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Yes, I'm still planning to write Climate of Denver. I get distracted easily, sorry. I am mostly active on Wiktionary these days, in part because I have minor eyesight problems and have difficulty handling large chunks of text.

Weather and climate

Mostly putting this here for my own use .... User:Soap/climate

Record low of -9F at Anaktuvuk_Pass,_Alaska#Climate on 9/26/2021 but it may be a different station.

Poem

See /poems.

Placenames

Native American placenames with Latinate appearance

I have no single must-have trait to put a name on this list; it's all subjective. Most are places near where I live. A final vowel plus /-s/ can change the sound of the whole name, but this can be undone by other traits. For example, Aziscohos does not sound particularly Latin or even Greek.

I live in New England, so I am much more familiar with local placenames, including relatively obscure ones such as Agamenticus, than I am with placenames further afield. However it may be that the phenomenon is real and that the original colonists of New England and the Canadian maritimes maintained a preference for Latinate names even where the original Native American names did not always suggest such respellings. For example, Piscataqua and Piscataquis both appear in Maine, but Piscataway appears in New Jersey.

New England and eastern Canada

• Matapedia
• Cascapedia
• Mystic: surprise!!
• Scituate
• Passumpsic
• Presumpscot
• Kancamagus
• Sokokis
• Agamenticus
• Coös
• Hyannis
• Capisic
• Sabattus
• Piscataqua and Piscataquis
• Matinicus
• Meductic
• Taconic
• Ripogenus
• Ecum Secum
• Nonantum
• Seneca, NY (probably)
• Natick

Lesser-known placenames
Mattamiscontis Molunkus

Everywhere else

• Attapulgus, GA
• Opelousas, LA
• Tampa, FL
• Pensacola, FL
• Osceola, a Seminole name that also turns up in New Hampshire
• Tunica, Mississippi (probably)
• Lenexa, Kansas
• Saponi

For more, and for their meanings, see here. Cascapedia and Matapedia are not yet on that list. It may be that there are more placenames like this in the southeastern United States and that I simply don't know about them because I haven't lived there. It's perhaps worth noting that I recognize more such names in the southeast than, for example, in the Midwest or the West, suggesting perhaps that Muskogean languages are superficially similar in sound to Algonquian languages even though they are not known to be related. A relation has in fact been proposed (see Gulf languages because the idea doesnt have a page of its own), though I think it's unlikely, as Algonquian languages seem to have arrived from the west, and Muskogean languages seem to have links in Mexico and the Caribbean.

I grew up thinking that Tampa was a Greek plural.

Edge cases

Edge cases

Schenectady, Saratoga, Ticonderoga, Conestoga .... none of these have Latinate endings, so I dont really think they belong on the list, but in a sense they continue the same familiar prosody found in New England. Conestoga was once spelled Quanestaqua. Canobie, only here because someone mistook it for "canopy" Machias for spelling only, because the sound of the ch is in fact tʃ. Osseo, an Ojibwe name in Minnesota which means bony in Italian (but not anything in Latin or Greek).

ough in Native American place names

• Youghiogheny
• Ramapough (but cf Ramapo university)
• Poughkeepsie, New York ... i wonder if there's a reason why they seem to be confined to the northern Appalachians.
• Quiyoughcohannock was in eastern Virginia, but may be from an older stage of the language ... there is no modern place with this name. I found the tribe name spelled Quiocohànoes in a odcument of 1801 written (or at least edited) by Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps by 1800 the ough spelling was already in retreat.
• Toughkenamon

There was also Nandtaughtacund. Interestingly enough, Hyannis above seems to be named after someone called Iyannough, which suggests there may have been an -ough stage in early colonial New England that got covered by a later trend of Latin-like names. Saratoga was once spelled Sarraghtoga.

Other lookalikes

Japanese

• Toiyabe not from an early Japanese settler.
• Temagami
• Pokegama, MN also sounds Japanese, although I know now that Pokemon is not really a Japanese word. There is also a Pokagon. Both names are Algonquian and might be related.
• See also some placenames in the southeast. Muskogean languages seem to straddle the line between the Latin-like names of New England and the Japanese-like names of other areas (mostly in the West). This gave me an idea for how it would look if Japanese names had been spelled according to how we handle Native American placenames. Imagine Noggasaukee and Sarporough?

