has made it out to be.
How typical of Doktoro, Lurkers, to have managed to find a case of paid editing from the 17th century!
Uncle G ( talk) 16:13, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, could you take a look at the above sandbox and explain why it was a hoax? I deleted it, but for some reason the deletion form didn't populate it with the WP:G3, just the WP:U5. I've undeleted it just to redelete under both criteria. Given your knowledge of football, I pretty much took your word for the hoax part. However, the user has asked that it be undeleted, so I feel like some education would be helpful. Also, the user has edited football articles, and it doesn't look like they've been reverted as disruptive. Is he just venting his whatever in his sandbox? It's a bit confusing. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 20:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Drmies' redirection of Michael J. Fox Foundation. Thank you. Usedtobecool ☎️ 13:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
I like to request more eyes on this discussion: Talk:Economic Freedom Fighters#Regarding Antisemitism description. IMO there is an issue with NPOV here, plus the Gaza-Israeli conflict. Would Israeli sources really be a reliable source to brandish an organisation antisemitic? The Banner talk 11:43, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Re: [2], things are great here and I hope it's the same for you! I saw Saban is retiring; my condolences on your loss. :-) Ed [talk] [OMT] 19:05, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
I just heard the big news. Couldn't be prouder! I know some people in your position figure too little too late, why even bother, but there's lots of possibilities for a gay man of a certain age! Let me know if you need any help downloading Grindr, composing a delicately-worded email to friends and family, or selecting an obnoxiously large rainbow userpage banner. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed ( they|xe) 20:24, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there, I noticed you (I think rightfully) reverted some edits by an IP editor on my article earlier today. Thank you for that! I don't think the article violates anything in WP:Living, so I was wondering if you know whether there is another Wikipedia policy relevant to the "sensitive info" argument they're making. Just want to ensure this article is above board. ForsythiaJo ( talk) 04:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for helping cleaning up EDGE Group! Between copyvio and COI, the page is quite messy. Hopefully we can bring it to a decent level :) -- Broc ( talk) 08:50, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. I don't know how closely you looked into what's been going on at John Crist (comedian) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), but from what little I've gone over so far it appears that there's been back-and-forth between supporters and detractors. I've avoided MeToo-related articles like this one, and expect that there's been some major RfCs and ArbEnf around such BLP articles. I'm thinking of requesting help at BLP. Any suggestions? -- Hipal ( talk) 02:50, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your modifications to make it more neutral. Bsskchaitanya ( talk) 19:16, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
OK to unblock? I asked 331dot, but not you. UTRS appeal #83037 Thanks. -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 22:50, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
If you have 5 minutes see WP:ANI#Charmetric / Sikder Group and in particular this . Not very nice speaking to a lady like that. I'm surprised an admin hasn't picked up on the ANI thread. W C M email 18:22, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
PS Babe magnet? I thought you came out as gay recently? :) W C M email 18:22, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Like 2019, remember? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:33, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:10, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:13, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Today a friend's birthday, with related music and new vacation pics -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:20, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies,
I was about to PROD this promotional article and found that you had recently PROD'd yourself and it had been de-PROD'd. Think it should go to AFD? Most of the sources are pretty dated. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:45, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Even after your Level 4 warning, this user continues to edit war and make unconstructive, apparently WP:OR edits. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Kalari_cheese&action=history
Thank you. - Ram1751 ( talk) 03:06, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
User:Drmies, after their block expiration, this user is edit warring again. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Umayyad_campaigns_in_India&action=history
Thank you. - Ram1751 ( talk) 02:25, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Amusingly, I had this one lined up. I had not even got to it yet as there is still more to mine from the sociology professor.
Uncle G ( talk) 01:26, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Ha, I'm trying to get my hands on a copy. Drmies ( talk) 17:58, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
And Bbb23 says my sense humor is impenetrable I guess this wasn't the sudden realization of having made a terrible mistake. BTW, Bbb23 asked me about jumping his car, but I don't know where he lives and, I was wondering if you were available. 😋 Best -- Deepfriedokra ( talk) 09:11, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Would you mind semi-protecting mine and others talk pages that are the target of that LTA, it is getting annoying. Thanks, v/r - Seawolf35 T-- C 02:40, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, asking you about this because I reached a point of wondering who had perpetuated the thing and whether it had been through articles for consideration etc, and saw you had been in the article just now and were equally appalled. I normally rather like to repair bad articles on important topics, but this comes with the assumption that the author isn't currently writing more.
