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- 1 Merry Christmas!
- 2 It's that season again...
- 3 Thanks for supporting my admin reinstatement request
- 4 Monitored short pages
- 5 Hello
- 6 2016
- 7 Norwell Roberts
- 8 Regarding your edit summary...
- 9 Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 15, 2016
- 10 Talk:Yael
- 11 was performed?
- 12 Some strange edits
- 13 LFC history
- 14 Ivo Pinto - Bits and pieces
- 15 מִטּוּדֶלָה
- 16 Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Gnorman Gnome
- 17 Your protection
- 18 Requests for adminship/Hawkeye7
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! | ||
A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your loved ones, and a joyous and prosperous 2016. |
It's that season again...
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Happy Saturnalia | |
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:23, 21 December 2015 (UTC) |
Thanks for supporting my admin reinstatement request
Dweller, Thanks for supporting my request. Good to be back. — ERcheck (talk) 00:30, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Monitored short pages
Hi. The intention is to separate pages that meet a minimum level of quality from the content of the short pages report. The addition of {{subst:long comment}}
to such pages allows for the Special:ShortPages report to be used to find new or unnoticed short articles that may need to be formatted or deleted. --Dcirovic (talk) 18:05, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello
Hi Dweller, why did you leave this message to me? Semidemiquaver (talk) 06:19, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
2016
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Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters. |
Norwell Roberts
Hello Dweller, thank you for your question. The bulk of the information in the article came from an interview with Norwell. He wanted to have the article written in order to have a concise and correct account. The rest was collected from articles and books. Norwell has recently asked me to add photographs, however l'm struggling to get them accepted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nagoyajoe (talk • contribs)
- I'll reply on your usertalk. Let's keep the rest of the discussion there. --Dweller (talk) 22:12, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Regarding your edit summary...
...here: Best chuckle I've had today! Thanks! —Wasell(T) 20:25, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 15, 2016
Just got this one today ... short notice. Would you like to take a whack at it? - Dank (push to talk) 21:29, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks much. I had to get it down to around 1150 ... see what you think. - Dank (push to talk) 22:05, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
- Dank, looks good! --Dweller (talk) 13:37, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Great. Two questions: if I've already said they were "relegated" to Second Division once, will people not understand what "fell to the Second Division" means? I'm trying to use shorter words and vary the words. Also, if I tell you "I'll be working until 5 today", wouldn't you assume that I'll stop working at 5? If so, then your edit adding "until" isn't ideal, because it took 2 or 3 years after Shankly arrived before they emerged from Second Division. - Dank (push to talk) 14:42, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- I don't think it's good BrEng to say the club "fell to" the Second Division. I'll take another look at both issues. --Dweller (talk) 14:43, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Dank Two problems, one fix. Efficient, huh? --Dweller (talk) 14:45, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Perfect. Okay, I'll write myself a note about "fell to", and the 2015 Fowler's covers "through". - Dank (push to talk) 15:20, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Dank Two problems, one fix. Efficient, huh? --Dweller (talk) 14:45, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- I don't think it's good BrEng to say the club "fell to" the Second Division. I'll take another look at both issues. --Dweller (talk) 14:43, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Great. Two questions: if I've already said they were "relegated" to Second Division once, will people not understand what "fell to the Second Division" means? I'm trying to use shorter words and vary the words. Also, if I tell you "I'll be working until 5 today", wouldn't you assume that I'll stop working at 5? If so, then your edit adding "until" isn't ideal, because it took 2 or 3 years after Shankly arrived before they emerged from Second Division. - Dank (push to talk) 14:42, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- Dank, looks good! --Dweller (talk) 13:37, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Yael
Actually, can you do it? It needs an admin. Thanks if you can. Johnbod (talk) 22:57, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
- Done. We're about to have the whole "you're not an admin?" chat, Johnbod --Dweller (talk) 09:57, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
was performed?
In Bach's cantatas, we try to show his activity in not only composing, but also leading the performance after having prepared the singers and instrumentalists, summarized in "he performed it". If that seems not clear enough: "he led [the Thomanerchor in] the first performance, - or what would you suggest? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:37, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt Interesting! Do you mean he personally prepared the performers, but didn't perform or conduct? To me, and I'm an ignoramus, "led" implies conducted, but it'd be weird to use a euphemism. In any case there seems to be ambiguity here - why not just spell it out? It can't take that many words... --Dweller (talk) 11:05, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
- It would take words to say that he didn't do what the average conductor does today and what "conducted" would mean for most of our readers: influence by gestures. Bach would also have played at the same, the violin or the continuo keyboard instrument, - but we don't know for certain for a specific piece which. All this is implied by "he performed", - where we started. In cases of FA (such as BWV 172), there's more detail. (Btw, a ping works only with a signature,- if you add it later you have to sign again. But I watch.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:45, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks. Would a simple approach be, in the lead, to mention that he himself played in the debut performance (which is a pretty interesting claim, anyway) and then elucidate in the main text? If not, don't worry about justifying yourself politely (I really appreciate your patience with me) just say "no" :-) --Dweller (talk) 15:01, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
- I'd say: too much detail, at least for simple articles with a three-sentence lead, some 150. I inherited it from people who started them back in 2005. In GAs and FAs, there is more. Comments welcome to FAC BWV 4 About the interesting claim: read about conducting: "In instrumental music throughout the 18th century, a member of the ensemble usually acted as the conductor.", - the idea of one person just standing and organizing is mostly 19th century, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:41, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks. Would a simple approach be, in the lead, to mention that he himself played in the debut performance (which is a pretty interesting claim, anyway) and then elucidate in the main text? If not, don't worry about justifying yourself politely (I really appreciate your patience with me) just say "no" :-) --Dweller (talk) 15:01, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
