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I took a pic in 2009 that was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gerda_Arendt&oldid=1075521687 on the German MP] yesterday, with the song from 1885, in English [[Prayer for Ukraine]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 10:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC) |
I took a pic in 2009 that was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gerda_Arendt&oldid=1075521687 on the German MP] yesterday, with the song from 1885, in English [[Prayer for Ukraine]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 10:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC) |
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Do you have any thoughts about why [[Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#DWC_LR_monarchism_civil_push-pov|this]] hasn't received any administrative attention? (If not, no problem.) --[[User:JayBeeEll|JBL]] ([[User_talk:JayBeeEll|talk]]) 13:51, 6 March 2022 (UTC) |
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Drmies I hope you are having a happy holidays S201050066 24 December 2021
Ip problems
Greetings and all the best in New Year, this ip [[1]] appeared today and started doing unsourced changes on Ajvar page, I have warned them but they just ignored me, also since this page was under attacks in December too, is it possible to semi protecting it? Thank you. Theonewithreason (talk) 18.January 2022 (UTC)
February songs
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... or latish happy new year! It started nicely with long vacation, pictured if you click on songs, and a few days still missing. I waited for a special day, a feast day for which Bach wrote several cantatas including Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, which was on DYK 10 years ago and TFA 4 years ago. I'm less happy that Georg Christoph Biller had to wait days for a Main page appearance under recent deaths, and then stayed not even for a full day. It would have been so meaningful today, with the man in the cantata saying he can depart in joy and peace. - The February pic was taken in memory last year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:36, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- You'll be lucky. Doktoro is busy writing Tijme Loord propaganda that the Tijme Loords invented everything first. On which subject:
I doubt that Shocking Blue did a cover version, Doktoro. Uncle G (talk) 06:49, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
I like my talk today (even explaining how it works), and managed to picture two more vacation days --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:37, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Today, I decorated my talk with a Bach cantata. I heard it last year when missing RexxS began, and "not letting go" was a theme. - Thank you for keeping his memory on top. I haven't counting how often I sen users there who haven't learned indenting. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:29, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
my joy, thanks for coming over - more on my talk, RexxS pictured twice --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:50, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Valentine's Day edition, with spring flowers and plenty of music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:09, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
stand and sing --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:36, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Lyrics dumps
Uncle G (talk) 20:34, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Client State(S)
There's more than one source out there. Again, these are opinions, not fact. But that is why I am putting "been described." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tnatsirt9794 (talk • contribs) 01:35, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- Don't be silly. History is not the news. And a bunch of websites, a newspaper article or two, and a primary links--that does not cut it. Drmies (talk) 01:37, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- I'm literally using an academic article being cited. But again, if you want to keep on telling yourself that, go ahead, and live a life of ignorance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tnatsirt9794 (talk • contribs) 01:43, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- Please use four tildes to sign, and respect the indentation. Your comment barely dignifies much attention; it is belied by the very first paragraph in that mass of stuff you reinstated: "Haiti has been described as a client state of [[Argentina]]<ref>https://www.argentina.gob.ar/2020-misiones-de-la-armada-argentina{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> <ref>https://www.fuerzas-armadas.mil.ar/ONU-Haiti.aspx</ref>{{better source needed|date=February 2022}}" If you could speak to me like an adult, without all that "live a life of ignorance" bullshit, we might get somewhere. Drmies (talk) 01:53, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- I'm literally using an academic article being cited. But again, if you want to keep on telling yourself that, go ahead, and live a life of ignorance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tnatsirt9794 (talk • contribs) 01:43, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- The majority of Special:Diff/1072496972 is not your work, and is an utter pile of drivel and bad writing by multiple editors, complete with information-free flag porn, some of which is your work. The only {{cite book}} is to the autobiography of the Lonely Planet founders, I notice. And having read the Sylvan and Majeski paper, I find your claim to be using it risible. You've pretty much ignored the whole paper, and everything that it has to say on the subject, in favour of picking out country names with flags. Uncle G (talk) 04:03, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Persistence!
