User talk:Osomite


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Thank you for your contributions on Dinosaurs
Hi Osomite, We’ve noticed that you edited articles related to Dinosaurs. Thank you for your great contributions. Keep it up! Bobo.03 (talk) 01:14, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Response on TheSoul Publishing Being Russian
@Osomite Even before news articles came out, I myself had suspicions that they are potentially Russian affiliated (anyone who takes the time can see the strange connections). Obviously we cannot say that for sure. I have added a neutral description on the Bright Side Wikipedia page regarding several media organizations supposing they are Russian-affiliated with a statement from TheSoul itself. Perhaps TheSoul needs its own article and/or combine Bright Side and 5-Minute Crafts. I don't know- even if its not an offical tie, the strangeness and reach of their content combined with occasional political overtones has caused me to stay away. I doubt a legitimate propaganda operation wouldn't also operate with profit in mind or at the very least a for-profit company could experiment with propaganda (but not be dedicated to that as a mainstay) See on the talk page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Superdadsuper (talk • contribs) 03:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Is "pyto free environment" hyphenated and could I get your advice?
a very good-point. I don't know. I think it will be necessary to convene an assemblage (or is it called a "gaggle") of at least 30 editors and 60 administrators to ponder this point at length. Whatever the outcome, pro-or-con, it needs to be included in the Manual-of-Style so that future hyphenate-type-errors do not occur. Thank you Mini4WD for the heads-up.


 * Osomite hablemos  22:34, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks...
...for catching my goof at Mad (magazine). I was looking at the wrong Crumb reference to Mad, incorrectly going to this passage: "What else was weird about Weirdo? As Crumb himself wrote in the first issue, the new effort marked "another new magazine, another MAD imitation, another small time commercial feature with high hopes, obviously doomed to fail." This is a reference to the number of MAD knock-offs that appeared during the 1950s and 1960s...."

And so I say: D'oh!--Tenebrae (talk) 00:07, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

D/S Alerts
Not saying anything is wrong, just a standard awareness note for WP:ACDS topic areas. PackMecEng (talk) 05:01, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

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Retraction, please
In this edit you called me an "apologist". From the context, I infer that you meant a "Nazi apologist", since you also referred to my "prodigious efforts to maintain Nazi victory in Poland/" Please retract these untrue and defamatory statements. You can do so by striking them out, using and at the beginning and end of each statement. Your failure to do so will result in your being reported to Wikipedia administrators for a gross violation of WP:No personal attacks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:22, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Should I assume that your putting an unwarranted edit-warring notification on my talk page is your way of saying that you refuse to retract your defamatory statements? If you can confirm that you have no intention of retracting, than I can proceed with reporting you to admins for personal attacks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:35, 26 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Previously I put this post on your talk page. I include it here for the record.


 * By definition, an apologist is "a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial". By inference, you are the one putting the Nazi tag on it. The "context" is what you are making it to be. It seemed to me that Germany's successful invasion of Poland was a Nazi victory. Isn't that the position you have been maintaining?


 * I did not say you were a Nazi apologist. I am sorry that you inferred that. For the offense you feel, I apologize.


 * According to Godwin's law, this is the point at which effectively the discussion ends.


 * Osomite hablemos  22:02, 26 February 2021 (UTC)  PS Seriously, stop. If you believe that I am wrong, report me to the authorities.
 * And here is my response from my talk page:
 * No, this is not the end of the discussion, since yours is a classic "non-apology apology". You apologize for "the offense I feel" but do not apologize for your statements. In any case, I did not ask for, and do not want an apology, which is useless to me, what I asked for was a retraction of your statements by striking them out. Without such a retraction, I will be taking this to admins. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:59, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

You have been reported to the Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents
You will find the report here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:26, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

You do really go to the ANI and explain yourself.Slatersteven (talk) 13:58, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

It has been suggested that your silence and unwillingness to strike the comments will lead to a block, you really do need to start taking this seriously.Slatersteven (talk) 18:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)


 * I appreciate your concern. Thank you. I find this issue very distressing. Sadly it was the last thing I thought about while trying to fall asleep last night (actually at 3 AM) as this dilemma has been weighing on my mind. I do not call people Nazi apologists. I have not called people Nazi apologists. Beyond My Ken through inference (BMK's word) says I did.


 * Slatersteven, after you made your proposal to me to remove my comments, I thought it was appropriate and was figuring out how to do what you suggested and best seek resolution. Yes, I was silent, the reason was that I wanted to give time to let things cool down. I was upset by the proceedings and want to be able to respond calmly. I was silent, but I was listening. I am distressed that my silence was construed as nefarious. Sometimes a silence is just a silence. I was just listening and thinking. What was the apparent need for urgency? You mentioned that I was "a POV pusher trying to force their version of nationalist history onto the article". Where did that come from? I have no alternate version of history to force. It is very interesting what some people consider the meaning of silence is.


 * This issue initiated around my |"edit" (I apologize for the "scare quotes", but I can't get the dif rename done without them) of the following sentence in the Operation_Sea_Lion article in the section "Invasion of Poland":


 * "In September 1939, the German invasion of Poland was a success, but this infringed on both a French and a British alliance with Poland and both countries declared war on Germany."


 * My purpose was to edit a poorly constructed sentence and clarify. With the result of:


 * "In September 1939, German invaded Poland. This aggression infringed on a French alliance with Poland and a British alliance with Poland. Subsequently, France and Britain declared war on Germany."


