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Thank you for standing for arbitrator. I am far away from it all (travel, mourning), not in the mood, so just an informal question you can answer or ignore: | |||
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* ''']''' chose ]er by five composers whose music was banned by the Nazis—], ], ], ] and ]—for a recital at the ]. | |||
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Continuing the tradition originally started by {{noping|Tamzin}} for {{noping|DanCherek}}'s RfA, I'd like to pass the baton to you as Misplaced Pages's newest administrator. Well done on your RfA! Good luck, and long live the baton! | |||
It might have been a bit of a slog, but your conduct in the RfA showed why you deserve the mop. I hope this won't discourage you from seeking to be a great admin, and that you will encourage others to run so that the baton doesn't remain in your hands for too long. Feel free to contact me if you need anything. ] (]) 23:50, 21 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
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What does this 2024 DYK tell you about infoboxes for classical composers in 2024? -- ] (]) 16:26, 19 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
:{{re|Z1720}} I think you might have copied this incorrectly, it wasn't unanimous :) ]]<sup>'''.'''</sup>] 00:02, 22 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
::I forgot to copyedit the first part. Goes to show that mistakes will always happen! Thanks for pointing this out. ] (]) 00:51, 22 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::{{(:}} ]]<sup>'''.'''</sup>] 00:56, 22 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
:Congratulations! I hope you are able to enjoy a drink or two, and have some fun. If sh*t happens, you now have a new mop to clean up with! | |||
:When I came by to offer congratulations, I noticed that the baton image appears to have a caption in the image file itself. I have uploaded ]. I was also able to take the opportunity to relicense the image to , which is an international license (the license of the current image version is specifically written for German law). Would you be able to pass this version of the baton to whomever earns it next? ]]<sup>]</sup> 01:17, 22 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
::I'll sure try to, but I might need a reminder when the time comes. ] (]) 01:21, 22 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::It appears that you don't need the reminder, but I set a calendar reminder a week ago to come here and issue one. <br/>Really enjoyed your Signpost article! I definitely see the benefit in your suggestion to automatically close RfAs after exactly 7 days; I have ] at WT:RFA.<span id="HouseBlaster:1664643091424:User_talkFTTCLNScottishFinnishRadish" class="FTTCmt"> ]]<sup>]</sup> 16:51, 1 October 2022 (UTC)</span> | |||
:Those articles don't, in and of themselves, tell me a lot about infoboxes, other than that most of them have infoboxes. Quick power ranking on their hair, though. | |||
== Congratulations == | |||
:#] - Off center widows peak over male-pattern baldness. Wild wings on the sides. Combined with the expression he really communicates "intense Austrian composer" | |||
:#] - always maximum respect for a pompadour | |||
:#] - I'll always believe that Picard was the best captain, and this haircut communicates that. Middle of the road though, as the default bald guy cut | |||
:#] - trying to pull off the "genius that doesn't care about his hair" look, but Schreker did it much better | |||
:#] - looks like he's going to a job interview at a bank | |||
:] (]) 16:56, 20 November 2024 (UTC) | |||
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:: Thank you for loooking! - November was rich in sadness and happiness for me, expressed in ]. - You may be too young (on WP) to know that infoboxes are a declared contentious topic, - sorry that my question was unclear. Do you think they still deserve the label. I found one candidate so far who looked into the matter and didn't stay at the surface, ]. There are two composers on the Main page today, ] and ]. I find the response of my friend ] to a question on Copland's article talk promising. What do you think? --] (]) 09:11, 2 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Having closed around a dozen infobox RFCs, I think they're still fairly contentious. The CTOP designation serves to let people know they have to be on their best behavior which is important when dealing with an issue that is the subject of strong disagreement. ] (]) 12:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:: I wonder when you closed those, because I don't see many discussions anymore. Most classical composers today get an infobox without a discussion. Mozart ] in favour of an infobox, for example, almost two years ago, and I haven't seen new arguments since. We still have discussions for a few FAs, usually caused by editors who have no idea of a conflict but get immediately treated as infobox warriors, - that's what I see. - ] comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. --] (]) 16:58, 6 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:: Today, ]. --] (]) 23:43, 7 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:: On the Main page today ] on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's ] from the ]. The discussion is still on the Sibelius, ending with that he was playing in a league with Beethoven then, in 2018 ;) - We ] today. --] (]) 21:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:: Listen today to the (new) ]. - Congratulations to being elected! Could you look at ] and tell me if you miss something in his infobox? --] (]) 10:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:: Listen today to ]'s 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the ] when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with ], because he was on my ] this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. - I can report happily that the Barber situation was resolved.--] (]) 17:04, 16 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:: I come to fix the cellist's name, with ] and new pics - look for red birds --] (]) 20:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== WP:HOUNDING, and enforcing policies and guidelines == | |||
Congratulations! Sorry for being late to the party, but I only just realised that the 'crat chat had concluded. 08:06, 24 September 2022 (UTC) ] (]) 08:06, 24 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
Apologies for bothering you on your talk page, but I was wondering if you could spare some advice. I am leaving the name of the editor this is about off intentionally. | |||
:Thanks, and much appreciated. ] (]) 11:46, 24 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
I had a dispute with a user around a year or so ago who said that they didn't need to follow WP:V, essentially. This wasn't a new user, but a user who has been here for close to 12+ years and who had been warned several times for their edits by other users (no admin warnings from what I remember) | |||
== Congratulations == | |||
So I went over several of their older edits at the time and realized that they would insert material with citations that didn't mention what was added to the article or said something entirely different, insert links to primary documents in BLP articles, insert links to piracy sites containing pirated software, just a whole mess of things. | |||
now didn't you promise me home cooked dinner at some point on one of our pages? :) I hope all is well with you. <span style="font-family:Calibri; font-weight:bold;">] ]</span> 23:00, 25 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
I've tried not to hound them since I firmly believe everyone deserves peace when editing here (within reason), but it has drawn their past edits into question. I don't want to go through and edit 75+ edits of theirs for not following correct policies, since as a regular editor that would certainly annoy me. I have for the most part only edited five or less of their edits in that year time frame but am curious when this should be brought to ANI, or if it's better to just let them go about their editing. I occasionally check their edits to make sure there isn't anything super terrible that justifies immediate removal but feel like this is borderline harassment of them, and wanted to ask the proper steps. | |||
:I sure did. Let me know when you're in New England and I'll whip up some honey glazed garlic rabbit over herbed potatoes, all grown by my wife and me. | |||
:Things are going pretty well. With all my fancy new buttons that I can accidentally press I figured I should reduce my phone editing, so I got a Chromebook. Should come in handy for writing too, as work seems to be getting much busier. I think mostly what I'm going to do with it though is play Baldur's Gate, or install dosbox and play old Wizardry games. ] (]) 23:13, 25 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
::Oooh yum. I had the chance for rabbit recently but ended up with venison and patatas bravas. Not sure I could have gone wrong with either. Forgot that's where you were. I should have waved as I drove from Vermont through MA and CT to NY earlier this summer. Next time. Glad all is well. | |||
::I never got into a tablet, but that plan sounds fun. Still waiting for someone to mod the original Legend of Zelda for iPhone again. | |||
::Give a yell if I can ever play show and tell with the new buttons. <span style="font-family:Calibri; font-weight:bold;">] ]</span> 23:43, 25 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::I think I've done each of the main actions I plan on taking, and haven't accidentally blocked a steward yet, so it seems I'm getting the hang of it. I have reached out quite a few times to other admins, so I'll add you to the support list. | |||
:::Hopefully I'll have some venison soon. Almost the season, and my spot has a lot of sign. I checked my camera recently, and there's at least three nice bucks hanging around, as well as a few does, one with a fawn. I spent a couple hours out there yesterday clearing brush and branches, so when I'm out for archery I don't miss because I hit a stray stick. With the amount of rabbit I raise, two deer will let me go a year without having to buy meat. ] (]) 23:51, 25 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::Support list for anything except images. I'm still lost on those, which fittingly was an oppose or neutral on my RfA. | |||
::::I was trail running this weekend and had a couple deer friends. Their habitats are definitely changing. In the area where I was it's not just climate, but also roads being built/moved within their migration paths. I'd much rather them be dinner than road kill. <span style="font-family:Calibri; font-weight:bold;">] ]</span> 02:00, 26 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::The only image work I really do is marking copyvio over on Commons, so hopefully it doesn't come up. | |||
