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Maedin\ talk 11:54, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ben, you're very welcome! A couple of your edits to music-related articles popped up on my watchlist and I checked them out, then realised that you had a red-linked talk page! So I had to fix that for you, ;-) I do wish you luck and hope you stick around! If you need any help, you can give me a shout. Cheers, Maedin\ talk 06:30, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ben, I hope you don't mind, but I moved your message from my old talk page (User talk:Maedin) to my new one ( User talk:Julia W). I changed my user name a little while ago. I'm pretty sure the article I noticed you edit was Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song). And that was quite a while ago! I thought we might not see you again, ;) What brings you back finally? Julia\ talk 20:21, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. We use UK English spelling on UK subjects like Pink Floyd, so changing "centre" to "center" wasn't the right thing. Relax, I changed it back. The guideline is at WP:ENGVAR if you want to get more information. -- John ( talk) 08:30, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
PLEASE DO NOT MISREPRESENT THIS ONE-DAY FRACAS, WHICH I HAVE ALLOWED TO REMAIN AS PART OF MY WIKIPEDIA HISTORY, JUST TO JUSTIFY YOUR BELIEFS REGARDING WHATEVER IT IS WE'RE ARGUING ABOUT NOW. THIS WAS A VERY SPECIAL MOMENT IN MY WIKIPEDIA HISTORY, WHICH CAME TO A SATISFYING AND UPLIFTING CONCLUSION. IF YOU CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO READ THE WHOLE DING-DANG THING AND SEE THIS FOR YOURSELF, DON'T EVEN MENTION IT TO ME. AND IF ALL THESE CAPITAL LETTERS HURT YOUR PRECIOUS EYES, STOP LOOKING AT THEM.
Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.-- John ( talk) 14:39, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
I just received a message from you saying:
You need to calm right the hell down and have some fucking patience. I am not finished working on this article. When I edit, I do the writing first and the citations last. I am not finished! It may not make sense to you, but that's how I work. I always cite sources when necessary, and I have a virtual library of Pink Floyd material.
I hope to God you haven't deleted my work simply because you were too impatient to wait and see how the article turned out. You could have taken five minutes to review my past contributions, to see if I had a habit of citing or not citing sources, but NO -- you were too eager to chide somebody.
I think you're pretty damn rude. And before you say anything . . . it's not the language, it's the intent. I have no idea who the hell you think you are, but this is just unacceptable. Wait. Wait and see what I do. Chiding fellow contributors should be near the bottom of your list of behavior options, as a next-to-last resort.
I am in the middle of my work, and it may be hours before I finish, but there will be citations when appropriate; there ALWAYS are. But in the meantime, you've created an antiproductive distraction and spoiled my focus. And for what?
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Ben Culture (
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John,
In your first-ever message to me, you chided me for not citing sources when I was still at work on the article in question. As I've pointed out, you did not take a few minutes to review my history of contributions to see if I had a habit of citing sources, or of having my contributions reverted away, or anything like that -- you went straight to chiding me.
Naturally, I informed you -- openly, honestly, angrily -- that I was not finished, and that appropriate sources would be cited when I was finished, as they always are.
Instead of apologizing for your impatient, presumptive rudeness, or even saying something like "Okay, I understand" . . . Instead, in your second-ever message to me, you TOLD me to change my work habits, and threatened to have me blocked.
And yet, you describe yourself as a "WikiGnome" -- "who makes useful incremental edits without clamouring for attention"?!?
That's a miserable little joke if I've ever seen one.
You are very rude. You have done nothing but distract me in my work. It has probably been a half-hour I could have spent finishing the article and moving on -- but, in all honesty, I'm outraged by your anti-productive presumption and passive-aggressive threats.
You need to do a lot of work on yourself before you're ready to contribute meaningfully to Wikipedia. Try learning to really BE a "WikiGnome": Work behind the scenes, to make articles better.
