User talk:Drmies/Archive 122

You can help Drmies retain that youth cred, lurkers.
&hellip; and you can have the kudos of doing better than I did, too, for whatever that is worth. &#9786;

We don't want xyr fellow youths to find Drmies editing any more articles about very dead people, especially very dead people where Doktoro has to consider the moral qualities and large muscular person (and indeed sweet voice and missing teeth) of a man that Joseph Cooper Walker had never met and credited a "friend" for knowledge thereof. Doktoro does not need such stimulation at xyr age. Doktoro's fellow youths do not rispec' knowing the teeth of very dead people, and rispec' from one's peer group is important. Doktoro is neither friend of Walker nor Dorothy.

So gently guide Dr mi estas away, and shield xyr eyes; and please find a historian who does not simply regurgitate a clearly unreliable 18th century memoir. You might observe that I have found a clearly annoyed Ulsterman that doesn't like the memoir, and quite a lot of people over the centuries that have plagiarized it without attribution. So the bar is rather higher than an off-handed Google Books search now. Those of you with High Beaming, Tex-Mex Lexus, JSTORrery, and the like might care to use your exceptional capabilities.

Uncle G (talk) 10:46, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * The annoyed Ulsterman is Francis Joseph Bigger, by the way, who ironically is far better documented than Cormac is. Uncle G (talk) 11:45, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

There was once a collector named Ralph, who had a Bronze horn on a shelf. &mdash;
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 * This article is about the Army major, for his grand-nephew the major-general see Ralph Ouseley.

Ralph Ouseley (1739-05-07{{sfn|Cahill|1993|p=5}}{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}}–1803{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}}) was an Irish antiquarian and major in the British Army.

Family
His brother was John, who was father to Gideon Ouseley and grandfather to major-general Ralph Ouseley.

Ralph himself had several children by two wives. By his first wife Elizabeth Holland of Limerick (whom he married on 1763-04-01) he had three daughters and two sons, William who became an orientalist and Gore who became a Baronet. Elizabeth died on 1782-11-28, and he took a second wife, Mary Collins, with whom he only had 1 surviving child, Joseph Walker Jasper Ouseley who also became an orientalist.

He lived in Limerick and in Dunmore, County Galway.

Antiquarianism
Ralph was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and was a collector and an antiquarian.

He was published several times in the Transactions of the Academy, including for example which recounted his discovery of three Later Bronze Age horns in Carrigogunnell, County Limerick. A partial account of his personal collection of antiquities was reported by Charles Etienne Coquebert de Montbret, who visited him in 1790.

&mdash; He said to his son, "Look what we've done! &mdash;
{{divbox|brown|| Joseph Walker Jasper Ouseley (1800-06-21{{sfn|Riddick|1998|p=279}}–November 1889{{sfn|Riddick|1998|p=279}}) was a British orientalist and a colonel in the British Army.

The son of Ralph Ouseley by his second wife Mary Collins, Joseph was educated in Limerick.{{sfn|Riddick|1998|p=279}}{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}} He joined the British Army as an ensign in 1819, in which he reached the rank of colonel by the time that he retired.{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}}{{sfn|Riddick|1998|p=279}} He never saw combat.{{sfn|Ouseley}} After being posted to the Bengal European Regiment in India, he became a military attach&eacute; in oriental languages, having tutored himself during the sea voyage from home in 1820 and then having attended the College of Fort William in Calcutta, from which he graduated with honours in Arabic and Persian.{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}}{{sfn|Riddick|1998|p=279}}{{sfn|Ouseley}}

He became a professor of Arabic, Bengali, Maharati, and Persian at the College of Fort William in 1825, and was Superintendent of the Mysore Princes from 1838 to 1844.{{sfn|Riddick|1998|p=279}} Returning home to Britain in 1844, he became an examiner at Haileybury College until 1859, and then from 1862 to 1883 was a civil service examiner in Arabic and Persian languages.{{sfn|Foster|1881|p=477}}{{sfn|Riddick|1998|p=279}}

The Joseph Walker Jasper Ouseley scholarships to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, intended to fund the studies of Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, and other languages, were endowed in his name by Mary and Louisa Ouseley.

&mdash; I'll not keep the news to myself."
Maybe someone else will have more Limericks for Doktoro. Uncle G (talk) 18:41, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Very nicely done, Uncle. Bravo, and thank you. Drmies (talk) 21:41, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * There once was a man from Nantucket
 * Whose work was so fine that he stuck it.
 * He just said, counting stars,
 * As he sat on his arse,
 * "If it's nommed for delete, I'll say file a complaint at AN/I, thanks!"
 * Martinevans123 (talk) 18:58, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

An Ulsterman named Francis Bigger &hellip;
It is because you like Limericks. So there were three Limericks for you. Uncle G (talk) 00:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC) {{divbox|brown|| {{about|the antiquarian from Belfast|the Irish politician from Belfast that he is confused with|Joseph Biggar}} Francis Joseph Bigger (1863{{sfn|Cleeve|Brady|1985}}–1926-12-09{{sfn|Cleeve|Brady|1985}}{{sfn|Clements|2007}}, both in Belfast{{sfn|Cleeve|Brady|1985}}) was an Irish antiquarian, revivalist, solicitor, architect, author, editor, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. His collected library, now distributed across several public institutions, comprised more than 18 thousand books, journals, letters, photographs, sketches, maps, and other materials. His house in Belfast was a gathering place for Irish nationalist politicians, artists, scholars, and others. He was a prolific sponsor and promoter of Gaelic culture, authored many works of his own, founded (or co-founded) several institutions, and revived and edited the Ulster Journal of Archaeology.

Namesake confusion
The Belfast politician Joseph Biggar changed the spelling of his surname from Bigger to Biggar (when he converted to Catholicism), which caused people some confusion in the spelling of Francis Joseph Bigger's surname. It is spelled Bigger.

Life
Bigger was born in 1863, in Belfast on Little Donegal Street. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, which had been founded by his grandfather in 1810, and one of whoe governors was his father.

He joined the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, and was later its secretary and its president. He became a solicitor in 1888, and was also a freemason. He also helped to organize the Glens Feis, a feis at Cushendall, out of a desire to promote Gaelic culture that also saw him join, and become a member of the executive committee of, the Gaelic League.

He revived the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, after a hiatus of 30 years, which he then edited from 1894 to 1914. His interest in archeology remained noted by archeologists a century later, with sites that he had dug being known informally as "well and truly Biggered".

In 1911 he bought Jordan's Castle in Ardglass which he restored, and bequeathed to the state.

As an architect, he wrote a complaint to the Irish Independent, published on 1907-03-02, about plans for some cottages; in response to which the Independent invited him to present his own plans, which he drew up and the Independent then published as Labourers' Cottages for Ireland. Writer Jonathan Bell characterized these as the plans of an "eccentric antiquarian", as they deliberately excluded sinks from the design, Bigger claiming that "washing up is usually done in a bucket".

Regular visitors to his home in Belfast, Ardrigh House number 737b on Antrim Road, were Douglas Hyde, Roger Casement, and Francis McPeake, for the latter of whom Bigger arranged lessons in Irish traditional pipe music from John O'Reilly of Galway, paying for the lodgings in Belfast of McPeake and O'Reilly, and giving additional money to O'Reilly's family. (A description of Ardrigh House can be found in chapter 4 of Joseph Connolly's Memoirs,, listed in further reading. Bigger himself spelled its name "Airdrie" in correspondence, and it was demolished in 1986 in order to build a block of flats.)

There is a long list of such visitors, including Stephen Gwynn and Padraic Colum. Bigger founded the Ulster Literary Theatre in 1902 in partnership with another such, Bulmer Hobson. He financed another visitor's, Herbert Hughes's, Songs of Uladh which was published in 1904 and was a the result of a holiday to Donegal taken by Bigger, who brought along Hughes and the two brothers John Patrick Campbell and Joseph Campbell. Hughes noted down the meloies of various folk songs during the holiday, which were then published in the Songs with words by Joseph and illustrative woodcuts by John.

He strove to improve the standards of public houses, founding the Ulster Public House Association (a.k.a. the Ulster Public House Trust or Ulster Public House Reform Association).

Works
A strong supporter of the revival of Irish language and culture, he wrote on those and many aspects of the archaeology of Northern Ireland. His best-known work is The Ulster Land War of 1770, and he also edited and contributed articles to the aforementioned Ulster Journal of Archaeology.

Other works include his booklet The Hills of Holy Ireland, a diatribe against the British rule of Ireland that was based upon a lecture that Bigger gave in the Linen Hall Library, which was on display in the Belfast Central Library from 2007 to 2008 as part of an exhibition. He also wrote pamphlets entitled Irish Penal Crosses and The Northern Leaders of 98, a novel Aeneas O’Haughan, a collection of fireside stories Four Shots from Dawn.

With Herbert Hughes, Bigger also made a collection of just under 175 rubbings of the heraldic designs engraved on gravestones in County Antrim, which they published in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology in 1900 and 1901.

There is a partial list of. Others not listed there and not aforementioned include:

John Smyth Crone edited his Articles and Sketches, a selection of just some of his work, that was published after his death.

Other people's works that they dedicated to Bigger include Cathal O'Byrne’s As I Roved Out and George A. Birmingham’s The Northern Iron.

Collections
A catalogue of his personal collection at his death is in, which runs to 302 pages. This comprised a significant fraction of the 1956 Catalogue of Belfast Central Library, the Bigger Collection having been presented to the Belfast Central Library by Bigger's brother (Lietenant Colonel F.C. Bigger) a year after his death. The collection in the BCL runs to 10,000 books and journals, 3,500 letters of correspondence, and 180 boxes of scrapbooks, maps, and pamphlets. A further collection of 5,000 photographs is held separately at the Ulster Museum.

The bookplates that he used for his books have the motto: "Giving and Forgiving".

The curator of the 2007–2008 exhibition about him at the Belfast Central Library, Roger Dixon, described him as a "one man Irish Cultural Institute" in an accompanying pamphlet entitled Ireland's Cultural Visionary.

In the National Library of Ireland, photographs of his home, family, and associates are ; and miscellaneous papers of his are. Other papers of his are held at the Linen Hall Library and at the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland.

In dictionaries of biography

 * See also the ones in the reference bibliography.



On Bigger's collection, house, and his individual works

 * This submission to Articles for creation is not a Limerick. He was an Ulsterman.
 * This submission to Articles for creation is not a Limerick. He was an Ulsterman.
 * This submission to Articles for creation is not a Limerick. He was an Ulsterman.
 * This submission to Articles for creation is not a Limerick. He was an Ulsterman.
 * This submission to Articles for creation is not a Limerick. He was an Ulsterman.
 * This submission to Articles for creation is not a Limerick. He was an Ulsterman.

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This one is huge. The lurkers might want to chip in here. I've given you a good substub. But there's no mention of Roddy McCorley, the granite block of St Patrick, the Gaelic football club, the Irish Folk Song Society, the Irish Peasant Home Industries, the Belfast Art Society, or the Irish Decorative Art Association. Uncle G (talk) 00:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

&hellip; once went to school, and had a granddad.
{{divbox|brown|| David Bigger, Ulster merchant and grandfather of Francis Joseph Bigger, founded the Carnmoney Cotton Printing Mill, was one of the original governors of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution in 1910, and was one of the founders of the Linen Hall Library in Belfast.{{sfn|Phoenix|2005|p=66}}{{sfn|Young|1892|p=323}}

In dictionaries of biography

 * See also the ones in the reference bibliography.



