User talk:FlashSheridan

P.G. Wodehouse
I thought I knew my Plum, but I've never heard any of his novels being called "buzzer novels", as you did in you Edit Summary. Which ones are those? - DavidWBrooks 20:40, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

"Buzzer" was a term used by at least one Wodehouse critic (I'm afraid I've forgotten his name) for a class of protagonist: young, male, and overly-confident but good-hearted. My particular favorite is Uneasy Money, but there are many others. FlashSheridan 05:14, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

List of fictional expletives
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 * "Of course, there's a difference between assuming good faith and ignoring bad actions."
 * FlashSheridan 15:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


 * That's where I failed, because I didn't ignore bad actions.


 * People like you strike me as why Wikipedia has a bad reputation in some quarters. I've read that book a dozen times, and wrote what I wrote in my entry entirely in good faith based on a reasonable reading in context and some idea if what Heinlein was intending. If you had just rewritten it, fine. But you were compelled to rewrite it further just ninety minutes later, and had to stick in a bad faith jab at me to boot. This kind of Obsessive-Compulsive action drives good writers out of Wikipedia as other editors like you, to paraphrase Heinlein, "pee in it. then like the flavor."


 * Davidkevin 04:39, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Follow-ups to Davidkevin's user page, where there are a number of other disciplinary issues, some of which he has archived. Please also avoid using improper language on my page.FlashSheridan 06:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Stop hand.svg|left|30px]] It seems to me that you are acting in an uncivil manner. Please remain civil and don't resort to making personal attacks or instigate edit wars.


 * Davidkevin 07:29, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Re : Deletion of PocketSensei?
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Spidey 3
Sorry for my double revert, I don't really have a vendetta against The New Yorker or anything. Lately I think that section has basically gotten overstuffed with every reviewer, and I went to prune it of unspecific comments. Alientraveller 15:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry, if Fox News is worthy of inclusion, the New Yorker surely is. If pruning is needed, please remove the former.
 * —FlashSheridan 16:23, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Beowulf
Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


 * What I added was footnoted, and hardly personal, though a later editor removed the references.
 * — FlashSheridan (talk) 05:37, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Diefenbaker (wolf)
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AfD nomination of List of Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
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Antony Hope
I noticed that you have edited Anthony Hope. If you are still interested in that article, please have a look at the recent changes I have made. Any additions or clarifications would be most welcome. Thanks! BrainyBabe (talk) 19:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


 * A quick look at the intro looks good, thanks. I'm afraid I'm no longer actively watching or contributing financially to Wikipedia, given the recent censorship in the name of clean-up, but I wish your endeavor well.
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 17:48, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Camelot - Kennedy
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 * Sorry, as I said in my check-in comment, I'm merely following the Alan Jay Lerner article.
 * — Flash

Wikipedia censorship
As noted above, I’m no longer actively watching or contributing financially to Wikipedia, given the recent censorship in the name of clean-up. Here’s the latest example:

Barbara Bauer dab Barbara Rylko-Bauer
I removed the disambiguation again from the article. Red links are for when there is need for an article, since this article was deleted and salted there is obviously consensus that there should be no article. If consensus changes and an article gets created the disambiguation can of course be added again. Garion96 (talk) 19:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


 * > there is obviously consensus that there should be no article

Is this a joke? I accept that there may be a valid but secret reason for the censorship of the original article. There may even have been a valid but secret reason for the censorship of the discussion of the reason for the censorship. Perhaps there was some justification for censoring my mention of the censorship in the disambiguation page. But given the press coverage of the controversy, and the similarity in names, there is obviously a need for disambiguation. And saying that the invisible consensus is obvious is laughable, whether intentionally or not.
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 02:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Holy Hell (film)
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List of tools for static code analysis
I want to comment on this edit. Please proceed carefully. Make good arguments on Talk pages and try to go forward from there. If you restore a link to a specific product to an article, even if it is open source, you may not be treated sympathetically. I don't think this kind of edit summary will win any friends: Correct ill-informed cleanup; LLVM is infrastructure. EdJohnston (talk) 17:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I long ago won the argument on that talk page against editors who don’t know the subject and don’t obey even their own made-up rules, much less Wikipedia’s.
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 06:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

I started a new section on Talk:List of tools for static code analysis‎ to discuss your reversions. &mdash;  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:55, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * (Moved to proper section FlashSheridan (talk) 16:08, 24 May 2009 (UTC). Please be careful at least when you’re editing my page.)

Edit summary "Falsify of claim"
In the edit summary to your post on the merger proposal (here) you suggest that there was a falsification of the claim of unanimous consensus. This problem began with the posting of the nomination of the incorrect talk page. An editor nominated the UCLA International Human Rights Law Program for merger with the UCLA School of Law page, but posted the nomination on the UCLA talk page, instead of on the UCLA School of Law talk page where it belonged. I stepped in to change the merger proposal, to knock out a merge to UCLA as a candidate, whereafter the separate topic of merger to UCLA Law School would have ideally taken place.

