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Revision as of 13:48, 7 January 2025

• An editing respite
• Some useful things from a non-medical non-professional: Tom Brady follows the hydration route (1/2 your weight in number of ounces per day, i.e. if someone weighs 180 pounds hydrate 90 ounces of water a day), and look where it GOAT him. Then what about Linus Pauling advocating at least two grams a day of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) divided into several equal portions (morning-afternoon-evening), you'd almost think he wanted people healthy. And last but least, microwave an ear of corn for four minutes, with the husk left on — if two ears, double it to eight minutes. When you peel off the husk and eat the thing, you'll thank me later.
• Now you know: Saverland v Newton
• Remembering four of the last eight Earthlings to travel to the Moon, murdered soon after their return, sadly bookending the first two Moon pioneers murdered three weeks after arriving safely back on Earth.
• Maybe my best geek edit: A five cushion bank shot italicizing Star Trek and Buffy links on Misplaced Pages's Klingon language page.
• An IP upon realizing that birds are dinosaurs, and a nod to our dinosaur brothers and sisters.
• Write on!: Don't kick the Ouija board
• An IP's inadvertent poetically sexist edit, which they quickly corrected
• Perhaps my best one-word edit (although...)
• Ho Ho Huh? A yule mystery, why none of these redirects to Christmas and holiday season (Christmas holidays, Holiday Season, the Christmas season, the holiday season, the Holiday Season, the Christmas Season, the Christmas holidays, and the Christmas Holidays) were created before 9 December 2024? My guess: Elves.
• Ready to check out the size of the Solar System? No small children or comfort animals on board please, and keep your arms and stuff where you can see them: If the Moon were only 1 Pixel (web-based scroll map scaled to the Moon being, well, 1 pixel)
• A sci-fi short story plot (dibs)

If you've never seen...

. . .Veiled Christ, a statue in Italy that depicts a knobbly-kneed Christ in the tomb, please give the image two or three clicks. This almost unbelievable 1753 sculpture ("how'd he do that?"), carved from one piece of marble, has one of only two Misplaced Pages article's which have to prove, with sources, that the artwork was not the work of an alchemist. Step right up, and don't miss the modern looking couch, the two tasseled pillows, or the crown of thorns and other torture things down by the feet. All carved from a single block of marble.

Literally steps away from Veiled Christ sits another "how'd he do that?" sculpture, also carved from a single block of marble (or created by alchemy).

p.s. While writing aloud about impossible statues carved from one piece of rock...who can forget flowers made of glass!

One of life's pleasures

Watching Secretariat run his 1973 Triple Crown races in order while knowing three things: 1) Secretariat's trainer and jockey realized after the second race that the horse could run full speed from start to finish. 2) While drastically being held back during the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Secretariat still holds the fastest time in all three Triple Crown races. 3) Sham - the horse Secretariat trashed like a dancing bear in the Kentucky Derby - still holds the Derby's second fastest time.

Here's the 1973 Kentucky Derby...Secretariat's jockey holds him back...holds him wayyyy back, almost last. Next the Preakness...holds him back... And then: the Belmont..."He is moving like a tre-men-dous machine".

Vandal masterpiece...

• ...winner of the 2017 "Shakespearean dramatic romantic tragic tale in six words" Heisman.

An IP wedding proposal

July 8, 2022: during three edits in three minutes an IP proposes marriage on the same page as the above masterpiece, creating their own. Wikipedians have a romantic side, even the bots, so nobody reverted until I did after two hours with a note saying that it should be enough time, and wished him luck. Does anyone know of an earlier proposal on Misplaced Pages, especially on such a good page for it and so perfectly played out - he seemingly decides to marry her right there, between two edits. Film scene scenario worthy (Hallmark, are you listening?).

This one time at band camp I vandalized a page

The docents ask people: "Find the cat". Letting the coolness of it lead me to break my oath as a Wikipedian, I now self-identify as a vandal. (in other vandal news, in 2023 an IP spent a great deal of time removing all the vowels from several articles. Wh ddn't thnk f tht?).

