User talk:Wlmg/Archives/2018/February

February 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Talk:Ben Shapiro
Please re-examine if your editing agrees with WP:BLP. I suggest that if you have feelings about the subject then perhaps you should avoid editing there. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 04:48, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I will consider it Mr.Thought Policeman. sir. --Wlmg (talk) 13:26, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. We're all trying to write an encyclopedia. I know I'm happiest editing where neither I nor anyone else cares. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 15:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, I went off the reservation years ago and am an open POV pusher and almost a Wikiblackhat at this point. So in the department of WP:NOTSOCIAL what coins do you collect?Wlmg (talk) 16:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Whatever I get in circulation. When I was kid, I was told about mercury dimes. At the time they were in circulation, nobody collected them because they were just run-of-the-mill dimes. But of course, by the 1980s that coin design was gone and those dimes subsequently gained numismatic value not to mention there was value in the silver of which the coin was composed. It occurred to me that rather than spend real money on 1909 VDB pennies and the like, it would be cheaper to build type sets based off of the relatively new VG-grade stuff you find in your pocket. Most of my collection was stolen in 2005 and it has been slow rebuilding the 20 years of work I put into it. Collecting coins and paper money can be expensive but arguing with editors on Wikipedia as a hobby is free. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 21:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Mostly I concentrated on 19th Century American type gold and modern platinum. Not much going on with found in change stuff except I got a proof clad state quarter at Mc Donalds and wartime 1943-S nickel at a bodega. Also a proof clad half I spotted in a cashier's drawer. There was a time in late 1990s I was getting 1940s wheat pennies all the time. I consider it plausible that they all came from the same cache likely some deceased person's giant penny jar. I throw back wheat pennies not worth 2 cents or so my guy in Connecticut will pay. Wlmg (talk) 21:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)