It isn't just the cutting and pasting that bothers me here; there is little to no effort made to integrate the parts of the whole, and there's little wonder that the article has been tagged as incomprehensible. Who, for example, is Cencelly? A Chinese national named "Eng - Cang", which seems unlikely... Anda was apparently a governor, but he is mentioned out of the blue with no context or timeframe. Ditto Ali-Mudin. "Generals Corcuero and Almonte made peace with Corralat": that's great but who are these people? It all seems pretty careless.
A 1905 Filipino schoolbook is cited. What could possibly go wrong? I have changed "any Chinaman" to "all Chinese" and Mussulman to Muslim but I am not confident that I have gotten everything of the kind.
Good luck to anyone who wants to know more about the Sultanate period, as this editor seems to be involved in all of the related articles, and surprise, was just at ANI over something about Japan in World War II, which concerns me deeply. I guess I should go check out that thread but lookee here:
Japanese women in Manchukuo were repeatedly raped by Russian soldiers every day including underage girls from the families of Japanese who worked for the military and the Manchukuo rail at Beian airport and Japanese military nurses. The Russians seized Japanese civilian girls at Beian airport where there were a total of 1000 Japanese civilians, repeatedly raping 10 girls each day as recalled by Yoshida Reiko and repeatedly raped 75 Japanese nurses at the Sunwu military hospital in Manchukuo during the occupation. The Russians rejected all the pleading by the Japanese officers to stop the rapes. The Japanese were told by the Russians that they had to give their women for rape as war spoils.[158][159][160][161][162][163]
It might even be true but that kind of reference stack usually indicates something that someone wants, maybe even believes to be true. Lots of times they are wrong. Do you have tools to determine the authorship of that paragraph?
I am reluctant to ANI this. Maybe they are new and mean well; also the likely outcome is that I will be told to assume good faith and the editor will tell me to piss off and I will become the bad guy because Lourdes once said so. I stumbled into this while taking a break from trying to settle the incompatible histories of WW2 in Lithuania so I seriously don't have time for all this shizzle, but something needs to be done and it is genuinely difficult to improve the article because the article text and the reference quotes are identical but need to be edited in different ways. (I keep having to backtrack because I just edited the quote, or losing my place when I scroll up to see where I am, etc)
help? Elinruby ( talk) 05:47, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Is there precedent from making him go through AfC? That would require ANI, right? I guess I can try to ask him about it but based his behaviour at that ANI I'd expect that to go poorly. AfD won't work as there clearly are sources. Thanks for deleting that section btw, that was what I was talking about when I said the sources were meh. I didn't doing anything about it because I can't check Jstor on this laptop, but the other reference says the Chinese killed a "minor Spanish official" which could be taken to support "constable"... I was going to see what the Jstor was. But you are right, it's very weak to begin with, regardless. Elinruby ( talk) 23:36, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
I did wonder how one could possibly create a 71KiB article in its first edit. I've tried that and I know how difficult it is. I wondered even more when I looked at the revision and it didn't seem particularly long. Then I noticed that almost half of the bulk was taken up by lengthy quotes of the sources in the citations.
That Spirit of '76 magazine that you still have an enormous quote from is a little magazine published in New York and was the official magazine of the Sons of the American Revolution. It folded in 1906. [1]: 114–115 It's not exactly the best and most academic of historical sources for a conflict that was on the other side of the planet one and a quarter centuries earlier.
Uncle G ( talk) 03:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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You and Doktoro, Elinruby might enjoy that this magazine is currently the only sourced content at Sons of the American Revolution#Merchandise. ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 04:30, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Sorry to trouble you again, Drmies. Since you're familiar with the background, could I ask for your input here? Thanks. Jean-de-Nivelle ( talk) 12:00, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
I know that I say youth cred, Doktoro, but writing about penises in an encyclopaedia takes that down to the youngest of youths. ☺ Anyway, if you want what the modern kids say, I went and Google Booked for "world's oldest" and many of the modern texts in the 21st century cite this fella:
That Grafton Elliot Smith fella is still on the shortlist, as you can see from page 1. And it seems to pretty much support, as of 1999, the sentence that you and Joe Roe are disputing; although if you wanted to go deeper you could always look at the 1958 and 1956 sources that Dunsmuir and Gordon in their turn cite.