Other biographies
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 * This submission to Articles for creation is a bit thin, too. But at least the trail of dangling hyperlinks finally peters out at Arthur Deane, Kate Newmann, and James Stevens Curl, ne?

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The Ulster Literary Theatre has bypassed Articles for creation, because it was about plays and writing and history and stuff, and no-one is interested in that here. I argued that Doktoro might be tricked into it if it were misrepresented as popular culture &hellip; of 1909, having xem think that it would help that youth cred, but failed to make the case. Uncle G (talk) 03:46, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Ha, so I saw that the day after you put it up! I did see it. No, biographies are my favorite, as everyone knows, and dead Irish people, well, it just doesn't get better than that. Drmies (talk) 20:24, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Course correction
No, no, no, Doktoro! If you want the youth cred then you need to focus upon finding sources for not very dead priests. Do not even let the fact that those of us without all of that High Beaming, Tex-Mex Lexus, and JSTORrery cannot read the likes of, whereas you can, distract you. Nor http://allhallows.ie/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Missionary.pdf. Nor even David Bigger and Robert Magill Young. Uncle G (talk) 09:27, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Look, Uncle, I'm not trying to get youth cred here--I get plenty of that when I wear my Migos shirt to class. I happen to have an interest in missionizing; the Irish have been at it for over a millennium, and if I ever drag myself away from Wikipedia I'll be writing about German missionaries in Africa. Drmies (talk) 16:25, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * That's sad: my JSTOR lite doesn't have that journal. Drmies (talk) 16:28, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Mass edits by SwoopSwing
Special:Contributions/SwoopSwing just changed something like 600 "infobox Hollywood cartoon" to "infobox film" with no edit summaries. Was there an RfC I missed? otherwise, I'm kinda wishing I had mass rollback rights now :). Please take a look.Hydromania (talk) 03:05, 24 June 2019 (UTC) And I found it. Was eight months ago so I'm surprised it's just getting implemented now. Sorry to bother. Hydromania (talk) 03:15, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Mr. Reputable.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:10, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Well deserved, of course. User:Usedtobecool, my reputable days are over, but that's OK. To answer one of your questions, Eric C. and I go back a long time, we have written together, including some things that we are still proud of. That Eric would possibly violate a topic ban isn't necessarily something I need to involve myself in: he is probably the most-watched editor on Wikipedia, and as you saw was dragged to arbitration immediately. Plus, I hadn't seen him in a while--and seeing an old friend again is always a cause for you joy. When you get to be our age you'll appreciate that more, perhaps. Thanks Bbb--you know I am always happy to see your comments. Drmies (talk) 00:57, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * You sound like : he's always pulling the age card. Why does everyone around here think they're so old? I don't know how old Floq is, but I know about how old you are, and that's not old. Plus, for all you know Usedtobecool could be 85 years old. Maybe that's what their username means: it's tough to be cool at 85 (except on TV and in the movies). --Bbb23 (talk) 02:14, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Sounding like Floq is not a bad thing. Wiki-years are like dog years: they count for seven human years. Drmies (talk) 15:03, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Bbb23, Thank you for standing up for those of us who are too arthritic to even be able to pull the age card Teeth.png Thank you for the clarification, Drmies. Usedtobecool  ✉️ ✨ 19:33, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Almost forgot, I'd read a Drmies wikipedia joke the same day. Not many admins have one, I imagine. Usedtobecool  ✉️ ✨ 19:36, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

I don't mean to stir the drama pot, but can someone point me to whatever silencing of unwelcome voices WMF is meant to have done? I've been out-of-the-loop,and my curiosity is perhaps getting the better of me now. Lady of  Shalott  02:33, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Pour a stiff drink, then start on Community response to the Wikimedia Foundation's ban of Fram. Johnbod (talk) 03:11, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Lady  of  Shalott  04:54, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Bad move, M' Lady . I made the same request not two days ago and regretted it less than 6 hours later when I found myself still bouncing from pages to pages. Usedtobecool  ✉️ ✨ 19:33, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh, I know. I haven't even read all of it, and that is several hours of my life I'll never get back. Aiyiyi Lady  of  Shalott  23:31, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * If it makes you feel any better, L. of S., you're not the only one playing catch-up to this, um, shark sandwich; I am now in my second week of working out of a colleague's RV (because our office building had a catastrophic sprinkler-system malfunction and we are all exiled pending a four-week flood remediation process) and have only had reliably functional access to broadband in the past 72 hours. The fact that my small business is at the mercy of a hamfisted "disaster recovery solutions" "professional" is, admittedly, more problematic in the grand scheme of JDL-world, but holy mackerel, this is a lot to piece through. -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  23:45, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

As I have been supporting Doktoro's quest for youth cred for &mdash; Hmmm! &hellip; it is probably self-defeating to say &mdash; many years, including even a recent course correction here at AFC above, at, I must oppose Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb's attempt to out Doktoro's age. A Time Lady does not care to be asked. On that subject: Onion Lady, EngVar's Daughter, and others, if writing articles is more to your taste, I hope to present a quite interesting one to AFC shortly. It's next in line after I make some more improvements to I Monetary Advisory, mentioned in a fairly big news story quite recently that has been linked to R. Roshan Baig and that we at Wikipedia were going to inappropriately call IMA scam. If in the meantime you want a stub to turn into a featured article, just to prove that it can be done but without touching stuff that you might be saving up, we've been discussing entire books with respect to. Don't let the involvement of UN secretary generals in the history of the subject fool you; this one is written about by professors, English Professors and Australian ones. Doktoro, do not get excited by the 1995 involvement of Gallifey in that subject. Uncle G (talk) 16:54, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Uncle, "Shalott", please. That non-paper (the term was new to me) has a familiar ring to it: back in those days, if I remember correctly, there was much talk on what to do with the Dutch army and a "flying brigade" model was one of the options (given that the regular national defense was pretty much assured by NATO and geography). I see you have part of a conversation going at that AfD; like many AfDs, not every contributor seems willing to read. But if you were looking to draw me into it, where's the poetry in it? Bacon is good, but human can't live on bacon alone. Drmies (talk) 01:10, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * You have had more than enough poetry at Sinking of HMS Peacock for you to be getting along with. Uncle G (talk) 02:08, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Du hast Recht! This is why the Good God gave us lettuce, tomato, cheese, and rye bread.Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:02, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Ima take that as a reminder I need to get rid of these oliebollen. Drmies (talk) 20:13, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Oh dear. There actually is Bacon. Uncle G (talk) 22:57, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
You are most welcome sir.

Fylindfotberserk (talk) 14:48, 25 June 2019 (UTC) 

There is an encyclopaedia around here, somewhere.
I could have sworn that I had it here, just a moment ago.

As you might have already seen, I am having to draft my next submission to Articles for creation in a holding area. It is rather long. This is one of the elephants in the room mentioned at User:Uncle G/Missing encyclopaedic articles, that I bumped into from doing AFD Patrol.

I have not found a connection to Gallifrey but, as I mentioned earlier here at AFC, I am dismayed to discover the involvement of Bacon when checking out the |author1-link= possibilities. Alas, there are no free-content images of said Bacon that I could use in a sidebar here to entice you, the nearest being non-free CC-BY-NC-ND licensed.

There are no very dead people involved, so this will definitely help with Doktoro's quest for youth cred. There are a pop singer and a kid off the TV involved. It is hep and in the now, man! Protestors at Berkeley and everything. On the streets! How much more street cred can one get, dude?

Doing the reading inspires a series of questions that are perhaps, this time, addressed to people other than readers of Wikipedia's main page, perhaps to its writers this time; a whole week's worth of thoughts for the day to muse upon.

Would that there were an encyclopaedia around here with history that everyone could learn from! &#9786;

I am in the process of writing a tiny part of it.

Uncle G (talk) 11:02, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

The user Parveen raaj Hiranwal
He is also a sock-check out the report I put Sockpuppet investigations/Parveen raaj hisampur (I'm sure there are others) Wgolf (talk) 02:19, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I saw it, but I noticed that Bbb23 was on it too, and if he didn't think CU was necessary, that's good enough for me. Both accounts are blocked; if there's more of those awful pages, we'll handle it then. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 02:21, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

About Rilke's clothings
Hello Drmies, can you please find a citation to one of the "every other book". Washington Post is not an authoritative source about Rilke's life. And once again there was no "dressing as a girl" in the 19th century among young children. Rilke's mother may have treated him "like a girl" or believed he's a girl but it wasn't about clothing. Please find a historically correct source. Cheers, The Terrible Mutant Hamster (talk) 02:04, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I just added one. There's a half a dozen more in Google Books. The Washington Post is a reliable source, and the author of the article you removed is this guy. An expert. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 02:08, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Please calm down and remember that being an expert in one field doesn't make you an expert in another. You can read about the history of children's fashion. "Dressed as a girl" is an inaccurate statement about a young boy from the 19th century. Biographies tend to be incorrect when it comes to a cultural context, especially old ones from 1946. Wait a bit, I'll find a fresher one. I don't deny Rilke was treated by his mother as if he were a girl. Cheers, The Terrible Mutant Hamster (talk) 02:21, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Huh. I need to calm down? Drmies (talk) 02:23, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Assuredly not. It's me who should be annoyed at the Rilke's biographers inability to fact check. I hope you're satisfied with my edit. The Terrible Mutant Hamster (talk) 03:10, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

David Yates
Wikipedia is a rotten place to edit. I trimmed significant material from this article, which has clearly been written by fans. I should have trimmed more, but I got tired. It was full of excessive detail and tangential material. It even had a table for all of of his own appearances (I removed that entirely). The Directorial style section is principally a self-aggrandizing quote farm. I should have removed all three quotations but I only did the last as it was unsourced. At the same time, I corrected a plethora of formatting errors. I also deadlinked a Daily Mail cite in the Personal life section supposedly supporting that Yvonne Walcott is Yates's partner. Even if the DM cite were live, we should have better sourcing for that sort of material (then there's the trivia about Walcott). At the same time, I corrected the infobox so it doesn't say that Walcott is his spouse.

