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Cyrus Cylinder

Lol. Thanks for making me laugh. Doug Weller talk 07:00, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

YW Paradoctor (talk) 10:34, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

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Palindrome

Notifying all named accounts who have edited this article this year. There is a discussion of whether this article should contain foreign language palindromes. If you would like to comment the thread is Talk:Palindrome#Non-English_palindromes_2 Meters (talk) 21:15, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Oops!

Sorry for this . - DVdm (talk) 17:13, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

I feel honored. xD Paradoctor (talk) 17:57, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

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Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:03, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

The same to you, good sir! ;) Paradoctor (talk) 15:20, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

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...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:02, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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Two...

... cents might not be sufficient - DVdm (talk) 16:16, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

I'll ask WMF for a grant. Paradoctor (talk) 16:34, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

List of unsolved problems in physics (Talkpage)

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Rudolf Hess

Please don't change any more links from Rudolph Hess to Rudolf Heß. Since this is English Wikipedia, we use the English version of his name, which is Rudolf Hess. If you look, you will find that is the title of our article on him. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:38, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

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Request

Can you share Gmail — Preceding unsigned comment added by Battoturk (talk • contribs) 14:38, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

@Battoturk: You need to enable WP:EMAIL on your user account, then we can exchange emails. Paradoctor (talk) 14:55, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Enabled.

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Signing Identical Twins Paradox?

How do i sign my post identical twins paradox? Or can you add Juha.K.S to it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juha.K.S (talk • contribs) 06:48, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

You can do that yourself. Information on how to sign your identical twins paradox post can be found at WP:UNSIGNED. If the instructions there are not clear to you, let me know.

For future talk page comments, just add four tildes ~~~~ at the end of your comment, as per WP:SIGHOW. Paradoctor (talk) 09:13, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Paradox of tooth brushing

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12875307 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juha.K.S (talk • contribs) 11:28, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Rohini Sindhuri

Hello there,

Please check the nomination template carefully. It is a regular G4 template with link to previous deletion, you don't need to check logs in G4 templates. Click "previous deletion" link to access the deletion discussion. Thanks. Hitro talk 19:22, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

@HitroMilanese: Oops. Overlooked that one. Must've been cosmic radiation flipping a couple of bits in my wetware. Sorry about that. Paradoctor (talk) 20:22, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Self Service

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JMHamo, I never submitted anything to AfC or created a draft page. You might want to notify someone else here. Paradoctor (talk) 20:44, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

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Age of Interruption

Hey - you proposed we redirect the article. Do you think it would be best to redirect this to Thomas Friedman, or something else? I'm honestly not 100% sure myself. PeterTheFourth (talk) 11:26, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Um, I did not propose a redirect, I merely said a redirect is the minimum that should be there. That being said, a merge to information society § Related terms would be fine with me. Paradoctor (talk) 14:15, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I don't believe that we have the sources to use it there. With no real place for this to be included, and no notability by itself, I'm starting an AfD discussion for the article. PeterTheFourth (talk) 08:20, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

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Link question

Hi, I noticed the new-to-me wikilinks in List of paradoxes (the {{bl|name}} method), but I can't find any mention of it in the documentation. It looked like you changed the [[wikilink]] style on that article so I thought I'd ask you if you know where the documentation is for that method of making a wikilink bold? Schazjmd (talk) 15:28, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you looking for this? Paradoctor (talk) 16:03, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Paradoctor, that's it, thank you! Sorry, I haven't figured out the trick for searching for templates. I appreciate your help. Schazjmd (talk) 16:06, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome. If you know the name of the template, simply enter "template:name". For (much) more info, go to Help:Template. Happy editing, Paradoctor (talk) 16:14, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Link question

Hi, I noticed the new-to-me wikilinks in List of paradoxes (the {{bl|name}} method), but I can't find any mention of it in the documentation. It looked like you changed the [[wikilink]] style on that article so I thought I'd ask you if you know where the documentation is for that method of making a wikilink bold? Schazjmd (talk) 15:28, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you looking for this? Paradoctor (talk) 16:03, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Paradoctor, that's it, thank you! Sorry, I haven't figured out the trick for searching for templates. I appreciate your help. Schazjmd (talk) 16:06, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome. If you know the name of the template, simply enter "template:name". For (much) more info, go to Help:Template. Happy editing, Paradoctor (talk) 16:14, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

