User talk:Chuck Entz

Welcome again; about WikiProject Insects
Hi Chuck Entz, and a most belated welcome to Wikipedia!

You might perhaps be interested in participating in WikiProject Insects.

--Shirt58 (talk) 10:09, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Referencing in James Halliday McDunnough; "Your mission, Chuck Entz, should you decide to accept it... "
Hi Chuck Entz!

Shirt58 here, WikiProject Insects tame Liberal Arts major. --Shirt58 (talk) 11:46, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking of tidying the references in James Halliday McDunnough. No treading on your toes is intended.
 * A challenge for you! I don't have access to JSTOR or online journals at present, and I do understand they don't usually include biographical information until it's an obit. Can you find any find anything about Giorgio Baldizzone, who is apparently a prolific Lepidoptera species describer? I can't start the article just based on this link because of the WP:BLP concerns.
 * Feel free to do anything you want with the article: I've taken it about as far as I can, and it's still not up to wikipedia standards as a full-fledged article. As for Baldizzone: I don't have any access to those sources either- but I'll see what I can find. Chuck Entz (talk) 13:03, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your recent contributions to beetles. For the future, one should remember to add references and avoid one sentence paragraphs. thanks again for the help. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-=  18:04, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

ChuckEntz? Hulst?
Hi Chuck Entz!

Just wondering if you ever edited as ? Also, is George Duryea Hulst the "Hulst" that is the Genus authority of Monoptilota? I would say my "spidey senses are tingling" about both of these issues... but as George Orwell didn't write, "Six legs good, eight legs completely terrifying".

--Shirt58 (talk) 11:55, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep. I didn't even realize I had created two accounts. I must have forgotten the spelling and created the second by accident.
 * re: Hulst- Behold!(Just remembered to sign my comment from yesterday...)Chuck Entz (talk) 03:56, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Etymology: yams
Hi Chuck - I concur with your changes with naming section. I had reservations with it as well, the para felt POV and problematic. Glad you cleaned it up. Cheers, ApostleVonColorado (talk) 21:48, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Please unblock me from Wiktionary
If you look at my history, you'll see that I do NOT just enter "nonsense/gibberish"

The particular entry you were complaining about I had a legitimate reason for and it did not cause any problems. If you'ld taken the time to examine the IP addresses of edits, you would have seen that the previous edit was also mine but that I had forgotten to log in (I was using a public computer). I try to keep track of all my contributions, so I logged in and made the so-called nonsense edit so the word would appear in my contributions list.

Blocking seems like a waaaaay out-of-measure response for that nonedit---I mean, I can't even leave this note on your Wiktionary page! I'm completely locked out!

Please unblock me and, if I may be so bold, reconsider your eagerness to block users. Take your time before going nuclear.

Thank you. Thmazing (talk) 17:33, 30 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello- I would like to be unblocked from posting comments to my userpage. I have new responses on my Wiktionary user page that I would like to comment on. I can accept being blocked for three months from editing on English Wiktionary mainspace, but I don't see how I earned getting blocked off my userpage. Is there a process to go through in terms of getting a decision on whether or not to let me comment on my userpage? Nobody who doesn't want to interact with me has to write on my userpage, and I have responses to my proposal. Geographyinitiative (talk) 22:46, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Please un-permablock me from Wiktionary
Hello, I, Mr. Shāntián Tàiláng, want thee to know I'm  very deeply sorry  about evading my Wiktionary block (both last week and this week). The first time (October 26) I thought I'd be able to get away with it because way back in January 2019 when I was first blocked from Wiktionary, I evaded that block and nobody ever noticed (I believe it might have been because none of the anonymous edits I made at that time were disruptive). The second time (November 1), I thought that I wouldn't get blocked because I was trying my best to refrain from making disruptive edits. If I had a time machine, I would go back to before thou and the other editors blocked me (say, October 20th) and create, say, and  and  as they exist today (November 2nd), so that your younger selves would no longer need to block me, let alone permablock me. And I'm sorry about the pinging as well―I was worried that thou and the others might be ignoring my pleading because of you (or at least RcAlex36) apparently thinking of me as. I never thought I'd get blocked from editing my Wiktionary talk page. (See, ye never actually said, "Please stop pinging us, or else we will make you unable to edit your own talk page .") And I'm  sorry  for Eirikr―please tell him and Justin that I just wanted a few more chances to...prove I wasn't entirely disruptive, and I now realize I blew those chances as well. If any of ye ever unblock me on Wiktionary, I tell you, I will  not  do any hasty Japanese name-creation edits again (as I did on October 28), and I won't do any disruptive Chinese entry creation edits either (as I foolishly did on October 26). Again, if I could mentally time-travel to October 26, I would wait out the block and avoid doing all those disruptive edits and block evasions so that ye wouldn't end up wasting your time cleaning up my bad edits with a mop and a shovel. I'm telling you the truth, the whole truth, and absolutely nothing but the truth. So  please  don't assume that I'm beyond help and/or don't have any self-restraint because of the horrible mistakes I've made. Isn't that  just as bad  as my sloppy creation of where I assumed it was a noun (not an adjective) and gave it the wrong meaning?? Or my edits that I did using IP addresses 158.106.52.10 & 71.246.146.76 because I thought that not being disruptive would give me a pass this time? (I realize I was mistaken about the definition of the first etymology of as well; I did not know Yellowbridge wasn't reliable.) (And regarding self-restraint, I would never even try to create sockpuppet accounts like Angela Criss did.) Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 15:37, 2 November 2021 (UTC)


