User talk:Anastrophe/Archive 2010-2019

Talk:Global warming
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Barry Bonds
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Please stop
Please stop assuming that everyone's IP address stays perfectly static for all eternity. I've never touched the pages you claimed I vandalized. 75.154.107.206 (talk) 00:59, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Needing Wiki contribution assistance!
Hello Anastrophe!

I am looking for an experienced Wikipedian to contribute an article for our band Mr. Meeble. We have a very basic Wikipedia article written already, but I know that someone like yourself may be able to point out our formatting errors and critical omissions. You can hear our music and see our videos here:

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Let me know if you would be willing to help!

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Please be careful
I am making a good-faith effort to have civil discussions in the talk areas of my user page and on the Federal Assault Weapons Ban page. In all of my comments, I try use polite language. I respectfully ask you to do the same when replying to me, or when referring to my comments. For example: There are other examples, but these, I hope, will make my point. Also, even though I posted my suggestion on the wrong page before, I do think you should update your user page. It is vague and misleading, IMO. Thank you. Lightbreather (talk) 22:26, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Your first interaction with me was to write on my talk page, "Please read the 'talk' page for the AWB article. The matter has been discussed previously. Scrubbing the word cosmetic from the article because it doesn't appear in the law isn't a valid reason." You first assumed that I had not read the talk page, and then you chose the word "scrubbing" to describe my edit when "deleting" would have served just as well, without the extra meaning.
 * On the AWB talk page, you wrote, "I'm sorry, but this is a nonsensical reading." Then, you also asked me to start a new RfC, and 1. Asserted that if I did not do so, I would be making "a mockery of the discussion," and 2. Accused me of "overtly ignoring the substantive responses" you'd made. (You later said that "nonsensical reading" does not mean "you are nonsensical" or "you are being nonsensical," but there are many who would agree that those words imply just such meanings. At any rate, you could have just as easily omitted your "nonsensical reading" remark and simply posted the rest of your comment.)
 * Then you wrote, "Wielding the policy bat that easily throws up red flags for me." This implies that I'd been verbally clubbing you, and identifies me to others as someone whose intentions are questionable.
 * Finally, you declared that if I do not discuss items brought up by Mike in his angry and abusive rant at me, that I would be choosing a not-ethical path.

Anastrophe, please stop calling me a "single-purpose advocacy" user
Anastrophe, please stop calling me a "single-purpose advocacy" user. (I think you meant to say a single-purpose account, but either way - I am not an SPA and I want this accusation to stop.) Example: 18:00 1 OCT 2013 (utc) on ANI board: "I see a pattern by this single-purpose advocacy account...." (After I started an ANI for article ownership, which I didn't feel the need to trumpet by calling it a "very serious problem," even though it is. I let the notice speak for itself.) --Lightbreather (talk) 16:34, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

You don't have to reply, I just want the suggestions to please stop
When I asked you to please stop calling me [or as you prefer, suggesting that I may be] a "single-purpose advocacy" user, I was following WP guidelines about where to put personal comments. (You have put personal messages/requests on my talk page, and I didn't know you have a separate rule about where to put my personal messages/requests to you. I will try to remember.) If you don't want to reply, fine. I just want you to know that I'm formally asking for the suggestions to stop. Lightbreather (talk) 17:05, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Please stop WP:PA and WP:WAR
Anastrophe, please stop attacking me and warring with me.

Today, you made uncivil comments about me in an edit summary, you used "you" language at me in an article discussion (which I've asked you to stop several times in the past), and you reverted my good-faith edits based on a peer review three times.

The revert diffs are here, here, and here.

PLEASE STOP. Lightbreather (talk) 00:41, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Please stop WP:PA (2nd request in 14 hours)
Despite multiple requests to stop to stop attacking me - most recently 14 hours ago - you again made (untrue and) uncivil comments about me in an edit summary.

