User talk:Muse-of-nightmares

December 2022
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Bell hooks. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you.  General Ization Talk  17:46, 29 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I'm not aware of what you are referring to with the word "unconstructive" and "vandalism." Please elaborate. Thanks! Muse-of-nightmares (talk) 17:48, 29 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Click on the word vandalism above and it will be explained to you.  General Ization Talk  17:49, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I believe that this statement from the above link clearly states that I am not within the bounds of vandalism with my edits, "Even if misguided, willfully against consensus, or disruptive, any good faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism." I was attempting to improve the encyclopedia, therefore supporting the "project's purpose" by correcting the incorrect grammar on the page. As far as I'm aware, in the English language, we capitalize proper nouns so as to distinguish and recognize them as proper. Please advise. Muse-of-nightmares (talk) 17:53, 29 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Your repeated editing of the article to change the case of the subject's name, and removal of the note to editors advising not to do so as well as the cited content that explains the subject's self-identification with that name, is clearly not constructive and falls under the heading of vandalism. Please stop wasting our time.  General Ization  Talk  17:57, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes General, I will stop wasting your time after I ask one last question: According to a variety of sources including the Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation ("Proper nouns are always capitalized. They name specific people, places, and things (Joe, Chicago, Academy Award)") and the United States Government Publishing Office ("Proper names are capitalized. Rome, John Macadam, Italy, Brussels, Macadam family, Anglo-Saxon"), proper nouns, like the name of a person are always capitalized. The source listed as a justification for not capitalizing reasons that it is the personal preference of the subject of the article to not have her name capitalized. My question is if personal preferences allow one to change the way one's name appears, could one, for example, have their name as "John Doe 😊" and therefore be referenced throughout the article as "Doe 😊"? And with a name that is composed of two common nouns, "bell" and "hooks," how is one to distinguish that we are talking about a person, not a thing that is called a "bell hooks"? Thank you for helping me better understand the Wikipedia guidelines. I will attempt to send you a cookie, although I don't know how. Muse-of-nightmares (talk) 18:20, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * See WP:COMMONNAME. Also see the many cited sources at the article which reflect the subject's preference as to the capitalization of their name, and which establish the lower-case name as the common name for this subject. You may also wish to review the Talk page archives at the article to see the discussion and consensus established among editors to respect this preference.  General Ization  Talk  18:33, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I thank you for your brief explanation. However, my second question still stands regarding the confusion generated by the preferred name of the subject. And could I be "John Doe 😊" if I preferred? Cookies were awarded. Muse-of-nightmares (talk) 18:36, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I think between WP:COMMONNAME and WP:CONSENSUS, I have answered your question fully.  General Ization Talk  18:38, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I would disagree, but your attempt was graciously appreciated. Muse-of-nightmares (talk) 18:43, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Bell hooks, you may be blocked from editing.  Andethyst  (talk)  17:47, 29 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, can you elaborate on "disruptive editing" and what you mean by "vandalize"? I'm not sure what you're referring to. Thanks! Muse-of-nightmares (talk) 17:50, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * To the Honourable Andethyst: I will provide you with cookies as a reward for your aid in my quest for the knowledge I indicated my interest in receiving above. Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant, Muse. Muse-of-nightmares (talk) 18:31, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make unexplained changes to information on Wikipedia, as you did at Bell hooks.  General Ization <i style="color: #000666;">Talk </i> 02:28, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

<div class="user-block" style="padding: 5px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; border: 1px solid #a9a9a9; background-color: #ffefd5; min-height: 40px"> You have been blocked temporarily from editing for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Ad Orientem (talk) 02:41, 30 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Sir or Madam, I am officially requesting to be unblocked. I have been treated very, very unfairly by the General. I recommend taking disciplinary action against the General for his or her abuse of his or her high office. Please let me know when I have been unblocked and when the General has been disciplined. Get your officers in line! Muse-of-nightmares (talk) 02:55, 30 December 2022 (UTC)