An editor came along and undid a lot of my changes, as a result of which there are now factual errors, unsourced material, and the list goes on. I undid their changes, but that was quickly reverted telling me to go to the Talk page. Not me. This post here is the only thing I'm willing to do, and if no one's interested, which I can completely understand, that'll be an end to it. In this area and in so many others lately I don't know why I bother.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Have you tried going for a walk? ;) Thank you : you are correct., yes--MarnetteD can be my editor of the day any day. Please don't be rude in edit summaries: it's very unbecoming. Drmies (talk) 17:28, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd really like to go for a walk, but I still have this lingering nasty cough from my recent (and sort of ongoing) illness. BTW, our friend Sebastian still believes it's okay to call Walcott a spouse in the infobox. Other than warning him about 3RR, I'm not touching the article myself. MarnetteD: applause.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:44, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * There. Get well soon. Drmies (talk) 17:49, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Can you confirm that you are taking responsibilities for edits like these on article's talk page here. I am not obliged to check every edit and remove the bad things, so instead of starting an edit war, you could have corrected and discussed it. No wonder why you are working hard on this article and haven't seen the other edits, such as HPDEATHLYHALLOWS4's frequent edits, and suddenly decided to take action. As for Drmies, I don't remember asking you to share an opinion about something that is irrelevant to you. Also, I am not your friend. Sebastian James what's the T? 17:56, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh,, you don't remember that? Maybe you didn't ask me. But maybe this is a collaborative project, and whatever you do can become part of the public discourse. And maybe I have an opinion anyway, especially since I'm an administrator and you made a totally assholish comment. If you wish to avoid being criticized for such comments, don't make them. Drmies (talk) 18:59, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Maybe especially when no one cares about your opinion, "the less said, the better" should come to mind. Congrats for being an administrator. Sebastian James what's the T? 10:48, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Are you "semi-retired", ? Enjoy your new hobby. I hope for your sake it requires less knowledge of guidelines and fewer interactions with human beings. Any time you want to stop this you can stop this by stopping this. Drmies (talk) 13:39, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh, what are you talking about? As you can see, I am not as active as I was before, and I have definitely no time for you, so I am "stopping this" now.Sebastian James what's the T? 15:07, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

The irony is that it is so easy to find an alternative to The Daily Mirror that is even 8 years more up-to-date, to boot. The only slight problem is that people at the St Helens Star ridiculously don't put datelines on their work, so this is the dateline according to Bing. Uncle G (talk) 18:17, 28 June 2019 (UTC) , I need your help for a moment. Plz check your email in a minute, if you can. Drmies (talk) 19:43, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * "His passion for film began when his mum bought him an 8mm camera after he was enthralled by the Steven Spielberg classic Jaws' as a teenager." Not much better than the Mirror. I don't understand what you mean by "dateline" or "Bing". Wonder when they married.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:22, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Let me help you with these peculiar terms, M. Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb. &#9786;  And with this sort of coverage, often the journalist gets to talk directly to the subject and have a conversation like: ″Hello, I'm Simon from The Star.″ ″Hello, this is my wife, Yvonne.″  Which is slightly better, journalistically, than consulting Wikipedia to check facts and finding that the subject has been married to Tony Stark for 10 years.  &#9786;  Also note that both you and Doktoro have ″Mail″ and ″Mirror″ conflated.  It is the former that is the deprecated one, whereas it is the latter that was being cited.  Uncle G (talk) 19:12, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Shoot, did I? So I have been married to Tony Stark? Then again, in this case it doesn't matter very much since the quote was in there, and that indicated it was just a passing note. DM or DM, still a tabloid (and thus both deprecated, though one officially). Drmies (talk) 19:21, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * So dateline is what I thought and so is Bing (you use Bing???). The article has a dateline at the top. It just doesn't say when Yates, Walcott, Drmies, and Stark got married. Don't worry, though, I'll figure that out as soon as I find the cure for the common cold (in my case uncommon). Sometimes I think that all England has are tabloids. English newspapers are like big American law firms. They're all awful, but some are worse than others.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:41, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * As I have mentioned, I do not have any of this Main Beaming, Tex-Mex Lexus, and JSTORrery. I maligned the Star unjustly.  It turns out that my WWW browser does not recognize  . Uncle G (talk) 20:04, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

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 * Well now, what an oddly long list of admins who are now former admins., what on earth could be going on. Perhaps you can consider asking them to reconsider, or help create conditions that make them reconsider. These are the people who helped build the community you started. Drmies (talk) 23:35, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

User: War Operation Plan Response
The block should be amended. If they allowed to edit their own talk page they will just restore the libellous material and they are clearly an associate of the banned user User:Option 16. Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 02:40, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikimania 2020 Bangkok
Hi Klomp (that was actually the family name of my girlfriend when I was living in Amsterdam inn 1967). I won't be going to Stockholm most unfortunately, because I really can't afford $3,000 just for 5 days in the far north of Europe. I'll leave that trip to the Europeans and the 70-strong WMF junket. But next year Wikimania is right on my doorstep. I hope you will be able to come. I will be making absolutely sure that my friends who are able to come will have a great time. Regards, Chris. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:41, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Whoa. Oh dear, I'd LOVE to go--but I don't see it happening. On the one hand I'm not important enough to the WMF, I'm sure--I can't even get Jimbo Wales to respond to a ping. Actually, I've been trying for a dozen years. On the other, I doubt that I could swing it where I can argue to my employer they should pay for such a trip. But who know--I didn't even know, so thanks for telling me, and maybe it might happen. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 17:23, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * If Katherine can travel to all those places she mentioned on her Talk page, I don't see why you can't. She's working on the budget now, isn't she? Make sure you get at least business class on the flight, first class on the hotel, all meals, and of course WP:ANI (Administrative noticeboard incidentals).--Bbb23 (talk) 17:29, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * This is the way it works at Wikimania, : Back in 2012 in D.C. after the welcome party at the Library of Congress, the bus drove past the door of the ramshackle backpacker hostel were were forced to stay in (12-man rooms with bunk beds and a toilet down the corridor and a dysfunctional elevator), the WMF refused to let it stop, and it dropped us 14 blocks away at the WMF's luxury hotel. We had to walk back, and with 2m tall  striding out in front, with the arthritis in my knees it was agony keeping up. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 20:20, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Good thing I never go.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:27, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Things change, it seems. This report from someone who attended both the 2012 D.C. Wikimania and the 2015 Mexico City Wikimania, had as one of their concerns, the issue that housing 2015 scholarship attendees in the Hilton was perhaps more expensive than would be appropriate. Presumably the toilet was closer and the elevators more amenable. MPS1992 (talk) 22:33, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hiltons have neither toilets nor elevators. They do, however, have tacky decor.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:35, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * We all know it's only the Ritz for you, Bbb. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:46, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I spent one night in that hostel, Kudpung, one single night. I'm too old for that shit. Drmies (talk) 00:47, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Your closure of the AN thread
At Administrators%27_noticeboard. While this started as my question on the applicability of talk page guidelines, I have grown increasingly concerned about Bbb23's behavior (i.e. lack of response to the question I and other have raised), and his refusal to discuss this on his talk page. I am sure acted 'to protect the project', but there are limits to such protection, particularly given the potential for admin abuse of power. I would not be pursuing this IF Bbb23 did not use the veiled thread 'this is an administrative action'. But he did. This all could have ended if Bbb23 said 'ok, I made a mistake, won't do it again', with a simple 'sorry' being nice but not necessary (my ego will survive without it). But given Bbb23 refusal to address this issue outside saying that Cirt socket, it seems to me that they have not demonstrated any remorse, or anything to demonstrate they made a mistake. This is worrisome. Admin abuse, where admins believe they are near perfect, have no need to explain themselves or apologize is a problem on Wikipedia. As an OP, I don't believe this issue is closed until Bbb23 explains themselves, apologizes, OR the community decided it is not necessary. Your closure of this thread, as a fellow admin, is sending a wrong message - that admins are beyond critique, and if critiqued, well, such threads will be closed by their fellow admin, no need for them to be stressed out and subject to such a terrifying thing as critique... Again, I am not seeking anything else but a simple statement from Bbb23 that they made a mistake and they won't do it again. If you are not going to reopen that thread, and in light of Bbb23 removing my posts from their talk pages, I'd appreciate if you would tell me which forum is applicable to pursue this matter further. Because while this started as a small matter, Bbb23 refusal to back down even a little bit suggest to me this may need to be investigated further, because this community does not need admins who are unwilling to accept that they can make an occasional errors. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:49, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Piotrus, I don't believe this is admin abuse (and the thread didn't conclude it was); in my view, the community has spoken. Forcing an apology from someone is rarely productive, and Bbb obviously doesn't think he did anything wrong. In the end, all this involves two things, as far as I can tell: talk page guidelines and how to handle edits by socks. (BTW, I fully understand that there was some dismay about the account not having been blocked yet, or marked as a sock. I'm glad that was handled.) Personally, I think we shouldn't overlegislate, but one can imagine some guidance on the TPG would be helpful. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 15:11, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I have to say I am disappointed that you don't see how serious this is (as a symptom of a wider problem, the incident itself is very minor, of course). There are some people within the community who think that admins are "holy cows" and above criticism by peons, i.e. non-admins. This incident seems to me an example reinforcing such a belief. Invoking an admin status is a big deal. Not willing to apologize is not a sign of being a friendly mop'n'bucket wielder. Refusing to comment in a discussion where one behavior is disputed is likewise a bad sign, and a sadly justified attitude that 'non-admin criticism' is below admin's dignity to even reply, and surely it will be handled by other fellow admins who will just close this as no-action. Such attitude should not be ignored by other admins, but it almost always is. This is not how a healthy community should operate, with cliques protecting or turning a blind eye to their fellow mistakes. But, of course, I am talking about ideal world. In the real world, iron rule of oligarchy holds, and Wikipedia is not immune to it. I am not surprised that admins will protect their fellows, and try to brush aside their faults as minor things not worth pursuing (sure... just after years of such attitude, we end up at ArbComs or such). I am, however, disappointed, by the remainder that Wikipedia admins are, after all, imperfect, just like everyone else. You'd think after all those years I'd leave all my idealism behind, and got used to such corruption in the world, real of online, eh? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 16:10, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I guess I shouldn't take that as a compliment. Drmies (talk) 17:21, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I respect a lot of things you have done and are doing. But in this regard, I am sorry, nope, I can't compliment you, to say the least :> --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:27, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Deep state in the United States
You feel like taking a look at this? Beyond My Ken (talk) 11:25, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Stupid_Rules
You might want to take another look at this. Besides this, basically all their contribs are pursuing this fool vendetta from Talk:Romford. Pinkbeast (talk) 14:02, 2 July 2019 (UTC) For what it's worth, I don't see much different in the (poor) level of contributions between the talk page jeering by and the edit summarries of the other account. My personal view is that Wikipedia would be better off without both of them. geolocates to the next town along. is plainly from the edit summaries MickGriff logged out. They both do nothing else and neither presents the sort of case that Wikipedia needs. Uncle G (talk) 09:36, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Pinkbeast, I hope you will clean up that talk page... Drmies (talk) 17:33, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Maybe Wiki would be better off publishing the fact that Romford is in Essex instead of incorrectly showing Romford as London. As for the sort of case that Wiki needs I would think up to date government and NHS websites stating Romford is in Essex is what Wiki needs but no Wiki via people with no connection to Romford are allowed to impose their fakery and have Romford showing as London. Reminiscent of the old Soviet Union. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MickGriff (talk • contribs) 09:03, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for 1 the Road
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Hey
Drmies I just Reverted it since an experienced editor put it back? Since the Nazi did persecute Clergy Just a Example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_Barracks_of_Dachau_Concentration_Camp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims#Roman_Catholics Jack90s15 (talk) 00:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You are edit warring, and adding that category to a biography is just really unhelpful. Please don't explain that Nazis persecuted clergy members: everybody knows that. Drmies (talk) 00:48, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Drmies Edit warning? I just reverted it once if did something else Can you explain what I did so I don't mess up? If I made a Mistake I want to learn what I did wrong So i do better Jack90s15 (talk) 00:57, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You are right: sorry--I misread, you only reverted once. (But next time explain what you are doing!) Now, I see that has reinstated the category--El C, I am not convinced that those "persecution of" categories are helpful in a biography... Drmies (talk) 00:59, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't really have an opinion on that, but removing just one of the categories is peculiar, to say the least. El_C 01:02, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ha, there's more than one. I wonder where they came from. Drmies (talk) 01:04, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * OK I will do that Drmies, and do you know any experienced users that have a lot of patience that are looking to adopt somebody on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack90s15 (talk • contribs)
 * Well, El C is pretty experienced! BTW,, good point: I went back to its GA history, and decided to remove all of them. Drmies (talk) 01:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I suppose I am! Anyway, no objection. Hopefully, that will be fine with the other participants, too. El_C 01:15, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Would you adopt me? El_C I left a bio on my page why I am asking — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack90s15 (talk • contribs)
 * Sorry, Jack90s15, I don't really do adoptions. But am always available for advise, so please do not hesitate. El_C 01:28, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * OK but Thanks El_C for still wanting to help!Jack90s15 (talk) 01:30, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Jack90s15, if you have specific questions you could drop them on my talk page. Some very nice people stop by here occasionally, and they might could help you out. Drmies (talk) 01:36, 8 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks will do!!! Drmies

