User talk:Soap/Archive 16
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Yes, I'm still planning to write Climate of Denver. I get distracted easily, sorry. I am mostly active on Wiktionary these days, in part because I have minor eyesight problems and have difficulty handling large chunks of text.
Weather and climate
[edit]Mostly putting this here for my own use .... User:Soap/climate
Record low of -9F at Anaktuvuk_Pass,_Alaska#Climate on 9/26/2021 but it may be a different station.
Poem
[edit]- See /poems.
Placenames
[edit]Native American placenames with Latinate appearance
[edit]I have no single must-have trait to put a name on this list; it's all subjective. Most are places near where I live. A final vowel plus /-s/ can change the sound of the whole name, but this can be undone by other traits. For example, Aziscohos does not sound particularly Latin or even Greek.
I live in New England, so I am much more familiar with local placenames, including relatively obscure ones such as Agamenticus, than I am with placenames further afield. However it may be that the phenomenon is real and that the original colonists of New England and the Canadian maritimes maintained a preference for Latinate names even where the original Native American names did not always suggest such respellings. For example, Piscataqua and Piscataquis both appear in Maine, but Piscataway appears in New Jersey.
Northeast US and eastern Canada
[edit]Lesser-known placenames
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Everywhere else
[edit]For more, and for their meanings, see here. Cascapedia and Matapedia are not yet on that list. It may be that there are more placenames like this in the southeastern United States and that I simply don't know about them because I haven't lived there. It's perhaps worth noting that I recognize more such names in the southeast than, for example, in the Midwest or the West, suggesting perhaps that Muskogean languages are superficially similar in sound to Algonquian languages even though they are not known to be related. A relation has in fact been proposed (see Gulf languages because the idea doesnt have a page of its own), though I think it's unlikely, as Algonquian languages seem to have arrived from the west, and Muskogean languages seem to have links in Mexico and the Caribbean.
I grew up thinking that Tampa was a Greek plural.
Edge cases
[edit]Edge cases
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ough in Native American place names
[edit]- Youghiogheny
- Ramapough (but cf Ramapo university)
- Poughkeepsie, New York ... i wonder if there's a reason why they seem to be confined to the northern Appalachians.
- Quiyoughcohannock was in eastern Virginia, but may be from an older stage of the language ... there is no modern place with this name. I found the tribe name spelled Quiocohànoes in a document of 1801 written (or at least edited) by Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps by 1800 the ough spelling was already in retreat.
- Toughkenamon
There was also Nandtaughtacund. Interestingly enough, Hyannis above seems to be named after someone called Iyannough, which suggests there may have been an -ough stage in early colonial New England that got covered by a later trend of Latin-like names. Saratoga was once spelled Sarraghtoga.
Other lookalikes
[edit]Japanese
[edit]- Toiyabe not from an early Japanese settler.
- Temagami
- Pokegama, MN also sounds Japanese, although I know now that Pokemon is not really a Japanese word. There is also a Pokagon. Both names are Algonquian and might be related.
- See also some placenames in the southeast. Muskogean languages seem to straddle the line between the Latin-like names of New England and the Japanese-like names of other areas (mostly in the West). This gave me an idea for how it would look if Japanese names had been spelled according to how we handle Native American placenames. Imagine Noggasaukee and Sarporough?
(Regarding the /r/ in the above word: there was an early layer of nonrhotic pronunciations in colonial America; see words such as sagamore. Many nonrhotic speakers lived in the southern states too though I dont have examples at hand; see older Southern American English. Possibly still hints of nonrhotic speech in Mississippi in the 1940s here.)
Polish
[edit]Vulgar-sounding names
[edit]There is a cluster of vulgar-sounding names like Big Assawoman Bay (and yes, it's pronounced like that), Cuttawoman (possibly the same as Cuttatawoman), and the now-lost Pissasec around the Chesapeake Bay, particularly in what is now Virginia. Pissasee might be a misreading of Pissasec rather than a separate form of the tribal name.
