User talk:Drmies

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Reasoning behind Ping

I make it short, the reasoning behind my ping was I am still behind hassled by Rusf10 (I was pinged by him). Since I am not allowed to comment on his comments and I have had no contact with him, I asked you and Floquenbeam to kindly ask Rusf10 to do the same. While I am disappointed you are "not interested", I am doing what I said I would and was told. This concludes my reasoning/explanation behind my ping of you. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:29 on April 5, 2021 (UTC)

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The Suicide Squad

I just wanted to let you know, as a watcher and on-and-off editor of The Suicide Squad (film) article and a colleague of User:Adamstom.97, that User:ErnestoCabral2018 was the one who was vandalizing the article with unsourced statements that were unsupported by the present sources, and that Adam was reverting the vandal's constant additions in the edit war. Adam should not have been blocked as he was restoring the article in good faith against vandalism. Trailblazer101 (talk) 01:32, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

• I wish Adamstom had notified an administrator, or made a note on the talk page, or left an edit summary explaining why those few words were vandalism. Please note my last comment on Adamstom's talk page: someone who removes a talk page comment in which an editor tries to explain what they're doing is likely not operating in good faith. Drmies (talk) 01:38, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Renzo Martens

Hello Drmies, I don't know if this is the right way to communicate with you but I wish to send you a draft for the Renzo Martens page so you can check for promotional or advertising material. This is not my intention. You have been removing new content, that I added to the Renzo Martens page today, but you have also removed content that was already there; the paragraph about Martens' work Episode I. The page is now not only outdated but also incomplete. Could you let me know how I can send you new content we wish to add to the Renzo Martens page. Thank you! Kind regards, (HAART2021 (talk) 13:07, 12 August 2021 (UTC))

• I will respond on your talk page. Drmies (talk) 13:10, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Explanation

All text placed between < ! --- --- ! > is invisible and is trash, this IP range is guilty of it: Special:Contributions/89.8.0.0/16 Werkenone (talk) 14:07, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

• I don't disagree. I see that User:Falang2137 agrees with you--can you clarify that? Drmies (talk) 14:16, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Various IP/registered users can agree or disagree, not my business, but I want to have wikicontent without GHOSTSCRIPT here, for clarity. Werkenone (talk) 14:18, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
    • No, answer the question about Falang2137. Martinevans123, it seems that some of the content (blanked out or not) that Werkenone removed should be removed, but I get the feeling they're also removing editorial advice that may have been in that article for much longer. Werkenone, huge and confusing edits like this one are likely to not be accepted by experienced editors. Drmies (talk) 14:20, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
    • Hmm so this is good hand, bad hand editing? You need two good hands for that? Drmies (talk) 14:23, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
      • I have suggested, a couple of times, that this should be discussed at the Talk page. Instead we now have a mini edit war. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:24, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
        • Not anymore, Martin. Leaves the matter of the IP's disruption. Hey, thanks for your help. Drmies (talk) 14:29, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

My block and topic ban

I am rather bemused that I was blocked for breaching the terms of a warning before that warning was issued: that does not seem like a sensible juridical procedure, but ho-hum.

Yes, I probably did allow my annoyance that the self defensive clique who closely control MP were so caught up in their "you scratch my ego, I'll scratch yours" that they allow a total falsehood to appear on the MP get the better of me. But I do believe, and will continue to believe,that those who have assumed control of the most visible pages are the ones who should be held to the highest standards of accountability.

This mistake was made in the article by Joseph2302, based on a poor translation of a news report of several weeks earlier, which not only should never be considered statement of fact for the actual startlist of a sporting event, but never even said that she was listed to be a starting member of the squad, nor for which squad. But Joseph did not actually propose that claim for the main page, which is why I maintain that the bulk of the blame does lie with Schwede66, who unilaterally changed the hook that had been approved in a consensus building manner. And who has not, I believe, apologised for introducing factual error to the main portal of an encyclopaedia, which surely is the absolute antithesis of anything that an encyclopaedic project should do. As I said, and do not apologise for saying, either one checks assiduously what is to be on the Main Page, or one does not care about the accuracy of the Main Page: there is no in-between.

While I will abide by your topic ban, I do believe that editors should be able to pursue false accusations made against them, as Joseph did against me: he said at WT:Alisa Schmidt that I was blaming him, which I had not (I have subsequently discovered that he would actually deserve a sizeable proportion of the blame, as I set out above, but I had not levelled any accusation at that point). And I do not believe that an editor should be allowed to simply go quiet and refuse to justify an accusation that he/she has made. He did offer to engage with me on the matter at ANI, but you have prohibited that: maybe he could have been persuaded to re-read my words and admit that his accusation was false. The idea that he did not know what I was asking him to apologise for (as he said at ANI) is frankly untenable if he had actually read the interchange that he was part of.