 * (Oops, I see that I created a typo "German" instead of "Germany".) So I reconstructed a sentence that had a comma splice and unusual conjunction "but". I edited it to make it three sentences. Making the entry more informative and clear was my object. And then I was left with the first sentence where using the word "successful" felt awkward. I have never considered the invasion of Poland "unsuccessful" (as some here have somehow construed). An invasion is either an invasion or a "failed invasion". And I have never seen the use of "successful" relative to "invasion" anywhere. Seeing that accolade in an encyclopedia article did not seem to have a neutral point of view NPOV. So I did not think that using the "successful" necessary. Removing the word "success" or "successful" does not change the meaning of the sentence. I had no hidden agenda with doing this. I had no agenda. I was trying to write the best encyclopedia article I could by removing a word that was unnecessary. After all, was an invasion and the invasion did what an invasion does. And in the edit summary, I indicated, "There is no support for the claim that the invasion of Poland was "successful". And from there BMK disagreed and reverted the entire edit. BMK ignored my edit of the second sentence which was a marked improvement over the original.


 * Here is an observation. In the Invasion of Poland Wikipedia article, the word "success", relative to the overall invasion, was used once, stating "The success of the invasion marked the end of the Second Polish Republic, though Poland never formally surrendered." Here as with the Operation Sea Lion article, the word "success" is an unnecessary adjective. If the word "success" is removed, the meaning of the sentence is not altered.


 * The encyclopedia Britannica, when discussing what caused WWII, it simply states, "World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland." Here is a creditable encyclopedia that does not feel the need for touting the invasion as "successful".


 * Through all of this, I have pondered about "what was Hitler's goal in invading Poland?" What would have been Hitler's criteria to consider the invasion successful? Clearly, Hitler desired to expand eastward to gain “lebensraum” (living space) for Germans. Did the invasion accomplish this goal? Another thought was that Hitler needed to possess Poland in order to launch his offensive against Russia. Yes, the invasion was successful in Germany "possessing" Poland for this purpose. If it is this apparent, why couldn't BMK simply qualify the condition of success? Maybe BMK could have added another sentence or two?


 * Recently, I read somewhere that with Germany's invasion of Poland and when the Allied Forces entered into WWII against Germany, at that point Germany had already realized that they had lost the war. With that view, it seems a stretch to say the invasion spawned a "success". I guess I need to find that again because there will undoubtedly be contention about this assertion. In any case, this line of inquiry is interesting and needs to be examined.


 * For some reason, Beyond My Ken has called me "the editor" throughout this entire episode. This is a personal slight, I consider BMK to be rude. There is some psychology involved with not acknowledging a person with their name. To not acknowledge someone is a snub. It can mean to ignore or not take notice of.


 * For some reason, from BMK's first revert of my initial edit, BMK made no effort to collaborate with me. He has only been brusk, offensive, and threatening. I made a single revert and BMK put the edit war Ambox warning on my talk page accusing "You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Operation Sea Lion;" And then in an additional entry on my talk page threatened, "Your next revert to this article triggers a report to the edit warring notice board". OMG! I made a single revert at 10:35 and a second edit (retaining the word "successful" and BMK's response was to threaten me. Although in the edit war notice it counseled "Users are expected to collaborate with others", BMK never sought to collaborate with me. I highly doubt that BMK's behavior reflected an appropriate protocol.


 * Throughout many edit exchanges with editors, BMK has been determined to retain the exact original badly constructed sentence with simply the addition of four references supporting specifically for the single word "successful" in the context of "In September 1939, the successful German invasion of Poland". The placement of the references is unusual; they are placed immediately after the word "   ". BMK's |"edit" (Again, apologies for the "scare quotes") establishes that the references are specifically for just the word "successful", remarking in the edit summary "This is the way it must be done."


 * I appreciate that BMK has provided references specifically for the word "successful". I plan to track down the books to see whether there is actually a clear statement or analysis stating that the invasion was "successful". After I have been able to do find the books (they are at my libraries) and do the research, I was will report my results. If I am wrong, I will admit that I am wrong with appropriate apologies to BMK. I value truth and I value an honest presentation of history.


 * I see from the discussions, things have not cooled off. Beyond My Ken has been quite busy prosecuting his case. Is that appropriate? Today, BMK has |"redacted what he considers to be personal attacks" in my post on the Operation Sea Lion Talk page. Was that appropriate? It seems that BMK is doing his best to add heat and stir the pot. From this situation, am I going to received fair consideration?


 * My posts concerned were in reply to |"BLM post" (apologies for the "scare quotes") which was initiated immediately after I made |"my first and only revert" (apologies for the "scare quotes").


 * BMK considers the following phrases to be personal attacks. Just to provide a perspective they were not grouped but spread in my post to BMK


 * "to maintain Nazi victory in Poland"


 * 4 lines of text follows
 * "You are disingenuous."


 * 10 lines of text follows
 * "Your argument is largely that of an apologist."


 * I am truly sorry that BMK inferred (BMK's word) that a word in the first phrase and a word in the third phrase was a personal attack of being called a "Nazi apologist". I am sorry he saw it that way. It was in no way intended to be a personal attack that I had "cleverly hidden". I did make an apology which was heartfelt ("I did not say you were a Nazi apologist. I am sorry that you inferred that. For the offense you feel, I apologize."). However, somehow I did not say whatever magical words BMK thought appropriate and called it a "nonapology apology". Some here have the view that I did not make a "not a genuine apology". Is there some guidance on how to make a genuine apology?


