User talk:28bytes

Un-redirect userpage to talk page
Around a year ago, I redirected my userpage to my talk page, according to WP:UP, to get rid of the red font that my username would appear in every time I made an edit. However, I discovered today the joy of user boxes and am interested in making a userpage. I can't seem to figure out how to un-redirect my userpage to my talk page, however. So, I searched up active admins and your username popped out the most to me so I'm here asking you this question. Thanks! InfiniteSword (talk) 04:27, 4 June 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅. Happy editing! 28bytes (talk) 12:09, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Just out of curiosity, how did you end up doing it? Also, is there a way to change it so that only autoconfirmed users can edit the page? You know, to avoid vandalism and stuff. InfiniteSword (talk) 16:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * When you open a page that’s been redirected, there’s a line right under “From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia” that says “(Redirected from such-and-such)”. Click on the such-and-such link and it will let you edit the page and replace the #REDIRECT with whatever you like. 28bytes (talk) 17:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh, and per WP:UPROT, user pages are automatically protected from editing by unconfirmed accounts and IP editors. That should be sufficient for now, but let me know if you run into any problems with vandalism and we can bump up the protection if needed. 28bytes (talk) 17:53, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Last question (hopefully), is there a way to edit my user page with the visual editor instead of the source editor? It's much harder for me to edit using the source editor, since I don't really know where to put brackets and curly braces and such. InfiniteSword (talk) 00:32, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I believe I need to sign my posts on talk pages like this? Idk, I've never done this before, this is just a test. InfiniteSword InfiniteSword (talk) 00:35, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ohhhhh all I need to do is this InfiniteSword (talk) 00:35, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, you should be able to use the Visual Editor to edit your user page. WP:VisualEditor should give you the information you need to enable it. 28bytes (talk) 00:52, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I read the page but couldn't figure out how to enable the visual editor for my user page. Also, is there a way to redirect my user page on the Spanish Wiki to the English One? InfiniteSword (talk) 02:29, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * As far as I’m aware, you can’t do cross-wiki redirects. You’d just have to use a regular link. As for VisualEditor, I haven’t used it in many years, so unfortunately I’m probably not the best person to help troubleshoot it. The WP:Help desk might be able to better assist. 28bytes (talk) 03:15, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! When I saw that gadget on Spanish Wikipedia I thought it would be nice to bring it to our wiki as well. 28bytes (talk) 02:43, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah! Thought you created it. No matter -- barnstar still deserved. I just need to give out another one now. :) &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 03:17, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I wish I had! It’s a cool little gadget. I may try my hand at creating one at some point, though; a three-body problem simulator came to mind. Xaosflux and Pppery deserve thanks for helping get the gadget going, as well as the gadget’s creators. 28bytes (talk) 14:00, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

June music
Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

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July music
Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:59, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782 - about Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opera by Mozart, while yesterday's was - because of the TFA - about Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera by Offenbach. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:14, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers the music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:17, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Name calling????
Have you seen his uploads? Elinruby (talk) See? look at the below. He is going to try to use this as evidence of something or other until the cows come home. This entire report is pure fiction. Elinruby (talk) 12:32, 15 July 2024 (UTC)


 * maybe don’t harass a bureaucrat who just showed you an inordinate degree of mercy Dronebogus (talk) 12:33, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Would the two of you consent to a two-way interaction ban, and save the community the trouble of imposing one? Please? Mackensen (talk) 13:02, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

I have never interacted with this editor in the first place! And I submitted an editor interaction report to prove that! Nor mentioned his name anywhere before this! I suggest you examine his uploads, re name-calling. If you feel the need to answer this please do so on my talk page, not here. Elinruby (talk) 13:19, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

ANI
I will respect your close because you are an uninvolved admin and bureaucrat and I don’t want to get blocked for no good reason; however is User:Elinruby really deserving of “kindness” considering the evidence presented? Isn’t a warning about incivility and cross-wiki disruption at least in order? Dronebogus (talk) 12:29, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

User still replying in a thread you closed
Because my ping didn’t work here. Dronebogus (talk) 12:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * 28bytes. I'm sorry you have been deemed worthy of multiple posts on your own talk about the same thing. I know the feeling. For my answers to DB regarding this issue, please see my talk page discussion.  ——Serial Number 54129  13:07, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Edit conflicts are annoying, aren’t they? I e/c’ed three times trying to close that thread, and another two times trying to reply here on my own talk page. Anyway, I recommend letting it be, even if it’s the wrong version. The last thing we need is an edit war. 28bytes (talk) 13:18, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I am not going to argue with you about the close, 28bytes, but am just pointing out that your closing is going to be used to misrepresent what happened even more than it already has been. I would like you to reconsider "name calling" since that is not what happened, but I will indeed let it be if you do not. However, yes, I got about three edit conflicts myself. Thank you for understanding that I had not yet seen the close. The post that Dronebogus so sanctimoniously removed is a fine example of why I thought it was worth sticking my neck out. Please see the example of what he is so strenuously defending. That is all, and thank you for your attention to this matter. Elinruby (talk) 14:14, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi . So there are really two issues as I see it. The first is the name-calling (i.e. the diff Dronebogus provided of you calling a third party an utter asshole, and Dronebogus’s comment in that thread calling a different third party an absolute jerk.) Given that a one-week block was just handed out to that third party for calling someone a moron in an edit summary, hopefully it’s obvious why I felt that closing the thread at that point would avoid unnecessary civility or NPA blocks. I simply asked everyone to stop doing that, which I believe is a fairly reasonable and uncontroversial ask.The second issue is your characterization of DB’s uploads, which I deliberately did not address because that is a Commons issue, or, if you feel that the Commons community is not doing the right thing, an issue to be escalated to the WMF (legal-reports@wikimedia.org) or to other authorities. It is not something the English Wikipedia community or its admins have any control over, and talking about concerning Commons uploads here is simply not going to have any effect on the uploads, or really accomplish anything other than antagonizing the uploader. 28bytes (talk) 14:34, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
 * well, that's an unnamed hypothetical asshole, but alright, I did say "assholes", and the nuns would have disapproved  You're right about that. As for Commons, I completely agree with you, (and thank you for the email link btw), but I am not the one who dragged someone to ANI over it.
 * I did say I would not argue with you, and I am not, because this is one of the better explanations I have ever received of an admin action, but I do source verification and absolutely will hear about this close the next time someone takes me to ANI for a failed verification tag. Just saying. Thank you for the courteous reply though. Elinruby (talk) 15:35, 15 July 2024 (UTC)