And meanwhile, because you have topicbanned me, I cannot re-iterate the correction that I made here, and Joseph erroneously reverted here. Google translate renders the relevant part of the cited document thus: " The 400-meter runners Karolina Pahlitzsch from LG Nord Berlin and Alica Schmidt from SCC Berlin each qualified for the relay." You will note that it does not specify whether they were being considered for the women's or the mixed relay: Joseph seems determined that his unsourced assumption (that the women's 4x400 was intended) is encyclopaedic fact; perhaps you can insert a true version into the text, rather than allowing this unsourced lie to persist in the encyclopaedia.

I will not be tolerant of people trying to contribute to Wikipedia beyond their competence, and when they persist in erroneous and unencyclopaedic 'contributions', that can only be to the detriment of the project, I will not pussyfoot around telling them so: encouraging poor editors by kindness is not going to make Wikipedia better than it is, and taking fools lightly only make Wikipedia appear foolish. Kevin McE (talk) 20:54, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

• User:Schwede66, User:Mackensen, User:Girth Summit, User:Maile66, please have a look at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1075#Problem_editing_pattern_by_Kevin_McE, to refresh your memory. The thread was never resolved and it went straight into the archives. If I'm not mistaken, we have a half a dozen admins (well, five: the five of us) saying this can't go on, time for blocks, etc. Now Kevin McE comes here, saying they will abide by their topic ban and then violating that same topic ban, twice, and continuing with the battleground attitude (see their last paragraph) that led to the ANI thread in the first place. If there is another choice but an indefinite block, I'd love to hear it--and talk page stalkers are welcome to help advice. Or do we just block for a topic van violation? But what about the ongoing personal attacks ("poor editors")? Kevin McE, for the time being I am not interested in further comments from you, since it's likely you'll only dig yourself into a deeper hole. Drmies (talk) 21:15, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
• I would consider this response from Kevin McE a sufficient justification for an indefinite block (per Drmies), but I'll hold off in case anyone else from that group sees it differently. Mackensen (talk) 21:29, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Best that we discuss this at ANI. Schwede66 21:31, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
  • I typed out some comments, but I see that it's at ANI now, so I'll go make them over there.
  • Question on the topic ban paperwork, if you're considering blocking for the obvious breaches: was that logged, and what was the WP:Ban authority? I didn't see that in the ANI thread, and I'm not seeing it in the editing restrictions log. If the TBan wasn't formally enacted, I'm not sure that a block for a breach works; other options would be an indef block for threatening to continue editing disruptively, or going to ANI and proposing perhaps a TBAN from the main page-related areas, since that is what he seems to getting so hostile about. Girth Summit _(blether) 21:45, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

• Indef block - he still doesn't get it. We need to consider our vast and varied editing base. We have school children editing Wikipedia. We have university students who are taking it as a course - and not always getting everything perfect. Our encyclopedia is open to everybody in every part of the world, every age group, every learning step on how to do this, every demographic. Please see the last paragraph Kevin McE wrote above about people he "will not be tolerant of". Based on Talk:Kalākaua coinage, I guess he means me and Wehwalt. And both of us admins, who went through a public assessment and vote by way of the required Request for Adminship. And may I say that nobody - absolutely nobody - has produced as many Featured articles as Wehwalt. That makes Wehwalt pick of the litter. Yet, KevinMcE couldn't even "tolerate" him. Kevin McE has been on Wikipedia 15 years. If he hasn't learned tolerance of other editors in that time, when will he? — Maile (talk) 01:01, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
  • User:Maile66, it's up on AN now, so if you could copy your comment there, I'd appreciate it. Yeah, Wehwalt is an FA-writing machine. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:07, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Your edits on list of characters on Inuyasha/yashahime.

Thank you. I am new to Wikipedia and I have tried to trim it back but I don’t know what needed to be there. I have asked but I was treated poorly. I have read a few pages on Wikipedia. You did cut the a few of the areas I did question but I don’t read it all because I wanted to research what was needed to improve It better. Is there any good sources to follow that improves the articles? Any links or advice would be helpful. Thank you again. FedualJapan (talk) 00:30, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

• Sure thing--thanks. The thing with this article is that it's a list of characters, and that suggests we will get a list of characters, who played/voiced them, and what their characteristics and roles are. In many of those articles you get a complete fictional biography with all the events and all the things that happened, and that's just not cool. On top of that you see a lot of original research, esp. in the form of adjectives and as comparisons. These articles are often edited by a multitude of IP editors and they tend to just collect material like sludge; they get bigger and bigger. A good rule of thumb is that every character gets a few sentences, no more. And keep in mind that often some of them also have articles. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 00:53, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Can you block this user?

