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Mondegreen

David,

Thanks for editing the article, and especially adding the section Standardized and recorded mondegreens. I wrote the Twelve Days of Christmas paragraph, and I agree that it and the following paragraph belong in a separate subsection. I'm rather fond of this little article (if you want your mind expanded a tad, read the Steven Conner lecture cited in the Psychology section), so I appreciate other editors improving it. Paulmlieberman (talk) 14:59, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

David,

What do you think of the new Dutch language addition? Mondegreen or Soramimi? BTW, I'll be in Peterborough on Jan. 20 for an incredible 10 hour contra dance extravaganza ("Snowball"). Peterborough is one of the holy sites of the contra dance world! Paulmlieberman (talk) 16:25, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

alice springs murder capital kerfuffle

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For your sake, I ask you to read and follow WP:BRD. This article has a long accepted WP:STATUSQUO form, and you are attempting to alter that without consensus. Alice being the murder capital of Australia is a statement of fact with a reliable source. I am trying to assume good faith, but so far you have to tried to remove this material because the newspaper article doesn’t provide sufficient background when it uses the statement, then because it doesn’t adequately define the statement when it uses it, and now because you claim that the statement isn’t used at all. You need to clarify for other editors what your real objection is. As far as the phrase not appearing, I can only say that it is used in the 10th paragraph,immediately above the image captioned “A drunken fight between brothers...”. To quote “It remains the nation’s murder capital and one of the most dangerous towns in Australia”. I have already quoted this in the edit summaries, and you yourself have aknowledged that you found the phrase “most damgerous towns” so I am somewhat baffled by your inability to see the phrase “murder capital”. If you still have problems, put the quote I just prvoded into Google and you will get a direct link to the Herald Sun article with phrase highlighted. Anyway, at this juncture all yout concerns have been adressed and I urge you once again to repect WP:BRD and get consensus for any further changes on the talk page of the article. Before you do I suggest that you take a moment to clarify for yourself and other editors precisely what your objection is, rather than presenting different reasons each time for the exact same edit. Mark Marathon (talk) 13:41, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Note to future self: this guy drops that template on anybody who disagrees with him.

15 years of editing!

Hey, DavidWBrooks. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 16:45, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

French wikipedia

Ooooooh - I checked on an article on the French wikipedia to see if it had more information than our version (it does) and was automatically greeted by a bot, creating a talk page. So now there's a DavidWBrooks on the French wikipedia! I will have a stereotypical French drink to celebrate! - DavidWBrooks (talk) 01:49, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Hey hopeless Idiot

Don't ever insult me that way. You useless, hopeless editor. My edits are way better than yours Uddhav9 (talk) 09:14, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

(Note to future self - this concerns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:G._H._Hardy)

KT 2018

Hello DWB - Thanks for the long overdue edit to the lede of The Kingston Trio. I know that you and I have been editing along parallel lines for quite a few years now, and I've enjoyed your work. I'm not sure if you're aware of how volatile, bitter, and emotional this most recent change to the group in 2017 has proven to be, but I'm going to take the liberty of editing your sentence a bit so as to placate all sides in the dispute while remaining simply factual. The section in the article called "Trademark Changes" that I re-cast out of its original edit gives some hint of this controversy. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 19:23, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

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Revert

Please leave an explanation when you revert someone. T8612 (talk) 14:22, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Yes ,sorry - hit the Enter key too soon and there's no way to go back and add an Edit Summary. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 15:30, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

I have a question for you, since you seem to have a better grasp of Wikipedia's rules. It was triggered by your revert on Doc Adams. What should be done when two sources referenced in an article contradict each other? I couldn't find a guideline about it.--Gciriani (talk) 13:14, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

It's a judgement call by editors, I'd say: If one source seems much more credible, then go with it. If they're equally credible, then mention the discrepancy in the article. Or you can sidestep the issue and be vague, if it's not really important - for example, the Doc Adams article could just call the letter writer "a descendant" and not be specific than that. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:18, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Waltzing Matilda