You disagreed with merging it to UCLA and the others agreed with merging it to UCLA Law School, which uniformly add up to "disagree with merging to UCLA." That clarified, I want to make sure that you have no bone to pick with me over this portion of the evolution. I am not aware of a subsequent merger proposal to UCLA School of Law; it seems to merely have been done based on majority consensus from the previous malformed merger proposal (malformed because placed on the wrong talk page). –Newportm (talk • contribs) 15:06, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * In other words, you’re not claiming that there was unanimous consensus, which was my point.
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 21:39, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I think you refer to the merger; I was not responsible for it. I was responsible for clarifying the consensus on "merge to UCLA" only.  Please help me understand; isn't the distinction similar to three people voting for "glass half-empty," and three others voting for "glass half-full," which two options can reasonably said are equivalent?  –Newportm (talk • contribs) 17:54, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Facebook and the E Book
Hello. You deleted this reference with the statement, "the E Book, the Academy’s rulebook, was distinct from the Facebook." This is partially correct. In earlier years, the book of photographs of PEA students sported a red cover that said, 'E Photo Address Book.' It was referred to by PEA students as the 'E Book.' Only later did the book of rules and such come to be called 'the E Book.' I'm not sure what year that changed. I'm looking right now at a photograph of the original 'E Photo Address Book,' but I can't upload it here as it's a friend's. I'll try to find a photograph (or cite) for the relevant book. Incidentally, I agree with your change to a 'classics diploma.' Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 10:07, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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The Imitation Game
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Perma.cc
Hi. I'm quietly pseudo-raging right now because I just went to write a Perma.cc article and you beat me to it. Grrrrr. Nice work! :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 18:45, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Purely selfish, I assure you, as I wanted to use them, first for my own stuff on general principles, then for some references to my supervisor and grand-supervisor. Thanks for the cleanup.
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 05:22, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * Fixed, thanks.
 * — FlashSheridan (talk) 18:24, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Tsakalotos, St. Pauls & Eton
I read Ήτον in the Greek article that I cited regarding his birth family, too. It is possible that he attended both. I'll check some other sources. --Jpbrenna (talk) 04:33, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Talk: Lensman series
Hi Flash,

Being a fellow enthusiast, I really appreciate your comments in the Talk section (and I agree that retconning made the series mostly worse, not better). But in the Astounding January 1942 section you say:

Cp. Galactic Patrol September 1937 p. 42 and other ret-con difficulties.)

P. 42 is in Eando Binder's When the Sun Went Out. (I inherited the original magazines from my uncle, who was killed in WWII).

Also, I was disappointed to read that republication in the original form is unlikely: judging from the reviews and comments I see, there should be a fairly large potential market. Was any reason given?

Paul Magnussen (talk) 19:23, 2 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Ouch, thanks, I’ll try to fix the mistake soon.
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 19:26, 2 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Corrected to:
 * (Cp. Galactic Patrol September 1937 p. 42 October 1937, p. 62 (book p. 51) and other ret-con difficulties with the inertialess drive.)
 * Thanks for the correction and sorry for the delay; a battle with the App Store, galley proofs, and travel intervened.
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 00:09, 6 March 2016 (UTC)


 * As for the unlikelihood of republication (in general, not just the originals), the reason was Verna Smith Trestrail’a lawsuit against the entities responsible for the Lensman anime, which briefly included publishers. (OTOH I seem to recall my high school library getting an ad for a complete run of Astounding on microfilm, but https://www.technologyreview.com/s/415797/an-astounding-collection/ suggests I was wrong.)
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 00:22, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * Fixed. Thanks DPL bot and apologies to Col. Foster, though I will point out that Michael Billington (critic) did act once at Oxford, as the Priest in The Birds, by Aristophanes,
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 17:24, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

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Josh Katz
Hi FlashSheridan, I removed your entry to Josh Katz because DAB pages should link to existing Wikipedia content, and I couldn't find any article that mentions the Princeton classicist. Leschnei (talk) 14:34, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * > If you are unable to edit, please exactly follow the instructions which appear when you attempt to do so.


 * I did from the machine I was logged in on; I was not allowed even to edit my own Talk page, so I followed the instructions and filed an appeal ticket. The ticket was denied with no explanation given for the violation of Wikipedia policy: “In nearly all cases, using an account to edit Wikipedia will allow you to do so,” and I was denied the right even to comment on the denial.  Nor was I allowed to file another ticket.  I then edited my Talk page from another machine, and you have also denied that request, also apparently without reading it.
 * —FlashSheridan (talk) 17:46, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * This account is not blocked. Without additional information, there's literally nothing we can do for you. --Yamla (talk) 17:49, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * > This account is not blocked.
 * I never said it was, and in my ticket I provided all the information requested. I can’t view the ticket now:  “The server returned a "405 Method Not Allowed".”  Here are my notes:
 * >> Blocking administrator	JJMC89
 * >> No reason was giving for blocking me even when logged in. I am a Comcast user, so blocking me when not logged in may be legitimate, but blocking me when logged in violates policy:…
 * >> The blocked IP was given as 2A09:BAC1:76C0:6E0:0:0:B:238, which was rejected by the form.
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 * That IP address does not belong to Comcast. It belongs to Cloudflare, a proxy service. You need to disable your proxy/vpn (possibly the Apple iCloud Private Relay service) and wait a full 24 hours for the block to clear. --Yamla (talk) 11:37, 14 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I should not alter the security settings on my corporate machine. I have no objection to Wikipedia’s stated policy, nor to having to log in to edit, even my own Talk page.  But the following are obviously unacceptable:
 * • Blocking me from editing with a misleading explanation.
 * • Closing my appeal ticket without an explanation.
 * • Preventing me from adding a request for an explanation to my appeal ticket.
 * • Preventing me from viewing my appeal ticket.
 * • Preventing me from filing another appeal ticket.
 * • Dismissing my appeal on my Talk page by telling to do what I had already done.
 * • Dismissing my appeal by telling me there's “literally nothing we can do for you,” without reading the information I had already provided.
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Hello! I noticed that you created the Giant Arc article, but there is already The Giant Arc article which covers the same subject. Would you consider making a redirect to the latter article?  Delta  space 42 (talk • contribs) 15:52, 12 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Excellent point, but someone beat me to it.
 * — FlashSheridan (talk) 17:10, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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