User talk:Brucvaldo

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Maria de Rudenz

Thank you for your details added to Maria de Rudenz. I did some minor formatting, such as sentence case in section headers, but Op. capital. (I will never understand why.) I have no more time right now but suggest that you go over the prose and try to stay a bit more factual (for example drop "beautiful" and "celebrated"). - Happy editing! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

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Maremma, edit summaries, multiple consecutive edits

Hello, Brucvaldo, and thanks for your efforts here. I saw your series of edits to Maremma, which, while providing some interesting info, introduced some language and logic problems. I've made a couple changes, but you may want to go over your work. I also noticed that you never use edit summaries:

Please make a habit of providing an edit summary when you make a change to an article. Doing so makes it easier for your colleagues here to understand the intention of your edit.
Plus, it will be easier for you and your co-editors to collaborate on articles if, instead of making multiple consecutive edits in rapid succession on an article, you use the "Show preview" button to view your changes incrementally before finally saving the page once you're satisfied with your edits. This keeps the page history of the article less cluttered.

Thanks in advance for considering these suggestions. Eric ^talk 18:56, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What logic/language problems did you find, exactly, Eric?

Hi- See my changes here. I think my "logic" note was in reference to "repopulated". Please remember to sign your talkpage posts with four tildes: ~~~~. Doing so will yield a signature and timestamp. Some more guidance here: Help:Using_talk_pages. Let me know if you need more tips. Eric ^talk 13:51, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your feedback. In order: 'whence' is indeed used correctly. 'ina': sincere thanks for this spacing-mistake correction. 'falsely' is also used correctly as an interjected modifier to 'supposed'. 'Romantic' refers to the artistic epoch and must always be capitalized as a proper name. Using 'romantic' is incorrect. 'Rôle' is written in a correct alternative (French) spelling. The word itself is French in origin and is sometimes spelled thus in English. The entire last sentence is correct in either version, so why did you change it? The other paragraph was written by someone else, not by me; sorry, your 'corrections' of it are silly and unnecessary. And why, exactly, do you have editorial authority over me in Wikipedia World? I actually don't understand it. I think the big howler here is your misunderstanding of 'Romantic'. Pia de' Tolomei is a Romantic opera, written in the Romantic era in Europe. (It's tiresome, all this.) Brucvaldo (talk) 14:29, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered if that's how you were using "Romantic"; no problem there, and I hope it continues to give you more laughs that I erred on the side of assuming otherwise. "Whence" means "from where". If you are trying to say that Pia was removed from Maremma to be imprisoned elsewhere, that is not how we employ "whence" in English. The way you used "falsely" is completely incorrect; seek other opinions if you wish. No one spells "role" with a circumflex in English, your enlightening etymology lesson notwithstanding. In your wording "...repopulated with people from other Italian regions", you employ "repopulated" transitively, as if the people were put there by others, which I presume is not what you meant to state. Your defensive and snarky comments give me the impression you have taken my corrections personally. I'm sorry if that's the case, and if you think I'm exercising unfair editing authority over you. I advise you to inform yourself on how things work here on Wikipedia: Help:Contents. I get the impression from your editing and your comments that while you English is good, it is not your native language. If that's the case, you may want to dial back your proclamations on the language when you are interacting with native speakers. Eric ^talk 21:46, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Erica, I already told you I didn't write the whole section about population..and you sound like a fag. go fuck yourself....

Nice attitude. You'll go far here. Eric ^talk 03:47, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Brucvaldo. Speculating about people's sexual orientation is not tolerated on this wiki, and we have a low tolerance for unprovoked rudeness. Your comments are offensive and over the line. Wikipedia is not only the encyclopedia anyone can edit, it's the encyclopedia we all edit together, so please be polite in your interactions with your fellow editors. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:58, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Though I didn't write the section, Maremma was consciously repopulated by 19th C. governmental authorities in an attempt at revitalization. Incentives were offered by the government to 'repopulate' a traditionally shunned area, which explains that writer's transitive use of 'repopulated'. You might have a point about 'whence'; I love very archaic, poetic use of words and grammar in modern writing. 'Whence' I used in the meaning 'from which place', to indicate that Pia received her imprisonment from the remote, shunned isolation of Maremma itself, and not just the tower. "...Maremma, from which place Pia has been imprisoned..." But 'where' is certainly clearer and wikipedia-ish. e basta...

Once again, I remind you that Wikipedia encourages the use of edit summaries. Do not simply revert other editors' work without explaining yourself, or you risk wearing out your welcome even faster. Eric ^talk 21:52, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Eric, I see you have quite a history of flouncing in and changing things, with a quite long history of complaints from other writers/editors, not just myself. Why did you eliminate my info on the Caravaggio bones being found in 1956? Normal people want to know this. God, what a crashing fucking bore this all this. Your 'corrections' need to be explained also... Please get out of your mum's basement more frequently.

Wikipedia is not an internet forum for you to snivel at other users and make vain attempts to insult your superiors. Neither is it a place for you to write fanciful essays to practice your English. It is a collaborative encyclopedia, a group effort that you may be asking to get kicked out of. If you read the source you clumsily cited regarding the possible Caravaggio remains, you would see that it does not support what you wrote. Eric ^talk 23:10, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March 2017

This is your only warning; if you remove or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia again, as you did at Maremma, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. TJH2018 talk 22:48, 12 March 2017 (UTC) eric go fuck yourself.....[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Amortias (T)(C) 23:20, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. Your ability to edit your talk page has also been revoked. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you should read the guide to appealing blocks, then contact administrators by submitting a request to the Unblock Ticket Request System. Amortias (T)(C) 18:05, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]