:::::Along with the habitat changes, there's also the lack of predators. He's are growing to unhealthy levels and there's more disease spreading. Hunting is an important part of conservation. Not that I really help out with the conservation, because I never see any deer in season. This spring I was out for opening day of turkey, in the blind I use for deer as well as turkey, and two deer sauntered by. Didn't see anything in the 50+ hours I had spend out during deer season. | |||
:::::I think they have calenders. ] (]) 09:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
Thank you for whatever advice you can give! | |||
== User preferences: gender pronoun == | |||
] (]) 17:24, 2 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:If you've spoken with them without positive results and the behavior is continuing ANI is certainly an option, or AE if their editing is in a ] and they're aware of the CTOP designation. Really, though, how you handle it is up to how you feel, and if you think it's worth whatever can of worms could be opened. ] (]) 18:07, 2 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
I routinely use the gender pronoun templates like {{tl|their}} for ''Signpost'' markup. It looks like your user preference may not be set. Or it is exactly what you want, in which case ignore this. ☆ <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family: Papyrus">]</span> (]) 17:10, 28 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
awshort does harass and needs to stop stalking me and anyone else. They are not a victim and seldom change anything of value. I saw my “targeted killings” edit was reverted because the allegation was that my sources which said exact dollar amounts of $15,000 and $30,000 paid by Iranian proxies to kill people in the west was alleged to not be accurate. ] (]) 00:39, 4 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:I generally try to use gender neutral language in pseudo anonymous spaces, and I also generally don't fill out any gender questions on the Internet. They/them is fine, or masculine pronouns. ] (]) 18:02, 28 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
:{{u|Bri}}, there's also a typo in the blurb, newst. I would have fixed it myself, but I assume that only signpost people should touch those pages. ] (]) 18:07, 28 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
::In my experience anyone is welcome to make good-faith edits to Signpost drafts, so long as it hasn't yet been approved by the editors in chief (at that point it's generally all hands off). ––] ] 06:48, 29 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
:@] I removed that in mid November. Since you weren't tagged to this conversation, and no user was mentioned by name, what brought you here? | |||
== A barnstar for you! == | |||
:] (]) 01:57, 4 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::@] I am here in an act of self defense from you. ] (]) 02:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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:::@] That didn't answer the question - you weren't pinged, and I wasn't specific on who I was talking about. So unless you are following my edits, I'm unsure why you came here or why you specifically believe this is in regards to you. | |||
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:::] (]) 04:09, 4 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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:::: ] Can you please respond to the edit war being started by Awshort (who is yet wiki stalking me again)? We are having a dispute on this article page: ]. Thank you. ] (]) 23:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== A beer for you! == | |||
:::::I'll give you a bit of a third opinion. The lead should follow the body, and there is no other mention of lamplighter in the article. It would make more sense to add that information, and also information on whistleblowers which is also absent, to the article before adding it to the lead. Looking at the importance of that information in the context of the article is also important for deciding if it should be in the lead. | |||
:::::This is really a run of the mill editing dispute so you should just follow ]. ] (]) 23:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::@] And disputes are fixed with discussion. I asked you for a reliable source that isn't one person refering to himself as such, provided policy based reasoning on why your edit was reverted, and provided alternative article suggestions where your text (with proper sourcing) would fit better than an unrelated article with it randomly thrown in. | |||
:::::I would also suggest reading ] {{tq|It is also not harassment to track a user's contributions for policy violations.}} | |||
:::::You never did answer the above question on what brought you here, but the edits I have reverted or tried to fix of yours in the past have been either highly problematic policy violations (you linking to a private data dump which could carry legal implications for the site, you referring to BLP subjects as pedophiles without proper sourcing stating the same, a few similar instances) or you ignoring ] and using as your rationale. | |||
:::::] (]) 23:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::: ] The content fits, but not in the lead per ]. You may now determine where in the article the content belongs and re-add it. The issue here is the quickness to revert and not improve. My first edit had an allegation of bad sources, and you alleged on my talk page that it was nearly impossible to find a better source. So, I showed you with a book citation how easy it can be to improve something without hitting the “revert button” and complaining on a talk page. Now, you may demonstrate your dedication to teamwork on Misplaced Pages by finding my research and correct citation a proper place on the article. Hope this is a lesson for you in good Misplaced Pages etiquette. ] (]) 23:33, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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:::::::I didn't say that it fits in the article, just that it shouldn't be in the lead unless it is in the article, and the first step would be to work it into the article. If you want something in an article it is your responsibility to find the appropriate sourcing to demonstrate that it is ] for inclusion. ] (]) 23:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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:::::::@] As I said, I attempted to improve it and find better sources which supported the text, not that it was "nearly impossible" as you put it. Your book citation showed that one person called himself that, and was still not valid for what you were trying to add to an unrelated article. | |||
|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Just a little thank you for clearing up the insane amount of vandalism on ], and for protecting the page twice over. And also as an apology for calling you "ScottishFinnishRabbit" instead of "Radish"... ] (]) 01:29, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::::There have been several instances of you adding random tidbits of somewhat-related-but-only-barely information to articles which don't necessarily help readers understand the overall topic any better, and other editors in the past have pointed this out to you over a period of several years. In the instances I've seen in the past (as in, not involving me personally) it usually involves you telling them you found the information, it helps the article, and they need to add it back. Misplaced Pages is not an indiscriminate collection of information; that is policy ]. As is consensus being how things change in articles (or as you refer to it above, "complaining on a talk page"). Not all material necessarily improves an article and just being factually true doesn’t automatically mean it should be included or stay in an article. Once material is disputed, the responsibility falls on the person who wants the material included in the article to obtain consensus that it should stay in (with no consensus usually resulting in the material being left out). And lastly, your responses to other users when you are upset/annoyed with them come off as ''extremely'' condescending. Please work on how you talk to other people; that is part of policy (]) and has been mentioned to you in the past by several users including an admin. | |||
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:::::::Regarding the information which started this whole reactivation of an old discussion - I looked last night for a more suitable alternative for the material and it appears in both {{Section link|Frank Serpico|Retirement and activism}} as well as | |||
: No worries, I talk about rabbits fairly often. There's even a picture of some of my rabbits on my userpage. ] (]) 01:33, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
{{Section link|Whistleblowing|Advocacy for protection}}, with the second link also mentioning the Lamp Lighter Project. Since there is no mention of Internal Affairs in the few sources that mention the term or connection between IA and the term, it seems this has been fixed on the content level at least by ending up in a suitable set of articles. | |||
:::::::] (]) 21:17, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== Possible ] violation by Bohemian Baltimore == | |||
== Nice going == | |||
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A very thoughtful interview in the signpost, I felt (, for any watchers who haven't seen it). I agree strongly with your point about content curation. I've historically been in the "admins must write content" camp, but only to the extent that admins need to know enough not to screw up curation. Some folks have gone rather beyond that, it would seem. <span style="font-family:Papyrus">] (])</span> 04:43, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
*{{tq|It can be, depending on if people are looking for a way to avoid saying the candidate looks like a horse.}}{{snd}}Sorry, I'm not getting the horse reference. ]] 04:53, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:Read the previous answer, {{U|EEng}} :) <span style="font-family:Papyrus">] (])</span> 04:57, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::{{tq|No worries, I talk about rabbits fairly often. There's even a picture of some of my rabbits on my userpage.}}{{snd}}??? ]] 14:05, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::My wife and I breed rabbits, as well as other livestock. Just another of the too many hobbies I have. When I'm not farming I'm building furniture or doing artistic woodwork and metalwork. I spend a lot of time outdoors too, hunting and fishing, as well as less violent hobbies like hiking, kayaking, and snow shoeing. I generally have too much going on. ] (]) 16:13, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::Yes, but how does that answer explain the horse reference? ]] 19:20, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::::The prior question in the interview, {{tq|Back when John Kerry was running for president of the US I had a friend who said he couldn't vote for Kerry because "his face looks like a horse." You can't convince someone you don't actually look like a horse, and as long as RFA is about how people feel about you, there's not a whole lot that can be done. To be clear, this is common on the support side as well, supporters just have the benefit of anything without an explanation being read as "per nom."}} ] (]) 19:24, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::::I actually figured that out eventually, but it was more fun to keep playing dumb and exasperate you. I find it pays to break in new admins right away. ]] 20:45, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::As Vanamonde says, it's related to the prior question. I always liked that anecdote, because it shows that past most of the rationalizations people state when voting, it mostly comes down to a general impression or if they think the candidate looks like a horse. ] (]) 12:21, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
