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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)

Puppetteer report

Doktoro, your recent focus on owning Donald Trump socks is quite disturbing, and I went looking for some more furniture for you to combat that. Imagine my surprise at finding a puppetteer lurking unbeknownst to all bar one person behind William Simons, a slightly dead person that the puppet creator has cleverly and posthumously arranged for Google to steer everyone towards instead, and William Simmonds, one of those two-sentence mass-created cricket people that are so the rage right now. It's even a shared account, and even more cleverly Google is steering the other person's name to Eva Simons from Gallifrey. Uncle G (talk) 05:06, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

• Wait, this William Simmonds? No, this one--but I think you should write up "Ms. World Automaton", who has the additional benefit of not being able to get married and thus losing her crown. As you know, I don't understand cricket or furniture. BTW I did receive that lovely bouquet of flowers you sent me for Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee, and Mrs. Drmies and I both appreciate the box of bonbons--how did you know hazelnut is my favorite? Drmies (talk) 20:56, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Certainly the William Simmonds who was supposed to be linked from User:Magnus Manske/Your Paintings, although I only found about that afterwards. I was looking for furniture carvers for you.

    As for the bus stop, I fully expected at User talk:Drmies/Archive 133#Speedy deletion nomination of User:Drmies/Stavoren lighthouse that you, with your greater access to JSTORrery, Main Beaming, and — indeed! — Gallifreyan museums would be able to do far better than I could. The factoid about that tourist Peeters facing the wrong way and looking out from the bus stop was not enough.

    Although we have discovered that your ISP is hiding things from Eastern Kentucky University from you. That seems like the Scunthorpe problem taken to absurd extremes. I would ask some pointed questions about its WWW filtering if I were you.

    Whitworth Art Gallery (1976). "Peeters, Jan the Elder". Landscape in Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the 17th Century: From the Collections of the Musees Royaux Des Beaux-arts de Belgique, Brussels. University of Manchester.

    Uncle G (talk) 22:45, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

    • I found a few hits for paintings of the Vuurbaak, but they were all snippets. The one I looked into was not a notable painter, and I didn't feel like writing that guy up too. BTW the square in this poor picture, yes--the Vuurbaak was a bit of a problem. Everything around it had been leveled and the Vuurbaak was in the way when they were rebuilding the city after WW2. That odd square, the Vuurbaakplein, apparently was kind of a necessity. Actually, I have inquired about filtering, but to no avail. The last time it was all clogged up with obscenities from a certain banned user, and HR got worried about me being in imminent danger. Drmies (talk) 01:12, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
      • Tell HR that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Uncle G (talk) 02:54, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

William Simmonds was a 20th century draftsman, artist, craftsman, and — together with his wife Eve Simmonds, a musician and embroiderer — proprietor of a touring puppet theatre, who lived in Gloucestershire and who was part of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Life

Both in 1876, Simmonds studied at the Royal College of Art and went on to exhibit at the Royal Academy from 1903 onwards. His wife Eve, born in 1884 in Walthamstow as Eve Peart, studied art at The Slade, and they married in 1912. During World War One, William was a designer, of both tanks and (with Geoffrey de Havilland) aircraft.

After living for a time in Fovant, and then London, they moved to Far Oakridge in 1919, where together they ran a puppet theatre. The interest in puppets originated in Fovant, where William attending the bedside of his sick father began to carve puppets. They were later, in the 1920s and 1930s, to take the theatre on tour, performing at various venues around the country including the Grafton Theatre for three weeks per year.

In Oakridge, Eve became an embroiderer and William participated in a local theatre group, the Oakridge Players. William also pursued his interest in carving, in both wood and ivory, which he had first taken during the war, habitually carrying around a piece of wood or ivory in his pocket to carve. On tour with the puppet theatre, William was, as with the local theatre group, a playwright and set designer, whilst Eve supplied the musical accompaniment on the spinet and was the costumer (both designing and making). William also carved the puppets.

In the year of William's death, 1968, the Cheltenham Art Gallery held an exhibition of his work, which included carvings, sculptures, paintings, drawings, and book designs. At that point, he was the oldest member of the Guild of Gloucestershire Craftsmen. Eve died two years later in 1970.

Works

Works by William Simmonds can be found in various places.

• A 1907 watercolour painting and a 1937 wood-carving are in the Tate Gallery collection.
• A collection of his puppets is in the Gloucester Folk Museum.
• A collection of his carvings and sculptures is in the Gloucester City Museum.
• He carved the rood for the chancel screen in Christ Church, Chalford.