 * About "apologist". Some who are judging here, consider that because I rebuffed BMK's "success" argument by saying it was "largely that of an apologist" is a personal attack. An apologist is "one who speaks or writes in defense of something". What is wrong with that? That is what BMK did. I did not find BMK's argument convincing.


 * And about personal attacks. |"BMK's reply to me" (apologies for the "scare quotes") contains some significant personal attacks on me:


 * ""I won't take it seriously, because you're so far off the mark that you're entirely around the bend. Ignoring your ignorant personal jibes, the issue here is simple: reliable sources, and every historian worth their salt, says that the German invasion of Poland was a successful one.""


 * BMK tells me, "I am entirely around the bend", calls me "ignorant", and then just claims the authority of historians "worth their salt". That wasn't much of an argument, it was, to me, what you would expect from an apologist who has few facts at hand. It was an insult to me. BMK claims I made a personal attack, which is ironic when BMK freely makes personal attacks; they were personal attacks that were so clear there was no inference needed to understand what they were. I would appreciate BMK's apology for his personal attack on me.


 * BMK's posts contain quite a bit of disparagement directed towards me; a lot of anger. The tone was arrogant and overbearing. BMK was presenting what BMK considered to be superior knowledge and was quite annoyed at being challenged. BMK took some particularly umbrage with my challenge requesting a reference for the adjective "successful". It seemed to me that BMK was looking for reasons to have controversy and conflict.


 * About "disingenuous". Here is |"my post" and here is the comment in context which was concerned his aspersion that I was edit warring although I only made a single revert:


 * ""You are disingenuous. You were in an edit war earlier this month from which you received a edit block of one month. You contested the block and received mercy. You ended the episode by claiming, "I'll try my best to improve". You need to work on that claim, walk the talk.""


 * It is apparent, and BMK's editing history involving his past edit wars demonstrates it, that BMK is not candid or sincere and is in fact quite disingenuous. He claimed an edit war after I made a single revert, which is disingenuous. BMK would prefer to distract and misdirect and call it a personal attack; however, it is not, it is simply an observation of fact. This is not BMK's first rodeo.


 * Many words have been written here with many analyses of my words. In a lot of ways, I see this as much in the way of John Godfrey Saxe's poem [|The Blind Men and the Elephant] which ends:


 * ""So, oft in theologic wars, the disputants, I ween, tread on in utter ignorance, of what each other mean, and prate about the elephant, not one of them has seen!""


 * I hope for an honest opinion of the elephant.


 * Clearly the judges are self-selecting themselves. Can the judges act without bias and fairness?


 * I feel that the judges have been looking at this episode cherry-picking words, touching only the parts of the elephant that are easily at hand, and making assumptions based upon, probably, a predetermined result. You assume you know all about me and have already passed judgment. You layer assumption upon assumption. You suppose. You guess. You infer.


 * I feel that I will not find fair judgment here. I wonder that when making your judgments, has all of the record in the posts been reviewed and given equal weight? With BMK making on-going |"comments" (again apologies for the "scare quotes") and whipping up the prosecution I feel an unfair finger on the scale.


 * I have a suspicion that what I have written here is just going to provide more "grist for the mill" with more criticism of what you think I really said and more condemnation.


 * As you judge me, do you consider Beyond My Ken blameless? Shouldn't his involvement be considered?


 * I have not challenged anyone's specific already stated determinations. Doing that would probably not change any opinion. I have not addressed every detail. If anyone has a specific question they would like me to address, please let me know.


 * Osomite hablemos  04:37, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

I will post this to the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and see what transpires


 * It might have been more helpful to have condensed this into one or two paragprahs.Slatersteven (talk) 10:54, 2 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes less is more. Good thought. I have never been involved in a personal attack accusation and I had no guidance to follow so I did what I thought appropriate. Ironic, there was much ado about my prolonged silence, and now you want brevity. I was told to reply and that it was serious. I figured if it was serious, I would take it seriously and reply appropriately. I figured I had one opportunity to respond, so I made an effort to put it into perspective. What could I have explained in a paragraph or two? What is the critical issue? The critical defense?


 * You make a good point, so here is a try at brevity. A focused defence. (Hmm, and after writing the "brief", it is more than a paragraph or two. I did it with as few words as I could)


 * I have been accused by "inference" that I called Beyond My Ken (BMK) a Nazi Apologist. I did not. "Inference" is "a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning." What is the evidence?


 * In my first post to the conversation, having spent some time carefully crafting it, I discovered when I tried to post I got an edit conflict as Slatersteven and BMK had posted several times while I composed, and I was behind. So I revised the post I was working on to place my somewhat belated comments in context. I "prefaced" with the comment, "I am a little behind on your prodigious efforts to maintain Nazi victory in Poland." I used the words "Nazi" and "victory" as they were prominently used in the back and forth posts between Slaterstevenu and BMK. I picked up on the theme. The words "Nazi attack" in my post were simply an "echoing" of the ideas being discussed. An echo nothing more.


 * The words "Nazi attack" would not be the ones I would use concerning the issue of "successful invasion". "Nazi attack" was not my original thought about the situation. BMK created the discussion section on the Operation Sea Lion talk page and titled it, "Was the Nazi invasion of Poland a success?" The original use of the word "Nazi" in the discussion done BMK.


 * Further down in the post, the part that I had tried to post but could not due to an edit conflict situation, I rebutted BMK's argument as being that of an apologist. An apologist, and nothing more. (See my previous post about "apologist", it is just a word to characterize a type of argument).