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Ben Culture (
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on User talk:Ben Culture. Please comment on the content and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. You are welcome to rephrase your comment as a civil criticism of the article. Thank you. OohBunnies! (talk) 15:52, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
You're a fucking bamf Wikipedian. My fucking hero. 67.242.219.139 ( talk) 05:09, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Ben, I see that other users have been trying to explain this to you already, but it doesn't seem to be getting through. So I'm going to try once more, more clearly. This is a collaborative project. You are expected - everyone is expected - to treat other editors with courtesy and to be cooperative with them, for the betterment of the encyclopedia. Name-calling, angry screeds, personal attacks, browbeating people to try to get them to do what you want, and other attempts to disrupt the collegial atmosphere on Wikipedia aren't ok. It doesn't matter what else you're doing here or how good your other edits are; if you can't be reasonable and speak calmly and constructively to other editors, your right to edit Wikipedia will be revoked until you can. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 21:30, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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We didn't agree on anything during our tiff a few days ago, but that's okay - that's life! People disagree. I offer you this as a peace offering and as a thank you for your good article work, which is always appreciated. OohBunnies! (talk) 13:53, 28 July 2012 (UTC) |
Hello Ben.
Yep, 63 messages and counting (I'd probably get somewhere between 70 and 80, in total, before this year is out). The Beatles are my main obsession, but this past year I've been editing Pink Floyd articles (Syd at GA is my most proudest achievement thus far). I also edit The Who and ELO articles, recently (you're probably thinking the workload from those four bands put together is way too much for one person). On the workload related note, I'm also sorting out my vinyl collection as we speak (What's a CD?).
There is a style guide, Wiki's Manual of Style. Here is a direct shortcut to the U.S./US abbreviation question.
It's nice to know I have a fan, thanks for the comments. If there is any help you need on anything just leave me a message on my talk. yeepsi ( Time for a chat?) 18:52, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
- The instrumental song "Raise My Rent" includes bits that would later be resurrected in the Pink Floyd songs " What Do You Want from Me?", " Hey You" and " Keep Talking". citation needed
Hi Ben, I understand the general frustration you have voiced in other places. I made the first comment about Raise My Rent but did it anonymously so I never heard of the ensuing debate. I only ever compared it to What Do You Want From Me (someone else put in the rest) and I just wrote about it civilly on the talk page for that article. Thank you for all of your contributions. Take it easy. --Vic Elliott, Tucson AZ
Hi Ben. I just noticed your post last month on the Good Times Roll talk page. Since I wrote the article (well, most of it, anyway), I thought I'd taken a moment to respond to your comments. I'm surprised you see the article as negatively biased; I'm actually a pretty big Cars fan (saw the remaining four on their Move Like This tour last year, which was awesome) and have written over a dozen articles about the band. But your point about the over-reliance on Allmusic is well taken; they're a handy go-to source, but there are no doubt other sources that offer commentary about the song that we could pull into the article to flesh it out a bit. If you're willing to help pitch in, I'd sure appreciate the help! Who knows, we might even be able to bring it to Good Article status – as far as I know, Wikipedia only has one Cars article that's reached GA status, and I'd love to help change that. Cheers, 28bytes ( talk) 21:56, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Ben (if you didn't see it before reading this, I've posted a reply in the RE:David Gilmour (album) section).
Back then " The Gold It's in the..." was only a redirect, it wasn't until a few months after my edit that it became an article. I forgot to re-add the link after the "Gold" became an article. I hate the genre field. Songs/Albums/Bands are often wrong labelled by a person/critic with a genre that it's nowhere near (I'm not saying that "Ibiza Bar" was/is wrongly labelled, but you get my point, right?). From what I've seen users say, there has been a dsicussion about it, but I can't find it. yeepsi ( Time for a chat?) 16:54, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Even though I am an IT person, I still can't figure out how to respond. What exactly are you trying to tell me? Best Sally — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.104.125.48 ( talk) 03:37, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
For what it's worth, "whilst" is perfectly normal English in the UK.— Kww( talk) 06:32, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Ben,
Thank you for your kind comment on my rants page!