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A good read, thank to all involved! --] (]) 08:22, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:Thanks! ] (]) 12:21, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:: I wondered how many would still oppose after having read the interview. - The tree pictured is one of my favourites. My No. 1 collapsed in a storm years ago, and I still miss it when passing by on the road. - ]. --] (]) 13:45, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::That's one of the reasons I think that RFA might work better as a one week q&a, followed by a secret vote. | |||
:::My favorite tree is an enormous oak in the middle of the woods near where I hunt. It's easily fifty feet taller than the surrounding canopy, four or five feet in diameter, old and craggy. ] (]) 17:21, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::: Sound great! Mine was an apple tree. - Believe it ot not, today's church booklet for October had a front pic of mostly radishes :) - German ], harvest thanks. --] (]) 18:45, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::I had a few excellent radish harvests this year. I sent {{u|El C}} a picture of me holding a daikon as large as my arm. My rabbits also appreciated all the radish greens. ] (]) 18:58, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
* Congratulations SFR! I wish I had kept an eye on the RfAs, but hey, you always had, have you won't,]]] my '''support''' :) — ] (] · ] · ]) 17:15, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
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== Adminship == | |||
I have just reverted an edit by Bohemian Baltimore, who has a topic ban on self-ID articles for BLPs, broadly construed. This editor has made a number of small edits that seem to test/skirt the TBAN, with the text I reverted today seeming to be a more obvious violation of the ban. The editor disputes whether this applies in this case. | |||
Congrats with your adminship {{smiley}} ] (]) 11:45, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
Details as follows: | |||
Yes, indeed! Congratulations! I didn't even know you were nominated. -- ] (]) (''''']''''') 21:46, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
* The editor to the ] article to change the wording around how these people are identified. | |||
== About your adminship == | |||
* The editor also made , which are used by some to self-ID. | |||
Congratulations on becoming an admin! ] (] | ]) 21:47, 1 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
* The editor changed the article to remove the '''Category:Nahua people''' to '''Category:Nahua''', and the article. | |||
==Creative way to get votes: fake your own death== | |||
:''See also: ]'' | |||
Stupid news! So, a funeral was held for the leader of the Cuban Federales and mayoral candidate, Osvaldo Pingafria. But he wasn't actually dead, rather, | |||
it was a 500 IQ election stunt, which is sure to bring in the votes (somehow). However, someone forgot to inform James Randel, who responded, uh, | |||
somewhat {{emoji|1F525}} '''''' {{emoji|1F525}} ] 14:31, 2 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
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:Thanks to these links and my wife watching YouTube on the Roku, which is linked to my account, I have very weird suggestions. GTA roleplay and Cambodian cooking. At least the ads are still targeted, somewhat. The ad for TikTok was wasted on me, but the second ad for a sale at tractor supply was reasonable. Unfortunately for them I'm fixed for feed, forage, and fencing right now. | |||
:I finished that last series of books, solidly a C- effort by the author. Trope after trope, completely predictable, every good guy killed the bad guy they were set up against in the first book. The whole thing read like a 12 years old's d&d story after their parents let them watch game of thrones. I also refuse to believe that the main character's love interest has breath that "smells faintly of apples" after a month of forced marching and combat while eating hard tack and hunted meat. | |||
:I just started some apocalyptic zombie series which is also pretty bad so far, but it's a box set so I get 54 hours of listening for the cost of one book. It's another series not notable enough for an article by another author not notable enough for an author. ] (]) 15:05, 2 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
It might be that these don't fall under the "broadly construed" clause, but I thought it worth raising the issue now before a future edit does. I saw that you implemented the ban, so thought I'd reach out to you first. ] (]) 07:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Sorry, what apple series is this? Yeah, I've had ] for like a year now and haven't looked back. But I'm unlikely to get the Twitch equivalent (Turbo or whatever the fuck it's called). I'm now half way through book 2 of the Green Rider series, '']'', and I'm still liking it a lot. It's taking me a while, but that's more due to being busy than lack of interest. | |||
::BTW, in the acknowledgments, ] thanked not ] who gave the first book such a glowing review (as mentioned, a major river in the world is called ''Terrygood''), but rather, ], the author of the last series of books I read. Small book world! I also found out that she used to be a Park Ranger, so that explains the magical '''<span style="color:green">green</span>''' riders | |||
::BTW BTW, while I appreciate ] not being a conglomerate (though "In July 2022, DAW was acquired by Astra Publishing," its article says), holy smokes are their prints just for shit. Faded ink, un-bleached recycled paper, just the fuckin' worst. Oh well. ] 15:33, 2 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::The last series was ''The Faithful and the Fallen'' by John Gwynne, and the one I just started is ''Slow Burn'' by Bobby Adair. Sometimes I try books that I assume won't be good because it brings me back to my days as a kid buying and reading whatever was available at the flea market. The worst part about that was getting books from a series and never getting to read the other books. | |||
:::I never bothered with YouTube premium because I normally watch YouTube on a PC with an ad blocker. All the streaming my wife and I use are ad-free though. We pay extra for Hulu and all that, I have too many hobbies to spend time watching ads. ] (]) 16:00, 2 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::I only use PC, as well. Yeah, I did the ad-block thing on and off for many years (I think I created my YouTube account in 2009), but it was always a bit wonky and a pain to maintain, especially with certain extensions. YouTube Premium also has music options for YouTube's vast music library. And it isn't that expensive, so I've been pretty happy with what I get. ] 16:09, 2 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:@], pinging you for transparency. Hopefully we can get an answer. ] (]) 07:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
===Into the squeeze=== | |||
::@] There is no testing or skirting. I was told to stay away from BLPs related to self-identification and citizenship due to controversy over Native American BLPs. And that is what I have done; stayed away from editing those topics on Indigenous BLPs. None of those edited articles is a BLP. I am not aware of any total ban on editing Indigenous topics. If there is, I was not informed. ] (]) 07:17, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::Self-ID is a major topic of most of these articles. Or are least of the edits you have made. It's worth noting that some of the info is also inaccurate—Taíno groups in Puerto Rico and the USVI are in non-sovereign territory (i.e., colonies), so they have no route for formal recognition. Your creation of the ] article and the related '''Category:Taíno heritage groups''' therefore seems oddly ]. ] (]) 07:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::I'm sorry, but this seems like grasping for straws. If a topic ban for BLPs were to include non-BLPs, I would have been told this. Innocuous edits like creating a parent category for Nahua or adding Taino to the Native American identity article, in addition to not having anything to do with BLPs, doesn't even have anything to do with citizenship or self-identification. The information on the heritage group article, also, was not inaccurate. Not that that's relevant to the BLP question though. ] (]) 07:42, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::If I am misinterpreting the decision, then I am happy to apologise. It's entirely possible I'm looking at this too rigidly. | |||
:::::But either way, clarity would be good going forward. It seems to me these articles all have self-ID in common, either as an explicit or implicit element, and often involve the self-ID of people or groups of people. | |||
:::::If these articles are too tangential to the topic to count and it's too non-specific for the BLP element to count, then that's also useful to know for you as well as anyone else. ] (]) 07:59, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::::::@] I think it is clear that it is my intent to adhere to the topic ban and that is what I have tried to do since I was T-banned. If we are going to quibble over broadness, then that needs to be clarified by the administrators and then I can adhere to whatever their determination is. But it seems like you are arguing for my topic-ban to be broader than what it was originally stated to be. If the goal posts are going to be moved, well okay, but I need to be informed of where they are now. ] (]) 08:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::::I think we are broadly in agreement that it's helpful to know where the boundaries lie. I read "broadly construed" as meaning anything related to the matter of Indigenous identity. What's a BLP or not is also relatively broadly construed in its own right. If that's not the case, I am happy to retract and strike my comments. ] (]) 08:19, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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*Created the article – using the language of your prior self-ID articles to say these aren't recognised. (Note that Puerto Rico is a colony, not a state, so there is no formal route to recognition.) | |||
