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Music

Remember the violinist whom I heard? More memories today: a choral conductor who inspired us, beginning with a Bach chorale, - that won my heart, of course. Chorale or not - that is the question in my FAC. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:29, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Homechallenge55

I see you told him to stop yelling. No offense, but I don't think u should bother with him now. He has same issues and he won't take any criticism from anyone when ever we tell him to stop. He also blamed me for having issues which is not true at all. 2600:1000:B03C:C10E:D9A0:CDB:4BF9:DB4E (talk) 23:09, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cave man$97

Cave man$97 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Not asking you to actually do a CU or anything, this is just an observation, and that's a convenient template for it. I've got a mixture of a gut feeling and suspicion that this could be a sock of someone I've seen recently (another short-lived nonsense disruptive / vandalising user). I just can't immediately think of the other username for a SPI.

Murph9000 (talk) 01:48, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I can't run CU on that suspicion, nor does it seem to be worth it. If their next edits are like the previous ones they'll be blocked, but it's likely a throwaway account. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 14:57, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Brandon Steven

There are three versions of the article: User:Brittany 316/sandbox is the article that was AfDed (closed as draftify after 2 days), last edited on 18 April 2016 and shows as started on 14 April 2016—it was both AfDed and PRODded, I'm not sure in what order; Brandon Steven was started on 19 April 2016; and there is also Draft:Brandon Steven, also started 14 April 2016. A fine bureaucratic mess. The name also rings a bell with me, but I have no idea why, I can't find myself in the history. Maybe there is also a deleted version, or maybe tehre's someone else of that name? Yngvadottir (talk) 16:09, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Y. I merged all the histories and sent the thing to AfD. Drmies (talk) 16:18, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) I'll try not to completely balls it up this time!!! ;) — O Fortuna^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 16:22, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I saw you in there somewhere, Fortuna, and chose not to investigate further lest I find more complications. :) Drmies (talk) 16:24, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Carried away

Sorry, I got carried away. All of the answers I got kept ringing hollow, and I kept going, expecting to get a real answer at some point. Maybe I accidentally killed one of his sacred cows, but since he wouldn't explain what was bothering him, I wasn't sure how to appease him. Not sure where I should have stopped. Guess I was hoping someone with some sense would jump in. In the end, you did. Thanks. 47.32.217.164 (talk) 03:13, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I can't really help the two of you with that article, though. Maybe dispute resolution is best. Take it easy, Drmies (talk) 03:15, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- No worries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.32.217.164 (talk) 04:11, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What it all boils down to....

The Old Coot Consolation Award

As much as I hate it, the truth I do bring,
We're not young enough to know everything;
So like other old coots, we keep getting screwed,
Dismissing the notions we want to preclude;
Like when flapping our wings for the whole world to see,
We're not flying high like we once used to be.
There's one exception to that which we know,
About being popular where'er we go,
We may not be watched as much as we think,
But we're better at keeping our traffic in sync.
^{Atsme📞📧} 17:31, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Talk Me Down

I am reading the new biography of Martin Luther King. I am up to the spring of 1961 and the Montgomery (Alabama) Police Department is mentioned in not an altogether favorable way. So I went over to their page and noted there is no misconduct section. So I went to the talk page and see you and I were noodling on this about four years ago. Do you still hold that a misconduct section is uncalled for? I do not want to walk down the same road again if you think I am making a mistake. What do you think? Paul, in Saudi (talk) 06:55, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I left a note at Talk:Montgomery Police Department (Alabama) and hope other editors will pitch in. Drmies (talk) 15:03, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Simon Stagg nomination

I heard that you nominated Simon Stagg for deletion. When the articles for deletion article is started, I will contribute to it where this discussion will determine the fate of the article. --Rtkat3 (talk) 16:50, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Would you like to explain what it means that "you heard" this? Drmies (talk) 17:04, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think Rtkat3 means that you, or a Twinkle-type script under your control, mentioned the deletion nomination on Rtkat3's talk page. MPS1992 (talk) 17:38, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Magical username

Hello Drmies, I hope you are well. I was about to leave one of my templated friendly welcomes on the talk page of new editor User_talk:*.*.*._Bnt_Sattar but I discovered that I cannot, because this editor has chosen a very unusual username.