(Regarding the /r/ in the above word: there was an early layer of nonrhotic pronunciations in colonial America; see words such as sagamore. Many nonrhotic speakers lived in the southern states too though I dont have examples at hand; see older Southern American English. Possibly still hints of nonrhotic speech in Mississippi in the 1940s here.)

Polish

• Nistowiak Falls

Vulgar-sounding names

There is a cluster of vulgar-sounding names like Big Assawoman Bay (and yes, it's pronounced like that), Cuttawoman (possibly the same as Cuttatawoman), and the now-lost Pissasec around the Chesapeake Bay, particularly in what is now Virginia. Pissasee might be a misreading of Pissasec rather than a separate form of the tribal name.

Meanwhile in Canada, the placename Nipissing has no particular reason to have a double -ss-, and I'd have chosen a spelling like Nippasing instead to make it clearer that the word is accented on the first syllable. Actually, it occurred to me it might be a French spelling convention, as Lake Nipissing is fairly close to Quebec and French speakers have for a long time lived outside Quebec as well. Offhand I don't know of any other placenames with the substring -piss-. I tried searching once, and it turned up nothing, but I suspect the search tool wasn't coded to look for substrings and was therefore useless to me (I tried some other strings for comparison and they also mostly came up empty). Even so, the placenames where one might expect to see a double s in this position always seem to use single S, like the above Capisic.

By contrast, the tribal name once spelled Cowass was soon respelled to Coös (listed above).

Named after other Native American placenames?

Some placenames seem to recur. Often a name is found in New England and reappears further west. Some of these, such as Osceola, are likely what they appear to be .... an newer interior settlement named after an older one near the east coast. But coincidences also happen, and some adopted placenames may be smoothed out into a more familiar shape.

Shakopee ~ Sacopee ~ Chicopee (several locations) ... at least two independent roots, possibly three or more.

The Miami of Indiana are linguistically unrelated to Miami, FL.

At least two unrelated Jamaicas (the island and Jamaica, Queens); see Jamaica (disambiguation) for more possibilities.

Kennebec could go either way ... according to this book, the name was chosen by Milwaukee Railroad officials, but this doesnt rule out its having come from the placename in Maine.

Other common elements

Annieopsquotch, the world's largest playground. The /psk(Vt)/ sequence also occurs in Swampscott, Presumpscot, and possibly Passumpsic. But it is not necessarily from the same Native American root word in all these names. The last three all have an /m/ before the consonant sequence, as well.

Magog

An honorable mention for Magog, Quebec, because I grew up thinking it was the actual placename referred to in the Bible as Magog, and didn't even consider that the Bible may have influenced the name of the Quebec town until early adulthood. This is, nonetheless, a legitimate Native American placename, and the full version of the name is still seen: Memphrémagog. Indeed, I suspect I didn't realize the truth about the name until I saw the full version of it on a road sign or perhaps a map.

Popinac

For a change in the other direction, the popinac plant gets its name from Greek opopanax, but sounds to me more like a loan from Nahuatl or perhaps an eastern North American language.

Facts about biology

I read more about biology on Wikipedia than any other science, but I've never worked in the field or even undertaken formal study. I actually know much more about meteorology than biology, but for a reason that's hard to explain, I find weather stressful. Other sciences, like astronomy and biology, are "always new" and can relieve stress for me just by me reading about them.

Entognatha is the wingless, callow arthropod clade.

Sea shells made of limestone evolved several times ... for example, once as seashells proper and once as foraminifera.

Although tadpoles carry many parasites, lake trout and other tadpolophagous fish seem largely unaffected.

Enteroxenos is the parasitic snail that is "little more than a string of gonads".

Humans as parasites

Humans are the world's only lactoparasite, but other animals eat the eggs of different species. Humans are in many ways like traditional parasites (loss of unneeded body parts and abilities), ...

fill this in later

...and in many ways like nothing else in nature:

Only animal where female SSC is larger than male?

Retrograde adulthood

Tantulocarida is the crustacean that reproduces by budding, perhaps the only crustacean or even the only arthropod to do so. It is also the only animal in the world in which the larva form is larger than the adult. (The reason why the smaller stage is called the adult is because it is the sexually reproducing stage. It appears that the male "adults" are little more than packets of sperm cells, and they do not even eat.)

