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I took the liberty of re-adding the IP's last rant, and forgot to change the edit summary to something better than "undid revision by Jack" etc. Look at the IP's history, and see that he's obsessing over this, for reasons known only to himself. Thus I reported him to AIV. If they won't do anything about it, and if he continues with it, I'll schlep him to ANI. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:35, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Jack, I saw you moved that page to Adele Aus der Ohe, once it had already been moved from Adele aus der ohe by a BOT. I took it up with Gerda and she agrees that it should read "aus der Ohe". Like this I would like your input here before I ask an admin to move it. Thanks, Krenakarore TK 21:22, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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Can you help me in expanding this article. I consider you a good friend on here and i would like your help. Paul Austin ( talk) 09:34, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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I've just dropped in for a minute to wish all my page watchers, lurkers, stalkers, eavesdroppers, Ref Desk Regulars, other wikifriends, and everybody else on Earth peace and best wishes for the festive season and 2015. To anyone I may have hurt along the way this year, I ask your forgiveness. From the Island of Serendipity I wish you all "Suba Naththalak Wewa". -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 03:51, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
... I'm a sucker for them, I admit ... but wait, do I mean the ensembles or the genre of composition? Our article string quartet seems to be on both! Oddly, I'd never noticed this (maybe never even read the article, perversely indeed). I saw two items on the article's talk page addressing this, and reference to discussions at Talk:Musical form and Category_talk:Musical_forms, but but but ... Welcome back, dear friend, and what's your opinion on having one article on two things? Or is it actually one thing? --- Sluzzelin talk 01:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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I had to. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 7 Shevat 5775 21:18, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
I am not so sure that the two categories are necessarily redundant. "Australian poems" and "Poems by Australian poets" are not the same thing. Paintings allow for Category:John Brack AND Category:Australian paintings. -- Mattinbgn ( talk) 22:48, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Jack, could you take a look at Boris Stürmer? Not very many people do. Since a year I am working on it. The man, the story and the details are interesting. Thanks. (I hope to finish it pretty soon.) Taksen ( talk) 05:09, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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I tried to clean up (my memories etc.) and found that the piece is mentioned as an example in the MOS which stopped me. It's not one of many Te Deum in C major, - why move? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:00, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Jack, I don't know if you've been following the most recent thread on the ref desk talk page, but reading through the discussions again (and our guidelines and disclaimers), I have a simple proposal that I'd like your feedback on before I shop it to the whole group. It's very simple: For a trial period (1 month?), we agree to not remove or hat any questions for reasons of seeking medical/legal advice (and perhaps extend to include requests for opinion). Rather than a free-for-all, we first respond with boilerplate or a template, something along the lines of this:
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At that point, we can remove any responses that diagnose, proscribe, treat any illness or legal situation, but allow links to RS. Perhaps even demand that any responses include references, or risk removal. Would that seem ok to you? The thing is, we really don't get that many medical legal questions, and I like how this puts us in the position to police ourselves as respondents, rather than posters. As I see it, this proposal is consistent with our guidelines, and it might forestall some debates, because hopefully the use of a template will warn all our regulars (and irregulars) to be on their best behavior. On the upside, we can then provide useful information, such as links to other people's opinion pieces, links to WP pages that are about medical topics, peer-reviewed literature, etc. So, any thoughts? Would you support such an experiment? Thanks, SemanticMantis ( talk) 15:01, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I ask your assistance as you speak Russian and are familiar with the topic. This article has been nominated for deletion, and your comments at the deletion page may be helpful. I was curious if you might be able to find any Russian-language follow up sources regarding the investigation of the Orthodox Church, or anything else relevant, including a Russian-language article this can be linked to. Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 02:44, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for adding a German cellist to the countless enjoyable biographies, and
Chopin's Polish songs, first heard when I young. Enjoy the company on the
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I assume you won't mind my posting this here. There was historically a large popultion of Rusyns in Novi Sad and in NE Croatia, see Pannonian Rusyn. Given the Rusyns are Eastern Slavs and consider themselves part of greater Рүсь, they often self-identify as Russian in English, especially to outsiders. The same thing goes with religion. My family are Catholics but they use the Orthodox rite of John Chrysostom in a modified form of Church Slavonic with a few changes in wording so as not to contradict theological differences since the great schism. My mother's mother's only formal schooling was in proper pomoskowski, and she learned Cyrillic in Philadelphia after they came here, not English, except by osmosis.