Despite the accusation in that edit summary ("i have no idea why this links were intentionally broken by editor lightbreather, but I am repairing them."), the breaks were unintentional. They were a result of pastes during the drafting process (on my mobile, not my primary medium) that didn't go where I tried to put them. I caught one break and fixed it, but I obviously missed a couple. To say they were intentionally broken was unnecessary and not civil. There was no intentional breaking - just simple mistakes. Lightbreather (talk) 15:02, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Please stop the personal attacks
Today, you replied to me (in part): "...conflate the meaning of a common construct for the purpose of faux concern or faux indignation. This editor actually hopes to have a weekend uninterrupted by POV edit pushing..."

PLEASE STOP with the WP:PA on me on article talk pages. Please stop speculating about my intentions on article talk pages. Please stop accusing me of POV pushing on article talk pages. PLEASE STOP! Lightbreather (talk) 00:50, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

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I've read your comment on my user talk page. I landed KTVU page after a long surf around aircraft incident-related articles, when I found the entire section was completely deleted by the last edit. With the situation and your edit comment, I assumed it was something like a random vandalism was acted, so I just undid your edit. Sorry for bypassing the discussion. Coming this far, I went to the talk page to leave my comment, and there I found the discussion haven't in fact not ended. So I decided to put an issue tag on the section so that everyone notices there's a ongoing discussion, instead of letting the whole section disappear overnight. Hope you understand. アヲガネ (talk) 12:16, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Viriditas
...can seem insufferable. But I'd say there's no point in doing something that can be interpreted as antagonizing if there's another option. Thus, I'd suggest "they" or "you" rather than "it" as gender-neutral pronouns. I know there are arguments on either side, and I don't want to rehash them all; this is just IMHO. Cheers, and nice work, Homunq (࿓) 16:04, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Swiss gun control
Switzerland is frequently cited as having lax gun laws, especially by the pro gun lobby in America, but in fact it has quite strict gun laws both at the Federal and Canton level (though of course the latter vary). This was the purpose of my edit and I think it should stay. Most private guns must be registered, all owners licenced to their guns, insurance and training requirements, background checks on purchase, logging and validating of ammunition sales against certificates etc. etc. See my other edits today at other articles. We should not confuse gun control with gun ownership. Switzerland may have a fairly high private gun ownership rate (though not as high as for example Serbia) but this is partly due to its hunting tradition and the familiarity with guns through army service. The laws themselves are quite strict in Switzerland. Which I guess is in part the reason for its not having the same gun crime problem as the United States. It still has one of the highest gun death rates in Western Europe though. --HuntersMoon22 (talk) 18:35, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Cory Doctorow#Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Cory Doctorow. Thanks. Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 02:13, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Gun Shows in the United States
Thank you for your contributions to this page. Please share your thoughts on my new talk section, at your convenience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gun_shows_in_the_United_States#Separate_Gun_Show_and_Gun_Show_Loophole_Into_Two_Different_WP_Pages Respectfully - Darknipples (talk) 15:05, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Notice of discretionary sanctions - topic: Gun control
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Gun show loophole talk page
I'm not sure if you'd prefer this kind of feedback on the article talk page, but it seems more civil to start here. I want to warn you about how you're talking to Darknipples on the Gun show loophole talk page. From the way DN writes his/her talk page posts (in this case, use of terms like "seems to be" and "suggest"), I think he/she is either one of the most sensitive male editors I've ever encountered on WP, or a woman. That shouldn't really matter, but I share my thinking on this in case you really only can imagine use of these terms as indicating an editor who's trying to present synthesis. However, of course, whatever his/her gender, it doesn't really matter, unless DN truly breaks a rule. Please WP:AGF and follow WP:TPYES. Responses like this one by you are, IMO, probably ad hominem and certainly "Responding to tone" per WP:TPNO. Lightbreather (talk) 16:20, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

"Incident"
Well, you and your goodfaithed friends must be more than cosy with the aficionados of bikes and crime, "sir".