This user, who has never made an edit, is sending me "thank you" notices for every edit I've made[1]. The pings are annoying. Can you (or someone reading this) block this user? Snooganssnoogans (talk) 01:42, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

• Two of the most serious admins on the project have taken care of it. Funny, neither of them made it a username block. Sorry you had to be on the receiving end of that. Drmies (talk) 02:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting

Would you please have a look at the talkpage in question? A user who has never edited the page thought it would be a great idea to weigh in on the talkpage with insinuations I have an anti-LGBTQ agenda and that I edit in bad faith (as well as why Wikipedia should be ignoring WP:V). I responded civilly (but admittedly pretty angrily), and left an AGF template on their user talkpage, telling them that if they persisted in such accusations, I would report them and seek a block. Today they have doubled down at both the talkpage and their userpage. I'm pretty offended by this garbage accusation and doubt I could respond without violating civility myself, but I do think an admin needs to address them and their behavior. Happy Friday! Grandpallama (talk) 14:29, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Appreciated. Grandpallama (talk) 00:01, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Soft block of CoralSpringsCenterForThePerformingArts (talk · contribs)

This account looks like block evasion of CoralSpringsCenterForTheArts (talk · contribs), who was hardblocked. Pahunkat (talk) 16:15, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

• I see. For non-profits I have a tendency to go with soft blocks. Their edits were not exactly neutral, but it wasn't as bad as other stuff we see. Drmies (talk) 16:17, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Email FYI about LTA

Hi, in case the "email this user" function here also had issues, I wanted to note here that I sent you an email. It's about an LTA you blocked previously and who has popped up again. Crossroads ^-talk- 05:20, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

• Gotcha. Yes, the company filter sometimes filters a lot. Drmies (talk) 15:33, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Assistance needed

Please take a look at new User:LayinItOnTheLine and their edits on Gwar. They insist on adding unsourced information despite my making multiple attempts to tell them, via their talk page, that it needs a source. The most recent attempt to do so received a response of "you're more than welcome to edit it yourself if you REALLY wanna do it by the book" and "fuck the rules". Seems to be a preview of what we can expect regarding their contributions to the project as a whole. Thanks NJZombie (talk) 14:37, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

• Well, they got themselves blocked three times--that's a pretty impressive feat. Drmies (talk) 19:59, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry, I accidentally nuked one of your contributions because I didn't pay enough attention. I thought Twinkle had gone rogue on me but instead removed your warning. Schwede66 20:29, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

• Haha, no problem at all. Don't worry. Hey, I reinstated yours correctly, right? Drmies (talk) 22:53, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Drum corps decades old discographies?

Dear sir: I see that you have deleted extensive discographies of the shows for the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps (from Concord, California), the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps (from Santa Clara, California) the Phantom Regiment (from Rockford Illinois) and the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps (from Austin Texas). I have not had time to go and check the websites for the top 20 'world-class' groups or the next tier of 20 'open class' groups so there may be more.

These groups are one of the major sources of musical education in the United States (and even somewhat in Europe, the UK and Japan) today. The groups comprise musicians from the ages of 14-21 many of whom are music majors and hopeful music educators. Their instructors are music educators from all across the country, including many from major college campuses. The scores are all individually written, and carefully composed. The groups all obtain proper copyright permissions for their adaptations. Hundreds of thousands of followers attend their shows throughout the nation annually, and their alumni networks are a powerful force for good in terms of raising money for musical scholarships and promoting civic values. Many high school students learn about classical music and composition from these groups and from these groups alone.

I understand that you are a famous decades-old Wikipedian and I am a mere couple of page editor with only a plate of welcome cookies. However, I do know musical education. These discographies are a huge source of information for musical students from middle school through college. I am not sure you understand what it means to music students to have them deleted.

I hope you will reconsider deleting these rich histories. Please feel free to respond and explain why you think these are "unencyclopedic" -- if you felt they were unsourced or needing more citations, then the proper recommendation would be a banner asking for this to be corrected. I will gladly do that research and modifications if given the chance -- would much prefer that rather than having to undelete information caught happenstance and done quietly.