 * BMK, who clearly by the talk page discussion, at this point was very annoyed because I challenge the word "successful" and wanted a reference for that conclusion. So BMK, while annoyed (perhaps to the point of anger), read my post and wanted to reply. BMK created out of hole-cloth an imagined insult, a personal attack, because I used the word "Nazi" and "apologist" in the same post. Post hoc ergo propter hocer inferring, BMK decided that I said BMK was a "Nazi apologist". That is not true. I did not infer that, BMK inferred that.


 * To say that I made a personal attack is not true, I had no intent. I did not call BMK a "Nazi apologist". When I saw BMK's post back to me, I thought, "Oh Dear, where did that come from?" I immediately replied with an apology. Sadly BMK did not think it was not sufficient calling it a "nonapology apology". I am sorry that my apology did not satisfy BMK. At this point, I indicated I was no longer willing to engage (considering BMK's emotional state and imaginings). So I "went silent", which many here thought was a very suspicious thing to do. Note in my post, I said that was what I was intended to do. I invoked Godwin's law. And, I was condemned because I was not replying immediately. My speed of thought and action, unfortunately, does not match others in the Wikipedia world.


 * So BMK made a personal attack incident report. And here we are, with me defending myself from an "inferred" personal attack. I have been accused of doing something I did not do by "inference". Is inference adequate proof to make it fact? About this inference, I believe that I should be allowed the "benefit of the doubt".

I will post this to the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and see what transpires.


 * Osomite hablemos  20:43, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Good description
Hi! I noticed a recent comment you made on an internal forum about BMK and his long-term pattern of behavior. It's something I've encountered myself, but you described it perfectly. Such a frustrating issue, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it. I know commenting like this on the behavior of another editor is a dubious thing to do, but I strongly feel that this kind of thing is an exemplar of why Wikipedia's culture can discourage participation from newer editors. Ganesha811 (talk) 02:34, 5 May 2021 (UTC)


 * It's interesting how often people comment that this factor or that factor "drives away new editors", especially when put up against the reality that the majority of new editors - I would think - stick around, get the hang of the place, and eventually become productive editors, and that those who do run off frequently come back with new identities. Sometimes these also become productive contributors, but others, mostly the ones who were "driven off" because their edits were problematic in the first place, become puppetmasters, coming and going with new identities all the time.  Now that, to my mind, is the true arrogance, the idea that one can edit whenever and as whomever one pleases, simply because someone dropped a dime on one's bad behavior.Not everyone is cut out to edit in this kind of platform, which is simultaneously strict and free-form, and I, for one, don't feel that it helps the project much for us to bend over backwards to accommodate those square pegs who don't fit into the round holes we offer.That you and Osomite (and others) don't like me is something I really can't do much about, not and remain true to myself and my commitment to continuing to improve the encyclopedia, but at least your crowd might recognize that I am committed to it, and that I do improve it, and that (here comes that "arrogance" again) I am more often right than I am wrong. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:03, 5 May 2021 (UTC)


 * , hi! I do assume good faith on your part, as you describe in your last paragraph. We are all here to build an encyclopedia, and I know that dealing with repeated waves of vandals and trolls might engender a more blunt style than most people.
 * However, if you're open to a specific suggestion, I have one to make. I've noticed you often revert edits with the summary 'better before'. This is just not helpful. It's unlikely to produce any sort of constructive discussion, since it implies that there was something wrong with the change while providing absolutely no detail (policy-based, grammar-based, or otherwise) about what was wrong with it.
 * The result is that either you get into an edit war, or a discussion on the talk page that's already on the wrong foot, or, if they don't respond, you bite another editor by so bluntly reverting their contribution. You contribute a lot, but taking the time to give a specific reason for reverts rather than saying "better before", especially when the change is a matter of opinion and not clear vandalism, might help. Ganesha811 (talk) 03:38, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The result is that either you get into an edit war, or a discussion on the talk page that's already on the wrong foot, or, if they don't respond, you bite another editor by so bluntly reverting their contribution. You contribute a lot, but taking the time to give a specific reason for reverts rather than saying "better before", especially when the change is a matter of opinion and not clear vandalism, might help. Ganesha811 (talk) 03:38, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The result is that either you get into an edit war, or a discussion on the talk page that's already on the wrong foot, or, if they don't respond, you bite another editor by so bluntly reverting their contribution. You contribute a lot, but taking the time to give a specific reason for reverts rather than saying "better before", especially when the change is a matter of opinion and not clear vandalism, might help. Ganesha811 (talk) 03:38, 5 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I will think about that. One of the problems is pure volume. I have a lot of pages on my watchlist, and I end up making a lot of edits in response to what's been done to them, so I fall back on "Better before" and "Not an improvement".  I used to have a box on my talk page explaining what I mean by those canned replies (which are not so different from these commonly used abbreviations), but I took it down a while ago in a general clean up of the page.  Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:14, 5 May 2021 (UTC)


 * , I appreciate your commiserating about 's modus. Clearly, my talk page is on BMK's watchlist radar. Amazing how he jumped in and promptly replied to your note to me. It was enlightening to have BMK explain his method and motivation tending his watchlist.


 * I am not a prolific Wikipedia editor. I read Wikipedia articles and see things to fix. I read about things in newspapers, magazines, and books; I watch movies; I then look to Wikipedia to see what is said. Sometimes I find things to fix, sometimes I find things to add. My goal is to make Wikpedia content accurate and not confusing. A lot of Wikipedia writing is good, but some writing is pretty bad. I fix the bad when I find it.