Forgot to mention, new IH: '''''' (about ]), which is always exciting as he posts even less frequently than Nexpo (see also ] at ]'s). Also, '']'' is still great; '']'' still sucks, you know how it goes. ] 15:07, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
* Created the . | |||
:Caves are scary. I'm not claustrophobic, and I've spent a lot of time in small crawlspaces, but there's something about being underground that is scary as fuck. ] (]) 16:10, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::Amazon spent a fortune on acquiring the rights to The Rings of Power and then no doubt spent another fortune on the production, culminating in a ponderous (boring is right!), more-is-better, badly acted (the actress playing Galadriel is dreadful), strangely political mess. As for crawl spaces, when I was a child, my father bought a fixer-upper to fix up himself with my older brother's and my help (my brother far more willing than I). When they put in baseboard heating, I was told to go under the house because I was the smallest, and I had to slither around while being told from above what to do. I was scared shitless (I was convinced the house was going to collapse), which left me traumatized for life. I don't think my father realized it at the time. Our current home has a very large "crawl space", but, unlike the fixer-upper, it's so high that one can walk upright in it, although occasionally ducking to avoid the duct work. Back to your regular channels.--] (]) 16:35, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
* Editor added , even though the link is tangential. Again, seems pointy. | |||
::It's a super-scary situation, to be sure. Which is why I think the ] creepypasta has gained so much traction over the years. IH has the rare talent, though, of presenting historical events that are, at times, highly disturbing, with diffusive humor that is genuinely funny, and yet does not detracts from the overall seriousness. ] 16:31, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
* ("an ethnic identity") and to a bunch of other articles. | |||
* Edited ]. (See below.) | |||
:::As I've mentioned elsewhere, a key problem has to do with writers who have little to no writing experience, in general, and no respect for the lore, specifically. Those writers probably mirror the distorted view of the execs who hire them: for example, that a ''strong woman'' needs to be both a ] ''and'' interminably insufferable (that's because they, themselves, are like that, but see it as normal and good). Or that men (not of colour) should either be villains (actual or potential), incompetent, and/or simps. Contrast that with ''Incest Dragons'', where, for example, women die from childbirth often, as was the case prior to modern medicine. Depicting that, one of the greatest struggles and hardships that women have faced through the ages, is infinitely more progressive than ''Bored of the Rings''' superficial teenage-fanfic approach, not to mention immersive (i.e. realism, even with dragons). | |||
:::While I strongly disagree with the right-wing politics of The Critical Drinker, he posted a '''''' of the series thus far yesterday that I think highlights a lot of these problems. BTW, pretty much the only ads I see are on Twitch, which had a 10-second ad for the series that looked really enticing. How gullible was I? Now whenever I see that ad, I cringe. | |||
:::I've had that fear, too, as a kid as well as an adult, of being in a tight space with enormous mass above me that I dread would collapse overtop of me, even though the chances of that approach zero. But the scariest, I find, is being stuck somewhere (deep) and no one knowing where you are. Luickly, it's something I've only experienced in dreams (which is to say, nightmares). ] 17:19, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::I just finished watching the entire 19-minute YouTube; thanks for that. Is TCD's voice/accent as irritating to Brits as it is to this American? Putting aside that and his obvious love of his own voice, it was indeed a great critique of the show. One of my favorite lines referring to Galadriel, something like "Is she ever going to learn more than one facial expression?"--] (]) 17:52, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::Nice. Yeah, he has his moments. RE: accent — if I remember right, I think he's from ]. ] 18:01, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::::If you remember correctly, he's actually easier to ''understand'' than most Scots. The irritating part isn't the ''accent'' as much as the cadence of his speech, which sounds a little like a Brit trying to imitate a Valley Girl (if you know what that sounds like).--] (]) 18:08, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::::I do, but I never really picked up on that with him. Usually, when I watch something Scottish, like ''],'' etc., I need subtitles or I just can't understand half of it. But, indeed, that is not the case with TCD, who is relatively ease to understand. ] 18:33, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::My wife and I were having this discussion about Rings of Bezos and Dr. Who Breaks Bad last night. I don't mind over the top political messaging, bad writing, or being overly ponderous, but all three at once is pretty bad. My wife actually said she'd rather watch Wheel of Time again than The Elf Who Never Learns. After the recap of the last episode before the new episode started I mentioned that it was longer than a normal TV show, and even recapping the excitement from previous episodes ''was still boring''. ] (]) 18:09, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::::My favorite part is the Skip Recap button.--] (]) 18:26, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
Re: BLPs, also see ]: {{tq|A harmful statement about a small group or organization comes closer to being a BLP problem than a similar statement about a larger group; and when the group is very small, it may be impossible to draw a distinction between the group and the individuals that make up the group.}} | |||
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{{emoji|1F693}} '''''''''' {{emoji|1F693}} ] 16:57, 14 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
I take your point that some of these are probably not violations, but the point is that they're skirting the issue "broadly construed". As for the Taíno, I have added text to the page you created to clarify. You'll see what I mean. But creating a category to call groups out for ''not having recognition they cannot obtain'' does, again, seem to be pointy. ] (]) 07:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== About User:Kidtommee == | |||
:@] So you admit that there probably aren't any violations and everything is only tangentially related if at all, but are still making an issue out of this. Well, that's interesting. The category for Taino heritage groups was actually created ''before'' my topic-ban was instituted, not that it matters, because it isn't a BLP anyway. Puerto Rico is a territory, not a "colony". I'm not sure that you are correct that a territory cannot give recognition to a tribe (Why are we debating this here?). But your quibble there is not I didn't give enough context on a newly created article still being worked on, not that there is anything false, because there wasn't. None of the edited articles pertains to "small groups". Name one, if so. It is my understanding that "broadly construed" pertains to BLPs, as I was topic-banned from BLPs. I didn't create the Taino category, by the way, to "call them out". That's a bad-faith accusation. I created the category to make it easier for readers to access articles related to Taino orgs. I think my editing over the past month has demonstrated my intent to adhere to the topic ban, as I have stayed away from the BLPs. I supposed it would be possible to quibble broadly enough to make the argument that ''any'' Native-related edits "tangentially" relate to BLPs in some way. ] (]) 08:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
Hello, I am Tommy 's dad, I'm really sorry he had some disruptive interactions today. I'm trying to explain to him what he did wrong, he doesn't understand about verifiable sources (he's 9) and I wasn't aware he was trying to edit some articles (to be honest that makes me kind of proud). I know the (obvious) reasons behind his user being blocked, but I would like to take the time to explain how Misplaced Pages works (I didn't know he was interested). Please allow him to keep his Username, and he'll eventually return prepared to collaborate. Another observation, after all this years (I joined Misplaced Pages 15 years ago I think, and collaborated mostly in Misplaced Pages en Español) you would believe that blocking IP's is kind of an obsolete idea, just because you blocked him I wasn't able to use my ISP's IP to communicate with you, then I tried to use Surfshark VPN and that IP was also blocked (useless pattern I think). Thank you and have a good night. (] (]) 00:57, 3 October 2022 (UTC)) | |||
::{{tq|So you admit that there probably aren't any violations}} I didn't say that. I said some may be tangential. I stand by statement that it's helpful to get clarification either way, and have offered to apologise if I'm proven wrong. | |||
:{{tps|br}} This is weird. I've seen my share of ] but this is the first time on this website I've seen someone advocate on behalf of a child. Compromised account? Good hand bad hand? This could be real; not inconceivable. This is just weird. Were I an admin, I'd stick to what I know and that is the fact that Kidtommee isn't ready to be editing here. This sort of situation would not be resolved through SPI, so any unblock I might make would have to come with strings attached to the so-claimed parent. Kid misbehaves again? Both accounts are blocked. That's just me talking, though. <span class="nowrap" style="font-family:copperplate gothic light;">] (])</span> 02:05, 3 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::As for the Taíno stuff, I have added sources at the relevant article. You will see what I mean there. The legal framework for recognition only applies to the 48 contiguous States and Alaska (and the latter only because they brought in specific rules to do that). Puerto Rico and the USVI are non-sovereign territories with limited ability to officially recognise groups, which is why groups from those islands have been pushing the UN to intervene on their behalf. But I agree we can drop that discussion here. | |||