Pamela Geller
I intended to go through and restore edits we can agree on, one by one. And I started to do this. Most of these edits can not be undone on a single basis. What else could I do? Jason from nyc (talk) 14:51, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You can copy and paste the original text and restore that, leaving an edit summary that addresses the original edit summary. Drmies (talk) 14:53, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I started that but couldn't keep track of which edit was where. I had several screens open but it become overwhelming. I only requested that we discuss the edits in the talk page and I do agree with some. I appreciate bold changes but that prompts a revert for discussion. As new edits were continually added, I was hit with an "edit conflict" and had to start over again. I'd appreciate it if we could do this in an orderly manner instead of edit-warring on the article's page. Is that asking too much?
 * Would you consider reverting back before the page is frozen by an administrator? Jason from nyc (talk) 14:58, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but that doesn't sound like a Snoogans or Drmies problem. These edits weren't rapid-fire, not all the time, and you have plenty of opportunity now to discuss them on the talk page. And glancing over them, I see solid sourcing, and edit summaries, and neutral language, so I don't see why any administrator would lock it--I certainly wouldn't. Remember, you are both editing from registered accounts, so any protection would have to be full protection, which is pretty draconian (I doubt I've done that more than a dozen times in my career), and it would only come after lengthy edit warring. For now, what we have is a few dozen apparently constructive edits undone by one single editor in one single revert--I'm sure most admins would agree that the ball is in your court, and that there is little on Snoogans's side that can be called disruptive. Drmies (talk) 15:06, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I believe it has had full protection in the past. The vast number of changes are too much for me to review and handle. I've worked on controversial news-breaking stories with no problem. This is too much and more are coming. As I said I do agree with some, perhaps most with some tweaks. I'll have to leave it to other editors. Thanks for your consideration. Jason from nyc (talk) 15:21, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I am actually surprised it's not even semi-protected, yes. Anyway, I am sure that will be happy to explain/respond if prompted on the talk page. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 18:11, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Long-standing errors
After over a decade and a half finally someone &mdash; me! &mdash; has read a book. I've related the unfortunate truth that I found out at AFD. Alas, I have things to do. Lurkers here at Doktoro's talk page might relish the challenge of reading books, and pick up where I left off. You'll discover that Aquapasto is a name of one company's product, for starters, and we probably could do with using the generic name for the stuff. Uncle G (talk) 13:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I did just read a book: A Tomb for Boris Davidovich! Drmies (talk) 14:09, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

AfD Central
Pinging User:MaskedSinger and User:William2001: please look at this again: the AfDs, the associated pages, the comments here by Uncle G, etc. But for y'all's delete votes I could simply close them and be done with it. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 14:29, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I fail to see what the issue is. The page doesn't have a single source or reference. In current form, it must be deleted or possibly redirected. If one is so vested that it stay, build up the page to reflect its importance, significance and notability. If one line in 15 years is the best that can be done. QED. Can I just say that the person who created this page was a known sock and all 3 pages cited above were ALL created by the same editor. MaskedSinger (talk) 15:21, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Which is why, MaskedSinger, you should read the entire account. I hate to say it but you are wrong: please read Deletion is not cleanup. What matters not is what condition the article is in; what matters is whether the topic is notable in its own right. You are, essentially, arguing a. it was by a sock (but that's not a valid reason for deletion) and b. it's not a good article (which is also not a reason for deletion). Drmies (talk) 16:58, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No Drmies. I'm saying it's unsourced which means there's no justification for the one line. I wasn't arguing it was a sock - I added that as after the fact point. MaskedSinger (talk) 17:01, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The thing is that you're saying "it's unsourced", and that is not a valid reason for deletion. "There are no sources" is a better reason, if indeed there are no sources. But for Surautomatism there are sources, as demonstrated, and for Sifflage/Soufflage a solution has now been found. For Aquapasto, Watercolor might be a good target for a redirect. Drmies (talk) 17:15, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It's unsourced and there are no sources are the same thing. If you think it should stay at the very least put a tag on it CAT:UNREF WP:ALS MaskedSinger (talk) 17:47, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I think what meant by saying "there are no sources" is that "a source cannot be found." William2001(talk) 18:11, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello. What do you mean by "simply close them?" Close them as keep or delete? Are you telling us to reconsider our delete !votes? Just confused about what message you and are trying to get across. Thanks. William2001(talk</b>) 18:17, 7 July 2019 (UTC)


 * I've no idea what this conversation is about, but the key point for me in the AFD I'm involved in is that unsourced does not mean unsourceable. To continue to call for deletion after valid sources have been brought to your attention on the grounds that those sources have not (yet) been put in the article is downright disruptive.  As Drmies said, AFD is not cleanup. <b style="background:#FAFAD2;color:#C08000">Spinning</b><b style="color:#4840A0">Spark</b> 19:45, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * In that case,, I think you know very well what's doing on, and thank you for your comments in the AfD. MaskedSinger, "it's unsourced" is a statement about the article; "there are no sources" is a statement about the reality of existing sources. The first is not a reason for deletion; only the second is. User:William2001, I don't see what confusion there could be. We have three articles at AfD, and for all of them you two voted "delete". One of them has been shown to be on a notable subject; the two others are valid search terms that are now redirects. Yes, I want to close them, keeping one as an article and keeping the titles as redirects for the two others. Yes I am asking you do reconsider your delete votes so that I can close them early--otherwise they're just going to be open for another couple of days. Uncle G and I are old experienced seasoned enough to smell where these AfDs will be going... Drmies (talk) 22:07, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ I did in fact vote redirect for one of them, which I think you are fine with, and for the two in which I voted delete, I changed them, one to redirect and the other to keep. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. <b style="color:#556B2F">William2001</b>(<b style="color:#008080">talk</b>) 17:10, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Buckets and pigeons
I don't know what seasoning Doktoro is covered in that makes xem smell, but all that I am asking is that people check out what is said in books so that we have what is right rather than what User:Daniel C. Boyer gave us. If pressed on the subject, I would argue that a prophylactic redirect at soufflage is the best course of action, because people are going to read these books that plagiarized Wikipedia and it is best that they get pointed to the right place. Maybe I am wrong about how much there is on the subject, but both the nominator and another person seem happy for a redirect to the section in the larger article. As for the others: please read sources and find out what is correct. I've been slightly busy with the inr 40000000000 scandal that is threatening to rock the Karnataka government. I've even had to hand over the German buckets at User talk:Hans Adler, although it seems that the pigeons came home to roost there based upon my past history. Uncle G (talk) 23:41, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * How does it happen that closes Articles for deletion/Bavarian Pigeon Corps as keep on 24 June 2009, 02:09, and User:Indubitably, on the same day at 20:01, moves the whole thing, "Per discussion on talk page and AFD, as BPC is not verifiable"? Hans Adler and Malleus did a yeoman's job on that article. Drmies (talk) 00:17, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I came across that article for some reason today and I can't figure it out. The log for Bavarian Pigeon Corps doesn't show that it was deleted. Could there have been an article under a different but similar name? Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 02:07, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * OK,, I am looking at all this again. In the AfD it was indeed suggested that the article be moved/renamed. I suppose that's what Indubitably did, though the closer said nothing about it, and Hans Adler agreed. The whole article was moved, with a redirect left. These days the bot/tool/whatever leaves an automated edit summary (I think) with a link to the AfD, which would have been helpful here. Drmies (talk) 14:41, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * (Totally impertinent aside. Every time I see this thread, I think of Little Adolf (the pigeon) from The Producers. giving a tiny little pigeon salute.   Dlohcierekim (talk) 14:46, 8 July 2019 (UTC))
 * The June 12 version is about the BPC. And why anyone should try to delete so wondrous an article is beyond me.  Dlohcierekim (talk) 14:51, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I never cared for pigeons; they signified Old Holland for me--old men training pigeons on rooftops. Drmies (talk) 14:52, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * With the cameras we have these days, we could get an army of hummingbirds to replace the paparazzi. Drmies (talk) 14:54, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

I now get to truthfully say that I have just dumped a bucketload of pigeon crap on User talk:Hans Adler. Uncle G (talk) 18:22, 8 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Actually, as I live in Pinellas County, I can assure you that St. Petersburg, Florida is the end of the universe. Which end I'm not at liberty to say.  Dlohcierekim (talk) 20:14, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hänschen klein gets all the bad luck.  Dlohcierekim (talk) 20:16, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Did someone mention gluck?? ["The Bird Of The Wilderness" available on YouTube] Martinevans123 (talk) 20:24, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Looks more like Unglück. Though I should not cluck about it.  Dlohcierekim (talk) 09:08, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Ali Eisami
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for another good one. Slave memories, banned memories, admonished memories (short version, + hope is precious) ... thanks from cabal of the outcast. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Did you ever add Adriaan de Bruin and the other to the stats? Or do I have to do that? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:41, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No, I didn't--if you can do that for me, that'd be great: thanks! Drmies (talk) 02:29, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I will - eventually, + for this one! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:26, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I wanted, but the stats don'r show today, at least to me. Will try again, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:05, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I added the two former slaves, but forgot which one the third was. Help? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:45, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I remembered Sangita Magar now, but guess what, she was already there, thanks to MrClog! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:32, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Edward Banayoti
A controversial article receiving far too much attention. User:FRANCISBONNICI has been repeatedly attempting to whitewash the article. I have reverted him (more than I should but I'm considering it quasi-vandalism), but he keeps doing it. I warned him he'd be blocked if he persisted, but that's not stopping him, and, much as I think he deserves to be blocked, I don't feel comfortable doing so. In addition to the reverts, I've also done some editing of the article, so I'm WP:INVOLVED. If you could at least keep an eye on the article, that would be helpful.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:42, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll be glad to. Drmies (talk) 02:09, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Anyone stepping into this should also see: and the OTRS ticket (given on the article's talk page). Uncle G (talk) 09:01, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/Edward Banayoti
 * Thanks Uncle. We could block Canada, of course. User:Malcolmxl5 semi-protected; let's see what happens after July 12. Drmies (talk) 14:16, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * May also be worth noting that the subject of the article has recently been in (repeated, indeed, persistent) contact with OTRS demanding that the article be deleted... remarkable coincidence that FRANCISBONNICI showed up only a couple of days later to try and remove all the bits that Mr Banayoti objected to. Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 14:37, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Haha, yes. BTW I don't have OTRS glasses, and I aim to keep it that way--but thank you to all the folks who do. Drmies (talk) 14:44, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

