This is how WE illustrate the Dutch cuisine here on Wikipedia... Hafspajen ( talk) 23:06, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Xanthomelanoussprog, Drmies, Crisco 1492, Yngvadottir, Dennis Brown, Kelapstick, Gerda Arendt, LadyofShalott Mandarax, Viriditas, De728631, Dougweller - and any other page stalkers - do you think this picture above should be used in Dutch cuisine? Hafspajen ( talk) 20:43, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I thought the extent of Dutch cuisine was those chocolate sprinkly things they're so obsessed by. Every time I've been to the Netherlands I've looked out for the nearest Chinese restaurant. Dutch beer is OK though. Eric Corbett 22:35, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies. I have just removed your last two additions to Copula (linguistics). I don't think that the definitions of "linking verb" in those two grammar textbooks constitute a significant controversy in the understanding of the English copula. It looks more like slightly different uses or explanations of the term complement rather than substantive disagreement about the term linking verb or the nature of the copula (though I haven't actually read the books you cited yet). If you disagree, maybe we can hash it out at Talk:Copula (linguistics). Happy editing, Cnilep ( talk) 01:56, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
My concern with our linguistics coverage is that all of the articles I've looked at related to this matter is highly technical. I'm teaching Advanced English Grammar this summer, and for most of that audience (English and Education majors, senior and graduate students; our text is Huddleston and Pullum) our articles are way too technical, practically incomprehensible (I tried it out in class), so imagine what it's like for the reader without that background--I think you can understand that since you taught some regular US students, I surmise. It's for them also that we should write. Coming from a dependency-grammatical descriptive background I have great problems with books such as Lester's (don't bother getting a copy unless you're going to teach high school, maybe--and he does say, "there are two types of subject complements") though even that is a leap forward compared to the treatment of grammar in most other US K-12 books I've seen, but to treat (as basic treatment) all this stuff based on valence is simply too complex and theoretical for the average reader. I wish to find a middle way, a proper treatment (by which I mean properly descriptive based on current theory) that is accessible to a reader with a high school or basic college education. I think with your Linking verb you are striking such a balance, and I thank you for that. Drmies ( talk) 14:56, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Dan56 continues to revert my helpful contributions. @ Black Sabbath (album) they undid several improvements that I made yesterday. Can't you see that he is reverting me to hound me and prevent progress at the article? Harmelodix ( talk) 16:56, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Dan, I am sure you read my comment, and I suggest you restore at least that edit, since, well, it's better written.
All of you, what's the matter with you? Mlpearc, I don't know if you're following that editor around just cause they're obnoxious in one article--but come on, you know better than to do that. Even if the FF article needs a tweak, do you think it's helpful to do that now? Harmelodix, that edit had nothing to do with your edit, so AGF, please.
Keep y'all's conflicts limited to one article, one issue at the time, and leave the personal accusations out of it. You can't accuse someone of drama mongering and then doing nothing to lower the atmosphere. Drmies ( talk) 18:16, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
I appreciate your change to the discussion in response to my comment. My intent was not to chide, but to encourage reconsideration. And that you did. By the way, my wife and I have catered over a dozen seders, for as many as 110 people. Small in comparison, but the primary motivation is always service to those seated at the tables. Everything else is secondary. Thank you. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 02:55, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I take it by this edit that you might be starting to come around to my complaints about Dan56. He has undone nearly all the work I've done there this week, so I am going to walk away from the article, which he only reverts progress at BTW, where is his effort to expand and improve it to GA? I can't spend my mental energy and precious time if the next time I log-in Dan56 has undone it all, and I am pretty sure that's exactly why he does it. I'll try to find another corner of Wikipedia where he won't obstruct me, but I have a feeling that he has already edited most of the pages I like. Well, thanks for helping me, Drmies, but Dan56 is far too exhausting and difficult, and its just not worth it. I will say that its an extremely effective tactic, to undo hours of an editor's work to a state of poor quality prose both drives that editor away and maintains the article at the level he wants it at. Thanks again, but I think I'm probably done here. Harmelodix ( talk) 16:22, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Anyway, one of the possible next steps is an WP:RFC/U, as a kind of fact-finding mission into an editor's behavior, which can end with a recommendation to seek this or that way of dispute resolution. Don't run off yet, please. Drmies ( talk) 16:32, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
This is the second time that that team creates an new article and uses merge to destroy a proper article, just because the leader of the pack does not agree with that article. I am gravely disappointed in you and I take offence of the rude comment you use.
Aymatth2 states it so nice that I can propose the replacement of his advertising article by my version, but the effect is that the whole crew will turn against it and it never happens. I really had expected a bit more background research. The Banner talk 19:01, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
If it hadn't have been Drmies who kept it it would have been any of the 1500 or whatever number of admins we have. That you can't see that it didn't stand a chance of ever being deleted from the outset is the worst thing. As I said, show the sources which document the restaurant in detail and discuss the cuisine and it might be worth keeping in its own right.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:27, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Banner, you're seriously abusing the AFD process. It's not there to settle your personal scores and differences. You nominated the hotel article for no other reason than the merge proposal for the restaurant article in the first place and now you've nominated your own restaurant article out of some bizarre reason that you fear the "gang" are going get one up on you by having it merged and you want the "community" to somehow override this through an AFD through a delete or keep or whatever. Madness. If that's not enough to get you banned from ever nominating an article for AFD again I'm not sure what is. You're most welcome to post at the village pump or whatever and get wide input on the merger proposal but it's really rather disrespectful to nominate your own article during a merge discussion. The AFD should be speedily closed. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:50, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
@ The Banner: You can't say that I've haven't made an effort to try to get the restaurant article expanded and kept [1] Does that really look like the actions of somebody who is deliberately trying to destroy somebody's work?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:42, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
I currently have Rape during the Rwandan Genocide up for GA status, but the reviewer has dropped off the face of wikipedia. Last comment on the review was 27 April 2014, and has not edited since 3 June 2014. I asked on the GA help desk what should I do but have had no response. Do you know of anyone who might finish the review? BTW, Moosezilla, scary. Tenner the Scofi channel make a movie on it, gotta be better than Sharknado Darkness Shines ( talk) 19:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Anyway, and you know I deliver the bitter medicine, I think the article needs a good scrubbing for punctuation and prose things (note the copy edits I made in the first paragraph). I'd ask Eric or some other hardcore copy editor. As for the reviewer, I don't know GA reviewers as well as I should. Crisco 1492 might have advice, or might take it on. Good luck with it, DS, and thanks for taking that up. Drmies ( talk) 19:58, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. My comment about not messing with you, on User talk:QTxVi4bEMRbrNqOorWBV was not out of any negative experience with you. We have never interacted. Jytdog ( talk) 20:54, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
...a recent increase in the number of uncooperative, stubborn, argumentative, truculent and querulous editors, who are also strangely sensitive to perceived insults? Could this be related to schools being out and millions of high school students (who, of course, know everything, and are certain of everything they know) with nothing else to do being unleashed on the Internet? BMK ( talk) 21:57, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I notice some very good newcomers on Buddhism-articles. Very pleased with it! Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 03:58, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
I didn't revert anything, other than the erroneous restoration of citation overkill. FTR, "complaining" (a present participle) was Harmelodix's original phrasing ( [2]); all I did now was change it to "complain". Unlike Harmelodix, my edit summaries explain why I make my changes, much clearer than a dubious "c/e" explaining nothing. Dan56 ( talk) 02:44, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Per Talk:Cancer_pain#Invitation_to_readers_to_comment.3F (the last couple of comments). -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 04:24, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Sadly, your plea for help on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History did not get a warm response. Sorry. bobrayner ( talk) 11:55, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
I did see that Ubikwit had filed an SPI which was laughed out of court as a fishing expedition. If this is really serious business (HOUNDING etc) then you (plural) should do something about that; I'm hardly familiar with the matter. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 14:07, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Today, I met the article of Wilhelm Killmayer again, and I think it was you with whom I struggled about a reference for the hook "The calm already contains the catastrophe", right? (April 2011, before the templates for noms were invented) - Also today, I changed my battle cry "I stand singing in defiance" to "Ich gehe nicht schnell" ;) - visit my talk for dreams pictured, by Hafspajen, of course, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:49, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Hafspajen ( talk) 19:53, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Good morning Drmies, do you sprekken this Deutsch thing that some people east of Holland and west of Poland still seem to? If you do, or any of your stalk page talkers do, please could you add an appropriate IPA pronunciation thingummy to Altes Stadthaus, Berlin? The original article author is not happy with his attempt and has therefore removed it. -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 19:54, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Kind of gets you right here. Should I sign it for him?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:02, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Try saying it outloud in an excited tone, it is really funny. Chillum (Need help? Ask me) 07:32, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. I have really been impressed with how many people remember me and welcome me so warmly since I recently came back after a very long break. Chillum (Need help? Ask me) 07:24, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Aer you going to go through every single Kpop article and remove the stage name, real name and hangul translations of both from all kpop articles, or just random ones you feel like? Seems like there should be consistency, and the majority of articles have a member info box giving member names and translations. You are arbitrarily removing them from one or two articles, but ignoring the other hundreds with the exact same formatting.
Also, U2 members have their own individual wikipedia pages which have all of those facts on them. Not exactly a relevant comparison.