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LDL
would you be willing to explain what I did wrong on the LDL talk page, I thought I hadn't deleted anything that was referenced thanks for recognising the good faith - pulls the sting quite a bit! please delete this message I just couldn't see how to IM you best wishes, Kate X-mass (talk) 13:21, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

thanks for the info - a month on and my head is full of prep for Electro Magnetic Field 2014 https://www.emfcamp.org/ but hopefully I get back to but stuff in talk. But can I thank you again for taking the time to communicate, it helps this human feel much better about the world. Best wishes X-mass (talk) 21:27, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Edit I made to djbdns
Since, as the author of MaraDNS, I have a conflict of interest, I have notifying other editors that I have just made a minor neutral edit correcting a factual error. The article stated that there exists three forks of DJBdns; I know of at least five, so I changed the wording to “a number of”. Here is the edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Djbdns&diff=622745383&oldid=614310840

My personal opinion is that N-DJBDNS is the best fork out there; yeah, it’s GPL, but it’s the only fork I know of that is current with all known security issues in DJBdns (which, of course, is very secure, with only five issues coming up in its 15 year of existence). Samboy (talk) 14:26, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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Sam Donaldson Talk Additions, and Edits
Dear Anastrophe:

Sorry you did not like, or could not use, the comments I left regarding Sam's career at ABC news. I was not trying to be conversational, merely letting you know my recollections. I actually liked him ... and was sorry to see him slip into the background as a news reporter. I tried to offer some reasons... Anyway, you might want to keep what I have written, on reserve, as a reference of sorts. -- Best,  J. G. Lewis  (John G. Lewis (talk) 06:20, 16 December 2014 (UTC))

Old business
Hello, Anastrophe. I hope this post finds you well.

I would like to invite you to confer with me on the federal AWB talk page to finish up some old business that stalled some months ago. I believe we had nearly reached some agreement on the "Criteria of an assault weapon" section of that article. Our last discussion is archived at Compromise on cosmetic. Lightbreather (talk) 16:30, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

RSN notice
I have started a discussion at RSN called Gun show loophole that you may be interested in. Lightbreather (talk) 00:16, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

A favor, por favor
I can't initiate a Good Article reassessment of Gun violence in the United States because I'm not allowed to create the necessary page. Would you be able to do that for me? I think this is the link:, or there's one for "community reassessment" at the top of the talk page. Here's the reason I'm asking for a reassessment: (five tildes gives a timestamp). If it's a request you'd rather not fulfill I'll ask someone else next time I'm logged on here. 162.119.231.132 (talk) 18:20, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The article has not been reassessed since 2006 and there've been a lotta changes since then. Two big problems: the intro doesn't summarize the article, and it contains repetitive, non-neutral text. user:162.119.231.132
 * There's more! After it's created it needs to be transluded:
 * 3.Transclude your review onto the article talk page by adding to the bottom of the last section on the article talk page: you need to replace ArticleName and n by the name of the article and the subpage number.
 * That should be . I hope. This is more work than I thought. Sorry! All the more reason to blow it off. 162.119.231.132 (talk) 18:29, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm no longer an illegal alien on Wikipedia. I should be able to handle this myself now. Pardon the bother. Felsic (talk) 15:15, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Help
That's great! What kind words. So to confirm (please forgive my wiki-ignorance) -- I must cite all information on the page? Thank you again.

The first to be nominated! Babel, 2007.

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ArbCom
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if..., then... (IPv4)
The 'then' after an 'if' is really not required, and omitting it is quite common usage ("If you build it, they will come."). In some cases the 'then' sounds rather stuffy. I'd say it's probably close to 50/50 as to whether or not the 'then' is included. The comma is always required. There are a variety of examples of both forms in English conditional sentences, and a variety of easily findable discussions of the topic on the Internet. OTOH, I'm not going to belabor the point over at IPv4, although I do think it sounds stuffier with the 'then'. Rwessel (talk) 20:21, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

My edits were not opinion, except when they were a response to other opinions. The vast majority of my edits were factual (certainly not "counterfactual" as your edits allege). You are removing a cited quote from Hitler himself that affirms his gun control policy and its motivations, as well as quotes from Gandhi and John Locke, who both agree that tyrants such as Hitler are should be removed from power, through force if necessary, which requires the exercise of the right to bear arms, while you and Hitler are both aware of this, and you realize that this is the primary reason why Hitler prohibited all members of the so-called "subject races", the non-Germanic, non-Aryan peoples, the vast majority of humanity, from bearing arms. You have no right to silence all dissent on the basis of your opinion that all views and facts that contradict your imaginary reading of history are "counterfactual" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tempus Loquendi (talk • contribs) 20:40, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Posts here will be archived after I read them.