 * And by the way, I really need to link to and from its component words  and . I also need to link  &  to each other, as the former is derived from the latter (in Japanese); there's  that needs an etymology as well—it's from, which is in turn derived from . (I ask because I found them all mentioned in this file's description that was pulled from Flickr.) Speaking of which, you do NOT have to completely remove the block for me to be happy. Just remove the permablock and allow me to edit my own talk page again. I promise I will wait out my block THIS time if you remove the permablock. Cheers. Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 15:48, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * In addition, I need to add to, and  to , and the zh-forms of  and  needs "|type=211" added. The latter entry also should link to "stark naked" instead of to "stark" and "naked", and worse,  that English  has "likely" misspelled as "likelily". German  also needs its etymology added (yes, I know it's from  + nackt, the same applies to  from , so  is also equivalent to Splitter + Faser + nackt). Just giving you a heads-up. See, I am  NOT  someone who "simply cannot be reasoned with and [is] beyond help" (or redemption, either!). Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 17:22, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

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Refactored a comment
Hi Chuck. I've moved the comment you made in this edit outside Jonesey95's comment and given it an extra level of indentation to clarify the flow of the conversation. It's better not to insert replies in the middle of other editors' comments, as it can create confusion as to who said what. Actually, if you look again, I think you may find that you were saying the same as Jonesey anyway. Regards, --Stfg (talk) 16:54, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm aware I'm not supposed to do that. I was in a hurry, so I inadvertently misplaced the comment. Thanks for fixing it. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:08, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

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Wiktionary - "figo"
Hi Chuck Entz

I seldom go to the Wiktionary, so I would appreciate if you could reply here.

I am struggling to see an etymological or conceptual link between a hollow/ hole in the ground ("ditch") and attaching something to something else "fix (affix)", "fasten" here. Is there a possibility that there is an error somewhere? Thanks, regards, Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 11:28, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