Also, it's not consistent across all things, but jpop articles also have tables with such information (where people have put it in) and that's even when the member real names are used. Are you going to go through all the foreign language music group articles and remove any translations, birth dates, nicknames etc from all of those pages as well? You seem to have arbitrarily chosen to remove such information from a couple of pages without any real justification or system, and ignored the fact this is typically relevant and factual information. I would think that having the hangul of a foreign person's name would be entirely relevant, since it's usually presented on most pages which are about a person with a name written natively in a foreign script. e.g. Japanese, Russian, Korean people
Lonyo ( talk) 15:13, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
So the fact that the article no longer makes sense is fine? In the Members box on the right, it has nicknames. In the members list, it has real names. Some of those are not obviously linked. And apparently foreign scripts on English wikipedia are bad. And it's amazing how it's been a way for years and now it's a problem. This is why people think Wikipedia is getting dumb. Yay removal of factual information that allows peopel to actually understand who people in a group are. It would be like having a Spice Girls article with "Posh, Sporty" etc, and then a list of real names, but nothing to indicate who was who. So good job, you've made the page less helpful. Lonyo ( talk) 22:07, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Please could you or one of your admin stalkers take a look at Special:Contributions/Pacnews. I'm getting fed up of reverting them but it is a very slow-moving thing. They're obviously WP:SPA and probably WP:COI. I'm not even sure that the article subject is really notable but the hassle might be stopped with a block. Ta muchly. - Sitush ( talk) 16:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Phew, that was close. I take full responsibility for the Mexican goal, since I poured tequila shots at halftime. Drmies ( talk) 20:01, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
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Dr, you closed the RfC at Jason Russell. I noticed that no one actually implemented the changes, so is took a stab myself. Style aside, do you think my change honored the spirit of the RfC? Two kinds of pork ( talk) 23:41, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I saw you recently closed an AN/I discussion about an Obi topic ban with the comment that he had been put on notice.
He is causing a problem at Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender bias task force. I set this up last year as a gender gap task force, and stupidly used the term "gender bias" in the title instead of gender gap. Obi has arrived to say that it must therefore cover systemic bias against men too. I've had to post an RM to have the page moved to gender gap. He is dominating the page and now the RM discussion. Can you keep an eye on it? I think the situation isn't going to stop (whether there or anywhere else) until someone deals with it; the concept of "on notice" doesn't seem to work.
I've also asked Bbb23 because he seems to be active on men's rights sanctions. SlimVirgin (talk) 03:26, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
These are in place indefinitely. The gender gap page shouldn't be a "closely related topic," but Obi wants to turn it into one, and in that case those sanctions do apply. SlimVirgin (talk) 05:28, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Please have a look at this and help if possible, I have no idea who to turn to with this so I'm trying to contact more experienced Wikipedians.
-- Samotny Wędrowiec ( talk) 22:55, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Thought you might want a closer look at that original left-handed 65 SG Mlpearc ( open channel) 05:14, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
If you can pull yourself out of those complicated gender discussion, and take a look at Towel. Are we trying to assemble all possible ways of using a towel or what? It is a list of Hundred ways to use a towel, much like 100 Aspects of the Moon or the series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Hafspajen ( talk) 13:13, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Here we have one of the dog-article changers. A Yorkshire Terrier live to 17-20 years, according to Wikipedia! Althoug, this say different. Hafspajen ( talk) 17:59, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
"not to metion im quite smart"caught my eye since it seems to contradict what she's trying to say. Every second word on her user page is misspelt, which makes me believe that it's someone flying a false flag, just pretending to be a young girl. Thomas.W talk 20:58, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
These type of cats can also mate with hamsters, making what's called a tortster, talk about gansta!(from tortoiseshell cat article page; removed by ClueBot) ツ Fylbecatulous talk 21:11, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
I don't know how you ended up being the victim (*uhem, I mean editor) that I keep bringing these types of Bright Line items to, but an IP made this edit adding a more complete list of executives to the Key People parameter, whereas our norms are to only include CEO and co-founders for the most part. I wouldn't want anyone to think I was involved in such an edit and I wonder if you would be comfortable reverting it. CorporateM ( Talk) 20:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
I feel that you have a decent understanding of the situation between Lightbreather, myself and others and feel that your comment can shed some light on it here at Arbitration Enforcement. My apologies for involving you, but I feel that cooler heads should prevail. -- Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) 01:44, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Do you remember the story about the Baltic Youth-hostel and the drunk Russians? now this is what it looked like (except guitar and table). The newly found recreation place - yeah, right. Hafspajen ( talk) 14:10, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
How are those? Hafspajen ( talk) 16:00, 3 July 2014 (UTC) The Story of the Butterfly children ? This looks like and this (look inside book) like a really fine illustrator to me. Hafspajen ( talk) 18:09, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Pieter Claesz, in the article Still life#Dutch and Flemish painting someone put the caption Dutch painter. Is he , or is he Flemish? Hafspajen ( talk) 03:00, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
The guy now has 4 accounts and still hasn't a clue. I should have blocked 2 at the beginning but took it to ANI instead, and now.... Dougweller ( talk) 13:41, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
On 4 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robert Dulmers, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that during the Yugoslav Wars, Dutch journalist Robert Dulmers walked around Osijek in a tuxedo and slept among the pickles in the basement of a clergy house? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Dulmers. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass ( talk) 16:03, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
IIRC you both speak Dutch and are an admin. Would you be willing to have a word with User:Natubico, also known as User:VKing, about why this kind of thing isn't appropriate? (The Nicolas Pleumekers vhose views he's trying to promote is clearly the person operating both accounts.) I've tried to a very limited extent to engage at User talk:Natubico#Oost, but given the response don't feel I'm going to get through. According to his own userpage he has limited English, so a Dutch-speaker may do a better job of getting through. I'm also reluctant to get involved in any protracted debate with him as some of the views he expresses ("Non-blondes, of which there are so many by now, that planet Earth is in serious danger of becoming totally unliveable", "natural blond-race-territory had been invaded and taken in more and more for centuries again by blackhaired, Southern-European agressors, like Romans and Gallics", "those, who (or who's forfathers) in the past have emigrated to an other race's natural territory") look to me like outright neo-Nazism, but again this may just be a problem with translation and these phrases in the original Dutch aren't as offensive as they appear. Since he also thinks vitamins are a species of microbe, believes hair dye causes mental illness, and, assuming Google Translate is correct in its translation of nl:Overleg_gebruiker:VKing is banned for life from Dutch Wikipedia, I'm not hopeful. Mogism ( talk) 00:16, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
I promised not to interact with you-know-who, although his friends rejected (C) the peace proposal or just ignored it (S and A). But for the last few days I am looking at Template:Odense with two links to disambiguation pages. Could you give a note to "him" to get it fixed? The Banner talk 15:36, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Just tried it and it cocked up by current coding so reverted it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:44, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
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As you have previously dealt with this user, I am making you aware of the new SPI against User:Zimmermanh1997, which can be found here. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:27, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of James McLemore 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Cloudchased ( talk) 23:43, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Your input concerning a repeated incident by another user at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard would be appreciated. Cheers. LRD NO ( talk) 02:09, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Drmies is presumably on the interstate, and I have stuck both my mouth and my foot in, so I wonder if other experienced editors/admins could have a look at Pacnews' edits, in particular stuff like this. (They've also added sources, albeit not strong ones, but I gave them a second final warning for blanking earlier today.) I'm hoping this can be resolved without a block, but Sitush was right to flag it further up the page, it needs further eyes on it - and maybe someone is a better diplomat than me. Yngvadottir ( talk) 19:09, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello Drmies. Judging by your profile, you seem interested in Wiki's media files. I was thinking if you were able to check the non-free media (photos and audios) used in Megadeth, my FA nominee. The review page is here for comments. Everything the best.-- Retrohead ( talk) 09:58, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Some time ago I posted here an draft article that I was not happy about due to lack of sources. That gave me some extra sources and made me launch that article. So, now I want to try it again but this time it is a bit more difficult. The case is Rôtisserie Rue du Bois. To make it harder, there are some confusing hits on the internet. Rôtisserie Rue du Bois was not part of Hotel Victory (mentioned on internet as Hotel Acsoay) but they did share an entrance at Van den Boschstraat 3 in Alkmaar. Main entrance for the restaurant, side-entrance for the hotel. Still it were different entities. Any help would be appreciated, even an advice to move it into the fridge. The Banner talk 13:44, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Just reading about this. What the hell? It's, like... well, it's better than Sy-Fy at least. " Nearly every review that’s been written thus far highlights Fatal Farm’s contribution, which features an impressively long series of graphically exploding penises, which Seger describes as 'a real stand-out'." — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 12:40, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
This is a single purpose account, with the one mission to edit the Boxer article and to put this picture in the article. and to put pictures about [the fish he catches on Wiki. [5]. We can't get rid of this dog, it keeps comming back as a bumerang. And it is not a good picture, (half the dog is in the shadow) and it shows more of the boat than of the dog, the dog is sitting in a weird angle, and there are a lot of weird shadows in the picture and it really has no encyclopedic value. Hafspajen ( talk) 17:24, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, now that seemingly (hopefully?) that LB has made her last remark in the ARE process, I'd like to ask something of you. You advised in your comments that it would be good for me to use "more process". Beyond using and participating more on article Talk pages where LB is involved, did you have any other recommendations? Best regards, -- Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) 20:55, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
I have serious doubts about this totally unreferenced article, List of animals representing first-level administrative country subdivisions. I asked a Canadian editor living in Japan since 1987 if the Cairn terrier indeed is [6] the Ehime prefectures animal and he said no, it is the Japanese river otter. Many of those animals mentioned has nothing to do with Japan, More weird, the Aichi prefecture has Great Dane, ? according to article, also Hyōgo prefecture has Great Dane, ? ... Kumamoto prefecture - Pug, and intensly weird - Tochigi prefecture has Puli? how on earth, the Puli is Hungary's national symbol. Hiroshima ... has Basilosaurus. These look like jokes to me. Those animals like Great Dane, Puli has nothing to do with Japan. And Fukuoka prefecture has Appaloosa horse, that is an American horse. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:04, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
This strikes me as much more reliable version Hafspajen ( talk) 00:49, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
“ | Ashibiki no yamadori no wo no shidari-wo no naga-nagashi yo wo hitori ka mo nemu
Must I sleep alone through the long autumn nights, long like the dragging tail of the mountain pheasant separated from his dove? |
” |
Hafspajen ( talk) 17:18, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Your guess is as good (maybe better) than mine. I thought other websites that copy and paste from Wikipedia are supposed attribute to Wikipedia, but I suppose IMDb doesn't bother. Thanks for your message. 75.177.156.78 ( talk) 17:36, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
oh, well, why do we bother. Hafspajen ( talk) 17:41, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Could use some help on this. An urban legend seems to have grown up around him culminating in him being called "the only dog to have been promoted during battle." and the most decorated dog. I've tried to do a bit at the article and have started a talk page discussion. The only source that approaches an RS that says he was given rank in the Army is this Smithsonian article, but this Smithsonian story doesn't say that, nor do the earliest sources I can find (see the talk page). Various articles repeat the claim, eg Sinbad (USCG), American Staffordshire Terrier, 1926 and probably others. Purple Heart says he was awarded that medal. Hm, looking more at Sinbad, I wonder. [7] [8], [9]. Anyway, back to Stubby before I fall asleep here, another problem is that one Robert Conroy was the main person involved with Stubby throughout his service and until he died and even decades after, but isn't mentioned in his article. I guess I need to get the National Geographic biography. Dougweller ( talk) 21:17, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Well, you can remove "the only dog to have been promoted during battle." Not true. Hafspajen ( talk) 21:27, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Smoky (dog) described by Wynne, "Smoky Served in the South Pacific with the 5th Air Force, 26th Photo Recon Squadron [and] flew 12 air/sea rescue and photo reconnaissance missions." [1] On those flights, Smoky spent long hours dangling in a soldier's pack near machine guns used to ward off enemy fighters. [2] Smoky was credited with twelve combat missions and awarded eight battle stars. [3] She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and made it through a typhoon at Okinawa. [4] Smoky even parachuted from 30 feet (9.1 m) in the air, out of a tree, using a parachute made just for her.