Saltwolf (talk) 06:03, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

• I'm sorry, but that your hobby is important to you doesn't mean you get to use Wikipedia as a webhost. I might have been more inclined toward conversation if you hadn't left a totally passive-aggresive message here, or lied in this edit summary and invented some BS about a "campaign", or made some patronizing insult here. Every word you said questions my good faith. Drmies (talk) 12:10, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Just... what the hey? They can't ALL be sockpuppets, can they? [2] 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 03:30, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

79.25.64.0/18 block

• 79.25.64.0/18 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · block user · block log)

Would the IP data at User:Beyond My Ken/Brescia LTA allow the widening of this block at all, to potentially include some of the other ranges they use? Thank you. FDW777 (talk) 10:29, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

<tps>As an admin who has a good deal of experience with the northern Italy LTA, the Telecom Italia ranges they inhabit are so broad and so dynamic that we would have to block all mobile devices in Italy to keep them out. Acroterion (talk) 23:51, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

No problem. Now I've discovered the LTA page it's easier for me to present their history of disruption on RFPP and AIV reports anyway. FDW777 (talk) 12:46, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Acroterion. Drmies (talk) 14:07, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

They are back at it again

There is a anonymous user who you have blocked before that has returned and is doing the same thing as before which is non-constructive edits and vandalism. I have warned this person repeatedly not to do it but they persist. I believe these three IP Addresses are all the same person and are all linked. User talk:119.18.1.210, User talk:119.18.1.210, User talk:119.18.2.245. I think a longer block is needed or something else needs to happen.Sully198787 (talk) 11:25, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

WHACK

• Ah man, now I want a cluestick too!-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:32, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Ha. Well, Ponyo, this cluestick, awarded to me on my birthday, I could have done without... Drmies (talk) 03:25, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
    • Happy Birthday, Drmies. What are you, like 35 or something? Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 03:31, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
    • Happy Birthday Doc! Hope you had a pool party and a sufficient amount of alcohol, but not enough to be a danger to yourself. Softlavender (talk)
      • Thanks y'all! Drmies (talk) 20:08, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
        • Awww, happy belated birthday, Drmies. I hope you had a great day full of blessings. --ARoseWolf 14:07, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy note

Hi - just to let you know, I pulled TPA here. Hope it's self explanatory. Girth Summit _(blether) 15:43, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Revdels from your BLP/N posts

I collected the diffs of where the name was introduced from the articles and talk pages. I think I got them all. I'm not sure if it qualifies for revdel, but I assume it does as he hasn't even been charged with a crime. [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], and [10].

• User:ScottishFinnishRadish, I already started by the time you posted this, I think, but I appreciate it. Please have a look and see what I missed. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 20:08, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
  • [11] Missed that one, but the rest look like they're all set. Thanks a ton. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:22, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
    • Thanks. Yeah, guess I never looked at that talk page. And that's from Marshall, who insists they're not a sock, and yet they are TuckGrinder or whatever it was. Drmies (talk) 00:35, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Moved from my talk page

An IP left a request on my talk page.

Moved from there

Hello. I would like to report these IP Sockpuppets that are unhelpful and suspicious. These IPs needs to blocked, or, you can investigate them, keep in mind and watching over them. 1.) For the past few months, the IP ranges of "124.106.226.215", "58.69.105.139" and "58.69.105.140" are active at The Broken Marriage Vow, Marry Me, Marry You, He's Into Her, Darna (2021 TV series) and other Philippine TV series articles. An example of those IPs is their persistent, disruptive reverting at The Broken Marriage Vow page. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) They are also refactoring/editing talk page comments. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 2.) I have seen most of the IP sock ranges of "120.29" (76 & 78) in making disruptive vandalism edits. So far we have "120.29.78.194", "120.29.78.93" (who was globally blocked for 6 days and 23 hours until 19 August 2021), "120.29.76.223" (the most active), and most recently a new IP "120.29.76.194" (sock active since 18 August 2021). All those IP socks are usually very active at MOR Entertainment, Kapamilya Channel, It's Showtime (Philippine TV program), and all other articles and pages related to ABS-CBN. They are also active at trying to disruptively protecting the pages of The First and True Home of Asianovelas (protected until 20 August 2021), Asianovela Channel (protected until 21 August 2021), and probably GMA The Heart of Asia. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) I suspect that there's going to have more new sockpuppets connected to all the IPs that I mentioned above (as per WP:SHARE rule), and I hope someone would take actions against them. -136.158.42.180 (talk) 11:24, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Of course, I haven't got the mop (that might be useful some point in the future, but not interested in that right now - busy IRL too), so I can't take any action (feel like the IP was confused or something); and I don't have time to give my uninvolved opinion either. Feel free to opine as you see fit. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:22, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Lachi (artist)

Hello, over the past few weeks I have been updating this article and tried to remove anything promotional. Please let me know exactly what the issue is. You can tell me which exact lines and I will revise or feel free to revise yourself. Honolulucb (talk)

• Please see my recent edits. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 00:24, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Hmm I just checked. There is too much there and I am sure I may have some disagreements after I check. Let me check. As far as the external links that you said are spam, that was not added by me, but how is her Authors Website that has more info about her and also her Itunes page considered spam? I have seen many artist pages with iTunes. Could you please point out any policy regaring these and iTunes pages not being acceptable as an external link??? Honolulucb (talk) 00:56, 21 August 2021 (UTC)