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User Blocked (?)

Hello. According to this edit, you have apparently blocked User:Ghsolt indefinitely, but the user is apparently able to edit articles now. Just letting you know in case this is a technical error. Regards. KJ 13:16, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't really remember anything about that case and why I felt certain he was a sockpuppet (and of whom). Apparently he was unblocked a few months later by another admin, who said he tried to contact me about it but got no response at the time; honestly, I don't remember anything about that either. In any case, I've now re-blocked him for an independent reason altogether, serial image copyright violations. Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:38, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

For the record, I just found it back in my old E-Mails. It turns out I had had some pretty good reason for thinking he was one in a row of disruptive copyright-violating socks. Fellow admin King of Hearts contacted me about it after getting an unblock request via UTRS but I was on vacation or something at the time and only responded to him a week or so later; by that time he had already unblocked him. Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:46, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Images included in entry Pierre De Meyts

Dear sir, objections were raised to the use of the two images illustrating article Pierre De Meyts. I have already taken actions to make due corrections as suggested. Since some of these objections were related to your username, I would highly appreciate your kind revision of the whole case as well as your eventual further advice to avoid deletions of the images from said article. Many thanks. Neuralia (talk) 12:37, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Doubt

Why is this "at the very least, comes across as quite tendentious"? --Lecen (talk) 21:20, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Glosses

Hello, FP. WP doesn't seem to have a standard markup for glossing words or phrases. Personally, I like the single-quote system, e.g., Bäckerei 'bakery'. The Chicago Manual of Style also suggests parenthesis or brackets: Bäckerei (bakery) or Bäckerei . The MoS appears to prefer double-quotes over single-quotes, except for nested quotes, but I don't think the style Bäckerei "bakery" is widely used elsewhere. I'm thinking of suggesting the single-quote style on the MoS Talk page. Your thoughts? --Macrakis (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Sigh. I hate the MOS. Does this need to be prescribed? Of course, I'd personally also always go for the single quotes, out of my linguistics habits. The question is to what extent lay readers in general-purpose (non-linguistics) articles need the technical distinction between quoting a word and describing a meaning, but at least in the more technical language-related articles I'd certainly insist on preserving the distinction, and I don't like the brackets, so if the MOS currently can be read as not allowing the single quotes, that's just wrong. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:59, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

More formatting

Your opinion would be welcome at the discussion about the colon in things like "Dutch: kip". I think it's wrong. --Macrakis (talk) 03:43, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Butter & Cream

Would it be inappropriate to post this massive list I've been compiling of users who have also been solely using Misplaced Pages to stir the Gamergate shit on ANI?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 07:43, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Let's all be friends

Hey, FP are you talking about this? I was under the impression that was resolved a loooong time ago and I walked away with no bad feelings. If this current image is such a big deal, it can be deleted, sure. I actually try not to upload hardly any images these days because I don't really understand the process that well. No need to get upset, its just one picture on a small article that we can do without if its going to cause so much trouble. Have a great day. -OberRanks (talk) 17:46, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I was referring to that incident, and no, it was not "resolved" – fact is, of course, you "walked away" from it (and I don't care very much with what kinds of feelings), but that was a mistake; you ought to have been blocked at the time. You were found entangled in a series of lies, and I very much suspect you have been lying in exactly the same way again now. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:53, 18 October 2014 (UTC)