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Retitle the L.A. Task Force
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Equinox - Wiktionary Conduct, Lies, Vulgar Insults, Unjust Blocking
Walterblue222 was my original account, which was unjustly blocked after being repeatedly harassed and insulted by ‘Equinox’. Equinox has a habit of responding by batantly lying, insulting, and degrading others instead of presenting any logical argument or rebuttal, then blocking them and refusing to ever address the situation in an appropriate manner. ‘Metaknowledge’ then blocked me on false charges of "edit warring", which I did not engage in; the edit I was blocked for making was valid, was re-added by another user without issue, and is on the current version of the page. None of my edits were malevolent, disruptive, "clearly nonsensical", or "troll edits", and basing a block on multiple previous blocks from a different site is not appropriate - yet, Walterblue222 was permanently blocked. I am not associated with Theraputicartsgroup. XavierDuvall was created after the inappropriate blocking of Walterblue222. XavierDuvall is not a sockpuppet because it is not an additional account belonging to me; rather, a replacement account for my original account which should never have been blocked to begin with. I have never had more than one account at any time. Amarach was created after XavierDuvall was inappropriately blocked by Equinox. I don’t have a problem with others disagreeing with me - as long as they can provide a valid explanation for doing so. Equinox is a prime example of someone who is unable to support their argument logically or rationally, thus behaving like a petulant child, attacking and ignoring others instead of accepting and admitting when they are incorrect about something. I never claimed to be infallible, I make mistakes - everyone does. I have the decency to admit it when I’m proven wrong. Equinox does not. When I tried posting this explanation to your talk page on Wiktionary, Metaknowledge removed it and blocked me again. Why is this type of behavior permitted? Why should I be blocked for following the rules and expecting others to support their position when they disagree with something I've said? I'm not trying to force my views on anyone and I explain my arguments, but in response all I get is insulted and criticized without any comment on the issue itself. Please Advise. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.58.254.224 (talk) 14:34, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Wiktionary - Unjust Blocking AGAIN from 'Equinox'
Hello, I have been blocked - AGAIN - by Equinox on Wiktionary, who falsely claims that I am 'trolling' and 'trying to be a pain'. Pretty rich from someone who has disrespected, harassed and insulted me in every interaction I've had with them. Their most recent unjustified block was accompanied by the reason: "Disruptive edits: I know this is controversial and I'm "involved" but check the user's block history, and indeed edit history, they never did anything useful. I believe we got a troll who will never create a single entry." My edits were never disruptive, and I haven't been able to do "anything useful" because Equinox refuses to leave me alone or refrain from blocking me without justification. Is there some rule I'm unaware of that requires users to create entries to avoid having their account blocked? Is it justifiable to block someone indefinitely simply because they "never did anything useful"? If so, how many entries must someone create in order to not be blocked? Thanks. Sorry to bother you with this - I would prefer if 'Equinox' would simply f*** off, leave me alone and stop blocking me, but their self-control is clearly lacking and they take every opportunity to attack and bully me, violating many, many guidelines while accusing me of being disruptive. WalterBlue227 (talk) 15:15, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I've been unjustly blocked AGAIN on Wiktionary by Equinox, with the reason given being "Disruptive edits: how many words have you defined lately?” - Is there some rule I'm unaware of that requires users to create entries to avoid having their account blocked?
 * Is it justifiable to block someone indefinitely for not defining words in a certain amount of time? If so, how many entries must someone create in order to not be blocked? Thanks. WalterBlue227 (talk) 01:04, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, Equinox has been rather unprofessional in his dealings with you, but I don't see the point of unblocking you, and then re-blocking you politely and professionally. You're compulsive to the point of being disruptive: you fixate on something and harp on it ad infinitum, without compromise, without really thinking. I'd say you were beating a dead horse, except that you obliterated every trace of the poor thing eons ago, and your obsession has taken on a self-perpetuating life of its own. You remind me a lot of the the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail- totally obsessed, and totally unable to let anything go. There's nothing on any wiki that's worth the level of outrage you exhibit, day in and day out. You need to step back and look at what you're doing- for your own emotional well-being, you need to give this a rest. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:00, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * What reason would I be blocked 'politely and professionally' for? Yes, I have been fixated on the 'cunning linguist' entry since I was first aware of the inaccuracy of the entry. I AM willing to compromise, and not sure why you say that I 'harp on it' "without really thinking" - I've explained my point of view and contemplated the explanations of those who have said I'm incorrect. However, no-one has been willing to present anything to prove me wrong; this is why I'm "obsessed" - if I see an error that no-one provides justification for, it is difficult for me to let it go. If anyone is willing to explain why I'm incorrect, I'm all ears - but all I've been provided with is disrespectful comments that insult me and claim that I'm wrong, without any explanation.
 * If I'm truly wrong - and 'cunning linguist' is NOT a near-homonym malapropism - why has NO-ONE been able to provide a logical rebuttal?
 * Why has nearly every person who has chosen to respond done so by dodging relevant questions, making petty insults, telling blatant lies, and presenting half-assed explanations which are easily disproven? If there was a reasonable explanation, why not simply present it? I would have no problem letting it go if my assertion was disproven.
 * You say that I've gone far beyond 'beating a dead horse' - but what does that say about users like Equinox, who has repeatedly gone out of their way to insult and degrade me, block me, lie to and about me, harass and bully me instead of simply providing an answer as to how I'm incorrect?
 * The "level of outrage (I) exhibit" isn't some childish tantrum being thrown because I want things my way and can't let anything go; I'm 'outraged' because people keep saying I'm wrong without having the decency (or knowledge, it seems) to explain WHY, and I'm unable to contribute to any other entries because I keep getting inappropriately blocked.
 * My "obsession" is to contribute to Wiktionary by improving entries, and the first error I've tried to correct is the 'cunning linguist' entry. I would contribute to fix any other error I come across, and don't enjoy being stuck on this one entry, but apparently no-one can explain why this ridiculously obvious error is permitted... wouldn't it be easier and better for all involved for Equinox to simply explain how I'm wrong, rather than the lengths he's gone through to obliterate anything I try to do on Wiktionary while mocking and harassing me? I mean come on, you're going to criticize me for wanting an entry to be accurate - but you just let it slide when Equinox's argument is so weak that they have to block me and wish cancer and death upon me rather than present a simple, valid reason that proves me wrong? Waltblue222 (talk) 03:30, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Chuck Entz, do you ever plan on responding to me or addressing these concerns? WalterBlue227 (talk) 06:38, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

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Maybe unblock my IP from Wiktionary?
Hello,

I know that some blocked user in my range has been IP-hopping or something similar on Wiktionary, but I think maybe you could just block a narrower range that won't include my particular IP, since nobody seems to ever edited on Wiktionary using this particular IP address (quite unlike here on Wikipedia).

