User talk:Hamster Sandwich

A cup of coffee for you!

 * Thank you very much for your kindness in saying so! I appreciate it. Regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 13:13, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Re: "my spellcheck is not reliable!"
The Spell-Checker Song: Owed to a Spell Czech Her (Ode to a spellchecker)

Eye halve a spelling chequer.

It came with my pea sea.

It plane lee marks four my Rhea view,

Miss steaks aye Ken knot see.

Iran this Poe Em threw it.

Your shore lee glad two no.

It is core wrecked in every weigh,

My chequer tolled me sew.

A Czech her is a bless sing.

It freeze yew lodes of thyme.

It helps me right stiles ewe can reed,

And aides me when aye rime.

Eye strike a key and type a word.

And weight four it two say.

Weather eye am wrong oar write.

It shows me strait aweigh.

Each frays come posed up on my screen,

Is trussed two bee a Joule.

The check Ur pours o'er every word,

To Czech sum spelling rule.

As soon as a mist ache is maid.

It nose bee fore two long.

And eye can put the error rite.

Its rare lea ever wrong.

Bee fore a veiling cheque curs,

hour spelling mite decline.

If wee R. lacks oar have a laps,

We wood bee maid two wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling,

Is checked with such grate flare,

There are know faults with in my cite,

Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,

It does knot bring a tier.

My pay purrs awl due glad den,

With words sew fare too here.

2 rite with care is quite a fete,

Of witch won should bee proud;

and wee mussed dew the best week Anne,

Sew flaws argh knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays.

Such soft wear four pea seize.

And why eye brake in 2 averse

With righting sure too please.

Attribution: I composed the above as a modification of various versions found on the web labeled "author unknown" or some such. Later I discovered this page, which appears to document the original sources, and my version is clearly a heavily modified derivative version of what is listed on that page. To whatever extent the above is my own work, I release it under the Creative Commons CC0 license. --Guy Macon --Guy Macon (talk) 00:59, 13 December 2018 (UTC) [ Citation Needed ]
 * Thank you for this, I dindt evun halve to rub it in my speel czech hir! Bust regrins, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 01:15, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Need help
I just found this page after I requested a permission, and found a (new to me) link there, to what I am guessing is a MediaWiki project that I have no idea about. Apparently, 2 years ago someone was able to edit under my name at that page. It may be because I don't have a registered account at that project, but I am unsettled by finding it there. Here is the link [] Thanks, in advance. Hamster Sandwich (talk) 00:48, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * May I assume that the last two edits I see at


 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Hamster_Sandwich


 * are from you but the first one isn't?


 * I see that a meta admin reverted you:


 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants:IdeaLab/Arbitration_Tribunal&action=history


 * I have alerted him to this thread:


 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ABillinghurst&type=revision&diff=18716853&oldid=18711245


 * Let's see what he has to say. --Guy Macon (talk) 01:13, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * TY very much! Hamster Sandwich (talk) 01:20, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Issue at metawiki, resolved there — billinghurst  sDrewth  01:48, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * 1) the complainant removed a user comment to a proposal in their name, that was reverted. Subsequently it would appear that the complainant had issues in a comment in their original submission. How they put it their during their submission I can only reflect is the complainant's issue. What happened to the user's account in 2016 is beyond comment and investigation. — billinghurst  sDrewth  01:29, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * (ec) Addendum. User has been advised to change their password. First step that anyone should do when they believe that there is a chance that your account has been compromised is to firstly check the email address for your account, then change your password. Use a unique, complex password, preferably of minimum of 10 characters. — billinghurst  sDrewth  01:41, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I apologize for removing the comment by another editor. I inadvertently removed that comment when I found what I thought was a vexatious comment left by a red-link "Hamster Sandwich" at the foot of an infobox of some kind. I thank billingshurst for fixing all of that up, at any rate. I can't explain the addition of material to MadiaWiki in 2016 in my "red-link" name, other to state I myself did not make it/ them. Hamster Sandwich (talk) 01:38, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Maybe a weird glitch in the software? It is plausible that someone else registered that name (who knows how long ago) and made one edit in 2016, and somehow the system didn't realize that you had already registered it in 2005. By all means change your password, in case he somehow has the same one.


 * In 2005 all Wikimedia sites had separate user accounts and passwords, but starting in February 2013 (completed in April 2015) the WMF forcibly renamed all clashing user accounts so that every user now had a single unified login across all Wikimedia sites. Maybe they missed one?