Four chordates. Upper right is an "animal" that cannot move and has no brain or body symmetry, but is closely related to vertebrates. See also commons:User:Soap/animal gallery for what happens when the tiger gets tired of posing for photos.

Yet, the less celebrated tunicates also reproduce by budding, and because they are part of the clade that gave rise to vertebrates, this could be seen as even more remarkable than Tantulocarida. In fact, both species have oddly out-of-place "adults" .... with the tunicates, the adults are much larger than the children, but are sessile and grossly non-animallike, to the point of not even being symmetrical despite being long-established members of Bilateria.

Humans are natural

See pom-pom crab.

Humans have relatively unarmoured appendages and are neither able to defend themselves well nor feed themselves efficiently with their hands and mouth. Tools such as cultellus cucini are grasped delicately with the hands and then held in place by several soft fingers. The tools are used in ritual combat, but primarily are used to cut through tough food items which the human scrapes off for further processing in a fire. Human skin is highly vulnerable, so humans wear clothes for protection from the elements. Humans often dream at night, and by the morning, although their eyes are not yet fully opened, they have already grasped hold of their devices.

Mullerian mimicry

Many different prey of the same predator could all employ their own warning signals, but this would make no sense for any party. If they could all agree on a common warning signal, the predator would have fewer detrimental experiences, and the prey would lose fewer individuals educating it. No such conference needs to take place, as a prey species that just so happens to look a little like an unprofitable species will be safer than its conspecifics, enabling natural selection to drive the prey species toward a single warning language.

Other biology ideas

I believe humans are megafauna. Not by weight but by body plan .... we are essentially gorillas, of above average height, who have lost most of our muscle mass through evolution towards holding weapons. This is similar to the evolution of parasites towards a very thin body form, as they lose the muscles and other organs they no longer need as they evolve towards reliance on the other. I've also compared humans to fairies, as we are much more delicate and easily injured than other apes, and also lacking in natural bodily weapons, yet as if by magic we have become much more powerful than all of those other animals.

I wonder why that name didnt catch on?

In the 19th century the Carboniferous Period was often referred to as the "Age of Ferns" but these discoveries during the first decade of the 20th century made it clear that the "Age of Pteridosperms" was perhaps a better description.

— this article

chlamydia

Chlamydia_pneumoniae is the koalas' disease. it is not clear if humans are to blame ... either directly (humans handling koalas) or indirectly (humans handling animals who later transmittted it to koalas). It's even possible koalas infected us, though here again it could have been indirect or from some other animal. This is not the same STD-based chlamydia that we usually pass amongst each other.

domestication in the wild

I think species such as Canada geese and raccoons could be considered domesticated, and that in fact they've become domesticated much more quickly than our pets have.

In the case of geese, it seems that humans' elimination of the geese's natural predators combined with our overwhelming population ratio against all wild animals has led geese to identify us as "the animal" they need to be aware of. And yet, as the vast majority of humans suppress our hunting instincts, they see us as soft and harmless. They may think of us as fellow prey animals, or indeed, as the only prey animals, if they have by now become so accustomed to seeing us and not seeing wild animals that they've lost their own prey instincts entirely. How could this happen so fast? Perhaps the geese that lost the prey instinct were the ones most likely to venture into the wild where it is easier to find food. They may also have quickly settled new habitats opened up by human population growth isolating wildlife corridors so that the few remaining natural predators of geese could not find them. All of this might also apply to ducks and perhaps other birds with large wild populations.

Other science

Electron jugs repel

Fundamental_interaction#Electromagnetism once said "This is larger than what the planet Earth would weigh if weighed on another Earth." but it has since been reworded to something more straightlaced. Also, note that this is both the electron jugs repel article and the high school magnet experiment article. high school no longer mentioned in page today. i may want to restore it, as it was only removed recently.

Perhaps the paragraph could be improved by saying it is not the magnet which is so impressive, but the electromagnetic force that keeps objects together in the first place. Unless (though I dont think so) this is actually the residual strong force.

Oort cloud edit. here, i actually amplified a claim i disagreed with to call attention to it, as i felt that had i removed it i would be unable to explain myself in scientific words.