Meanwhile in Canada, the placename Nipissing has no particular reason to have a double -ss-, and I'd have chosen a spelling like Nippasing instead to make it clearer that the word is accented on the first syllable. Actually, it occurred to me it might be a French spelling convention, as Lake Nipissing is fairly close to Quebec and French speakers have for a long time lived outside Quebec as well. Offhand I don't know of any other placenames with the substring -piss-. I tried searching once, and it turned up nothing, but I suspect the search tool wasn't coded to look for substrings and was therefore useless to me (I tried some other strings for comparison and they also mostly came up empty). Even so, the placenames where one might expect to see a double s in this position always seem to use single S, like the above Capisic.
By contrast, the tribal name once spelled Cowass was soon respelled to Coös (listed above).
Named after other Native American placenames?
[edit]Some placenames seem to recur. Often a name is found in New England and reappears further west. Some of these, such as Osceola, are likely what they appear to be .... an newer interior settlement named after an older one near the east coast. But coincidences also happen, and some adopted placenames may be smoothed out into a more familiar shape.
Shakopee ~ Sacopee ~ Chicopee (several locations) ... at least two independent roots, possibly three or more.
The Miami of Indiana are linguistically unrelated to Miami, FL.
At least two unrelated Jamaicas (the island and Jamaica, Queens); see Jamaica (disambiguation) for more possibilities.
Kennebec could go either way ... according to this book, the name was chosen by Milwaukee Railroad officials, but this doesnt rule out its having come from the placename in Maine.
Other common elements
[edit]Annieopsquotch, the world's largest playground. The /psk(Vt)/ sequence also occurs in Swampscott, Presumpscot, and possibly Passumpsic. But it is not necessarily from the same Native American root word in all these names. The last three all have an /m/ before the consonant sequence, as well.
Magog
[edit]An honorable mention for Magog, Quebec, because I grew up thinking it was the actual placename referred to in the Bible as Magog, and didn't even consider that the Bible may have influenced the name of the Quebec town until early adulthood. This is, nonetheless, a legitimate Native American placename, and the full version of the name is still seen: Memphrémagog. Indeed, I suspect I didn't realize the truth about the name until I saw the full version of it on a road sign or perhaps a map.
Popinac
[edit]For a change in the other direction, the popinac plant gets its name from Greek opopanax, but sounds to me more like a loan from Nahuatl or perhaps an eastern North American language.
Facts about biology
[edit]- I read more about biology on Wikipedia than any other science, but I've never worked in the field or even undertaken formal study. I actually know much more about meteorology than biology, but for a reason that's hard to explain, I find weather stressful. Other sciences, like astronomy and biology, are "always new" and can relieve stress for me just by me reading about them.
Entognatha is the wingless, callow arthropod clade.
Sea shells made of limestone evolved several times ... for example, once as seashells proper and once as foraminifera.
Although tadpoles carry many parasites, lake trout and other tadpolophagous fish seem largely unaffected.
Enteroxenos is the parasitic snail that is "little more than a string of gonads".
Humans as parasites
[edit]Humans are the world's only lactoparasite, but other animals eat the eggs of different species. Humans are in many ways like traditional parasites (loss of unneeded body parts and abilities), ...
- fill this in later
...and in many ways like nothing else in nature:
- Only animal where female SSC is larger than male?
Retrograde adulthood
[edit]Tantulocarida is the crustacean that reproduces by budding, perhaps the only crustacean or even the only arthropod to do so. It is also the only animal in the world in which the larva form is larger than the adult. (The reason why the smaller stage is called the adult is because it is the sexually reproducing stage. It appears that the male "adults" are little more than packets of sperm cells, and they do not even eat.)
Yet, the less celebrated tunicates also reproduce by budding, and because they are part of the clade that gave rise to vertebrates, this could be seen as even more remarkable than Tantulocarida. In fact, both species have oddly out-of-place "adults" .... with the tunicates, the adults are much larger than the children, but are sessile and grossly non-animallike, to the point of not even being symmetrical despite being long-established members of Bilateria.
Humans are natural
[edit]- See pom-pom crab.