Dougweller, did you had any results and what? Hafspajen ( talk) 16:13, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
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help page).Nominated Chrome for FAC today, FYI: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/California Chrome/archive1. Grab your popcorn and watch the show. Montanabw (talk) 23:00, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
I will return (as i (un)fortunately know myself), but now will go on an extended break. Nice working with you my wiki-friend!
Dankiu, happy vibes -- AL ( talk) 18:07, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Your edit to Lee D. Baker has been undone by Johnpacklambert without any discussion on the talk page (but an IP has appeared to muddy the waters). Nigel Pap ( talk) 03:29, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Johnpacklambert is still at it. I think my request for help at the administrator's noticeboard was closed prematurely. Nigel Pap ( talk) 02:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure I agree with your assertion at Nicola Rizzoli that referees do not represent their nations. They are affiliated to their national associations and hence serve as a form of representation of those nations in matches. Not sure where you got the idea that they don't represent their nations. – Pee Jay 14:24, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
The nationality of referees is important, it is mentioned frequently by pundits and displayed on TV screens - though I don't believe flags are used for referees in the same way they are for players. Perhaps a discussion at WT:FOOTBALL is required? Giant Snowman 10:43, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I got my first GA... (I'm a late bloomer, I guess :-). The bot notice on my talk page mentioned that having been promoted to GA, the article is eligible for DYK. I was thinking of an appropriate hook, but all I can come up with is "...that Genes, Brain and Behavior has developed standards for the publication of mouse mutant studies?" which strikes me as a little bit boring. Do you perhaps have a better idea? Thanks! -- Randykitty ( talk) 15:11, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Hopefully, you (or one of your stalkers) will not be able to resist helping out with an article about a professor. An editor came to BLPN and asked for help with another editor. The other editor is the creator of the article and a "friend" of Krylov's. He's not capable of editing neutrally. He's been adding massive amounts of unsourced material. There are no actual refs, just a couple of ELs to the subject's websites and an incredibly long list of works by the subject, meaning to the extent any of it is sourced, it's self-sourced.
I decided to help out, but I'm not getting anywhere with the COI editor. He's calling me a vandal, which, for him, I think is a generic term for anyone who doesn't agree with him. He's removed maintenance templates. He keeps reverting. I've warned him with standard templates and even a more personalized message. Last warning was of 3RR (he's up to three reverts). I could revert again and still not breach 3RR myself, but I prefer not to edit-war. The original editor who sought help appears to be staying out of it now (probably wise of him).
I admit to a bias against editors with COIs generally. If I had my way, we'd have a bright-line rule about it, but Wikipedia hates bright-line rules, so we're stuck with the usual rule with exceptions.
Perhaps someone who is less put off by attitude than I am could help out.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:32, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
I removed the material about the Duke lacrosse case from biographies where the person had not played a significant role per WP:UNDUE. There are some people who were part of the "group of 88" who had a larger involvement in the case so I left those alone. I fully expected that this would provoke some response and User:Thowland has undone all of my changes. Here's the odd part - Thowland registered in 2008 but made no changes until January 2014. Until today, he had a grand total of 11 article edits, none of them about anything to do with this case. I wonder what drew his attention to my edits? Nigel Pap ( talk) 02:16, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Speaking of bacon, after an echocardiogram, dozens of EKGs, stress test and a CAT scan, the doctor says I have no notable blockages in my heart. I took this to mean that I can eat all the bacon I want, since that is what I was doing before, and it seems to have worked out just fine. I'm sure my cardiologist would not agree but the tests don't lie. Oh, and I finally looked up pace instead of guessing what it meant because of you (my guess was right, however). We ordinary rednecks don't use that in normal conversation. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 13:27, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
I think Johnpacklambert has supplied an answer to my mystery. It is mentioned on KC Johnson's blog. Enjoy your bacon! Nigel Pap ( talk) 14:46, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Drmies, can you please revert Phil's and Eric's article Blue men of the Minch to its original state? Requests for page protection has protected it full protection, but unfortunatelly conserved the wrong version. Blue men of the Minch is a featured article; and has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Thus I imagine has to be correct - see here - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Blue men of the Minch/archive1 and now both editors fight agaist some guy who is changing the content - and the last edit is a disputed edit, reverting Phil, he reverted Phil's and Eric's version to his own. And now is fully protected - so no one can edit it, only administrators, I think it would be fair to revert to the Featured article version. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:10, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
@ LadyofShalott:. Does anyone know where Mandarax has gone too? He hasn't edited in three weeks. Was going to post that there literally was a burning man at a regional burning man festival when I noticed he hasn't edited in awhile. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:NALBUMS States "... Album articles with little more than a track listing may be more appropriately merged into the artist's main article or discography article, space permitting."
Space does not permit merging track listing into Buckethead's discography. He has released over 100 albums. 128.226.67.180 ( talk) 04:35, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
If you think Buckethead's albums in general do not meet Wikipedia:GNG to have their own pages. Perhaps you should suggest removing or merging all or most the individual albums articles to Talk:Buckethead_discography. 128.226.67.180 ( talk) 04:46, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I made a mess of the references here, Mies, could you please fix it (obs not Yngvadottir) Hafspajen ( talk) 17:22, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
MIES!! Our Lady of Lourdes (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs|views)[edit] this.
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This is a highly targeted article and now protection is removed and we have same problem again, content getting changed or vandalized. Very few page watchers too. Basically it is just me and I noticed that vandalism is often undiscovered by the usual page patrolers, who knows why. .. Hafspajen ( talk) 04:44, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
I saw you had replaced the AfD notice on this page after it had been removed by User:Rksinghrules & had placed a warning on their talkage. The afd notice has just been removed (&replaced by me) twice by a couple of IPs: I suspect this is Rksinghrules socking, but am unsure as to whether this justifies launching an investiagation at SPI. There have been other disruptive IP edits, notably replacement of a load of dead?useless links from another article on an Indian anthropologist that Rksinghrules is championing. Thoughts? TheLongTone ( talk) 17:56, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I WILL GIVE YOU 1000*2 BUCKS IF YOU REMOVE ALL THE TAGS AND NOTICES FROM ALL 3 articles of Pradip Kumar Singh, L.P. Vidyarthi and Vijoy S. Sahay. Thanks 106.218.184.230 ( talk) 18:42, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
If I have this right user:FreeRangeFrog removed an indiscriminate list of more than 200 products here as I suggested. An SPA user:MylanScofflaw not only re-incorporated the list, but altered the article to say the company, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, was actually "a multinational tax avoidance scheme masquerading as a..." This apparently has to do with a recent decision to re-incorporate in the Netherlands where taxes are cheaper. The user's name, seems to suggest they are here for the exclusive purpose of pushing a point-of-view. user:The ed17 re-incorporated the list of 200 products (can't imagine what he's thinking) and a minor edit-war took place, but all the while, people are edit-warring over the list of 200 products, I'm not sure anybody noticed that the article now says they are a tax evasion scheme, which is obviously not true.
sigh, another day in wikiland.
I have a COI. CorporateM ( Talk) 23:21, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
Mandarax was our resident grammar Nazi. Weird Al has just released the video, word crimes. It has some of Mandarax's pet peeves... literately, irony, its/it's and Cambridge commas. The Gathering of the Juggalos is next week, Mandarax is probably getting ready for that by going to a Juggalo boot camp.
Speaking more broadly, what you're pointing at, the blurred line, is highly problematic when one is teaching for instance advanced grammar (as I am this term). Weird Al's type of discourse is perfectly acceptable for most US English teachers (in K-12), who use the term "grammar" to mean something like "traditional correctness in writing". In my class, I refer to that attitude as "linguistic hygiene" rather than "grammar". If you like, I have a challenge for you: find me a decent (recent) book that has actual rules of grammar--not writing rules, not hygiene, not rules for style and usage. I think you'll find it extraordinarily difficult. Later, Drmies ( talk) 16:11, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
This was recreated after you deleted it but before the account was blocked. Meters ( talk) 01:33, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
hello ™NaDaNeville ( talk) 01:35, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Yngvadottir has expanded Évariste Vital Luminais 16 July, I illustrated it. I wan't to nominate it, because Yngvadottir does not do any DYKs any more. But - there are not enough references. Hafspajen ( talk) 13:21, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
......... ?? Hafspajen ( talk) 16:29, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Ah, missed the apple ... of course there was an apple too....
Mies? are you fitt to take a look at the
Évariste Vital Luminais? Just think nice yellow template on your page ....
Hafspajen (
talk) 16:41, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
I wan't to ask if it is really the meaning to put these giant templates in the lead, because then the lead is all template and nothing more then templates - like this for example. It destroys the layout of several articles that had an image in the lead before.