Cross-reference

1. UM 1976, pp. 20–21.
2. ^ MERL.
3. ^ CT.
4. Carruthers, Greensted & Roscoe 2019, p. 312.

Sources

• "William Simmonds, 1876–1968". Museum of English Rural Life. University of Reading.
• Carruthers, Annette; Greensted, Mary; Roscoe, Barley (2019). Ernest Gimson: Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300246261.
• "William and Eve Simmonds". The Cheltenham Trust.

Further reading

• Douglas-Home, Jessica (2019). William Simmonds: The silent heart of the Arts and Crafts movement. Unicorn Publishing Group. ISBN 9781911604754.
• Douglas-Home, Jessica (2019-09-01). "Pulling the strings". The London Library Magazine. No. 45. pp. 14–17.
• Moss, Richard (2019-10-10). "The quiet rural world of Arts and Crafts puppet maker William Simmonds". Museum Crush.
• Greensted, Mary (1996). "William and Eve Simmonds". The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds. Alan Sutton. ISBN 9780750911658.
• Speight, George (1984). "William Simmonds". Theatrephile. No. 5. D.F. Cheshire and S. McCarthy. pp. 23 et seq.
• Thomas, Zoë (2020). Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526140456.

External links

• "sampler by Eve Simmonds". The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum. 1996.51.

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It is fortunate that this is the English Professor Vacuum, Doktoro. So there are no English professors around to warn of the dangers of working from the Cliff's Notes rather than reading the book.

• Fagence Cooper, Suzanne (2019-12-13). "William Simmonds: The silent heart of the Arts and Crafts movement, by Jessica Douglas-Home". Church Times.
• Aslet, Clive (2019). "Craftsman of art". The New Criterion. Vol. 37, no. 7. p. 63.

Uncle G (talk) 05:06, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

• @Uncle G: the Doctor's rage here seems to be directed towards service rifles (and "lists of ..."). As for the two sentence directories of non-notable people, see Misplaced Pages talk:Notability (sports)#RFC on Notability (sports) policy and reliability issues... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 12:34, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Doktoro knows all about robot cricket people I suspect. Doktoro is actually trying to get me to write about guns and bikers for xem right now, in fact, although I am having trouble reading Canadiaian.

    Perhaps we need to get Doktoro onto Wisconsin Cheeseman (AfD discussion), which xe will immediately recognize as (Court case). F.2d {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |opinion= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |vol= ignored (|volume= suggested) (help), being a former Lord High Pajama.

    Did you know Bernier the Lumberman's name, by the way?

    Uncle G (talk) 18:26, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

    • Re. the name: typical Quebec name; but never heard of him, no. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:10, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
      • That's alright. No-one knew for 35 years. Xe was from Maine.
        • Rounds, Leslie; Routhier, Jessica Skwire (2010). ""Bernier the Lumberman": The mystery carver of Biddeford, Maine, identified" (PDF). The Magazine ANTIQUES. pp. 70–72.
      • Uncle G (talk) 00:10, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

The zero-effort AFD mass-nominations including Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Bottom (technical analysis) have led me to someone who wasn't furniture related, Doktoro. But it turns out that Richard W. Schabacker might be article-worthy despite having no relation to furniture. I discount the massive self-published biography, because there is nothing showing George A. Schade's credentials. But other stuff does turn up here and there. Perhaps the lurkers can find something more.

• Schultz, Harry D.; Coslow, Samson, eds. (1966). "Richard W. Schabacker — Pioneer of Sophisticated Technical Research". A Treasury of Wall Street Wisdom. Investors' Press.

Uncle G (talk) 06:24, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you

Is there a barnstar for bacon? --Kansas Bear (talk) 16:54, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

• Well, you can make them yourself. User:Kelapstick/Bacon Cabal has a picture. I'm not sure how active the cabal still is, but we're not very strict about membership; perhaps Kelapstick can inform us what the requirements are. After all, he is the MacDaddy, and those pictures are his. I wonder if his wife still allows him to make those. I understand he's been a strict diet of capybara for a while. Drmies (talk) 17:46, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

• I guess I can give it a try. Kelapstick is eating capybaras? --Kansas Bear (talk) 18:33, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

• Kansas Bear you can use User:Kelapstick/Bacon Cabal/Bacon barnstar tempalte for the bacon barnstar. --kelapstick 17:14, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

• I thought about giving someone a Bacon barnstar since someone else called them the "bacon of objectivity", but then I figured it might not be taken in the spirit it was given. Thanks anyway!--Kansas Bear (talk) 20:35, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Books

• Template:Did you know nominations/Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee

I've had, just yesterday, Google Books give me two different views of a single book according to what search path I used to reach it. And that was when logged in.