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The Mesak Settafet

Sorry it's been a couple of months since your revision on the Mesak Settafet, but I wanted to contend with you here in case you didn't go back to check its talk page. Could you provide a reason why you reverted a change that referenced a peer-reviewed journal article? I recognize that the figure for the amount of rock fragments seems outlandish. That's why the researchers included it as a frame of reference for how remarkably thick the layers of debitage were in certain areas. But that's exactly why the figure is possible: they randomly selected square meters across the escarpment and then tried to explain how dense the fragments were in the densest of them.

I would gladly be more careful about my language, to include "in the most densely-laden test areas" as a more exact qualifier than "in some areas," which I freely agree is not perhaps up to standard.

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References

What?

I was trying to define certainty. Right now the lead gives a very vague idea of certainty. --37KZ (talk) 18:43, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

@37KZ: Please do not try to define certainty on your own, that would be original research. Note that the lead states explicitly that there are "many different conceptions of certainty, but none that has achieved consensus." This means that the general definition must be vague by necessity, so as not to exclude any of the narrower definitions under discussion. I don't think you can find another secondary source of equal authority that gives a more "precise" definition of the term. Paradoctor (talk) 20:30, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

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Swiss

Hi Paradoctor. I see you just reverted my change of a Swiss link. You may be interested in the discussion at Talk:Swiss (disambiguation)#Requested move 12 May 2020. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 23:59, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: Thanks for the note. Happy editing! Paradoctor (talk) 00:29, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Long time no see! - DVdm (talk) 16:12, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

I've been training my troops. :P Paradoctor (talk) 17:55, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Article Superstition in Judaism has been nominated for deletion

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Redirect article from ex nihilo to creatio ex nihilo

I'm sure that whoever originally created the article ex nihilo (out of nothing, naturally) meant that it should treat creatio ex nihilo as its subject, but the choice of ex nihilo as the article title has meant that the lead and first few paras have to deal with distinguishing between creatio ex nihilo and the ex nihilo nihil fit idea. It would be much easier if the title were simply creatio ex nihilio, which in fact it once was. I've canvassed all authors who have edited this in the last month, (i.e., October 2020) asking for views.Achar Sva (talk) 07:12, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Revert on Cleve Backster

Sorry if this isn't the correct way to communicate with you, as I haven't quite figured out how to message users and editors. My question: why did you delete the addition of a biography reference to the Cleve Backster biography section? Thank you. Dstone2 (talk) 01:42, 3 July 2021 (UTC) dstone2

Did you check the WP:EDITSUMMARY? Paradoctor (talk) 01:56, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I saw "Already discussed at the beginning of the section" but I dontt know what that refers to. Again, if you could just help me understand the rationale, I'll appreciate it. Dstone2 (talk) 05:03, 3 July 2021 (UTC) dstone2

The section which you edited: Cleve Backster § Popular culture and influence: His theory is in books like Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's The Secret Life of Plants. Paradoctor (talk) 05:24, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

revert of Liar Paradox edit adding source from archive.org provided by Internet Archive

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In my recent edit of Liar paradox, I added a link to "archive.org" (run by Internet Archive, the same organization that provides the Wayback archive service). Notwithstanding your assertion that they are violating copyright, Internet Archive purports to provide the archive.org service in a manner that does not violate copyright law, which would presumably implicate Open Library as well, since they also provide access to content through archive.org.

Admittedly, there is a lawsuit pending, trial date is set for later this year (November 2021). For the moment, it appears that Wikipedia policy is to continue the existing practices (e.g. Open Library being on WP:Book sources), so I will be reverting your revert. Thank you for listening. Fabrickator (talk) 16:55, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

@Fabrickator: Please cite the overriding WP:policy. Paradoctor (talk) 17:04, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Or provide evidence that Archive.org has the right to republish. Otherwise, we have to assume they don't. Paradoctor (talk) 17:06, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Open Library/Internet Archive assert that they have the right to provide this content. WP has been providing access to such content (i.e. content which is copyrighted but for which OL/IA claims the right to make available in this manner) for some number of years, and in fact, facilitates this access through the aforementioned WP:Book sources page. Given the nature of that page and its pervasive use, that's precedent.

