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நன்றி Ssven2. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 10:33, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Bots

First I should say that correcting obvious typos is a noble goal, and that your help in that area is definitely appreciated. However, I'm just wondering from your edits whether you're using a bot to do so. That's allowed, but you do have to get the bot approved first in accordance with Misplaced Pages:Bot_policy. Mostly, the reason is just for transparency, since a bot that goes haywire can cause lots of problems very quickly. Agtx (talk) 17:00, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

@Agtx: Hi Agtx! Thank you. I am not using a bot, I am making every single edit by hand in Firefox. But I have automated the process of making a list of possible typos and determining which ones occur and which ones do not. When my script is finished I will release it as an opensource project. Explaining everything is a lot of work; here is a screenshot. I am still working on the areas with a red border. I think it can be a useful addition to AWB; in the future I want to add functionality that exports the fixes and a list of articles to AWB. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:17, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Awesome! That's super cool, and definitely seems like it will be a useful tool. Agtx (talk) 17:20, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

@Agtx: Thanks again. Unfortunately I am not a programmer, so my code sucks. Are you a programmer, or do you know someone who is? I think anyone who is a programmer could easily rewrite what I wrote in a couple of minutes. AWB is written in C#, a language I do not understand. I need to find a C# or .NET programmer that can help me turn this idea into an AutoWikiBrowser plugin. If I cannot find one I will have to rewrite it into .NET myself, which means I will have to learn to use .NET. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:34, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

So it happens that I am a C#/.NET programmer, and I would be happy to consider working with you on this. The caveat is that I can't start now because I've got some pressing real life obligations that prevent me from starting a project right now (bar exam). If you don't find someone else to help you out by September, reach out again and I'll see where I'm at. Agtx (talk) 17:39, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

@Agtx: I wish I could kidnap you for a weekend. On a more serious note, I understand the bar exam is more important.

Do you know some Wikipedians who are .NET programmers?

With the script I've written I can easily make a thousand typofixes in a day, and when it has been rewritten as an AWB plugin like I am planning to then it should be easy to make 10k+ typofixes in a day.

I should probably describe what I want and why, because I've been thinking about this for a while now. My first attempt can be found by clicking here.

The Quixotic Potato (talk) 21:12, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

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Phabricator registration

Your phabricator account has been removed, it should be possible to register again.

Refs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105352 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.20.166.199 (talk) 00:47, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! The Quixotic Potato (talk) 00:58, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Re: AWB typofixing

Yeah, I'd like to have a glance at them. Victão Lopes 02:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

@Victor Lopes: Thank you, you are awesome. I posted a list of about 10.000 articles here: User:The Quixotic Potato/preparsedtypolist. I'm assuming that that is a bit too much for one person, but if you want to you can do some of them. Please remove the ones you want to do from the list, so that other people don't have to look at them again. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:32, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire

Someone has changed this page to Brough on Humber. This is AFAIK incorrect and I have changed the page back. I noticed when checking for double redirects that you have a link to Brough on Humber on your preparsedtypolist4. I do not know what you were planning to do, but I thought you ought to know. Op47 (talk) 22:10, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, I have deleted that page from the list. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 22:23, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Scripting...

Is not really "by hand editing", so I really think you need to get approval for this at the Village pump technical section. It's really indistinguishable from a bot at this point, and I see it's been brought up before as well on this talk page. Moreover, because you're not reviewing everything, you're making mistakes, and missing others such as "so-and-so" have a master's degree" (which you would catch on a real "by hand" edit, and which I found on a spot check). Are you also certain that uncapping degree titles is correct per our manual of style? I'm not sure of that, and I've been here a while. MSJapan (talk) 19:48, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

This has nothing to do with "scripting" (or bots), I was simply using AWB. I don't know anything about freemasonry. If you disagree with the uncapping of degree titles then the best thing to do is to start a discussion here or change the rule here. As far as I know the MOS says nothing about capitalizing degrees (or not). I don't think there is a valid reason to "cap" them, so that means they should be uncapped. Just because I fix one typo in an article doesn't mean that I will fix all the typos in that article. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 19:59, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

See here. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:24, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Merriam-Webster uses "bachelor's degree". Via Google I found some other Manuals of Style, and they also say "bachelor’s degree" & "master’s degree" should not be capitalized (e.g. ). The Quixotic Potato (talk) 21:23, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