Humans have relatively unarmoured appendages and are neither able to defend themselves well nor feed themselves efficiently with their hands and mouth. Tools such as cultellus cucini are grasped delicately with the hands and then held in place by several soft fingers. The tools are used in ritual combat, but primarily are used to cut through tough food items which the human scrapes off for further processing in a fire. Human skin is highly vulnerable, so humans wear clothes for protection from the elements. Humans often dream at night, and by the morning, although their eyes are not yet fully opened, they have already grasped hold of their devices.
Mullerian mimicry
[edit]Many different prey of the same predator could all employ their own warning signals, but this would make no sense for any party. If they could all agree on a common warning signal, the predator would have fewer detrimental experiences, and the prey would lose fewer individuals educating it. No such conference needs to take place, as a prey species that just so happens to look a little like an unprofitable species will be safer than its conspecifics, enabling natural selection to drive the prey species toward a single warning language.
Other biology ideas
[edit]I believe humans are megafauna. Not by weight but by body plan .... we are essentially gorillas, of above average height, who have lost most of our muscle mass through evolution towards holding weapons. This is similar to the evolution of parasites towards a very thin body form, as they lose the muscles and other organs they no longer need as they evolve towards reliance on the other. I've also compared humans to fairies, as we are much more delicate and easily injured than other apes, and also lacking in natural bodily weapons, yet as if by magic we have become much more powerful than all of those other animals.
I wonder why that name didnt catch on?
[edit]In the 19th century the Carboniferous Period was often referred to as the "Age of Ferns" but these discoveries during the first decade of the 20th century made it clear that the "Age of Pteridosperms" was perhaps a better description.
chlamydia
[edit]Chlamydia_pneumoniae is the koalas' disease. it is not clear if humans are to blame ... either directly (humans handling koalas) or indirectly (humans handling animals who later transmittted it to koalas). It's even possible koalas infected us, though here again it could have been indirect or from some other animal. This is not the same STD-based chlamydia that we usually pass amongst each other.
domestication in the wild
[edit]I think species such as Canada geese and raccoons could be considered domesticated, and that in fact they've become domesticated much more quickly than our pets have.
In the case of geese, it seems that humans' elimination of the geese's natural predators combined with our overwhelming population ratio against all wild animals has led geese to identify us as "the animal" they need to be aware of. And yet, as the vast majority of humans suppress our hunting instincts, they see us as soft and harmless. They may think of us as fellow prey animals, or indeed, as the only prey animals, if they have by now become so accustomed to seeing us and not seeing wild animals that they've lost their own prey instincts entirely. How could this happen so fast? Perhaps the geese that lost the prey instinct were the ones most likely to venture into the wild where it is easier to find food. They may also have quickly settled new habitats opened up by human population growth isolating wildlife corridors so that the few remaining natural predators of geese could not find them. All of this might also apply to ducks and perhaps other birds with large wild populations.
Other science
[edit]Electron jugs repel
[edit]Fundamental_interaction#Electromagnetism once said "This is larger than what the planet Earth would weigh if weighed on another Earth." but it has since been reworded to something more straightlaced. Also, note that this is both the electron jugs repel article and the high school magnet experiment article. high school no longer mentioned in page today. i may want to restore it, as it was only removed recently.
Perhaps the paragraph could be improved by saying it is not the magnet which is so impressive, but the electromagnetic force that keeps objects together in the first place. Unless (though I dont think so) this is actually the residual strong force.
Oort cloud edit. here, i actually amplified a claim i disagreed with to call attention to it, as i felt that had i removed it i would be unable to explain myself in scientific words.
Spacetime#Privileged_character_of_3+1_spacetime has the "tachyons only" chart
This planet is hundreds of times larger (not more massive) than its star. The lack of remark in our article suggests maybe this is not so rare.
Yes, really
[edit]You've been eating soap all your life and never knew it.
Stimming
[edit]Most stims seem to involve the hands and mouth, but headbanging does not. Is it biologically different? As of 28 June 2023, headbanging is only briefly mentioned on the stimming article, yet it is probably the most famous stereotypy of all.