As for Polish Jewry, my mother's mother's mother was almost certainly born Jewish, in what was then SE Poland, and what is now likely about to become SW Russia. There is no baptismal certificate for her. The issue was kept hush-hush until the time of my grandmother's death. So I assume we are not too far separated. μηδείς ( talk) 02:11, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Oh, and shchistya was my fault, Rusyn tends to differ in various vowels by dialect from Russian, and I get confused. (Compare Polish szczęście.) For example, in Rusyn "rain" is дыч. The weather was either (in approximation) "Dych pada", "Snik pada" or "Solntse jest" μηδείς ( talk) 02:26, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Do you remember that I posted a question on the Reference Desk (Math, I believe) a few weeks ago? It was about that internet "hoax" claiming that a month having exactly four occurrences of each day of the week will only occur every 823 years. At some point in the past, you read this in the newspaper and you wrote a letter to the paper, letting them know that the claim is erroneous. In any event, you might be interested to read this conversation. It is located here: User talk:Joseph A. Spadaro#28.2425 days hath February. It has a somewhat plausible explanation of where that number of "once every 823 years" might come from. I thought you might be interested to see that. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro ( talk) 13:43, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. For the uncivil act of destroying the taste of Coffee through microwaving when everyone knows reheating it on the stove preserves the flavour. (note to anyone who might not realise it: this is a joke) Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 11 Adar 5775 17:13, 2 March 2015 (UTC) |
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How on earth had I not noticed the lack of an article? I suppose because I share GH's and RVW's view that it is the composer's greatest work, and I know and love every bar of it, I had never felt the need to look it up on WP. Be that as it may, thank you, dear Jack, for creating a fine and much-needed article. Ever thine, Tim riley talk 16:40, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
On the Seine, see the Right Bank page. Nyttend ( talk) 18:03, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
I am a little mystified by the move you carried out from "the Great Tea Race of 1866" to "Great Tea Race of 1866". Would you be able to explain the purpose of this change? (I am just trying to find out how all this Wikipedia stuff works.) ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 21:00, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
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To you and your fellow Aussies on winning the Cricket World Cup. Yet again. :) I am no cricket expert by any stretch, but I know enough to get by. I was following the espn-cricinfo gamecast, and when New Zealand only managed 183 runs by the time the last wicket was taken, I figured Australia would win easily and I retired for the night. It's probably good that NZ batted first, or the final score could have been a humiliation. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:26, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
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Jack, while I was giving a related and scientific answer to the succubus question which I thought would have been helpful, you must have been working on hatting the majority of the discussion (and I agree with your reason), and my post was of course at the end and ended up being hatted, too. Do you mind putting it back, please, maybe under the hatted section? Cheers. KägeTorä - (影虎) ( もしもし!) 13:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
i reverted you by accident. it was a technical error whilst using an iPad. I'm very sorry. I'm switching to my laptop to avoid such errors in the future. —This lousy T-shirt— ( talk) 21:51, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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G'day Jack! I notice in your recent edit of the article on George Pape you altered the red link for Royal Commission on espionage to show Espionage with a capital E. At List of Australian Royal Commissions you might notice the titles of Royal Commissions do not use leading capital letters except in the case of proper nouns. The 1954 Royal Commission on espionage is included in this list at item 87 and the word espionage is not capitalised. Regards. Dolphin ( t) 01:07, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
The symbol is the Fleur-de-lis, but the design doesn't appear in that article @ Fleur-de-lis#Coats-of-arms and flags. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 05:57, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Speaking of echidnas (echidnae?), when I was teaching animals in Japan to Japanese children, one of the flash cards I had to use was 'echidna', with a picture of it. All was going well until I got to this card, and all the kids said, "What is THAT?" and I couldn't answer, because I had never even heard of it myself. Totally useless word for my language centre to force me to teach to a bunch of 5 year olds. On another occasion, I was teaching a 9 year old Japanese girl here in the UK, and gave her homework to write down as many animals as she could beginning with each letter of the alphabet. For 'I' she chose 'Impala', and I said, "...what?" She said, "Impala, it's an animal in Africa." So I said, "OK, show me in the dictionary." She took out her Japanese>English dictionary, and showed me the word 'impara', which was translated as 'impala', and turned out to be a type of antelope. Well, I didn't bloody well know that. Teaching is a learning experience, too. :) KägeTorä - (影虎) ( もしもし!) 13:39, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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I took the liberty of re-adding the IP's last rant, and forgot to change the edit summary to something better than "undid revision by Jack" etc. Look at the IP's history, and see that he's obsessing over this, for reasons known only to himself. Thus I reported him to AIV. If they won't do anything about it, and if he continues with it, I'll schlep him to ANI. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:35, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Jack, I saw you moved that page to Adele Aus der Ohe, once it had already been moved from Adele aus der ohe by a BOT. I took it up with Gerda and she agrees that it should read "aus der Ohe". Like this I would like your input here before I ask an admin to move it. Thanks, Krenakarore TK 21:22, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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Can you help me in expanding this article. I consider you a good friend on here and i would like your help. Paul Austin ( talk) 09:34, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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I know you're away on holiday. Hope you are enjoying it. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 19:48, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