 * About my observation on BMK's modus. A while back BMK and I tangled over an edit I made to Operation Sea Lion. It was my first encounter with BMK I was simply trying to clarify a poorly written sentence and in the process removed the word "successfully". BMK reverted my edit and strongly disagreed (he did do an edit summary explaining) and goaded me into an edit war (I thought I had made an improvement, but BMK clearly disagreed) and escalated it to an Administrator's Notice board and added that I made a "personal assault" against him. I was very surprised and offended about how I had been treated. This encounter with BMK was a bad thing, I wondered how it could be fixed.


 * It seemed to me that BMK was seeking controversy, wanting an argument. He was brusk, bullying, demanding, and condescending. BMK was on the offensive, attacking, leaving no room to collaborate. I came away from this encounter a bit hurt by what I considered a hostile environment--it was not right, it was not necessary. I thought that BMK's behavior was not appropriate visa via the espoused Wikipedia philosophy and policy and guidance about cooperation in writing an encyclopedia.


 * Since then, I have been trying to figure out what is/was going on with the Wikipedia environment by observing. Recently BMK took umbrage with a newish editor. The editor fixed a run-on sentence, and BMK goaded an editing war about an argument about "proper grammar". The edit argument had no merit, after all, good grammar is good grammar. BMK was harsh to the editor and was wrong in his position. What BMK was doing did not seem logical (what was BMK's motivation?). I felt the editor need support so I stepped in and pointed out how BMK was behaving badly. But, BMK refused to see anything but his point of view. This encounter was a bad thing happening in Wikipedia.


 * With Beyond My Ken having joined the conversation with you, and you with having made the good suggestion to him about edit summaries, and BMK acknowledging, may be . ..


 * I need to reply to Beyond My Ken congenially to seek resolution. I would prefer to like him.


 * Osomite hablemos  05:20, 6 May 2021 (UTC)


 * 
 * rpa. It's OK to disagree with BMK's editing but name-calling is against our WP:NPA policy. – EdJohnston (talk) 03:38, 21 May 2021 (UTC)


 * , you removed a personal attack that was made by an anonymous IP editor (an attack against Beyond My Ken, perhaps, as no specific editor was named in the post that was removed). Inadvertently (I hope), you made your statement quite ambiguous--it appears damning to me due to a lack of information to the contrary. Your comment makes it appear that I made the personal attack and not an anonymous IP editor. I realize that few people read my talk page and would see your comment, but in the spirit of accuracy, could you clarify who did what to whom? I would appreciate it.  Osomite  hablemos  20:52, 21 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I've fixed it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:56, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

June 2021 chide
Your recent editing history at Veracity of statements by Donald Trump shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you do not violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. PackMecEng (talk) 23:33, 6 June 2021 (UTC)


 * quit being a bully. You are have initiated this supposed edit war over your agitationist view that facts must have a NPOV. You are arguing against the facts and the truth. Or is your starting an edit war with me personal? Or as your recent Block from editing on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard shows, are you are just looking to create controversy and be generally disagreeable. Your apparent Trump revisionist agenda is not a good look. Why are you so set against having the truth told about Trump? Is the truth a threat to your weltanschauung? Osomite hablemos  00:12, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I was not the first one to revert you nor the last to disagree with your edit. You are welcome to take me to ANI or AN if you wish. You appear to be hear to WP:RGW. PackMecEng (talk) 00:14, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


 * My, my, my. You do carry on so. Trying to mount a defense to justify your behavior is so pathetic.


 * Please quit posting comments on my talk page (actually, please quit doing it anywhere in Wikipedia) about things you demonstrate little understanding.


 * "Righting Great Wrongs?" That's a pretty feeble effort at gaslighting. You are accusing me of the behavior you are engaging in yourself. Clearly with your false "not NPV" claims, you are in the WP:RWG mode trying to rewrite history to falsely burnish Trump's legacy which consists of tens of thousands of lies. You clearly have a very, very big job ahead of you defending the beloved Supreme Leader.


 * Go away. Go bully someone else.


 * Osomite hablemos  20:09, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Just so you know, there is nothing particularly personal in PME's behavior, they do this sort of thing quite often - I keep having to warn them about following me around to comment on things I post. (An admin offered to block them for it, but I didn't feel like compiling the evidence that would have been required.)  For laughs, you should read this (the part that's been collapsed) and their "discussion" of the block that resulted from it on their talk page . It's almost surrealistic. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:16, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

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Left field
Sorry about the confusion - I was referring specifically to the use of the source as being not entirely random. Don't want to get back into that discussion; just want to apologize for the communication differences. I'm from the Ozarks and have a rural background so I learned a somewhat bastardized version of most common English idioms/pronunciations/spellings/grammatical constructions that can be at time confusing. Hog Farm Talk 13:55, 9 September 2022 (UTC)


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 * I understand about rural idioms and such. Sometimes I encounter the same things-especially about pronunciation and I am particularly bad at spelling as I am slightly dyslexic. I have to work hard in getting writing right. I hail from a very rural part of Northern Eastern California. I had a neighbor from Missouri and I loved to listen to her talk. We lived high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains and whenever she talked about going west into the central valley, she would say about "going down below". And talking about something "over there", she would say "yonder". A wonderful lady. And since many of the older timers (way back then), like my grandmother, were one generation removed from the gold miners of the 1849 gold rush, they had their way with words also. Good memories. Osomite &#x1F43B;  (hablemos)  20:31, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

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Portola
Sorry, you're claiming that it's pronounced both por-TOH-lə and like "power-tall-ah", while claiming that they're the same. I suspect that you aren't familiar with the key, but if you are adding a second pronunciation, you need to provide a source. YouTube is good enough. Can you find someone on YouTube pronouncing it the way you think is correct? — kwami (talk) 02:24, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I think that your reclama and knowledge about this issue would be better placed on the Portola talk page rather than hiding it on my obscure talk page. Inquiring minds will want to know.


