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Archive1 Archive2 JAN 2015 - DEC 2015

Response

Hi, I replied to you here and I'd like a response. Hekerui (talk) 08:47, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:13, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Signature

How do I provide a link? Please tell me? Venustar84 03:09, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Put the signature back the way it was before, and then change it to add your name as part of the right-hand side of the link. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:13, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I think I fixed it. Give me a break! Venustar84 23:21, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
It's not fixed, unless you fixed it after the above. I'm trying to help you keep from getting blocked for having an invalid signature. If you don't care about that, then so be it. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll get my brother to help me fix on Sunday ok? I can't before then. Venustar84 (talk) 00:59, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Meryl Streep and Harvey Korman

My apologies, but I have here alluded to you: here. μηδείς (talk) 04:35, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note. I would rather not get into that discussion. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:55, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Imagine Chrissie Hynde, (not Rush Limbaugh)

...I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
It had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
Ay, oh, where did you go, Ohio?...

SONGWRITERS FORBES, DEREK / KERR, JAMES / MACNEIL, MICHAEL JOSEPH / MCGEE, BRIAN / BURCHILL, CHARLES

PUBLISHED BY LYRICS © EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING

But I expect Limbaugh will have a lot to say about this tomorrow. μηδείς (talk) 05:10, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Forbidden Planet Id Monster1.JPG

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Thanks for the alert. I believe I have fixed it. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:44, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

please quit throwing gasoline on the fire

Like this. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:13, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Really? I think you are in danger of looking like a goon for the incivility warriors. I was repeatedly called stupid yesterday, but you didn't remove those attacks, or any of the others aimed at me, so please don't try to act as if BB must behave more civilly towards them then they act towards everyone else. Rationalobserver (talk) 20:20, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't see those and BB was not directly involved previously but chucked in the flippant comment unprovoked. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:32, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Can you please explain how you were authorized to weigh-in and BB wasn't? Were you involved in the incident more than BB was? If so, how? Rationalobserver (talk) 00:48, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AN/I

I'd like to advise that you drop the stick and remove that last reply on AN/I. Arguing there over next to nothing isn't going to help anyone. Sam Walton (talk) 20:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Well, I think that this is already unhelpful enough. Come on Bugs. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 23:06, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes--but there? at that time? Drmies (talk) 02:06, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Means that it could be construed at baiting an editor who is fed up and exasperated into doing something "incivil" resulting in their block. We all know that folks have posted "retired" banners with various degrees of separation in the past so that this is not that unusual. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:34, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Come on Bugs. You lost yourself. It is a reasonable question to ask, but not on ANI, not in the afterglow of such an inflammatory set of confrontations between editors. Drmies (talk) 03:33, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Right then....

Resume on your talk page if necessary. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:13, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Just clarifying this, you're saying that you reserve the right to make statements which have a good chance to be inflammatory and that (a) the onus and culpability lies solely with the reader/subject, and hence (b) you feel perfectly entitled to make such statements in future (as, in your esitmation, you've done nothing wrong)? Have I got that right? Please just state yes or no plus or minus explanation.. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:16, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

A kitten for you!

Feels like this talk page could use some drama-countering Wikilove! (And what's better than a fluffy kitten for such things?)

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 10 Shevat 5775 08:43, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ANI notification

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Does Wikipedia offer medical advice now?. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:02, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback from Me!

Hello, Baseball Bugs. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobbi Kristina Brown.
Message added 01:39, 1 February 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Your comment was so incredibly wrong I'm considering ing it. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 01:39, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Creation date December 1, 2008. 6 years, not 6 hours. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:44, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nope. 5 hours ago. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 01:45, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Au contraire - December 1, 2008: [1] ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:50, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Please keep all conversation on the main deletion page so you don't exclude any other interested parties. Thanks! EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 01:56, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Meaning what? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:58, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

February 2015

Information icon Please do not attack other editors, as you did on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobbi Kristina Brown. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 02:08, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Stay off my talk page. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:08, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ref desk proposal

Hi @Baseball Bugs:, I don't know if you've been following the recent threads on the ref desk talk page, but based on some review of that material, I have a simple proposal that I'd like your feedback on before I shop it to the whole group. It's very simple: For a trial period (1 month?), we agree to not remove or hat any questions for reasons of seeking medical/legal advice (and perhaps extend to include requests for opinion). Rather than a free-for-all, we first respond with boilerplate or a template, something along the lines of this:

Would that seem ok to you? The thing is, we really don't get that many medical legal questions, and I like how this puts us in the position to police ourselves as respondents, rather than posters. As I see it, this proposal is consistent with our guidelines, and it might forestall some debates, because the template doesn't disrupt the regular flow of the desks the way a deletion or hatting can. Thoughts? SemanticMantis (talk) 16:59, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's worth a shot. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:34, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

why I'm not a troll...