Thank you, 72.82.43.88 (talk) 22:34, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Wiktionary etymologies
Hi,

Do you think you could add the etymologies to, , and ? I don't know your proficiency in Swedish, but I was blocked from adding etymology requests to each of those three entries when I tried to do so today. Since you implemented that block, and because I don't know the names of any other Wiktionary editors, I am writing this on your Wikipedia talk page. 72.82.44.219 (talk) 00:07, 4 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Also, why does Latin not have  under its "Derived terms" header? 72.82.44.219 (talk) 03:38, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Wiktionary: User:Dardhanos
Hello,

I am writing to you on Wiki because you blocked me and I cannot edit anything on Wiktionary. I am asking you to either unblock me or to at least change the expiration date of the block.

My first account, User:Balltari, was my very first account and I knew nothing of Wiktionary.The main problem on that account was my creation of Illyrian lemmas, which I did not know I was not supposed to do at first. I simply saw the words in the etymologies from other languages and made the entries. I'd use the etymology seen on the other entry, and use any other related information I could find on the page to add to the Illyrian entries. Eventually, other users added RFDs to the entries and I did not know what they were or for what reason they were added, so I simply deleted them. Nobody told me why the entries were wrong and by the time I understood that I wasn't supposed to touch Illyrian at all, all the lemmas had RFDs and my account was blocked. A user also stated that I had some nationalistic or political agenda and that that's the reason for me creating Illyrian entries. This claim is false, and my only agenda was helping enlarge the Illyrian dictionary and spread whatever information I got from Wiktionary itself or other sources.

I thought that was completely unfair, especially as I was given no warning at all, so I made other accounts such as Dardhani and, most recently, Dardhanos. On Dardhani, I did not do much before I again got blocked, even though I did nothing wrong, at least to my knowledge, because nobody cares to tell. The same goes for Dardhanos. I stayed away from Illyrian and focused only on Albanian and Proto-Albanian as those were the languages I am most familiar with, and because there are many sources for the two languages. When making the entries, none of it was my own work, except for creating the page itself. Instead of talking to me, you simply spoke to other users, criticizing my entries and saying I'm bad at etymologies. I, however, did not make up any of those etymologies and only made the entries if the etymology of the word and, sometimes, the definition of the word was given in the Albanian descendant's page. No entry that I made was created with an Albanian page backing it up. I also tried to use as many sources as I could when making the entries, mostly from linguists such as Orel, Matzinger, Hyllested and Joseph. So, if the etymologies are so bad, you should say so to them.

Every time I am blocked, it is a few users who talk with each other, including Victar, Sokkjo, Arbdardh, and so on. Everyone says I am making disruptive edits, but nobody once wrote to me telling me what was disruptive about my edits. Nobody told me why I was wrong, or why the entries were wrong. I was simply blocked with a never ending expiration and cannot edit my own talk page either.

So please, consider unblocking User:Dardhanos, or at least changing the expiration date. Whether you do choose any of the two options, or you just ignore me and keep me blocked forever, at least be kind enough to tell me, what was so wrong in the first place, and why I was blocked immediately without warning? Why was I never told of my mistakes, and what made my edits on later accounts "disruptive"? In my eyes, though I don't know if I'm blind or something, the entries I made would be beneficial to the dictionary. I see nothing wrong in making entries with sources and accepted etymologies and correcting ridiculous mistakes seen on entries, such as spelling and punctuation mistakes. Dardhani (talk) 02:40, 27 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Are you ever going to reply to anything I said at all? You are no more than a petty tyrant. You have no life and just make things harder for people on Wiki because you can. Dardhani (talk) 04:09, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Block on Wiktionary
@Chuck Entz: I have emailed you multiple times, but you did not respond. Chuterix (talk) 00:47, 31 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Can I at least have ability to contact on my own talk page? Chuterix (talk) 01:40, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

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Can you possibly unblock this IP's TPA from any other wikis?
Good afternoon.

I do not know if you'll have enough time to read or respond to this, but here goes:

I've been looking around at a few entries on English Wiktionary (doing so does not occupy very much of my working time), and it seems that in April, a user named Surjection not only blocked this IP address, but also removed its talk page access "after abuse".

Now, this IP address is shared by employees at Dominion Virginia Power, per its own talk page. I do not know any fellow employees who like to edit Wiktionary, but I can guarantee you that this particular Dominion work-site has recently (as of May 10th) put in an anti-trolling filter (using a method somewhat similar to autocorrection) on all our computers' Web browsers. This happened after two other workers were found using their work computers to post trollish comments to a certain website (one that we often use to reach out to persons who are not employed by Dominion). At present, we have no plans to remove this filter.

I am not trying to promote Dominion Energy here, I am simply letting you and Surjection know that there is no reason to revoke this IP address's TPA anymore, whether on Wiktionary or any other WMF sites. So, I think a restoration of this IP's Wiktionary TPA would be most welcome and would not result in any admins regretting doing so. Thanks, 158.106.52.10 (talk) 18:30, 4 June 2024 (UTC)