Spacetime#Privileged_character_of_3+1_spacetime has the "tachyons only" chart

This planet is hundreds of times larger (not more massive) than its star. The lack of remark in our article suggests maybe this is not so rare.

Yes, really

You've been eating soap all your life and never knew it.

Stimming

Most stims seem to involve the hands and mouth, but headbanging does not. Is it biologically different? As of 28 June 2023, headbanging is only briefly mentioned on the stimming article, yet it is probably the most famous stereotypy of all.

I just remembered that I used to spin in circles when I was young and seriously injured myself when my head hit the edge of a wooden desk while lying down in a spinny chair. (I can't do this anymore because of medical issues; I would simply throw up immediately.) Yet, NT's also like spinning chairs, so it may be that there is no definite line between stimming and what the general public enjoys. Many other examples can likely be found; think about how many stim-like pleasures are delivered at amusement parks, especially water parks, and yet autistics are not particularly associated with attending amusement parks.

Where does coffee come from?

Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline purine. The word purine (pure urine) was coined by the German chemist Emil Fischer in 1884.

Humans, the yellow tadpoles

Children's tadpole drawings look a lot like certain cartoon characters: the M&M's mascots, Pac-Man (in some games), Bob-ombs, and certainly many others. Additionally, a less common style of emoji shows round head-bodies with arms and legs erupting directly from the body. Is it possible that we still as adults have this mental image in our heads? The traditional explanation for children's tadpoles is that they cannot see their own necks, and simply draw what they see when they look down at the rest of their bodies. But this would not explain why children also draw other people the same way.

Note that the so-called tadpole stage is not the stage with the familiar (to me) triangle bodies, but occurs at even earlier age.

And why do we prefer yellow emojis?

Assorted articles that I will read many times over

I am particularly fond of articles that teach a subject in chronological order, whether it is the history of the event or the history of the discovery. In either case it reads just like a story would.

Astronomy and physics

• Oort cloud
• Scattered disc
• Kuiper belt
• Galactic tide
• Fundamental interaction
• Graviton
• Time dilation and Lorentz transformation
• Neutron drip line
• Atmosphere of Jupiter

Linguistics

• Proto-Afroasiatic language
• Afroasiatic languages
• Laryngeal theory
• Greek language question
• Kluge's law
• Standard Chinese phonology (especially vowels)
• Old Chinese phonology and Reconstructions of Old Chinese
• Phaistos disc and Decipherment of rongorongo

Earth science

• PETM
• key col

Other science and math

• List of paradoxes

Music

Music is not a subject I understand well, so almost any article will do. I honestly cherish my inability to understand even basic concepts like tablature, as it reminds me of my early childhood when everything I encountered was like this. Italian is the language of strict parents and furniture too big to move.

History and politics

Likewise, almost any article will do, though I have a preference for events far from home.

Weather and climate

My lack of interest in weather, the science I know by far the most about, is difficult to explain. It brings me stress, unlike the other topics, but right now I can't fully understand why.

Other notes

m:User:Soap/global.css

ru:Робрека may be the Robozero over which the 1663 UFO sighting took place. Information about it is surprisingly hard to find and I am questioning whether it even happened. One source says it was in 1666 instead, but this may be a conflation with this.

Riddles from the Deep

Sunàqwa the Sea Lamprey asks:
What do you call a bottom dwelling microscopic sea animal with eight retractable tentacles, teeth on both ends, blinking bioluminescence, colonial reproduction through simultaneous release, light-seeking behavior, and a tiny, poisonous calcite seashell?

Archie

Indiscretions of Archie's plot sounds a lot like Archie Comics and even has a character named Reggie. Were those names just more popular back then, or did the creators of Archie Comics choose the names as a tribute?

Junction

Was CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) named after a children's song? If so, was the fetish site named after the company or the song? (Note that the link here is to Reddit, not to the fetish site.)

Alternatively, is the children's song referencing something older than all of these other things? Compare wikt:Malfunction Junction and (less likely) wikt:commotion lotion for other examples of popular culture phrases using the same pattern. This shows that Malfunction Junction is older than the children's song, but yet it could still be that the other things were named by people who had heard the song but were unaware of the older military term. Likewise, while the military term is about 25 years older than the kids' song, and children's shows are known for parodying things familiar to adults, it is still possible the two rhyming phrases were coined independently.