 * I will put this discussion on the Portola talk page. Please make your responses there.


 * I see from your user page that you have knowledge about how words are pronounced.


 * Your last edit on the Portola article you deleted my pronunciation of "pour|toll|'|ɑh". It has been in the article for quite some time. Wikipedia guidance tells that long-time-standing edits should not be changed without some talk page discussion and agreement first. Why didn't you just leave it alone?


 * I am puzzled, "power-tall-ah"? Where did that come from? Do you think that my "pour" comes out as "power"; "ur" sounds like "wer"? Seriously. Please explain how/where you came by that. Sounds made up for argument's sake to me.


 * I guess that I don't understand the obscure rule about creating that dialectical pronunciation of a place name. Where in the wide wide world of Wikipedia guidance is that explained? You say that a "reference" to the local dialectic pronunciation is required. Where exactly in the literature of the world would one find that reference? Surely you jest. I laugh that you think youtube is a reliable source. What do you want me to do, create a youtube titled "This is how you pronounce the name of the small rural town of Portola, California" and say the word Portola correctly pronounced many many times, and maybe, for no particular reason, read the Wikipedia article. Do you see how silly that idea is? And, by the way, Wikipedia does not consider youtube to be a reliable source.


 * I see that in your most recent edit you deleted the native area pronunciation (that I rendered to the best of my ability) of "pour|toll|'|ɑh"; or should I have presented it as "pourtollah"? I know this is the sound of how the folks in the area speak the town's name. I know because I live there. I hear it spoken that way almost every day. Why is it that you disagree about something you have never heard?


 * I don't quite understand how you rendered the "respelled" pronunciation as "por|TOH|lə". Where did you hear that pronunciation? I am particularly curious about the last syllable "lə"? You think that "la" has an unexpected vowel sound so you represent it with the schwa symbol? So if it is an unexpected vowel sound, what is is the actual sound?


 * In my local knowledge, the last syllable of "Portola" sounds distinctly like "ah". The last syllable consists of just the "a"; the "l" is spoken in the second syllable with the "to" and that sounds like "toll". Yes, I know, the hill folk of the eastern lost sierras speak funny. When you use "por" as the pronunciation of the first syllable, does it sound like "pour"?


 * Please tell me how you have expert knowledge about the pronunciation of the name of the village hamlet Portola? (I remember on the Today show in June 1960, when David Garraway mentioned that "the village hamlet of Portola (and he actually pronounced it as a Portolian would expect) is being threatened by forest fire". That was all he said--I heard it and I was gobsmacked that the news of the day from New York was about such an isolated place. So, every now and then, I like to use Dave's description of my town--village hamlet; however, it isn't hamlet-like.)


 * In one of your edit summaries, (or perhaps it was the edit you made on my talk page and then subsequently deleted--tsk, tsk. That was bad editor manners. If I want something on my talk page deleted, I will delete it) you wanted to "hear" the pronunciation. If you need to "hear" Portola spoken how do you know that the "funny" and unreadable, at least to me, International Phonetic Alphabet rendered pronunciation of (/pɔːrˈtoʊlə/) that has been in the article for quite some time, is correct? If you don't know how it sounds, how can you vouch for that pronunciation? Perhaps "(/pɔːrˈtoʊlə/)" should be deleted.


 * As background concerning the pronunciation of Portola and the reason for my involvement, an editor arrogantly assumed that the word was actually pronounced according to the Spanish language like the name of the explorer Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira for whom the town is indirectly named--that is a story in itself that I will include in the article after I have the necessary references that I hope to find in the Bancroft Library at Cal. So to correct that incorrect attribution, I edited and provided the native dialectic sound for the name and explained on the Portola talk page about the how and why of the edit.


 * I just realized that there is a district in San Francisco named "Portola". It is pronounced "close" to the lost sierra dialect, but not exactly. That pronunciation would be acceptable, but it would not be exact.


 * Osomite &#x1F43B;  (hablemos)  05:00, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I stopped reading your response when it became clear that you weren't being serious. We just can't take your word about something. You need evidence. And yes, if you have, say, the local news station pronouncing "Portola", or an interview with the police chief, that would probably be acceptable evidence for most people. — kwami (talk) 05:39, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * You stopped reading my response? How rude. I read your responses without stopping. It is petty of you to be criticizing my writing style.


 * Please note that I pointed out to you that further comment on this issue should appropriately be done on the Portola talk page. But you are ignoring my reasonable and logical request. Why is that?


 * I am requesting, make that demanding, that you no longer post on my talk page. I am within my rights to bar from positing here--there's guidance about this somewhere in the Wikipedia monolith but I am not going to find it for you.


 * I would like to point out that you need to add edit summaries when you post. Empty edit summaries are not satisfactory


 * You are discounting my position because you don't consider it to be serious. That's pretty arrogant. Don't you have a sense of humor? Is the world of posting pronunciations always deadly serious? If so, that is so sad.


