User talk:Drmies

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What's with the insulting response to a simple request? Really thought you were interested in article quality, and would be willing to explain why you want undefined jargon in article leads when it isn't even mentioned in the article body. 82.33.111.106 (talk) 23:53, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

• It's your use of "you" that was insulting, not my response. Unwarranted assumptions and all that. You make good edits and have terrible manners; I try to find something that attempts to alleviate the situation you signal, if only a little bit, and you shit on me. "Really thought you were interested"...more of those assumptions. "you want undefined jargon"...yet more. I'm not blind, you know, but I'm really not interested in being enlisted in some crusade. Wait--gotta go. There's something wrong on the internet and I have to make someone fix it. Drmies (talk) 01:23, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

I'm not interested in enlisting anyone in any crusade, and it wasn't my intention to shit on you. And I do find it insulting when someone says "you have nothing to say to me". I do. If you don't want to listen, say you don't want to listen. Don't tell me if I have nothing to say. You insulted me once before, too, complaining about how boring it was for you to see me complaining about edits being reverted for no reason. Did you imagine how boring it is to have your time wasted over and over and over again for no reason? And how much less boring it would be if people actually didn't do that? It's two years since I first made an uncontroversial edit to this particular article, and it's been undone 17 times by 10 different editors, not one of whom bothered to explain why they were undoing my obviously necessary work and wasting my time. So what I want is for you or someone else to have the basic courtesy that should have been extended to me two years ago, and telling me why you consider it necessary to undo my edit. Apparently, that's too much to ask. 82.33.111.106 (talk) 14:22, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

I didn't undo your edit; I took your commentary on board and tried to improve the readability of that sentence even though I have no clue what Category C really means (maybe you should rewrite that article). You're using "you" in the plural, constantly, equating me with those who reverted you, and I resent that. And yeah, those same complaints, they get a bit tedious. That's not a personal attack by our definition: I'm complaining about the edits, not the editor. And if you hadn't called people cunts and whatnot all over the place, we might not be here today. That's the crusade: the equation of bias against IP editors on the side of Wikipedia editors with carte blance, on your side, to just edit war and insult, though I will say immediately that I haven't seen you do that in a while, but I kind of quit paying attention. You know, two, three years ago I was actually on the lookout for your edits and I've assisted you more than once without drawing attention to it. I don't do that anymore. It's tedious and it goes nowhere. I still don't agree with the blocks and the LTA case and all that, but I'm the only one. And if you come to my talk page, all bitter and yelling at me, then, yeah, you have nothing to say to me, nothing that interests me and nothing I can help you with. If you come here with a different message, it's different. Drmies (talk) 16:33, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Fine crystal

Hey Drmies. Know anything more about this lovey-dovey folk song? I'd like to fill out the article a bit more, but having trouble finding decent sources and ones I can read. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 00:05, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

• Wow, no, I've never even been that far north in that beautiful country. Ah, if only Hafspajen were around--they love folk songs. And techno. Maybe a hot shot like Favonian can help out. Or a power player and certified singer/songwriter like Bishonen? Drmies (talk) 01:25, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Geopolymer controversy

Indeed, it apparently was a very contentious controversy, and so interesting in the sense of the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." It is probable that both parties have conflict of interest. The intensity of the controversy suggests that there are financial incentives involved. (The most common reason for legal threats is alleged libel. There is no reason to think that libel is involved here, so there is probably a commercial issue.) If the other editor has a COI, the proper Wikipedia action would have been a report at the conflict of interest noticeboard, but there may be too much money involved to play by the rules or something. Anyway, they probably have COI. If there really is a basis for legal action, it wasn't stated, only made as a threat. United States courts do not resolve scientific disputes, and I (not a lawyer) think that the threat was too vague to be the basis of a legal action. I think that it was just intended to have a chilling effect with idle bluster rather than to do anything productive, but in Wikipedia a legal threat chills out the person making the threat. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:46, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Talk:British Empire

Thanks Drmies for closing down the discussion. Btw, when you said that the matter to be left after a year, is this the moratorium? (N0n3up (talk) 03:32, 15 February 2016 (UTC))