If you want to contend that WP:Book sources is violating copyright, take it up on whatever the appropriate dispute page is or take it up to a higher level if you feel that is appropriate. Don't keep reverting my edit, which is consistent with current WP use and practice. Fabrickator (talk) 17:36, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

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Happy round number of edits

I happened to hover over your username and saw via Navigation popups that you have exactly 19,000 edits. As this only happens once every thousand times one hovers over someone's username, I thought it's pretty cool. Happy n mod 1,000 == 0. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 10:02, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

@Tamzin: Thx, I'm looking forward to the next edition of my Book of Knowledge. Paradoctor (talk) 10:19, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

A cup of amphetamine-spiked world-domination coffee for you!

Well, now that we've mostly cleaned up the Megalomania mess, I suppose we kind of have to take over the world now. Fortunately I've already got a whole lair built inside a volcano on an iceberg. Come join me! There's barely any trapdoors emptying into shark-infested waters at all. /j -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 08:16, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Having pushed this move through (which should NOT have been done as a speedy imo) please do the proper follow up clean up at the disam page, including adding the Floris. Johnbod (talk) 15:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

• @Johnbod: WP:CHOICE
• Thanks for pointing out the missing link.
• "should NOT have been done as a speedy" Then somebody should have contested the speedy. Paradoctor (talk) 15:33, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

No - not many peopole watch the speedies, which are often done in a flash. The instructions are entirely clear that it is the responsibility of the nominator to assess if the nomination is uncontroversial. Anyway, are you going to clear up your mess or not? Johnbod (talk) 17:35, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

@Johnbod: "not many people watch" If you have a problem with the process, discuss it there instead of complaining to me.

"instructions" I'm not aware that I didn't follow them. If so, do explain what your issue is. And do WP:AGF when you do.

"mess" WP:CHOICE. Do it yourself. Your tone has disinclined me. Paradoctor (talk) 17:54, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Oh, fine - why didn't you just say fuck off in the first place? AGF doesn't come into it. I do think the speedy process is often abused & & have said so in many places, to no effect so far. But at least I can point out objections to their behaviour to abusers. Now, off to clear up your mess. Johnbod (talk) 18:00, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

@Johnbod: "have said so in many places, to no effect so far" Totally unrelated to how you treat your fellow editors, right?

No need to answer. In fact, don't. You're no longer welcome in my user space. Paradoctor (talk) 18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Old discussion about sanity talk page

Hello, you may or may not remember this village pump thread you started about old revisions of the "Sanity" talk page. I myself had forgotten about it until noticing this edit on my watchlist. Anyway, with subsequently released database dumps, I finally managed to deliver the goods! Graham87 13:04, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

@Graham87: Reading the exchange, I must say I feel for Larry fighting the good fight there, all without the benefit of consensus policy to point to. Been in his place more than once.

Anyways, thank you very much. I love it when old questions finally get an answer. :) Happy editing, Paradoctor (talk) 13:30, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Your signature makes me neck hurt :)

Don't let that stop you, though. :D Cheers, -- Aervanath (talk) 16:33, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

I live to serve. 🙇 Paradoctor (talk) 16:56, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

are you using a bot

i see several almost exact same edits about redundant text boxes, have you been using a bot for this, or just scrapeing through random pages? with all due respect -just a quick reminder,Im really bad at this(talk)- 16:03, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

@Im really bad at this: Nope, no bot. Just Firefox and and a couple of remapped keys to save on keystrokes.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by "reminder". Paradoctor (talk) 16:12, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

sorry thats my signature -just a quick reminder,Im really bad at this(talk)- 16:47, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

No problem. From the conversation directly above this one, you can see that you're not the only one who gets comments on their signature. :D Happy editing! Paradoctor (talk) 16:53, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

@Paradoctor the reminder is my signature, its supposed to be read with my username -just a quick reminder,Im really bad at this(talk)- 17:04, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

