User talk:JMF/Archives/2020/July

Nomination for deletion of Template:Char

Template:Char has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 05:58, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Hooke

Actually the Royalist focus of the Wadham cognoscenti was pretty significant. Hooke was form the Isle of Wight, a Royalist stronghold; he was sent to Wadham on a choral scholarship, which was deliberate, a sinecure unrder the Protectorate (when music in chiurch was banned), and the Wadham group, including Wren, Boyle and Hooke, were ardent Royalists. This is according to Waller, 'Espinasse, Jardine and others. I have 'Espinasse, plus her copy of Gunther, and Jardine, and chatted about it briefly with Jardine a couple of years back. Guy (help!) 08:15, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

@JzG:, I don't disagree but wp:LEAD says that the lead should summarise the most important points of the body (not every point in the body). Hooke's royalism is certainly mentioned but not substantially, it doesn't have its own section for example. I think Occurring has a good point that the article has too much waffle (aka, wp:TLDR) and the lead in particular needs to be concise. If you remain unconvinced, would you start a new topic at the article talk page? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 10:45, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Personally I think it's a shame the article doesn't mention that he experimented with eating other people's vomit. EEng 23:47, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

@EEng: {{citation needed}}. No, on second thoughts, don't. If you did then I would have to wp:verify it and I'd really rather not. I suppose there must be a wp article called something-phagia about such things. This Is Spinal Tap, perhaps? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:59, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Esophageal tap? I can't find it now but I'm quite certain of this. Some of those virtuosi thought vomitus might have medicinal properties. They'd do just about anything in the name of science, you know. I even recall he discussed (in his journal?) whose vomit might be most efficacious. This was near the end of his life. (Whether that's cause and effect I do not know.) EEng 13:38, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

AN/I § Please revdel edit summary containing offensive, ableist personal attack from User:John Maynard Friedman

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Please revdel edit summary containing offensive, ableist personal attack from User:John Maynard Friedman. The discussion is about the topic Ableism. This is a required notification under the rules of WP:AN/I and therefore does not breach the voluntary WP:Harassment nor any voluntary WP:IBAN. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 23:45, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Can I make a suggestion? If no one's responded to your post at ANI, just withdraw it by simply deleting your post, and email your favorite neighborhood admin about the revdel. I can't figure out what diff you're talking about so I'm not passing judgment on the appropriateness of the request, nor am I taking sides between you two, but it benefits no one to take this through ANI when there are other ways. If you're not sure how to do the email I can help you with that, but please take my advice and remove your ANI post right now before the thread gets underway. JMF, if you'd rather I continue this with P on his talk page instead of here, I can do that, but maybe I can help you two get past this. EEng 23:54, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Query

John Maynard Friedman, any mocking of one's disability on Wikipedia is absolutely beyond the pale. Were you aware of Psiĥedelisto's disability when you issued that edit summary? El_C 01:01, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

• El_C, is there any good reason for us NOT to block this editor while they're mulling over their answer, and framing their apology? I mean, would anyone have written that edit summary outside of context? I have never seen it, in all my years here. Drmies (talk) 01:29, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Drmies, good point. Indeffed pending all that. El_C 01:32, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

• JMF, I only remember running into you once, though I've seen you around. I would like to believe that somehow this is a case of cosmically coincidental bad choice of words. If that's true please explain; if it's not, and some worser impulse took hold of you, search your soul a bit and find the right words to make this right. You do that and a week from now maybe you and Psiĥedelisto will be best friends. (It's happened to me.) But please resolve this. EEng 02:15, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

  @EEng:, Drmies, El_C no, I was completely unaware of Psiĥedelisto's personal circumstances. I considered long and hard how to respond to their extended attack on my good faith at template talk:char, including giving serious consideration to a wp:ani reference. So I read the ani advice article and concluded that it would be best if I chose not to respond in kind. I did not give the same consideration to my edit summary, I was unaware of its implications and withdraw it unconditionally.