Hafspajen (
talk) 19:05, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
If it is placed in the lead it covers everything. Why not see also? With a big template like this you can't do anything with a small article, it will take over it. It will be all template. Hafspajen ( talk) 22:18, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Doc. Thanks for the emails. (Sorry for the delay; I don't check that email very often.) I see there are some notes here and elsewhere about my demise, so I figured I should drop by to let people know that I'm still alive. It's just that I was driven away from Wikipedia by the extreme incivility at WT:DYK. Even though none of it was directed at me or anything I did, it all created a contentious and antagonistic atmosphere which I found intolerable. But it's okay; to quote the main perpetrator (an admin) on the subject of his driving away users: "So what?" I took a quick glance at WT:DYK today, and the problem seems to have abated, but the extended period of intense unpleasantness destroyed my morale and has still left me unmotivated to contribute. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:44, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Drmies ( talk) 16:36, 18 July 2014 (UTC)YOU CAN MEET ME AT LULLU MALL,EDAPALLY,KERALA STATE,INDIA
Mobile---> +91-9526386159
GRANDSON OF BENE MERENTI
Dear,
Please send me 1000 billion $.
I saw you archived my talk page for me in May, Thank You.
Your old comrade. Marcusmax( speak) 04:36, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
BALTAZAR Hafspajen ( talk) 00:00, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that you used your admin tools to close ANI discussion which involved me and concluded that "disruption is cetainly there" ( diff).
Will you please be so kind to present diffs of my disruptive edits and wikipedia policies I violated? Thanks.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 08:34, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Bibliography of Aeolian Research A. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.
I was going to wait for your reply at ANI, but since the remaining articles were deleted I went ahead and started the deletion review. Lesser Cartographies ( talk) 09:35, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for closing that discussion about the Antidiskriminator topic ban. There could have been more input, but the consensus was nevertheless fairly clear. The sole !vote against was from another disruptive user whose behavior I believe really should be examined in the same decision, because the amount of WP:CIVIL violations just in that thread is not supposed to be acceptable. I know ban discussions are inherently toxic, and some level of acrimony is to be expected. But dredging out a 2006 discussion where I clearly showed good faith and using it as a stick to beat me with, and then continuing to escalate that by talking about myself and at least one other user in terms that should really be beneath us - that's really over the top.
If this just goes by, unnoticed, it will continue to leave a really sour taste in my mouth - I do everything right, over the period of decades, and yet there's nothing to stop people from throwing shit at me as they please. Honestly, I would prefer any resolution to this issue than it just being ignored. If you find that I did something to actually deserve this kind of treatment, I want to know about that so that I can fix that. If you need to censure me for provoking the issue, that's much better than nothing, too.
I realize this gives you another task to do with regard to the same difficult discussion. Sorry for the waste of time. I wish it wasn't necessary. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 12:08, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
If that user is really so problematic, bring it up at ANI or start an RfC/U. I can't do such an investigation for you. Sorry. Drmies ( talk) 14:59, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Feel free to baby site for a while, I'm off to go work out at the gym in a half hour, so I won't be around for a few hours. Thanks for pitching in, btw. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 16:10, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
On an unrelated note, I have a rib roast in the oven, twice baked potatoes on the side, cold Budweiser in the fridge (I know Drmies, but I'm poor, white trash) and within an hour, expect to not concern myself with this article for the evening: Wikipedia has driven me to drink, and I haven't even had the chance to thank her. (with apologies to W.C. Fields) Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 18:53, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
I am inviting you to leave me some feedback, 18 months after you opposed my RfA. Do you still believe I am not fit to be an admin? Do you believe I have been able to improve past the concerns you have brought up? Do not be afraid of being too harsh, I am specifically welcoming criticism as I believe it is the best way to improve and I am always looking to learn from my mistakes. I am particularly looking for feedback as to whether you have objections to myself lifting the self-imposed 1RR restriction I had agreed to towards the end of my RfA. If you don't have time to comment, don't fret it either, this is nothing I'll lose sleep over. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 19:49, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Finally, it's very gratifying.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 20:08, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Forgive me if this urban myth is well known to everyone but me, but I just heard about it, and it's relevant to the tangent here. Three famous orchestra conductors, Herbert von Karajan, Georg Solti, and Karl Boehm get together. Solti says he's been told that his conducting is god-like. Boehm replies that god told him that Boehm was the best conductor, to which von Karajan says, "Funny, I don't recall telling you that."-- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:53, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Drmies, It has been quite some time since I have been on; however, I am back. I am working on finishing an article here for upload. I have gotten help from a friend, and we are doing some clean-up on it now. Please review and comment on the article when you get a chance. Thank you. Doc2234 ( talk) 23:16, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Look - we're both nice people - at least i assume you are, please assume i am. But i'm not agreeing to deleting countries from the 'response' part of the thread - i'm 100% cool if people write offensive content under any country's post - but unless you want to change the subject heading (dumb) idea - then i don't agree with you simply deleting stuff. You haven't convinced me of your view (no offense) - and I get the impression that I haven't convinced you, either - so rather than just deleting stuff, can we please just diplomatically elevate this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phil Kessel ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for your comments. I checked back through the history of wind wave and discovered apart from two brief expletives, the IP made a pretty solid argument for his edit, and I was a bit annoyed that nobody else had actually fixed up the prose after the protection, which I've now done. I guess having heard "he started it", "no I didn't" from the kids I'm just more tolerant of these sorts of shenanigans these days. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:49, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits to try and clean up the tripe around the drink driving charge. I don't suppose you feel like dropping by the talk page - there's an editor insistent on claiming that it gave him a criminal conviction in the absence of any reliable source for it. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 20:47, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Can you please delete this Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg ? I am decided to witdraw it but someone is editwarring with me and won't let me do that. I don't want to be harrased because I don't allow myself be harrased. It is my nomination, I can witdraw it if I decide that. If I wan't to remove it it is not up to the other editor to revert me. Hafspajen ( talk) 22:31, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello I'm re-starting my work in the PXE page; job commitments forced me to take some time off from the PXE page.
I'm finding some "bot" Lowercase sigmabot III have erased yesterday from the talk page important information about the work premises for the PXE page. This bot also erased the references to the copyright violations incurred by the project ERPXE and the project was again spamming the page. I have erased the project link but Matthiaspaul put it back yesterday.
It is not my idea starting an editing war, I'd like to work based on the already achieved consensus. Could you please help me a bit with the internal issues? Thanks a lot
It's been a while since I've bothered you with something to fix or discuss, but I see you have enough on your hands already! Thanks for giving me thanks, of course. I'm currently copy-editing
New Imperialism for fun (yes, you read that right, I can't even believe I typed that out...), and happened upon this sentence in the section about the
Dutch East Indies: Being one of the smallest nations in the world, it was in fact impossible for the Netherlands to even attempt to establish a typical settler colony.
(unsourced, of course). I'm contemplating changing it to Being one of the smaller, less populated nations in the world, it was in fact impossible for the Netherlands to even attempt to establish a typical settler colony.
(bolding just to emphasize changes here), but I wonder if I should just remove it because it's kind of irrelevant. And since I hear you're Dutch, maybe you have a suggestion? (Or, want to push a POV? Since you'd definitely have a COI. Ha!) No worries if you don't care at all.
Ansh
666 14:36, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
I really appreciated your participation in the discussion earlier today. While I'm bugging you, would you mind taking a look at this NPOV report I just wrote up? I'd love to hear your opinion.
If there's another experienced editor you think would be better able to examine this, please let me know! Thanks! FekketCantenel ( talk) 00:45, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello, unusual work commitments have kept me away from the PXE page for a while . Now I'm back and I have started working editing the page content; for a while the page will show several changes, please consider it is a work in progress.
My problem: There's a user/bot ( Lowercase sigmabot III) that have deleted from the PXE talk page key information: specifically the topic that proved ERPXE repeated copyrights violations, and the link to that project was again added by 94.159.160.82 on January; as you can see the only contribution from this user was adding the project ERPXE reference back and he got away with that w/o problem. I have restored the missing information and I have removed the offending link before start editing the page and now I see that Lowercase sigmabot III every night erases virtually the whole content of the PXE talk page. The PXE talk page has the agreed bases (PXE page working premises) for the editing that I'm doing now, it also contains valuable discussions that should stay on the page to avoid re-discussing old topics. I appreciate very much if you or NE Ent could help me stopping Lowercase sigmabot III from disrupting the PXE talk page every night. I already left a message in his talk page but he has a sign saying "This user replies where he likes, and is inconsistent in that respect." I think probably you guys have better ways to deal with this issue. Thanks a lot for your help
Not sure who to address this to - several commentators on the TP's for the Israeli ground offensive and the downed Malaysian jet have no User ID or IP address following their comments - this makes it very difficult to address the correct editor for comment replies, etc. Is this a known bug currently being looked at for Wikipedia? Can you point me in the right direction to put in a complaint? Thanks. HammerFilmFan ( talk) 09:01, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Returned, and why the fuck did i return? To be absolutely eaten alive with insults and accusations (please see the WP:FOOTY discussion titled "Sergio Busquets and Míchel Salgado").
This brings me to this small request: can you help me WP:VANISH my wikifriend? I have followed the instructions at the proper page, but fell miserably short (as always with technicalities), please lend a hand.
Sincerely, kindest regards -- AL ( talk) 21:32, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Follow-up: don't worry when you say "...so that it might be difficult for you to log in again.", when i vanish is to NEVER enter the site again, not even as a reader. Keep it up -- AL ( talk) 22:06, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Mies and/or Writ, yes i am "sure sure", ready when you are, lights out on me please. I would like to have my talkpage also destroyed entirely but, if it's too much trouble and since it's not all that customary, then don't bother.