I see you are involved in articles about bands, particularly British bands. I am aware that there is a consensus to write e.g. "Blur are a band", where I would have written "Blur is a band", and that this is defended because it is said to be normal British English usage. OK, I am British but over 60, maybe my British English is out of date; but my younger friends tell me that they would also say "Blur is a band". I would be interested to hear your views on this. Maproom ( talk) 17:22, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Your comments on Talk:The Dark Knight Rises are inappropriate and unnecessary. If you cannot maintain a collegiate level of discourse in your interactions with other editors over editing disputes, you are looking at a block. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs( talk) 12:56, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Please do not make personal attacks in the manner that you did at Talk:The Dark Knight Rises and User talk:DonQuixote. We can have constructive discourse about working out an agreeable solution to the issue of the plot details for the film article without saying "the lunatics have taken over the asylum" or calling others' minds "mediocre". I admit, I was finding your arguments to have some reasonability to them before such resorts were taken. DarthBotto talk• cont 04:01, 05 September 2013 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:The Dark Knight Rises, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Please do not refactor my comments by inserting your commentary into my comments. GregJackP Boomer! 20:21, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Oh no worries, mate. I'm here to stay. And I'm going to be reporting Parrot, obviously for many reasons, but the biggest being that he disregarded WP:NOCITE, which states that if an unsourced edit is not harmful to the page, which mine were clearly not, then the proper procedure is to add citation needed tags, and not simply delete the edits. Thanks for the support, and I hope you'll comment on that report when I put it up!! Akdrummer75 ( talk) 18:49, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Nope, not an admin, just someone fed up of seeing an edit war in his watchlist. I thought most editors understood that WP:CIVIL is as much to stop disputes being pointlessly inflamed, as anything (if I revert someone's choice of noun and tell them why it's wrong, they might agree and concede; if I revert it and just tell them to fuck off, they'll most likely revert it back in anger) but ho hum. If Parrot's been doing this a lot - and the talk page opening with "if you're here to remind me about WP:CIVIL then you can shove it" isn't a great sign - then maybe it's time for WP:RFC/U or WP:ANI. -- McGeddon ( talk) 16:37, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Nice to meet you! - I noticed your question what FAC means. Featured article candidate. Whenever you don't know such a thing, try it in the search function with a preceding "WP:" (which is short for Wikipedia, as you may have guessed). I this case WP:FAC. It's often used for the process of examining in a collaborative effort if an article meets the criteria for Featured article, the highest standard. I watch a few of those, such as Kafka, and prefer when changes are proposed on the talk. To get a feeling for the process, look at Kafka FAC talk. - Let's practise brevity ;) - ask questions, but only one at a time, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:23, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
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I see that you have experienced alot on Wikipedia. I can relate. Good luck to you! :-) Daniellagreen ( talk) 17:17, 28 June 2014 (UTC) |
Ben, I am there, too. Perhaps I could direct you to a really great mentor, User:John_from_Idegon. He has always been helpful to me, from the start. Best to you, Daniellagreen ( talk) 17:30, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Glad you liked that little tidbit; it was the product of dealing with a host of overlapping RMs and CfDs cluttered useless lines of thought and the premise that "votes" get counted without evaluating their substance. I almost used this one, though, "The difference between a buffoon and a clown is that the clown knows what a mirror is, and also that he's a joke, which the buffoon does not." And [ the passage from Erewhon at the top of my page seems to have been written in anticipation of wiki-procedure-hounds (people who won't listen to common sense and insist on "letting other editors have their say" when throwing things to RM where there will be other people without common sense wanting their say to be "counted" too. A lot of quantitative, machine-rule judgement-making around Wikipedia, very little qualitative work. That Blackbeard and other articles I encounter have serious grammatical problems (I read articles with my ESL client) that don't get tended to while picayune discussions belabouring/frustrating the obvious seem to be increasingly the mainstay of wiki-activity (when not just tweaking codes and templates and screwing around with titles) adds to my own increasing disaffection for "discussion" and my growing disinterest in contributing more articles; I stopped adding photos long ago becvause of the deletionists infesting the Commons. Skookum1 ( talk) 00:50, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi, you might want to consider striking the personal attacks that you have made here [1]. Such comments are never helpful and only serve to weaken your case. They also make you appear immature and aggressive. Graham Colm ( talk) 19:06, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
If you don't like the cited source of Uncut Magazine's interview with Roger Waters, that's not a problem. Other statements in this article use Schaffner as their sole source; there's no reason this one can't do that, too. If you don't want to link to pinkfloydz.com, we can remove the link and leave the citation as Roger Waters interview, Uncut Magazine, June 2004.
