User:Carptrash

'''For reasons that they can't understand, this editor is not able to sign on to wikipedia at home so they can only edit as themselves elsewhere. Since this editor does not get out much, well it is a problem.'''

A message from a valued co-editor and friend. ''' Hallo, dear old Carptrash. Still insisting on behaving like a human rather than a wikipedian? '''





Who am I?

 * Carp:
 * verb (used without object)
 * 1.
 * to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil:
 * to carp at minor errors.
 * noun
 * 2.
 * a peevish complaint.
 * And if you don’t know “trash” you probably won’t do very well on English wikipedia.

There is another longer and more complicated explanation involving a several step process getting there from another internet name, “carpe mañana” to carptrash. But that’s for another day.

BREAKING NEWS
I am in fact not me at all but a sock puppet. For those of you, or both of you, or whomever reads this, the rational is clearly laid out here.

Sockpuppet investigations/Gamaliel (suddenly there is nothing there! This was a blue link 4 minutes ago.)

The proof is that after a month or so of my first editing I was making significant edits (gee, maybe that's why I started editing?) and then more than a dozen years later I reverted something that an editor did not want reverted and lo-and-behold, I must be a sock. Food for thought.

Me
An attempt at user boxes.

Breitbart News has this to say about me: "All mention of the Ngo assault was subsequently removed by editor “Carptrash,” whose profile page includes multiple images of himself in an anarchist shirt, one time while brandishing a blunt instrument." Just for the record, those pictures were of my Halloween costume that year, in one of them I am wearing a tiara, hardly standard antifa issue.

I just resurrected
this old section of my user page, the so called "23 (sometimes 27) words and phrases".

I have a list of words or phrases that, to me, when I hear them or read them, or say them or write them, typically mean, "in my opinion."


 * 1) "Everybody who isn't a paid whore can see" (a great new one from a wikipedia discussion)
 * 2) "according to all accounts" (ran into this today-not referenced)
 * 3) It should be noted
 * 4) It must be noted (found in an article today)
 * 5) history shows us . ..
 * 6) the fact is
 * 7) the truth is
 * 8) in reality
 * 9) in theory
 * 10) obviously
 * 11) in the final analysis
 * 12) I know
 * 13) everyone knows
 * 14) most people say
 * 15) common sense will tell you
 * 16) always, or "never" for that matter
 * 17) actually
 * 18) it's indisputable
 * 19) everyone agrees
 * 20) of course
 * 21) There can be no doubt that...
 * 22) Indubitably,...
 * 23) I think we can agree that...
 * 24) clearly
 * 25) pure and simple
 * 26) without a doubt
 * 27) correct me if I'm wrong
 * 28) normal
 * 29) certainly
 * 30) on the other hand
 * 31) strictly speaking
 * 32) it can't be argued
 * 33) unquestionably
 * 34) according to unbiased observers,
 * 35) tell it like it is
 * 36) for sure, I'm sure, any sure
 * 37) in the real world
 * 38) the undisputed truth
 * 39) or just "undisputed"
 * 40) what are you talking about?
 * 41) it is said
 * 42) you must agree that
 * 43) you can't deny that
 * 44) seemingly
 * 45) apparently
 * 46) supposedly
 * 47) naturally
 * 48) typically
 * 49) most words with ‘ly’ on the end
 * 50) appropriate
 * 51) in any case
 * 52) No one disputes
 * 53) exactly
 * 54) "the energy of that (or her or him) is..."
 * 55) it's been proven
 * 56) It seems appropriate
 * 57) but at the end of the day . . .....
 * 58) seems reasonable
 * 59) "anyone with half a brain knows..."
 * 60) "but the big problem is  . . . ....... "
 * 61) the real deal  (plucked from User:JackofOz/Favourites)
 * 62) "That's the end of the story. "
 * 63) ...and I don't think I'm alone in this,...
 * 64) by and large,...
 * 65) it should be eminently clear by now
 * 66) if you would take off your rose-colored glasses for a minute,...
 * 67) ultimately
 * 68) experts say, or agree, or all know
 * 69) At the end of the day,
 * 70) the important thing ...* natural law says . . ....
 * 71) a sure sign
 * 72) a forgone conclusion.
 * 73)  End of story
 * 74) The policy clearly states...
 * 75) ... Feel free to add more

