User talk:DarthFlappy

Jane Haining

Hello - your edit [1] has been reverted As it introduced a spelling mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:9313:B900:9CEE:858C:22CA:2558 (talk) 22:41, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

That's not a spelling mistake. See WP:ENGVAR. It it simply a variation between American English vs. British. S0091 (talk) 22:45, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Per cent is the standard spelling, with percent being a corrupt niche variant. You will also note the article is about a British person, and in Britain standard spelling is used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:9313:B900:9CEE:858C:22CA:2558 (talk) 22:51, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Now that I look at it, it is fine with me. Sorry to waste your time. DarthFlappy (talk) 22:55, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Agreed. British person means British spelling so per cent is correct in this instance. If they were an American, then percent is the correct spelling. S0091 (talk) 23:00, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Moved Thread about Judy Mikovits from Ppimitx [2]

mistake on Judy Mikovits, she is NOT an anti-vaccine activist. Her job is to study and create vaccines. Please fix!!!

While that may be true Ppimtx, the best place is to talk about it on the the article's talkpage[3] DarthFlappy (talk) 22:38, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Response to COI comment under your comments

Please see my talk page for comments related to yours. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suwritter251 (talk • contribs) 17:28, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

OK, don't forget to sign you messages with ~~~~!  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 18:12, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

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June 2020

Hello, I'm ProcrasinatingReader. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to The Queen—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. ProcrasinatingReader (talk) 19:00, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

@ProcrasinatingReader:I don't see how removing "loves z German bratwurst" was unconstructive.  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 19:03, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

DarthFlappy, sorry, my bad! I believe I hit revert on the previous commit but you got there first, and I missed the update. ProcrasinatingReader (talk) 19:04, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Ok, it's alright.  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 19:05, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: for pinging me at the middle of the night. ps: it is actually my fault i have left my phone on at night. Trains2050 (talk) 04:11, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

I live in EST, so I was late afternoon for me (;  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 17:33, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

i understand and i was joking. :) Trains2050 (talk) 18:10, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

ps: you need more user boxes, :) hahahah Trains2050 (talk) 18:11, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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TonyBallioni (talk) 01:05, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Reply to your edit

You reverted a change I made. I think it's perfectly clear what is meant by 'incidental content.' But if you're happier with a tedious account that swamps the page, I'm not going to argue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8084:609E:4800:5405:59E1:795B:C911 (talk) 00:56, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

@2A02:8084:609E:4800:5405:59E1:795B:C911: Sorry about that, I guess I was a trigger happy. Thanks for pointing it out!  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 01:23, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Good work

Looking to send a congrats to the 'Police Brutality in the US' team. It's inclusive, thorough, easy to add info where needed. Nice. Pasdecomplot (talk) 20:59, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

I didn't work on it that much, but thanks Pasdecomplot!  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 22:30, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for fixing the page. When Wikipedia said I was #40 in line and to be patient, I thought they meant a few days. It was about 30 minutes or less. Memdmarti (talk) 19:52, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Memdmarti!  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 22:12, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiLoop Battlefield new name vote

Dear DarthFlappy,

Thank you for your interest and contributions to WikiLoop Battlefield. We are holding a voting for proposed new name. We would like to invite you to this voting. The voting is held at m:WikiProject_WikiLoop/New_name_vote and ends on July 13th 00:00 UTC.

xinbenlv ^{Talk, Remember to "ping" me} 05:11, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Gonzalo Barrios

Is there any reason why you approved this edit here with your pending changes rights? theinstantmatrix (talk) 02:11, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@Theinstantmatrix: Considering that I don't remember the edit and that the diff was deleted I guess I should not have. Sorry, I must have been going too fast.  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 16:53, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Help!

Hi, I was trying to fork Wikipedia:Dashboard/Pending changes for my userpage so that it displays the current number of pages, like this:

Pending edits awaiting review (5 pages)
With {{Pending Changes backlog}} and Special:PendingChanges of course.

but I can't seem to fugure out what how to use User:DatBot/pendingbacklog (what {{Pending Changes backlog}} uses) to get the current backlog number. Any suggestions? Thanks!  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 22:12, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

That template uses a switch based off of the first parameter to determine which value to return. The value you want is called 'info'. To use it bare naked, you'd say something like:

Pending changes awaiting review: {{User:DatBot/pendingbacklog|info}}

Which would render looking like:

Pending changes awaiting review: 3 pages according to DatBot

I think that's the only tricky part, you seem to have the rest down. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:36, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks!  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 17:24, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

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xinbenlv ^{Talk, Remember to "ping" me} 18:31, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Terren Peizer

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.

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Why did you remove the link to the Ontrak website? Since we want to have any many references as possible for this page, linking to the page that shows that he's the director should be useful.

Also, you are aware that the "COI" in the edit request stands for "Conflict of Interest"?
Mr. Peizer obviously hired some PR hack to whitewash his page, so we should be very careful in following her wishes.
He's using dozens of shell companies to hide his actions, and Crede is one of them (which as actually currently involved in a lawsuit re. stock price manipulation), so we should keep those names in public view (I've added a section with all his shell companies now).

Frescard (talk) 22:45, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

@Frescard: are you referring to this one were I removed the external link, or this one were I removed "and Crede Capital Group"? I'm ok with reverting the "and Crede Capital Group" edit if you want, but I don't think that we should keep the EL (anyway, when I open it it's dead). I stopped editing when how much it looked like a bad faith COI request sunk in. _{this sentence was toned down to (hopefully) comply witih WP:AGF.}  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 02:15, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

For whatever it's worth, I'm sincerely trying to make requests aligned with Wikipedia best practices, and specifically with WP:BLP. I believe a lot of the article, cited as it is to legal documents, press releases, and other primary sources, violates WP:NOR. (The various inline external links also contravene the MoS, as noted.) I've provided some thoughts on the most obvious issues, but I'm open to feedback as well. Frescard, I'm aware you've also responded on Talk:Terren Peizer, but I didn't want to miss responding here either. Mary Gaulke (talk) 03:21, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

I agree, the article has a bunch of primary external links acting like sources. I'm not sure why Frescard readded the EL I removed or what's going on with the Financial Vehicles section. @Frescard:? I think that I'll work on the article some (no promises, live's busy!).

Now that I think about it, I should have worded my comment better, sorry about that. (I was angry with the "stock promoter" thing) I feel kind of bad for you because, of all the editors out there, the two editors who look at your COI request both have userpages complaining about POV pushing.

One more thing: I think we should close this thread, copy it the Talk:Terren Peizer page, and continue the conversation there, any objections?.  Darth Flappy ^«Talk» 13:53, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Agree! Thanks for the response. Mary Gaulke (talk) 17:13, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Since the thread is still here, I'm gonna reply quickly:

It looks like there was a syntax error in the Ontrak link (to the board of directors). I've fixed that now, and it should work.

Re. Financial vehicles: Since anybody who's interested in Peizer will be interested mainly in his investments, we should list the names that he invests under (they're basically aliases). Unfortunately, he has a lot, but I think we need them all to give a complete picture.

Re. May Gaulke's bad faith edits: I don't see her *contributing* to the article. All I see are deletion requests, hiding behind technicalities like in-line links and primary sources. If one reads those respective guidelines neutrally — *without* looking for a loophole to remove unwanted content, then it's obvious that both are acceptable in the cases I used them.

Frescard (talk) 17:45, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

References

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