Memories of lost time

Alhazen

Hi. It would be nice if you wouldn't start you WP career with ad hominem insinuations - that is if you are really new which I kind of doubt... Gun Powder Ma (talk) 22:53, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Alhazen

I'm curious about your edit to my diffs at Talk:Alhazen#Misuse of sources. I am not here to complain, this is a genuine query! I have made quite a few sections like this on talk pages, and if there is some problem with wrapping or whatever, I would like to know because I'll probably need to do many more. Your main edit appears to have been inserting a space after every three diffs or so. Was there a problem with how the original message appeared in your browser? Were you thinking it would be easier to make some of the links bold if there were some spaces? I don't mind about that, but perhaps if you wanted to highlight what you have checked, or what you think needs investigation, perhaps you could just type the bare numbers (no link) in a comment (something like: "Need to check 91, 93, 105-110"). That's just a suggestion, and I am happy for you do whatever you think best (it's great to see some activity from genuine editors). Johnuniq (talk) 04:00, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

In my browser, at least, the list of diffs does not wrap, so I can only see the first 20-some of them (unless I scroll a bit awkwardly left and right). Every three happened to be where the lines wrapped in my edit window, so it was easy to type space-down (repeat) to add some whitespace to allow wrapping. You've probably seen that I've started to go through, and boldface some diffs that I think could be problems... but generally, you can see that I've simultaneously (well, just before or just after) made edits to the article itself to address such issues. Memories of lost time (talk) 04:06, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Eric D Angell

Sorry about the confusion with the deletion discussion. I forgot to cross off my old vote; this is why I need a bot to follow me around and cybersmack me if I get in deletion discussions. I should stick with train stations; they're simple and easy and if I mess up it doesn't cause problems. Thanks for dealing with the newbie (1800 edits and this is my first AfD...) and best of luck in future editing. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:11, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, no problem and no big deal. I wouldn't modify your comments myself, since that would be bad etiquette, but just trying to helpfully suggest what seems like best practice. In any case, the AfD resolved easily and quickly. FWIW (I say this on my user page), my edit history on this account would suggest I'm rather new, but I actually edited for a long time under a different account name... the other one was never banned nor notorious, nor anything along those lines, but for some personal reasons I still wanted to make a "clean start" with a fresh account). Memories of lost time (talk) 00:20, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your attempts at saving the Alhazen article from biased editors. I appreciate the work sane people like you did. I hope you reconsider leaving Wikipedia. I was a casual editor, didn't even have an account, but I too quit editing Wikipedia after the Alhazen episode in 2011. I felt exactly like you did. Apparently folks have called out that user in his Talk page recently these past few weeks and I see the Alhazen page is back with the good quotations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.71.12.14 (talk) 19:45, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Removing other people's comments from talk pages

Your removed Tenebrae's comments from Talk:Lighthouse Guild and I have put them back. Talk pages are a record of discussions. Old material does not get thrown away. In particular do not remove other editor's comments from a talk page without their permission. See Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#Editing others' comments. Also please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#What is conflict of interest? carefully. It seems like you are here to write the article that the organization wants to see rather than an encyclopedia article. StarryGrandma (talk) 19:43, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Memories of lost time, we can discuss this here rather than at the talk page of the article. Since you were editing under a different name then, no one would have known these were your edits being reverted if you hadn't written there. Yes, we keep history, especially if the same sort of thing might happen again. You might want to remove your edit there that revealed this. StarryGrandma (talk) 20:39, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Have the guidelines on archiving talk comments changed since 5+ years ago when I was genuinely active here? Obviously, the actual history is never deleted, but the talk pages are a live document. Admittedly, on the moderately noteable organization in question, it wasn't a wall of comments; I removed them largely just to show my friend a clearer view of the talk page. I guess I should have created an archive page though... like I said, I'm a little rusty. But in the mid-2000s, I was in the top 100 contributors, so I'm not wholly unfamiliar with protocols.

I'm not sure what you mean about different name. A decade ago I indeed used a different username as a top contributor. I retired that name for... reasons. Let's just leave it at WP:OUTING about that issue. But I never touched the Lighthouse article before today, so I had nothing to do with the 3 year old comments I archived. I'm more than happy to have them restored and will leave them there.

I spent a few hours last night reading the latest guidelines on COI and related matters. I had written sizable parts of earlier versions of them... so no, I'm not unaware of those things. I have no affiliation or association with the organization in question. I have an acquaintance who has such connection. I could have edited the article directly without any COI concern, but I was more interested in showing my acquaintance the template and style to use in only proposing changes rather than making them.

Yours, Memories of lost time (talk) 21:02, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Oh yeah, refreshing my memory of WP:ARCHIVENOTDELETE. The size threshold was met, but I indeed neglected to create the archive page. My mistake! Sorry. Memories of lost time (talk) 21:06, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

(ec)I think I misunderstood your comment at the talk page as saying you had made the 2016 edits. I am sorry. Older comments on talk pages aren't deleted these days (yes they are in the history but not easily found). They can be archived once the talk page gets to be too long, with clear links to the archives on the talk page. I've been trying to figure out how to get the original founding and merger dates into the infobox, but was slowed down because someone had blanked the infobox documentation page. I will be happy to help update the article. But the long list of services in the 2016 version is not appropriate. StarryGrandma (talk) 21:14, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Memories of lost time (talk) 21:32, 11 November 2018 (UTC)