User talk:Sergecross73

Vandalism pt 22

Serge's 22nd iteration of his own personal WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. Feel free to report anything you feel may need admin intervention. Sergecross73 msg me 03:57, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

• Do me a favor and block this one for me. I think he's been warned sufficiently, sustained vandalism on Talk:Fall Out Boy. Keep an eye out for this one and this one, which appear to be DUCKS, but I cannot confirm as it's the first time he's done it and may just be coincidental copycats. dannymusiceditor ^oops 14:56, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

They’re mostly either a bit stale, or only made an edit or two, and are mostly disruptive get FOB, so I protected the talk page, albeit shortly, because it’s a talk page. I added it to my watchlist, so I’ll try to keep an eye on it too. Sergecross73 msg me 19:30, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

• Tomodachi Life may need protection. There's an IP hopper that keeps pushing a crufty list of songs into the article (it's not even a music game). --ThomasO1989 (talk) 14:40, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

• Protected. Sergecross73 msg me 14:56, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

• 2601:249:8100:2886:50B6:1A90:1C8E:E945 (talk · contribs) adding false/unsourced developer-related information to articles. JOEBRO64 22:09, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

• I didn’t take action, since I couldn’t truly tell if they were bad faith or misguided good-faith edits. They’ve stopped all the same, though I can look into it if they start up again. Sergecross73 msg me 02:37, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

• Do you think Team Sonic Racing is going to need protection? Anon IPs keep making efforts to soften the wording of "[it] received mixed reviews from critics" (ignoring the hidden notes) and it doesn't show any sign of stopping. JOEBRO64 00:41, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

• I definitely think it could use protection (honestly it’d probably be helpful on any Sonic game on launch day) though I think I’m personally too WP:INVOLVED to do it myself. (I’ve reverted this a few times today myself.) Sergecross73 msg me 02:37, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

• Zerp. -- ferret (talk) 12:44, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

• 2601:249:8100:2886:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs) This IP looks to have been adding tons of original research for maybe a month. They spend most of their time editing Sega development studios and then spread from there, usually editing staff in infoboxes to credit people that were not necessarily involved, or giving staff more credit than they deserve. Example diffs [1] [2] [3] [4] TarkusAB^talk 21:03, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Oh, I see this range was reported above. TarkusAB^talk 21:03, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Should also show that they've been at it since 2017. Notice the similarites between [5] and [6] or how about [7] and [8] TarkusAB^talk 21:11, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

TarkusAB - Apologies, it’s been a busy couple of weeks and I’m behind on responses. Upon glance, I believe this may be indef-blocked tripple-ddd, a troublesome editor who obsesses over Sega divisions/staff/credits, often making questionable judgement calls. He’s been caught socking like 50+ times over the last few years. I protected the Sega dev article. I’ll protect others if he continually disrupts them. Keep me posted. Sergecross73 msg me 01:58, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

• Jeffrey724 (talk · contribs) I suspect a tripple-ddd sock. TarkusAB^talk 01:27, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

• Forgot to mention, but blocked earlier. Sergecross73 msg me 23:32, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

• Requesting the list of video games considered the best to be semi-protected, as it continues to get (mostly anonymous) editors who add their personal favorite games (with no or falsified sources). ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 18:15, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

• Agreed, it’s been an issue for a long time, without any end in sight. Protected. Sergecross73 msg me 19:30, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

• Yo Serge. I need to request a block for a WP:TEND WP:NPA WP:NOTHERE flamer that you surely remember. He just came back to call you corrupt and me a sockpuppet, so if you can't see your way clear to a block then just never mind because I reverted the comment on the grounds of WP:NPA. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk) 20:34, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

• Wow, I had forgotten all about that guy. And yet he seemed to remember the minor dispute about emulators 5 years ago like it were yesterday. Yikes. Anyways, he said he wasn’t coming back, so I figured the “past of least resistance may just be warning. He’ll probably make less of a commotion if he thinks he left if his own accord. Please tell me if you see him around again though. Sergecross73 msg me 12:57, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

• 112.198.27.2 (talk · contribs) EDIT: already blocked, but keeping this here just for posterity. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 02:05, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 12:57, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

• 79.67.221.51 (talk · contribs) vandalism at Birds of Prey (2020 film) JOEBRO64 12:32, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
  •  Done -- ferret (talk) 12:46, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
    • Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 12:57, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
• 2607:FB90:BC8C:949F:0:D:C176:401 (talk · contribs) Andy's back at it. JOEBRO64 16:08, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

• Blocked. Sergecross73 msg me 16:12, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Lyrics and music videos

Hi Sergecross73. I wanted to thank you for your polite and helpful suggestions at WT:SONG. As for some of the other discussants there, I have never felt quite so deliberately misconstrued in any previous discussion anywhere at Wikipedia. How dare I make suggestions without hard evidence to back them up! I don't know how many "acceptable" music channels there are at YouTube, but I imagine there are hundreds, or possibly thousands. How these can be fairly represented by a list of only the biggest 10, introduced with the line "here is a list... ", is beyond me. The approach seems to be reduce the risk of inappropriate linking by making the list of acceptable official sources look as small as possible. I think this does a real disservice to both editors and readers alike. One might think, mightn't one, that in these days of global real-time internet connectivity, it might be possible for the project to curate a live list of all acceptable YouTube channels. But it looks like that might be just too difficult to even contemplate. I'm really not sure it's worth my while taking my suggestions to any other, more distant, forum like Village Pump. Also still wondering what YouTube "licence statements" actually mean, in terms of copyright. But they seem to be wholly irrelevant to the acceptability of YT links at Wikipedia. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:49, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

I appreciate your calm

Is That So?

"The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life..." – The Zen Kōan "Is That So?" tells the story of a man at peace with the world and his place in it. As Rudyard Kipling made clear in his poem, "If— you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,...- you'll be a Man..." You seem a peaceful man, and I appreciate it. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 02:29, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

or woman (just to be clear) :) Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 02:33, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you both very much. I’ve gotten so many (extremely wrong) crazy accusations thrown at me this last month, that two people saying kind words helps me keep my wiki-sanity. Sergecross73 msg me 13:00, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

With vastly more than 48,284,439 doing the most important work on 6,912,687 and at least that many ancillary pages, tensions are sadly to be expected; I'm not so great wiv-da-numbaz but that's a lot of chances for negative interactions. Don't let the bastards grind you down; "Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence..." – Desiderata by Max Ehrmann Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 18:16, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Disturbing other people's lives

Could you please stop disturbing my life?,i have the right to edit anything i want here,and i'm also a newbie around here, can't disturb a newbie's life,i guess we're even now Kairipines (talk) 03:03, 20 July 2019 (UTC)