I think as an administrator you -- or one of your administrator associates that gather here -- may be able to create the user talk page of this user and leave either a welcome or some other message. You may also have views on whether their very unusual username is a good idea or not. MPS1992 (talk) 17:44, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Hi Drmies. @MPS1992: I've created the page. The account creation filter and title blacklist should ideally match up. Someone should look into this. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 17:50, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page gnome) I will not spam the direct link here, but this reminds me of Xkcd's "Exploits of a mom" story (Little Bobby Tables)

. — Paleo Neonate — 19:30, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, zzuuzz. I am curious with regard to the comic. Do schools in that country not have computer backups? MPS1992 (talk) 22:00, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just want to point out...

...that this editor continues to follow me, making edits solely for the sake of annoying me. [1]. I've taken the article off of my watch list, as part of my personal policy of not confronting this editor, but I would like the background-level harassment from this guy who once called me "the worst thing to ever happen to Wikipedia" to stop. (Ironically, his disdain for me began when I commented against his behavior in a conflict with Magnolia67, the editor he is supporting now; I guess he's decided to annoy the greater of two evils. <g>) Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:59, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

BMK, you're only a moderately-sized evil, as far as I'm concerned. You may well have a case for ANI there. Drmies (talk) 02:06, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No wonder

Hi Drmies, No wonder your remark didn't ring a bell. I didn't add any of those flags, they were there long before I made my first edit. I'm indeed Dutch and I can tell you this much.
Where provinces are concerned: In general we support the team from our birth town or nearest town with a team. Next we support teams of our province. The rest comes last. On a national level, the province a team is from, is kinda relevant. Although none of the teams officially represent a province they do in the mind of many people. It goes back on sentiments over the centuries. A small sidestep. It is not uncommon that people outside the Netherlands call the country Holland. However Holland is only a region or 2 provinces (long ago a united single province) in the Netherlands. In my province (Limburg) calling someone a Hollander or someone from Holland is considered a big insult. In some areas there are quite strong provincial sentiments. Calling the Netherlands, Holland is like calling the USA, California, Texas or pick any state you like. So it is in some way relevant to have a list of teams by province. If you have such a list it seems valid to me to add the province flag. I know I care more bout my province flag and anthem than about the national flag and anthem. Of course one could say it's all nonsense, but then distinction by country could be called nonsense as well.
As far as the country flags in front of the people are concerned, they indicate the nationality of the person. Plenty of people who like to know where a manager or coach is from. If you look at the well known club football (the real football) teams, you will see a country flag in front of the players. hen they play for a club, they don't represent a country. Yet we would like to know their origin. So why should we use flags in any case where national sport is concerned? I would say because it's informative and many people like to know.
That being said. I feel the flags are informative and therefore relevant, but I don't care much about the flags being there or not, I didn't add them to start with.
Just never call me a Hollander, lol
--Sb008 (talk) 04:57, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Do Limburgers dance the limbo? Or was it a dream I once had. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:35, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a policy

on linking to graphic material without providing an explicit warning? EtienneDolet just did just that (and EXPLICIT WARNING that twitter link in his comment contains graphic material!), I clicked on it and saw something I really did not care to see. I'm actually fairly pissed about this and, to hell with good faith, I do have a strong suspicion he did this on purpose. He *knows* that I consider al-Masdar an atrocious junk source (they employed a neo-Nazi), we've had NUMEROUS discussions and arguments about it and he *knows* how I would feel about it. I see no reason for him to do this except to troll and fuck with me.

I really really resent being tricked into clicking on that.Volunteer Marek (talk) 07:45, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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 --[[User:Sb008|Sb008]] ([[User talk:Sb008|talk]]) 04:57, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
 :*{{tps}} Do [[Limburger]]s dance the [[limbo (dance)|limbo]]? Or was it a dream I once had. [[User:Xanthomelanoussprog|Xanthomelanoussprog]] ([[User talk:Xanthomelanoussprog|talk]]) 07:35, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
+== Is there a policy  ==
+on linking to graphic material without providing an explicit warning? EtienneDolet just [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:White_Helmets_(Syrian_Civil_War)&diff=prev&oldid=782335026 did just that] (and '''EXPLICIT WARNING''' that twitter link in his comment contains graphic material!), I clicked on it and saw something I really did not care to see. I'm actually fairly pissed about this and, to hell with good faith, I do have a strong suspicion he did this on purpose. He *knows* that I consider al-Masdar an atrocious junk source (they employed a neo-Nazi), we've had NUMEROUS discussions and arguments about it and he *knows* how I would feel about it. I see no reason for him to do this except to troll and fuck with me.
+I really really resent being tricked into clicking on that.[[User:Volunteer Marek|Volunteer Marek]] ([[User talk:Volunteer Marek|talk]]) 07:45, 26 May 2017 (UTC)