Kind regards to you both (and lots of other great mensch, sorry for "harassing" you :)) -- AL ( talk) 23:04, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Mark, Mies, Writ, all the best for you, final words, take care from Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasco! -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 01:20, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Better phrased if i may: there is a WP guideline that states that if an introduction does not contain a ref it is not wrong, given that the intro is a summary to the "real" contents (in the case of football CLUB CAREER, INT.CAREER, HONOURS, etc), and those contain (or should at least) references. Am i in the right? -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 15:45, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Wow! Don't worry, it'll get better with the proper medication ;) Now I'm off (dunno if forever, but for a very long time), just going to convey your answer to MYS77. Besties! -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 22:25, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
This is how WE illustrate the Dutch cuisine here on Wikipedia... Hafspajen ( talk) 23:06, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Xanthomelanoussprog, Drmies, Crisco 1492, Yngvadottir, Dennis Brown, Kelapstick, Gerda Arendt, LadyofShalott Mandarax, Viriditas, De728631, Dougweller - and any other page stalkers - do you think this picture above should be used in Dutch cuisine? Hafspajen ( talk) 20:43, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I thought the extent of Dutch cuisine was those chocolate sprinkly things they're so obsessed by. Every time I've been to the Netherlands I've looked out for the nearest Chinese restaurant. Dutch beer is OK though. Eric Corbett 22:35, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies. I have just removed your last two additions to Copula (linguistics). I don't think that the definitions of "linking verb" in those two grammar textbooks constitute a significant controversy in the understanding of the English copula. It looks more like slightly different uses or explanations of the term complement rather than substantive disagreement about the term linking verb or the nature of the copula (though I haven't actually read the books you cited yet). If you disagree, maybe we can hash it out at Talk:Copula (linguistics). Happy editing, Cnilep ( talk) 01:56, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
My concern with our linguistics coverage is that all of the articles I've looked at related to this matter is highly technical. I'm teaching Advanced English Grammar this summer, and for most of that audience (English and Education majors, senior and graduate students; our text is Huddleston and Pullum) our articles are way too technical, practically incomprehensible (I tried it out in class), so imagine what it's like for the reader without that background--I think you can understand that since you taught some regular US students, I surmise. It's for them also that we should write. Coming from a dependency-grammatical descriptive background I have great problems with books such as Lester's (don't bother getting a copy unless you're going to teach high school, maybe--and he does say, "there are two types of subject complements") though even that is a leap forward compared to the treatment of grammar in most other US K-12 books I've seen, but to treat (as basic treatment) all this stuff based on valence is simply too complex and theoretical for the average reader. I wish to find a middle way, a proper treatment (by which I mean properly descriptive based on current theory) that is accessible to a reader with a high school or basic college education. I think with your Linking verb you are striking such a balance, and I thank you for that. Drmies ( talk) 14:56, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Dan56 continues to revert my helpful contributions. @ Black Sabbath (album) they undid several improvements that I made yesterday. Can't you see that he is reverting me to hound me and prevent progress at the article? Harmelodix ( talk) 16:56, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Dan, I am sure you read my comment, and I suggest you restore at least that edit, since, well, it's better written.
All of you, what's the matter with you? Mlpearc, I don't know if you're following that editor around just cause they're obnoxious in one article--but come on, you know better than to do that. Even if the FF article needs a tweak, do you think it's helpful to do that now? Harmelodix, that edit had nothing to do with your edit, so AGF, please.
Keep y'all's conflicts limited to one article, one issue at the time, and leave the personal accusations out of it. You can't accuse someone of drama mongering and then doing nothing to lower the atmosphere. Drmies ( talk) 18:16, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
I appreciate your change to the discussion in response to my comment. My intent was not to chide, but to encourage reconsideration. And that you did. By the way, my wife and I have catered over a dozen seders, for as many as 110 people. Small in comparison, but the primary motivation is always service to those seated at the tables. Everything else is secondary. Thank you. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 02:55, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I take it by this edit that you might be starting to come around to my complaints about Dan56. He has undone nearly all the work I've done there this week, so I am going to walk away from the article, which he only reverts progress at BTW, where is his effort to expand and improve it to GA? I can't spend my mental energy and precious time if the next time I log-in Dan56 has undone it all, and I am pretty sure that's exactly why he does it. I'll try to find another corner of Wikipedia where he won't obstruct me, but I have a feeling that he has already edited most of the pages I like. Well, thanks for helping me, Drmies, but Dan56 is far too exhausting and difficult, and its just not worth it. I will say that its an extremely effective tactic, to undo hours of an editor's work to a state of poor quality prose both drives that editor away and maintains the article at the level he wants it at. Thanks again, but I think I'm probably done here. Harmelodix ( talk) 16:22, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Anyway, one of the possible next steps is an WP:RFC/U, as a kind of fact-finding mission into an editor's behavior, which can end with a recommendation to seek this or that way of dispute resolution. Don't run off yet, please. Drmies ( talk) 16:32, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
This is the second time that that team creates an new article and uses merge to destroy a proper article, just because the leader of the pack does not agree with that article. I am gravely disappointed in you and I take offence of the rude comment you use.
Aymatth2 states it so nice that I can propose the replacement of his advertising article by my version, but the effect is that the whole crew will turn against it and it never happens. I really had expected a bit more background research. The Banner talk 19:01, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
If it hadn't have been Drmies who kept it it would have been any of the 1500 or whatever number of admins we have. That you can't see that it didn't stand a chance of ever being deleted from the outset is the worst thing. As I said, show the sources which document the restaurant in detail and discuss the cuisine and it might be worth keeping in its own right.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:27, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Banner, you're seriously abusing the AFD process. It's not there to settle your personal scores and differences. You nominated the hotel article for no other reason than the merge proposal for the restaurant article in the first place and now you've nominated your own restaurant article out of some bizarre reason that you fear the "gang" are going get one up on you by having it merged and you want the "community" to somehow override this through an AFD through a delete or keep or whatever. Madness. If that's not enough to get you banned from ever nominating an article for AFD again I'm not sure what is. You're most welcome to post at the village pump or whatever and get wide input on the merger proposal but it's really rather disrespectful to nominate your own article during a merge discussion. The AFD should be speedily closed. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:50, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
@ The Banner: You can't say that I've haven't made an effort to try to get the restaurant article expanded and kept [1] Does that really look like the actions of somebody who is deliberately trying to destroy somebody's work?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:42, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
I currently have Rape during the Rwandan Genocide up for GA status, but the reviewer has dropped off the face of wikipedia. Last comment on the review was 27 April 2014, and has not edited since 3 June 2014. I asked on the GA help desk what should I do but have had no response. Do you know of anyone who might finish the review? BTW, Moosezilla, scary. Tenner the Scofi channel make a movie on it, gotta be better than Sharknado Darkness Shines ( talk) 19:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Anyway, and you know I deliver the bitter medicine, I think the article needs a good scrubbing for punctuation and prose things (note the copy edits I made in the first paragraph). I'd ask Eric or some other hardcore copy editor. As for the reviewer, I don't know GA reviewers as well as I should. Crisco 1492 might have advice, or might take it on. Good luck with it, DS, and thanks for taking that up. Drmies ( talk) 19:58, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. My comment about not messing with you, on User talk:QTxVi4bEMRbrNqOorWBV was not out of any negative experience with you. We have never interacted. Jytdog ( talk) 20:54, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
...a recent increase in the number of uncooperative, stubborn, argumentative, truculent and querulous editors, who are also strangely sensitive to perceived insults? Could this be related to schools being out and millions of high school students (who, of course, know everything, and are certain of everything they know) with nothing else to do being unleashed on the Internet? BMK ( talk) 21:57, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I notice some very good newcomers on Buddhism-articles. Very pleased with it! Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 03:58, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
I didn't revert anything, other than the erroneous restoration of citation overkill. FTR, "complaining" (a present participle) was Harmelodix's original phrasing ( [2]); all I did now was change it to "complain". Unlike Harmelodix, my edit summaries explain why I make my changes, much clearer than a dubious "c/e" explaining nothing. Dan56 ( talk) 02:44, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Per Talk:Cancer_pain#Invitation_to_readers_to_comment.3F (the last couple of comments). -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 04:24, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Sadly, your plea for help on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History did not get a warm response. Sorry. bobrayner ( talk) 11:55, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
I did see that Ubikwit had filed an SPI which was laughed out of court as a fishing expedition. If this is really serious business (HOUNDING etc) then you (plural) should do something about that; I'm hardly familiar with the matter. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 14:07, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Today, I met the article of Wilhelm Killmayer again, and I think it was you with whom I struggled about a reference for the hook "The calm already contains the catastrophe", right? (April 2011, before the templates for noms were invented) - Also today, I changed my battle cry "I stand singing in defiance" to "Ich gehe nicht schnell" ;) - visit my talk for dreams pictured, by Hafspajen, of course, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:49, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Hafspajen ( talk) 19:53, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Good morning Drmies, do you sprekken this Deutsch thing that some people east of Holland and west of Poland still seem to? If you do, or any of your stalk page talkers do, please could you add an appropriate IPA pronunciation thingummy to Altes Stadthaus, Berlin? The original article author is not happy with his attempt and has therefore removed it. -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 19:54, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Kind of gets you right here. Should I sign it for him?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:02, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Try saying it outloud in an excited tone, it is really funny. Chillum (Need help? Ask me) 07:32, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. I have really been impressed with how many people remember me and welcome me so warmly since I recently came back after a very long break. Chillum (Need help? Ask me) 07:24, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Aer you going to go through every single Kpop article and remove the stage name, real name and hangul translations of both from all kpop articles, or just random ones you feel like? Seems like there should be consistency, and the majority of articles have a member info box giving member names and translations. You are arbitrarily removing them from one or two articles, but ignoring the other hundreds with the exact same formatting.
Also, U2 members have their own individual wikipedia pages which have all of those facts on them. Not exactly a relevant comparison.