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Just a drive by Thank You

For creating Brandolini's law - my friend and I had a good laugh at the depth of truth in its brevity. Atsme 💬 📧 02:50, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

@Atsme: Thanks, but I only created a redirect. It was Onceinawhile who expanded it into an article. Happy editing, Paradoctor (talk) 03:02, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

First signature ever I see slanted. LOL Thinker78 (talk) 19:26, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

I tend to do things differently. ;) Paradoctor (talk) 19:36, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Re: Libs of TikTok

Don't blame you! Thanks for good faith participation. Cheers. Dumuzid (talk) 23:47, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Discussion on the wording of 3RR

Hi. Can you offer your thoughts regarding the question I asked here? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 00:48, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

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CpX41's Sandbox

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I have reverted this edit you made to my sandbox. While I appreciate the enthusiasm and welcome contributions to my sandbox, and can see your experience as an editor and good intent, I ask that you exercise a bit more caution with the formatting, a small change can really break the final rendering of the page. If you need to contact me, the best place to do so is on my talk page. Thanks! CpX41 (talk) 16:20, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Please review WP:USERNOCAT. It lists other ways of suppressing content categories in user space. One of them has to be applied. Paradoctor (talk) 16:26, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I see your reasoning, however, I want to point out explicitly that your new edit has negatively impacted how the page is rendered again. I recommend that you make use of the preview button in the source editor before publishing changes to ensure your edits are displayed as you intend them to and possibly review it after you have published your changes, this is especially important outside the main article space. I would advise you to use commenting out categorization or replacing it with a placeholder as a method of suppression, since that has a lower chance of unexpected side-effects. Thanks! CpX41 (talk) 16:43, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I recommend that you make use of the preview button

You realize this makes you look like an arrogant twit? I don't know how far your IP work extends back, but your user page appears to indicate that you're not a complete n00b. You should know better than to talk to experienced fellow editors like that.

I'm well aware of the alternative methods. I don't use them because they don't catch all cases, and are sometimes harder to reverse for the user. You don't like what the template does? Understandable. WP:SOFIXIT. Had you observed WP:USERNOCAT in the first place, we wouldn't even have to have had this conversation. 16:59, 21 February 2024 (UTC) Paradoctor (talk) 16:59, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I can see some frustration here, and my intention was not to offend you with my suggestion, if I did, I apologize, it's not a big deal, and I would appreciate you taking the heat out of this discussion. I have already addressed the issue and I do not wish to continue or escalate this discussion as it's resolved, let's move on. Thanks! CpX41 (talk) 17:43, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I saw your edits after I posted my reply above. Apology accepted, no harm done. For future reference, I found this bit from WP:FOC very helpful: comment on content, not the contributor. It's hard for things to get personal when nobody talks about persons. Paradoctor (talk) 17:49, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I find that things escalate very quickly when they get personal, so I stay away from it where I can. People will always disagree, and the advice of WP:CIV works very well outside WMF projects and even offline. Otherwise, I do my best to understand all sides and draw some conclusion at the end when it's settled. CpX41 (talk) 10:51, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Your revert

Hello Paradoctor,

you undid my edit on TR. Could you give a further explanation as I couldn't find one with your shortcut? Thanks! Ankermast (talk) 20:52, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Of course. MOS:DABMENTION:If the topic is not mentioned in the other article, that article should not be linked to in the disambiguation page, since linking to it would not help readers find information about the sought topic.

If you can find some source(s) supporting adding a mention of the initialism TR to Transrapid, then do that. This will then permit restoring your edit. HTH Paradoctor (talk) 21:03, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Additional information at WP:DABABBREV and MOS:DABINITIALISM. Should've led with that, sorry. Paradoctor (talk) 21:10, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

ANI - Deletions of (article) talk page material

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Why I submitted it (Internationale der Kriegsdienstgegner/innen) for deletion

The user in question made a lot of vandalistic edits, and his username literally had the word "semen" in it. I don't think he intends to contribute. Waylon (was) (here) 18:22, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

That does not justify indiscriminately speedying valid edits. At all. Paradoctor (talk) 18:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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