::That's about my thought process on the whole thing, too. They can still request an unblock through UTRS at some point, and as I placed the indef, I'll leave that up to another admin to decide. ] (]) 09:20, 3 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::ETA: Also, it's early and I'm particularly grumpy today. I apologise if my tone in general has caused an escalation. ] (]) 08:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Hi, it is not a "compromised account", he's just a kid and he loves Bob The Builder and HIT Entertainment and all that, and he thought he could edit on this article based on some wrong knowledge. He simply doesn't know the rules and I wasn't aware he was trying to edit an article, he is not ready to contribute, but that is exactly my point because, one day, he will be, and "] is a ], meaning anyone can edit nearly any page and improve articles immediately". I am not asking an unblock, but kids tend to see things in absolute terms, I don't want him to feel discouraged to ever come back and edit, because that would be a shame. I am asking for some leniency because all he sees is an absolute (indefinite block), I don't want him to desist in something as good as this project, his time will come and he'll be prepared. The way I see it, this generation is getting too much of wrong information and dumb ideas through social media or fox news, and my kid is reading from Misplaced Pages, this is not a formal request, this is just a father that is proud that his 9 year old son wants to be part of something worthy. Greetings. ] (]) 17:02, 3 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
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:::If you want this looked at in detail I suggest you bring it to ]. ] (]) 12:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | ||
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::::Thanks. Having thought about it some more, I'm happy to leave this for now. I don't have the energy for it and don't want to get into any wikilawyering. @], I'm sorry for any bother caused. ] (]) 15:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC) | ||
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Um... if you look at ], there is a content dispute going on, and the appropriate protection would have been full protection in my opinion, not semi-protection to lock out one editor who happens to use an anonymous IP address. ~] <small>(])</small> 03:15, 3 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
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:::::I could probably use dall-e to make sexy Rebecca pictures. ] (]) 22:44, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::::Given the context, I assumed that link would be about furries on wikipedia! ] 16:20, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
== ] unblock requests question == | |||
:Yeah, I don't disagree. Does the VOA selection default to indef? I've used it before, so I should know, but I don't recall. ] (]) 23:15, 3 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::If you're blocking with Twinkle, yes.--] (]) 23:18, 3 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::{{u|Bbb23}}, think NOTHERE applies to {{noping|157.130.12.106}}? ] (]) 00:12, 4 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::I never think of NOTHERE applying to an IP, but you can block them for vandalism if you wish, although not indefinitely. BTW, the impersonating account you indeffed is a sock. He impersonated Cryptic, too, and did the same edit to a blocked user's page, telling them to create another account. Cute, huh?--] (]) 00:20, 4 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::Probably not worth the block on the IP, already stopped editing. People sure come up with silly ways to waste their time, and other's. ] (]) 00:27, 4 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
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I'm not sure what the standard procedure is here, or if there is one, but do you think it would make sense to replace their unblock requests with the "on hold" version so it is immediately clear that this at AE and not something for a single admin to review? | |||
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First off, congrats on the mop. I saw your 72 hour block of the user after they hit ], so just letting you know I expanded the block to a year-long rangeblock of {{rangevandal|72.29.39.0/24}} since it's been the same disruptive user for years. ]<sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub> 15:12, 4 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
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:Yeah, that should get it out of the queue, at least. ] (]) 22:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | ||
::{{done}}. ] ] 23:57, 19 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::There's a few areas in Misplaced Pages which have unbelievably dedicated disruptive editors and incredibly dedicated disruptive editor sniffers. I feel a PhD is needed to handle: | |||
:::Thank you kindly. Dall-e is doing an okay job making Rebecca images, but I don't think we're allowed to use them. ] (]) 00:13, 20 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
::* unsourced television additions | |||
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:::Don't forget children's television shows and people who are unusually old. ] (]) 16:35, 4 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::I had an IPv6 range a few months back that was going around and inserting "facts" relating to Judy Garland being supposedly approached for roles in almost every classic 1940s/50s Holywood film. On some level I admire the persistence, but damn if it's not disruptive. ] (]) 16:40, 4 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::Everyone needs a hobby, I guess. ] (]) 18:03, 4 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
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Hi, could you explain this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Zionism&diff=prev&oldid=1260458061 | |||
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Thank you, ] (]) 01:11, 21 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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:An editor was using an LLM to make arguments while falsifying sources so I collapsed some of it, and removed other parts that hadn't been replied to yet. ] (]) 01:13, 21 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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Hello, got another quick revdel request for you. has already been reverted, but is a copy/paste of . - ] (]) 02:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
Hey :) Just a quick heads-up that you missed a rev from your revdel on ] - specifically the . I'm not sure if this was an accidental miss or if you didn't realise that it needed deleted too, so thought I'd give you a quick heads-up just in case it's the latter! <span style="font-family: Verdana;">]</span> (]) 14:43, 9 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:], I missed it. I was outside doing some work on winterizing my chicken run and repairing some fence and saw that disruption during a break. I think I also forgot to select the right reason for the revdels :/<span id="ScottishFinnishRadish:1665327112498:User_talkFTTCLNScottishFinnishRadish" class="FTTCmt"> — ] (]) 14:51, 9 October 2022 (UTC)</span> | |||
::Meh, no worries - just wanted to make sure :) Thanks for taking care of it when you did! <span style="font-family: Verdana;">]</span> (]) 14:54, 9 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::Is there any way to append a reason to a revdel after the fact, or is it just stuck with the generic reason?<span id="ScottishFinnishRadish:1665327674808:User_talkFTTCLNScottishFinnishRadish" class="FTTCmt"> — ] (]) 15:01, 9 October 2022 (UTC)</span> | |||
::::There's no way to edit the log entries that are already there (much the same as edit summaries); you'd have to create new log entries by undeleting/redeleting. To be perfectly honest, I'd just leave it be at this point. <span style="font-family: Verdana;">]</span> (]) 15:04, 9 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::Yeah, it's pretty clear to anyone reviewing why it was revdel'd.<span id="ScottishFinnishRadish:1665327930023:User_talkFTTCLNScottishFinnishRadish" class="FTTCmt"> — ] (]) 15:05, 9 October 2022 (UTC)</span> | |||
:Thanks for the heads up, all set. ] (]) 02:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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Should have checked deleted contribs. Thanks! <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- ]</span><sup>]'']</sup> (she|they|xe)</span> 21:21, 10 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:No worries, I wasn't sure if you had seen it, or if it was after your decline, or you just wanted to make sure that wasn't a dumb one-off edit.<span id="ScottishFinnishRadish:1665436958755:User_talkFTTCLNScottishFinnishRadish" class="FTTCmt"> ] (]) 21:22, 10 October 2022 (UTC)</span> | |||
FYI, 83.203.20.206 appears to be a sock for 76.67.115.228 that you blocked, based on the edit to ]. So far just the one edit. ] (]) 03:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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Hey, SFR! Can you please grant me new page patroller rights? I've done quite a bit of it in the past; however, I stopped doing it for a few years. When I wanted to start doing it again, apparently it had become a privileged action. Thanks! ]] 18:40, 11 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:], I don't really do the permissions thing, so you'd be better off reaching out at ]. ] (]) 01:07, 12 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
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:I was wondering if this was the same person. {{User|83.203.20.206}} ] (]) 03:08, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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::Given the preoccupation with Israel/Hebrew, I would assume so. Though of course conceivably a friend, or just someone who saw the vandalism and decided to do the same. ] (]) 03:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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::::213.49.236.39 the same. same maybe-Neapolitan edit summaries. so they appear to be IP-hopping. ] (]) 05:26, 24 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
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I noticed that move protection was changed from admin to extended when edit protection was added to the article. Just wanted to make sure that was the intent. -- ] (]) 12:12, 12 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:], that was a mistake, thought I had unchecked the modify move protection box. Restored to admin move protection.<span id="ScottishFinnishRadish:1665579776758:User_talkFTTCLNScottishFinnishRadish" class="FTTCmt"> ] (]) 13:02, 12 October 2022 (UTC)</span> | |||
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It's still not exactly clear to me why you deleted this page but you have to be very careful when you take any action after a bad page move. Bots typically move all article redirects after a page move pretty quickly and if you delete a page with Twinkle, you can end up deleting a few (or a lot) of valid redirects that now point to the wrong page. When taking action after a bad page move of a popular page, if you are considering deleting either the bad title or the regular title, please check for redirects ("What links here") and either manually correct them to point to the right target or leave a redirect from the bad title to the correct title and the bots will get around to correcting these double redirects. | |||