You need to distinguish between an academic degree and a masonic degree. Master Mason is a title/rank which is usually capitalised. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 00:23, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

True, mea culpa, I don't know anything about freemasonry, and I was unaware that they use this title. Its not exactly common knowledge, over here about 0.04% percent of the population is a freemason (according to unreliable statistics I found online). In my entire life I've met just two people who told me they were freemasons as far as I can remember. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 00:29, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Here's an answer: . In short, in general terms, yes, when referring to a particular person's degree, no. Therefore, your changes in this area appear to be incorrect. I've started a discussion anyhow, but this is why AWB can be a problem. MSJapan (talk) 19:49, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

There are two possiblities: either you are confused or I am. Can you show me an example of an edit of mine that does not follow the rules described in the link you mentioned? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 19:54, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

To clarify: the actual regexp rules are as follows:

<Typo word="associate degree" find="\bssociate?s??\s+egree(s?)\b(?<=\s+s+\s+egrees?)(?<!associate\s+degrees?)" replace="associate degree$1"/>

<Typo word="bachelor's degree" find="\bat?chelor?s??\s+egree(s?)\b(?<=\s+a+\s+egrees?)(?<!bachelor's\s+degrees?)" replace="bachelor's degree$1"/>

<Typo word="master's degree" find="\baster?s??\s+egree(s?)\b(?<=\s+a+\s+egrees?)(?<!master's\s+degrees?)" replace="master's degree$1"/>

<Typo word="bachelor's and master's degrees" find="\bbachelors? and master'?s? degree(s?)\b" replace="bachelor's and master's degrees"/>

The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:01, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

People have replied over at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Academic_degrees.... The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:10, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

I now understand why you are confused, and I have posted a long explanation at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Academic_degrees.... For the record; here is a screenshot of the script that was discussed above. I think that you've never used a bot or AWB. My changes are correct, except those 3 edits on pages about freemasons. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:11, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

No, you don't. Until you can explain to me why "Master of Arts in English" is capitalized and "master's degree in english" is not per your specificity rules, you absolutely don't get it. Those are the same degree, but you're claiming one is capitalized and one is not, even when your sources say it should be. MSJapan (talk) 01:30, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Everyone else agrees with me, the Wikipedians at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos and the writers of those Manuals of Style (even the authors of those quotes on the page you linked to). I have tried to explain it yet again here. If you disagree then it is up to you to convince all the people who disagree with you, I am going to continue following the consensus. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 02:21, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Freemasons

Thanks for taking an interest. Most of the general stuff on the net is 19th century recycled. You could start with our own article on Freemasonry and follow the links. Most of the good material is written, as the "craft" isn't generally internet savvy, and most masonic sites hold similar generic material (I can read most Spanish language masonic sites easily, although I can't actually speak Spanish). If you are looking for something specific, please feel free to e-mail me. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 01:24, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

OK, thank you. I started with the Misplaced Pages article (and some of the pages it linked to) like you recommended, and I am currently reading this. I understand it is probably a bit outdated, but it is quite interesting. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 00:59, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

More than interesting, especially if you compare them to Anderson's 1738 constitutions (not currently online). There is a whole loony mythology in the first half of the document, which made sense in a medieval setting, but didn't disappear until the 1850s. While Freemasonry in its current form didn't emerge until the 18th century, controversy over its early history still rages. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 01:26, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, but I like using the wordcombination "quite interesting" because that is the name of my favorite TV program. This may sound weird, but I am also busy re-reading the Epic of Gilgamesh and reading old stuff seems to be addictive. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:35, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

I see we have similar tastes (I think Enkidu had a rotten deal). Fiddlersmouth (talk) 21:57, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Lenore Skenazy edit

The Lenore Skenazy edit I made was correctly referenced and not vandalism. Please research stop the disruptive edits. Or is there a reason you are attempting to hide the truth? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.205.191.19 (talk) 06:10, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Yes, there is. Please read Misplaced Pages:The_Truth. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 06:13, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Get your head out of your ass and quit being a Nazi and deleting the truth. You cause more harm to Misplaced Pages than the vandals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.83.118.24 (talk) 00:25, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

You must be aware that potatoes aren't nazis, right? On a related note, potatoes don't have heads. And potatoes don't have asses. You should read the Misplaced Pages articles about potatoes and nazis. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:17, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