Uncle G (talk) 15:00, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

• I often have problems with non-US user links, yes. But I can't imagine writing Misplaced Pages articles without Google Books...well, I guess I might write better ones, because I have to work harder at every individual article... Drmies (talk) 15:48, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
  • That book on the politics of furniture can be used to significantly expand Knoll (company) I think, by the way. I hope that you were suitably scared by the books from those pot-smoking Texans, too. We're still waiting for M. Canadian to translate the book that is in Canadiaian. And for that SPI case of the puppetteer to be decided.

    Did you see that someone has cited some books for you to write about the guns at Boozefighters (AfD discussion)? Mind you, if only those two had looked at the article, they wouldn't have had to research it nearly so hard. ☺

    Uncle G (talk) 16:16, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

… and Babcock

Given your recent excitement over J-Pop and John Carter, lacking a furniture connection for the latter I find myself turning to the scary Texan books for a fireman. Uncle G (talk) 09:31, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Willet Babcock, a cabinetmaker, alderman, fireman, and opera house proprietor in Paris, Texas, commissioned the life-sized sculpture of a man wearing cowboy boots that was placed on his own grave.

Originally from Ithaca, New York, born there in October 1828 according to the gravestone monument that he commissioned, Babcock moved to Paris in the 1850s, where he set up shop with A. A. Walker on South Main Street as a craftsman and furniture dealer, and was instrumental in Paris becoming a centre for furniture manufacturing. In 1860 the shop was the largest output of furniture in Texas, with 500 pieces of furniture made from 35,000 feet (11,000 m) of lumber, bought for $1250 and sold at an estimated total of $6000. By 1870 the census recorded his report of making "400 bedsteads etc." from 77,000 feet (23,000 m) of lumber sold for $7900, at his factory where there was one machine and 15 employees. The factory adopted steam powered machinery in 1875. He was furthermore involved in many other parts of Paris life, being its first alderman and fire chief, running the Babcock Opera House above his second furniture showroom (the Masonic Hall on the corner of Main Street and Kauffman that he purchased in 1863), and as a company director of the Paris Street Railroad Company and the Paris Gas Light Company.

He was also, as many cabinetmakers were, involved in undertaking. By the end of his life a wealthy man, he died on 1881-08-27, having the year before commissioned the stone monument for his own grave, the Willet Babcock Memorial, from the Paris Marble Works. A life-sized statue of a man on a pedestal between two inverted torches, posed leaning against a cross and wearing cowboy boots, it was carved by German immigrant stonemason Gustav Klein, who worked for the Marble Works and whose work can be found at other gravesites in the cemetery where Babcock is buried.

Cross-reference

1. ^ Morris Little 1996, p. 3.
2. ^ Taylor & Warren 2013, p. 258.

Sources

• Taylor, Lonn; Warren, David B. (2013). "Babcock, Willet". Texas Furniture, Volume Two: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880. Focus on American History. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292745810.
• Morris Little, Carol (1996). A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292760363.

Further reading

• Highsmith, Carol M. "Photograph of the Willet Babcock Memorial". Library of Congress.
• "A Lively Texas Town". The Open Road. Bob and Elsa Pendleton. 2004-11-12. — detail of the boots

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• Lewis, Todd E. (1993). "Mob Justice in the "American Congo": "Judge Lynch" in Arkansas during the Decade after World War I". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 52 (2). Arkansas Historical Association: 156–184. doi:10.2307/40019247. JSTOR 40019247.

Henry Lowry throughout. John Carter on pages 166, 168, 174, and in particular 169 which has stuff that you haven't got at all. Uncle G (talk) 07:28, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

• I see that now. I wrote these articles without looking at JSTOR. The case of Henry Lowry is absolutely gruesome and obviously deserves to be written up. Dwight H. Blackwood needs an article as well, as does every other person on that two-page list. When you come visit me we'll go to the Memorial. Drmies (talk) 15:14, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

ANI notice where you have been mentioned

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — MarkH₂₁ 18:15, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 08:40, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thank you for helping me with my sockpuppet reports. Zai 16:26, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

FYI...