Someone is back, and they brought their axe. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:29, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- … to the wrong part of the state.
- Archibald, John (2022-02-09). "How Alabama's most notorious speed trap town was shut down". al.com.
- Archibald, John (2022-01-19). "Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal 'black hole'". al.com.
- Uncle G (talk) 16:09, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- This is weird--yesterday there was a post in my Facebook feed about speed traps, which led me to a Reddit thread about speed traps in Alabama. And here we are. But why are you telling me, Jamie? I don't live in Baldwin County! I see that Jpgordon handled it deftly. I'd advise Big D to get a Prius, like me, which provides all kinds of disincentives related to speeding. Drmies (talk) 18:24, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- Amusingly, it was on the front page when I researched Interstate 422 (AfD discussion). Uncle G (talk) 18:46, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- I didn't know about that. There's some gorgeous, gorgeous country up there; it's no surprise there's opposition from environmental groups. I saw the damage in 2012 of the 2011 tornado: it was amazing, the kind of thing you can't really imagine but have to see to believe. Drmies (talk) 19:01, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- Amusingly, it was on the front page when I researched Interstate 422 (AfD discussion). Uncle G (talk) 18:46, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
- This is weird--yesterday there was a post in my Facebook feed about speed traps, which led me to a Reddit thread about speed traps in Alabama. And here we are. But why are you telling me, Jamie? I don't live in Baldwin County! I see that Jpgordon handled it deftly. I'd advise Big D to get a Prius, like me, which provides all kinds of disincentives related to speeding. Drmies (talk) 18:24, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Assistance Requested.
I wasn't sure how to do this and/or talk to, but I need help. The following IP addresses, 182.1.170.96 and 182.1.184.252 (most likely the same person, but I'm not sure), insists on vandalizing the Kamen Rider Saber page, and I fear they are going to start an edit war over it. I've already sent them a message to stop, but if (most likely when) they continue, I forgot how to report vandals. I could really use some help in this matter please. Blazewing16 (talk) 03:55, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Doktoro likes J-Pop, and possibly Japanese food. But that would put Doktoro over at Collon (confectionery) (AfD discussion) right at the moment. (Let us not mention Silbenstrich (AfD discussion). Only mediaevalists would be interested in that, and there are no English professors here in the English Professor Vacuum.) So I've raised the protection level myself. Uncle G (talk) 06:27, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- To keep the English Professor Vacuum sucking, I have invoked the name of another English professor at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melniboné (2nd nomination). ☺ Uncle G (talk) 19:34, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
Your opinion is requested
Hi. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 19:49, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hmm I don't think I have anything to add there, Nightscream: I don't know what this is about, I'm not sure I've ever seen one of those movies or read the articles, and it's not something I plan to do. I'm watching Kissing Booth and that's as modern as I can get. Drmies (talk) 21:18, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- You have to put it in terms that Doktoro understands, people. Doktoro: Spiderman is sort of like an American version of 7FATES: CHAKHO. And the character MJ is played by a mononymous singer-actress, like Blackpink's Jisoo. Uncle G (talk) 00:00, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- Park, Han-Sol (2022-01-24). "Webtoons grow as entertainment industry tool to expand intellectual property". Korea Times.
- Wang, Jolie (2022-02-13). "Controversy surrounding the Korean drama 'Snowdrop' starring Blackpink's Jisoo". Los Angeles Times: High School Insider.
- You have to put it in terms that Doktoro understands, people. Doktoro: Spiderman is sort of like an American version of 7FATES: CHAKHO. And the character MJ is played by a mononymous singer-actress, like Blackpink's Jisoo. Uncle G (talk) 00:00, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Always precious
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Thank you for constant help and thought-provoking articles! Today's recommended reading: Peter Merseburger, - couldn't believe he had no article yet, - so much still missing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:13, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- No, thank you--and thank you for writing up articles like that one. That's just great service to our readers. Drmies (talk) 14:16, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- thank you! - next: Prayer for Ukraine, with a history from 1995 to 2022, - the article a work in progress, help wanted - translation of some of it would also help --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:24, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
The BTS guide to King Arthur
Obviously there should have been a girls version for Blackpink fans.