check user
I think the check user bit would help me sift unblock requests, but there's no way to request it and I'm afraid of rejection. Is their anything I should know? Thanks  Dlohcierekim (talk) 20:10, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Are you saying you want to be a checkuser or you want to request a check on certain unblock requests?--Bbb23 (talk) 20:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You can request it or you can take the easy route, like I did: run for ArbCom! And then you can run CU on me, and see I’m at Starbucks. Damn! I should be on their free WiFi! Drmies (talk) 21:55, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, you cannot request CU permissions from ArbCom. At various intervals, ArbCom invites self-nominations. When they do it next, you could apply. In the meantime, though, you can block Drmies for being at Starbucks.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:44, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * From memory, Starbucks is okay, only Dunkin' Donuts is against policy, and Country Style if you're on this side of the 49th (Dunkin' in Quebec is okay), but I haven't had access to checkuser for a couple months now and things might have changed. As for the question: the process is Arbcom-driven and as I recall they appoint oversighters and checkusers (important: it's not an election) once a year in about October, just before the Arbcom elections get going, and they announce they're seeking applicants about a month in advance. They also do their own recruitment, and if you're interested it probably doesn't hurt to let the arbs know. Maybe closer to the time, though, they're pretty busy with, er, stuff, right now. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:01, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * "do their own recruitment" What do you base that on?--Bbb23 (talk) 00:05, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I remember we put up some notification on the Arb noticeboard or something--, am I dreaming? Drmies (talk) 00:32, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, I remember a recruitment officer visiting our junior high school, making CU seem like a grand adventure where you travel the world, meet interesting people ... and indef them. Of course it was all very sexist back then and girls weren't really invited. Times have changed, I guess, what with all this soccer rigamarole. Softlavender (talk) 00:39, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Re: "do their own recruitment": maybe I've got the facts wrong on that. I recall being asked if I was interested, rather than expressing interest on my own. Doesn't really matter, though. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:02, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks y'all, though I won't comment on what I think Starbucks coffee tastes like. Yes, I know the Cu's are busy, and if I could just check some of these sock block appealers myself, it would lessen their load. Dlohcierekim (talk) 01:54, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

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U1Quattro and YBSOne saga
Sorry I didn't see your ping, but until Yoshida Shoji is done, I effectively cannot be pinged. Thanks for handling it. I actually chose to go with no action, since the edit in question is from February (they both edit the same articles, so there's bound to be some overlap), but I suppose it was, technically, a violation. Oh well. El_C 19:09, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I blocked for an edit from July, El C. Anyway, I don't necessarily want to replay the blocks from last time; I was just pinging you since you did place a block. Drmies (talk) 20:54, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I wasn't clear — I wasn't alluding to the last block. The July edit interacted with an edit from February. El_C 21:44, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK Kang Daniel
I read your comment about the hook. I actually use the same term listed on Guinness World Records for that. Do you have any other suggestion for that? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moon Gin (talk • contribs) 07:26, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Departure
Maybe this last exchange can shed some light on your question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Hippo43). Like i said in my thread in Matty's page, that person feels i am the ONLY editor in football that needs cleaning up, all the time everywhere. Most of the time (if not ALWAYS) articles are left in worse condition than they were after their "cleanup", last example being Juan Antonio Anquela.

No point engaging in a WP:ANI report, or proving or disproving WP:HOUND, i'm done with this crap! If the other user wanted this outcome they can pat themselves on the back (and maybe one day, if/when someones does to them what they have done to me, they will understand), if not this was all pointless in the end, but all in all WP is in good hands (in 2019 as it was in 2006 when i started).

Cheers, take care as well --Quite A Character (talk) 18:17, 13 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Just thought of it now: : edits with practically the same style as me, but the other user could not care less about their contributions. Now, who's going to come forward and convince me this is not personal?!? --Quite A Character (talk) 19:23, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't know, AL; there are other ways of dispute resolution before ANI. I don't know if you tried any. I'm not going to convince you of anything, I just wish you the best--and I hope the Dutch soccer team earned some of your respect despite losing to a superior US team. Take care old friend. Drmies (talk) 22:06, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you very much for taking care of that IP! I was lying on the couch trying to figure out whether to drag the IP to ANI or request semi-protection or wait for a 3RR violation, but you nipped the issue quickly and saved me a lot of diff-digging for which I greatly appreciate! I'm sure the range block will be very helpful. Aoi (青い) (talk) 18:22, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. In the end it wasn't a difficult thing to do, and I hope it will save a lot of aggravation. Thanks, and take care, Drmies (talk) 22:07, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Achtung! Alles deutscher Getalkpagedoktorenmisenlurkerer!
Der Artiklef&uuml;rdeletionnomminator nicht gefounden sources hast, parce que het Googlen Searchenengine upturnen les Veryoldenbooks in der Blackletter und Foreign gewritten. Hilf das Nomminator mit lo gefinden auf des sources pour le Mittleeuropeanen State von Isenburg-Kempenich, voor Artikle miglioramento! Bitte. Uncle G (talk) 19:38, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Whoa, that is, eh, interesting. "My" Google searches blackletter easily enough... Drmies (talk) 03:15, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Arbitration and Enforcement
How do I initiate an arbitration and enforcement request against Snooganssnoogans? -JohnTopShelf (talk) 02:56, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
 * To quote Vanamonde93 on the AE page, "they need to demonstrate their ability to edit without a battleground attitude before they return to it." A retaliatory filing doesn't seem like a very good way to go about proving that you aren't taking a battleground attitude.  Acroterion   (talk)   03:29, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, if you go to WP:ARE you can click on the link that goes "Click here to add a new enforcement request". And as Acroterion says, or suggests, it's probably a really bad idea. Here's the thing. You edited in a way that a half a dozen admins thought was unacceptable. You can choose one of two ways (well, three ways, if you count just forgetting about Wikipedia and instead growing your own food)--you can make sure that you know what those admins (and others) were talking about, since it's likely that they actually know how to do this, and try to edit accordingly, and then file an appeal; or you can file against Snoogans, in an effort that will a. likely not be successful; b. backfire spectacularly on your own efforts. Anyway, if you are going to file that, make sure it's to the point, phrased neutrally, and is larded with just enough diffs to make your case. And if you're going to grow your own food, I hope you have better luck than me. Drmies (talk) 23:19, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry to hear that you have trouble growing food too. In my case, I think the problem is mostly rabbits, but also the heat, insects, and other critters. I had a beautiful artichoke plant with literally (not litterally) dozens of artichoke buds (mostly tiny). I harvested a few very large ones and was thrilled that I'd finally found something I could grow successfully. Then, a coupla days later I went out to discover that some demon-creature had dug right through the roots, and my precious plant had fallen over into a limp heap. But I keep trying. I hope we both start having better luck. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  00:26, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Clyde Foster nomination

 * I'm too lazy to start a new thread, so I'm just doing this here. To avoid delays with Template:Did you know nominations/Clyde Foster, I recommend taking care of a few things before a reviewer shows up. First, the hook, at 228 characters, is over the 200 limit. Then, there are two hook facts that don't appear in the article. They'll need to be added and sourced (or removed from the hook). While it's implied, the article never actually says he was African-American. It also never says anything about von Braun being a former Nazi rocket scientist. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  02:56, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yep, that one was in there and now the Nazi bit is in there too. I'm not quite sure what to do with his color. I am not going to stick "African American" in the opening line if we don't do that kind of thing for white people. Anyone who looks at the Undefeated article can see his picture. I looked at the article to find a place to put it in, but the more I look the more it seems silly to me in the article--yet in the hook it's necessary, of course. But I can find a spot. I shortened the hook too--thanks for counting. Drmies (talk) 03:07, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm slightly less lazy today, so I inserted a subsection heading. You managed to add the race in a natural way, and I think the shortened hook is better. I would add some categories such as Category:African-American academics, Category:African-American mathematicians, Category:African-American mayors, and Category:African-American military personnel, but I'll let you take care of that if you so desire. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  18:14, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Clyde Foster
Hi-Many thanks for starting the Clyde Foster article. I found the Clyde Foster obituary and added it to the article as a citation. You may want to look at it. Again my thanks-RFD (talk) 14:24, 15 July 2019 (UTC) Doktoro, you get paid in units of currency. You do not get paid in units of temperature. You have not got the hang of paid editing at all. Uncle G (talk) 18:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC) It is spot the difference time. And there are differences. Also note these: And the images here, including the AAAM one: Uncle G (talk) 21:57, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No, thank you. Through Facebook I found a niece of his and asked her for a photograph, but she has yet to PM me. I wish we had the We Could Not Fail book in our library. Drmies (talk) 14:28, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Let me rephrase that: this all started because a Facebook friend of mine posted the Undefeated article and pinged Foster's niece; I wrote it up as a tribute to Foster and to my Facebook friend. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 14:31, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * This is true, Uncle--but I did hear from Kelvin's friend today, so we might soon have a photo of Mr. Foster. I am very excited about this; I wish I could shake the man's hand and thank him in person for what he's done for Alabama and for America. Drmies (talk) 20:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The photos on this and this page, as works of the federal government, should be public domain. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  20:51, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Done - added the latter photo, the one with him looking at the camera. Better of the two, I think. Geoff &#124; Who, me? 21:30, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I added a link to his oral history interview in the Further reading section. If you'd prefer it in External links, feel free to move it. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  00:51, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You two are awesome. Thank you so much. Mandarax, I hadn't thought about that: you are absolutely right, of course, and I should have looked for that. Drmies (talk) 00:54, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * However, I'm always making trouble. The article says that he served in Korea, which agrees with the listed source: "He left Huntsville for the Korean War right after school"; however, in that oral history interview, Foster says: "I spent two years in the Army. One year in the United States and one year in Germany." M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  01:14, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, Korea is out then: given the discrepancy between the two sources I have to go with the one closest to him. Thanks for checking! Drmies (talk) 01:17, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * https://twitter.com/XuluDelgado/status/1102809673974001664
 * Uncle, is that a joke site filtered through a thesaurus? Drmies (talk) 00:56, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Lancegate listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Lancegate. Since you had some involvement with the Lancegate redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 22:44, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Darts
Maybe I am overly suspicious, but I get a very bad vibe about editor DartsforWindows. His username is the same as his (personal??) website and a darts game. And in most of his edits he is mentioning that website. (S)He denies any wrongdoing at User talk:DartsforWindows, but it still gives me the creeps. Can you (or one of your TPS) take a look at it? The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 08:42, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Pinged you from over there. Drmies (talk) 13:51, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Locations of Costa Coffee worldwide
Hey there, just wondering in relation to the Costa Coffee page, would you support the inclusion of a table similar to List of countries with IKEA stores as part of the Costa Coffee page, as seen in other retail chains' pages as well? Looking for consensus since I have no interest in an edit war but I do believe this to be valuable information worthy of inclusion. Cheers. SharkyIzrod (talk) 14:47, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:Gazetteer? Martinevans123 (talk) 14:51, 17 July 2019 (UTC)