You three owe me for what's now in my Google search history.
Uncle G ( talk) 12:15, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Is circumcision the oldest known surgical procedure? The oldest operation for which there is tangible physical evidence is trepanning, since several Neolithic skulls […] However, iconographic evidence puts circumcision much further back — well into the Paleolithic period […] The other basis for assigning a vast antiquity to circumcision […] It is probably not stretching the evidence too much to suggest that modern man evolved as a circumcising species.
— Cox, Guy; Morris, Brian J. (2012). "Why Circumcision? From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century". In Bolnick, David A.; Koyle, Martin; Yosha, Assaf (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781447128588., pp.243–244
Guy Cox and Brian J. Morris are respected cobbers from the University of Sydney.
I am saddened to tell you that you are up against pretty much every urology and circumcision surgery textbook in the 21st century that there is, on this one, from Al-Salem's 2016 An Illustrated Guide to Pediatric Urology to Heyns's and Krieger's entry on Circumcision in Andrology for the Clinician (Springer Science & Business Media, 2006). And not only are the modern day urologists massed against you, so too are the neurologists:
trephining […] Osler states that this operation is the oldest known surgical procedure, but it is likely to have been preceded by circumcision.
— Pryse-Phillips, William (2009). "trephining". Companion to Clinical Neurology (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199710041., p.1021
Pryse-Phillips is a Newly found Canadianian, and what xe tells us is that your idea about trepanning was a Victorian idea from William Osler which modern scholarship thinks is wrong. Which seems ironic given that you want to dismiss Victorian ideas. ☺
Uncle G ( talk) 14:30, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
There's a noticable communist in that sea of blue in your cemetery, Doktoro. Are we still waiting for the keeper of the Hank Williams Museum to write us a biography? All that I have is what I could get from the souvenir shop, and you know what the souvenir shop stuff is like: glossy and superficial. The tour guide skipped over the bit about the Lanier House slaves in 1861, and it isn't in the souvenir shop stuff at all.
Uncle G ( talk) 10:17, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Beware of gazumpers whilst you are there, Doktoro, and of land grabbers, and (even more importantly) why is the One Armed Man not on your list?
Uncle G ( talk) 22:34, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Enjoy, Lurkers, the bind that Doktoro is now in: xe has to admit that F. Scott Fitzgerald is either not popular or not culture. ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 08:32, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
You should take another walkabout and fix the article on NewSouth Books now. You also need to track down a source for your popular culture fella and that Sam bloke, who just weren't in anything that I had. Amusingly. even the Neely going weekend walkabout news item was more interested in your popular culture fella's girlfriend and her family's plot.
Hi. I'm pretty sure that this is a proxy- [5]. It shows a bogus ISP of Agile Networks, Ohio and is being operated by a well know block evader who is known to geolocate to Pennsylvania when he edits logged out. If I'm not mistaken, almost all proxies will have some sketchy, non existent ISP listed and often times doing a cursory search of the ISP leads to fake websites with defunct services. Your insight would be appreciated as I dont particularly have much knowledge on these topics but have to deal with a persistent block evader who employs a large number of proxies. Thanks. Southasianhistorian8 ( talk) 01:50, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
I'm the first to admit my understanding of BLP policy is not the greatest but I think I'm right on this one. I have an article in which editors claim that by quoting the original remarks from a twitter controversy via a secondary source WP:BLPSELFPUB and WP:BLPPRIMARY are irrelevant. I have commented that the secondary sources are only used to source the original remarks not for the commentary added by secondary sources, which includes the fact that some of the claims made are untrue.
So whilst they've added a degree of separation, they're simply quoting the original remarks ie back to the original primary self-published source. I also point out that not including the commentary the remarks are untrue is a WP:BLP violation and risks victimising the subject of the controversy once more violating WP:AVOIDVICTIM. The subject of the controversy was driven to consider suicide at the time. Having suggested we have a responsibility to consider the victim here, in response, I'm getting WP:PUBLICFIGURE means we don't have to consider the feelings of the victim.