Is this Alan Gribben person some sort of conspiracy theorist? Francis Bacon is the true author of Connecticut Yankee? Probably a bit fringe, ne?
Uncle G (talk) 16:08, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- Do you have access to that Gribben article? I'd love to see it. I don't have access to Bowden's article either. No, Gribben is not a conspiracy theorist, as far as I know--but then, he was my former boss, haha. The Wyeth illustrations first appeared in 1917 or so, I believe, when the copyright was renewed; I get this from the article by Rob Wakeman that you have no doubt seen. The upshot, for me, is that Twain was well aware of Lanier? What about Fitzgerald? We know about Steinbeck. Drmies (talk) 16:58, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- I put Gribben in because quite a lot of people mention it, and my sources were in their turn citing Gribben. I actually took the citation itself from one of the sources that I didn't use. Almost certainly there is more to say on this, but it is a only a K-pop webtoons stub after all. Uncle G (talk) 17:19, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- I don't trust it to be a good place to externally link to, but I happened to find the full text of Bowden on thefreelibrary.com whilst looking for its DOI. Uncle G (talk) 19:16, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- Fun fact: you wrote up a couple of things that I wrote up yesterday, in this paper I'm working on. Maybe you saw that, and maybe computer is running slow cause you hacked into it, while mining for bitcoin? Drmies (talk) 17:03, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- I hate to tell you this, Doktoro, but the BBC has been broadcasting historical documents of your adventures in time and space since 1963. Uncle G (talk) 17:19, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Did you know … that there was a 1960 edition re-titled King Arthur and His Knights and illustrated by Charles John Andres? This is true, but very hard to find a good source for. Uncle G (talk) 19:52, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
That club
- Gordon, Sarah (2007). "Much ado about bacon: the old French fabliaux". Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature. Purdue studies in Romance literatures. Vol. 37. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557534309.
I'm surprised that you and the lurkers didn't snap this one up. Enjoy the statistic on page 4. Uncle G (talk) 10:17, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- Very interesting. I've read some fabliaux--but I don't remember bacon. Drmies (talk) 15:30, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- You obviously were speed reading, Doktoro. Or reading Linden and Bulfinch's BTS version.
- Cobby, Anne Elizabeth (1995). Ambivalent Conventions: Formula and Parody in Old French. Faux titre: études de langue et littérature françaises. Vol. 101. Rodopi. pp. 42–44. ISBN 9789051838725. ISSN 0167-9392.
- Mole, Gary D. (2002). "Du bacon et de la femme. Pour une relecture de Barat et Haimet de Jean Bodel". Néophilolgus (in French). 86 (1): 17–31. doi:10.1023/A:1012907729532.
- Pearcy, Roy (2007). Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux: An Essay in Applied Narratology. Gallica. Vol. 7. DS Brewer. p. 195. ISBN 9781843841227.
- Uncle G (talk) 16:01, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- You obviously were speed reading, Doktoro. Or reading Linden and Bulfinch's BTS version.
- Dennis Brown, look: plot summary with secondary source!. Drmies (talk) 15:51, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Jediknight15 IP
I received a talk page message from the IP 203.111.5.53 specifically about pages Jediknight15 was unconstructive on. I think it’s just them evading their ban. The misspelling on “does” when trying to make their talk page their user page (because IPs don’t have userpages) also tells me such--CreecregofLife (talk) 14:43, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. Turns out there's a set of school IPs there, some of which were already blocked, and many of which were used by vandals only. I extended and expanded that block. Take care, Drmies (talk) 16:02, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Advice on long term disruption
There has been long term disruption on Talk:Harry Styles and Harry Styles adjacent articles and talk pages. For at least eight years(which is as far back as I looked), someone has been adding to articles and requesting edits that he and Louis Tomlinson are married. I started an AN thread at one point to see about maybe an edit filter for this, but it didn't really get much traction. Is there anything you (or your talk page stalkers) can suggest to try and curb some of this disruption, or is the frequency low enough that we just revert and live with it? Is it worth starting an LTA page to point to for requesting blocks before hitting four warnings? Any help would be appreciated.