I agree with you 100% on both substance and outcome (because of course I do), I'm just encouraging you to be slightly more nuanced in your entirely correct statements :-) Guy (help! - typo?) 18:51, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks--but like so many people I also get tired of having to explain the sky is blue... Drmies (talk) 20:14, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Blue? Know your Dpbsmith, Doktoro! User:Uncle G/On sources and content#There are no exceptions to everything. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 00:16, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
• And Zaphod Gearbox, on another matter, you may enjoy reading John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. See s:Page:On Liberty (4th Edition).djvu/66 from the point beginning "The greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left it on record that he always studied his adversary’s case".

  If you want to pass your Senior Cambridge, you need to know what every schoolchild is taught on this subject: A Practical Rhetoric: For Instruction in English Composition and Revision in Colleges and Intermediate Schools at the Internet Archive

  Uncle G (talk) 00:16, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

  • I should keep item 6 in mind... As a side note, Señor Cambridge's Scribleriad was the inspiration for the title of The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, edited by a late friend and colleague. Drmies (talk) 14:58, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
    • Cicero ("the greatest orator, save one, of antiquity") is an interesting example, since some of his most famous orations abandon nuance and civility in favor of unrestrained invective. And of course Mill himself recognized, in On Liberty, that tone-policing was an inherently partisan act and a way of taking the side of the powerful against the powerless:

      With regard to what is commonly meant by intemperate discussion, namely invective, sarcasm, personality, and the like, the denunciation of these weapons would deserve more sympathy if it were ever proposed to interdict them equally to both sides... whatever mischief arises from their use is greatest when they are employed against the comparatively defenceless.

      So I'm not sure either of them would take issue with Drmies's bluntness, but who knows. MastCell  18:39, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
      • You are getting Doktoro confused with Zaphod Gearbox. There may be a slight resemblance, and indeed the occasional crossover episode, but one does use a TARDIS and the other an infinitely improbable thing invented by Boris Johnson. It is M. Gearbox who is currently sitting xyr Senior Cambridge on the Turing Test. Doktoro is, after all, already a Doktoro. Uncle G (talk) 19:06, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Vacuum

The Engineering Professor Vacuum is of course awaiting a replacement pump, and an earnest pointer to Google Translate in case one has difficulty with Gallifreyan makes me chuckle. But: Doktoro, there's a Dutch Vacuum Society? When were you going to tell me this? I've just found a whole bunch of biographies, and if I find second sources you might find yourself with a Vacuuum Vacuuum.

• Redhead, Paul A., ed. (1997). Vacuum Science and Technology: Pioneers of the 20th Century. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781563962486.

Uncle G (talk) 16:28, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

• Uncle, I can't help but wonder if you're retired and just don't like fishing. It is true that Category:Vacuum is in need of some work. Drmies (talk) 21:05, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
• But I'm not sure what you are pointing at. I'd write up NEVAC, but the sourcing is poor in Dutch and in English--just another trade group/professional organization with a conference and a journal, and no coverage of it. Or are you interested in Pieter Clausing, and that erroneous diffusion coefficient in his PhD thesis, something that seems to have really bothered Irving Langmuir? Drmies (talk) 21:14, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Definitely the biographies in the book, Doktoro. Vaccuuuming under the furniture seems long overdue. I shall be searching for second sources. Have some pity with the acronyms. I only recently had to figure out what FP420 experiment (AfD discussion) was, and I wouldn't just casually bring such technical articles like that, or immersion boiler or spice rack, here to Articles for Creation. The Time Lords did remove all knowledge of TARDIS-building from your memories when they sent you away from Gallifrey, and I wouldn't want to be the cause of any upset. On the other hand, maybe your lurkers know what a spice rack is. Uncle G (talk) 21:43, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Mail

Please redress

Dear Drmies,

With respect to your recent edit, I agree of course that "Misplaced Pages user space is for working on articles and other activities related to Misplaced Pages". However, your statement about "material used to harass on other WMF projects" is unfounded. It is hard for you to judge, so i'll give you some background.

The Arbitration Committee of the Dutch[REDACTED] has accepted my case against unlawful actions by User:Daniuu and Natuur12 against my articles and me for arbitration. (Google Translate Dutch-English has improved a lot recently, so you can read for yourself.) Daniuu has acted rashly here by removing clearly innocent Dutch text on a false claim and hoax. The text was intended for the allowed space https://nl.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Humor_en_onzin and conforms fully to the traditional rules there. So there is no harassment whatsoever by me, as User:Daniuu should know. You can check that i was, am and intend to be a decent Wikimedian on various wikiplatforms. I am a moderator on nl.wikibooks. Daniuu has no valid argument. We should not allow cross-wiki editorial violence.