I just remembered that I used to spin in circles when I was young and seriously injured myself when my head hit the edge of a wooden desk while lying down in a spinny chair. (I can't do this anymore because of medical issues; I would simply throw up immediately.) Yet, NT's also like spinning chairs, so it may be that there is no definite line between stimming and what the general public enjoys. Many other examples can likely be found; think about how many stim-like pleasures are delivered at amusement parks, especially water parks, and yet autistics are not particularly associated with attending amusement parks.
I used to think that dancing was stimming and thought of it primarily as a solitary activity.
See User:Soap/stim.
Where does coffee come from?
[edit]Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline purine. The word purine (pure urine) was coined by the German chemist Emil Fischer in 1884.
Humans, the yellow tadpoles
[edit]Children's tadpole drawings look a lot like certain cartoon characters: the M&M's mascots, Pac-Man (in some games), Bob-ombs, and certainly many others.[1] Additionally, a less common style of emoji shows round head-bodies with arms and legs erupting directly from the body. Is it possible that we still as adults have this mental image in our heads? The traditional explanation for children's tadpoles is that they cannot see their own necks, and simply draw what they see when they look down at the rest of their bodies. But this would not explain why children also draw other people the same way.
Note that the so-called tadpole stage is not the stage with the familiar (to me) triangle bodies, but occurs at even earlier age.
And why do we prefer yellow emojis?
Assorted articles that I will read many times over
[edit]I am particularly fond of articles that teach a subject in chronological order, whether it is the history of the event or the history of the discovery. In either case it reads just like a story would.
Astronomy and physics
[edit]Linguistics
[edit]Earth science
[edit]Other science and math
[edit]Music
[edit]Music is not a subject I understand well, so almost any article will do. I honestly cherish my inability to understand even basic concepts like tablature, as it reminds me of my early childhood when everything I encountered was like this. Italian is the language of strict parents and furniture too big to move.
History and politics
[edit]Likewise, almost any article will do, though I have a preference for events far from home.
Weather and climate
[edit]My lack of interest in weather, the science I know by far the most about, is difficult to explain. It brings me stress, unlike the other topics, but right now I can't fully understand why.
Other notes
[edit]ru:Робрека may be the Robozero over which the 1663 UFO sighting took place. Information about it is surprisingly hard to find and I am questioning whether it even happened. One source says it was in 1666 instead, but this may be a conflation with this.
Riddles from the Deep
[edit]| Sunàqwa the Sea Lamprey asks: | |
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An octopodotropholophophorophosphostroboscoposporogonoconophonospodosolopornopomponoctophobodontoproctoplooooprotozoon. |
Archie
[edit]Indiscretions of Archie's plot sounds a lot like Archie Comics and even has a character named Reggie. Were those names just more popular back then, or did the creators of Archie Comics choose the names as a tribute?
Junction
[edit]Was CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) named after a children's song? If so, was the fetish site named after the company or the song? (Note that the link here is to Reddit, not to the fetish site.)
Alternatively, is the children's song referencing something older than all of these other things? Compare wikt:Malfunction Junction and (less likely) wikt:commotion lotion for other examples of popular culture phrases using the same pattern. This shows that Malfunction Junction is older than the children's song, but yet it could still be that the other things were named by people who had heard the song but were unaware of the older military term. Likewise, while the military term is about 25 years older than the kids' song, and children's shows are known for parodying things familiar to adults, it is still possible the two rhyming phrases were coined independently.
Bear and Sun
[edit]if i have time i might make pages for Bear and Sun, both computer companies associated with the automotive industry. Bear is still around but uses WIndows now, whereas I believe Sun didnt syurvive into the modern era.
Smerconish
[edit]Smerconish may be an eastern European surname respelled in an unusual way; this would be most likely if it were originally written in Cyrillic, so perhaps Serbian is the source. Still, I can't find an exact match. Smrkovský is a surname of Czech origin.
Jafra
[edit]Jafra (a cosmetics company) did not get its name from Persian, according to their website, but rather from the names of its founders, Jan and Frank. But why did I think it was Persian in the first place? There may be such a word, that I have been unable to find because of my inability to read and write the Persian script.