Bear and Sun

if i have time i might make pages for Bear and Sun, both computer companies associated with the automotive industry. Bear is still around but uses WIndows now, whereas I believe Sun didnt syurvive into the modern era.

Smerconish

Smerconish may be an eastern European surname respelled in an unusual way; this would be most likely if it were originally written in Cyrillic, so perhaps Serbian is the source. Still, I can't find an exact match. Smrkovský is a surname of Czech origin.

Jafra

Jafra (a cosmetics company) did not get its name from Persian, according to their website, but rather from the names of its founders, Jan and Frank. But why did I think it was Persian in the first place? There may be such a word, that I have been unable to find because of my inability to read and write the Persian script.

It may be this word from Avestan.

Gallery of interests

Round things resemble breasts; they are generally more attractive to pacific temperaments than straight lines and hard corners. -- Xiong

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My love of traffic lights may be unrelated to the fact that they are round. I will leave the picture here for now but may remove it later. When I was very young, I used to play with the traffic light shells, which at the time had the colors as part of the material, not dependent on lights shining from behind. Indeed, I think they were lit up from within and the arrows were coated with a black substance so that the light would only get through the arrow-shaped gaps. I think newer traffic lights use LED's and therefore the shells are just blank.

Other interests

I have contributed a lot of climate data, particularly for places with unusual climates and places I've lived or visited before. However, this is now very difficult for me. I may adopt other interests only to drop them months later, though I still check in with edits I've made in the past. For example, I will probably never get around to finishing the parasitism project I started in 2017, as I was unable to work on it for over two years and had completely lost interest when I got free time again.

If I knew more about chemistry, I'd be better able to contribute to the soap and detergent articles. Theyre not wrong, but they provide surprisingly little information.

Identity

Stimming and habits

This section is very embarrassing, and I may remove it later, but for now it reminds me who I am. The habits themselves are no longer embarrassing to me, for reasons I explain at the end. What embarrasses me is that there seems to be little else to write about me that distinguishes me from other people.

This section is now archived, but I will come back and re-add a permanent link soon. The content will be updated at User:Soap/stim.

Phobias

Trypophobia and fear of falling

I have mild trypophobia (if you don't know what it is, and you're worried you might have it, I recommend using this link to get just a bare dictionary definition with no pictures). I've mostly gotten over this through exposure, but I don't recommend exposure therapy to everyone, particularly those who suffer more severely from it than I ever did. The fact that my phone shower looks quite a bit like a lotus head may have helped me get over the fear, because I associate showers with pleasant things.

Unrelatedly, I also have a fear of falling, such that even as an adult I was unable to play a certain video game that had a bug in which the player sometimes fell through what looked like a solid floor. I'd been the same way as a child with a different video game where there was not a bug, but a Game Genie code that led to false floors as a side effect of an otherwise fun cheat. I describe this as a "there/not there" ambiguity and that is what scares me. Both of these fears involve holes, but I think they are unrelated.

Since nearly drowning at age 2, an event I no longer remember, I've had an instinctual fear of deep water. It's possible that this was the trigger for my fear of falling, because being in deep water means losing contact with the ground, even if I am not actually sinking. This is just a wild guess, though.

Other information

Likewise, although I've never had koumpounophobia, I have a few edits on the page because I want to make it clear that it is the fear of clothing buttons, and does not extend to buttons in the modern sense such as the flat circular things we used to press on early smartphones. I believe the claim that Steve Jobs removed buttons from the iPhone because of koumpounophobia is inaccurate, as the "buttons" on an iPhone are very different from clothing buttons and it's just happenstance that we use the same word for both. Even so, it's possible that some people with koumpounophobia do extend the fear to flat circular machine buttons; I can't read minds.

Mobile account

My mobile account is user:Lollipop, a name I chose purely for its sound. I've never been particularly fond of candy, although I did eat candy when I was young just like my friends did. I actually had the name Lollipop before I had Soap, but I was much more interested in getting this name, so I usurped the old inactive Soap (who had never edited at all) and ended up with both names. I am much less active than I once was, and I don't really need two short names, but nobody seemed interested in taking over the Lollipop account, even after years of leaving up a notice saying I was willing to part with it. Perhaps it's best to just hang on to it now that I've had it for 16 years.