A haircutDiscography[2][3]Harry Styles[4][5][6]2018201620152014 in PortugueseLouis Tomlinson[7][8] and so on. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:41, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- Semi-protection is the only answer here, I think. I checked, and looked at the IPs as well, and as far as I can tell this is from all over the place, not from one person. Sorry. I dropped a few blocks, but that's not very helpful. Drmies (talk) 18:54, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- I'm loath to request semi on talk pages, because once in a blue moon there is a constructive edit on those talk pages from an IP or new account. I guess I'll just keep reverting on sight. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:58, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- It's not a single person. This is a piece of on-line nitwittery that has been doing the rounds for about a decade. Ironically, they tried to set up an edit filter equivalent at Instagram to stop this half a decade ago. Unless someone can do a better job of edit filtering here, semi-protection seems the best route. Otherwise it's one person versus multiple BLP-violating nitwits. That said, you might try bringing this up at the BLP noticeboard, rather than the administrators' noticeboard, and having another push for an edit filter. It is, after all, a BLP problem.
- Wong, Curtis M. (2016-09-19). "Louis Tomlinson Blocks Gay Fan Fiction Nickname 'Larry' On Instagram". Huffington Post.
- Uncle G (talk) 20:12, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- I figured that, yes. An edit filter: I should have thought of that. Thanks Uncle. Drmies (talk) 21:52, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- At what point is an edit filter feasible? ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:34, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Or, just hear me out, we convince the two of them to get married, and then it's a non-issue. Obviously, that's the easiest solution all around. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:15, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- I figured that, yes. An edit filter: I should have thought of that. Thanks Uncle. Drmies (talk) 21:52, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
Escalating Trouble. Assistance Requested Again.
I require help once again. The following IP address, Special:Contributions/114.79.38.0/23, insists on adding hoax cast lists to the Kamen Rider Saber character page and the main Kamen Rider Zero-One page. I know these pages aren't your cup of tea, but I have been working to stop this IP address from ruining these pages, and they are effectively edit warring no matter how much I tell them to stop. This has been going on for about three days and I don't know if I can keep this up anymore. Blazewing16 (talk) 22:12, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- No problem. That range produced nothing good and I blocked it. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 02:17, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Thank you so much for your help. Blazewing16 (talk) 02:38, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hi User:Drmies. I could use your help once again. The following IP address, Special:Contributions/114.79.37.74, which is apparently a similar yet different one from the IP address you recently blocked, is continuing 114.79.38.0/23's BS of adding hoax cast lists, this time with the Kamen Rider Zero-One main and character pages. If you can, could you please follow up on this? Blazewing16 (talk) 02:09, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Halcali's first album
Uncle G (talk) 10:05, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- I actually saw that draft, Uncle. Very interesting. Thanks for making me clean up that Halcali article. Do you seriously propose to have Bacon in the fabliau? It is masterful. But why should I copy and paste it? Drmies (talk) 22:34, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- This is something that I had been thinking myself, Doktoro. You have been focusing on naughty things of late, from Le Chevalier qui fit les cons parler to Sublimation (psychology)#Sexual sublimation. Can you say "Honoré de Balzac" without making it seem rude and getting la mise au coin? Mind you, I do not know whether the mystery author is willing for the userspace page to be renamed. Uncle G (talk) 01:18, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
- 10 years have passed. Has its time come round again? Yes, please! Geoff | Who, me? 14:04, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
- Perhaps you can tempt Doktoro away from Mole 2002 which connects bacon in the fabliaux to naughty things. Uncle G (talk) 19:16, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
- 10 years have passed. Has its time come round again? Yes, please! Geoff | Who, me? 14:04, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
- This is something that I had been thinking myself, Doktoro. You have been focusing on naughty things of late, from Le Chevalier qui fit les cons parler to Sublimation (psychology)#Sexual sublimation. Can you say "Honoré de Balzac" without making it seem rude and getting la mise au coin? Mind you, I do not know whether the mystery author is willing for the userspace page to be renamed. Uncle G (talk) 01:18, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
After the merge what?