I would very much appreciate your thoughts on this. W C M email 08:41, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
If I said that I can name two editors who have stood largely alone on the talk page over the years about glib misrepresentations that go back to Tweets when it is known that the Tweets were challenged, and there is now an open administrator discussion about banning one of those editors for repeatedly objecting to how people want to re-expand the article with raw quotations again, even though there are now talk page discussions where other editors opposing the lone voice are drawing parallels between the article subject and Adolph Eichmann and throwing around random conflict-of-interest accusations in response to the lone voice's objections that editors making BLP-violating accusations of their own against the article subject on the talk page is not a good thing, you'll know which biography this is, too.
Yes, more people are following this than you might realize, Wee Curry Monster, and given that historically, from the days of Siegenthaler onwards, it has so often been the case that one person stands alone against a lot of people who need their heads knocked together (such as about not drawing Nazi parallels even on the talk page) this whole situation seems problematic. And I share the viewpoint expressed that this is but a short step away from Arbitration. Which is bound to give you flashbacks, Doktoro. ☺
Uncle G ( talk) 06:55, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Can you block 128.194.2.38 (who you just reverted on my talk page). He is banned user Thespeedoflightneverchanges, confirmed off-wiki. Thanks. Cpotisch ( talk) 19:08, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Asking you because the "recently active admins" tool pointed me to you: would you mind WP:REVDEL this reverted vandalism revision? It has Unicode special characters in the edit summary which are annoying when looking at the revision history of that article. I think deleting this revision should be non-controversial due to WP:REVDEL criteria RD3. Thank you very much. SomethingForDeletion ( talk) 01:52, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
I've got a few socks that should be added to Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Go im so horny based on edit summaries. Based on the evidence I've provided below, all of these can be proven without a checkuser. Is it alright if I add them to the category?
Thanks! Philipnelson99 ( talk) 19:06, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello, this edit suggests your change was minor, but you did remove enough content and a citation that I wouldn't consider it "minor". Could you provide more context when reverting edits like this in the edit summary in the future? Cheers, -- Engineerchange ( talk) 17:20, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
Patrolling Recent changes gets me into so many weird areas of the project. Shirke, an Indian clan (worse than other Indian articles), is being mutilated by WP:SPA Anvesh.rajeshirke. I restored a much earlier version of the article (pre-mess), warned the user, who promptly reverted me, was themself reverted by another user, reverted again by Anvesh, then me (leaving a final warning), and now restored by Anvesh. No point in my continuing to edit-war, and WP:INVOLVED stops me from doing what I want to do, which is to indef the user, so if Uncle G doesn't object to my distracting you with Indian clan stuff (at least it's not socks, although the edit history of the article alludes to socks), maybe you could tear yourself away from flowers and attempting to educate me (hopeless, although I did read what you wrote) ... -- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:18, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I came across this page (linked from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards/Archive 20) while doing some barnstar-related wikiarchaeology. I noticed that you deleted it in 2012 under G6 - I was wondering if you would mind undeleting it for historical reference (& turning it into an {{ R from merge}} to Wikipedia:Barnstars). Let me know if you have any queries, or if I'm missing anything. All the best, — a smart kitten[ meow 01:58, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Jewish cemetery, Hoorn at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Daniel Case ( talk) 22:02, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
I'd take you away from Arbitration flashbacks ("Incoming!") Doktoro, with some happy quest for youth cred material; only now I'm stuck with some very dead people and something that Victor Hugo claimed that fails verification. Uncle G ( talk) 10:16, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
You blocked SniperLight46 indicating in the block log that they were a sock of SniperLight47. For whatever reason, you chose not to block 47. Right after your block, OnlySL (notice the SL in the username) was created and edits the same articles. I think there's enough for me to block the new account and 47 (now that there are at least two socks), but I thought a check might be helpful.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
We need to drag Doktoro away from staring at xyr socks again, M. Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb. Otherwise xe might notice that Blanchefleur ( AfD discussion) is nominated for deletion. We don't want Doktoro upset by Mediaeval romance literature topics that connect to Carl Orff. That's not a way to youth cred. If Kurt Hugo Schneider has not done a cover of this Orff fella's "Blanziflor et Helena", can it even be called music at all?