• It just means what it means. I'm not good with fancy words. I sensed agreement all around that this would be a good thing. Thanks for your note, Drmies (talk) 03:34, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Btw Snowded threatened me with topic ban even after withdrawing the RfC. He basically was banned from editing "The Troubles" related topics in which he Still does. (N0n3up (talk) 03:39, 15 February 2016 (UTC))

I don't see how that's relevant. Drmies (talk) 16:33, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Okay, a 1RR to be precise, but regarding your post in my talk page, I thank you for taking notice, but at the same time, I don't like it when other users WP:HOUND (like Snowded keeps doing) at my edits or even talk in my discussions without any basis. If there is any advice you could give in regards to that, that'd be nice. (N0n3up (talk) 18:49, 15 February 2016 (UTC))

They asked you not to post on their talk page but you did. One might consider that to be hounding. Don't post there again. Drmies (talk) 20:41, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

I won't post there again. Now if only he would stop hounding on my discussions and edits like he did long before, that'd be great. Not to mention he keeps blasting threats like "i'm going to report you" and so on. (N0n3up (talk) 20:44, 15 February 2016 (UTC))

Question re username decision

Hello; I was wondering if you could give a more specific reason for your decision regarding FunderThuck, which seems quite likely to be "ThunderFuck" deliberately misspelled. The username policy states that "usernames that are inappropriate in another language, or that represent an inappropriate name with misspellings and substitutions, or do so indirectly or by implication, are still considered inappropriate"(emphasis mine). Thank you 331dot (talk) 21:18, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

• Well, I suppose technically it's a violation of that rule, sure. But their edits weren't vandalistic, and the f-word in itself isn't always automatically offensive. It didn't say "fuck you", for instance. But YMMV. Drmies (talk) 21:21, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

I appreciate your reply and I understand. Thank you 331dot (talk) 21:40, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

I'll tell you that I had to think about this one for quite some time--and typically, if I think I have think, I think that I'm overthinking its offensiveness. Tell you what--let's ask Daniel Case, or Vanjagenije, or Bishonen, or Acalamari; they may be the ones with varying mileage. Drmies (talk) 21:45, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

I have posted on the person's talk page and was going to wait for them to reply(as you indicated, their edits were OK) before doing anymore; but you wish to, you can and you can post my name too if needed. 331dot (talk) 21:48, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Mileage in the United Kingdom. "We considered that younger children who were unlikely to comprehend that "Phuc" was a Vietnamese word were also unlikely to read or pronounce it as the expletive. While some older children might have pronounced it as the expletive, given the context of an ad for a Vietnamese restaurant and that the word was taken from this language we did not consider that this made it unsuitable for them to see. We therefore concluded that the posters were not irresponsibly placed where children could see them." UK Advertising Standards Authority as reported by BBC. Not quite the same but still interesting. MPS1992 (talk) 21:49, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

• It made me think "Founderthuck" (would that be OK as a username?). I tend to agree with 331dot, actually. Hey, I just saw somebody (i. e. a person, not the bot) reported User:RealsAreASubsetOfComplex as an offensive username. Is there some obscene meaning in complex numbers that escapes me as a non-native speaker? Note especially the new user's only contribution here. Won't somebody please think of the children! Bishonen | talk 21:57, 15 February 2016 (UTC).

Have you asked that person? I could see possibly objecting to the length of that username, but since it's an easy name to remember I wouldn't worry about it too much. Daniel Case (talk) 23:46, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Student unions

Please desist. You are nominating organisations for speedy deletion of organisations so prominent that have major, significant coverage in books for god knows what reason exactly. I'm pretty sure you've had at least one that even has independent books about it specifically. Being expected to do detailed historical research with a gun to your head because someone's decided to start making very random deletion nominations is an incredibly obnoxious thing to do to other editors, and reflects very poorly on someone of your prominence.

I'd really appreciate if you'd have the decency to withdraw these: if it were coming from someone less senior I'd be advocating the nominator be blocked for disruption. The Drover's Wife (talk) 22:11, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

• Stop yelling and improve these articles. Student unions? Have a nice day. Drmies (talk) 01:26, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Adını Feriha Koydum

Hi dear,

May I ask you to look at the new edits just recently added to the article, and if you find it appropriate would you protect the page? It's becoming like a circus! Thank you (Mona778 (talk) 23:34, 15 February 2016 (UTC))