See www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/12/i_m_not_a_troll_why_does_everyone_on_the_internet_keep_calling_me_one.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.186.126.150 (talk) 00:36, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates&diff=646755144&oldid=646755130

Yes, Jim, "My mind to your mind, my thoughts to your thoughts..." μηδείς (talk) 05:11, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Westarctica

Of course that over an entity that has no legal standing. If it had legal standing, there would be reliable sources. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bingo. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:51, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious...

...Did you redact your post (somewhere between here and here). I know that I saw it (haven't hallucinated since the early '70s), and can't think of an edit conflict scenario that could explain this mystery. As I recall, it wasn't anything particularly offensive, just a somewhat snarky reiteration of your previous position. Anyways, I have no intention of making a BFD, but would have appreciated some sort of redaction notification, or something such that my subsequent post wouldn't seem out-of-place. I do, however, stand by my final reply in that thread.  —Eric, aka IP:71.20.250.51 (talk) 18:12, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand your question. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:56, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Clover

I don't know for sure what your grandfathers thought about clover, but I know clover was usually intentionally included in lawn grass mixes, prior to the advent of broad leaf herbicides. As a legume, it aids in fertilizing the soil, and it also reduced the need to mow lawns. So there's plenty of things to like about it. I read an interesting account of how the company that developed the first such product was concerned that people wouldn't use it, because it would kill their clover be bad for lawns. The clever marketers then decided it would be easier to convince people that clover was bad than to find an herbicide that would not kill grass or clover. Some of this is mentioned at clover, but there are no good refs for that material. I can't find the article with some brief searching but I thought you might be interested in story :) SemanticMantis (talk) 14:57, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know. What I know about clover is that it was a nuisance in the yard when I was a kid, primarily because honeybees liked it, so going barefoot in the yard was not recommended. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:16, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My user name?

Apparently back in 2009 there was some discussion in some deep dark Wikipedia admin area about my username: [2]

Thank you for letting me know on my user page. Sorry it took 6 years to reply, I haven't had time to edit in Wikipedia lately.

The thing is, it's NOT just the former President of Costa Rica's name... it's MY real name too! [3]

Which rarely leads to confusion, except the short time that I had the email address oscar@arias.com, which caused me to have to forward some emails to the actual president of Costa Rica (oscar@arias.cr). He actually sent me an email thanking me personally for forwarding his email, which was pretty cool!  :)

At any rate, it seems that after that discussion I (thankfully) can still can use my username (I don't edit much these days), it does sort of irritate me that I almost lost my username that I have been using since 2002 (Heck I created the Wikipedia entry for Dokken with that username!)... just because some former politician has my same name.

I mean how many real people might be named "John Tyler" or "Andrew Johnson" (19th century US Presidents), I doubt that anyone with those names is trying to fool anyone.  :)

Heck, I never even heard of the "Costa Rican" Oscar Arias until he won the Nobel Peace Prize!  :)

At any rate, sorry for ranting in your talk page... but I believe that the original discussion page is closed.

It seems that you were on the "right" side of this issue, so thank you!

Oscar Arias Oscar Arias (talk) 03:30, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Impersonation

A troll named Baseball thugs (talk · contribs) posted to the Miscellaneous Reference Desk and is evidently impersonating you. Reported for questionable user name. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:53, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that is the epitome of shite-trolling, as in making a fake name that isn't even hidden (like changing the first B to an 8 in the account name and then copying your signature style for the markup) is the sort of thing you see in disputes with hotheads where the hothead has become such a sore loser that they've resorted to using childish variations on their opponent's name in posting. That is just too terrible for words and is not even funny. It's painful. I don't wish for bans often, but hopefully the master account is banned for that complete and total failure in trolling and WP:CIR violations. Anyone that resorts to that doesn't have the maturity or intelligence to edit properly here. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 22 Adar 5775 20:31, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit notice

Hey just two things, first the REVISIONUSER pull from the latest editor and its not transcluding to the top of the page for some odd reason anyway. Second, can I reccomend a link to your unprotected page included in it for confused new users. Thanks! EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 20:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:54, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
User talk:Baseball Bugs/Editnotice transcludes to the top of this page when you click edit. You'll notice it currently says Greeting, '. Before you... There is just a random ' and period where you tried to put the username. And the second thing, a link to you unprotected talk page to make it easier for new users might be good in there. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 16:11, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It used to work, I think. What's the best or most current way to display the name of whichever editor happens to be looking at the page? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:11, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I logged out and I can't see the edit notice - because I can't edit here under an IP, due to semi-protection. And anyone who can edit isn't going to care about the unprotected page - which is listed here anyway. So I don't understand the problem. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:58, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes it does show up, (to the right). Secondly, notice what is says where it is supposed to say welcome, someones name. EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 21:55, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ref desks