Hey, Drmies. Hope you're well. I could use your advice about an issue. A while back someone created the article Principality of Mirdita. I nominated it for deletion and the discussion ended as merge. Since then nobody has shown any interest as to how the article should be merged. My opinion is that it should be turned into a redirect to Mirdita. Meanwhile as Principality of Mirdita stays online new editors read it and are led to believe that it actually existed, hence they write about it on other articles. What's the next step to take after the AfD conclusion?--Maleschreiber (talk) 14:14, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hey--well, that's a fine mess. An AfD with three different votes, and one that says "merge per above" when the above merge comment didn't make a lot of sense. Why would a potential COI matter in terms of what should be kept in user space? Was there ever any discussion about sourcing? Why did the creator not comment? "all likely to be RS" is really not an argument, certainly not when totally devoid of detail. Merge it is, then, but I will leave it at that--no deletion. If this is ever revamped, let me know. Drmies (talk) 16:59, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, I feel that our voting stance on wiki sometimes reflects the way we perceive voting in the real world. We may vote but we feel that we have no further obligation towards the outcome of the voting phase. I guess that this is what happened here. Several people voted for a merge, but nobody got involved in the actual process of merging.--Maleschreiber (talk) 20:09, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- Another one: I saw two new editors who were edit-warring at Kosovo Liberation Army and left both a standard notice about edit warring (both had reached 3 reverts)[9][10]. Then one of them came to my talkpage to complain about it: User talk:Maleschreiber#Spurious warning. I've told the editor to not use my talkpage as a place to discuss if their edits constitute revert warring or not, but they keep using my talkpage exactly for that. What more does one have to do to make others understand that a user talkpage is not the place for such a discussion?--Maleschreiber (talk) 22:03, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- OK, so the Mardi Gras was actually kind of fun. Drmies (talk) 18:20, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- Whilst you were away, Doktoro, I discovered from reading a book that all that you had to do in order to go to one of your naughty events with lots of youth cred was hop into your TARDIS and go back to Bullfrog, Utah (AfD discussion) in 1992. Not 1993, though. Do not miss by a year. (I did notice that you managed to get the TARDIS so confused that it put Fat Tuesday on a Sunday. Is this sort of movable feast what you meant when you said that it was Mobile?) I didn't put in the article what the book said about the woman and the funnel. I had to turn on safe search in Google Books, Doktoro. For a University of Arizona Press book! Why are you leading me to writing about all this naughty stuff? I want to write about the prevalence of pork in the plays of Plautus. Uncle G (talk) 20:56, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- I actually could use some of that fat--imagine a slavink wrapped in paprika-flavored salo. I see now that I was writing up pork back in 2009 already, but had heard of Plautus only through Macchiavelli. I do wonder about that sex act. I didn't see anything like it in Mobile. Also, Mardi Gras is a set of events, not just one particular day, and down here I've gotten used to saying "the" Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama needs a bit of work; we caught the parade of the Mystics of Time, which was pretty cool cause it had dragons. Blow House was pretty good, though I assume they had been funneling beer all day. We had a long lunch at Felix on the causeway and I can recommend that--though the oysters from Bayou La Batre just aren't as good as those from Apalachicola Bay. Anyway, we need to write up the Kennedy-Cox House. I hope to be invited to the ball there. Drmies (talk) 00:14, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
- Whilst you were away, Doktoro, I discovered from reading a book that all that you had to do in order to go to one of your naughty events with lots of youth cred was hop into your TARDIS and go back to Bullfrog, Utah (AfD discussion) in 1992. Not 1993, though. Do not miss by a year. (I did notice that you managed to get the TARDIS so confused that it put Fat Tuesday on a Sunday. Is this sort of movable feast what you meant when you said that it was Mobile?) I didn't put in the article what the book said about the woman and the funnel. I had to turn on safe search in Google Books, Doktoro. For a University of Arizona Press book! Why are you leading me to writing about all this naughty stuff? I want to write about the prevalence of pork in the plays of Plautus. Uncle G (talk) 20:56, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
A Mobile home
Disappointment
I am disappointed, Doktoro, that you never mentioned that your Mobile home was right next to the very historic Burger King and opposite the equally historic McDonald's, with a very historic Hardee's just down the road. Why, moreover, were you eating battered fish from a fast food place when you could have been catching your own moonpies? They go by quite fast, I read. I don't know what a Spanish Plaza or a British Park are, safe search on Google Books filtering out such things, but presumably the latter is where you should have been eating your battered fish, for the authentic Mobile experience. I do know what a Mobile library is, of course.