To Wikipedia's 10^th birthday

Dylan620 ^{(t • c • r)} has bought you a pint! Sharing a pint is a great way to bond with other editors after a day of hard work. Spread the WikiLove by buying someone else a pint, whether it be someone with whom you have collaborated or had disagreements. Cheers!

Spread the good cheer and camaraderie by adding {{subst:WikiPint}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Message received at 18:05, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Cheers! --Dylan620 ^{(t • c • r)} 18:05, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Technical question

Hey Soap, I came across an image being used for vandalism earlier (I won't name it publicly per WP:BEANS) and was about to put it on Mediawiki:Bad image list, when I realised it was used quite legitimately in a userbox. The bad image list allows for exceptions to be made for individual pages, but I wondered if you knew any way to allow an entire namespace?

While I'm here, which IRC client would you recommend? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:46, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea. I tried some tests on test.wikipedia.org to see if it was possible to use wildcards in the names of the exceptions and it really didn't behave how I was expecting, but from what I can tell, wildcards don't seem to work unless there's some undocumented feature I don't know about. As for IRC, I'm loyal to mIRC, because I've used it for so long, but it has many obvious shortcomings that you just have to learn to love. I'm not sure that any one IRC client can claim a majority of users on Freenode or any other network. If you're on Windows, though, mIRC, XChat, and Chatzilla are the biggest contenders. Note that mIRC and XChat are payware but that mIRC, at least, allows you to go significantly beyond the expiration date before it starts preventing you from using it. —Soap— 20:04, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

iPhone 4

I've seen the nickname iTouch removed from the iPod touch article because nobody could find a citation that explicitly stated that the iTouch was an other word for an iPod touch. Unless you find something that explicitly states that the iPhone 4 is a slate phone it will be removed again. Marcus Qwertyus 06:32, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Re Template:White people

I saw your comment on Bulldog123's talk page regarding my 'amendment' to this template. If you consider it vandalism, report it as such. I consider the template racist, and as such a violation of policy in any article referring to living persons. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:12, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

I'd recommend reading Wikipedia:Vandalism. More to the point though, do you not agree that the template in question is at best misguided, and at worst blatantly racist in its association of 'white people' in general with such fringe concepts as 'Master race', 'White pride' and 'White nationalism'? Do you really think such stereotyping has any place in Wikipedia?

Sorry, I missed this comment until now, but my response is predictable from what I said before, namely that no I dont think it's racist to associate white people with white racism. —Soap— 17:03, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Water fluoridation

I have reverted you here merely to say that the addition was POV (have a look at the publisher, Seven Stories Press), which stemmed from past edits, not just an innocent edit filter bug report. I don't know how this is handled now for this topic, and won't argue if I am reverted back. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 01:48, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Mystichumwipe

Having thought about it I have decided to unblock, so if you are still investigating the case you can save yourself the trouble. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:13, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Helpful AFC/R script

You may be interested in this script that provides a "Review" tab under the "Move" tab on AFC/R.

Cheers, →♠Gƒoley↔Four♣← 02:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Nequam Impleo Ero Pessum Ire

He's the latest in a new sock farm - see WP:ANI#Blatant block-avoiding sock. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:51, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

K.R.C. Sonderborg

Thanks for your help HISTOIRE ET D'ART (talk) 20:09, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Sterling Jewelers

I hadn't thought of that. Thanks. If it had been spelled consistently I might have realized, but consistency is important.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:49, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

RfA

Thanks for your feedback! I'll work some more for a while and come back later for another RfA if I can. Silivrenion (talk) 02:55, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Mail

Hello, Soap. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Thanks. I'm just heading out though so I'll look at it in about 9 hours. —Soap— 13:27, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Link in edit summary

Hi! Regarding this edit, my browser's balking at copying the URLs so as to paste them into the address bar. The only mentions of Mr. Aykroyd I can find on the article's talk page say his listing was properly cited and the other is inconclusive of whether he was joking in the NPR interview I subjected myself to having to listen to just to fix the malformed entry of an anon. Since I did burn through nearly an hour of my limited time on this plane of existence in an altruistic attempt to help a n00bie stranger, I would appreciate it if you would supplement the edit summary with a note on the article's talk page with links I can actually click. Thanks! —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 22:03, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

