User talk:Dmitry Brant/Archive 1

What does it take?
What does it take to get an administrator to look at the problem with Knight's tour? It is at noticeboard and every one on the list has been addressed except this one. Even all of the ones that are more recent. Bubba73 (talk), 14:26, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Now a 24-hour block. Bubba73 (talk), 15:14, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Somehow I think we haven't seen the last of him. A 24-hour block will only crank him up even more. Dmitry Brant (talk) 13:10, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

"Not notable"
I do not see how what I added to the article is "not notable". This was a national news event, and a belief held but many people around the world. I even included it with a strong referance, which displayed Commissioner John Wiley Price of Dallas backing up this belief. Of course, as a white man yourself, you may not feel the pain and hatred that comes from a racist society and would do everything to try and stop the truth coming out. And you're comment "use the talk page to discuss further changes"? This is a wiki, to be edited by the people for the people. It should not be policed and patrolled to only let information that is deemed fit by white editors to be displayed. 93.96.182.208 (talk) 12:17, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * You are taking a generalisation of YouTube videos as non-notable sources. That makes as much sense as an interview in the NYT being a non-notable source. I think that you may be mixing up notability and reliability. I was not presenting the source as the sole occurance of this hatred, but just one example of it. If you think of the English language as the idea that the term "black-hole" is a racist one, then that referance is just an utterance. It seems exteremley strange, and very offensive, to me that you view this as a misinterpretation, the use of "wtf" in the revert comment showed that you are enetirely disregarding the thoughts and feelings of another race, of another person. However, I wish to stay neutral in this. Therefore, when I put it onto the page, I referenced it from a reliable source (straight from the mouth of a Counciller) and used the term "some people". I am only telling the truth, am I not? If it is your wish to remove truth from an enyclopedia, then surely you are working backwards?

93.96.182.208 (talk) 13:47, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello, thank you for your reply. I am not black, and nor do I find the term, or your list of terms, offensive. All I did was include something in the article which was referenced and sourced reliably. Do you fail to see the truth of, not what was said, but the fact that he said it? I find that truth hard to miss. I thought that Wikipedia was an open encyclopedia, documenting facts that can interest and teach people all over the globe. If I am wrong in that pretence then I do apologise. 93.96.182.208 (talk) 17:52, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

License tagging for File:En-Laika.ogg
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Big Bang recording
Hi, I listened to your Big Bang recording. Good job--you have a good voice and good intonation. "Monsignor" should be pronounced "mon-senior" though. Keep them coming! :P --Mangst (talk) 01:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note! Will do... Dmitry Brant (talk) 19:09, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Can we remove the notice on the talk page now? RockMagnetist (talk) 17:42, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

IEEE technical societies
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Jack Craciun lll and George J. Wienbarg lll
Did your nomination of Jack Craciun for deletion have anything to do with your mutual place of residence Cleveland. If it had to be deleted then so be it, but, could I have not have had time to sign on and respond? Then you jumped to Peter Brant II are you related?Masterknighted (talk) 13:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC) It seems like you had not made an edit in a great while before these, why would you swoop in low to cut the tops off these trees, is it something personal?Masterknighted (talk) 13:21, 3 June 2014 (UTC) So, since it came down under the presumed circumstances that I was some sort of viagra influenced lower case Roman numeral spammer, then therefore you guys should perhaps assist me in putting it back up.... Look at the Wienbarg sources carefully he has produced a documentary, acted, been a broadcast journalist as well as having marketed the remnants of the hollywood sign and being the nephew of the most famous American of his time Buffalo Bill Cody.. It is possible you jumped the gun i don't want to reference Annie Oakley but....;  There ares sources in there such as the Washington Post, I believe he is notable and should not be sent unwittingly to the deletion drop floor, thanksMasterknighted (talk) 20:40, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Notification about disabling the Wikipedia collections tool
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Mobile app suggestions
Dear Dmitry; Thanks for your good work on the Mobile app. Without you, I would have not been able to contribute fruitfully to Wikipedia. So, kudos! On a related subject, I would like to suggest some improvement to the app from the viewpoint of a Wikipedia user who works entirely on the app. here are some of the suggestions that come to my mind now. I will update the list if I remember any more. Thank you in advance. Please, if you reply, use the  template. Thank you again. • Sammy Majed   •  Talk   •  Creations  •  Wikipedia Arabic   • 14:12, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Userpage accessibility: I would like to access my userpage from the left hand side menu.
 * 2) Notifications: I would like to access my notifications from inside the app.
 * 3) Built in edit history: It would be easier if I could access the page edit history from inside the app.
 * 4) Disconnected from Wikipedia Zero notification: Only if this notification appeared in the same place the "This page is semi-protected" message is shown. I rely on Wikipedia Zero which is provided by Umniah here, and I tell you, they are misers. My connection breaks and reconnects about 3 times a second, so the notification becomes very irksome.
 * 5) Article Marker: As a guy who opens up about 53 tabs in the same time, it becomes irritating when an article starts over from the beginning when I switch from and to it, especially with long articles. If you can include a "bookmark" feature on articles to mark the line I am reading for later, life will become 53 times easier.
 * 6) Editing screen: Can the editing screen become part of the tab? I would love to switch between articles while editing, as my usual work here is translating English articles to Arabic.
 * 7) Preview: In an editing screen, there should be a "Save" button besides "Next". When I correct typos, I do not want to preview my edits before I publish them, especially that my (free) internet offer for Wikipedia is very slow and sluggish (thanks Umniah) and I would love to spare the minute of waiting that the app spends on fetching the preview.
 * 8) Open in new tab: When I click on a hyperlink, a preview of the article is shown. I would love if the "Open in new tab" was more accessible, possibly in the place of the "read article" button, as clicking on the title does that job.
 * 9) Image size: The mobile app does not know the difference between 50px images and 300px ones. My userboxes, although they look fine in the app, looked diseasterous in the browser and I was none the wiser. Please fix.
 * 10) No section jumping when loading: The right hand menu is a very great idea, but it faces a problem in long articles. When the article is first opened, it loads and finishes displaying the text. Yet, another loading occurs after the text is diplayed (I do not know why, I am no programmer). The problem here is that the right hand menu becomes useless until the loading finishes (when the blue line reaches the end). This is very irksome and is very noticeable on long articles such as WP:MOS.
 * 11) Exceptions to hyperlink preview: Nearly all hyperlinks show a preview of the article when clicked on, but there are exceptions, namely "wikipedia:" and "help:" and "user:" pages, and most of the hyperlinks written in italics (Almost all hyperlinks linking to books and films and games are written in italics, which makes it difficult).
 * 12) The section hyperlinks never work: links such as Steve Jobs never land me in that particular section.