You're a dumbass who should not be editing anything Tater. People like you ruin Misplaced Pages with their biased editing. Judgung from your comments, you aren't serious about this at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.83.118.24 (talk) 00:27, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

I'm not claiming potatoes are smart, but we don't have asses, and we certainly aren't people. Are you claiming that potatoes are ruining Misplaced Pages? Being serious is boring. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:13, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Buy a damn clue dumbass. You obviously have no idea who you are fucking with dipshit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.83.117.3 (talk • contribs)

We potatoes don't use money. Also, potato plants use asexual reproduction, you can read about it in the article vegetative reproduction. The Misplaced Pages article Potato contains the following quote:

If you are bored I would highly recommend reading the article history of the potato. I like it a lot. Unfortunately our conflict of interest policy forbids me from editing it. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 03:15, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

BC to BCE

Hey, dude, you reverted my edits and sent me a message to stop, but I'm pretty sure it should be BCE. It's more politically correct now. Gotta please the athiests, you know? I changed it back, but srsly dud, calm down.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.159.165.176 (talk • contribs)

I am a potato. Potatoes are always calm. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:07, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

And you're the one who says I'm making unhelpful edits. Nice to make your acquaintance. I'm Lord Christionaise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.159.165.176 (talk) 01:09, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

I didn't actually revert a "BCE"-edit as far as I know. Do you like potatoes? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:10, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Oh, you reverted my pleb edit. But that was true! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.159.165.176 (talk) 01:13, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Fallout New Vegas is awesome. But we don't really like the truth here on Misplaced Pages. I have not downloaded Fallout 4 yet. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:14, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Look what I found!. I hope you can forgive me for reverting the BCE edit (I finally did). I'm not really into correctness, political or otherwise. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 01:20, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for this edit, but note, you didn't revert far enough, see the previous edit. (By the way, regarding the above section see also WP:ERA). Happy editing. Paul August ☎ 12:14, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you too! I must've missed it. WP:ERA says "Do not change the established era style in an article unless there are reasons specific to its content. Seek consensus on the talk page before making the change." so it seems our reverts (Mean as custard's and mine) were correct. The IP above was clearly a fan of Fallout because he was making edits like this one. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 23:04, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Typo Team barnstar

		The Typo Team Barnstar
		For removing all instances of |unused_data= from Misplaced Pages, I hereby award you this barnstar. It's editors like you that keep Misplaced Pages being great. Jason Quinn (talk) 17:25, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

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@Jason Quinn: Thank you! I read that you've adopted a misspelling of the word current so I used my script on "current" and "currently" and I found ~60 typos I could fix. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 00:50, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

I'm not such a good parent. lol Your script picks up a lot of things the default search missed. I happened to have used my Adopt-a-typo search link the other day and it only found I think like 14'ish instances (which I didn't fix). In general, picking common words and looking for mistakenly doubled or tripled letters is a very easy way to find typos. Jason Quinn (talk) 17:52, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

@Jason Quinn: I use a list of the most frequently used words on en.wiki that contain at least 6 letters. Would you be so kind to do me a favor and endorse my work here? I am trying to turn my script into an opensource AWB plugin. Thanks in advance, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:59, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

I am currently working on Mississipi, improvment/improvments, athelets, Detriot, Philidelphia, Anerica, Willliam, entertianment, oponent, sweetner/sweetners, acoording, guarenteed, repsond, quikc, wresting (for "wrestling"), relaese, esential, referece/refereces, graudate/graudates/graudated/graudating/graudation, privledge/privledges/privledged. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 18:27, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Your comment at VPT

Hey TQP, you mentioned at VPT that you found 259 Wikia links in en.wiki mainspace. There's actually many more than that, but I'm wondering what technique you were using to find them? Nikkimaria (talk) 20:54, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Nikkimaria:! I used the AWB databasescanner to scan a dump (not the most recent one). Of course there are more, but I only wanted to check some of them to get an indication if the Wikia links were used correctly or not. In the end I checked maybe 30-50 articles, picked at random. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 21:05, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Ah, okay. I'm trying to work out a way to limit this mess to mainspace pages - AWB is a potential alternative. Cheers. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:21, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

@Nikkimaria Oh wait, I misremembered, I used another trick. I also used the database scanner to search Wikia links, but the 259 results came from pirsquared's IW tool, which only lists interwiki links. Are you using Windows?