I do realize the pinkfloydz.com site LOOKS a bit dodgy, but I believe they transcribed the interview accurately (despite a lack of proper formatting and some questionable punctuation).
I wrote a few comments on an old talk page Talk:Facial_(sex_act). 178.38.9.61 ( talk) 09:48, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
So I don't know how to respond directly to your comment but I'm the user who brought up the drug culture thing about Wish You Were Here. I think it was so long ago you might have forgotten all about it. Anyways I definitely recant my statement. It was more an observation though a naive one to be sure. The album became really popular for a short time where I reside and especially among the people I knew. I knew about Pink Floyds tie in with *drug culture* which is really a dirty word, but it's the truth. So I thought maybe just maybe it was because of that and not just because their album is SUPER popular and comes back into fashion every couple of years. Thanks for your comment and I appreciate your feedback. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NoruweiNoMori ( talk • contribs) 06:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
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At Talk:Facial_(sex_act), you seem to be replying to some pretty old comments, and some plainly WP:NOTFORUM ones. I personally would drop the subject because a. you're unlikely to get a response and b. they seem to be pretty outdated. Tutelary ( talk) 19:28, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Nothing should come after this but some links.
With regard to your recent edits, I think you intended to better paraphrase the sources, but it comes across as you giving your opinion about the material. -- Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 06:44, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
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Maedin\ talk 11:54, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ben, you're very welcome! A couple of your edits to music-related articles popped up on my watchlist and I checked them out, then realised that you had a red-linked talk page! So I had to fix that for you, ;-) I do wish you luck and hope you stick around! If you need any help, you can give me a shout. Cheers, Maedin\ talk 06:30, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ben, I hope you don't mind, but I moved your message from my old talk page (User talk:Maedin) to my new one ( User talk:Julia W). I changed my user name a little while ago. I'm pretty sure the article I noticed you edit was Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song). And that was quite a while ago! I thought we might not see you again, ;) What brings you back finally? Julia\ talk 20:21, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. We use UK English spelling on UK subjects like Pink Floyd, so changing "centre" to "center" wasn't the right thing. Relax, I changed it back. The guideline is at WP:ENGVAR if you want to get more information. -- John ( talk) 08:30, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
PLEASE DO NOT MISREPRESENT THIS ONE-DAY FRACAS, WHICH I HAVE ALLOWED TO REMAIN AS PART OF MY WIKIPEDIA HISTORY, JUST TO JUSTIFY YOUR BELIEFS REGARDING WHATEVER IT IS WE'RE ARGUING ABOUT NOW. THIS WAS A VERY SPECIAL MOMENT IN MY WIKIPEDIA HISTORY, WHICH CAME TO A SATISFYING AND UPLIFTING CONCLUSION. IF YOU CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO READ THE WHOLE DING-DANG THING AND SEE THIS FOR YOURSELF, DON'T EVEN MENTION IT TO ME. AND IF ALL THESE CAPITAL LETTERS HURT YOUR PRECIOUS EYES, STOP LOOKING AT THEM.
Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.-- John ( talk) 14:39, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
I just received a message from you saying:
You need to calm right the hell down and have some fucking patience. I am not finished working on this article. When I edit, I do the writing first and the citations last. I am not finished! It may not make sense to you, but that's how I work. I always cite sources when necessary, and I have a virtual library of Pink Floyd material.