 * Follow-up

nice update, a bit laggy, yes, but good overall. I am going to report bugs to you in the village pump. I noticed that the new reading list feature erased all my saved pages, which pissed me off provided that I saved over a hundred articles. Thanks; • Sammy Majed   •  Talk   •  Creations  •  Wikipedia Arabic   • 08:54, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all the suggestions (and sorry for the delayed response)! Yes, please do report any bugs that you see, and ping my name so that I get notified.  If I may ask: from which version of the app were you upgrading? The Reading List feature has been around for over a year. If you upgraded from a version earlier than that, it might explain why your previous saved pages weren't migrated properly. P.S. I like all your userboxes, and agree with 99.9% of them, except the one about Vegemite (speaking in a personal / non-official capacity). Dmitry Brant (talk) 18:31, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Rollback granted
Hi Dmitry Brant. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3ADmitry_Brant enabled] rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback: If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:59, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
 * Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
 * Rollback should never be used to edit war.
 * If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
 * Use common sense.

WikiLoop Battlefield new name vote
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Test
just a test of the Talk feature in the Wikipedia app. Dmitry Brant (talk) 21:16, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Was this message received? Dbrant testing (talk) 13:21, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes, it was! Dmitry Brant (talk) 14:42, 2 September 2020 (UTC)Hello again! Dmitry Brant (talk) 16:08, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

One more reply. Dmitry Brant (talk) 16:11, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, and welcome! Dmitry Brant (talk) 19:02, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, and welcome! Dmitry Brant (talk) 19:06, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

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Push notifications test
This is another test of Push notifications. Dbrant testing (talk) 20:32, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 * And a reply Dbrant testing (talk) 20:38, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello!
This is a message from an IP user, to check whether it generates an app notification. 173.76.103.59 (talk) 19:54, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

And hello to you! Dmitry Brant (talk) 18:16, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

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Hello again!
This is another test of push notifications. Dbrant testing (talk) 14:12, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Another test
Testing GMS notifications. Dbrant testing (talk) 14:19, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

This is to get 's attention. Dmitry Brant (talk) 14:49, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

This is to get 's attention. Dmitry Brant (talk) 14:52, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

new topic
this is a test! 173.76.103.59 (talk) 15:56, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

hello again 173.76.103.59 (talk) 14:17, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

test!! Dbrant testing (talk) 16:20, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

message!!! Dbrant testing (talk) 16:24, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
 * this is a reply to a message. 173.76.103.59 (talk) 17:30, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

This is a response. 173.76.103.59 (talk) 17:29, 16 November 2021 (UTC)


 * one more response. Dmitry Brant (talk) 15:26, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Test account
Just wanted to check in: do you still have access to your testing account? I happened to notice a vandalism edit from that account yesterday and wanted to make sure everything's alright with it on your end. Jalen Folf  (talk)  20:00, 3 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi there - terribly sorry: my intention was to test the triggering of the abuse filter as part of an investigation into a bug in the Wikipedia Android app, but I mistakenly made the edit while logged in, whereas that filter only applies to non-confirmed users. You rolled back the edit within the ~5 seconds in which I realized the mistake, otherwise I would have rolled it back myself. Sorry again for any confusion. Dmitry Brant (talk) 21:22, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

On-Board Diagnostics
Hi- I am having a difficult time identifying the problems with a recent edit of this page. I have tried to correct errors and improve the accuracy of the history shown. Please advise. W9kfb (talk) 16:49, 19 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up! It looks like you were trying to add references to an IEEE journal, and also adding a reference to yourself as a Wikipedia author (?), but the IEEE references were not correctly formatted. To add a reference to a journal, you probably want to use Template:Cite journal, instead of just putting the raw reference text in curly braces. For more general documentation on references, please see the help pages. Dmitry Brant (talk) 17:09, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of File:Knightstour24x24.png


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"grievous grammar"
I love your summary of your recent edit of Black Hole. In my dialect (British) "grievous bodily harm" is legalese for a serious assualt - does that work for you too? Philcha (talk) 18:10, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Black Pearl (disambiguation)
And don't slip in a minor reference at the end of a disambiguation page when the entire point is that: BIOLOGY --- this is why all these references make sense. Literally not doing your "job" here, the fact that they exist is *why* all of these other references exist.

Be better. It might be a really, really good reason for the edit you reflectively "undid".

Be Seeing You.

Dmitry Brant -- weird. You do not appear to exist on your national database, for driver's license or tax. Wyrd. *taps nose* — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7C:E226:9600:30C5:9195:22C6:24C1 (talk) 02:22, 18 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I undid your edit because it contained a bunch of text in all-caps. Your newest edits appear to be perfectly valid and relevant, and I encourage you to keep editing. *taps nose* Dmitry Brant (talk) 02:58, 18 February 2023 (UTC)