Recently
An editor (of course anonymous) posted of me, "Furthermore, the definition (of racism) that Carptrash added is communist/far-left propaganda. Any source that says "institutional, structural, and systemic" when discussing racism is using far-left polemic garbage from the Marxist, anti-Semitic, and anti-white critical race theory pseudoscientific ideology." (Back to me) I want to state that I am not now, nor ever have been a member of the Communist Party and certainly do not consider myself to be a Marxist, anti-semitic or anti-white. Often at these moments I am accused of being anti-male, so I will deny that too.

Now I discover, while I am complaining about the SPLC that, ""Scratch a group complaining about the SPLC, and there's a 99.9% likelihood you'll find a hate group." So what do you think, am I a Marxist leftist or a Confederate loving' right wing hate group member? It's so confusing. Carptrash (talk) 00:06, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

A "conversation" with wikipedia
I'd like to thank the Wikipedia Foundation for their recognition of my editing efforts. Although the process was not seamless I have long come to understand that there are speed bumps on the road of life and if I hit them wrong it can create a bit of a jarring effect.

Next
I have declared all my edits to be a diabolic mixture of opinion and original research. Just so that I can't be accused of doing this anonymously, the names I've used while posting pictures are EEK, eek, ****************** and probably a few more variations on this.

However, I am now amending this stance to state that all of my edits are carefully and thoroughly researched and if the documentation seems to be missing it is just because some vandal probably removed it.

I feel that I am likely in the top one million editors in both number of edits and number of articles created. However I am much more proud to include myself in the Top 100 Monkeys.

And further more
I just discovered that my 5th anniversary (July 2009) on wikipedia just passed. Life is supposed to be interesting. I also just discovered some links at the bottom of my user page that informed me that I've done over 10,000 edits and created 139 articles. Life goes on. And I can now update this to my 10th year here and 20,000 edits. I think.

And I just love it when
as happened today,  an editor corrects a spelling mistake that I made something like 5 years ago. It's a real feel good place.

Works in progress
Sort of always a work in progress and a good place for a wikibreak without have to leave wikipedia.
 * History of fountains in the United States
 * User:Phaedriel/Soundtrack of Wikipedians
 * Meetup/Santa Fe/ArtAndFeminism 2016

User:Carptrash/sandbox - which is now Sculptors at the Columbian Expo or something

WikiProject Women in Red/Art
 * - the article on Talbot Hamlin, sidetracked by all the political stuff there.
 * Confederates in Congress
 * [] - Statuary talk page
 * [] Wash Post
 * [] How to remove a confederate

Okay
I am back in a different mood. different mode. A different everything. i can't really explain why rhigh now because oof being watched. Did you ever get the feeling that everything that you did and said was being recoreded? I mean, by somene else?/ everything. Sure, you are probably thinking, this boy is off his rocker. Stark raving madd. More later
 * This section was done while being filmed by a BBC film crew for some show they were doing. they wanted me typing, which is for me a slow, almost painful process.  Fortunately they were not filming my monitor, just me.  Here is a link to something related to that.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2009/10/rushes-sequences-einar-kvaran.shtml
 * and another.
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/interviews.shtml
 * and yet another
 * http://www.flickr.com/photos/60188803@N00/sets/72157622199565367/

This is sort of a fun thing too. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html

I do feel good about these
I am, it turns out, not me at all but a sock puppet. For those of you, or both of you, or whomever reads this, the rational is clearly laid out here.

Sockpuppet investigations/Gamaliel (this charge lasted about 47 minutes or so). Darn!

The proof is that after a month or so of my first editing I was making significant edits (gee, maybe that's why I started editing?) and then more than a dozen years later I reverted something that an editor did not want reverted and lo-and-behold, I must be a sock. Food for thought. Anyway, I suspect that when this all plays out I will deem it an honor to be on the other side of some fence from User:MrCharlesBlack. Any way, he sort of got his pecker smacked for filing a "Bogus Sockpuppet Investigation."