I've been staying out of the useless "discussions" on the ref-desks talk page, but I have to say that crap like this is completely uncalled for. You seem to have taken on the position of the principal Medeis apologist, and that's not a position that, in my opinion, is completely defensible. Let Medeis speak for her(?)self. You seem to feel a need to run your mouth (i.e., fingers) at WT:RD, WP:ANI, or wherever far in excess of what might be helpful or enlightening; please stop and think before you type. Deor (talk) 15:37, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I tried thinking once and got all confused. Now never again! SlightSmile 15:43, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, I prefer to shoot from the hip. Chicks dig it. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 23 Adar 5775 15:49, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
You have no idea how much stuff I refrained from saying, over the years. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:12, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Could you give some examples? SlightSmile 02:06, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deor, perhaps you could provide some diffs and policies on the basis of which I need to apologize for anything? Bugs stands up for the principle of innocent until proven guilty. I have gotten to the point of simply not engaging with scolds, nannies, and would-be inquisitors on whom the burden of proof for their attacks lies. Bugs doesn't need to defend me, but he does seem to care for due process and the principles of the American Bill of Rights.

In the meantime we have non-contributors to the desks leading bizarre campaigns of inuendo, and posting things like this utterly disgusting personal attack (blowing up a target with his hands raised!) on their talk pages: 

  [BUGS DETECTED]   [TARGET AIMING]   [TARGET LOCKED]  [NOBODY  REPLIES]
 .---------------. .---------------. .---------------. .----------------.
 |       o       | |       |       | |     \ o /     | |   \`. || .'/   |
 |     /( )\     | |    -- + --    | |    --(+)--    | |--- *IGNORE* ---|
 |______/_\______| |       |       | |______/|\______| |_ _/_'_||_'_\_ _|
 '---------------' '---------------' '---------------' '----------------'
 --Guy Macon 03:08, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

How much effort was put into that, rather than answering ref desk questions? Where is your outrage, or even your curiosity over that? Where is Robert McClenon's, to whom the comment was addressed? Guy Macon and Robert McClenon, among others, contribute nothing but innuendo, along the lines of Joseph McCarthy, with allegations and judgments, but not a whiff of evidence, proof, or diffs.

Where is your outrage at this?

At long last, have you left no sense of decency? Have any of you innuendo slingers any diffs? Any principles? Any decency? Go start an ANI this very second if you have a reason to do so. If not, get to the business of answering questions at the ref desk, or drop the inquisition. μηδείς (talk) 23:32, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No offence, but it might be best to read WP:Oh I say, what are you doing? Come down from there at once! Really, you're making a frightful exhibition of yourself. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 24 Adar 5775 00:15, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That illustration, which probably took months to construct, reminds me of a line from one of the Peanuts characters: "You seldom see such carefully prepared sarcasm." ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:03, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And here's why the idea looked so familiar:[4] ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:46, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ty

I am not as grumpy as Andy <g>, but I dang well try to do what is right on BLPs - sans peur et sans reproche as best I can. I am,moreover, cognizant that one must not call other editors actionable names (O2RR is a case of a person who was easily led down that path, alas). Read my talk page - and note my hypothetical query about where others might draw the line, however. Cheers and Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Collect (talk) 14:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Post being Hatted

Hi, BB, Regarding the recent thread about the use of the word 'So', most of which has been hatted, I was considering hatting your post about who did it, not out of any bad intentions against you (because I don't have any), but just for the sake of protest, because I actually believe (forgive me if I am wrong), that the entire section was relevant, as we were talking about speaking habits which annoy us, and jokes on here are acceptable when written in small script. As for the 'ill-informed' part of the hatted header, BenRG should explain just why he thinks it is ill-informed, because as far as I am concerned, there was factual information in there, although presented in a joking fashion. Can you agree? I won't hat your post, but I just would like you to know that I really am wondering if the hatters are getting too 'hatter-happy' (like 'trigger-happy'). KägeTorä - (影虎) (もしもし！) 22:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I posted that fact as strictly an FYI. And if I were you, I might revert that guy's hatting. I think he overreacted. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:40, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, as in the phrase 'mad as a hatter'. I think I will. There was no need for it. KägeTorä - (影虎) (もしもし！) 00:28, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sombody...

could someone please help me go to my talk page i joined amonth ago and i cant find help i tried robert Mc clenon but he stopped talking after i asked him and i deleted his messages so i could have room please help Youtubelover116 (talk) 18:28, 18 March 2015 (UTC)youtubelover116Youtubelover116 (talk) 18:28, 18 March 2015 (UTC) thanks[reply]

Do you mean User talk:Youtubelover116? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:38, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

new essay

The case against me is vexatious indeed - I shall not contend against those who taste blood. The main complaint even includes my essays - so I wrote one which I hope you will appreciate WP:Wikipedia and shipwrights. It would be fun to see how others react, indeed. Warm regards, Collect (talk) 04:23, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, до свиданья

For the next closure, the lyrics as written in Cyrillic would be На на на на, на на на на, гей гей, до свиданья. The only problem is that "гей" also means this. μηδείς (talk) 00:18, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Insensitive comment

This comment strikes me as really insensitive. Dragons flight (talk) 02:57, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not intended to be. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:59, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diplomacy
Hello!

