User talk:DavidWBrooks/2016 archive

Editions in print

I have had it confirmed by an administrator that my interpretation of creating a section titled 'Editions in print' as WP:BOOKSPAM is correct. I am therefore deleting the section in Flatland once again. Raise the question at forum level if you wish. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 13:43, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Thaumatrope

Thanks, David; it was just a matter of copy-paste from template:multi image and modifying to taste! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 10:52, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Definition of trillion

Thanks David for your contribution. You comment:

detailsand references are on the article itself.

and by this I presume you mean:

details and references are in the article itself

Is this what you are saying?

So where are the references?

I see no references to which you refer.

Thanks for your help in making this important item (trillion) more clear,

Regards,

Do better.

kk (talk) 18:08, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

February 2016

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portmanteau

Cukservative is a particularly funny portmanteau, which is suitable right after Sarah Palin, because it's related to the Republicans. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.219.76.2 (talk) 07:37, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Let me ask you something...

Do you judge a store by the quality of its merchandise, or by the whining you overhear at the complaint counter? BMK (talk) 06:33, 26 March 2016 (UTC) (Note to confused future self: This follows minor disagreement about Doughboy article)

Hey, future DavdiWBrooks: in actuality, it comes after your past self wrote on Talk:Doughboy: "judging from some of the comments on your talk page you don't give an inch in edit disputes", so if you ever run into your past self, do remind him not to judge a book by the comments scrawled inside it by disaffected readers. Better to read the book and judge it on its own merits. BMK (talk) 21:46, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Your repetition of Wikipedia:I just like it made the comments seem very plausible. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 22:06, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Be that as it may, my comment was petty and pointless. I think I'll remove it so we can move on. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 23:02, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

I restored your removal. Once a comment has been responded to, it is strongly discouraged to edit the comment, as it distorts the response, and leaves the wrong imporession as to what the responder was reacting to. If you want to strike it out, please feel free to do so. BMK (talk) 00:37, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Oh, and if you're stirking out pointless and petty remarks, you remark just above would be a good candidate as well. Probably better to think twice before posting. (And to give some consideration to turning in the bit, I'm not sure your up to the standards required of admins these days.) BMK (talk) 00:40, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Well, looks like my impression was pretty accurate. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:05, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

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His finest performances listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect His finest performances. Since you had some involvement with the His finest performances redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 18:41, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Cathy Dennis song

I don't think that I will have to do a page only for Cathy Dennis version. Wikipedia says: "Songs with notable cover versions are normally covered in one common article about the song and the cover versions." All songs that have been appeared in chart must have been on the page of the article and I don't think that is something saying that is wrong. See those pages: La Vie en rose; The Power of Love (Jennifer Rush song) and many others...--88marcus (talk) 22:33, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Vegemite

That Miley Cyrus has a jar of Vegemite tattooed on her hardly reflects the way that the world views Vegemite. From the news tonight it seems that she only did it because a friend introduced her to it. --AussieLegend (✉) 13:21, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Zillion and friends

Very nice addition to Indefinite and fictitious numbers. I've trimmed a lot of unnecessary garbage off the end of the URL-- the question mark and everything after it-- and tested the shortened version, of course. To the best of my knowledge, those appendices serve only to tell the domain owner how the user came to the page in the first place, kind of like I heard it from Jack, who got it from Roseanne, who saw it on Wikipedia, and they got it from...* (I don't think personal pass-alongs can or do get included, but websites do.)

‍* Tom Lehrer, anyone?

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Tower of Hanoi and OEIS

OEIS Sequence A001511 is not original research. It's a Core Sequence. See L. Gros, Théorie du Baguenodier, Aimé Vingtrinier, Lyon, 1872. The connection between the ruler function and the Tower of Hanoi goes back more than 140 years. EdPeggJr (talk) 16:46, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

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Backronym edit

Hello! I'm sure you get plenty of questions, so I am indeed sorry to bother you. I saw the comment that this was not to be an exhaustive list, but I felt that the backronym for backronym was appropriate for a few reasons: it's an example, it's a definition, and it's awkwardly shoehorned as are many acronyms. The reason given for the edit seemed to be that since many people don't say this explicitly, it should not be on the page. Obviously, I disagree, but I don't want to "redo an undo." My question for you is, how do I meaningfully contribute to wikipedia without worrying that my edits are in vain? Thank you for your time! Stevensenger (talk) 23:09, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Chirithy from Kingdom Hearts χ is based off a Scottish Fold.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/f/f9/Chirithy_KHX.png/revision/latest?cb=20150809175719 http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/4/40/Dark_Chirithy_KHX_02.png/revision/latest?cb=20160305161102

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Need help from admin editing an article

Hello David, please help me to edit a certain article which drastically needs to be edited. Its not that I have a question on how to edit, its that I need an admin to do it because I keep trying to edit it but my edits get undone. So please respond, and btw I really don't understand how to view your response to this, so if its not on this page then please post something on my talk page. thank you Obeyel (talk) 04:34, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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Joe Clifford Jay Porter Novels

Yesterday I added two novels by author Joe Clifford, who is a friend and a well-known writer. The Novels are Lamentation and December Boys, published by Oceanview Publishing on October 21, 2014 and June 7, 2016, respectively. You deleted them, saying they were minor novels. Joe Clifford has published several books, including Junkie Love and Lamentation was a 2015 Anthony Award Nominee for Best Mystery Novel. Joe has a dedicated following and I imagine many people in the state of New Hampshire are fans.

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They weren't a significant addition to that article - New Hampshire - although they may be a significant addition to other articles. There are lots of good and popular writers whose books have taken place in New Hampshire; we can't list them all. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 00:35, 15 December 2016 (UTC)