I hope to God you haven't deleted my work simply because you were too impatient to wait and see how the article turned out. You could have taken five minutes to review my past contributions, to see if I had a habit of citing or not citing sources, but NO -- you were too eager to chide somebody.
I think you're pretty damn rude. And before you say anything . . . it's not the language, it's the intent. I have no idea who the hell you think you are, but this is just unacceptable. Wait. Wait and see what I do. Chiding fellow contributors should be near the bottom of your list of behavior options, as a next-to-last resort.
I am in the middle of my work, and it may be hours before I finish, but there will be citations when appropriate; there ALWAYS are. But in the meantime, you've created an antiproductive distraction and spoiled my focus. And for what?
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John,
In your first-ever message to me, you chided me for not citing sources when I was still at work on the article in question. As I've pointed out, you did not take a few minutes to review my history of contributions to see if I had a habit of citing sources, or of having my contributions reverted away, or anything like that -- you went straight to chiding me.
Naturally, I informed you -- openly, honestly, angrily -- that I was not finished, and that appropriate sources would be cited when I was finished, as they always are.
Instead of apologizing for your impatient, presumptive rudeness, or even saying something like "Okay, I understand" . . . Instead, in your second-ever message to me, you TOLD me to change my work habits, and threatened to have me blocked.
And yet, you describe yourself as a "WikiGnome" -- "who makes useful incremental edits without clamouring for attention"?!?
That's a miserable little joke if I've ever seen one.
You are very rude. You have done nothing but distract me in my work. It has probably been a half-hour I could have spent finishing the article and moving on -- but, in all honesty, I'm outraged by your anti-productive presumption and passive-aggressive threats.
You need to do a lot of work on yourself before you're ready to contribute meaningfully to Wikipedia. Try learning to really BE a "WikiGnome": Work behind the scenes, to make articles better.
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on User talk:Ben Culture. Please comment on the content and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. You are welcome to rephrase your comment as a civil criticism of the article. Thank you. OohBunnies! (talk) 15:52, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
You're a fucking bamf Wikipedian. My fucking hero. 67.242.219.139 ( talk) 05:09, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Ben, I see that other users have been trying to explain this to you already, but it doesn't seem to be getting through. So I'm going to try once more, more clearly. This is a collaborative project. You are expected - everyone is expected - to treat other editors with courtesy and to be cooperative with them, for the betterment of the encyclopedia. Name-calling, angry screeds, personal attacks, browbeating people to try to get them to do what you want, and other attempts to disrupt the collegial atmosphere on Wikipedia aren't ok. It doesn't matter what else you're doing here or how good your other edits are; if you can't be reasonable and speak calmly and constructively to other editors, your right to edit Wikipedia will be revoked until you can. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 21:30, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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We didn't agree on anything during our tiff a few days ago, but that's okay - that's life! People disagree. I offer you this as a peace offering and as a thank you for your good article work, which is always appreciated. OohBunnies! (talk) 13:53, 28 July 2012 (UTC) |
Hello Ben.
Yep, 63 messages and counting (I'd probably get somewhere between 70 and 80, in total, before this year is out). The Beatles are my main obsession, but this past year I've been editing Pink Floyd articles (Syd at GA is my most proudest achievement thus far). I also edit The Who and ELO articles, recently (you're probably thinking the workload from those four bands put together is way too much for one person). On the workload related note, I'm also sorting out my vinyl collection as we speak (What's a CD?).
There is a style guide, Wiki's Manual of Style. Here is a direct shortcut to the U.S./US abbreviation question.
