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How does posting about failed end-time predictions on your user page work?
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May I post about failed end-time predictions on my user page? 78.156.109.166 (talk) 09:55, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- If you particularly want to, yes. See here for info on what you can have on your user page. Samwalton9 (talk) 11:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- There is an article on the topic. See List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events. Paul B (talk) 15:21, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- I suggest you don't do that, as many editors are now eyeing you because they think that these posts are suicide threats. Anyway, see WP:UPNOT. Epicgenius (talk) 15:36, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- In a nutshell.--78.156.109.166 (talk) 15:44, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- You do know that the Jorvik Viking Centre's "prediction" of Ragnarök is a joke? Paul B (talk) 16:31, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- In a nutshell.--78.156.109.166 (talk) 15:44, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
no, why is it on wp then. you may want to give proof--78.156.109.166 (talk) 19:00, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- It isn't. It was removed quite promptly from the Ragnarok article. The JVC is hosting a festival [1] , which ends with a big spectacular "Ragnarok" enactment [2]. To promote it, they contacted various newspapers. The Mail, in its ever-reliable way portrayed flippant comments by the promoter as a "prediction" of Ragnarok by "experts" on Viking culture. Paul B (talk) 19:11, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- The answer to your question about posting dates on your user page is "no". Wikipedia is not a blog or a free web host. You have an extensive history of using Wikipedia as a forum, and doing more of the same sort of thing is not advisable. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:35, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
January 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment and Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:44, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Please do not edit archived pages.
Please do not edit archived pages, as you did at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 11 [3]. Archives are intended as a record of past discussions and are not intended to be modified. It is almost certainly a waste of your time making such edits anyway, as people will not be searching out five-year-old threads to see if new posts have been made. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:12, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Wait.. "While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages."--78.156.109.166 (talk) 20:13, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Hmmm. you're right - it does say that. Which is odd, in that we generally discourage editing archived material. I'll check up on this further. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:18, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks
- Perhaps you're thinking of discussions with an outcome which has been acted upon Andy? Things like AfD discussions. Samwalton9 (talk) 21:23, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
i dont get it--78.156.109.166 (talk) 18:56, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- There are several types of archives that are not supposed to be modified, like what Samwalton said about deletion discussions or, for instance, an old user talk or article talk archive. - Purplewowies (talk) 20:06, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Blocked till 2017 (on a proxy)
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This block has been set to expire: 05:27, 5 February 2017. 78.156.109.166 (talk) 15:55, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
- No it hasn't. Here's the block log. 5 February 2014 plus 6 months is 5 August 2014, maybe a day or two later, but certainly not 2017. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:09, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Sockpuppet of this user
There's a new IP User:86.52.12.101 with the same editting habits per his contributions, the same geolocation, and who has chosen to leave his message diff on the talk page of User talk:Great Time just like User:78.156.109.166. I suggest the new IP be blocked as a sock and the user's block be extended or indeffed for block evasion. Great Time could probably use SPI'ing as well, given his habits and comments at Wikipedia talk:Reference desk. μηδείς (talk) 01:04, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
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