We should distract Doktoro with more Eastern European womens' football, with which xe is justly synonymous. Ștefania Donica ( AfD discussion) is currently listed for deletion.
Uncle G ( talk) 13:45, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
And this guy, Woods, was a lecturer at Tulane at the time, and then became associate professor of Romance languages at the University of South Carolina--which is a significant jump in pay and status for someone who was as interested in praising the lovely but delicate ladies as he was in philology. I do not think that User:AllTheUsernamesAreInUse is very up to date on the study of women in medieval literature. I can't blame them for that, or for the poor quality of the article, but it's a fact that these characters are not non-notable, as any quick search in JSTOR will show to those who don't read romance. The ones who do read romance--well, one of them is working on the article. Drmies ( talk) 16:43, 17 February 2024 (UTC)Among the many good qualities of Marie de France found in the Lais, one of the most endearing is her feminine attitude and style in a great number of places. Although some of these characteristics are not peculiar to Marie, yet all of them used by her suggest various facets of her personality and add piquancy to the poems. The passages where these womanly touches occur may be divided roughly into stylistic and psychological passages. [1]
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As we know, M. Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, Doktoro's quest for youth cred is on-going.
Jada Facer's first YouTube video defines the beginning of the modern era, and Kurt Hugo Schneider has to be the definition of what constitutes modern music. You can see the twain together at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPM6E19Cg8M where they dug up a museum piece, whose marginalia on old records revealed it to be written by some bloke we believe was named "Shakespeare or summat, lad" but whom conspiracy theorists have long asserted to be Bacon and someone only whose first name is known to history, and performed it on modern instruments. The museum piece itself contained references to much earlier works such as the old Latin folk song Redi, Puer, Iterum!, which indeed in its turn can be traced to an earlier Britannic work from a millennium ago.
The same is true here, of course, as history repeats itself; or at least rhymes. It is a good thing that Doktoro is writing this, I hope with the aid of other Lurkers who know the botany, such as The Onion Lady and others. Because if it were me writing about this, it would be just another "In popular culture" article sourced to the writings of people who lived back in the 1900s and who went around saying "SUP!" and suchlike to one another:
Uncle G ( talk) 09:52, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Very interesting, Uncle. I want to have a look at that Robertson article. I was busy with this. Wish my students luck: I'm quizzing them on it, God knows why. Drmies ( talk) 15:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Does she appear in Wolfram's Parzival? Ladyof Shalott 13:57, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Well, I'm a Boniface junkie, so anything that says "Benedictine" on it is of interest to me. I'll have a look, but unfortunately I got a few other things to do today, plus the tediousness of a class evaluation. One used to go in, observe, and write some notes. Now there's a preliminary interview, a 20-part questionnaire before the class, and an evaluative meeting afterwards, followed by the writing up of what will probably be a dozen pages of platitudes. I'm sure we will get evaluated on how we evaluate. Drmies ( talk) 15:33, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello,
Thanks for rev-del ing that, those were just horrible things for that IP to write, have you considered protection in light of this? Thank you very much!
Geardona (
talk to me?)
00:15, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
It's a funny thing, but accounts with "cheese" in the name are always vandals, had you noticed? We might as well block them on sight. Bishonen | tålk 19:22, 22 February 2024 (UTC).