I have started the article "
List of closed pairs of English rhyming words", based largely on the discussion archived at
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I've just dropped in for a minute to wish all my page watchers, lurkers, stalkers, eavesdroppers, Ref Desk Regulars, other wikifriends, and everybody else on Earth peace and best wishes for the festive season and 2015. To anyone I may have hurt along the way this year, I ask your forgiveness. From the Island of Serendipity I wish you all "Suba Naththalak Wewa". -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 03:51, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
... I'm a sucker for them, I admit ... but wait, do I mean the ensembles or the genre of composition? Our article string quartet seems to be on both! Oddly, I'd never noticed this (maybe never even read the article, perversely indeed). I saw two items on the article's talk page addressing this, and reference to discussions at Talk:Musical form and Category_talk:Musical_forms, but but but ... Welcome back, dear friend, and what's your opinion on having one article on two things? Or is it actually one thing? --- Sluzzelin talk 01:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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I am not so sure that the two categories are necessarily redundant. "Australian poems" and "Poems by Australian poets" are not the same thing. Paintings allow for Category:John Brack AND Category:Australian paintings. -- Mattinbgn ( talk) 22:48, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Jack, could you take a look at Boris Stürmer? Not very many people do. Since a year I am working on it. The man, the story and the details are interesting. Thanks. (I hope to finish it pretty soon.) Taksen ( talk) 05:09, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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I tried to clean up (my memories etc.) and found that the piece is mentioned as an example in the MOS which stopped me. It's not one of many Te Deum in C major, - why move? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:00, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Jack, I don't know if you've been following the most recent thread on the ref desk talk page, but reading through the discussions again (and our guidelines and disclaimers), I have a simple proposal that I'd like your feedback on before I shop it to the whole group. It's very simple: For a trial period (1 month?), we agree to not remove or hat any questions for reasons of seeking medical/legal advice (and perhaps extend to include requests for opinion). Rather than a free-for-all, we first respond with boilerplate or a template, something along the lines of this:
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At that point, we can remove any responses that diagnose, proscribe, treat any illness or legal situation, but allow links to RS. Perhaps even demand that any responses include references, or risk removal. Would that seem ok to you? The thing is, we really don't get that many medical legal questions, and I like how this puts us in the position to police ourselves as respondents, rather than posters. As I see it, this proposal is consistent with our guidelines, and it might forestall some debates, because hopefully the use of a template will warn all our regulars (and irregulars) to be on their best behavior. On the upside, we can then provide useful information, such as links to other people's opinion pieces, links to WP pages that are about medical topics, peer-reviewed literature, etc. So, any thoughts? Would you support such an experiment? Thanks, SemanticMantis ( talk) 15:01, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I ask your assistance as you speak Russian and are familiar with the topic. This article has been nominated for deletion, and your comments at the deletion page may be helpful. I was curious if you might be able to find any Russian-language follow up sources regarding the investigation of the Orthodox Church, or anything else relevant, including a Russian-language article this can be linked to. Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 02:44, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
From ABC ticker: "Labor leader Annastacia Palaszczuk sworn in as Queensland Premier". An interim cabinet will be sworn in tomorrow. Timeshift ( talk) 06:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
musical company
Thank you for adding a German cellist to the countless enjoyable biographies, and
Chopin's Polish songs, first heard when I young. Enjoy the company on the
German Portal's DYK! - repeating: you are an
awesome Wikipedian (19 March 2009, 8 February 2011)!
Three years ago, you were the eleventh recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:12, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
I assume you won't mind my posting this here. There was historically a large popultion of Rusyns in Novi Sad and in NE Croatia, see Pannonian Rusyn. Given the Rusyns are Eastern Slavs and consider themselves part of greater Рүсь, they often self-identify as Russian in English, especially to outsiders. The same thing goes with religion. My family are Catholics but they use the Orthodox rite of John Chrysostom in a modified form of Church Slavonic with a few changes in wording so as not to contradict theological differences since the great schism. My mother's mother's only formal schooling was in proper pomoskowski, and she learned Cyrillic in Philadelphia after they came here, not English, except by osmosis.