 * SharkyIzrod, honestly, I don't know what to say. I have big problems with such articles, but they exist so we have to roll with it. The Starbucks article has a map, and I am tempted to scrap that entire list anyway--it's so time-bound, it needs updating, and what really is the point of a precise count? Moreover, all the ones you point at contain these WP:OVERLINK violations, and the IKEA one also violates MOS:FLAG. If you were to remove those links that would be a start already, and if you do that and stick the list back in, that would make me even more of a dick if I revert, so maybe that's something to consider. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 14:59, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I've since redone the list as sortable tables (by continent) with I believe no MOS violations (no flags, no overlinking). Hopefully that's agreeable to all. SharkyIzrod (talk) 06:18, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Much better, SharkyIzrod, thanks. Drmies (talk) 15:09, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Butterfingers!
I assume you meant this... Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 15:07, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Glad to see I'm not the only one whose templates slip thought the fingers and scatter on the floor.  Dlohcierekim (talk) 15:24, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yunshui, Dlohcierekim (didn't see this until just now), interesting--but hold on. First, the template/block I used also has "or suggests that you do not intend to contribute positively to the encyclopedia"--note the "or". I should have used the template you used, of course, but not because the first was the wrong one, but because the editor had "used [the account] for advertising or promotion". I don't know why I slipped this time, it's possible I had buttery fingers. Thanks for correcting. Drmies (talk) 12:46, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

St. Martin, Lorch
Thank you for the review and the better refs, - I am sorry not to get to it soon, - another person died whose in article is poor, Werner Müller (politician), so that will come first, + RL, see my talk for the evening. The "kostbarstes Kunstwerk des Bistums Limburg" thing about the altar is found several places, but nothing serious so far. Patience please. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:52, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * All I can find is some personal website. I bet the Oellerman chapter would be very helpful here. I'm thinking of writing up Hans Steinlein, and could use your help when you're done with Muller. Drmies (talk) 13:22, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I Looked at Steinlein, fixed a few ill, and have no idea what "in the aisles" may mean. Amazing that he has no German article, only a redirect. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:46, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Aisle. Drmies (talk) 15:07, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Müller is on the Main page, btw. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:46, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Gerda Arendt, there's those two cn tags on St. Martin that need to be taken care of... Drmies (talk) 15:13, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * yes, I know, and asked for patience. Today, on top of Müller, had to nominate two DYK (mine and another) last day, no precious several days, no article of today, but a friend's birthday RL ;) - aisles - St. Martin, Lorch, has only one if at all. What I really miss is an entry for that place with a floor plan etc, compare Unionskirche, Idstein. I searched on the denkxweb site, but found nothing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:05, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I found a floorplan now, church is covered in detail here, floorplan 2 pages up. I found a ref for the 1576 thing (fire and repair, sounds familiar), but not for the 2012 thing. Will look again, hopefully tomorrow, possibly going to giving up. Today's reading: a composer I met last year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

So you like Ice cream

 * Oh, that reminds me of the best American (football) joke ever... Drmies (talk) 16:48, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * did it involve reading road signs billboards and showing up at the game late ~ ? ~ ~mitch~ (talk) 20:27, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Punchline ~ Gives me plenty of time

you know... Grrrr ~ ~mitch~ (talk) 15:24, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Spike don't forget to eat your Wheaties Austin,Texas ~mitch~ (talk) 15:38, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Hey Drmies ~ did you know about an edit made here ~ I don't know who would have done such a thing ~ total disrespect ~ ~mitch~ (talk) 02:53, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

The Netherlands during the war
I just read a fascinating new book, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, which informed me in a major way about the Netherlands during World War II. Amazing stuff! Since the Netherlands was a neutral non-combatant I don't think many Americans etc. have any idea of what happened in that country (even if they've read The Diary of Anne Frank or viewed A Bridge Too Far, both of which obviously miss virtually everything). I had no idea of the deepening nightmare (and the strong resistance and intrigue) that went on in the Netherlands -- particularly in the towns of Arnhem, Velp, and Oosterbeek, which are precisely the towns Hepburn lived in. The book also mentions The Hague, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam, but most of the action takes place in the three towns I mentioned, which coincidentally got the brunt of the misery of the five long years of war.

I highly recommend this book to anybody interested in the Netherlands during World War II. It is a wonderful, personalized, "you are there" recreation.



-- Softlavender (talk) 06:14, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Non-combatant in the first installment, Softlavender. Thanks for the reading tip. I just finished my second reading of The Encyclopedia of the Dead (I need to read a book three times before I remember I read it), and reading Kis is a very different experience if you have a smartphone with Wikipedia access while reading. So the rabbithole also led to pogroms, the White Terror, Siberia, Christian Wirth, and so much more. Drmies (talk) 12:37, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Not a non-combatant.


 * I'm currently reading this:
 * Describes many deeply traumatic events. MPS1992 (talk) 12:18, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Interesting--thanks. Not yet in paperback... Drmies (talk) 12:48, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Interesting--thanks. Not yet in paperback... Drmies (talk) 12:48, 20 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Dutch Girl describes many deeply traumatic events as well. By the way, The Cut Out Girl can be gotten very cheaply (a couple of bucks) via bookfinder.com: (prices include shipping). The same will be true of Dutch Girl once it's been out longer (was just published in April). Softlavender (talk) 23:38, 20 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Indeed, The Cut Out Girl has been sold in paperback in Europe for some months now. I could mail one if there is a shortage. I cannot recommend it for raising one's mood, although is it superior in that respect to The German Girl, a book with similar topic related to those saved by Gustav Schröder on MS St. Louis. People involved included Cordell Hull and Frederick Blair. MPS1992 (talk) 00:40, 21 July 2019 (UTC)


 * That's one thing I liked about Dutch Girl -- although it depicted years of deeply traumatic events, because of the (loose, sometimes) overarching focus on Audrey Hepburn and her extended family and friends and all of their activities, the tone was lightened and the book was good to "curl up with", even during the retelling of the worst of the starvation, executions, and relentless bombing. Softlavender (talk) 01:10, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Really cannot recommend The German Girl, it is relentless unhappiness. The Cut Out Girl supposedly has an uplifting ending, but I have not got there yet and am sceptical anyway. MPS1992 (talk) 01:46, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The German Girl is a novel though. I think Drmies wants nonfiction/history/biography .... Softlavender (talk) 02:21, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You'd think if someone was writing fiction, they could at least try having a happier tone. Although, I suppose Hollywood gets criticized for doing too much of that. Also, the distinction is not quite so clear -- The German Girl has just as many period photos of the supposed protaganists as The Cut-Out Girl. And the latter admits some of its content is slightly more recovered than first-hand. Anyway, one has a Dutch relevance and the other does not. MPS1992 (talk) 03:34, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Ugh -- a 40,000-byte self-promotional autobiography
Just noticed this mess: Richard Rappaport. Written by the artist himself or close associate (IP from Pittsburgh). Christ much of it's even written in present tense. Plus 16 of his own paintings. Softlavender (talk) 02:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

UPDATE: I AfDed it. Softlavender (talk) 02:48, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It is using the historical present. Uncle G (talk) 13:44, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That is quite something. Drmies (talk) 21:30, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you appreciated the artistry involved, Doc. Hey here's his SPA friend who uploaded 348 of his paintings to Commons: . -- Softlavender (talk) 00:50, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Robert M. Schoch
Can you take a look at this article? IPs are objecting to the focus on fringe in the article and want to remove fringe from the lead and change a few other things. There is also a somewhat difficult to follow discussion about this at WP:BLPN, although in my view there's no reason it can't be held on the article Talk page. I imagine the IPs have a COI with respect to Schoch. In my view, it's a lousy article, but unless it's expanded in some way, I don't see how fringe can be taken out of the lead because at the moment the only issue discussed in the article is Schoch's fringe theory. Anyway, you're an academic (smile), so this should be right up your alley. And, of course, you have Uncle to help (second smile).--Bbb23 (talk) 13:59, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * So, I was pressure washing the sun room to prepare for priming and painting, and discovered the hard way that some of the fascia had rotted. So I had to cut that out, and now I have to replace that before I can move on. I cannot tell you how sore my tennis elbow is now. Where is my Uncle in all this? Where are you? Do I have to do EVERYTHING by myself?? Will you all bring food and beers when you come by to jump in my pool? Will ? Drmies (talk) 21:09, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Wait, you seriously want me to look into something involving the Sphinx as "Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization"? That 76 IP, that's terrible, the kind of circular logic and tendentious talk that give me a headache. It's like talking to a libertarian. And now they're whining about "fringe" being "bullying" of "minority views", as if science consists of opinion polls, and as if all sides are equal. No thank you Bbb: someone should shut down that discussion. Ha, I read a few pages from The Parapsychology Revolution. It's...something. Drmies (talk) 21:21, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm impressed. You're handy at Wikipedia and you're handy at home? I do some useful work at Wikipedia, but I'm lucky if I can use a screwdriver at home. I can tighten the screws on cupboards when the hinges get loose. I can, with help, string an extension cord from the downstairs to the upstairs when the power goes out (we have an emergency generator but it only supplies electricity to the downstairs). I'm running out of examples of things I can do.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:27, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, if you were over six feet tall I could have used you today. But like my very tall friend (whom I called for help) said, "owning homes is for the birds. Rent!" 00:58, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
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Merry Christmas Baby... and hoping that you have a good New Year !!

Nevada
I heard from a little birdie (you on a talk page) that you are traveling to Nevada in September, wearing new shoes? What city? <b style="color:#070">Cullen</b><sup style="color:#707">328  Let's discuss it  03:50, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't know yet where I'll be lined up, Cullen, but I know I ain't no Kyle. Drmies (talk) 14:37, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * If you are in Reno or at Lake Tahoe, I will take you out to dinner. But I am not trekking out to that godforsaken Area 51. <b style="color:#070">Cullen</b><sup style="color:#707">328  Let's discuss it  22:33, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Revision visibility on Michael Z. Williamson
I noticed that you OS'd Michael's edit summary on his legal threat edit, but the diff itself is still publicly available. I thought you might have intended to OS the entire diff so I'm posting this here as a heads-up. Thanks! --<b style= "color:black">letcreate123</b> (<i style= "color:green">talk</i>) 19:05, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I revdeleted it as "Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material", and I think the actual text need not be revdeleted. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 00:16, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

~ bot ~
Drmies ~ I just saw the bot come by ~ So how's it feel ~ sitting on your front porch and letting someone else take care of your business ~ you know it reminds me of the time that a few yahoo's changed the name of an Island ~ I don't care what their intentions were ~ I still think that when you look at a Frozen piece of land ~ you better get your shoes on ~ because it's going to get real cold ~ ~mitch~ (talk) 04:07, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

English Professor Vacuum
I once rescued. I recently likewise turned my hand to. In the course of it I discovered a very useful source that I plan to wave at anyone who thinks that infomercials in a Pommie newspaper or the Smithsonian quoting NPR quoting Debbie Waugh are good sources for conflating fig pudding and plum pudding. It was written by an English Professor who knew about food. {{divbox|brown|| Constance Bartlett Hieatt was an English Professor.

