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| Happy new year 2025, opened with ] that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). - I saw ] by Rimsky-Korsakov, - see ]. -- ] (]) 17:41, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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:Happy New Year! ] (]) 20:47, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | ||
| :: Did you listen to the music? (Take the last movement if you have little time, but the yt not the lilypond). --] (]) 21:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ⚫ | :::Not yet. Home tomorrow. Will try then. ] (]) 00:22, 2 January 2025 (UTC) | ||
| == Uncommunicative editing by IP 91.122.2.96 == | |||
| :::: ], my ] 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. ] will be my story tomorrow. --] (]) 21:23, 6 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ::::: Lovely! Keep up the good work. ] (]) 23:18, 6 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| John, can you possibly warn @91.122.2.96 about his/her uncommunicative edits on wikipages Action (physics), Planck constant, and Zero-energy universe? @Hroðulf has also tried to work constructively with the situation. Thanks, ] (]) 18:21, 1 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
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:::::: I try ;) - My ] is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. --] (]) 10:03, 8 January 2025 (UTC) | ||
| :::::::Fascinating. I had never heard of him. ] (]) 17:50, 8 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| :::::::: same for me --] (]) 20:20, 8 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::::: Happy birthday! I'm at a birthday celebration ;) - enjoy! --] (]) 11:34, 11 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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| hey, it has been a while since I have done major work on '']''. I am thinking of putting it up for FA nomination, however I wanted to run by you first to see if all the prose is the high quality it needs to be and if there are parts I should work on. ] (]) 22:04, 5 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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| :Looks pretty good to me. What does {{u|Ceoil}} think? ] (]) 22:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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| ::He has not been on the past week or so and has not replied to a chat I sent. I guess we will have to wait and see.--] (]) 23:13, 5 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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| This showed amazing resilience for such young guys. I'd like to emphasise N.O. more in the lead; for me JD is more about Summer and Mr Hannet than Curtis. Though I started life as a bass player, cough. ] (]) 03:15, 8 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :Funny you should say that, I was a bass player at one time too. I liked both bands very much, but I think I (slightly) went off NO latterly. JD and Curtis benefited from the Marilyn Munro effect; by dying young and beautiful they became heroes for ever. --] (]) 12:03, 8 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
| ::Hmm, if I think about it, the scattering of songs that I am really fond of over the whole period (1977-present) are pretty even (Isolation/Transmission/No Love Lost as my 3 preferred JD tracks - Ceremony/Age of Consent/Everythings Gone Green/True Faith/Jetstream fave NO tracks). Funny thing is of my 2 older kids, my son prefers JD and daughter NO. Agree about Munro effect - even happened to INXS, who by the time of MH's passing were descending into mediocrity. ] (] '''·''' ]) 01:02, 9 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
| Hi {{u|John}}, as a former administrator and thus obviously also a former rollbacker, you won't need the following information. But getting a permission (and granting it, admittedly) would only be half as enjoyable (to me, admittedly) without the message I customized for this purpose. So I absolutely have to. Feel free to remove it and welcome back! ] (]) 22:27, 6 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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| |style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I stumbled upon your handling of a certain T— — for the past few months and skimmed a very little bit. Your patience, Sir John, Sir, was epic. | |||
| After reviewing your request, I have added your account to the ] group. Keep in mind these things when using rollback: | |||
| I'd consider giving you , but it's too small for the human eye to see and I've lost it already. Oh, well. At least it's somewhere here at home, and I get to share the honor with wonderful people like you, who I'm sure at ''least'' get a visible strip of ! ] (]) 11:40, 8 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
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| Best regards,<br>] (]) 22:27, 6 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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| :Ooooh! Rollback. How very ! ] (]) 22:31, 6 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
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| Greetings John! I was wondering if you had time to have a quick look at the article ]? There seems to be some problems with a few IP editors: 2.27.78.251, 2.27.78.13, and 163.167.125.215. I'll try to explain the problem with a few bullet points real simple and short: | |||
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| # The first IP editor added a section about ''Manchester Unity Credit Union'' on 25th February, but the text couldn't be verified by the source. | |||
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| # I rewrote the first paragraph on 8th March in such a way that it would correspond what the source actually said. | |||
| | name = Happy Birthday | |||
| # My edit got reverted, however, by the second IP with an Edit Summary "''rv.''"; the source still couldn't verify the text. | |||
| | image = ] | |||
| # I reverted this unexplained edit back to the previous version, but it got reverted by the same IP editor again, this time with an Edit Summary of "''inelegant prose''". | |||
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| # I messaged the IP editor's Talk Page, and explained him that the source does not support the text, and asked him to address what's exactly wrong with my edit instead of mere blind objection. | |||
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| # While waiting for the user to reply, I tagged the paragraph with <nowiki>{{fv}}</nowiki>, and the paragraph right below with <nowiki>{{citation needed}}</nowiki>. This got reverted by the third IP editor per "''rv. not controversial statement''". As far as I am concerned, one has right to tag unsourced pieces of text per ]. I believe the same applies to pieces of text that have failed verification. | |||
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| # I restored the tags with an Edit Summary: "''The first paragraph is not supported by the source, and the second paragraph clearly lacks of a souce | I've asked an admin to take a look at this''", and shortly after the same IP editor removed the tags again, this time by saying that "''rv. for reasons already given''" | |||
| | text = <big>'''Happy birthday!'''</big><br />Hi John! On behalf of the ], I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! ] (]) 05:42, 11 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
| It seems there have suddenly popped up three different IP editors, all editing over the same content, and all of which seem to share the same interest towards credit unions according to their user contributions. Do you think they might be socks? I hope you have time to take a look, thanks. ] (]) 11:57, 10 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
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| :I set out the sequence of events . You will see that ] is making a habit of bad faith accusations. ] (]) 14:56, 10 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
| ::Yepp, when I asked for the page protection, I mistakenly reported only one IP instead of two. After that, a third IP has already appeared. ] (]) 17:43, 10 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
| :::I've protected one week and removed the dubious material per WP:V. I agree something looked dodgy about those edits. --] (]) 21:45, 10 March 2015 (UTC) | |||
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January music
Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). - I saw a lovely opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, - see here. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:41, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
Lake Michigan Monsterhey, it has been a while since I have done major work on Lake Michigan Monster. I am thinking of putting it up for FA nomination, however I wanted to run by you first to see if all the prose is the high quality it needs to be and if there are parts I should work on. Paleface Jack (talk) 22:04, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
+rollbackHi John, as a former administrator and thus obviously also a former rollbacker, you won't need the following information. But getting a permission (and granting it, admittedly) would only be half as enjoyable (to me, admittedly) without the message I customized for this purpose. So I absolutely have to. Feel free to remove it and welcome back! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:27, 6 January 2025 (UTC)  Hi John, After reviewing your request, I have added your account to the rollback group. Keep in mind these things when using rollback:
To try rollback for the first time, you may like to make an edit to WP:Sandbox, and another one, and another one, and then revert the row with one click. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about rollback. Thank you for your time and work in cleaning up Misplaced Pages. Happy editing! Best regards,
Happy Birthday!
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