• So, could you please restore the text you removed as would be correct? Thank you, Hansmuller (talk) 09:48, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Seriously? You are blocked indefinitely on the nl-wikipedia for "Verstoring/bedreiging van werksfeer" after this extensive discussion about these jokes of yours, which you may claim are innocent and "conform ... to the traditional rules there" but that are clearly perceived as disruptive and threatening. So this is a no. And no, this isn't really hard for me to judge. If you restore that material I will block you: the content you are posting here, in your user space on en-wiki, merely serves to extenuate disruption across platforms, especially since Daniuu, an administrator on the Dutch Misplaced Pages, is also an active participant on the English Misplaced Pages, and thus has a right to complain about your shenanigans. If they were disruptive there, they are disruptive here, or, as you put it, "We should not allow cross-wiki editorial violence." Drmies (talk) 14:53, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Page seems to need semi-protection

Sorry for bothering you. I've just reverted this anonymous change which had for over 2 months successfully suppressed the reliably sourced (as in BBC) info that the snooker player who is the subject of the article was currently banned for 5 years for match-fixing. The edit also left the lead of the article ungrammatical (sentence not ended by a full stop - aka period in American English) and absurd (the guy is a snooker player, not a snooker). The fact that this was not reverted for over 2 months suggests too few editors have the page on their watchlist, so semi-protection limiting changes to auto-confirmed users seems required, but I don't know how to request this properly, except by asking my favourite admin to do it. The page seems likely to get quite a bit of traffic because the player who received a one-year ban in the same incident (for failing to report his knowledge of the matter) is doing better than expected in the current World Championship, and his page wikilinks to the abused page. Regards, Tlhslobus (talk) 17:15, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

• Tlhslobus, thanks for reverting that--you can make these requests at WP:RFPP, but I think you'd get the same answer there that I'm about to give you: there is not enough recent activity to warrant semi-protection. I'm glad you saw it, but semi-protection, given this history, that's too much. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 20:58, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Thanks, Drmies, and sorry for bothering you. Tlhslobus (talk) 12:57, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
    • No bother at all: thank you. Drmies (talk) 14:39, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Stratford General Strike of 1933

On 23 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stratford General Strike of 1933, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the Stratford General Strike of 1933 the Canadian military was brought in, with machine guns, to which the strikers responded with a rally and a parade? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stratford General Strike of 1933. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Stratford General Strike of 1933), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Encroaching fancruft (or autobio)

JoAnne Lorenzana is an article created a decade ago by an SPA who has edited virtually nothing but this article for the decade she has been on Misplaced Pages. She also apparently has no clue how to cite things even after a decade. It was fancrufty enough already, but today she added a whole new level of misshapen bloat which I noticed via Recent Changes. I've trimmed 50% of the badly cited article, but she keeps adding more stuff back in. Could people help keep an eye on it? (By the way, I'm not even sure the subject meets notability; gets only a handful of Google hits; has some links to Philippines news articles at the bottom of the article, but nothing comes up on Google unless perhaps in Filipino/Tagalog.) Does not even have an official website (website dead since 2015), so she seems to be making Misplaced Pages her official website. Thanks, y'all, Softlavender (talk) 06:16, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

• I don't know, Softlavender--"Web Paper loading" seems like a pretty promising article, though it seems to be a common title. Drmies (talk) 12:40, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
• Ahem! Uncle G (talk) 16:32, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
  • OK, thanks, y'all. In fairness to the editor (who I now think is just a fan and still a newbie with only 85 edits -- she recently reached out at the Teahouse to get a clue about editing, and has also contributed to another Filipino musician's article), I'm going to see if I can find Wayback versions of the now-deleted and dead references. (We commonly retain reputable citations if they are dead, and provide archived links.) Thanks again, Softlavender (talk) 18:39, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Thanks Uncle, for that link. I was able to find the direct link to the scanned article from it. Softlavender (talk) 19:10, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
    • You might also enjoy the several history professors over at User talk:JzG#Concern regarding Draft:Republican Jesus. I am sure that Doktoro is even now sympathizing with Zaphod Gearbox. Uncle G (talk) 20:08, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
      • I wish "a certain amount of profanity" was more clearly quantified. Drmies (talk) 20:47, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
      • In the words of the immortal Herr Doktor Mies: Fuck no. Shouldn't that title just be a redirect to Donald Trump? Also, I'm not sure a Brit should be doing articles on OUR politics. Softlavender (talk) 20:59, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
        • It has already been promoted to Republican Jesus. Uncle G (talk) 21:21, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
          • Christ. Softlavender (talk) 21:27, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
            • I find all this very amusing. Drmies (talk) 22:07, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
              • I'd offer to install a History Professor Vacuum for you, but you in fact have geography coming your way. And that two-sentence cricketer with a puppetteer. I suspect that Softlavender's suggestions here for improving and renaming Republican Jesus to add "Christ" are not actionable. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 23:38, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
• By the way, I'm sure you'll be happy to know that the reason JoAnne Lorenzana titled her recent album My Everyday Valentine is because she was born on February 14. I just realized that because I am a Super Editor. Softlavender (talk) 22:03, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