External link farm

 * This substub at AFC is almost as bad as those ″X is a person″ re-stubbings that we used to do.
 * This substub at AFC is almost as bad as those ″X is a person″ re-stubbings that we used to do.
 * This substub at AFC is almost as bad as those ″X is a person″ re-stubbings that we used to do.

}} Middle English and food, including pig product. And a pop-culture page on IMDB, too. This is definitely completely the wrong user talk page.

You are good if from this you can find the UChic Press book reviews from 1973. &#9786;

Uncle G (talk) 16:29, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

You've got mail!
-- ferret (talk) 15:51, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You got it, --thank you so much. Drmies (talk) 16:44, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Boop. Unrelated new email. -- ferret (talk) 19:18, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Privacy
Uncle G (talk) 19:32, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Conflict of interest/Noticeboard

Chitra Sarwara
Hasn't the editor writing this article had enough warnings by now? I have the article watchlisted because I removed the WP:BLPPROD tag, but it's impossible for me to get to grips with the topic properly, to determine whether this article should even be here, while such editing without explanation or discussion is happening. Don't you think that, in the absence of any reply to the previous warnings, it's time for a block? Phil Bridger (talk) 18:10, 25 July 2019 (UTC) For what it's worth, this quacks like a duck, but is obviously stale: I have my suspicions about these: I have reverted the egregious infringements of the BLP policy (q.v.) at, too. Uncle G (talk) 20:58, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Phil Bridger, yes, I did think it was high time for a block, but since I'd been editing the article myself (up until the second revert with some good faith), I was a bit hesitant to push the button: of course, if you'd been an admin, and maybe you should, you could have done it! Srsly, this is one of those (many) cases where you're always hoping someone is looking over your shoulder. In this case my Uncle was, and he is less myopic than me (or more focused, since I was working between classes this morning) and saw all the other problems. Uncle, thank you. Phil, thank you. Drmies (talk) 21:38, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * When you see an editor who and yet, alarm bells go off.  This is, of course, yet another person who cannot actually write, and who is copying and pasting other people's writing as a substitute.  The first person text is, of course, non-free content ("© 2017 All India Mahila Congress. All Rights Reserved") filched off the subject's own publicity blurb. This leads me to believe that this is undisclosed paid editing, becuse the pattern is:
 * goto 1.
 * Uncle G (talk) 20:07, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * goto 1.
 * Uncle G (talk) 20:07, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

I leave looking at these to other people: Uncle G (talk) 21:13, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , do you know how modern Indian politics work? There's a boatload of these articles, and I can't easily tell if these can claim notability. Are they like Congressional caucus? Is there someone you know who knows? Drmies (talk) 13:42, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * In other good news, all are now welcome(d)! MPS1992 (talk) 21:50, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Protected List of ABS-CBN drama series
I just want to protect the article of List of ABS-CBN drama series as well as doing the article of List of GMA Network drama series (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/839995081) thank you. Barneysss (talk) 14:52, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Barneysss, you really have two options--WP:RFPP or WP:RFA. Drmies (talk) 12:48, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , did you find anything exciting? I'm having some doubts about some of the IPs in that history, and about User:AaronXX0306--the socky smell is strong on that one;, that account got started a few days after you blocked User:Between Maybes. Maybe you can run your tool and compare? And should we just consider blocking 110.54.128.0/17 for registered editors until Doomsday? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 13:35, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I've blocked AaronXX0306 as a sock of Ecadiente362. As you already know, Aaron is not a sock of Between Maybes.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:48, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks Bbb, but don't overestimate my knowledge: I didn't check BM and I don't know how smart some of these people are, whether they move on to some other range after being blocked. But thanks again. What a mess. Drmies (talk) 15:33, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * My mistake. I looked at so many CU logs I mistakenly thought you had checked BM. Just so you know, Aaron and BM edit from different countries.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:51, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Drmies! I apologize for the delay responding to your ping here. Did you still need me to compare edits between and another user (which user were you looking into originally?), or are things settled and closed now? If you still need me to do anything, just let me know (ping me in your response so that I'm notified) and I'll be happy to help. :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   21:01, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey, I don't think so--but I pinged you in part also as a kind of nudge, like, "hey, you know this may be pretty big, right?" given the amount of socking. Thanks Oshwah, Drmies (talk) 21:15, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem! :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:21, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

What are the options. I just wanted to protect you in the List of GMA Network drama series in the same way you do the List of ABS-CBN drama series. Barneysss (talk) 15:00, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You can't unless you run for admin. The best thing you can do is a. provide good explanations for reverts in edit summaries and b. report to WP:AIV and to WP:RFPP. Drmies (talk) 15:33, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Try WP:RFPP because i just want to protect the article of ABS-CBN drama Thank You. Barneysss (talk) 15:47, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Radio show
Hey, Drmies, I noticed you removed the list of radio shows here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buono!&oldid=907847619 This was the group's radio show and it was also endorsed by Pizza-La, one of their biggest sponsors. But I also noticed Kim Jong-hyun (singer) had a radio show listing as well? lullabying (talk) 18:49, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * lullabying, the problem is...well there's a few. First of all it's completely unclear what that table meant; I see your explanation and I'm trying to match that to the table, but I don't see it. Second, the sourcing is primary, of course. Third, and that's the most typical thing for these articles (Dr. K-pop can confirm), it just looks bad--like resume-fluffing. I've referred to this elsewhere as "table porn", and I think that's apt. If what you say is correct (and I have no reason to doubt it), and the secondary sourcing exists, it's much better to write it up in the text of the article: what's there now is incomplete and unhelpful, and the reference is..., well, it leaves me kind of speechless. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 21:13, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Radical! I'll try to look for a better source then. Unfortunately, this period is around the time where Japan is still transitioning to using more digital media often so a secondary source might be hard to find, but I'll try! lullabying (talk) 22:19, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * What can I say? Just above I was complaining about the Doc's bad habit of connecting my username to K-pop, now I see the good Doc has actually wikilinked to it. Outrageous! In any case, I will come briefly out of my K-pop retirement to vouch for the lack of consensus for the tables. Now, back to filing my papers with the K-pop retirement registry. Dr.   K.  00:52, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You know, it's not just K-pop that suffers from inflation. Drmies (talk) 01:22, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes. Promotional BLPs, paid editing. A whole other field. I just hope you don't encounter the same stiff resistance as at K-pop some years ago. Although, I am not watching K-pop so closely anymore, I think the epic edit-warring of the past has stopped in this subject area. But, I may be wrong. Dr.   K.  01:55, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Last time I looked there were some reasonable editors--including . Drmies (talk) 01:58, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree. It is because of that crew that I was able to finally put K-pop behind me. They are great editors. Dr.   K.  02:03, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Steven B. Damelin
This is one of your checkuser blocks, and you left instructions to use the main account. Xe wants the main account, now OTRS verified, unblocked and the autobiography undeleted. See the rest of the talk page for details. Uncle G (talk) 05:00, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
 * User talk:Stevenbdamelin
 * Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 128
 * /Archive 121

Jew with a coin has been nominated for Did You Know

 * The image used in that DYK and article has been nominated for deletion: . -- Softlavender (talk) 02:16, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I don't know enough about images to get involved with that. Drmies (talk) 02:17, 29 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Please also see my note that the dates in the article are incorrect: Talk:Jew with a coin. -- Softlavender (talk) 03:09, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Eric Francis Coppolino
Please pass this on to your fellow checkusers, who will know why. Uncle G (talk) 23:49, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard
 * Not tonight, Uncle, and not until later tomorrow. It's been a busy weekend. Drmies (talk) 01:59, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I didn't really need you to look at this yourself. There are a couple of checkusers who know apparently some things about this, and they are best positioned to decide about it, per the two policies that they invoked before.  Yes, I am being vague.  What you should be doing, Doktoro, is relaxing and taking the quiz at User talk:JzG.  Uncle G (talk) 19:04, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I responded at the noticeboard. My fellow CUs--I'd have to log in to Gmail, and look at a million messages, some of which actually require my attention. Have you not seen the ostrich on my user page? Drmies (talk) 19:36, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Is that a trick question? What is "verifiable content"--content for which verification exists (somewhere), or content for which in fact verification can be imagined? Drmies (talk) 19:39, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * And I was hoping "Tony Gibbons" would be correct. A name like that should at least have a cocktail, like Tom Collins. Drmies (talk) 19:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I SWEAR I SAID THAT BEFORE I GOOGLED IT

Gary Graffman
is adding material to this article that is clearly inappropriate. Worse, as you can see from their contribution history, they are adding the same material to multiple articles. I warned them of BLP violations at BLPN (after I removed the material from many pages), but they have undone all my removals. The issue of whether their edits are in fact BLP violations is dicey. Jascha Brodsky, the alleged molester, died in 1997. However, his accuser, Lara St. John, is very much alive, Graffman is alive, as is Roberto Díaz. The user has been reverted by others than just me, mainly, but regardless of whether Deckoffa is violating BLP, adding WP:COATRACKy material, or simply being disruptive, it's not a clear enough policy violation for me (INVOLVED) to block the editor, which is what I think they deserve. Based on their latest comments at BLPN, their crusade seems to matter more to them than anything else.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:01, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree that based on the Philadelphia Inquirer article the content is inappropriate for Graffman., you are likely to get blocked if you keep adding that to that article; I'm not kidding. That "Ludwig van Toronto" article (I do not yet accept the reliability or impartiality of that source, BTW) does not help you either to make a case against Graffman--and that is what you seem to be doing here. Bbb, I'm about to go to BLPN and check it out; I do think it is likely that the Inquirer article and its allegation are valid in some articles. Drmies (talk) 15:35, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I read your comments at BLPN. I'm happy to bow out of this as I think your analysis is far better and nuanced than mine. As you know, my judgment is sometimes colored by attitude, and this fits into one of those cases. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:58, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Question about band articles
Hey, Drmies! I hope you don't mind me asking but I saw your edit on King & Prince where you removed tables and information about the members in the group (seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King_%26_Prince&oldid=887192957). I've actually been really confused because there are a lot of J-pop related articles like Angerme, Iris (Japanese band), Camellia Factory, etc. that insist on listing birthdates and assigned colors for members. Since J-pop doesn't have large international appeal compared to other mainstream bands like X Japan and Luna Sea and K-pop groups like Iz One, the pages are largely maintained by fans who think this sort of information is important (I even had a long discussion at Talk:Buono! with an editor who insisted on keeping this info). I asked around but WikiProject Musicians seems mostly inactive and I'm not sure what to do. Thanks! lullabying (talk) 16:05, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ha, I see what you did. I also see the editor you were in discussion with--I've run into that editor before. Your solution seems like a very friendly middle way, but it's not one that I would walk: while it's "verified", that's the kind of sourcing that basically rehashes press releases. In the K-pop area we've had some discussions about sourcing, and what is and isn't acceptable--and thus, what doesn't get to be in the article. There's a few editors with good sense, including  (the biggest K-pop fan I know--he's even named for it), who may know where to find some of the discussions. Oh dear, I just looked at Angerme, and that's terrible: all of that should go (as fan trivia, unverified BLP trivia) except for the name and the dates, and the table should go too since it's unnecessary and makes editing much more complicated.  knows things too, and even if they don't agree--with you, with me, with each other--they will have a better idea of where discussions were held and were things like consensual decisions might be found. I will have a few in my edit history, but it would take me hours to find; perhaps some of these editors can help you faster. I know I used to get notifications from a couple of users about such matters, but I just went through the names of 600 editors to my talk page and can't seem to find who I'm looking for; maybe they left and vanished their account. At any rate, thanks for the note. Good luck. Let me know if you run into trouble; I think Angerme needs some serious work. Drmies (talk) 17:50, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice. I've noticed the tables removed and reinstated on Angerme a lot and I hope there can be consistency one day. I hope you don't mind me coming back from time-to-time about this subject.
 * On a similar vein, I tried to copy-edit all articles related to Kirarin Revolution (especially Talk:Kirarin Revolution, Talk:Hana o Pun / Futari wa NS, and Talk:Happy (Koharu Kusumi song)) and have ran into conflicts that literally had no resolution because I wasn't able to get feedback and consensus. I really do want to improve the articles while an editor wants them to largely remain the same, so I'm not sure what to do. lullabying (talk) 22:41, 25 July 2019 (UTC)


