User talk:82.39.96.55

Welcomes etc

I'm not really here, and shouldn't really be as I am trying to stay away for a while. Please do not trouble yourself with a Welcome message, but thank you for the kind thought. 82.39.96.55 (talk) 22:51, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if you're going to be like that:

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Also, I responded to your kind note at Talk:Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. Drmies (talk) 15:14, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Psst. See my minor edit to the template and tell me if you agree that the comma I removed was wrong. Drmies (talk) 15:15, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Response to Drmies

Haha, thanks for that Drmies and sorry for the slow reply. Reading your very nice Welcoming Note Thingy I am intrigued to hear of this free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit! Gosh! I must get involved, get interested, and then waste hours, nay days, nay weeks months and years of my life on it er hang on just a minute here ... Seriously, yes I could log in and edit but I am trying to give myself a bit of time off – I find it somewhat unhealthy when I get too involved. Indeed I strictly speaking can't log in and edit just now because I gave myself an auto-exploding enforced break whose timer (red LEDs in a small briefcase) still has a while to run. The fact that I did end up almost accidentally involved again with the 737 crash and then a couple of things about cars is a powerful testimony to (1) why I need to keep away a bit and (2) how bl**dy useless I am at doing so ... though, yes, I am trying again now. I've been trying to walk away on and off since about 2002 ... watch this space but do not hold your breath. On that crash Talk page, I am glad you liked the link to Lynne Murphy's blog – it's very good and always entertaining. She also has a couple of books out: she is an American academic linguist settled in the UK so she has a very interesting and very clued-up perspective on the weirdness. She is, for sure, one of the cleverer people I know by some miles. Thanks very much also for the Auto-antonym link. Oddly, I had not seen it before and have been enjoying it. One of my (many) obsessions here is trying to get people to differentiate between inhabited and habited, and inhabitants and habitants ... it is an uphill struggle, unless of course I mean downhill or perhaps sideways. Anyway, I am off to try to just lurk for a while and not worry about this place too much. Cheers, 82.39.96.55 (talk) 22:38, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

PS I'm absolutely with you on that single comma. Sat there on its own it was very sad and lonely, and very very wrong. A fusspot might want it to hunt in a pair, so they'd leave that one in and add another earlier, just after "although", but, good grief, life is much much too short for that and it reads fine with the single comma simply zapped. If saved (perhaps dried, pickled etc?) it could be carefully recycled into a more useful site thereby saving the trees. :)
- Eh oops, I mean to make an edit to the actual template. Thanks. Sorry. Me look stupid now. Drmies (talk) 01:26, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - No, not at all, I just assumed it was a dry run! :) 82.39.96.55 (talk) 09:15, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Red Orchestra (espionage)

Hi 82.39.96.55, I noticed you put a comma. I'm updating that article at the moment and the biographies associated with it. As you can see I', working on expanding Harro Shulze-Boysen. If you fancy rewriting it, please do. I welcome it. I know from long experience that often my grammar is rank. Any help is appreciated, copyedit, rewrites, referencing and so on.. I see that you looked at Liane Berkowitz. She was very young, 22 in the wrong place at the wrong time and was killed for it. The article needs in-line citations. Google books and this:[1] bung the url in and the fields are populated. scope_creep^Talk 00:20, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi scope_creep and thank you for the very nice message. At the moment, I am trying to stay away from too much involvement with Wikipedia, and am trying to avoid getting into any particular article too much. (Workstress and wikistress, etc etc.) Hence, as you can see from my contribs, I'm just doing this silly little project of trying to correct "lead" to "led" where needed. That said, I do intend to come back and edit more seriously again one day and I will certainly look in at those articles – it's interesting and important stuff. Please don't hold your breath for me, but I will try to come back and help one day sooner or later. With thanks and all good wishes 82.39.96.55 (talk) 00:37, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

East Coast Trail

Thanks, the repeated "one way" certainly needed changing. I'm working on merging the detailed alphabetical list and the Route list and copy editing to improve the content. I'm also trying to use other sources than the ECT Association. And to find more information on the side trails from Ferryland. Your help is much appreciated. Rwood128 (talk) 22:41, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Rwood128, thanks so much for that. I am very much in favour of what you're doing and of your plans, and I am delighted to have been able to help a little bit. It's really just a side interest as we did a few walks on the ECT two summers ago and really loved it! Cheers 82.39.96.55 (talk) 13:12, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for my wrongful undoing of your edits

Thank you for your peaceful and understanding notice of me undoing edits incorrectly, I am extremely sorry, and I should have taken more consideration and checked thoroughly before undoing edits, but most of all, I'd like to thank you for your civilised and polite understanding, and how you didn't lose your temper. I'm still a little be inexperienced, so I appreciate you understanding my mistakes. Bᴇʀʀᴇʟʏ • ^Talk∕_Contribs 18:15, 24 March 2020 (UTC) has given you a dove! Doves promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day happier. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a dove, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past (this fits perfectly) or a good friend. Cheers![reply]

Spread the peace of doves by adding {{subst:Peace dove}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

Note: replied at User talk:Berrely. 82.39.96.55 (talk) 10:06, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you most kindly for your post to AIV. It was much appreciated. SchroCat (talk) 10:23, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You're v v welcome, and thanks for the lovely ornament. Replied properly at t'other end. Cheers 82.39.96.55 (talk) 11:06, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am considering coming out of my sulk

... and editing properly with my registered account. I could discuss this a looooong time but basically it turns out that I am not as good at staying away as I ought to be. But scrambling my password and ****ing off completely doesn't appeal too much either. At least staying off my account slows me down because it's such a pain in the @rse editing from an IP. So maybe that helps. Sheesh, I really don't know. Maybe I can make it into April. Gah. 82.39.96.55 (talk) 11:09, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know why you're sulking. Nor do I understand how editing with an IP works better than editing with your account. However, there are limits as to how much a registered user can use an IP to edit with, and a brightline limit is not to edit project space. So, your edits to AIV, RFPP, and even the reference desks are violations of WP:SOCK. So, please stop.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:06, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There, that told you, 82.39.96.55, didn't it! How very dare you go to AIV to report a troublemaking sock for harassing one of our most productive editors. Maybe you should've crossed the road and walked on by? I just hope you can sleep at night knowing that you've breached WP:SOCK. Don't worry, some administrators around here tend to live, sleep and breath Wikipedia's flawed policies and common sense is used sparingly by some when it comes to dishing out blocks or pompous advice. Keep on contributing, as normal, and I for one hope you do return to proper editing, whether it be from a registered account or otherwise. Oddly, editor retention is paramount, so we are told, which makes Bbb23's "advice" all the more puzzling. Cassianto^Talk

Bbb23, please don't piss off the useful IPs while ignoring the socks who harrass and troll me on my talk page. Perhaps if you had stepped in to stop Stevetakespicks the first, or even the second, let alone the third time he trolled me on my talk page, rather than sitting on your hands and allowing the hasrassment to continue, then maybe, just maybe, 96.55 wouldn't have had to post at AIV. And maybe, when we have a disenchanted editor, you dropping a brick on his head may be more counter-productive? Just a little perspective on the issue and turning a blind eye to a constructive editor reporting a harassing troll would be the better course. Or perhaps dealing with the troll in the first place. If you have the tools and are happy to act against the constructive and ignore the trolls, it does make people wonder what your role is here. - SchroCat (talk) 16:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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