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:Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! ] (]) 16:54, 25 December 2024 (UTC) | |||
So, your page deletion ended up deleting a lot of valid redirects but Cryptic has restored them all now. But this is how you learn! I once mistakenly deleted all of the pages in a category...it's important when you make a mistake to set about fixing it once you realize that things didn't go as you planned. Thanks! <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">]</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">] ]</sup> 00:34, 13 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:], there was a request on discord, and a few admins started taking action all at the same time. I was under the impression that someone was handling the redirects after my deletion.<br/>I even mentioned that I was going to have to fuck up deleting stuff or moving pages at some point, since it's a right of passage for admins to have to go to AN and request help fixing whatever they did with their tools.<br/>I will certainly be more careful with that in the future. Sorry for the trouble.<span id="ScottishFinnishRadish:1665621536338:User_talkFTTCLNScottishFinnishRadish" class="FTTCmt"> ] (]) 00:38, 13 October 2022 (UTC)</span> | |||
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:::::This one used to actually be funny, as there were bananas on the scale. It turns out the bananas were a derivitaive work not properly licensed, and now it's not funny. I wonder if any one with good image manipulation skills could rectify this banana-less non-joke? ] ] 23:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::::::I had dall-e make some bananas-on-scales, but it seems a failing of ai is an inability to not have bananas on both sides of the scales. ] (]) 23:30, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
:::::::The bananas were on the heavy side of the scale, because reasons. ] ] 23:35, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
::::::::The only option is bananas on both sides, as far as I can get dall-e to generate. ] (]) 23:36, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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Thank you for standing for arbitrator. I am far away from it all (travel, mourning), not in the mood, so just an informal question you can answer or ignore:
- Liviu Holender chose lieder by five composers whose music was banned by the Nazis—Schreker, Zemlinsky, Mahler, Korngold and Schönberg—for a recital at the Oper Frankfurt.
What does this 2024 DYK tell you about infoboxes for classical composers in 2024? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:26, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- Those articles don't, in and of themselves, tell me a lot about infoboxes, other than that most of them have infoboxes. Quick power ranking on their hair, though.
- Franz Schreker - Off center widows peak over male-pattern baldness. Wild wings on the sides. Combined with the expression he really communicates "intense Austrian composer"
- Alexander von Zemlinsky - always maximum respect for a pompadour
- Arnold Schoenberg - I'll always believe that Picard was the best captain, and this haircut communicates that. Middle of the road though, as the default bald guy cut
- Gustav Mahler - trying to pull off the "genius that doesn't care about his hair" look, but Schreker did it much better
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold - looks like he's going to a job interview at a bank
- ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:56, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
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- Thank you for loooking! - November was rich in sadness and happiness for me, expressed in music. - You may be too young (on WP) to know that infoboxes are a declared contentious topic, - sorry that my question was unclear. Do you think they still deserve the label. I found one candidate so far who looked into the matter and didn't stay at the surface, Simonm223. There are two composers on the Main page today, Siegfried Thiele and Aaron Copland. I find the response of my friend Jerome Kohl to a question on Copland's article talk promising. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- Having closed around a dozen infobox RFCs, I think they're still fairly contentious. The CTOP designation serves to let people know they have to be on their best behavior which is important when dealing with an issue that is the subject of strong disagreement. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- I wonder when you closed those, because I don't see many discussions anymore. Most classical composers today get an infobox without a discussion. Mozart was closed in favour of an infobox, for example, almost two years ago, and I haven't seen new arguments since. We still have discussions for a few FAs, usually caused by editors who have no idea of a conflict but get immediately treated as infobox warriors, - that's what I see. - Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:58, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Today, listen to Sequenza XIV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:43, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. The discussion is still on the Sibelius, ending with that he was playing in a league with Beethoven then, in 2018 ;) - We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. - Congratulations to being elected! Could you look at Samuel Barber and tell me if you miss something in his infobox? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
- Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. - I can report happily that the Barber situation was resolved.--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
- I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
WP:HOUNDING, and enforcing policies and guidelines
Apologies for bothering you on your talk page, but I was wondering if you could spare some advice. I am leaving the name of the editor this is about off intentionally.
I had a dispute with a user around a year or so ago who said that they didn't need to follow WP:V, essentially. This wasn't a new user, but a user who has been here for close to 12+ years and who had been warned several times for their edits by other users (no admin warnings from what I remember)
So I went over several of their older edits at the time and realized that they would insert material with citations that didn't mention what was added to the article or said something entirely different, insert links to primary documents in BLP articles, insert links to piracy sites containing pirated software, just a whole mess of things.
I've tried not to hound them since I firmly believe everyone deserves peace when editing here (within reason), but it has drawn their past edits into question. I don't want to go through and edit 75+ edits of theirs for not following correct policies, since as a regular editor that would certainly annoy me. I have for the most part only edited five or less of their edits in that year time frame but am curious when this should be brought to ANI, or if it's better to just let them go about their editing. I occasionally check their edits to make sure there isn't anything super terrible that justifies immediate removal but feel like this is borderline harassment of them, and wanted to ask the proper steps.
Thank you for whatever advice you can give! Awshort (talk) 17:24, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- If you've spoken with them without positive results and the behavior is continuing ANI is certainly an option, or AE if their editing is in a WP:CTOP and they're aware of the CTOP designation. Really, though, how you handle it is up to how you feel, and if you think it's worth whatever can of worms could be opened. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:07, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
awshort does harass and needs to stop stalking me and anyone else. They are not a victim and seldom change anything of value. I saw my “targeted killings” edit was reverted because the allegation was that my sources which said exact dollar amounts of $15,000 and $30,000 paid by Iranian proxies to kill people in the west was alleged to not be accurate. Twillisjr (talk) 00:39, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Twillisjr I removed that in mid November. Since you weren't tagged to this conversation, and no user was mentioned by name, what brought you here?
- Awshort (talk) 01:57, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Awshort I am here in an act of self defense from you. Twillisjr (talk) 02:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Twillisjr That didn't answer the question - you weren't pinged, and I wasn't specific on who I was talking about. So unless you are following my edits, I'm unsure why you came here or why you specifically believe this is in regards to you.
- Awshort (talk) 04:09, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Awshort I am here in an act of self defense from you. Twillisjr (talk) 02:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
- ScottishFinnishRadish Can you please respond to the edit war being started by Awshort (who is yet wiki stalking me again)? We are having a dispute on this article page: Internal affairs (law enforcement). Thank you. Twillisjr (talk) 23:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'll give you a bit of a third opinion. The lead should follow the body, and there is no other mention of lamplighter in the article. It would make more sense to add that information, and also information on whistleblowers which is also absent, to the article before adding it to the lead. Looking at the importance of that information in the context of the article is also important for deciding if it should be in the lead.
- This is really a run of the mill editing dispute so you should just follow WP:DR. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Twillisjr And disputes are fixed with discussion. I asked you for a reliable source that isn't one person refering to himself as such, provided policy based reasoning on why your edit was reverted, and provided alternative article suggestions where your text (with proper sourcing) would fit better than an unrelated article with it randomly thrown in.
- I would also suggest reading WP:HA#NOT
It is also not harassment to track a user's contributions for policy violations.
- You never did answer the above question on what brought you here, but the edits I have reverted or tried to fix of yours in the past have been either highly problematic policy violations (you linking to a private data dump which could carry legal implications for the site, you referring to BLP subjects as pedophiles without proper sourcing stating the same, a few similar instances) or you ignoring WP:V and using this as your rationale.