A Barnstar for you!

Thank you for your supports... Mr. Prophet (talk) 06:59, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Refdesk/ITN

So... what exactly is the problem with describing your every-day bog-standard murder as run on the mill? I don't really see what you do on ITN (or refdesk for that matter) apart from being overly jingoistic (your user page, point in case, ugh) and making pointless comments. Fgf10 (talk) 20:21, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ohhhhhh
Jingo bells, jingo bells
Jingo all the wayyy
Oh what fun it is to ride ...... SlightSmile 20:42, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
For those of us who are talk page stalkers, could Fgf10 please make his accusations easier to track down? μηδείς (talk) 21:46, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Bog standard"? What does that mean? And calling a horrible crime "run of the mill" is far worse than anything I say there. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:52, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies

Be aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard&diff=658790739&oldid=658789286 where you have been alluded to at AN. μηδείς (talk) 04:33, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No hay problema. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:12, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure that phrase means what you think it means. (The six fingered man is in Night at the Museum II, BTW. But don't ask how I know.)

Death of Freddie Gray, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Michael Brown, et al.

There's no "umbrella article" for these 2010s cop killings of black men, a la Arab Spring, Occupy movement, and more. Do you think non-Americans might better understand the gravity of what's happening if we had a summary article? – Muboshgu (talk) 00:21, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

Hello, hope you good. I didn't know where to put this e-post for you. I checked the 'view history' page, assuming this page is active... Here, angel with/without wings information: [5]. Regards. -- Mr. Prophet (talk) 18:47, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

earwax

I have reopened this thread [6], given it's got better answers than the unhatted why cats crave earwax thread. Feel free to revert me if it's objectionable. μηδείς (talk) 04:20, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's the same guy (in LC's vicinity) who had previously posted a somewhat more explicit version of the same question, which was deleted and the IP was blocked. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:29, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The check is in the mail. μηδείς (talk) 17:05, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That's what they said in the middle ages, in reference to the average Bohemian knight. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:18, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Get over it

Bugs, it's time to move on from your petty grievance regarding Person of Interest and find something constructive to do elsewhere. Your edits are becoming increasingly childish and pointless, and achieve nothing. Drop the stick, grow up, and move on. --Drmargi (talk) 16:27, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

When someone says "grow up", it usually means they're about 15 years old themselves. I don't have any grievances. I just thought it was funny to see the page owners edit-warring with each other. And if you can't tolerate a little good-natured teasing, then maybe it's YOU that needs to 'grow up." ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:17, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Good natured? Pull the other one; it's got bells on it. Your comments were mean-spirited, designed to insult, and clearly show you can't get over a minor disagreement. --Drmargi (talk) 18:24, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
You're the one who's edit-warring with that other user. You're the one behaving childishly. You're the one who needs to "get over" whatever is eating at you. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:32, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Page ownership

If you persist in making unfounded claims of page ownership, as you have done more than once at Talk:List of Person of Interest episodes, I will have no option but to raise this matter at WP:ANI. Wikipedia does not tolerate personal attacks. --AussieLegend (✉) 18:57, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Except when they're directed at me, evidently. Or did you fail to read the section just above? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:17, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ref desk participation

Hi BB, recently you said this on the ref desk talk page -"Would there be a way of expanding the potential pool of answerers" - I 100% agree with what I think you're getting at - that getting more respondents and more perspectives would help our little corner of WP.

Anyway, the only ideas I have to work towards this are:

  1. Get all regulars to get out the word. Ideally, this could be a focused campaign, e.g. during one week, we all tell our real-life friends, our Facebook, Twitter, or any other online venues to come check out the ref desk.
  2. Getting our link moved up higher on the main page. Currently it is third from the bottom of "real" links (not counting sister projects, other languages, etc) - I imagine moving it up would be hard, but again, if several of our editors took part and pleaded the case, it might be possible.
  3. Similar to above, but maybe get the ref desk associated/ involved with DYK - those get a lot of hits, and some of the things that get mentioned on the ref desks are probably worthy of DYK. But I don't think DYK would want to link to a ref desk thread...