As for Polish Jewry, my mother's mother's mother was almost certainly born Jewish, in what was then SE Poland, and what is now likely about to become SW Russia. There is no baptismal certificate for her. The issue was kept hush-hush until the time of my grandmother's death. So I assume we are not too far separated. μηδείς ( talk) 02:11, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Oh, and shchistya was my fault, Rusyn tends to differ in various vowels by dialect from Russian, and I get confused. (Compare Polish szczęście.) For example, in Rusyn "rain" is дыч. The weather was either (in approximation) "Dych pada", "Snik pada" or "Solntse jest" μηδείς ( talk) 02:26, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Do you remember that I posted a question on the Reference Desk (Math, I believe) a few weeks ago? It was about that internet "hoax" claiming that a month having exactly four occurrences of each day of the week will only occur every 823 years. At some point in the past, you read this in the newspaper and you wrote a letter to the paper, letting them know that the claim is erroneous. In any event, you might be interested to read this conversation. It is located here: User talk:Joseph A. Spadaro#28.2425 days hath February. It has a somewhat plausible explanation of where that number of "once every 823 years" might come from. I thought you might be interested to see that. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro ( talk) 13:43, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. For the uncivil act of destroying the taste of Coffee through microwaving when everyone knows reheating it on the stove preserves the flavour. (note to anyone who might not realise it: this is a joke) Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 11 Adar 5775 17:13, 2 March 2015 (UTC) |
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How on earth had I not noticed the lack of an article? I suppose because I share GH's and RVW's view that it is the composer's greatest work, and I know and love every bar of it, I had never felt the need to look it up on WP. Be that as it may, thank you, dear Jack, for creating a fine and much-needed article. Ever thine, Tim riley talk 16:40, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
On the Seine, see the Right Bank page. Nyttend ( talk) 18:03, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
I am a little mystified by the move you carried out from "the Great Tea Race of 1866" to "Great Tea Race of 1866". Would you be able to explain the purpose of this change? (I am just trying to find out how all this Wikipedia stuff works.) ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 21:00, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
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To my motley of admirers, followers, stalkers and sundry cohorts: Please see User talk:SemanticMantis#Areas of Interest. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:51, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
To you and your fellow Aussies on winning the Cricket World Cup. Yet again. :) I am no cricket expert by any stretch, but I know enough to get by. I was following the espn-cricinfo gamecast, and when New Zealand only managed 183 runs by the time the last wicket was taken, I figured Australia would win easily and I retired for the night. It's probably good that NZ batted first, or the final score could have been a humiliation. ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:26, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
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I'm dabbing this bloke and came across the baffling (but impressive looking) User:JackofOz/Research: A-C. I'm curious - what are you researching? I presume you mean the musical Peter Allen, rather than one of the many other Peter Allens we have here, but just checking... -- Dweller ( talk) 09:31, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
hello Jack it is dfrr now this user who is named User:Trimethylxanthine has not been getting messages from anyone but me in fact only one other user has send him a message when he first came here. User:StuRat User:Conifer and many others have gotten this Message from me. so i will tell you what. we should send him wikiloves barnstars messages and other things to let him know that people know he is on wikipedia. thank you and have a great day. Dfrr ( talk) 09:33, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
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Jack, while I was giving a related and scientific answer to the succubus question which I thought would have been helpful, you must have been working on hatting the majority of the discussion (and I agree with your reason), and my post was of course at the end and ended up being hatted, too. Do you mind putting it back, please, maybe under the hatted section? Cheers. KägeTorä - (影虎) ( もしもし!) 13:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
i reverted you by accident. it was a technical error whilst using an iPad. I'm very sorry. I'm switching to my laptop to avoid such errors in the future. —This lousy T-shirt— ( talk) 21:51, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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G'day Jack! I notice in your recent edit of the article on George Pape you altered the red link for Royal Commission on espionage to show Espionage with a capital E. At List of Australian Royal Commissions you might notice the titles of Royal Commissions do not use leading capital letters except in the case of proper nouns. The 1954 Royal Commission on espionage is included in this list at item 87 and the word espionage is not capitalised. Regards. Dolphin ( t) 01:07, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
The symbol is the Fleur-de-lis, but the design doesn't appear in that article @ Fleur-de-lis#Coats-of-arms and flags. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 05:57, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Speaking of echidnas (echidnae?), when I was teaching animals in Japan to Japanese children, one of the flash cards I had to use was 'echidna', with a picture of it. All was going well until I got to this card, and all the kids said, "What is THAT?" and I couldn't answer, because I had never even heard of it myself. Totally useless word for my language centre to force me to teach to a bunch of 5 year olds. On another occasion, I was teaching a 9 year old Japanese girl here in the UK, and gave her homework to write down as many animals as she could beginning with each letter of the alphabet. For 'I' she chose 'Impala', and I said, "...what?" She said, "Impala, it's an animal in Africa." So I said, "OK, show me in the dictionary." She took out her Japanese>English dictionary, and showed me the word 'impara', which was translated as 'impala', and turned out to be a type of antelope. Well, I didn't bloody well know that. Teaching is a learning experience, too. :) KägeTorä - (影虎) ( もしもし!) 13:39, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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