1. Go to http://tools.wmflabs.org/pirsquared/iw.php?wikis=enwiki&iw=wikia&hideclosed=on
2. Select the entire list (select some, and while holding the left mouse button press Control-End to go to the bottom). You end up with a table with 3 columns, but we only need the column in the middle.
3. Paste list in OpenOffice Calc (a free alternative to Microsoft Office Excel) or something similar
4. Delete the first and third column
5. Move second column to first column. Now we have a list of all the pages that contain an interwiki-link to wikia. I use AWB to separate the articles from the rest of the pages because I only care about the mainspace.
6. Go to the bottom of the first column, and select everything above (ctrl-shift-home), then cut
7. Paste in a texteditor (I used Notepad++) and save it as temporary.txt
8. Open AWB
9. Set Make list - Source to UTF-8 text file
10. In the menu under List check "Remove duplicates" and "Remove non-mainspace"
11. Click the "Make list"-button, then select temporary.txt

You end up with a list of 259 results. I preparsed them for you to get a list of articles that contain "[[wikia:" and there were 242 left:

Explaining stuff like this over the internet is quite difficult, lemme know if anything is unclear.

The Quixotic Potato (talk) 06:17, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

If you want all the external links to wikia, not just the interwiki links then you can try User_talk:The_Quixotic_Potato/Nikkimaria. I ran into some weird bugs so there are some errors in there, I am not sure why, but maybe it is still useful to you (I am not sure what you wanna do exactly). I won't be online for the next few days. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 13:12, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

That's very helpful, thanks! Nikkimaria (talk) 01:04, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia_likes_Galactic_Exploration_for_Posterity

Hello Quixotic Potato, I left a response to your suggestion at https://meta.wikimedia.org/Grants_talk:IEG/Wikipedia_likes_Galactic_Exploration_for_Posterity_2015#LOL

My best regards, Geraldshields11 (talk) 01:30, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Link searching

Hi QP, per your request here, doesn't {{Link summary}} or {{Spam interlink}} work? Examples:

• foo.com (*|search current)

More elaborate for cross wiki checking...

• foo.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Misplaced Pages: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

 — Berean Hunter (talk) 00:08, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi Berean Hunter! Both templates work, but they do not provide the functionality I am asking for. What I want is similar to this but filtered per namespace. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:38, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Spot on

Thanks for your comments here TQP. Does ANYTHING get past you? - Warmest; LeoRomero (talk) 15:50, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

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Precious

"The user is responsible for all edits."

Thank you for ingenious copyediting, along preparsed typo lists, for warning vandals, for a fascinating user page and edit notice, and for following original programs such as spell-check 365 articles in chivalry! - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:41, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Most of my userpage is transcluded from User:Herostratus/I_Can_Say_No_More and the "Customer satisfaction form" is an attempt to create an improved version of a form I found on Misplaced Pages:Rouge admin. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 02:28, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

2016

peace bell

It's good to use good models, Bach did the same: happy and peaceful 2016! Thank you for using words such as Sonnenlicht, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:29, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

You too! Herostratus is known as the greatest vandal of all time so he is probably an excellent role model! Ciao ciao, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:43, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Looking for more cabals? The cabal of the outcasts perhaps? You can't help being a member, by what you do. One of those just died (when I picked the image for 2016 I didn't know it would become for whom the bell tolls so quickly), - you added the fitting image here that I just sent to the archive, after four years of service, "he who speaks a word of consolation ..." Brock quoted that sign at the funeral of a friend. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:55, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, I have read Brocks eulogy for Siegfried Kracauer. I love the idea of a cabal of the outcasts, and I am probably a member by default. My work is incomparable to that of those who actually write articles, most of the edits I make are tiny typofixes, but I am honored by the invitation. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 23:15, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Brock spoke for this one. Guess you'll like their art. I translated to de:Dreadstar. For Boulez, I brought his image to the Main page yesterday, DYK? Under courageous. I was courageous and gave Boulez a little infobox on the occasion, you can probably guess how that went ;) Courageous: bits were done by the outcastest, who never wrote articles but gave me my lead image, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:57, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I am surprised how many supporters showed up at Boulez, while I was mainly interested that he looked decent while on the Main page. Join the revolution? - See on the talk of Timtrent why there's no need to keep my talk clean, but thanks for trying. I found so far only one edit too hard to take and deleted it, but restored it later to the archive. - Did you know that the term infobox war was coined in 2005? I archived it all end of 2015, under "pride and prejudice 2" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:10, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Quixotic Potato, welcome to the cabal of the outcasts! You must be brave, to join those who with battleground behaviour and in flash-mob action will not rest before they have forced an infobox on all articles, allegedly ;) - But we discussed that you are a member by what you do, - thanks for your formal support on top. (And sorry that I noticed only now.) - Welcome! Look around and watch WP:QAIPOST, and post there what you think is interesting for all. Avoid the infobox topic, for your health ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:40, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Pentadecagon, your question in "view history" from 17 January 2016