 * OMG. My initial stands for K-pop? Is there a K-pop retirement registry where I can go to enroll? Dr.   K.  07:31, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It seems that Doktoro has given you your Drmies character name, Dr K-pop. &#9786;  Uncle G (talk) 09:13, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I wonder if will return to us. Drmies (talk) 13:38, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * More interesting is that M. White Background has turned into a single-purpose account that no longer uses edit summaries. I wonder whether xe has been hijacked.  Uncle G (talk) 23:39, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks Uncle G. I vaguely remember such friendly stunts by the dear Doc. He tends to be outrageous in a very endearing way. Dr K-pop. Gosh, I have remained speechless since that name was dropped on me. Dr.   K.  17:23, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

I'm getting out the iron brush out for that page. The members should be listed as Hi-5 (Australian band) AngusWOOF  ( bark  •  sniff ) 18:30, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry to bother you again! I saw that you redirected Johnny's Jr.... I kind of feel other trainee articles like SM Rookies and Hello Pro Kenshusei may be treading towards BLP trivia? Would it be better to redirect them to their company articles? Also, I saw your edits and just want to extend a thank you for helping out. lullabying (talk) 22:05, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes I do, absolutely. Drmies (talk) 22:38, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It seems that they've released two albums and I feel there may be people who will contest to keeping the article because they meet WP:NMUSIC... but I do think some reduction has to be done with the current members. lullabying (talk) 23:02, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

User:85.243.225.246
I think that the Portuguese disruptive user is back as (formerly . SLBedit (talk) 21:12, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Yep, but they're not as bad as before. I left a warning, in part because they were active in a talk page conversation, which I consider to be progress. Do let me know if they don't improve more... Drmies (talk) 01:33, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

didn't want to grave dance
So I'll just leave this here.-- <b style="color:black">Dloh cier ekim </b> (talk) 02:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * That is a cute donkey. Drmies (talk) 02:32, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Warren Cook Alan Cook
user:Warren Cook Alan Cook is abusing his talkpage. CLCStudent (talk) 00:51, 1 August 2019 (UTC) Ahem! Come on, Doktoro! Try harder at the old youth cred. You will have to learn who Isabela Moner is at some point. Uncle G (talk) 16:25, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * He's probably abusing himself. Drmies (talk) 00:58, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Nah I'm good, but thanks. Hey, you going to Area 51? Drmies (talk) 22:34, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * You haven't quite got the hang of this. For starters, Area 51 is currently closed for renovations.  Try "Have you seen that new Isabela Moner movie? I saw her in 100 Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead and Transformers: About Last Night, you know." Then the kids will know you to be really rad and hep to the now. Uncle G (talk) 17:54, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I'll try that, but I have little hope that it will do much for me. Fun fact: I went to CVS today and dropped sixty bucks on tampons and pads. DAMN having periods is expensive. On the bright side, I got a HUGE deal on a dozen boxes of Tic Tacs. Damn, in India they have cardamom? And there was aniseed?? I need to clean up that article--there isn't even any mention of Trump, or of the infamous Rubio - Tic Tac - Trump handoff. Drmies (talk) 21:36, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

It's August
It's August. It's 10,000 degrees outside. Permission to one-click archive the Xmas messages (from literally unknown years) at the top of this page? Softlavender (talk) 00:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * It is only August 2 UTC, . Please read Christmas in July. <b style="color:#070">Cullen</b><sup style="color:#707">328  Let's discuss it  00:39, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:IDONTLIKEIT. -- Softlavender (talk) 00:41, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Cullen, is that a CoC thing? Softlavender, knock yourself out--I don't know why it hasn't been removed yet. Also it's only in the 90s here. Drmies (talk) 01:27, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The bot only archives things that have date stamps, so if holiday templates don't have dates, they don't get bot-archived. You have to do those manually or via a tool like one-click. Softlavender (talk) 01:33, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Or have you do it! Thanks! Drmies (talk) 01:36, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The Chamber of Commerce and the fat guys with bushy white beards who own red suits trimmed with white fur want Christmas season to last 365 days a year. Here's a film for your August viewing: Christmas in July (film). <b style="color:#070">Cullen</b><sup style="color:#707">328  Let's discuss it  02:39, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The consensus seems to be that the templates were left without appropriate expiry materiel. If so, this is banned under upcoming EU legislation. I will send the templates (already removed) back, unless anyone objects. MPS1992 (talk) 03:26, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't know what you mean exactly, MPS. As for legislation...well. Drmies (talk) 00:37, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

user:Here comes the tickle monster
I was surprised to see this user be blocked for violating the username policy. I was just curious about which policy she violated. CLCStudent (talk) 23:38, 2 August 2019 (UTC) It's not he-who-must-not-be-named, but that was pretty good. A ticklish edit at best.-- <b style="color:black">Dloh cier ekim </b> (talk) 23:46, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * It's the combination of the name and the edit. The edit proves that the name was just a joke, and that their intent was to vandalize. If they hadn't made that edit, I wouldn't have blocked. Drmies (talk) 23:44, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I blocked User:Voldemort. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:50, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I've never heard of Skymhnty. Compromised account? Maybe mine is up for sale too. Wait, Tony, wasn't I one of your socks? User:Dlohcierekim, I'm too old for tickles. BTW I am sure you two have run into CLCStudent before: they do a lot of good work here. Drmies (talk) 00:35, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * And if we lived in a world not designed by the French existentialists, they'd be an admin.-- <b style="color:black">Dloh cier ekim </b> (talk) 01:13, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Skymhnty is a weird one. Don't know how they got the Voldemort password. Probably myspace. But wrong continent based on the logs which is how Risker and I decided it was compromised. does a lot of good work. Drmies, I'm both you and Volunteer Marek. I'm also a communist fascist zionist nazi antisemite social justice warrior transphobic bigot depending on which banned user on which forum you ask. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:11, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

My question on edits by a valued editor
If you (or any stalker) can spare some of your valuable time, can you take a quick look at User talk:Wehwalt/Archive 21? I questioned an edit the user made on a section (the lede) that appears to me to be against consensus. The user persists in this, even after a month of further discussion (Talk:Richard Nixon).

I am asking for no more than enough of your time to determine if there's some quick and simple resolution that I've missed, such as I (or anyone else) being way off base here. A more detailed analysis would be welcomed, but if it involves anything more than a simple judgement, it's probably not worth your time. It's all over a small textual difference; the reason I haven't just dropped this is that I'm perplexed on why such an experienced and valued editor seems to be at odds with basic WP policy just on this one small issue; I'm left wondering if I'm the one very mistaken, and need education on WP policy. That's why I'm asking for a quick review.

Even a lack of response here is fine; I'll assume there's no simple answer, and I'm prepared to start an RFC to resolve and understand this. --A&#8239;D&#8239;Monroe&#8239;III(talk) 16:33, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * A D Monroe, I think I am the one who must be missing something obvious. What the RfC decided on, if I read it correctly, is to have his resignation toward the end of the second sentence; Wehwalt's edit fronted it. Some of the edits you are pointing at have things shifted around in that second sentence; finally, here I see what I think is the one that matters to you: the resignation shifted from the end of the first sentence to the beginning of the second sentence. That RfC that Cunard closed in 2017 ends on the consensus to not change the first sentence this situation. But an RfC isn't forever, and there's an essay somewhere that says "consensus can change"; Wehwalt wasn't proposing to change to the first sentence initially proposed in that RfC. He said somewhere that he's changing a comma to a period; it's kind of sneaky but it amuses me.I don't know, A D Monroe. I suppose I can see your point, but that RfC was a while ago, and Wehwalt's appositive has an elegance that I appreciate, though yes, it moves that from the first sentence (I do not agree with your reading that somehow this resignation applies to the vice-presidency). I really do not want to look into the actual dispute you are currently having, if that's what's going on. I've gotten in too many fights already, and I remember Wehwalt questioning my administrative judgment a couple of years ago (besides not being convinced of my editorial skills, I think), so I should probably not try to play the judge there. Thanks, and good luck, Drmies (talk) 22:59, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for you time and input.
 * I accept what you say overall, but for completeness, I'll clarify a couple points. I think you're getting the RFC backwards.  The RFC was about breaking the first sentence into two, with the resignation being the new 2nd sentence; the RFC was defeated, preserving a single sentence that contained the resignation, as the first sentence of the article.
 * I agree that the RFC isn't everything. (Though it's not nothing, of course; some reason should be given to go against it, and none was ever provided.) However, the consensus I'm saying the user is going against was the one active at the moment of the edit, in Talk:Richard Nixon.  All the other users commenting stated agreement with the wording at the start of the discussion, which was also in agreement with the form at the end of the RFC.  So consensus not only did not change, but was confirmed.
 * I know the actual change isn't a big deal in the article itself, and by that measure isn't very important. If I did start a new RFC, many might respond with "why bother?"  But besides the principle of the thing, wanted to ensure I know how WP works, so I know how to function withing it.  I've always assumed consensus should overrule a single user's edits at some point.  Based on what you're saying, some users get they own way regardless, just by being disagreeable and stubborn.  I'm not like that, and never will be.  Sadly, I guess my contributions to WP will have to be confined to retreat from sight of these editors.
 * Again, thanks for your time. --A&#8239;D&#8239;Monroe&#8239;III(talk)  19:08, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * A D Monroe, I didn't say "some users get they own way regardless", and I don't think Wehwalt or you are being unreasonable in your insistence. Drmies (talk) 22:38, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * But that's the point. If neither of us are unreasonable, then his edit reasonable prevails regardless of consensus where mine reasonably wouldn't.  Ergo, we're not equal editors.  Though disheartening, I must simply accept this.  No response necessary.  Thanks again.  --A&#8239;D&#8239;Monroe&#8239;III(talk)  16:14, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * So why do I get the feeling you're somehow blaming me for this, as if I am somehow endorsing Wehwalt's edit by fiat? No response necessary: this belongs on the article talk page, without Drmies in it. Drmies (talk) 21:31, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry! I guess I was venting, but not at you! (Not intentionally, anyway.)  This thread belongs nowhere, as there's nothing to be done.  I think it should be deleted, as it can do no good, but might harm in some way.  --A&#8239;D&#8239;Monroe&#8239;III(talk)  16:46, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

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