Any other thoughts or suggestions? SemanticMantis (talk) 17:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ydunasholzgondy??

f.ashol!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.136.230.231 (talk) 00:40, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Lawyers, Guns and Money

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125.209.88.46

125.209.88.46 (talk · contribs)

I think you had a dust up with this open-proxy-using troll a few days ago. Any idea who's behind it? They've been harassing me for weeks. BMK (talk) 23:42, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No idea, but I see the IP is now on a long block. If it continues under another IP, consult the same admin that blocked this one, and see if they can do something broader. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:19, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
OK< thanks. BMK (talk) 01:38, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

patriot act

I suggest you post this new bill which gets rid of the domestic spying without a warrant. Of course I expect that since it wasn't a technical traitor like Snowden who's arranged this (whom I think should get amnesty) there will be no desire whatsoever by the anti-americans to post a story that shows some americans still care about the bill of rights. Only when america looks bad can we post a blurb. μηδείς (talk) 00:27, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There were and are international implications to the story, so I don't know why the Brits don't see its importance. But they get it wrong frequently, and they don't listen to me, so I don't feel like pushing this. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 11:07, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Words and their meaning

Like your confusion over the meaning of "homophobia", Bugs, you've shown by your comments about "homicide" on WP:ANI that you don't seem to understand how the English language actually works.

The most obvious thing is to point out that prefixes and suffixes (like "homo/homi" and "cide") are NOT governed by fixed rules maintained by some authority. Secondly, even given generally observed rules as to the meanings of certain prefixes and suffixes, actual usage -- whether intentional on the part of the coiner, definitional drift, or simply by being idioms -- determines actual meanings. Finally, for actual legal terms, those ARE given specific definitions which may or may not match "logical" combinations, your impressions, or even popular usage. For the last one, I'll point you to the Cornell University School of Law:

Homicide is when one human being causes the death of another. Not all homicide is murder, as some killings are manslaughter, and some are lawful, such as when justified by an affirmative defense, like insanity or self-defense.

This is Wikipedia, Bugs: words mean what reliable sources say they mean, not what you'd like them or how you've work them out in your mind to mean. If you're going to proclaim you understand the meaning of word, you need to check first. --Calton | Talk 08:21, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your opinion has been noted and logged. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 11:40, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Without affirmation that Bugs doesn't seem to know how the English language works (that's a bit strong, imo), he is right for 99% of the time that the word homicide is used. My input here, to be helpful, is that I have seen the death certificates of state-executed convicts which are correctly labeled "homicide" as the cause of death. It is rare but does affirm that homicide does not always mean murder.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 11:56, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Right. And I didn't say "always", I said "typically". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:29, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
George Weinberg (psychologist) invented the term "homophobia", and it's clear enough that he used "phobia" in the normal way: "irrational fear". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:51, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

TRM

You're on extremely thin ice. I don't recognize your claimed exemption from the IBAN, and any further commentary on that thread will be met with a block. --Laser brain (talk) 17:21, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to request that you don't take any further action, for what it's worth. Of course, if you're bound by "process" then so be it. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:23, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Very well. But since neither of you really seems to even want the IBAN in place, it might be better to just lift it so admins don't have to waste time dealing with possible infractions. --Laser brain (talk) 17:46, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Or you could try a pragmatic view on such matters. It's abundantly clear that Bugs' post is not worthy of your threat. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:02, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It's up to you two, in the end. I wasn't so much concerned with his initial remark as I was the beginning of troublemaking with Blofeld and SchroCat. It's been hatted now, so hopefully we can just move on. --Laser brain (talk) 18:06, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
What I'm against overall is editors who do absolutely nothing to build content on here but exist to either preach at other editors and issue sanctimonious comments on how they should behave, or people who troll forums just to attack others or belittle their work at every opportunity. If that means being part of a cliche or cadre in defending people against it, so be it. But I remain adamant that wikipedia would be much better off without people like you and Tarc. At the end of the day this is an encyclopedia, anything or anybody which doesn't contribute to it is usually not worth the time or heartache over. People like you Baseball Bugs are a drain on the valuable time and energy of proper article writers here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:16, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Caden

You're being a twat [7]. I have told you that I have nothing further to say on the matter but still, you persist. I have assumed, in the absence of one, and because it requires a little pride for you to say so, that you are trying to say sorry for trying to make a drama out of nothing whilst only armed with one half of the story [8]. Even your pal Chillum wasn't interested in you [9]. You now appear to be desperate to keeping this going so you can inevitably bring something to the table at ANI; frankly, you're making yourself look like a bell-end. I'm now here to tell you to drop it. Here's a novel concept; go and review an article; write a GA; take part in a peer review or do something, anything that will keep your bored little mind from wanting more drama. CassiantoTalk 09:46, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your complaint has been noted and logged. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:48, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
You have to be careful Cassianto, otherwise you end up with threads like this...(chuckle), thanks for the funniest thing I've seen today...Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:41, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Respect for that. I'm sorry for all this recent shit. CassiantoTalk 09:51, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • No hay problema. And I apologize for causing some of this furor. I should have known better. I've had many IP and redlink "fans" over the years who do this kind of thing from time to time. It's the price I pay for not shutting up when I should. :\ ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:54, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • That, my dear Bugs, is what we have in common. I appreciate I can be a cantankerous git (twat?) at times, but when one becomes embroiled in an arguement where one is convinced they're right, it's easy to become complacent; especially when pride takes over. Keep up the good work at the Reference Desk and I'll hope to interact with you on better terms in the future. CassiantoTalk 10:41, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        • I hope likewise. And I hope you and Caden can eventually find a way to become amiable as well. The way I see it, there's a bright-line distinction to be made between established users arguing about things, vs. these SPA mosquitoes swooping in with the sole purpose of causing trouble. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:47, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ANI notice