Thanks for your question. The text "... the illustration of the proposition XVI in Book IV of Euclid" is it so correct? See also (unfortunately in German) Pentadecagon
Greetings from Munich Petrus3743 (talk) 12:37, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

@Petrus3743: Hello Petrus! Perfect, thank you. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 18:01, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Wegus Infotech Company

Please remember to sign your MFD nominations. Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Wegus Infotech Company shows up at MFD under the January 1, 1970 when the bot can't figure out its date. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:52, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

@Ricky81682: Thank you. I followed the instructions in {{mfd}} (or at least I tried!) and it doesn't show four tildes next to the words: "to create the discussion subpage". Should we add those 4 tildes? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 04:58, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, do that. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:00, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

@Ricky81682: Only admins and template editors can edit that template. You are an admin, right? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 07:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

I changed the MFD how-to instructions and Template:Mfd2/doc. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 09:35, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Image Posted at Village Pump (technical)

Hi Quixotic Potato. The image is posted.Anythingyouwant (talk) 18:30, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Confused

You wrote:

I do not understand this edit. What happened? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:51, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

You must mean this thread. I wasn't involved in it, though farther down the page I had a question about Google Apps and Passwords. --Halcatalyst (talk) 21:32, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

OK, thank you! It ended up in the wrong section. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 03:55, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

Michael Felgate

Thanks for removing the db-g4 template. It wasn't newly added - I had carelessly forgotten to remove it when I restored the article. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 22:30, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! The Quixotic Potato (talk) 00:05, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/GeneralizationsAreBad

Just letting you know that in the case of a close call, your vote probably won't be counted. Oppose votes without a rationale are not only suspect, IMO they are also rude. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:01, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

@Kudpung: Why would oppose votes without a rationale be rude? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 10:04, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

(watching, and without looking at the RfA) rude or not I don't care. Support votes with a rationale are considered to go with the nominator(s). Opposes should better come with a personal rationale, or say the rationale of which other opposer they follow (if it's no more than following). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:03, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

I am going to try to write one (but that may take a while, I am slow). The Quixotic Potato (talk) 11:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

I will wait for an answer to my question. Will support someone precious if no problems comes up ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:48, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

• It's rude because it give the candidate no idea why you are opposing; try to put yourself in the position of someone running at RfA, then think how unfriendly your comment is to someone who is doing a pretty fine volunteer job of helping us build this encyclopedia, but might not quite have the necessary qualities for adminship.. As Gerda meant to say above, it is generally accepted that a support vote without a rationale is a simple endorsement of the nomination statemen(s).Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:29, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

YGM

You got mail! :) Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your prize!) 13:49, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 15:03, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

MilHist FA/GA discussion

Hi, just a note that there is a WikiProject Military history discussion on WWII GA/FA articles that you may be interested in. K.e.coffman (talk) 18:39, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Lists of articles to be written on notable women

Hi TQP. I saw you were looking for inspiration on missing articles on women. The WikiProject Women in Red is designed specifically to help you out. Under Tasks you will see links to lists of redlinks in a wide variety of areas. Just choose one of those that appeals to you. And if you need any further help, let me know.--Ipigott (talk) 18:06, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! The Quixotic Potato (talk) 18:13, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Your username made me smile. Cheers :) Safehaven86 (talk) 02:57, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

@Safehaven86: Thank you, I was quite hungry! One of the best usernames I have seen so far is No longer a penguin. Have you been invited to the WikiProject Quality Article Improvement yet? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 03:14, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

I haven't, but I'll definitely check it out! Thanks for the tip. Safehaven86 (talk) 19:50, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

URL corrections

Thank you for correcting the problems with URLs in the articles that I created. I appreciate your time and effort. I will try to pay attention as I work on articles in the future, with an eye to eliminating the search portion of the URL. Thanks again! Eddie Blick (talk) 13:37, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm hungry now.....