Stumbled upon your user page in my morning ramble through Wikipedia, and it made me laugh. So:

(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list)

The Fortune Cookie instead of a T-shirt Barnstar
  Sculpture art

Thank you, Einar, for quality articles about sculpture as part of architecture and its people, beginning with Corrado Parducci and not ending with Stripped Classicism, done in collaboration, for excellent images including Phallic architecture, for your indisputable collection of POV phrases, for, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:31, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Missvain (talk) 16:44, 12 March 2011



Barn Star editing
I didn't need this but might as well stash this here.

Thanks for your photo
your photo of Utah Phillips at the haymarket remembered gathering in 1986. I've included it to replace one of the lost graphics in the book mob action against the state. If you want me to send you a digital copy, get in touch. Brian.
 * I left a message on your discussion page, but the bottom line is "send Away." I left an address there.  Einar

testing, testing, 1,2,3. ..

I was tickled to discover that the Encyclopedia Britannica was using one of my pictures in their Spandrel article. They actually got it from Bela Pratt. Imagine the fuss if we used one of their pictures. Or anything. https://www.britannica.com/technology/spandrel-architecture

Here is Grandad's trip to Europe in 1919.....

from the past
Earlier Once again I sort of feel my life sort of sucked out of me by. . . a bunch of wikipedia related things. Do folks really believe that some one is going to come flying out of the woodwork and object to File:ER Kvaran Sri Lanka, mid 1950s.jpg or File:Matt_Gordon,_Flying_Tiger_c._1943.jpg. a picture that a high school friend ("He was never my 'boyfriend!'") gave my mother shortly before he died in WWII? Yet the letter of the law must be obeyed. Ands so it shall, I am sure.

Pictures from my failed attempt to create a Phallic architecture article
Einar, don't forget the Ypsi water tower
 * And by an odd "coincidence" (is there really such a thing?) the picture used in wikipedia for the Ypsilanti Water Tower was already mine.


 * Don't overlook the Florida State Capitol. Phallus plus balls. See https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=florida+state+capitol&view=detailv2&&id=2533A6E0848E53BE5DE112D3D6B7519F729277DF&selectedIndex=41&ccid=K7Eu3ork&simid=608032624244490335&thid=OIP.M2bb12ede8ae42b2f08456d51480aff43o0 deisenbe (talk) 18:54, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps we need to start an article called
Statues to NOT visit on a first date, unless. . ..... Statues TO visit on a first date? And while this might seem like both original research and opinion, what the heck. Carptrash (talk) 23:48, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Pictures about to be deleted Sept. 2011
I need a place to stash this for a while.



The lost Louis Sullivan stencil designs
This could be clearer, so here is what I wrote about these pictures at Talk:Home Building Association Bank
 * While visiting the building in 1985 I discovered that the outside door leading to the upstairs was not locked, so I went in. I discovered a staircase that led to the second floor, which was being renovated. I included a not very interesting picture of the space in the gallery on the article page. However, more interesting, and, it turned out, disturbing, was a door that had been added halfway up the stairs. It too was unlocked, this was small town Ohio after all, and upon opening and entering through it I discovered myself on what was essentially a dropped ceiling, added when the building had been converted into an ice cream parlor some years previously. The space was being used for storage, but it also held all the refrigeration equipment that was needed downstairs. As I looked around, mostly up, I discovered that I was surrounded by the most astounding designs that I had ever seen. They were what remained of the stenciled patterns that Sullivan had produced here. I was to discover that these, along with those in the Chicago Stock Exchange and the bank in Owatonna were considered to be his best. They consisted of something like 60 different patterns overlaid on each other. However, to my everlasting horror, the paintings that I had discovered were peeling off the walls. Literally. pieces a foot or two long were hanging off the walls and ceilings. I was tempted to just pull some off, but did not. Unfortunately the pictures that I took did not come out very well, but I have included them here anyway. Carptrash 17:52, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Jacob Epstein
Have to say, that's an edit war I'm not getting into, because the potential resolutions aren't that enlightening. I mean, if they're going to squabble, squabble over something with stakes. Hey, by the way, did you see the work at architectural sculpture? Care to jump in? --Lockley (talk) 17:43, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Phaedriel/Soundtrack_of_Wikipedians# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lar/Wikipedian_Bookshelf#