Hello Bugs. You have been mentioned at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Request for Baseball Bugs. Considering the nature of the post it might be deleted by the time you see this - fingers crossed anyway. MarnetteD|Talk 00:21, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well this happened even faster than I thought it would. MarnetteD|Talk 00:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Funny. Thanks for the notice. If he really wanted to talk to me, he could use my unprotected talk page, which he probably missed because it's highlighted in yellow at the top of this page. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:17, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Apology updated

I've updated my talk page from April 2013 in light of your recent withdrawal of that apology.

Have to say how saddened I was to see how far you would go, even to the extent of shredding your own character, integrity and reputation, and casting great doubts on your maturity, just to avoid facing the facts about an entirely unrelated matter that occurred 26 months later.

I have never in my life seen a more clear cut case of "playing the man, not the ball". Shocking and shameful behaviour. What ever happened to principles? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 00:09, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You.

It is hard to believe how incredibly stupid you are. Stupid as a stone that the other stones make fun of. So stupid that you have traveled far beyond stupid as we know it and into a new dimension of stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid cubed. Trans-stupid stupid. Stupid collapsed to a singularity where even the stupons have collapsed into stuponium. Stupid so dense that no intelligence can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot summer day on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one minute than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. It cannot be possible that anything in our universe can really be this stupid. This is a primordial fragment from the original big stupid bang. A pure extract of stupid with absolute stupid purity. Stupid beyond the laws of nature. I must apologize. I can't go on. This is my epiphany of stupid. After this experience, you may not hear from me for a while. I don't think that I can summon the strength left to mock your moronic opinions and malformed comments about boring trivia or your other drivel. Duh.

The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of your of what you wrote, because, well ... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things to be difficult. If I had known that this was true in your case then I would have never have exposed myself to what you wrote. It just wouldn't have been "right." Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.

P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, EDLINoid, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dyspeptic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, pinguid, and Generally Not Good.

I hope this helps... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.129.100.223 (talk) 20:21, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You're so cute when you get mad. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:40, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Monkey butt

Hey BB. I just wanted to make sure that you were cool with this. If my humor is off-key I'd rather retract the attempt at a joke and apologize now than deal with it later. Though we disagreed over the appropriateness of a question last month, I'm not aware of being in a feud with you (or with anyone else on WP, for that matter). Let me make it clear that I am not asking a loaded question along the lines of, "Are you cool with this or do you have a poor sense of humor?", but am instead readily willing to accept that the humor there was unacceptable if you so suggest. In any case, I assume that it is clear that the "Monkey butt" subject line was not, in fact, intended as an epithet, and that saying so was only in riposte to Robert McClenon. -- ToE 22:39, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You've lost me. Whatever. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:10, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I have warned Guy Macon to stop edit warring to restore this section, please do not encourage him. μηδείς (talk) 04:03, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
10-Roger. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:43, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not upset anymore; if you?

This is what I was trying to say,

You always protect me, that time when I was talking about Christianity, they would've eaten me, you saved me, by pulling up an awesome idea, which made sense too. This is not the only instance you've protected me, every-time someone says something bad about me, you've protected me. I do the same for user:StuRat now, by learning it of you.

I called you my bro, no matter what I do, right or wrong, I expected you to always protect me... But what did you do? You shouted at me for no reason, and backed someone who was performing satanic activity. That's why I was upset...

I won't be upset anymore if you still be my BB (Big Brother not Baseball Bugs)?

Regards.

Space Ghost (talk) 10:26, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall shouting at you. If it seemed so, I apologize. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:25, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Love you bro! -- Space Ghost (talk) 19:00, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

IPs

Bugs, I get where you're coming from. That said, not every IP is a blocked user. This one is not. I appreciate your listening to me here, and will provide a tune in the morning :) Kafka Liz (talk) 22:45, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A song, as promised. Kafka Liz (talk) 05:05, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Obituary question on Humanities Reference Desk