Oops!

Sorry! My image last time didn't load up onto your talk page, so here is the actual thing that is supposed to make you hungry! Elsa Enchanted (talk) 16:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! It looks delicious. Nom nom nom. :) The Quixotic Potato (talk) 23:16, 7 April 2016 (UTC) p.s. Check out WP:QAI

You are

interesting. I have added you to my watchlist. I have found nothing particularly scary/offensive/unintelligent/dreary on your userpage. Keep up the good work. Simon a.k.a Irondome (talk) 00:29, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! Check out WP:QAI. Have a nice day, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 03:36, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the recommendation ;) - Did you know that we almost don't deserve "cabal of the outcasts" any more: one returned, two not restricted anymore, two recipients of Precious unbanned ;) - Yesterday Bazon Brock said (for an 80th birthday): "You only see what you know", about the tricky relationship between perception and knowledge, in "Vortrag von Bazon Brock: »Anna & Bernhard Blume: Transzendentaler Konstruktivismus«". You would like the exhibition. I wonder if I should add the birth date. It was said that she was born a day before but her father (who delivered her himself) didn't want his daughter to be born the same day as Hitler and announced her birth only the next day. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the links, sounds awesome! "Wie von übersinnlichen Kräften bewegt, beginnen Kartoffelstücke ihren Flug und werden zu Zeichen einer verborgenen Ordnung der Dinge." Don't worry, there are plenty of potential members for WP:QAI, and all of them are potential outcasts. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 18:02, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

I started to have interesting talk with Gamaliel, sadly interrupted by events I didn't watch, so I left (inadvertently) a comment about "slippery slope" that fits only too well. Next will be his DYK mentioning "due process", - chilling. - (I feel like a prophet, again. The first time is on top of the models for Precious, given to the outcastest before I even knew what an infobox was.) In your 365 checked articles, did you meet Requiem (Reger)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:22, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Gotta love that redirect. Its best to keep your prophecies a secret, historically people haven't treated prophets very well. I don't think I had met Max Reger's Requiem before, or at least not the article, but I'll download the music tonight. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 19:04, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

The history of the outcasts. I found an article in the sandbox of outcast #1, blocked indefinitely, I published it. I gave Precious "without petty restrictions" to outcast #2 (the outcastest) on 17 Feb 2012, he created the redirect on 28 Feb and left. We made the article a GA (First GA for GA!) on 14 March. Proud of still holding that torch --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:17, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Maybe we can invite James Heilman? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 13:47, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

We don't invite, we show the cruel reality (of dangerous thoughts, amnesty mentioned) which some like, compare ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:35, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

The Quixotic Potato (talk) 14:45, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

blushing, in the company of Martin Luther King Jr and Thomas à Kempis --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:52, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Something fishy

There's an error on your page. If you listen to Eyedea, Birth Of A Fish, his words are "you were the fish all along" and not "you where the fish all along". AllBestFaith (talk) 16:09, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, I probably made a typo (or I copypasted the lyrics from somewhere). The Quixotic Potato (talk) 16:11, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

For being able to solve that nasty problem with IP 68.48.241.158. Keep up fighting vandalism! :) →The Pancake of Heaven! (T  • C  • E) 05:47, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! nomnomnom. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 10:16, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

FYI

One couldn't make it up. Enjoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Engleham#Your_comments_at_RfA Engleham (talk) 19:44, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

— Charlie Brooker

Irondome

"Do please be grateful to them for planting the seed of doubt. More of this A Type New York good jewishboy overthinking and anxiety, and you'll be in the coronary ward nursing your new stent. And from your mother down, I'm sure I'm not the only one to tell you this." Oozing with style that. Not. Irondome (talk) 02:44, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

It's not my style. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 02:51, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Didn't say it was QP. You were not the author. Irondome (talk)

I was ambiguous; I mean that it is not a style I like. I like a lot of stuff that most people consider offensive though! Some of the comedians and rappers I listen to are (deliberately) extremely offensive. I am used to seeing and hearing and reading a lot of stuff I disagree with, because I disagree with many commonly held beliefs and because I read/watch/listen to a lot of offensive stuff. I've added a sectionheader because it looked like your comment started with that Charlie Brooker quote. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 03:23, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Ok that's sorted then Irondome (talk) 04:10, 25 May 2016 (UTC)