- It would take words to say that he didn't do what the average conductor does today and what "conducted" would mean for most of our readers: influence by gestures. Bach would also have played at the same, the violin or the continuo keyboard instrument, - but we don't know for certain for a specific piece which. All this is implied by "he performed", - where we started. In cases of FA (such as BWV 172), there's more detail. (Btw, a ping works only with a signature,- if you add it later you have to sign again. But I watch.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:45, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Some strange edits
Hello. I wonder if you could take, at your leisure, a look at some edits/editors in one of your official capacities. I came across User:Brownweepy when some copy was added to the Dominic Ostler (rather forgotten but good Warwickshire cricketer) article: the additions suggested some reasonable sources, but the copy added was nonsense, almost as if it was being cut and pasted from a piece of text where the cutter/paster had put the cursor in the wrong place and got half-lines of text. The same editor has also contributed to another article on Oceania Cycling Championships where the same kind of copy is in place – but this time the copy was added by a different user, User:Theatremania. I've left notes on Brownweepy's talk page, but not so far with any response. None of this is any big deal, but it's kinda irritating. Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 10:38, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
- Quick look - seems like someone using Google translate. Look at their edit summaries, too. --Dweller (talk) 13:58, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
LFC history
Hey Dweller, hope you are good. Just messaging to see if you would like to revisit your comments at the FAC on History of Liverpool F.C. (1959–85). There have been more comments by User:Mattythewhite and I think the article is in much better shape than before. I appreciate you're busy and may not be able to respond right away, but I feel like it's very close to FA standard now. Cheers NapHit (talk) 13:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Ivo Pinto - Bits and pieces
Hello DWELLER, from Portugal,
Let's try and reach a compromise in the edit of this player, if possible: 1 - people reading the article (if they are interested/learned in football, they will know that the Primeira Liga is the top level in my country, if not, they will learn it quickly. Thus, there is no need - this being the English WP above all things - to overindulge in foreign words like Primeira Liga, once the competition name has been established through an early wikilink, no need to state it again, my humble opinion.
2 - size of dashes (in box and match results in storyline): don't forget, it's standard procedure to use "–" and not "-". Attentively, happy editing/2016 (and don't hesitate to feedback if you have additional questions or disagree with what I have said). Not exactly a newbie in case you are wondering, been here for nearly 10 years, used to have an account but asked it be vanished after a serious run-in with a troll, had the intention of leaving forever but guess I cannot. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 17:28, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
- Not sure why we need to "compromise" - there's no dispute. --Dweller (talk) 13:24, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Ah, sorry if I mislead you. "Compromise" meaning seizing bits of your version and my version and "gel" it together. Was hoping for a little more heavy reply ("heavy" in size, more wording), but appreciate your answering nonetheless. Cheers --84.90.219.128 (talk) 16:57, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
- I don't have a version. I've not reverted you that I'm aware of. --Dweller (talk) 16:59, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
No sir, you have not. I was wondering if you, in spite of that, have a problem with my amendments. I can hear your instructions (you are the English native speaker, not me) and adjust here and there, if need be. --84.90.219.128 (talk) 17:26, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
- I have no problem with your contributions. If I did, we'd be talking at your user talk, not mine! --Dweller (talk) 10:35, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
מִטּוּדֶלָה
...(pronounced [mitu'dela]) is the moniker of a residential/commercial street in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood, on which my elder daughter lived in her third year of law school. More notoriously it's the location of namesake Netanyahu's local ice cream vendor, where regular purchases of lavish quantities of vanilla and pistachio i.c. on the public sheqel made scandalous headlines in Israel and abroad several winters ago. (The way the P.M. charges his and his wife's expenses, they must be socking away his paycheck for their golden years?) I would very likely enjoy reading The Itineraries of the earlier Benjamin and shall add it as a recommended "Want-to-Read" on my Goodreads account I'm updating, albeit slowly and piecemeal. Do you use it? It's one of the knowledge-sharing virtual communities I've found helpful so am upping my contributions, after Wikipedia and along with Ravelry. Meanwhile, as a bit of quid-pro-quo: if you haven't already encountered Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa you might care to give it a look. (Amazing what's available in my kibbutz' library!) -- Cheers! Deborahjay (talk) 18:30, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
- I've walked down or past Mitudela on a number of occasions. I like Rehavia. Though I've never been to the ice cream shop. --Dweller (talk) 10:34, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Gnorman Gnome
Any chance you could take a look at this? I'm clearly too involved now to do anything. Harrias talk 17:19, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
- I'm finding the whole mess a bit tangled but it looks like Gnorman has been blocked. Hopefully, that's a good outcome for you. --Dweller (talk) 09:36, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
Your protection
You protected Halakha ten days ago. I told you right away on the talkpage that that was overkill. No consensus has been reached. In the mean time there are two protected edit requests there, and I think you should reconsider the protection.
I just want to add that I see no reason to make any promises to refrain from reverting the addition of the hatnote there, as long as there is clear consensus to have it. I think that any reverts of repeated attempts to change this article from the way it looked, are in accordance with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and if anything, as I said there, you should have explained to the IP user that he should first establish consensus and not edit war. Debresser (talk) 18:45, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Requests for adminship/Hawkeye7
a sizable chunk of those opposing cite issues that could be overcome if the candidate chose to I cannot find any. Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:26, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Hawkeye. There are plenty there. May I humbly point you to User:Dweller/Suggestions for wikistressed editors. Come back and have another look at your RfA in March. While you may feel now the way you apparently do, some perspective will help. I think there's quite a bit of goodwill towards you in the opposes, although granted, some will automatically oppose you every time, even if you miraculously turn into a wikisaint. --Dweller (talk) 11:40, 2 February 2016 (UTC)