 * The fact that you could edit on meta tells me that you have unified login. Could you please check


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=Hamster+Sandwich


 * And look for anything else on another wiki that you didn't post?


 * Finally, I don't see anything here that needs an English Wikipedia admin. Would you be so kind as to cut and paste this to your talk page and we can continue this discussion there? Just replace this entire thread with a link to where it was moved to. Or ask me and I can move it for you. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:05, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Password has been changed to an newer strengthened one. It seems to be one specific case of a rather nonsense edit made in a (apparently random) infobox that was ignored for two years till I found it. WELL DONE ME, eh?. I only found it when I saw a new search parameter for my past edits at a request for permissions page. Regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 05:35, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Addendum: I think it might be meaningful that when I made what I thought was the removal of the footer of the info box (inadvertantly, and I have no idea how) reverting a comment on the talk page. My mistake there. The meaningful part is, that after I made that edit, I got a message welcoming me for my first edit over there. Where I had never been. Wikidata, yes, I removed some trash over there last week; but MetaWhatever, no. 05:47, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Possible solution- After racking my brain, in 2016 I had (as much as it pains me to describe someone) a skeevy hacker kid living two doors down from me. At the time we were both on the same WiFi network (coffee shop downstairs, unlimited internet $2.25 a day and a free coffee!) For what it's worth, he was just that kind of smartass. Not obnoxious, just smartass. Whatever, it was nothing that wasn't easily fixed and I have new security protocol. I am at the same risk as any other wikipedia editor in that respect. Hamster Sandwich (talk) 06:49, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Compromised account?
A glitch in the WMF software? Maybe. But, considering the fact that a number of accounts have been compromised recently, some of them admin accounts, and considering the manner in which Hamster Sandwich returned to editing (i.e. casually asking for "The Hammer" back at WP:BN), and their very odd response to being turned down (Abrupt messages concludng with "End communication"), has anyone actually looked into the possibility that this is a compromised account? Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:20, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * (Scatches head) He seems to have the same sense of humor he had with this post from 2012, so if he is a new Hamster Sandwich (New Hamster Sandwich would be a great name for a punk band, BTW) he is doing a fine job of imitating the old one. --Guy Macon (talk) 06:44, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I honestly think they should change the name of Dolphin to Ocean Pony. End Communication. Hamster Sandwich (talk) 06:56, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted
Hello. Per your request at WP:PERM, your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright. This allows you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

See also: AGK &#9632;  12:20, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Reviewing pending changes, the guideline on reviewing
 * Pending changes, the summary of the use of pending changes
 * Protection policy, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators.

Seasons Greetings
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Hello Hamster Sandwich: From high in the Canadian Arctic I hope you enjoy the holiday season, the Winter or Summer solstice, Quviahugvik, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah or even the Saturnalia, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:00, 21 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Adapted from Season's Greetings

Barnstar lust
My thanks to you User:182.58.245.48 for your kind words. I wouldn't run for administrator again if I were the last person on earth with a computer, but thanks all the same! As always, I encourage useful IP editors to establish "User credentials" so as to gain some currency as far as good will and recognition by your editing peers. Please do consider it. More positives than negatives involved, by far. Good luck, and happy, trouble free editing! Hamster Sandwich (talk) 05:25, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Hermes 3000
– Ianblair23 (talk) 00:03, 7 January 2019 (UTC) TY very much, and thanks to User:Richie333 for requesting the creation of that article! Best regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 03:48, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

2019


Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy 2019

begin it with music and memories

Not too late, I hope ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:40, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Marie von Erdődy (February 12)
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 SITH   (talk)   18:17, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Sith. New users like me appreciate the message. I would have pinged you properly, but your username is very long and takes up too many electrons. I am trying to be frugal... Electrons are a finite resource, which is why (I have surmised) is the actual reason the article you claim is not noteworthy is included in other wiki's. wiki.en should set a good example in saving these precious electrons. Well Done! Regards, Hamster Sandwich (talk) 12:52, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Addendum: It was because the citations weren't inline with the text. I understand now that the German WP is a bit different from here... Notability isn't the issue. It's the refs. My apologies, all 'round as necessary.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Marie von Erdődy has been accepted
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Teahouse Hosts
Hi there. I just wanted to let you know that I am doing a Teahouse 'spring clean' and have removed your name from the Teahouse Hosts list, as you've not been very active there recently. In fact, your last contribution there was 12 months ago. That doesn't mean you're not welcome to answer questions there at any time in the future, or to sign up again as a Host if your interest reawakens. All the best, Nick Moyes (talk) 15:10, 20 February 2020 (UTC)