User talk:Architeuthidæ

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A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Original Barnstar
	Just as the barnstar says I have seen some of your talk:page arguments about bias and I appreciate them. Heres a barnstorm for what its worth. Keep up the good work. EliteArcher88 (talk) 01:00, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Unfortunately I think the problem may be systemic in how Wikipedia determines "reliability" of sources. I've heard a variety of definitions and arguments for accepting news articles at face value, and the fact that sources like Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and CNN are supposedly categorized as "non-partisan" is very disheartening to say the least. Architeuthidæ (talk) 15:53, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Arrived here after reading your comments on the impeachment trial talk page. It can be disheartening to work on the Wikipedia project at times, but I'm always happy to see an editor question and probe the accepted 'way things are done'. While I admit that there simply has to be a pool of sources that the community, by consensus, agrees are reliable, it doesn't mean that this can't change over time - the sources and the consensus about whether they should or should not be on the list. It is surely healthy to examine the reliability of sources on an ongoing basis. I admire any editor willing to do that battle and deal with the inevitable wall of protest. RandomGnome (talk) 10:50, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hulk hears you, too. It's as if "bias" itself has become like a slur to folks who tend to use it that way against others. So if you're genuinely concerned with objective fairness, you'll inevitably have to remind folks that they are like the others. This will naturally paint you as "one of them". The others, I mean. Not the folks. Don't worry about it, though; most people around here are neither folk nor other, just seem that way if we're somehow "forced" to pick a hand. InedibleHulk (talk) 01:59, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do you remember falsely accusing me of making false accusations against CNN? It was long enough ago. November 3, 2018. We both moved on and prospered. Good times! InedibleHulk (talk) 02:40, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I see you accused me of "sounding yet more like a conspiracy theorist" on the day before Halloween before last. That had scabbed over, but now it kind of stings. Has the statute of limitations run out, or can I still allege you were trying to defame me there? That's a joke, by the way, I'm already over it again. You had your reasons, I get it. InedibleHulk (talk) 03:23, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It shows how mild incivility has long gone unpunished around here. You've let each other know how you were harmed, that open dialogue is remedy enough. Accusing someone of defamation here is not a legal threat, as it would be in a real court. But implicitly threatening an editor's future prospects in the same breath as discussion of a crime gives the whole conflict an element of mock adversarialism (or a "battleground mentality", as it was called in our youth). You don't want it, I don't want it, nobody wants it. We just all want to win it when shit inevitably happens. You know what winning really is? Absolute forgiveness and understanding. Send the pain below, as the old song goes. It's much like suffocating, but suffocating a fire inside feels much better than having it constantly erupt and eternally burn the side of us others see, right? InedibleHulk (talk) 17:27, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Never move another editor's comment in a way that violates the intention of the editor[edit]

Never move another editor's (in this case an admin's) comment in a manner that violates WP:Refactor. I fixed it. That you chose to take offense at a rather neutral and factual comment about how things have always worked here (at least since 2003 when I started editing here) is your own problem. Don't use your own offense to attack other editors. In fact, just don't be so sensitive. This place is not a battlefield, so don't treat it like one. -- BullRangifer (talk) 19:05, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

EvergreenFir already took care of it. You're late to the party, I'm afraid. What's this business with everybody demanding things of people? "Don't do this!" "Never do that!" Nobody's civil anymore. Everybody should just lighten up. Imagine running to people's talk pages to air out grievances. It's Friday, man! Enjoy yourself- that's an order. Architeuthidæ (talk) 19:50, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, some of us still have 31 minutes left till amazing weekend adventures are permissible. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:29, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ha! You're right, I should've been more inclusive. Enjoy your weekend however you decide to spend it - I can guarantee I won't be spending my time here. Tranquility is the goal. Architeuthidæ (talk) 21:36, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]