The source is http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20041113/msgs/419044.html . Does that work? —Soap— 22:28, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

The link works, but since the citation I provided was to the actual audio of the interview at the NPR website, I do not see how it has any bearing whatsoever on NPR's status as a reliable source. Also, at the risk of repeating myself, you need to discuss this at the article's talk page, not here. Thanks. —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 23:01, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi! I didn't notice the question you asked on my talkpage under the talkback template until today. I've replied there. Thanks! —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 16:50, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Soap. You have new messages at Staffwaterboy's talk page.
Message added 22:15, 18 February 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Edit requests on Child Development Stages

Would you please restore the edit requests from the user you have just blocked, which you removed from the talk page of this article. You should not censor the talk page as it encourages others to simply blank anything they don't like and means that other editors cannot see the whole reason why the block has been put in place. Information on talk pages should be removed only in the case of extreme personal attacks, extreme obscenity and information with BLP implications. Britmax (talk) 09:45, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Related

A similar edit request just came in. I responded to it thinking it was a serious request before reading the comments above; you may want to reblock the person now if you're convinced they're just vandalizing. Qwyrxian (talk) 07:21, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. For anyone reading thsi, please note that it isn't just me who's involved in blocking this vandal; she's been around for a while, though I didn't realize that myself at first. —Soap— 12:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Re: Could you help? (Oduzeta stanarska prava)

Thanks for telling me. The user was likely well-intentioned, but completely misguided. They have a humanitarian promotional campaign, and this was some kind of a leaflet or a press release for it. I've tried to explain to them why this isn't a Wikipedia article, and removed it. If you feel it should stay, feel free to undelete it, but I don't think there's any point in it as it was. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 19:24, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

UncleDouggie is back

I had to take an extended break over the holidays, but I've been back for awhile now. With the recent rekindling of the Pending Changes debate, I'd appreciate getting back edit filter manager rights to do some analysis. Thanks! —UncleDouggie (talk) 13:47, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

70.79.191.145

You have blocked this IP previously. Since another administrator who already blocked this user since your own block failed to reply, I'm here notifying you that this IP constantly misuses the talk page. Can talk page access be disabled?Jasper Deng (talk) 06:21, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on that page. The thing is, she has made it clear that she uses many different IP's, so a block on just one of them isn't going to solve much. A rangeblock will probably be necessary in the long term to keep full control, although a recent checkuser concluded that a full rangeblock would block out a lot of innocent users as well. —Soap— 17:25, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

This is a problem :( .Jasper Deng (talk) 18:30, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

IRC invitation

Because I have noticed you commenting at the current RfC regarding Pending Changes, I wanted to invite you to the IRC channel for pending changes. If you are not customarily logged into the IRC, use this link. This under used resource can allow real time discussion at this particularly timely venture of the trial known as Pending Changes. Even if nothing can come from debating points there, at least this invitation is delivered with the best of intentions and good faith expectations. Kind regards. My76Strat 09:27, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Filter 9

I see that you have contributed to the ever so lovely edit filter number 9. One part of the filter contains "\x22^\r^\n". While this works fine, it seems to me that it should really be "\x22\r\n". I've tested this change on a few edits and it seems to work. While this is a very minor issue, I'm really more interested in whether the syntax in the current version does something magical that I don't understand. Thanks! —UncleDouggie (talk) 12:31, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Im not feeling well so Im taking a break from Wikipedia for a while. I wouldnt be able to help you anyway as I dont have any knowledge of regex and mostly just work removing words from lists. I do have a regex manual that I can use when I really need to but if it isnt obvious what's going on even to someone who knows regex well (as I assume you do from your comment) it wouldnt be obvious to me either. —Soap— 23:02, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

No problem. My concern is that there are a dozen varieties of regex and many of them reference portions of each other, so it's always possible that something that doesn't make sense is actually magical for a particular tool. I'll ask someone else before fixing it. —UncleDouggie (talk) 23:56, 6 March 2011 (UTC)