Over the last couple weeks, I've crossed your path while dealing with a couple vandals/disruptive editors. In each instance, I've found your responses to their actions to be both patient and effective. Thank you for your administrative work–it certainly does not go unnoticed and it does a lot of good. ~ Pbritti ( talk) 22:47, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Greetings, Drmies. Thank you for your message. I don't have a conflict of interest as far as I know :). I'm a historian living in Brussels, Belgium. Your further advice is welcome. Kind regards Protalina ( talk) 21:44, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I'm a little confused. Why have you reverted 180.195.85.171's edits? They seem harmless to me. The vast majority of them are simply the addition of the {{ Commons category}} template to various articles' External links sections. Is there something wrong with that? – CopperyMarrow15 ( talk | edits) Feel free to ping me! 23:06, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
Three editors are now splitting the article and making massive changes and massive deletions. One of the editors does not leave edit summaries even for massive deletions or massive changes, even though they were reported to ANI 12 days ago for similar behavior on this same article [7]. In my opinion, more eyes need to be on the article and on what is being done. Thank you. I'm tempted to take this to ANI right away because the editor in question is arguing that he doesn't have to explain his edits in edit summaries: Talk:The New York Times#Edit summaries. But I thought I'd stop by here first. Softlavender ( talk) 01:29, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
Definitely considering most of it. But for now, while New York is definitely on my travel list at some point, if you or Acroterion ever find yourself in Belfast, drop me a buzz and I'll show you the best place in the city for a Guinness, if that takes your fancy :) Sideswipe9th ( talk) 03:53, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
I imagine Sideswipe9th might argue there was a context.Yes, and that context is specific to the circumstances of SMcCandlish as I elaborated in this comment. But I don't want to drag that here, SMcCandlish if you want to discuss that context further away from AE, my talk page is open :)
Howdy--hope you're doing well as can be expected in a red state in 2024; at least you don't have Bill Lee as governor. Anyway, I'm hoping to jump back into creating some articles from all of my little red links--just wanted to see if anything sticks out to you because I'm having trouble picking one. All best! Icarus of old ( talk) 15:43, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Did you see this [8]? Also commented on at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#bnnbreaking.com_?. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 17:19, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
For some reason, I still have your Sandra's page open alongside ISBN 9780857287427. According to https://www.hngreenphd.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/133742098/stovall_documentarychapter.pdf , by the way, you should go and see a big block of metal at F and D Auto Repair. Uncle G ( talk) 16:48, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
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For your edits on cleaning up the Academy of Allied Health & Science article. Thank you! My Pants Metal ( talk) 13:40, 29 February 2024 (UTC) |
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Today I am happy about a singer on the Main page (at least for the first hours), after TFA the same day last year. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:17, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks to Seiji Ozawa. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:45, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Listen to music from Ukraine if you like, - I heard it in 2022, and the November concert (at a different church) raised a truckload of winter clothes. My story today is also from my life: I heard the singer in 3 of the 4 mentioned musical items. I sang in yesterday's. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:46, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
Howdy. Concerning the related discussions at List of presidents of the United States & Joe Biden. I'm hoping the editor's pushing of Biden is the 45th not 46th US president argument, is partially a WP:CIR issue & not a self-entertainment one. GoodDay ( talk) 17:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. I think 98.30.252.213 is Scurvy Sevi. Quick transition on Anne Hathaway's page (constant filth). Bringingthewood ( talk) 01:06, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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On 4 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jewish cemetery, Hoorn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Jewish cemetery in the Dutch city of Hoorn was cleared in 1968 to make room for a roadway, and the bodily remains and gravestones removed to the public cemetery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jewish cemetery, Hoorn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Jewish cemetery, Hoorn), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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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I am suspecting 197.132.164.199 as a block evasion sock, is there a way to stop this guy from block evading? AlphaBetaGamma ( Talk/Report any mistakes here) 03:35, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Dear Drmies: I kindly ask for help from you and/or your friendly talk-page watchers to take a look the contributions from User:Hichem872642, including at the Teahouse a couple of weeks ago. I am under a lot of IRL stress right now (capped off by the Sierra storm this past weekend that ripped off much of the outer layer of my roof! At least it wasn't a tornado! But still!) and I recognize that their invocation of the word "engaging" in their most recent response to me on their talk page is something I can't constructively respond to right now. I am grateful for Wikipedia not requiring me to be being "assigned to a case" so I can turn it over to others for multiple opinions. Thanks so much. Hope all is well. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 22:15, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 61, January – February 2024
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Remember that article? Again being inexorably fattened up. An organ donor! 25 books, wonderful reviews! I've just removed a few bits. Bishonen | tålk 22:09, 5 March 2024 (UTC).
Hello, Drmies,
I was hoping you could give me your perspective on a new editor, Fhektii. They have been editing for a couple of weeks, less than 200 edits and today they spend lots of time draftifying articles because of suspected "UPE". This just doesn't seem like an activity a new editor would even know about or spend time on much less know that we identify it by "UPE". I have asked them about any previous accounts they might have used but I rarely get a reply to that query.
I'm not asking for any phishing but I'm hoping since you've been doing this longer than I that you could give me your opinion on whether this is a returning editor or just a precocious, helpful new editor. Many thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 22:58, 5 March 2024 (UTC)