Funny edits
[edit]User talk:Soap/Archive 16/Funny edits
Gallery of interests
[edit]Round things resemble breasts; they are generally more attractive to pacific temperaments than straight lines and hard corners. -- Xiong
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My love of traffic lights may be unrelated to the fact that they are round. I will leave the picture here for now but may remove it later. When I was very young, I used to play with the traffic light shells, which at the time had the colors as part of the material, not dependent on lights shining from behind. Indeed, I think they were lit up from within and the arrows were coated with a black substance so that the light would only get through the arrow-shaped gaps. I think newer traffic lights use LED's and therefore the shells are just blank.
Other interests
[edit]I have contributed a lot of climate data, particularly for places with unusual climates and places I've lived or visited before. However, this is now very difficult for me. I may adopt other interests only to drop them months later, though I still check in with edits I've made in the past. For example, I will probably never get around to finishing the parasitism project I started in 2017, as I was unable to work on it for over two years and had completely lost interest when I got free time again.
If I knew more about chemistry, I'd be better able to contribute to the soap and detergent articles. Theyre not wrong, but they provide surprisingly little information.
Identity
[edit]Stimming and habits
[edit]This section is very embarrassing, and I may remove it later, but for now it reminds me who I am. The habits themselves are no longer embarrassing to me, for reasons I explain at the end. What embarrasses me is that there seems to be little else to write about me that distinguishes me from other people.
- This section is now archived, but I will come back and re-add a permanent link soon. The content will be updated at User:Soap/stim.
Phobias
[edit]Trypophobia and fear of falling
[edit]I have mild trypophobia (if you don't know what it is, and you're worried you might have it, I recommend using this link to get just a bare dictionary definition with no pictures). I've mostly gotten over this through exposure, but I don't recommend exposure therapy to everyone, particularly those who suffer more severely from it than I ever did. The fact that my phone shower looks quite a bit like a lotus head may have helped me get over the fear, because I associate showers with pleasant things.
Unrelatedly, I also have a fear of falling, such that even as an adult I was unable to play a certain video game that had a bug in which the player sometimes fell through what looked like a solid floor. I'd been the same way as a child with a different video game where there was not a bug, but a Game Genie code that led to false floors as a side effect of an otherwise fun cheat. I describe this as a "there/not there" ambiguity and that is what scares me. Both of these fears involve holes, but I think they are unrelated.
Since nearly drowning at age 2, an event I no longer remember, I've had an instinctual fear of deep water. It's possible that this was the trigger for my fear of falling, because being in deep water means losing contact with the ground, even if I am not actually sinking. This is just a wild guess, though.
Other information
[edit]Likewise, although I've never had koumpounophobia, I have a few edits on the page because I want to make it clear that it is the fear of clothing buttons, and does not extend to buttons in the modern sense such as the flat circular things we used to press on early smartphones. I believe the claim that Steve Jobs removed buttons from the iPhone because of koumpounophobia is inaccurate, as the "buttons" on an iPhone are very different from clothing buttons and it's just happenstance that we use the same word for both. Even so, it's possible that some people with koumpounophobia do extend the fear to flat circular machine buttons; I can't read minds.
Mobile account
[edit]My mobile account is user:Lollipop, a name I chose purely for its sound. I've never been particularly fond of candy, although I did eat candy when I was young just like my friends did. I actually had the name Lollipop before I had Soap, but I was much more interested in getting this name, so I usurped the old inactive Soap (who had never edited at all) and ended up with both names. I am much less active than I once was, and I don't really need two short names, but nobody seemed interested in taking over the Lollipop account, even after years of leaving up a notice saying I was willing to part with it. Perhaps it's best to just hang on to it now that I've had it for 16 years.