It's nice to know I have a fan, thanks for the comments. If there is any help you need on anything just leave me a message on my talk. yeepsi ( Time for a chat?) 18:52, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
- The instrumental song "Raise My Rent" includes bits that would later be resurrected in the Pink Floyd songs " What Do You Want from Me?", " Hey You" and " Keep Talking". citation needed
Hi Ben, I understand the general frustration you have voiced in other places. I made the first comment about Raise My Rent but did it anonymously so I never heard of the ensuing debate. I only ever compared it to What Do You Want From Me (someone else put in the rest) and I just wrote about it civilly on the talk page for that article. Thank you for all of your contributions. Take it easy. --Vic Elliott, Tucson AZ
Hi Ben. I just noticed your post last month on the Good Times Roll talk page. Since I wrote the article (well, most of it, anyway), I thought I'd taken a moment to respond to your comments. I'm surprised you see the article as negatively biased; I'm actually a pretty big Cars fan (saw the remaining four on their Move Like This tour last year, which was awesome) and have written over a dozen articles about the band. But your point about the over-reliance on Allmusic is well taken; they're a handy go-to source, but there are no doubt other sources that offer commentary about the song that we could pull into the article to flesh it out a bit. If you're willing to help pitch in, I'd sure appreciate the help! Who knows, we might even be able to bring it to Good Article status – as far as I know, Wikipedia only has one Cars article that's reached GA status, and I'd love to help change that. Cheers, 28bytes ( talk) 21:56, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Ben (if you didn't see it before reading this, I've posted a reply in the RE:David Gilmour (album) section).
Back then " The Gold It's in the..." was only a redirect, it wasn't until a few months after my edit that it became an article. I forgot to re-add the link after the "Gold" became an article. I hate the genre field. Songs/Albums/Bands are often wrong labelled by a person/critic with a genre that it's nowhere near (I'm not saying that "Ibiza Bar" was/is wrongly labelled, but you get my point, right?). From what I've seen users say, there has been a dsicussion about it, but I can't find it. yeepsi ( Time for a chat?) 16:54, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Even though I am an IT person, I still can't figure out how to respond. What exactly are you trying to tell me? Best Sally — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.104.125.48 ( talk) 03:37, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
For what it's worth, "whilst" is perfectly normal English in the UK.— Kww( talk) 06:32, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for your kind comment on my rants page!
I see you are involved in articles about bands, particularly British bands. I am aware that there is a consensus to write e.g. "Blur are a band", where I would have written "Blur is a band", and that this is defended because it is said to be normal British English usage. OK, I am British but over 60, maybe my British English is out of date; but my younger friends tell me that they would also say "Blur is a band". I would be interested to hear your views on this. Maproom ( talk) 17:22, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Your comments on Talk:The Dark Knight Rises are inappropriate and unnecessary. If you cannot maintain a collegiate level of discourse in your interactions with other editors over editing disputes, you are looking at a block. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs( talk) 12:56, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Please do not make personal attacks in the manner that you did at Talk:The Dark Knight Rises and User talk:DonQuixote. We can have constructive discourse about working out an agreeable solution to the issue of the plot details for the film article without saying "the lunatics have taken over the asylum" or calling others' minds "mediocre". I admit, I was finding your arguments to have some reasonability to them before such resorts were taken. DarthBotto talk• cont 04:01, 05 September 2013 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:The Dark Knight Rises, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Please do not refactor my comments by inserting your commentary into my comments. GregJackP Boomer! 20:21, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Oh no worries, mate. I'm here to stay. And I'm going to be reporting Parrot, obviously for many reasons, but the biggest being that he disregarded WP:NOCITE, which states that if an unsourced edit is not harmful to the page, which mine were clearly not, then the proper procedure is to add citation needed tags, and not simply delete the edits. Thanks for the support, and I hope you'll comment on that report when I put it up!! Akdrummer75 ( talk) 18:49, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Nope, not an admin, just someone fed up of seeing an edit war in his watchlist. I thought most editors understood that WP:CIVIL is as much to stop disputes being pointlessly inflamed, as anything (if I revert someone's choice of noun and tell them why it's wrong, they might agree and concede; if I revert it and just tell them to fuck off, they'll most likely revert it back