User talk:Mr rnddude/Archive 14

Caracalla
Hi Mr rnddude, there's a harv ref error on Caracalla in ref 11 where "Cooley, p. 495" doesn't point to anything in the sources – would you happen to know what publication it refers to? Best - Aza24 (talk) 06:57, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Cooley was added in by GPinkerton with this edit. Whoever changed it to harv/sfn forgot to move the citation details down into the bibliography. I've gone ahead and added them back in and updated the footnote with the year. Mr rnddude (talk) 13:30, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Splendid, thank you! Aza24 (talk) 18:56, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

October harvest
thank you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:21, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
 Happy First Edit Day! Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

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Pyramid of Neferirkare
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Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open
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TFA
Thank you today for Pyramid of Neferirkare, about "the monument of the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai –yes that other candidate that you can read about below this one. Eye-catching facts: It's the largest of its period, and about the same size as Menkaure's pyramid–the short one with the big gash in the middle of it's north face– at Giza. Underneath it's exterior true pyramid face, lies the heart of it's step pyramid design; a design deprecated in the Third Dynasty and famously used first in the original Egyptian pyramid, that of Djoser at Saqqara."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:47, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Have a good new year 2021! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:32, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, wish you a happy new year too. Mr rnddude (talk) 04:54, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Podcast
Somewhere I saw you mention a podcast about two biologists dicussing the Lab Leak Hypothesis. I haven't been able to locate such a podcast. Could you share the link with me? Or tell me where to find it? Googling "podcast biologists Lab Leak Hypothesis" returned a bunch of non-podcast hits from last spring Thanks! TelosCricket (talk) 19:59, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I was referring to the Dark Horse Podcast with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. You can find it on YouTube, the relevant portion starts at 17:52 on Episode 62. It goes on for about twenty minutes or so. After that, the pod takes a sharp turn towards the recent events in the US. Mr rnddude (talk) 22:32, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

TFA
Thank you today for Pyramid of Nyuserre, introduced: "Some eye catching facts: 1) Nyuserre had to complete not 1, not 2, but 3 other pyramids before building his own. This included completing the largest pyramid built in the Fifth Dynasty, which was about equal in size to one of the Great Pyramids of Giza. 2) The last people ever to enter the pyramid risked having 90,000 kg blocks collapse onto their heads. 3) Nyuserre employed a pink granite lion to guard his privacy after his death. No I don't know his hourly rates/salary, nor his current place of employment. 4) Nyuserre invented the pylon (okay I'm stretching that a bit), two of which exist in his pyramid complex. And 5) 7 dynasties or ~500 years after his death, Nyuserre's cult had lived on/been revived. How many cults do you know of that have stuck around for 5 centuries?"! - Have a good new year! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:52, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
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GAN Backlog Drive - July 2021
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August 2021
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 * This is a copy of what I placed on your talk page. I am taking this as intent to continue disrupting the encyclopedia, and will be opening an ANI filing shortly. As you've stopped, I will not pursue this at AN/I. Mr rnddude (talk) 14:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * There was no intent, the wording seemed appropriate based on your disruptions and I took the liberty of borrowing it. Charles Bélanger Nzakimuena (talk) 14:59, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Return of the mottainai socks?
Hey, I don't think I ever got a chance to properly thank you for the hard work you put into this, but I really appreciated it during an otherwise very dark time in my Wikipedia career. Anyway, something just caught my eye and I figured, given that you expressed interest in the past (indeed, you were the one who pinpointed the 10 November 2019 date that I hadn't paid much attention to), but does this look suspicious to you? An account with about 160 edits, all of them minor, going back to 18 November 2019, suddenly shows up on a fairly minor article (the show came out three months ago and our article has presumably been getting fewer and fewer page views as the months go by) to revert an edit I made in a very niche (and therefore uncontroversial, among the majority of random passers-by) topic area that I have a fairly high level of specialist knowledge in.

This is giving me pretty strong flashbacks, anyway.

(To be fair, though, this may just be the Georgian troll who has been trying to hack my account roughly once every 48 hours for the last three weeks. I have been working under the assumption that that's one of the white supremacists I was sounding off on more recently, who are almost certainly not related to Francis Schonken and the mottainai fiasco.)

Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 10:45, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * - As a lone editor, there's little to say concretely. It's easier to raise parallels when there's a brigade. I noted that the editor is inactive 04:00 - 12:00 (see Patiodweller and Worldlywise) and they are likely Canadian (niche article editing, see also Challenger.rebecca). Neither is sufficiently unusual, and they make sense in tandem. Mr rnddude (talk) 20:49, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

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