Notes
[edit]- ^ (The roundness of some early video game characters may be explained as a graphical limitation, since sprites in early video games were usually squares (Big Mario was actually two squares stacked), but Bob-ombs were styled after cartoon bombs and similar characters have appeared in other media, probably pre-dating video games)
New section
[edit]Hello "Soap". You asked me about my human figures in the dinosaur size diagrams; I plan to continueto use the "neutral" woman figure. Another user said that the version with the hands on her hips looked like a girl, not a woman. That is the reason I made a new. Of course, if you want to use any of them, you can do! Conty 26:30, 19 March 2011. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Conty (talk • contribs)
No hard feelings
[edit]No hard feelings as to what you said on Mike's talk page. Also could you please review my request for permission at WT:FILTER. Thanks. Jessy (SCG01) 22:26, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Edit test cleanup bot
[edit]Hi there. I have started a discussion at the Village Pump regarding a proposed bot that would clean up the "example"-type edit tests discussed in edit filter discussion you commented in. Your input is invited! 28bytes (talk) 17:30, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the blanking
[edit]THanks for blanking that user page - definitely wasn't one of my accounts! Skier Dude (talk) 02:45, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]Thanks for catching the vandalism on my userpage. I seem to be a popular guy lately! ;-) –BMRR (talk) 23:43, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for filter override
[edit]Thank you for overriding that filter on my endophytic fungi page. I put up the final version of the text, with properly formatted references. ColonelHazard (talk) 01:10, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
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Re: Mushroom Kingdom Fusion
[edit]You're always welcome to open a review at DRV. Andrevan@ 19:48, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Filter 397
[edit]I've removed the custom disallow message from the filter; do you have any further recommendations for it? Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 02:00, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
you should protect cults
[edit]They also kill people —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.182.214.88 (talk) 01:19, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]Thanks for the advice and the support on the RfA Soap... I wasn't expecting that level of support, and I'll have to make sure I live up to expectations, because I'm not going through that again! Cheers, Catfish Jim & the soapdish 09:17, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you
[edit]Thanks for reverting the vandalism on the War Resisters League page. I was mistaken by who did it, I got confused when looking at this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War_Resisters_League&diff=prev&oldid=425186936
Thanks again, I really appreciate your help.Farmsworth (talk) 20:29, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
- It was the ip address 199.164.68.171, which belongs to an educational institution. Can you (soft?) block them please? Farmsworth (talk) 20:54, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
- It's not usually proper to block an IP for vandalism when they haven't edited in the past few days. In this case it's been three weeks, and any block would likely stop nothing. —Soap— 13:04, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Question for Soap = where did my talk page edit go?
[edit]Hello!
Can you tell me where my talk page edit went? I can see the page correctly when I view from home which is where I edit from. But if I view the page from work - where I only read from, I cannot see the edit. The edit is in my revision history [1] but it doesn't show on my talk page or in my talk page log [2] when I view if from my work IP. The "Note to Atama" edit shows fine when I view it from my home IP where I created it though.
Is someone playing a prank on me?
Is it possible that my user talk page is enabled for flagged revisions? If so, why would a post by me to my own page not be accepted by a review to be accepted onto my own talk page?
What good is a "This is my final post on this topic" post if the edit doesn't even show up on my talk page?
If I was a conspiracy theorist - I would believe that someone made that post invisible to hide the evidence that I was blocked improperly, but more likely it was just a Wikipedia glitch or a prank.
I'm asking you because you were able to help me about a year ago when I was trying to position a smiley face on my user page and the edits kept getting blocked - about 30 times - before the edit finally stuck.
