User talk:The Traditionalist/Archive 2016

Life peer moves

I noticed you've been making quite a few of these, so thought you might wish to express an opinion at Talk:Jock Stirrup, Baron Stirrup. I hope this message doesn't count as WP:Canvassing. Opera hat (talk) 13:01, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Regarding these moves, I was wondering if you had considered previous conversations about naming conventions found on individual talk pages? For instance, on Talk:Richard Spring, Baron Risby, it was decided some years ago that the page title should include Risby's title. Happy New year! WatermillockCommon (talk) 20:55, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy new year! I have to confess that I did not check. Instead, I followed my personal judgment. Anyone should feel free to revert me or open a new discussion on a talk page.--The Traditionalist (talk) 20:59, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Moving a page discussion

Hello! There is a discussion on whether to move page George Young (politician) to George Young, Baron Young of Cookham. I wish that you could add your opinion to the discussion. --Editor FIN (talk) 05:02, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

CSD

I see a number of CSD nominations e.g.:

I am familiar to some extent with the editor’s history but not quite following what’s going on here. I’m happy to delete them if they truly are noncontroversial but I’d like to understand what is happening.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:03, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:21, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Will this do as a clerihew

Neelix was

A guy because

He got in the media

For editing Wikipedia

Years later was found

Most were unsound

He lost his fame

And sits in shame

Not a very good one but at least (I think) it is a clerihew Si Trew (talk) 14:46, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

@SimonTrew: It does count as a clerihew, I suppose, even though the perfect clerihew's first verse ends with the subject's name.--The Traditionalist (talk) 14:53, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Sheesh you're a hard bargainer I had trouble not to make it into a limerick. I don't think that the last of the first stanza has to be the chap's name, it is usually the first, but I better check up my copy of Biography for Beginners. Si Trew (talk) 15:07, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Evidently

Invented a verse form of wit

And this is it.

So had it been called by his first name

We would simply be calling them Edmunds

Which doesn't work at all

Si Trew (talk) 15:12, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

{edit conflict) @SimonTrew: From our article: The first line contains, and may consist solely of, the subject's name. According to a letter in the Spectator in the 1960s, Bentley said that a true clerihew has to have the name "at the end of the first line", as the whole point was the skill in rhyming awkward names. Every single clerihew in Biography for Beginners is of this form.--The Traditionalist (talk) 15:13, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

I can see why you take the nick. I remember over at the Usenet Oracle as was then called asking a question:

I enjoy reading verse by Ed Lear

BUt something just strikes me as queer

Why the first line's repeated, and though I feel cheated

I enjoy reading verse by Ed Lear

To which I think the answer was

It's a known fact in verse composition

That good verse requires repetition

Though you may not enjoy it

You cannot avoid it

It's a known fact in verse composition

This was many days before the Interweb was something normal people got at home. In fact I think that reply and you can check I think was through def.bae.co.uk. Through the defence company that is now BAe Systems. How times change. Si Trew (talk) 15:19, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

This is my absolute favourite. Someone asked the Oracle why champagne spills out the top or somesuch, and he answer by Kate (The Great) was thus:

When champagne is in the bottle it is highly pressurised

You open it it's not alas (I doubt that you're surprised)

The liquid then contains more CO2 than p'praps it oughta

The question then remains: Where will the gas escape the waughta

The answer: It prefers to leave at nucleation sites.

And glasses, being glass you see've got scads of 'em like mites

And that is why the bubbles form in legions at the bottom

It's sites, the gases all adore 'em and they know the glass has got 'em

That is just bloody brilliant and whoever Kate (The Great) she only used that to kind pun herself is or was, that is absolutely brilliant I think. Si Trew (talk)

thank you

Thank you for your support over at WP:ANI. I don't really mind if I get banned or not but that was a very kind comment. We are not always going to agree that is why things are achieved by consensus. But I really am fed up with this ANI because all I am trying to do like you are is make the encylopaedia better. I think with a lot of these Neelix ones it hurts the search engine, I am no WP:DELETIONIST but I want readers to be able to find information as quick as they can. I am probably queering my own pitch in saying thank you to you it sounds a bit like we are in cahoots but I genuinely mean it, it means a lot to me. Si Trew (talk) 10:34, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

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Poll

I avoid posting at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll, but I agree with them. Your userpage states clearly that you believe in the few having a boot on the neck of the many. That is the antithesis of what Wikipedians want in an administrator. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:29, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

While you're thinking, have a beer!

Being an admin is no big deal. There is so much you can do here in dispute resolution, mentoring, etc without "officially" burdening yourself. Some of the best admins I know are not admins! Cheers mate. Irondome (talk) 20:10, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much, my good fellow!--The Traditionalist (talk) 22:53, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Moving a page discussion

Hello! I have proposed that David William Brewer be moved to Sir David Brewer. Could you give your opinion on the discussion? --Editor FIN (talk) 12:17, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

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