Also, it's not consistent across all things, but jpop articles also have tables with such information (where people have put it in) and that's even when the member real names are used. Are you going to go through all the foreign language music group articles and remove any translations, birth dates, nicknames etc from all of those pages as well? You seem to have arbitrarily chosen to remove such information from a couple of pages without any real justification or system, and ignored the fact this is typically relevant and factual information. I would think that having the hangul of a foreign person's name would be entirely relevant, since it's usually presented on most pages which are about a person with a name written natively in a foreign script. e.g. Japanese, Russian, Korean people
Lonyo ( talk) 15:13, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
So the fact that the article no longer makes sense is fine? In the Members box on the right, it has nicknames. In the members list, it has real names. Some of those are not obviously linked. And apparently foreign scripts on English wikipedia are bad. And it's amazing how it's been a way for years and now it's a problem. This is why people think Wikipedia is getting dumb. Yay removal of factual information that allows peopel to actually understand who people in a group are. It would be like having a Spice Girls article with "Posh, Sporty" etc, and then a list of real names, but nothing to indicate who was who. So good job, you've made the page less helpful. Lonyo ( talk) 22:07, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Please could you or one of your admin stalkers take a look at Special:Contributions/Pacnews. I'm getting fed up of reverting them but it is a very slow-moving thing. They're obviously WP:SPA and probably WP:COI. I'm not even sure that the article subject is really notable but the hassle might be stopped with a block. Ta muchly. - Sitush ( talk) 16:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Phew, that was close. I take full responsibility for the Mexican goal, since I poured tequila shots at halftime. Drmies ( talk) 20:01, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
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Dr, you closed the RfC at Jason Russell. I noticed that no one actually implemented the changes, so is took a stab myself. Style aside, do you think my change honored the spirit of the RfC? Two kinds of pork ( talk) 23:41, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, I saw you recently closed an AN/I discussion about an Obi topic ban with the comment that he had been put on notice.
He is causing a problem at Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender bias task force. I set this up last year as a gender gap task force, and stupidly used the term "gender bias" in the title instead of gender gap. Obi has arrived to say that it must therefore cover systemic bias against men too. I've had to post an RM to have the page moved to gender gap. He is dominating the page and now the RM discussion. Can you keep an eye on it? I think the situation isn't going to stop (whether there or anywhere else) until someone deals with it; the concept of "on notice" doesn't seem to work.
I've also asked Bbb23 because he seems to be active on men's rights sanctions. SlimVirgin (talk) 03:26, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
These are in place indefinitely. The gender gap page shouldn't be a "closely related topic," but Obi wants to turn it into one, and in that case those sanctions do apply. SlimVirgin (talk) 05:28, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Please have a look at this and help if possible, I have no idea who to turn to with this so I'm trying to contact more experienced Wikipedians.
-- Samotny Wędrowiec ( talk) 22:55, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Thought you might want a closer look at that original left-handed 65 SG Mlpearc ( open channel) 05:14, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
If you can pull yourself out of those complicated gender discussion, and take a look at Towel. Are we trying to assemble all possible ways of using a towel or what? It is a list of Hundred ways to use a towel, much like 100 Aspects of the Moon or the series of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Hafspajen ( talk) 13:13, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Here we have one of the dog-article changers. A Yorkshire Terrier live to 17-20 years, according to Wikipedia! Althoug, this say different. Hafspajen ( talk) 17:59, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
"not to metion im quite smart"caught my eye since it seems to contradict what she's trying to say. Every second word on her user page is misspelt, which makes me believe that it's someone flying a false flag, just pretending to be a young girl. Thomas.W talk 20:58, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
These type of cats can also mate with hamsters, making what's called a tortster, talk about gansta!(from tortoiseshell cat article page; removed by ClueBot) ツ Fylbecatulous talk 21:11, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
I don't know how you ended up being the victim (*uhem, I mean editor) that I keep bringing these types of Bright Line items to, but an IP made this edit adding a more complete list of executives to the Key People parameter, whereas our norms are to only include CEO and co-founders for the most part. I wouldn't want anyone to think I was involved in such an edit and I wonder if you would be comfortable reverting it. CorporateM ( Talk) 20:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
I feel that you have a decent understanding of the situation between Lightbreather, myself and others and feel that your comment can shed some light on it here at Arbitration Enforcement. My apologies for involving you, but I feel that cooler heads should prevail. -- Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) 01:44, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Do you remember the story about the Baltic Youth-hostel and the drunk Russians? now this is what it looked like (except guitar and table). The newly found recreation place - yeah, right. Hafspajen ( talk) 14:10, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
How are those? Hafspajen ( talk) 16:00, 3 July 2014 (UTC) The Story of the Butterfly children ? This looks like and this (look inside book) like a really fine illustrator to me. Hafspajen ( talk) 18:09, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Pieter Claesz, in the article Still life#Dutch and Flemish painting someone put the caption Dutch painter. Is he , or is he Flemish? Hafspajen ( talk) 03:00, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
The guy now has 4 accounts and still hasn't a clue. I should have blocked 2 at the beginning but took it to ANI instead, and now.... Dougweller ( talk) 13:41, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
On 4 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robert Dulmers, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that during the Yugoslav Wars, Dutch journalist Robert Dulmers walked around Osijek in a tuxedo and slept among the pickles in the basement of a clergy house? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Dulmers. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass ( talk) 16:03, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
IIRC you both speak Dutch and are an admin. Would you be willing to have a word with User:Natubico, also known as User:VKing, about why this kind of thing isn't appropriate? (The Nicolas Pleumekers vhose views he's trying to promote is clearly the person operating both accounts.) I've tried to a very limited extent to engage at User talk:Natubico#Oost, but given the response don't feel I'm going to get through. According to his own userpage he has limited English, so a Dutch-speaker may do a better job of getting through. I'm also reluctant to get involved in any protracted debate with him as some of the views he expresses ("Non-blondes, of which there are so many by now, that planet Earth is in serious danger of becoming totally unliveable", "natural blond-race-territory had been invaded and taken in more and more for centuries again by blackhaired, Southern-European agressors, like Romans and Gallics", "those, who (or who's forfathers) in the past have emigrated to an other race's natural territory") look to me like outright neo-Nazism, but again this may just be a problem with translation and these phrases in the original Dutch aren't as offensive as they appear. Since he also thinks vitamins are a species of microbe, believes hair dye causes mental illness, and, assuming Google Translate is correct in its translation of nl:Overleg_gebruiker:VKing is banned for life from Dutch Wikipedia, I'm not hopeful. Mogism ( talk) 00:16, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
I promised not to interact with you-know-who, although his friends rejected (C) the peace proposal or just ignored it (S and A). But for the last few days I am looking at Template:Odense with two links to disambiguation pages. Could you give a note to "him" to get it fixed? The Banner talk 15:36, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Just tried it and it cocked up by current coding so reverted it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:44, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
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As you have previously dealt with this user, I am making you aware of the new SPI against User:Zimmermanh1997, which can be found here. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 22:27, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of James McLemore 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Cloudchased ( talk) 23:43, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Your input concerning a repeated incident by another user at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard would be appreciated. Cheers. LRD NO ( talk) 02:09, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Drmies is presumably on the interstate, and I have stuck both my mouth and my foot in, so I wonder if other experienced editors/admins could have a look at Pacnews' edits, in particular stuff like this. (They've also added sources, albeit not strong ones, but I gave them a second final warning for blanking earlier today.) I'm hoping this can be resolved without a block, but Sitush was right to flag it further up the page, it needs further eyes on it - and maybe someone is a better diplomat than me. Yngvadottir ( talk) 19:09, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello Drmies. Judging by your profile, you seem interested in Wiki's media files. I was thinking if you were able to check the non-free media (photos and audios) used in Megadeth, my FA nominee. The review page is here for comments. Everything the best.-- Retrohead ( talk) 09:58, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Some time ago I posted here an draft article that I was not happy about due to lack of sources. That gave me some extra sources and made me launch that article. So, now I want to try it again but this time it is a bit more difficult. The case is Rôtisserie Rue du Bois. To make it harder, there are some confusing hits on the internet. Rôtisserie Rue du Bois was not part of Hotel Victory (mentioned on internet as Hotel Acsoay) but they did share an entrance at Van den Boschstraat 3 in Alkmaar. Main entrance for the restaurant, side-entrance for the hotel. Still it were different entities. Any help would be appreciated, even an advice to move it into the fridge. The Banner talk 13:44, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Just reading about this. What the hell? It's, like... well, it's better than Sy-Fy at least. " Nearly every review that’s been written thus far highlights Fatal Farm’s contribution, which features an impressively long series of graphically exploding penises, which Seger describes as 'a real stand-out'." — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 12:40, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
This is a single purpose account, with the one mission to edit the Boxer article and to put this picture in the article. and to put pictures about [the fish he catches on Wiki. [5]. We can't get rid of this dog, it keeps comming back as a bumerang. And it is not a good picture, (half the dog is in the shadow) and it shows more of the boat than of the dog, the dog is sitting in a weird angle, and there are a lot of weird shadows in the picture and it really has no encyclopedic value. Hafspajen ( talk) 17:24, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi Drmies, now that seemingly (hopefully?) that LB has made her last remark in the ARE process, I'd like to ask something of you. You advised in your comments that it would be good for me to use "more process". Beyond using and participating more on article Talk pages where LB is involved, did you have any other recommendations? Best regards, -- Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) 20:55, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
I have serious doubts about this totally unreferenced article, List of animals representing first-level administrative country subdivisions. I asked a Canadian editor living in Japan since 1987 if the Cairn terrier indeed is [6] the Ehime prefectures animal and he said no, it is the Japanese river otter. Many of those animals mentioned has nothing to do with Japan, More weird, the Aichi prefecture has Great Dane, ? according to article, also Hyōgo prefecture has Great Dane, ? ... Kumamoto prefecture - Pug, and intensly weird - Tochigi prefecture has Puli? how on earth, the Puli is Hungary's national symbol. Hiroshima ... has Basilosaurus. These look like jokes to me. Those animals like Great Dane, Puli has nothing to do with Japan. And Fukuoka prefecture has Appaloosa horse, that is an American horse. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:04, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
This strikes me as much more reliable version Hafspajen ( talk) 00:49, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
“ | Ashibiki no yamadori no wo no shidari-wo no naga-nagashi yo wo hitori ka mo nemu
Must I sleep alone through the long autumn nights, long like the dragging tail of the mountain pheasant separated from his dove? |
” |
Hafspajen ( talk) 17:18, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Your guess is as good (maybe better) than mine. I thought other websites that copy and paste from Wikipedia are supposed attribute to Wikipedia, but I suppose IMDb doesn't bother. Thanks for your message. 75.177.156.78 ( talk) 17:36, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
oh, well, why do we bother. Hafspajen ( talk) 17:41, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Could use some help on this. An urban legend seems to have grown up around him culminating in him being called "the only dog to have been promoted during battle." and the most decorated dog. I've tried to do a bit at the article and have started a talk page discussion. The only source that approaches an RS that says he was given rank in the Army is this Smithsonian article, but this Smithsonian story doesn't say that, nor do the earliest sources I can find (see the talk page). Various articles repeat the claim, eg Sinbad (USCG), American Staffordshire Terrier, 1926 and probably others. Purple Heart says he was awarded that medal. Hm, looking more at Sinbad, I wonder. [7] [8], [9]. Anyway, back to Stubby before I fall asleep here, another problem is that one Robert Conroy was the main person involved with Stubby throughout his service and until he died and even decades after, but isn't mentioned in his article. I guess I need to get the National Geographic biography. Dougweller ( talk) 21:17, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Well, you can remove "the only dog to have been promoted during battle." Not true. Hafspajen ( talk) 21:27, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Smoky (dog) described by Wynne, "Smoky Served in the South Pacific with the 5th Air Force, 26th Photo Recon Squadron [and] flew 12 air/sea rescue and photo reconnaissance missions." [1] On those flights, Smoky spent long hours dangling in a soldier's pack near machine guns used to ward off enemy fighters. [2] Smoky was credited with twelve combat missions and awarded eight battle stars. [3] She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and made it through a typhoon at Okinawa. [4] Smoky even parachuted from 30 feet (9.1 m) in the air, out of a tree, using a parachute made just for her.