ANEW
RE: Your comment that you may have broken 3RR at Nazi gun control theory: it did not appear so. You only had three reverts vs. the four needed for the rule to kick in. While most administrators would take in to consideration that the other editor's material was a bit beyond the pale, some are a little strict, so it may be a good idea to avoid further reverts there for 24 hours. Others seem to be watching. Kuru  (talk)  21:04, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your edit here The evidence will show that she continues to direct via social media linked from other Wiki projects commons  at meta. It is my hope he will accept a topic ban voluntarily the warning comes before the evidence Uninvolved users will be a great help with the clean up phase. again Thank you. J8079s (talk) 18:00, 1 February 2017 (UTC) see also WP:Duck

DC Crime page
Anastrophe, I see you updated the DC crime page graphic on homicide to 2015. I've updated several sections on that page and also the DC gun laws section, as well as DC gun laws page. But the graphic on homicide rates up to 2015 would really be better if it included the 2016 data since DC dropped t 18.5/100k and including 2016 be more accurate in showing a bump up in 2015 and then back down in 2016, as opposed to the very different thing of a trend reversal that the current chart shows. As I don't know how to make those charts and I see you put one in could you update it to current? Thanks!Explainador (talk) 02:17, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

ktvu + LG
all relevant sources. read and improve the article.
 * 64.175.41.3 (talk) 12:27, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Intersectionality
Hello fellow editor, I added a comment on the talk page of Intersectionality that is responding to your last edit on that page. Zugzwanggambit (talk) 18:04, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

National Firearms Act
Dear fellow editor: No, the correct grammar is "transports .... do not". The subject of the sentence must agree with the verb. The verb is "do", so the subject needs to be plural. You have to either (A) change the subject to agree with the verb or (B) change the verb to agree with the subject. Famspear (talk) 20:12, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

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IP Sock
Have you filed a sock puppet investigation for 86.180.213.19 and if not, what is the name of the banned account.  IWI  ( chat ) 20:15, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
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Stanley Kubrick
I undid your revision on the SK article, sorry, I accidentally submited the edit without the full edit summary, which is why I am here to explain. "'massive' heart attack" simply doesn't sound unencyclopedic to me. 'Severe' seems like better wording. I've never heard the phrase "massive heart attack" before, perhaps it is more common in the USA? (I'm from New Zealand/UK and this wording isn't something someone would use here at all). I don't see any problem with "severe" though. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  22:23, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

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Advanced Encryption Standard
I restored the original citation and marked it as a dead link. The cited page is there, but it contains at least one dead link which I think is important. We are better off using the archived copy. - Tystnaden (talk) 08:49, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Reverts
Hi Anastrophe, the reason I added a note about the tragedy in Christchurch is because, earlier in that section a 2006 study was quoted as saying there have been no mass shootings in either Australia or New Zealand since 1996/1997. It's been 13 years since that study and that is no longer true. In fact, it wasn't even really true in 2006 since there was the Monash University shooting in 2002, in which 7 people were shot and 2 died. They used present tense in the paragraph. On the other hand, my edit I suppose amounts to original research. So I'm not sure what to do. Revoran (talk) 03:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

hi, you're invited to an RfC discussion regarding Bruno Bettelheim article
As a past contributor, you're invited to a Request for Comment (RfC) discussion on the article's lead sentence. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 02:10, 6 May 2019 (UTC)


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EL
about this revert I had done the edit per Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles however upon looking at I see it isn't necessarily a support group, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:02, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

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