- Blejwas, Emily (2019). "MoonPies: Mardi Gras in Mobile". The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817320195.
Uncle G (talk) 18:43, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
- Wait--you didn't see it? Across the street from where we stood? Yes, that is a very notable BK, and very well known among those Mardi Gras revelers whose bladders are too full for much dancing. And no, I did NOT eat battered fish: that's for children and savages. I had blackened codia, thank you very much. There were plenty of moonpies, though only chocolate and vanilla landed in our area. If you ever see one, I urge you to not eat it. Next time you should come along; I'm sure you're a better driver than my daughter. Drmies (talk) 18:55, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
- You might not have heard of the University of Alabama Press, Doktoro, but it seems that it allows its authors to go on for a whole chapter about throwing moonpies, and not throwing Cracker Jacks, and the MoonPie Rise, and some cat named Big Bill Lister, which we do not seem to discuss in similar depth in our article. That said, you do get to tell the Pommiepedians that I can find no university press books about Wagon Wheels at all, so that article still does not get to use {{cite book}}. Uncle G (talk) 19:48, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
YeetaSkeeta
Sadly, YeetaSkeeta chose not to read your comment and are now GuruOfSpeed. You can see the same content magically appearing in Draft:Deji Olatunji and the identical type of edits. Should I go WP:SPI or is this WP:DUCK enough to skip it? --Muhandes (talk) 13:40, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
Query
You blocked Amuroray11 from editing Rob Kirkland for COI reasons but User:TozenTicho and User:Duttonfanatic just showed up to edit this article, almost exclusively. I'm hoping you could run a check and see if they are all the same person. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 04:41, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- In fact, Duttonfanatic posted a notice on User talk:Duttonfanatic as if the Rob Kirkland AFD had closed as "Keep" (see edit summary) and the AFD is still open. Liz Read! Talk! 04:43, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Liz, the three are Confirmed to one another. Always nice when they make it this obvious. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:33, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- Liz, GeneralNotability, thank you both. I meant to come back after some scrubbing in that article and say thanks, but I may have been too upset at that editing style, haha. Drmies (talk) 23:59, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Liz, the three are Confirmed to one another. Always nice when they make it this obvious. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:33, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
SPI
Hi, I listed Michri michri at SPI... I suspect I got something wrong as it's listed as closed. How do I open it again? Catfish Jim and the soapdish 21:55, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
- Here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Michri michri Catfish Jim and the soapdish 21:55, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Potential editor with several accounts
Hi. While looking at the history of some pages, I noticed that an editor currently using an account named XT RedZone appears to have a history of having edited with several accounts. Obviously I cannot state this with absolutely full certainty, but this seems like WP:QUACK. I found that the accounts User:Muffyogsan, User:Heated Hater, User:Trusted RedZone, User:Game for Game and the one currently active have a very similar editing style and have edited the same pages. For some evidence, you can see here that one of these accounts recently added back the same content that was originally added by another of these accounts here. There might be other accounts, but those were the ones I found. The editor also appears to have edited while logged out, for example like here. I understand that making a clean start is fine, but this editor has continued editing the same pages and all of the accounts appear to have a pattern of getting involved in disputes and edit warring, and even reviving old disputes with the different accounts, so it seems like this could be a violation of WP:SCRUTINY. Also, it is quite concerning that these seem to have been used to create illusion of greater support, like in this discussion and in this edit summary (where the claim "Seems you have did this same a previous user." referred to my dispute with this editor's (potential) previous account). Do you think that this constitutes sockpuppetry, and should I create a report at WP:SPI? Thanks. Carfan568 (talk) 18:57, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
- No, there's no point in that. There is nothing that CU can do, because the accounts are all inactive, and because they are inactive there's no socking going on--at least not now. But let me have a chat with them. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 23:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
Editor removing AFD tags.
