User talk:JPxG/Archive39

Thanks for the move

I had been struggling with the rmcloser on the move for the Donald trump shooting article for a full ten minutes. Thank you for closing it. Soni (talk) 04:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

It was so cursed lol. Even with admin tools that give me the #fuckit #yolo overrides for everything, I still had to separately move the main page and the talk page and disregard a bunch of warnings -- I think MediaWiki was freaking out at the idea of auto-deleting both destination pages. I really wish there was an option to auto-histmerge short history redirects/dabs, but then again, this would probably cause a bunch of additional unbelievably-stupid edge cases, so who knows tbdesu. jp×g🗯️ 04:38, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Yeah I suspect it's the talk page size that caused it. That and the speed of edits for both pages, at least for me it took me quite a while to realise there were new edits after the version I was stuck on.

New pages are always a pain for history and similar reasons. Soni (talk) 04:53, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Nice griphennus

I saw Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Griphennus after you put it in WP:RECORDS and was surprised when "griphennus" didn't yield a single non-Wikipedia result in any of the places I searched it. It really sounds like a word. It could be an Austrian meadow or great uncle of Methuselah or a humanoid toilet YouTuber or something. For a minute I started wishing it were a word, so maybe for today I can say it means "interesting, useful, behind the scenes task that I previously did not realize anyone had to do." Like standardizing improperly closed AfDs, that's a total griphennus. Thanks! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 05:37, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

I used my viewdeleted for good evil silly when I was looking at that AfD because I wanted to know too. Here is what it was:

This a common slang term used by a group of Marquenvolists of the Acrophedya in Cornolio, (a very secluded pterogynne exchanging thylial expressions) allowing pavilius commonequial . Modern theories concur the usage to be applied to strutting the absolute mendisqual reliance on temporary jargonth. Memphitatically, the fianthropology consisted of technical distribution due to the connorial diction of vixerish methigie. Although amptitwin conditions persist the morpholitus adaptaptable query for maquisurial expenditures. Further information can be found on the messiroial vector summation Law from David Vandelorough's Volume 9-77 listings.

Had a bit of a chorfaw at this, it was a pretty good nonsense as far as nonsense goes. jp×g🗯️ 05:38, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Haha griphennus is what it's like when my friends that are in grad school publish exciting but painfully esoteric papers and I try to read them to be supportive Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 05:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Attempted assassination of Donald Trump

Hi, just wondering why this talk page is protected. 2403:6200:8810:F964:B067:4711:4774:5642 (talk) 09:09, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Damned if I know -- I didn't do it, I just moved it there. I guess that puts my name in the protection log because I transferred it from the old title. Well, I guess I can take a look. jp×g🗯️ 10:04, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Move review for Attempted assassination of Donald Trump

An editor has asked for a Move review of Attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. Downerr2937 (talk) 16:29, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

New essay

Hi there -- inspired by reflection on recent events, I have written a new essay with ideas for developing our Wikipedian conduct norms. I am looking for advice and collaborators and thought you might find it interesting. Pizpa (talk) 20:43, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Bot bug: don't edit other page.

Hello! Your robot HooptyBot have been change other's userspace page, I have reverted. Gongxiang01 (talk) 02:59, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Uh, where? I don't see anything in its contribs outside of my own userspace. jp×g🗯️ 03:00, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

User:JPxG/Oracle/2010-11: Revision history - Wikipedia Gongxiang01 (talk) 03:03, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Sorry! Gongxiang01 (talk) 03:03, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

@Gongxiang01: Ah, it is fine. Thanks for helping out anyway :) jp×g🗯️ 03:05, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Cyber tux.jpg

The file File:Cyber tux.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unused; deleted on Commons.

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@Queen of Hearts: I have never before witnessed so much wailing and gnashing of teeth over an image with seemingly zero capacity to offend -- I feel like a picture of a naked person getting their head cut off by a giant swastika made of poop would not earn so much tripe as this random DALL-E pic of the fucking Linux penguin. I feel like every day there is some new random complaint, which is for some reason structured in a way that requires my active participation to respond to. It got deleted on Commons because: someone removed it from an article for a couple days, then during that time someone popped over to nominate it for deletion at Commons because it was "unused", then it could never be added back to the article because it was deleted, then my request for a deletion review was ignored, as was my message to the deleting admin. So when I reuploaded it locally, I had to use the Internet Archive to get the description text from the former Commons page -- nobody could be bothered to give it to me from Commons.

Then there became an endless series of random IP editors and accounts with two edits driveby-removing it from the fanart gallery of the Tux article -- then two accounts with similar writing styles and two previous edits ever opened a talk page section to argue that there was a solid consensus to remove because they both said they don't like it.

Never have I been forced through so much pointless nonsensical bureaucratic busywork over something this utterly inconsequential.

Please, for the love of God, just delete the goddamn thing so I can stop hearing about it. I do not give a fuck anymore. jp×g🗯️ 02:38, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Actually, nah: here, look, it's in use. Now I never have to hear about it again. jp×g🗯️ 02:40, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

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