- Awshort (talk) 23:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- ScottishFinnishRadish Can you please respond to the edit war being started by Awshort (who is yet wiki stalking me again)? We are having a dispute on this article page: Internal affairs (law enforcement). Thank you. Twillisjr (talk) 23:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Awshort The content fits, but not in the lead per ScottishFinnishRadish. You may now determine where in the article the content belongs and re-add it. The issue here is the quickness to revert and not improve. My first edit had an allegation of bad sources, and you alleged on my talk page that it was nearly impossible to find a better source. So, I showed you with a book citation how easy it can be to improve something without hitting the “revert button” and complaining on a talk page. Now, you may demonstrate your dedication to teamwork on Misplaced Pages by finding my research and correct citation a proper place on the article. Hope this is a lesson for you in good Misplaced Pages etiquette. Twillisjr (talk) 23:33, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't say that it fits in the article, just that it shouldn't be in the lead unless it is in the article, and the first step would be to work it into the article. If you want something in an article it is your responsibility to find the appropriate sourcing to demonstrate that it is WP:DUE for inclusion. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Twillisjr As I said, I attempted to improve it and find better sources which supported the text, not that it was "nearly impossible" as you put it. Your book citation showed that one person called himself that, and was still not valid for what you were trying to add to an unrelated article.
- There have been several instances of you adding random tidbits of somewhat-related-but-only-barely information to articles which don't necessarily help readers understand the overall topic any better, and other editors in the past have pointed this out to you over a period of several years. In the instances I've seen in the past (as in, not involving me personally) it usually involves you telling them you found the information, it helps the article, and they need to add it back. Misplaced Pages is not an indiscriminate collection of information; that is policy WP:INDISCRIMINATE. As is consensus being how things change in articles (or as you refer to it above, "complaining on a talk page"). Not all material necessarily improves an article and just being factually true doesn’t automatically mean it should be included or stay in an article. Once material is disputed, the responsibility falls on the person who wants the material included in the article to obtain consensus that it should stay in (with no consensus usually resulting in the material being left out). And lastly, your responses to other users when you are upset/annoyed with them come off as extremely condescending. Please work on how you talk to other people; that is part of policy (WP:AVOIDUNCIVIL) and has been mentioned to you in the past by several users including an admin.
- Regarding the information which started this whole reactivation of an old discussion - I looked last night for a more suitable alternative for the material and it appears in both Frank Serpico § Retirement and activism as well as
- Awshort The content fits, but not in the lead per ScottishFinnishRadish. You may now determine where in the article the content belongs and re-add it. The issue here is the quickness to revert and not improve. My first edit had an allegation of bad sources, and you alleged on my talk page that it was nearly impossible to find a better source. So, I showed you with a book citation how easy it can be to improve something without hitting the “revert button” and complaining on a talk page. Now, you may demonstrate your dedication to teamwork on Misplaced Pages by finding my research and correct citation a proper place on the article. Hope this is a lesson for you in good Misplaced Pages etiquette. Twillisjr (talk) 23:33, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Whistleblowing § Advocacy for protection, with the second link also mentioning the Lamp Lighter Project. Since there is no mention of Internal Affairs in the few sources that mention the term or connection between IA and the term, it seems this has been fixed on the content level at least by ending up in a suitable set of articles.
Possible WP:TBAN violation by Bohemian Baltimore
Good morning,
I have just reverted an edit by Bohemian Baltimore, who has a topic ban on self-ID articles for BLPs, broadly construed. This editor has made a number of small edits that seem to test/skirt the TBAN, with the text I reverted today seeming to be a more obvious violation of the ban. The editor disputes whether this applies in this case.
Details as follows:
- The editor edited the intro to the Taíno article to change the wording around how these people are identified.
- The editor also made these edits regarding Indigenous DNA tests, which are used by some to self-ID.
- The editor changed the Nahuas article to remove the Category:Nahua people to Category:Nahua, and the Native American Identity in the United States article.
- I have just reverted the addition of Taíno heritage groups (i.e., groups of people who self-ID) to List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes.
It might be that these don't fall under the "broadly construed" clause, but I thought it worth raising the issue now before a future edit does. I saw that you implemented the ban, so thought I'd reach out to you first. Lewisguile (talk) 07:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Bohemian Baltimore, pinging you for transparency. Hopefully we can get an answer. Lewisguile (talk) 07:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Lewisguile There is no testing or skirting. I was told to stay away from BLPs related to self-identification and citizenship due to controversy over Native American BLPs. And that is what I have done; stayed away from editing those topics on Indigenous BLPs. None of those edited articles is a BLP. I am not aware of any total ban on editing Indigenous topics. If there is, I was not informed. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 07:17, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Self-ID is a major topic of most of these articles. Or are least of the edits you have made. It's worth noting that some of the info is also inaccurate—Taíno groups in Puerto Rico and the USVI are in non-sovereign territory (i.e., colonies), so they have no route for formal recognition. Your creation of the Taíno heritage groups article and the related Category:Taíno heritage groups therefore seems oddly WP:POINTY. Lewisguile (talk) 07:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but this seems like grasping for straws. If a topic ban for BLPs were to include non-BLPs, I would have been told this. Innocuous edits like creating a parent category for Nahua or adding Taino to the Native American identity article, in addition to not having anything to do with BLPs, doesn't even have anything to do with citizenship or self-identification. The information on the heritage group article, also, was not inaccurate. Not that that's relevant to the BLP question though. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 07:42, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- If I am misinterpreting the decision, then I am happy to apologise. It's entirely possible I'm looking at this too rigidly.
- But either way, clarity would be good going forward. It seems to me these articles all have self-ID in common, either as an explicit or implicit element, and often involve the self-ID of people or groups of people.
- If these articles are too tangential to the topic to count and it's too non-specific for the BLP element to count, then that's also useful to know for you as well as anyone else. Lewisguile (talk) 07:59, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Lewisguile I think it is clear that it is my intent to adhere to the topic ban and that is what I have tried to do since I was T-banned. If we are going to quibble over broadness, then that needs to be clarified by the administrators and then I can adhere to whatever their determination is. But it seems like you are arguing for my topic-ban to be broader than what it was originally stated to be. If the goal posts are going to be moved, well okay, but I need to be informed of where they are now. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 08:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- I think we are broadly in agreement that it's helpful to know where the boundaries lie. I read "broadly construed" as meaning anything related to the matter of Indigenous identity. What's a BLP or not is also relatively broadly construed in its own right. If that's not the case, I am happy to retract and strike my comments. Lewisguile (talk) 08:19, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Lewisguile I think it is clear that it is my intent to adhere to the topic ban and that is what I have tried to do since I was T-banned. If we are going to quibble over broadness, then that needs to be clarified by the administrators and then I can adhere to whatever their determination is. But it seems like you are arguing for my topic-ban to be broader than what it was originally stated to be. If the goal posts are going to be moved, well okay, but I need to be informed of where they are now. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 08:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but this seems like grasping for straws. If a topic ban for BLPs were to include non-BLPs, I would have been told this. Innocuous edits like creating a parent category for Nahua or adding Taino to the Native American identity article, in addition to not having anything to do with BLPs, doesn't even have anything to do with citizenship or self-identification. The information on the heritage group article, also, was not inaccurate. Not that that's relevant to the BLP question though. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 07:42, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Self-ID is a major topic of most of these articles. Or are least of the edits you have made. It's worth noting that some of the info is also inaccurate—Taíno groups in Puerto Rico and the USVI are in non-sovereign territory (i.e., colonies), so they have no route for formal recognition. Your creation of the Taíno heritage groups article and the related Category:Taíno heritage groups therefore seems oddly WP:POINTY. Lewisguile (talk) 07:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Lewisguile There is no testing or skirting. I was told to stay away from BLPs related to self-identification and citizenship due to controversy over Native American BLPs. And that is what I have done; stayed away from editing those topics on Indigenous BLPs. None of those edited articles is a BLP. I am not aware of any total ban on editing Indigenous topics. If there is, I was not informed. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 07:17, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
More edits here:
- Created the article Taíno heritage groups – using the language of your prior self-ID articles to say these aren't recognised. (Note that Puerto Rico is a colony, not a state, so there is no formal route to recognition.)