Dougweller, did you had any results and what? Hafspajen ( talk) 16:13, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
PatsyAnn
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).SmokyBook
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).Nominated Chrome for FAC today, FYI: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/California Chrome/archive1. Grab your popcorn and watch the show. Montanabw (talk) 23:00, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
I will return (as i (un)fortunately know myself), but now will go on an extended break. Nice working with you my wiki-friend!
Dankiu, happy vibes -- AL ( talk) 18:07, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Your edit to Lee D. Baker has been undone by Johnpacklambert without any discussion on the talk page (but an IP has appeared to muddy the waters). Nigel Pap ( talk) 03:29, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Johnpacklambert is still at it. I think my request for help at the administrator's noticeboard was closed prematurely. Nigel Pap ( talk) 02:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure I agree with your assertion at Nicola Rizzoli that referees do not represent their nations. They are affiliated to their national associations and hence serve as a form of representation of those nations in matches. Not sure where you got the idea that they don't represent their nations. – Pee Jay 14:24, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
The nationality of referees is important, it is mentioned frequently by pundits and displayed on TV screens - though I don't believe flags are used for referees in the same way they are for players. Perhaps a discussion at WT:FOOTBALL is required? Giant Snowman 10:43, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I got my first GA... (I'm a late bloomer, I guess :-). The bot notice on my talk page mentioned that having been promoted to GA, the article is eligible for DYK. I was thinking of an appropriate hook, but all I can come up with is "...that Genes, Brain and Behavior has developed standards for the publication of mouse mutant studies?" which strikes me as a little bit boring. Do you perhaps have a better idea? Thanks! -- Randykitty ( talk) 15:11, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Hopefully, you (or one of your stalkers) will not be able to resist helping out with an article about a professor. An editor came to BLPN and asked for help with another editor. The other editor is the creator of the article and a "friend" of Krylov's. He's not capable of editing neutrally. He's been adding massive amounts of unsourced material. There are no actual refs, just a couple of ELs to the subject's websites and an incredibly long list of works by the subject, meaning to the extent any of it is sourced, it's self-sourced.
I decided to help out, but I'm not getting anywhere with the COI editor. He's calling me a vandal, which, for him, I think is a generic term for anyone who doesn't agree with him. He's removed maintenance templates. He keeps reverting. I've warned him with standard templates and even a more personalized message. Last warning was of 3RR (he's up to three reverts). I could revert again and still not breach 3RR myself, but I prefer not to edit-war. The original editor who sought help appears to be staying out of it now (probably wise of him).
I admit to a bias against editors with COIs generally. If I had my way, we'd have a bright-line rule about it, but Wikipedia hates bright-line rules, so we're stuck with the usual rule with exceptions.
Perhaps someone who is less put off by attitude than I am could help out.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:32, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
I removed the material about the Duke lacrosse case from biographies where the person had not played a significant role per WP:UNDUE. There are some people who were part of the "group of 88" who had a larger involvement in the case so I left those alone. I fully expected that this would provoke some response and User:Thowland has undone all of my changes. Here's the odd part - Thowland registered in 2008 but made no changes until January 2014. Until today, he had a grand total of 11 article edits, none of them about anything to do with this case. I wonder what drew his attention to my edits? Nigel Pap ( talk) 02:16, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Speaking of bacon, after an echocardiogram, dozens of EKGs, stress test and a CAT scan, the doctor says I have no notable blockages in my heart. I took this to mean that I can eat all the bacon I want, since that is what I was doing before, and it seems to have worked out just fine. I'm sure my cardiologist would not agree but the tests don't lie. Oh, and I finally looked up pace instead of guessing what it meant because of you (my guess was right, however). We ordinary rednecks don't use that in normal conversation. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 13:27, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
I think Johnpacklambert has supplied an answer to my mystery. It is mentioned on KC Johnson's blog. Enjoy your bacon! Nigel Pap ( talk) 14:46, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Drmies, can you please revert Phil's and Eric's article Blue men of the Minch to its original state? Requests for page protection has protected it full protection, but unfortunatelly conserved the wrong version. Blue men of the Minch is a featured article; and has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Thus I imagine has to be correct - see here - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Blue men of the Minch/archive1 and now both editors fight agaist some guy who is changing the content - and the last edit is a disputed edit, reverting Phil, he reverted Phil's and Eric's version to his own. And now is fully protected - so no one can edit it, only administrators, I think it would be fair to revert to the Featured article version. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:10, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
@ LadyofShalott:. Does anyone know where Mandarax has gone too? He hasn't edited in three weeks. Was going to post that there literally was a burning man at a regional burning man festival when I noticed he hasn't edited in awhile. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:NALBUMS States "... Album articles with little more than a track listing may be more appropriately merged into the artist's main article or discography article, space permitting."
Space does not permit merging track listing into Buckethead's discography. He has released over 100 albums. 128.226.67.180 ( talk) 04:35, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
If you think Buckethead's albums in general do not meet Wikipedia:GNG to have their own pages. Perhaps you should suggest removing or merging all or most the individual albums articles to Talk:Buckethead_discography. 128.226.67.180 ( talk) 04:46, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I made a mess of the references here, Mies, could you please fix it (obs not Yngvadottir) Hafspajen ( talk) 17:22, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
MIES!! Our Lady of Lourdes (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs|views)[edit] this.
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This is a highly targeted article and now protection is removed and we have same problem again, content getting changed or vandalized. Very few page watchers too. Basically it is just me and I noticed that vandalism is often undiscovered by the usual page patrolers, who knows why. .. Hafspajen ( talk) 04:44, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
I saw you had replaced the AfD notice on this page after it had been removed by User:Rksinghrules & had placed a warning on their talkage. The afd notice has just been removed (&replaced by me) twice by a couple of IPs: I suspect this is Rksinghrules socking, but am unsure as to whether this justifies launching an investiagation at SPI. There have been other disruptive IP edits, notably replacement of a load of dead?useless links from another article on an Indian anthropologist that Rksinghrules is championing. Thoughts? TheLongTone ( talk) 17:56, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I WILL GIVE YOU 1000*2 BUCKS IF YOU REMOVE ALL THE TAGS AND NOTICES FROM ALL 3 articles of Pradip Kumar Singh, L.P. Vidyarthi and Vijoy S. Sahay. Thanks 106.218.184.230 ( talk) 18:42, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
If I have this right user:FreeRangeFrog removed an indiscriminate list of more than 200 products here as I suggested. An SPA user:MylanScofflaw not only re-incorporated the list, but altered the article to say the company, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, was actually "a multinational tax avoidance scheme masquerading as a..." This apparently has to do with a recent decision to re-incorporate in the Netherlands where taxes are cheaper. The user's name, seems to suggest they are here for the exclusive purpose of pushing a point-of-view. user:The ed17 re-incorporated the list of 200 products (can't imagine what he's thinking) and a minor edit-war took place, but all the while, people are edit-warring over the list of 200 products, I'm not sure anybody noticed that the article now says they are a tax evasion scheme, which is obviously not true.
sigh, another day in wikiland.
I have a COI. CorporateM ( Talk) 23:21, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
Mandarax was our resident grammar Nazi. Weird Al has just released the video, word crimes. It has some of Mandarax's pet peeves... literately, irony, its/it's and Cambridge commas. The Gathering of the Juggalos is next week, Mandarax is probably getting ready for that by going to a Juggalo boot camp.
Speaking more broadly, what you're pointing at, the blurred line, is highly problematic when one is teaching for instance advanced grammar (as I am this term). Weird Al's type of discourse is perfectly acceptable for most US English teachers (in K-12), who use the term "grammar" to mean something like "traditional correctness in writing". In my class, I refer to that attitude as "linguistic hygiene" rather than "grammar". If you like, I have a challenge for you: find me a decent (recent) book that has actual rules of grammar--not writing rules, not hygiene, not rules for style and usage. I think you'll find it extraordinarily difficult. Later, Drmies ( talk) 16:11, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
This was recreated after you deleted it but before the account was blocked. Meters ( talk) 01:33, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
hello ™NaDaNeville ( talk) 01:35, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Yngvadottir has expanded Évariste Vital Luminais 16 July, I illustrated it. I wan't to nominate it, because Yngvadottir does not do any DYKs any more. But - there are not enough references. Hafspajen ( talk) 13:21, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
......... ?? Hafspajen ( talk) 16:29, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Ah, missed the apple ... of course there was an apple too....
Mies? are you fitt to take a look at the
Évariste Vital Luminais? Just think nice yellow template on your page ....