EU-DE-NRW-SI (talk · contribs) has removed AFD tags at Plane shootdown over Syke three times. Twice after they were warned. Maybe you can have a word with them....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 16:14, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks--they seem to have heeded your warning, though. "Excessive red in infobox" maybe should be a reason for deletion also. Drmies (talk) 16:16, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
Disruptive Editing
Hi, the ip address that you blocked for 31 hours has been doing this same nonsense for a couple of years now. The other ip address that he had is blocked for a year, I think Wugapodes or Oshwah were the ones who I contacted and they were of much help. A few hours ago he was using a different ip address, 172.58.188.128 both same person, location, subject and subject matter. I know when this 31 hour block expires he'll be at it again. Thank you for your assistance, Doriden (talk) 02:31, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks again Doriden (talk) 03:01, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Greetings, the disruptive editing person ip address 172.58.188.128 has been blocked for a year. But the other ip address that he uses 172.58.188.231 is only blocked for 31 hours, after which he will probably be at it again. Wugapodes and Oshwah had him blocked about 6 months ago on some other ip address that he was using. It was one with many numbers. Thanks again for your assistance, Doriden (talk) 10:38, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
I'm sorry to bother you again sir, but will the other ip address that he used last night that is currently blocked for 31 hours, 172.58.188.128 be blocked for six months also? Because I guarantee that when the 31 hours expire he will continue with the same behavior. Thank you, Doriden (talk) 15:24, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Drmies, I apologize for disturbing you again. I got a little mixed up. 172.58.188.128 is blocked for six months. The other ip address that he was using last night 172.58.188.231 is the one that is blocked for 31 hours by you. Sorry for the error, Doriden (talk) 15:33, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- Look at this. No need to apologize, BTW--I get paid handsomely for this. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 15:33, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Yes, I am concerned about the other one he uses last night the one ending with 231 that is just blocked for 31 hours. The other one he was using last night 172.58.188.128 is blocked for six months. Again, I apologize for disturbing you, Doriden (talk) 15:42, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- Doriden, the whole range is blocked for six months. Including that IP. Drmies (talk) 15:43, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Mr.Drmies, thanks for your kind assistance with that disruptive editing person. I don't know why he does it. But anyway thanks again Doriden (talk) 21:03, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
English Professor Vaccuum
I tried and failed, Doktoro. M. Canadiaian could have a go. Everyone in Canadia knows everyone else in Canadia, ne? Uncle G (talk) 19:33, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Uncle G: Maybe this (also [12]) is the Thompson you're looking for? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 20:02, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- Or maybe it isn't. In any case, I can't find much either; so this Thompson might indeed not be notable as a professor, and certainly not notable as an author. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 20:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- Although there is this and supposedly the book it is reviewing. Probably something to be said about this too... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 20:06, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- I had seen that, but I wondered whether Doktoro would be unhappy to see an assertion that Anthropology was the same as Arthurpology. Uncle G (talk) 20:11, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- Or maybe it isn't. In any case, I can't find much either; so this Thompson might indeed not be notable as a professor, and certainly not notable as an author. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 20:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Did you know …
… that Golden Lane, London (AfD discussion) near the Barbican has been the site of a brewery, a burial ground, and bombings? — blame Philafrenzy (talk · contribs) 10× expansion
Uncle G (talk) 14:51, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
- Got a load of fresh prods now that seem a bit pointy. Not many central London streets turn out to not be notable, but it's a lot of work to expand them all simultaneously. Philafrenzy (talk) 18:00, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
- I've been on the other side of this. Don't read too much into it. One finds one thing and one wonders whether it's a group of systematically created such articles, so one goes to Special:Contributions and turns on the new pages only filter. Thanks to the database-dumpers we're very sensitive to these things in the 2020s. And in fairness minor roads in cities and towns usually get consensus to delete at AFD. (Yes, including capital cities — I've seen a fair few go by at AFD for non-European cities over the years.) This is in part because the article creators often miss the actual subjects in their zeal to have an article on every bloody road in the world. Usually, the subject is an area or a district. Or a historic thing totally lost in the recentist noise of documenting a road in a suburban neighbourhood.