clean up

Works in progress and useful links

 * New pages patrol - for checking for block copying


 * List of best-selling music artists

WikiProject Women in Red/Art

http://sites.temple.edu/endangeredmurals/murals/texas/

User:Carptrash/Glendale Veterans War Memorial
 * an other

User:Carptrash/Einar Ragnarsson Kvaran
 * and even

User:Carptrash/Piccirilli projects

User:carptrash/Italian Renaissance sculpture

User:Carptrash/Ragnar Kvaran

Start your article in your user space, creating it as User:Yourusername/Person covered, e.g. User:Wikiwonder/Ann Raymondia.

Check this out sometime
[] its the Commons:Freedom of panorama campaign.

Dick van Aggelen
I 'll find this in this link: http://hooksanalysis.wordpress.com/tag/the-small-faces/

“Whole Lotta Love” bears little resemblance to “You Need Love” as recorded in 1962 by Muddy Waters and owned by Willie Dixon (now by his estate). The track is, however, closely related to The Small Faces’ 1966 song “You Need Loving” (which is based on the same Muddy Waters track that was owned by Willie Dixon). Same story by the song Venus of Shocking Blue which stil gives Robbie van Leeuwen as composer, but it's a revision of "The Banjo Song by The Big 3. But that song has its orgins in the old song "Oh Sussana" written by Stephen Foster. See this wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Lotta_Love

Dick

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oh my gosh
thanks! "clink!" --Lockley (talk) 02:13, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * well, if you're coming over, I'll run down to the corner store and pick up some vodka and a couple of limes. Get ready to talk about Sacajawea and Eva Emery Dye and whatever you want to talk about.  Hope your back's better!  --Lockley (talk) 02:37, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Ohhhhh tempting, tempting. My back is better but still not up to (opinion) 943 miles (even more kilometers). Carptrash (talk) 02:48, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Joe Tyler
Has replied, you are OK to upload the image you discussed. License is CC-BY-SA-3.0, add OTRS pending and let me know - I have to add the actual ticket number  Ron h jones (Talk) 21:40, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

a "Me" and " My Brother "

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 * Category:User he-3
 * Another toy

Testing, testing, 1,2,3
|Hammond’s March of Civilization; A Historical Atlas

The struggle
Someone just showed me this:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=upload&user=Carptrash

a test []

SFN question
I usually don't use SFN for other than books and journal articles. See SS Clifton is an example where the citations are repeated. I just used the to pick up the earlier reference   I think Scallop]] does, however, use it for journal articles. so take a look. Gerda Arendt is a citation genius and would surely help. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 20:51, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * BTW, WP:SFN only works if there are four or fewer authors. You will note in the  SS Clifton that I did find A neat way to link the page numbers in the sfn format.  Takes some extra screwing around.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 21:05, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Put another way, just use the address 300 times. Though perhaps I shall try GA.  I get (am) very frustrated with formatting issues (currently have one wrapped around my neck and am slowly lifting my feet off the floor with it) and am looking for easy answers to problems that do not have easy answers. Burt thank you for trying.  Carptrash (talk) 21:21, 28 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I'd be happy to help, if you point me in the right direction. 22:03, 28 October 2017 (UTC) 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 20:34, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

A metric to warm your heart and sustain your editing
I've been putting that on some of the talk pages of articles I've worked on. Gives you a feel for the utility of your efforts. 7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 21:23, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Robert "Big Mojo" Elem
Speaking of notability of musicians... <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 19:25, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I nominated this for a DYK. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 20:34, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Kos Minar
Ran across this article, and surprisingly it made me think of your hobbies. Hope all is well. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 20:07, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

bas relief on buildings
You were looking for bas relief on buildings, right? How about these: Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 22:37, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
 * File:West Cinema, Cedartown, GA, US (1).jpg
 * File:West Cinema, Cedartown, GA, US (2).jpg
 * File:West Cinema, Cedartown, GA, US (3).jpg