TPA

Hi Drmies. You spamublocked Pulsemedic back in March 2020, but they just resumed spamming on their talk page. You might wish to revoke their talk page access. Thanks. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:58, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Drm310  Done GirthSummit _(blether) 16:41, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Drmies (talk) 20:46, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Block needed

Hey Drmies, could you please block Hibby Dibsy? They're an LTA. Best, Pahunkat (talk) 16:59, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

DYK for William A. Radford

On 27 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William A. Radford, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that William A. Radford assisted in producing a 1700-page encyclopedia about cement? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William A. Radford. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, William A. Radford), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

• So everyone just ignored Guldner House and you didn't do a double. Uncle G (talk) 06:08, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
  • Oh, right, oops--that was a double DYK, or it would have been if I had nominated it correctly. Sorry. Drmies (talk) 12:25, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

SP case

Maybe take a look, https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Shuppiluliuma Shadow4dark (talk) 02:48, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Towns the noo!

• Misplaced Pages:Teahouse#A specific diff

Uncle G (talk) 11:57, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Philo Beddoe

It's good to see that 'ole Philo is still remembered! I know Clint is more likely remembered as Dirty Harry, his spaghetti western characters, or perhaps even as a great director. Still, I always liked the Beddoe. :-). The follow up may have been even better than the original outing. I thought the chemistry between Clint and William Smith was amazing. Maybe it was just the fact that Smith was a real-life badass. (but I guess that's true of many Smiths). Either way - it's good to know that the Beddoe character is remembered. Hope you're well Drmies. Always good to see your name in the mix. — Ched (talk) 12:11, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

• Ha, likewise, on that last note. I always thought they were just silly, but every now and then I'm tempted to say "right turn Liam" when I take my boy to school. I need to watch Rumble Fish again, and get the kids to watch it. Drmies (talk) 14:29, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
  • On the "silly" side, I recently bought Uncle Drew, so I'm going to have to sit down and watch that one. I bet you're boy is growing fast - they tend to do that, lol. My granddaughter graduates this year, so I'm hoping my daughter and son-in-law will let me come out and do a photo shoot for her. Rumble Fish? Hmmm .. now that's a film I haven't seen in many years. Doesn't seem to be on any of my streaming services, so I'll have to check my DVD collection. Cheers my friend. — Ched (talk) 16:28, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Gwerz Skolan

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Your GA nomination of Breton Ballads

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You've got mail

Liz 19:06, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Mail Notice

Celestina007 (talk) 19:34, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

• Celestina007, right back at you. And now you have a mission. Drmies (talk) 20:07, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Breton Ballads

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Years of the 17th century in the Netherlands

A tag has been placed on Category:Years of the 17th century in the Netherlands indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz 14:27, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Just a notice that this category is now empty. It looks like years during this time period are being classified as part of "the Dutch Republic" rather than being in "the Netherlands". This category will be deleted if it is still empty in 7 days. Liz 14:30, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. I think I saw that earlier for another category. Drmies (talk) 16:14, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Gordimalo

Hello, I just noticed an IP user 157.231.131.2 which you blocked for 3 months for being used by Gordimalo has just started editing again and they tried restoring another edit by one of Gordimalo's sockpuppets. Just a heads up. Thanks. Mellk (talk) 09:16, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Article: Annegret Hannawa

I apologize, I am still relatively new to wikipedia, I certainly didn't mean to cause an edit war. Please let me know if I still did something wrong in my referencing, just added what I understand as secondary sources and removed primary ones. --BlackPantherDesert (talk) 09:53, 29 April 2021 (UTC)