Hi. Thanks for your input. That thread has become quite long. I posted a question to you, but you might not have noticed it (as the thread has gotten lengthy). My question to you states: @Baseball Bugs: Sorry, I still don't follow. You said "she is not the mother of the widow". Now, you amend that to "she is not the mother of the widower". Who is the widower here? I think (?) you meant to say "surviving husband". No? The mother-in-law to the deceased woman/wife (the subject of the obituary) would be the mother to the surviving husband of the deceased woman/wife (the subject of the obituary). Where is a widower coming into play? I am totally lost. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 06:26, 11 July 2015 (UTC). If possible, can you answer that question over on the thread at that page? It's driving me nuts. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 07:08, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The widower is the surviving husband. Widow means woman, widower means man, typically. So if the deceased wife is survived by two mothers-in-law, one and only one of them will be the biological mother of the surviving husband. But as noted in the case of adoptions, one could consider both the biological and adoptive mother of the surviving husband as "two mothers-in-law" of the deceased. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:14, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
OK. Got it now. Makes sense. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:57, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On the one hand, I haven't figured out who is the person and therefore who is subject to BLP rules. On the other hand, please don't post an inquiry about revdel in a public forum. It is likely to result in a Streisand effect. If you really think that something should be revdel'd, notify an administrator. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:00, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Obit question

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Re: Ref desks

Re your message: Done! -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:55, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your helpful links to wiki editing stoushes. I've stepped back a number of times after being hammered too often & didn't realise what's going on. About to yet again, when I came across your reasonableness on the ref desk & the links on your talk page. Now that I find I'm an inclusionist attracting deletionists, among other awkward things about my editing behaviour, I will rethink how to navigate these iota "nuts" instead. Thanks Bugs. Manytexts (talk) 10:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm actually not quite sure what you're referring to, but I appreciate your comments. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:44, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the commentary

At ANI. Long time no chat. :) That guy was starting to remind me of good ole Ron L. Though even Ron didn't get as wiggy as FF2. Anyway, thanks again and have a nice weekend. :) --‖ Ebyabe talk - Welfare State ‖ 04:40, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments. A wise admin once told me that it's easier to think of all the bad-faith characters to be really just the same guy. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:44, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your behaviour

Please stop being antagonistic. It's extremely unpleasant and anti social. -- 82.28.140.226 (talk · contribs) 18:37, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

mlb schedule

answer guessing start times on final day of season facilitates t.v. coverage overlooks lack of capacity to cover all games at once ?96.254.216.40 (talk) 04:19, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

why did you delete my question

Please stop trying to be politically correct -- 199.7.159.95 (talk · contribs) 18:03, 20 September 2015‎ (UTC)[reply]

Please stop being a jerk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baseball Bugs (talk • contribs) 18:04, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ive reported you to administrators noticeboard — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.7.159.98 (talk) 18:35, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

You have are being discussed on ANI.

118.151.127.78 (talk) 22:55, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, no he isn't: you've raised an issue at WP:AN, not WP:ANI. LjL (talk) 00:29, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yo

I replied to your comment at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment about the Jaguars. Please reply there and my talk page. --74.130.133.1 (talk) 14:23, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Happy day

WP:OTD says it's a good day. The Dissident Aggressor 19:10, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Gee, t'anks Doc. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:02, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Sorry about my being an ass. I had the best of intentions, but screwed up. Ghostwheel ʘ 02:08, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No harm, no foul. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:32, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question asked of you

When you get a chance, can you please reply to the question that I had asked of you here at this page (Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 25#When a person dies, are you supposed to notify the credit reporting agencies?)? I have been eagerly awaiting a reply. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 20:01, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever I was trying to say, I clearly had it wrong, so you can ignore it. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:04, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 03:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball Bugs

By the way, did you know that MLB.com posted Baseball Bugs in the Cut4 section of the website in honor of your namesake's 75th birthday? StevenJ81 (talk) 16:38, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cut4? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:40, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Cut4 is where they put their stories and video clips on less serious topics, fluky plays, and the like. StevenJ81 (talk) 16:48, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See ANI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Disruption.2C_Racism_and_BLP_violation_by_User:Mrandrewnohome

μηδείς (talk) 21:43, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I saw, and I removed the item on the ref desk. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:57, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Homework question

[10] You should have hatted that rather than deleted it. Just sayin', like. --Viennese Waltz 14:40, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Trolling, subject to deletion. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:54, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Muaahaahaahaa....

Muahhaahaahaa...AAAAHHAAAHAAHAAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! HalfShadow 20:24, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can say that again!