I remember Grove Avenue, London (AfD discussion), which totally missed the historic item for some minor road that was built over it. There's a fair parallel to this, in that as soon as I looked up the road I found the eponymous brewery, just as Hanwell Park pretty much screamed at me back them. It's different here in that the road is the centre of the historical subjects, and not some later trifle.
The important thing is to write a good stub. It's why I despair of things like Kinnoull. That's a parish, with over a century of documentation. (See User talk:ScottishFinnishRadish#Geography cop-outs.) But instead we get a "I live on this housing estate. I don't need histories of my town. I know where the bowling club is." approach instead, and a vague "residential area" description because an editor hasn't really looked into what the subject even is. Or Kinnoull Terrace (AfD discussion) which is just a road in the parish and not the central subject. Bridgend, Perth and Kinross was a burgh of barony, for pity's sake, not some random housing estate that the article makes it look like.
After shedloads of GNIS-sourced articles calling things "unincorporated community" more bad geography stubs that do not even give the basic description of the subject is a sore point for many people now. And Special:Diff/1060386480 telling us that the toilets are out of order is no substitute for cracking open a history book or two. But that's how badly a lot of this stuff is written.
This is what the world looks like from the other person's point of view. That's why I do not gloat over things like Golden Lane, and think it is bad form to do so. And I do not make blanket assertions that everything in London (or even one part of London) is going to be notable, because Grove Avenue in London really was just some road. It is 2022, and after 20 years Wikipedia is part of a system that is actually massively perpetuating geographic falsehoods, in articles by the tens of thousands, with mountains of rubbish geography content surrounding us on all sides. Finding a genuine historic subject, which we've done with ferry landings in California and creeks in Kentucky, is almost like a tosher finding a tosheroon, and something to be celebrated with the people who are in good faith trying to clean the muck away.
- I've been on the other side of this. Don't read too much into it. One finds one thing and one wonders whether it's a group of systematically created such articles, so one goes to Special:Contributions and turns on the new pages only filter. Thanks to the database-dumpers we're very sensitive to these things in the 2020s. And in fairness minor roads in cities and towns usually get consensus to delete at AFD. (Yes, including capital cities — I've seen a fair few go by at AFD for non-European cities over the years.) This is in part because the article creators often miss the actual subjects in their zeal to have an article on every bloody road in the world. Usually, the subject is an area or a district. Or a historic thing totally lost in the recentist noise of documenting a road in a suburban neighbourhood.
CN enthusiast
Hello. Please note that the editor you reverted here is back as this IP. To be fair one of their edits, this, seems OK but the others fulfil your "silly" criterion quite well. Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 23:45, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Prayer for Ukraine
I took a pic in 2009 that was on the German MP yesterday, with the song from 1885, in English Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
ANI bleg
Do you have any thoughts about why this hasn't received any administrative attention? (If not, no problem.) --JBL (talk) 13:51, 6 March 2022 (UTC)