Always interesting

See and listen to Misplaced Pages edits as they occur. Designed by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi of hatnote.com, the link was copied from a user page, don't remember where, but deservedly displayed on quite a few as well as having its own article. Just who is making all this noise? Well...

...the size of our stadium

Here is Paine Ellsworth's subpage about how many Wikipedians can dance on the head of a pin.

User Wwew345t

Hey again, reluctantly. Would you be willing to help or mentor this user Wwew345t, whose bold attempts to revert a few or several Survivor winner articles back to their prior states were reverted? I just am hoping that user won't attempt this again and again. That user even asked someone else for help. Also, look at the user's writing. George Ho (talk) 20:34, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm really not good at putting up deletion reviews, and have several I'd like to add myself at some point. They should maybe ask at the Help desk. Thanks for the note though, and happy New Year. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Have you read WP:DRV#Instructions yet? How were they? For starters, just one article to review would be enough to test out before multi-nomination, right? George Ho (talk) 01:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

That's way too complicated, like putting a desk together. Should be written so an 8-year old would understand it. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:23, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Or an 88-year old. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Either a computer mouse or a tablet computer should've done the trick, eh? There are further instructions at Template:drv2/doc, but I bet it's also too complicated for you. Or, discuss your issues with instructions at WT:DRV then.

Do you know any Survivor fan well experienced in Deletion reviews, by any chance? George Ho (talk) 03:56, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Oh, and for the record, I'm not gonna file a DRV on your or that user's behalf. All right? (Must I explain why?) George Ho (talk) 04:03, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

George Ho, I haven't asked you to file anything for me, you came to my talk page. I'm not a Survivor fan, nor know any here or elsewhere. In my opinion there are too few deletion reviews compared with deletions, but I'm not in the habit of creating them just yet. There are a few I have in mind, but taking the open-ended timeline of Misplaced Pages into account they can wait a bit longer. Do you know of any time limit on filing? Another question, if a page is worth putting back up again (I'm thinking of List of Kill Bill characters how would I go about it? Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

As for help in putting up reviews (the Sight and Sound every ten-year "best films of all-time" navbox was deleted quite awhile ago, makes no sense, seeing all of them in one place like that seemed an essential keep), I'll ask Wwew345t once they get the hang of it. Randy Kryn (talk) 16:52, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Do you know of any time limit on filing? No time limit, actually. I initiated a DRV on a dab page, four years after the previous deletion of A Nightmare on Elm Street (disambiguation). Well, I even initiated a DRV on another article that has been reverted and re-reverted over and over till the DRV itself, despite one criticism saying that it was "out of scope". George Ho (talk) 17:15, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Nice, thanks. Much like the open-ended globe logo. I've got one slow-motion discussion at a closer's page for a couple months now, maybe that's one I'll do too if the closer discussion ends in not opening it up again. That's another direction, can a closer change their close months or even years after making it? Probably not years, that seems unfair, but maybe a few months if the discussion on their talk page is slow-motion. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:26, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Take a look again.

Remember, it's me. EEng 13:02, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

EEng, I've heard of you, and have your Misplaced Pages rookie card (it's in one of those plastic containers so you can't put it between the bike spokes, although you can put the plastic container between the spokes but that causes tons of trouble either way). I've read the ANI section and don't know where it is headed, although an editor focused on there may or may not take it into account on their future edits. They sure do like to revert and own. I rarely opine in favor of giving someone a block or ban, not my style to show people the Misplaced Pages door. An eternal optimist I guess, hoping editors immediately are pushed by their better angels to let the light shine in (or just someone bumping around with a flashlight). Randy Kryn (talk) 13:16, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

For you of all people, I have to draw a picture? . When correctly viewed / everything is lewd / I could tell you things about Peter Pan / and the Wizard of Oz -- there's a dirty old man! EEng 13:48, 7 January 2025 (UTC)