Hafspajen (
talk) 16:41, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
I wan't to ask if it is really the meaning to put these giant templates in the lead, because then the lead is all template and nothing more then templates - like this for example. It destroys the layout of several articles that had an image in the lead before.
Hafspajen (
talk) 19:05, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
If it is placed in the lead it covers everything. Why not see also? With a big template like this you can't do anything with a small article, it will take over it. It will be all template. Hafspajen ( talk) 22:18, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Doc. Thanks for the emails. (Sorry for the delay; I don't check that email very often.) I see there are some notes here and elsewhere about my demise, so I figured I should drop by to let people know that I'm still alive. It's just that I was driven away from Wikipedia by the extreme incivility at WT:DYK. Even though none of it was directed at me or anything I did, it all created a contentious and antagonistic atmosphere which I found intolerable. But it's okay; to quote the main perpetrator (an admin) on the subject of his driving away users: "So what?" I took a quick glance at WT:DYK today, and the problem seems to have abated, but the extended period of intense unpleasantness destroyed my morale and has still left me unmotivated to contribute. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:44, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
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BALTAZAR Hafspajen ( talk) 00:00, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that you used your admin tools to close ANI discussion which involved me and concluded that "disruption is cetainly there" ( diff).
Will you please be so kind to present diffs of my disruptive edits and wikipedia policies I violated? Thanks.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 08:34, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Bibliography of Aeolian Research A. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.
I was going to wait for your reply at ANI, but since the remaining articles were deleted I went ahead and started the deletion review. Lesser Cartographies ( talk) 09:35, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for closing that discussion about the Antidiskriminator topic ban. There could have been more input, but the consensus was nevertheless fairly clear. The sole !vote against was from another disruptive user whose behavior I believe really should be examined in the same decision, because the amount of WP:CIVIL violations just in that thread is not supposed to be acceptable. I know ban discussions are inherently toxic, and some level of acrimony is to be expected. But dredging out a 2006 discussion where I clearly showed good faith and using it as a stick to beat me with, and then continuing to escalate that by talking about myself and at least one other user in terms that should really be beneath us - that's really over the top.
If this just goes by, unnoticed, it will continue to leave a really sour taste in my mouth - I do everything right, over the period of decades, and yet there's nothing to stop people from throwing shit at me as they please. Honestly, I would prefer any resolution to this issue than it just being ignored. If you find that I did something to actually deserve this kind of treatment, I want to know about that so that I can fix that. If you need to censure me for provoking the issue, that's much better than nothing, too.
I realize this gives you another task to do with regard to the same difficult discussion. Sorry for the waste of time. I wish it wasn't necessary. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 12:08, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
If that user is really so problematic, bring it up at ANI or start an RfC/U. I can't do such an investigation for you. Sorry. Drmies ( talk) 14:59, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Feel free to baby site for a while, I'm off to go work out at the gym in a half hour, so I won't be around for a few hours. Thanks for pitching in, btw. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 16:10, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
On an unrelated note, I have a rib roast in the oven, twice baked potatoes on the side, cold Budweiser in the fridge (I know Drmies, but I'm poor, white trash) and within an hour, expect to not concern myself with this article for the evening: Wikipedia has driven me to drink, and I haven't even had the chance to thank her. (with apologies to W.C. Fields) Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 18:53, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
I am inviting you to leave me some feedback, 18 months after you opposed my RfA. Do you still believe I am not fit to be an admin? Do you believe I have been able to improve past the concerns you have brought up? Do not be afraid of being too harsh, I am specifically welcoming criticism as I believe it is the best way to improve and I am always looking to learn from my mistakes. I am particularly looking for feedback as to whether you have objections to myself lifting the self-imposed 1RR restriction I had agreed to towards the end of my RfA. If you don't have time to comment, don't fret it either, this is nothing I'll lose sleep over. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 19:49, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Finally, it's very gratifying.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 20:08, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Forgive me if this urban myth is well known to everyone but me, but I just heard about it, and it's relevant to the tangent here. Three famous orchestra conductors, Herbert von Karajan, Georg Solti, and Karl Boehm get together. Solti says he's been told that his conducting is god-like. Boehm replies that god told him that Boehm was the best conductor, to which von Karajan says, "Funny, I don't recall telling you that."-- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:53, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Drmies, It has been quite some time since I have been on; however, I am back. I am working on finishing an article here for upload. I have gotten help from a friend, and we are doing some clean-up on it now. Please review and comment on the article when you get a chance. Thank you. Doc2234 ( talk) 23:16, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Look - we're both nice people - at least i assume you are, please assume i am. But i'm not agreeing to deleting countries from the 'response' part of the thread - i'm 100% cool if people write offensive content under any country's post - but unless you want to change the subject heading (dumb) idea - then i don't agree with you simply deleting stuff. You haven't convinced me of your view (no offense) - and I get the impression that I haven't convinced you, either - so rather than just deleting stuff, can we please just diplomatically elevate this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phil Kessel ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for your comments. I checked back through the history of wind wave and discovered apart from two brief expletives, the IP made a pretty solid argument for his edit, and I was a bit annoyed that nobody else had actually fixed up the prose after the protection, which I've now done. I guess having heard "he started it", "no I didn't" from the kids I'm just more tolerant of these sorts of shenanigans these days. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:49, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits to try and clean up the tripe around the drink driving charge. I don't suppose you feel like dropping by the talk page - there's an editor insistent on claiming that it gave him a criminal conviction in the absence of any reliable source for it. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 20:47, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Can you please delete this Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg ? I am decided to witdraw it but someone is editwarring with me and won't let me do that. I don't want to be harrased because I don't allow myself be harrased. It is my nomination, I can witdraw it if I decide that. If I wan't to remove it it is not up to the other editor to revert me. Hafspajen ( talk) 22:31, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello I'm re-starting my work in the PXE page; job commitments forced me to take some time off from the PXE page.
I'm finding some "bot" Lowercase sigmabot III have erased yesterday from the talk page important information about the work premises for the PXE page. This bot also erased the references to the copyright violations incurred by the project ERPXE and the project was again spamming the page. I have erased the project link but Matthiaspaul put it back yesterday.
It is not my idea starting an editing war, I'd like to work based on the already achieved consensus. Could you please help me a bit with the internal issues? Thanks a lot
It's been a while since I've bothered you with something to fix or discuss, but I see you have enough on your hands already! Thanks for giving me thanks, of course. I'm currently copy-editing
New Imperialism for fun (yes, you read that right, I can't even believe I typed that out...), and happened upon this sentence in the section about the
Dutch East Indies: Being one of the smallest nations in the world, it was in fact impossible for the Netherlands to even attempt to establish a typical settler colony.
(unsourced, of course). I'm contemplating changing it to Being one of the smaller, less populated nations in the world, it was in fact impossible for the Netherlands to even attempt to establish a typical settler colony.
(bolding just to emphasize changes here), but I wonder if I should just remove it because it's kind of irrelevant. And since I hear you're Dutch, maybe you have a suggestion? (Or, want to push a POV? Since you'd definitely have a COI. Ha!) No worries if you don't care at all.
Ansh
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
I really appreciated your participation in the discussion earlier today. While I'm bugging you, would you mind taking a look at this NPOV report I just wrote up? I'd love to hear your opinion.
If there's another experienced editor you think would be better able to examine this, please let me know! Thanks! FekketCantenel ( talk) 00:45, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello, unusual work commitments have kept me away from the PXE page for a while . Now I'm back and I have started working editing the page content; for a while the page will show several changes, please consider it is a work in progress.
My problem: There's a user/bot ( Lowercase sigmabot III) that have deleted from the PXE talk page key information: specifically the topic that proved ERPXE repeated copyrights violations, and the link to that project was again added by 94.159.160.82 on January; as you can see the only contribution from this user was adding the project ERPXE reference back and he got away with that w/o problem. I have restored the missing information and I have removed the offending link before start editing the page and now I see that Lowercase sigmabot III every night erases virtually the whole content of the PXE talk page. The PXE talk page has the agreed bases (PXE page working premises) for the editing that I'm doing now, it also contains valuable discussions that should stay on the page to avoid re-discussing old topics. I appreciate very much if you or NE Ent could help me stopping Lowercase sigmabot III from disrupting the PXE talk page every night. I already left a message in his talk page but he has a sign saying "This user replies where he likes, and is inconsistent in that respect." I think probably you guys have better ways to deal with this issue. Thanks a lot for your help
Not sure who to address this to - several commentators on the TP's for the Israeli ground offensive and the downed Malaysian jet have no User ID or IP address following their comments - this makes it very difficult to address the correct editor for comment replies, etc. Is this a known bug currently being looked at for Wikipedia? Can you point me in the right direction to put in a complaint? Thanks. HammerFilmFan ( talk) 09:01, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Returned, and why the fuck did i return? To be absolutely eaten alive with insults and accusations (please see the WP:FOOTY discussion titled "Sergio Busquets and Míchel Salgado").
This brings me to this small request: can you help me WP:VANISH my wikifriend? I have followed the instructions at the proper page, but fell miserably short (as always with technicalities), please lend a hand.
Sincerely, kindest regards -- AL ( talk) 21:32, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Follow-up: don't worry when you say "...so that it might be difficult for you to log in again.", when i vanish is to NEVER enter the site again, not even as a reader. Keep it up -- AL ( talk) 22:06, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Mies and/or Writ, yes i am "sure sure", ready when you are, lights out on me please. I would like to have my talkpage also destroyed entirely but, if it's too much trouble and since it's not all that customary, then don't bother.
Kind regards to you both (and lots of other great mensch, sorry for "harassing" you :)) -- AL ( talk) 23:04, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Mark, Mies, Writ, all the best for you, final words, take care from Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasco! -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 01:20, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Better phrased if i may: there is a WP guideline that states that if an introduction does not contain a ref it is not wrong, given that the intro is a summary to the "real" contents (in the case of football CLUB CAREER, INT.CAREER, HONOURS, etc), and those contain (or should at least) references. Am i in the right? -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 15:45, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Wow! Don't worry, it'll get better with the proper medication ;) Now I'm off (dunno if forever, but for a very long time), just going to convey your answer to MYS77. Besties! -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 22:25, 24 July 2014 (UTC)