in anger) but ho hum. If Parrot's been doing this a lot - and the talk page opening with "if you're here to remind me about WP:CIVIL then you can shove it" isn't a great sign - then maybe it's time for WP:RFC/U or WP:ANI. -- McGeddon ( talk) 16:37, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Nice to meet you! - I noticed your question what FAC means. Featured article candidate. Whenever you don't know such a thing, try it in the search function with a preceding "WP:" (which is short for Wikipedia, as you may have guessed). I this case WP:FAC. It's often used for the process of examining in a collaborative effort if an article meets the criteria for Featured article, the highest standard. I watch a few of those, such as Kafka, and prefer when changes are proposed on the talk. To get a feeling for the process, look at Kafka FAC talk. - Let's practise brevity ;) - ask questions, but only one at a time, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:23, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
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I see that you have experienced alot on Wikipedia. I can relate. Good luck to you! :-) Daniellagreen ( talk) 17:17, 28 June 2014 (UTC) |
Ben, I am there, too. Perhaps I could direct you to a really great mentor, User:John_from_Idegon. He has always been helpful to me, from the start. Best to you, Daniellagreen ( talk) 17:30, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Glad you liked that little tidbit; it was the product of dealing with a host of overlapping RMs and CfDs cluttered useless lines of thought and the premise that "votes" get counted without evaluating their substance. I almost used this one, though, "The difference between a buffoon and a clown is that the clown knows what a mirror is, and also that he's a joke, which the buffoon does not." And [ the passage from Erewhon at the top of my page seems to have been written in anticipation of wiki-procedure-hounds (people who won't listen to common sense and insist on "letting other editors have their say" when throwing things to RM where there will be other people without common sense wanting their say to be "counted" too. A lot of quantitative, machine-rule judgement-making around Wikipedia, very little qualitative work. That Blackbeard and other articles I encounter have serious grammatical problems (I read articles with my ESL client) that don't get tended to while picayune discussions belabouring/frustrating the obvious seem to be increasingly the mainstay of wiki-activity (when not just tweaking codes and templates and screwing around with titles) adds to my own increasing disaffection for "discussion" and my growing disinterest in contributing more articles; I stopped adding photos long ago becvause of the deletionists infesting the Commons. Skookum1 ( talk) 00:50, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi, you might want to consider striking the personal attacks that you have made here [1]. Such comments are never helpful and only serve to weaken your case. They also make you appear immature and aggressive. Graham Colm ( talk) 19:06, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
If you don't like the cited source of Uncut Magazine's interview with Roger Waters, that's not a problem. Other statements in this article use Schaffner as their sole source; there's no reason this one can't do that, too. If you don't want to link to pinkfloydz.com, we can remove the link and leave the citation as Roger Waters interview, Uncut Magazine, June 2004.
I do realize the pinkfloydz.com site LOOKS a bit dodgy, but I believe they transcribed the interview accurately (despite a lack of proper formatting and some questionable punctuation).
I wrote a few comments on an old talk page Talk:Facial_(sex_act). 178.38.9.61 ( talk) 09:48, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
So I don't know how to respond directly to your comment but I'm the user who brought up the drug culture thing about Wish You Were Here. I think it was so long ago you might have forgotten all about it. Anyways I definitely recant my statement. It was more an observation though a naive one to be sure. The album became really popular for a short time where I reside and especially among the people I knew. I knew about Pink Floyds tie in with *drug culture* which is really a dirty word, but it's the truth. So I thought maybe just maybe it was because of that and not just because their album is SUPER popular and comes back into fashion every couple of years. Thanks for your comment and I appreciate your feedback. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NoruweiNoMori ( talk • contribs) 06:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
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At Talk:Facial_(sex_act), you seem to be replying to some pretty old comments, and some plainly WP:NOTFORUM ones. I personally would drop the subject because a. you're unlikely to get a response and b. they seem to be pretty outdated. Tutelary ( talk) 19:28, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Nothing should come after this but some links.
With regard to your recent edits, I think you intended to better paraphrase the sources, but it comes across as you giving your opinion about the material. -- Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 06:44, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
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