• Psiĥedelisto, I apologise unreservedly for those words. This is not said just to get out of a block. I would never ever have said such a thing had I been aware of its implications. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 09:35, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, John Maynard Friedman. I have lifted your block. Glad it was a mistake born of coincidence, after all. It would have been a dark day for Wikipedia had it been otherwise. At least on your part. El_C 09:48, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

@El C:, bending Groucho Marx, I would not want to be a member of a club that would accept such things of its members. Thank you for the unblock: ideally I would prefer that Psiĥedelisto accepts my apology too (before I resume editing) but will understand if they decline or ignore. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:25, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

@John Maynard Friedman: Yes, I do accept your apology, thank you for giving one. I think it better for everyone we try to keep further interaction to a minimum though, at least for the immediate future. I hope you'll forgive me not immediately replying despite editing elsewhere, as when I've done so in the past it's often caused more problems. I feel that I've said my piece, over at Template talk:Char, especially after the comment beginning with Sure, have a few practical reasons. I know my behavior and word choice has also not been ideal; I could do with less sarcasm (gee whiz, wow, etc.), and certainly I shouldn't have taken so long to enumerate my actual practical reasons [for opposition] as I termed them. I'm once again sorry you didn't find my comment here humorous but rather a provocation. I was actually surprised Wiktionary was missing those articles, as usually American slang is well covered there.

In any event, if an RfC happens, I'll copy what I wrote there, without the reference marked [sigh 1], (because the procedural concerns are at this point IMO a WP:DEADHORSE, and would only serve to derail any RfC and re-inflame this situation needlessly,) and with minor format changes to make it make sense as a reply to an RfC and not a reply to a single editor.

I am glad that the ES comment was not intentionally targeted at me for being disabled and I am glad you were unblocked. The project certainly would be missing out on constructive edits had the author of Milton Keynes permanently left. I also primarily write content here, so I know long it takes to get a . I only recently started getting involved with templates/modules, and that will never be the majority of my editing.

Please note I only asked for a revdel/ANI record of revdel, so definitely didn't want to see anyone permanently blocked from editing. Due to my being somewhat "internet famous", I get a lot of comments worded similarly to yours, except from people who do intend harm, and who do know me, so I may have even overreacted a bit by going right to ANI as it is somewhat psychologically triggering. I've grown more and more attached to Wikipedia over the past months primarily because it is so different from the rest of the internet, so I was upset at what I perceived as...perhaps, Twitter or 4chan "leaking" in, if you get what I mean.

Also, thank you El C also for seeing to it that this situation was clarified. Best, Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 12:52, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Anytime, Psiĥedelisto. You can count on me. El_C 12:59, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

And what am I – chopped liver? EEng 13:27, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

@EEng: Of course not! I appreciated your comment on my talk page and did what you said, stayed out of the thread after it was handled, rather than engage with VanIsaac, although I wanted to, and even had quite a long reply to them written. I will reply to you when I get a chance about why my ĥ is wearing a hat, to really answer it fully, I will need to do some research. Remember, you asked the person who writes articles like Mojikyō and Q with stroke...such questions in my world never have simple answer. I'm finishing two Unicode proposals after a nap but I will track down the history of hats—ĉapeloj—in Esperanto, promise. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 13:39, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Heeding that advise was a good call. VanIsaac should be left to his own devices, for now. Hopefully, there's a light at the end of that tunnel. El_C 13:43, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Hey

JMF, Psiĥedelisto: I don't know what the underlying issue is, and I know you two hardly if at all, but if Psihedelisto unintentionally gave offense maybe blame that on me and give whatever it is you two were discussing another go. I invented years ago to take the drama out of certain situations but it can occasionally backfire, especially if the recipient is unfamiliar with it and doesn't realize he should follow its link. Maybe that's what happened here and (I repeat) if so please blame it on me and have a do-over.

If this doesn't help don't feel you need to explain why. But I hope it will help. EEng 23:45, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry EEng, I'm not blaming you for anything, was just saying I'd seen you use it very successfully in the past, so you gave me the idea to try it. I knew that it doesn't always work, there are no magic bullets on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I had to escalate this to AN/I due to contravention of WP:NPA. See section immediately below. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) ^{please always ping!} 23:48, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

@EEng:, I have no concerns about your fbdb, provided it is used in the spirit you intended. Banter expects wit. There was none in this case. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 09:13, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Well, try to remember the spirit in which something's offered, even if the wit falls short or the attempt is off key. EEng 13:58, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

MOS:DLIST and also MOS:PSEUDOHEAD

See MOS:DLIST and also MOS:PSEUDOHEAD. ASFAIK the problem is that without a colon at the end it screws up the HTML. I have not checked but have been told it does. -- PBS (talk) 22:57, 31 July 2020 (UTC)