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1) I purposely triggered the edit filter [3] on the Wikipedia Sandbox and was blocked for a day [4] 2) I do not request an unblock because I actually did purposely trigger the edit filter and it would have been lying to say otherwise. 3) The one day block expired and I admitted to triggering the filter on purpose and apologized. [5] 4) The next day I made three edits. You can see the edits in my edit history - they were ordinary edits - and did not trigger the edit filter - they were the only edits that I made on May 14th and they are all still present on their respective pages. 5) The next day I discover that I am blocked for one week for triggering the edit filter [6] 6) I am slightly annoyed - I had no problem being blocked for something that I actually did and which I admitted to doing - but not for something I didn't do. I most certainly did not trigger the edit filter again and no one should say that I did. 7) I try to create an unblock request with links to all of the edits that I made, but the unblock itself triggers the edit filter twice [7] and [8] when I include the links even though the edits themselves did not and are still present. 8) You can see my unblock request and all of the details on my talk page. I admitted multiple times that I purposely triggered the edit filter the first time, but that I certainly did not trigger it again and I clearly (at least I though it was clearly) describe the whole sequence of events. 9) After a few days of no response, administrator Atama finally investigates and tells me that I know why I'm blocked [9] and that I am just playing games. [10] 10) During the conversation - Atama tells me that he used google and saw that "sandbox" misspelled is a hacker term and that I am blocked for adding that word to my user page. [11] 11) I have looked on google (and bing) and found no such hacker term (there were a few typos with that term - but nothing real). 12) I decided that if anyone's time is being wasted by our conversation - it is my own - Atama made a mistake using google, no other admin will unblock me now that I've been called a coy, hacker, game player by Atama, and there is no point in continuing the conversation. 13) I post my final Magnum Opus [12] here and give up on the matter. The edit is polite, detailed, helpful, and all the other terms in the boyscout motto and contained nothing objectionable in any way. 14) I then notice that the edit is gone from my talk page but not from my edit history 15) Where did it go? 16) Is someone trying to hide my marvelous post? Or is there a Wikipedia glitch that makes it not visible? 17) Is my talk page cursed? Does it have anything to do with the smiley face on the lower right? Is it a Wikipedia bug? Is someone pulling a prank? Here is some information about my activities last week so you'll know that I am a person and not an IP number. [13] |
Thanks for reading - If I had any money I'd give you 10 cents for each of the above bullet points that you actually read - or $2.00 if you read all 18 of them.
Let me know if you have any questions, although I cannot guarantee that your questions won't mysteriously disappear from my talk page before I can read them or that they won't somehow not be visible to me. 99.150.255.75 (talk) 00:00, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
MESSAGE Hi - I know this was a long time ago but why did you decided to not raise my banning, just because thought my reason was an excuse? I'd never heard that blaming it on your brother was a common excuse, but funnily enough, it was my brother who used this 'Niggletv2' account. I would only edit Wikipedia for the better - as you could probably see from my recent editing history. Just wanted to get this cleared up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.5.44.35 (talk) 15:37, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello. As a contributor to this article, you may be interested to know I have nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ian Jobling. Robofish (talk) 01:07, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks...
[edit]...for your support. I noticed that you went unopposed, and that speaks volumes about you. Best, Drmies (talk) 14:44, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Toddler page clean up
[edit]Hi there, thanks for your comments - I have ammended the referencing as suggested. I believe the sources now referenced should comply with wiki standards. Just thought I would have a go at cleaning up this page - I have a background in research on children but am new to wikipedia. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LMOughton (talk • contribs) 12:25, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
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"Hidden" revisions of a page (offline) ??
[edit]Re. WP:HD#"Hidden" revisions of a page (offline) ??
Fixed; apparently, some odd technical glitch with the Squid cache, which was resolved by the Wikimedia tech team. Chzz ► 03:01, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Request for mediation (Dyshidrosis)
[edit]Hi, I've been invited to participate in mediation over the content User:Carolethecatlover wants to change in the Dyshidrosis page since I have reverted it more than once. I noticed you've reverted the same content recently, so I'll invite you to visit the case page and indicate whether you'd like to participate or not. Thanks! —Mu Mind (talk) 11:17, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Re: Are you the one who made that Tetris animation with the stick figures?
[edit]Yup, that's me. Did that animation back in 2003, it's nice to hear that someone remembers it. :) TH1RT3EN talk ♦ contribs 14:43, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
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Geevor
[edit]Hi, good work on the IP-hopper, I've requested semi-protection for the article. DuncanHill (talk) 23:35, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks bro. I know now not to vandalize pages. I won't do it again.
Larkable (talk) 01:02, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Unto the King (album)
[edit]It does meet A9. The album's by a church that doesn't have an article (Ocean Hills Church); Holland Davis' only involvement was writing the songs. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 15:50, 25 June 2011 (UTC)