 * There is content in my post which is quite relevant and on point, but you are ignoring it. I guess that is the easy way out for you, just disregard any argument that challenges your position. It seems you quit because you have nothing to support your position--all you are doing is citing a rule you have made-up and demanding evidence. When you post a new or revised pronunciation, where do you find your reference (aka evidence)? You clearly have no expert knowledge of the correct pronunciation of the word Portola, yet you refuse to address my position by falsely claiming superior knowledge and intelligence concerning the pronunciation of words. OMG!


 * Addressing your demanded acceptable proofs, there is no local radio station in the county--it is really rural and damn near dirt poor. And about "an interview" with the Chief of Police", there is no Chief of Police. The law enforcement is the Sheriff of Plumas County located in the county seat. In any case, where would this interview have taken place where the word "Portola" would be correctly pronounced? Were you anticipating that a recording of a radio station there would be available? Your thinking is a bit ivory tower, what planet are you living on?


 * As a Wikipedia editor aren't you supposed to honor the Wikipedia's Five Pillars? Consider the pillar that directs that "Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility". This includes a basic tenant of seeking consensus and avoiding edit wars. And, notice the 5th pillar--Wikipedia has no firm rules.


 * I asked questions, and you are ignoring them. You demand evidence but you will not attempt any collegial effort or cooperation. What rule can you site that requires that I must render to you evidence about the pronunciation of the word "Portola"?


 * And once again, I will also add this post to the Portola talk page.


 * I hope you have read this far and not stopped earlier due to your opinion of my writing style. If you refuse to engage by posting on the Portola talk page, I will consider that you have surrendered the discussion.


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Just wondering why you added my editor data to one of your user pages
Doug Weller talk 07:54, 19 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Doug
 * Your name is on one of my talk pages serendipitously. Over the years, whenever I encounter something that is interesting and I do not have time to fully comprehend its content and such; I copy it to my talk page so I can read it later and keep track of it to see how things turned out. In one of those "save for later"' items, was from 2020 something about "left sidebars". So when I copied the post, you had commented in the conversation, your name was included. So that is why your name is on one of my talk pages. Nothing sinister. Out of curiosity, what prompted you to read my talk pages? I don't have any problem, it's ok that you did, I just want to know the back story. Osomite  &#x1F43B;  (hablemos)  21:14, 19 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Doug


 * PS


 * I did a little more research. Your name is on my talk page purposely. When I encounter an editor who is interesting I include it an section "Editor Stuff". At some point I found you interesting and want to follow (not stalk) your postings. So you are interesting and occasionally I would look at your contributions because you are interesting. If you have a concern about with this, I will wiling remove your from my interesting "Editor Stuff". Osomite  &#x1F43B;  (hablemos)  21:38, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I would say that you should remove all names or better state why user names appear on your talk page. I have user names and user talk pages linked on mine too but it clearly states why they are there and generally it is because of a good encounter or something I learned from them. Had you been more concise, depending on your reasons, it may have been looked at and dismissed. As it stands right now it has become disruptive and concerning to some of the editors mentioned. Probably best to just remove. You can watchlist certain pages to keep up with subjects you are interested in. -- A Rose Wolf  12:59, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ARoseWolf
 * About my talk page section "Interesting Editors". There is nothing sinister or nefarious about it. I am puzzled how it is has “become disruptive and concerning to some of the editors mentioned.”
 * The content "Interesting Editors" is the result of several years of taking note of editors that I have encountered while editing an article, or have "come across" their posting in various talk pages and various "request for" pages. These editors catch my interest because of what they write, how they write, and in many cases because they are quite humorous. These editors I wanted to follow to see what they might "create". In some cases I would want to follow an editor because I might learn something from their massive efforts in creating and editing articles. I would look in on their talk pages to "see what might be going on".
 * In short, I follow editors because I enjoy observing Wikipedia's sociology, culture, and editor interaction "behind the scenes". It is quite interesting.
 * I realize how my "Interesting Editors" section "got into the spotlight". A couple of days ago I realized that my "Stuff" talk page was quite big and cumbersome. So I realized I could create a subpage to move some sections to so I could do some talk page housekeeping and cleanup and deletions. I created "More Stuff" which was a new page which apparently the new page patrol took notice.
 * You say if I documented each editor with why I "follow" them it would be OK. I have looked over "Interesting Editors" and I can not recall why I have added so many editors which I was interested in following. Thinking back, I would add editors who were involved in discussing a particular subject or "request for" issue or editing wars.. And after the discussion ended, I didn't delete those editors. And as the years went by I just "added new interesting editors" to the top of the section and basically ignored and forgot about the "bottom of the list".
 * So that is where I am at.
 * What is occurring makes me weary. I have to defend myself about something that you say has “become disruptive and concerning to some of the editors mentioned.” Somehow I don’t find this surprising considering the Wikipedia culture.
 * ARoseWolf, I appreciate your advice. But I wonder, what exactly have I done that is wrong? What rules have I violated?
 * The nature of this entire episode has reaffirmed my view of the Wikipedia environment. Rather than approaching me with concerns, it was an attack (ok, pretty strong word), a confrontation. It was done with little "collegiality" (one of the pillars of Wikipedia) and was quite abrupt. It was done almost ambiguously with an editor asking why that editor's name was on my list, And then an editor claimed that I made personal attacks on editors in that section. (There are no personal attacks in my “Interesting Editors” section.) All of this was very cynical and unfriendly. In my experience, the Wikipedia environment is just another type of “social media” culture where editors, being basically anonymous, take offense easily, are rude, offensive, and fail to have any sensitivity about how they behave. It is easier to be angry than to be friendly.
 * I am a bit distressed that I have been confronted about this situation. As I see often in Wikipedia, a mountain is made of a molehill and it becomes a can of worms.
 * Yes, I have written quite a bit about this mole hill. I thought that I needed to explain my “Interesting Editors” on the record so whoever could understand what is actually what.
 * I fail to see any rule that indicates that what I have accumulated is prohibited. What I have done is not a threat to anyone, I have had this accumulated list for several years, I have used it, and have never used it for any nefarious purpose. It is passive. I am sorry that editors imagine that it is considered a threat to them.
 * I will not just delete my “Interesting Editors” section. I need it for my process to engage in the Wikipedia. I will clean it up. If that is not satisfactory, make it an issue of a “request for” or whatever.
 * I am sorry if I have inadvertently offended. I apologize. Osomite  &#x1F43B;  (hablemos)  19:55, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I fail to see any rule that indicates that what I have accumulated is prohibited
 * You were given links to three rules that do just that. Viriditas (talk) 19:59, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Oh my God..have I finally been accepted into....dun-dun-deeerrrrr, the Illuminati?!?! Or at least the No Homers' Club.Halbared (talk) 09:57, 19 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Halbared