CypherPunkyBrewster

My impression is that the editor behind CPB was trying on a new, more negative persona, probably feeling bored of being Mr. Civility -- but was hesitant enough about taking the step to wait a number of months after creating the account before stepping off the line; and even then they felt compelled to ask permission from ArbCom. BMK (talk) 02:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious to know where he openly stated his identity - because this subject has a deja vu aspect about it, but I couldn't find a reference in the incident archive.
The diffs have been rev del'd by an admin.
Since CPB said on his talk page he wanted to use the account to edit contentious subjects like Gamergate, climate change, and the Tea Party, I put discretionary sanction warnings for those topics on his talk page. Guy Macon responded with a comment that said: "You might want to wait until I make an edit related to gamergate before warning me for editing gamergate". (emphasis added) Eleven hours later he corrected it to "You might want to wait until I make an edit related to gamergate before warning him for editing gamergate." and a minute later to "You might want to wait untilhe makes an edit related to gamergate before warning him for editing gamergate." Fifteen minutes later, CPB cleared the talk page. GM tried to write it off as a typo, but it seemed clear to me that he was editing with the wrong account and didn't realize it. NE Ent -- whom I rarely agree with -- had the same impression. GM later opened the outing complaint on AN/I, and then made some sort of deal with Swarm, the result of which was that Swarm rev del'd all the edits and the AN/I thread. BMK (talk) 23:41, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Did you happen to capture any screen-prints of the evidence? Either way, for an editor to claim outing, when he has outed himself, is a pretty brassy thing to do. But now, "officially", there's no evidence. So the best thing is keep an eye on the "suspected" sock and make sure it behaves itself. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:15, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No, I have the text, which I copied down, but I did not think of getting a screenshot. There is this remnant of the AN/I thread (because of the way Swarm went about it: moving it to an archive and then rev deling it there). What I hope is that part of the deal between Swarm and Guy Macon was that GM would drop the CPB account, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't try the same stunt with another "legitimate" alternate account. BMK (talk) 00:22, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Even having the text is useful. If someone wants to use a second account within the rules, this wasn't the way to do it. Then again, why would anyone want to deal with hot-button issues like Gamergate, unless they're looking to use WP as a battleground - which is also against the rules. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:27, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly the way I saw it. BMK (talk) 00:30, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
As it stands, the sockmaster behind CypherPunk knows all eyes are watching for any mis-steps. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:34, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I rather doubt we'll be seeing edits from that account anytime soon. BMK (talk) 01:14, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Split of Chief Wahoo

I have been working for a few days on this and would like some other opinions.FriendlyFred (talk) 21:31, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Did you insert a snarky although probably accurate comment about assume good faith into an already closed discussion of a stupid proposal at WP:ANI? Robert McClenon (talk) 01:33, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The editor's comment was the snarky one. My comment was merely a response. If you want to delete my comment, then delete his also. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:37, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
And to reiterate, whenever I see someone crying "AGF", it's usually from an editor who's acting in bad faith. (Though not in this particular case.) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:43, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the original poster of that absurd suggestion probably was acting in bad faith, as in probably a sock of a banned user. From your standpoint, I see that AGF often does come from bad faith users. As a dispute resolution volunteer, I often have to remind participants to AGF when I am neutral, so that sometimes the reminder to AGF is made by someone who is neutral. I do see that the original poster is banned from your talk page. Both comments were snarky. If they were both made after the discussion was boxed, then they should not have been made in a boxed discussion. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:49, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Now that you've confirmed my suspicions, should I allow that other editor's comment to stand unchallenged? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:54, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Rich told you to assume good faith while the thread was still open. You replied inside the box after the thread was closed. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:07, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Guess who's popped up after a long absence

[11]  :) --‖ Ebyabe talk - Border Town ‖ 07:25, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

Hello BB. I hope you are well. I saw your reply to the IP about the Magnificent Seven Ride on the entertainment ref desk and I wanted to let you know that this is a person based in Northern Ireland whose editing has been problematic (some feel that the person is a disturbed individual) for months now. They have been an a mission to remove the term rape from various TV and film articles. It got worse when they expanded their editing to the Dakota War of 1862 here You will note the wording is almost the same as the post you responded to. If you check the edit history of the list of IPs we have been keeping here User talk:109.151.65.218 you will see more of the same as well as noting how long the problem has been going on. I stopped responding as I felt it was a "don't feed their obsession" situation but that is just me and you are free to deal with them in whatever manner you wish. I just wanted to make you aware of the situation. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 05:43, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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WP:AIV

The IP was already blocked, but your plea on AIV touched my heart.[12] Bishonen | talk 22:17, 4 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:19, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
:-) Bishonen | talk 22:24, 4 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]

ANI

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Happy New Year?! Here you go!=

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Baseball Bugs (2015) (talk · contribs) 12:04, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Season's greetings!

Hope we can continue to improve Wikipedia in 2016. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 19:50, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Need assistance on Elvis related articles

I have checked some archived conversations on the article, Elvis Presley,[13] concerning User:Onefortyone, with his same "Elvis died - on toilet" theories. Can you consider having opinion on these two articles, where he continued to add this? They are Graceland and Toilet-related injuries and deaths, discussions at Talk:Graceland#Issues and Talk:Toilet-related injuries and deaths#Issues. Prior extensive discussion can be also found at this Enforcement report and Reliable sources noticeboard. Excelse (talk) 11:03, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!!
Hello, I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,

Thanks for all your help on the 'pedia!

   –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 16:44, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016

Happy New Year 2016!
Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters.
   – Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:44, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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