- Created the Category:Taíno heritage groups here.
- Editor added the above page to the Cherokee heritage groups article, even though the link is tangential. Again, seems pointy.
- Editor added Indigenismo to Chicano ("an ethnic identity") and to a bunch of other articles.
- Edited List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes. (See below.)
Re: BLPs, also see WP:BLPGROUP: A harmful statement about a small group or organization comes closer to being a BLP problem than a similar statement about a larger group; and when the group is very small, it may be impossible to draw a distinction between the group and the individuals that make up the group.
I take your point that some of these are probably not violations, but the point is that they're skirting the issue "broadly construed". As for the Taíno, I have added text to the page you created to clarify. You'll see what I mean. But creating a category to call groups out for not having recognition they cannot obtain does, again, seem to be pointy. Lewisguile (talk) 07:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Lewisguile So you admit that there probably aren't any violations and everything is only tangentially related if at all, but are still making an issue out of this. Well, that's interesting. The category for Taino heritage groups was actually created before my topic-ban was instituted, not that it matters, because it isn't a BLP anyway. Puerto Rico is a territory, not a "colony". I'm not sure that you are correct that a territory cannot give recognition to a tribe (Why are we debating this here?). But your quibble there is not I didn't give enough context on a newly created article still being worked on, not that there is anything false, because there wasn't. None of the edited articles pertains to "small groups". Name one, if so. It is my understanding that "broadly construed" pertains to BLPs, as I was topic-banned from BLPs. I didn't create the Taino category, by the way, to "call them out". That's a bad-faith accusation. I created the category to make it easier for readers to access articles related to Taino orgs. I think my editing over the past month has demonstrated my intent to adhere to the topic ban, as I have stayed away from the BLPs. I supposed it would be possible to quibble broadly enough to make the argument that any Native-related edits "tangentially" relate to BLPs in some way. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 08:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
So you admit that there probably aren't any violations
I didn't say that. I said some may be tangential. I stand by statement that it's helpful to get clarification either way, and have offered to apologise if I'm proven wrong.- As for the Taíno stuff, I have added sources at the relevant article. You will see what I mean there. The legal framework for recognition only applies to the 48 contiguous States and Alaska (and the latter only because they brought in specific rules to do that). Puerto Rico and the USVI are non-sovereign territories with limited ability to officially recognise groups, which is why groups from those islands have been pushing the UN to intervene on their behalf. But I agree we can drop that discussion here.
- ETA: Also, it's early and I'm particularly grumpy today. I apologise if my tone in general has caused an escalation. Lewisguile (talk) 08:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- If you want this looked at in detail I suggest you bring it to WP:AE. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. Having thought about it some more, I'm happy to leave this for now. I don't have the energy for it and don't want to get into any wikilawyering. @Bohemian Baltimore, I'm sorry for any bother caused. Lewisguile (talk) 15:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
- If you want this looked at in detail I suggest you bring it to WP:AE. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
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- I can't believe there's no images in that article, surely FUR applies? El Beeblerino 22:35, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
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User talk:Nicoljaus unblock requests question
I'm not sure what the standard procedure is here, or if there is one, but do you think it would make sense to replace their unblock requests with the "on hold" version so it is immediately clear that this at AE and not something for a single admin to review?
Additional bear provided for your amusement. El Beeblerino 22:32, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, that should get it out of the queue, at least. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:41, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Done. El Beeblerino 23:57, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you kindly. Dall-e is doing an okay job making Rebecca images, but I don't think we're allowed to use them. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:13, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Done. El Beeblerino 23:57, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
Question
Hi, could you explain this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Zionism&diff=prev&oldid=1260458061
Thank you, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 01:11, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- An editor was using an LLM to make arguments while falsifying sources so I collapsed some of it, and removed other parts that hadn't been replied to yet. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:13, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
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- Thank you very much. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:57, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
Season's Greetings
Hello ScottishFinnishRadish: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:25, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you kindly and I hope you and yours also have a wonderful holiday season. Hopefully the weather shifts a bit and I'm not stuck with less than no degrees. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:45, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
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Revdel request
Hello, got another quick revdel request for you. This revision has already been reverted, but is a copy/paste of here. - Adolphus79 (talk) 02:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up, all set. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 02:36, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
IP block
FYI, 83.203.20.206 appears to be a sock for 76.67.115.228 that you blocked, based on the edit to Maté. So far just the one edit. — kwami (talk) 03:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- I was wondering if this was the same person. 83.203.20.206 (talk · contribs) Knitsey (talk) 03:08, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- Given the preoccupation with Israel/Hebrew, I would assume so. Though of course conceivably a friend, or just someone who saw the vandalism and decided to do the same. — kwami (talk) 03:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- I reported them anyway, and they're blocked. Knitsey (talk) 03:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- 213.49.236.39 the same. same maybe-Neapolitan edit summaries. so they appear to be IP-hopping. — kwami (talk) 05:26, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- I reported them anyway, and they're blocked. Knitsey (talk) 03:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- Given the preoccupation with Israel/Hebrew, I would assume so. Though of course conceivably a friend, or just someone who saw the vandalism and decided to do the same. — kwami (talk) 03:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Another IP
You interacted on the user talk of 190.219.101.225 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). The IP was a sockpuppet of Alon9393 and is now blocked. Geschichte (talk) 08:54, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
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- Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:54, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
Editor you blocked for ARBPIA violations
Aren't their latest edits violations? Doug Weller talk 16:46, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
- Looks that way to me. I'm trying to disengage from arbitration enforcement, though, since I'm now on the committee. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:51, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 02:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- I guess I probably should, eh? ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 04:02, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- I went with a topicon and a plain text note. Not much of a userbox person. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 04:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yes you should because some of us (like me) weren't aware you have become an arbitrator or even that there was an election. Congratulations! Coretheapple (talk) 19:48, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks! ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:55, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'm looking forward to the Real Spouses of ArbCom's next season! You kids keep your heads down. Good luck. BusterD (talk) 23:15, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
This user was on the English Misplaced Pages's Arbitration Committee. - This one used to actually be funny, as there were bananas on the scale. It turns out the bananas were a derivitaive work not properly licensed, and now it's not funny. I wonder if any one with good image manipulation skills could rectify this banana-less non-joke? Beeblebrox 23:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- I had dall-e make some bananas-on-scales, but it seems a failing of ai is an inability to not have bananas on both sides of the scales. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:30, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- The bananas were on the heavy side of the scale, because reasons. Beeblebrox 23:35, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- The only option is bananas on both sides, as far as I can get dall-e to generate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:36, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Beeblebrox: The original image but with some added text is still available at File:Benevolent Order of Old Fruits (emblem).png (though same reasoning for deleting the original image applies to that one too). I took a stab at making an svg version: File:Scale of justice 2 - Misplaced Pages bananas.svg. SilverLocust 💬 09:44, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Nice, thanks. Beeblebrox 19:04, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Beeblebrox: The original image but with some added text is still available at File:Benevolent Order of Old Fruits (emblem).png (though same reasoning for deleting the original image applies to that one too). I took a stab at making an svg version: File:Scale of justice 2 - Misplaced Pages bananas.svg. SilverLocust 💬 09:44, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- The only option is bananas on both sides, as far as I can get dall-e to generate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:36, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- The bananas were on the heavy side of the scale, because reasons. Beeblebrox 23:35, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- I had dall-e make some bananas-on-scales, but it seems a failing of ai is an inability to not have bananas on both sides of the scales. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:30, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Real Spouses of Arbcom isn't the worst option. Beats Sister Arbs and 90 Day Arbitor. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:31, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Congrats Raddish guy, enjoy the ARBing. Knitsey (talk) 23:38, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'm looking forward to the Real Spouses of ArbCom's next season! You kids keep your heads down. Good luck. BusterD (talk) 23:15, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks! ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:55, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yes you should because some of us (like me) weren't aware you have become an arbitrator or even that there was an election. Congratulations! Coretheapple (talk) 19:48, 1 January 2025 (UTC)