Question regarding your reversion of my comment on the Waltzing Matilda (talk) page. I’m sure you made wonderful contributions in all of your years here, but I don’t see anything that makes you a god here. You reverted my Talk post and wrote “we don’t need...”. So now you’re the arbiter for all Wikipedians? I commented on a comment related to the content. Two editors disagreed and one relented. I don’t think he should have. I think the post was appropriate and the person opposed to it presented a petulant, not to mention unsupported argument. I gave my reason. If that violated a talk page guideline please quote it for me. Otherwise please re-revert. Roricka (talk) 11:23, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

" ... all I find is what I’d describe as a petulant little rant (oops ORIGINAL RESEARCH!! I am utterly sorry at having offended!! ..." - Talk pages are for discussing the article, not Twitter-level comments about other comments. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:44, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

David, I was travelling to New Zealand when this whole thing came up. I was doing all the editing on a tiny iPhone and didn't realize that you are the guy I was supporting in my original post! I was interested in the same point of confusion that you had raised, and when I read the talk-page article I felt that Mark Marathon had been unreasonable. I won't go into supporting arguments I would have made here, except to say I thought you caved-in too easily. But regardless, why were you, of all people, the guy to revert my supporting comment? I mean, it's just a talk page. You seem to have adopted the same "arbiter of all things" attitude that Marathon had. All that nonsense about banners and poems and the like. If "A Dance to the Music of Time" is obviously not a dance, why would it be okay to make your comment (as Marathon implied) if the title HAD been "The Matilda Waltz"? The objection seemed muddled to me. What's so wrong about stating these things (on a TALK PAGE) in preface to figuring out exactly how to get the point across that you were trying to make? It almost seems to me that so long as a comments is even marginally on-topic, on a talk page, that it's a little inappropriate to revert it instead of simply stating one's objection. In the main article, that's different, I'll agree. But this wasn't the main article. Roricka (talk) 22:32, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Jeez, if you're traveling in New Zealand (a place I long to visit) what are you doing spending time on wikipedia?!?!

Near Australia hence in the thrall of that song! -Roricka (talk) 22:40, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

I overreacted to too many snarky pointless online conversations. I'll revert it - but don't go too far into the "just a Talk page" thinking, because they're valuable parts of wikipedia, almost as valuable as the article; if they turn into forum slagheaps then the articles will weaken, too. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 14:48, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll be careful. Haven't given up on finding an appropriate way to get the "what, not a waltz?" comment into the main article. -Roricka (talk) 22:40, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Also, check out “Waltzing Matilda” is not a Waltz – National Poetry Month day 6 with Sonya Rhen. Sorry I don't have time to create the proper citation, but it's: https://sonyarhen.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/waltzing-matilda-is-not-a-waltz-national-poetry-month-day-6-with-sonya-rhen/ Roricka (talk) 22:45, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

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Gary Grinberg

So how do I make a Wikipedia page on Gary Grinberg without it being advertising? I'm not Gary btw, I'm just wondering. Do I make another page for him? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NewNumerologist (talk • contribs) 02:17, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Here's an explanation for how to create a new article (it doesn't have to be your first!): Wikipedia:Your first article. Good luck! Note that you'll need to include some evidence of his notability, showing why he deserves an article - not just having a twitter account or website, because those are way too common.

Even if he proves notable enough for an article that doesn't mean he will belong in the numerology article - there are many, many, many people who make claims about numerology; they don't get included in that article. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 02:53, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Alright Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by NewNumerologist (talk • contribs) 03:01, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Who Are You?

Are you David Brooks the NY Times columnist? If you don't want to answer that, it's alright, I understand. -- Roger Hui (talk) 15:55, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

No - as my bio says, I'm a newspaper reporter in New Hampshire. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 17:30, 30 December 2018 (UTC)