 * The Illuminati? Say what? Osomite  &#x1F43B;  (hablemos)  21:16, 19 June 2024 (UTC
 * What does the Geneology tag mean in your other stuff?Halbared (talk) 22:09, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Not possible. I didn't send an invite. Chairman Doug and I have a matter of grave importance to discuss. Apparently they ran out of gummy bears as an ice cream topper in the cafeteria. -- A Rose Wolf  20:02, 19 June 2024 (UTC)


 * ARoseWolf
 * Your post is most puzzling. I like a good puzzle. About running out of gummy bears, that's a shame. You can never have tooo many bears.. Osomite  &#x1F43B;  (hablemos)  21:19, 19 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Osomite: It's easy for all the editors you blue-linked to find out that you blue-linked to them. I've read that section, and it sounds very much like you are criticizing editors, not just innocently keeping track of interesting discussions. Please be aware of the WP:Attack page policy. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:21, 19 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Evidently you did not read my "Interesting Editor Stuff" section very closely. I have carefully read it to see what "sounds very much like you are criticizing editors" comments I might have made in your opinion. Tryptofish, I don't see what you see. If there is a criticism, it is content that I did not originate, but copied from its source.somewhere on Wikipedia.


 * I would appreciate it if you would point out any criticism of editors that "I posted" in that section so I can remove them.


 * Out of curiosity, what prompted you chime in on this post?


 * Osomite &#x1F43B;  (hablemos)  22:02, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * D ;).Halbared (talk) 22:11, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I've taken time to think about it, and I've carefully read your explanations here, and then I re-read the editor stuff with your explanations in mind. I guess I can see how you have, over time, found certain discussions or editors interesting or amusing, and wanted to keep track of what you encountered. But, without a whole lot of explanation, what it looks like is that you are assembling a sort of log of editors you want to follow, along with references to administrator actions taken, to various scandals, and to situations in which various editors were criticized. Regardless of what you might have intended, it comes across as a sort of "enemies list". If I try very hard to WP:AGF, I can make a rationale for why you do not intend it that way. It's worth considering the policy at WP:Harassment, for what it says about tracking other editors' edits, and the need "to avoid raising the suspicion that an editor's contributions are being followed to cause them distress". WP:NOTWEBHOST also puts some limitations on what you can keep in user space, just because you find it interesting. I know you said that you don't want to delete the section, but I suggest that you think seriously about doing so. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:28, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Tryptofish
 * "it comes across as a sort of "enemies list"." Seriously? Do you realize how paranoid that sounds. To say that I have created an "enemies list" is insulting to me. What in the "Interesting Editors" section supports your supposition? You are not adhering to the Wikipedia behavioral guideline of "Assume Good Faith" WP:GOODFAITH which in part says, "Unless there is clear evidence to the contrary, assume that people who work on the project are trying to help it, not hurt it. If criticism is needed, discuss editors' actions, but avoid accusing others of harmful motives." What "action" have I taken? I would appreciate an apology for that accusation.
 * Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". And I point out, "Sometimes a list is just a list", Don't extrapolate the purpose of my "Interesting Editors" list with little information and a lot of imagination.
 * You have fabricated a current situation as well as a hypothetical future, that I am evil mastermind with some nefarious plan to do "something" that will upset the natural order of Wikipedia. The horror, the horror.
 * I am getting very weary of this, My list has existing for many years. In all those years, I have not harassed or confronted any editors. I don't have any of those intentions. Please quit assuming things.
 * If I am considered a threat in the opinion of any editor, if there are editors that remain upset after the explanations I have made, they can approach me directly and tell me what they believe and how I am an actual threat to them. Doing that will put some actual substantial evidence into this Salem Witch Trial environment (yes, that is quite a cliche and hoary trope, but it seems quit appropriate to me). I will apologize to those editors and remove their user name from my "interesting Editors" list.
 * At this point I consider what is happening is harassment. Please stop.
 * . Osomite  &#x1F43B;  (hablemos)  04:14, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

I know better than to assume malice but I am still thoroughly confused about why I'm on that list. Aside from the initial drama when I was briefly known as SinglePorpoiseAccount (a play on words that some people didn't find too amusing) I don't recall doing anything particularly significant here. Maybe you could add a little context? MrPorpoise (talk) 23:47, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Now that...was a good name.Halbared (talk) 23:07, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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