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2020 August

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Hi there

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(Talk by me)
I keep forgetting the dates, but I stumbled onto WP sometime like ‘02 or ‘03, got drafted as an admin (User:Jerzy), edited and edited, and eventually got old and decided to drop the old mop-and-bucket, lest my earlier incarnation’s body of work be sullied by senior moments, and lest my current tendency toward confusion do some sort of hard-to-correct damage. At the moment I’m downgraded to ip-editing, having forgotten my password, by the time my 12-month login ran out, and it’ll be pretty annoying to reset my e-mail password with the help of the current incarnation of our ‘net-provider....
--2601:199:C201:FD70:85D9:B572:E9A4:2603 (talk) 15:47, 1 July 2020 (UTC)User:JerzyA[reply]

2020

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(Talk by me)

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   I just finished what I thot was a rambling yet disciplined monologue about my changing approach to WP, as the non-admin editor User:JerzyA, via my own initiative, after being first the editor User:Jerzy, then an admin, under the same acct and handle, and now, at my own initiative, the plain editor User:JerzyA. That subject led me back to the page Posh, now appropriately a Dab, then a word-origin article, and one of the first three I can recall reading. I was then more interested in the wiki concept than in contributing to the project, and three articles stood out in my memory: two as hits from *Google*, not WP, searches. I think it may have been yet another G-search that originally brought me to what has now been rectified into a Dab, but was then a (relatively prose-heavy) dict-def about the Anglophilic adjective and an already skeptical treatment of a folk etymology regarding it. It remained vivid enuf in my brain as one of three I had either stumbled upon quite early, or at least could recall by name. It is of course radically different now, and the lexicographic content, to my (utter, but utterly unjustified) surprise, has migrated to a site that may have then been simply a gleam (or less!) in Jimbo's and others' collective eye. (Was there a polemic or prospectus, Two, Three, Many Viet Nams?) That failed to shock me, but what does is the realization that posh just about has to have been one of my first handful of wiki edits, and quite likely was the first. This diff confirms] (without racking my brain about chronology) that my on-line editing skills must been already fluent, tho the crazy sequence of my (coding-form/key-punch/Tektronics-'scope/TTY/CRT term') programming environments over the decades is too baroque to comfortably revisit.
   Enuf for now, and perhaps I'll recover what I thot was saved but still is neither saved where I thot, nor manifestly recoverable. I've grown weary, for now.
--JerzyA (talk) 14:00, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Earlier, less disciplined talk

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ok, ya ol' fool, comment here, w/o worrying abt egzacly what page this is, on yr state of mind.    (While i'm hard to embarass, 7 decades have gradually reduced (on compassionate grounds) my willingness to embarrass others, and (more importantly) have clarified how poor a tool embarrassment is in dissolving human silliness. With that in mind, i'm about to revise the following passage, drastically reducing and perhaps extinguishing its (in-its-moment-)amusing syntax, ironism [and that which (i've gradually become resigned to accepting) is properly described by "gleemania"] at the trouble i was having in coping with the markup-syntax, and with this at best clumsy keyboard-simulation. (Gluttons for punishment may view the former markup, inside the wiki-markup commenting immediately following (or, look at the last prior edit-history "snapshot" or or two, of the wiki-rendered appearance of this talk page.))
--2601:199:C202:287E:29E2:4E0C:B2F8:22C4 (talk) 02:51, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pro'ly (on reflection or prob'ly) Tuesday

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(i'm going along with_the unfamiliar plan, which i've deducuc</d,

  



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--73.114.18.200 (talk) 14:34, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ACK /—13:49, 29 January 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 13:49, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ACK —JerzyA (talk) 13:50, 29 January 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 13:50, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:JerzyA

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Congratulations! You've found it!

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But first, it's time to reveal what may be one of the least, (or even the most) notable Jerzy/JerzyA projects:

(fans with a good ear may detect that I am espoused to a straight lady who is a fan of gay men and of Ru Paul's Drag Race , though I am not a fan even of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (even if it still appears), and seemingly accepted well among our gay female rock-climbing buddies)
To wit, a list article, of things that are among the most notable things notably sharing a particular notable property. It may seem obvious that it is going to be useful only if (but pro'lly not also if) the aforesaid properties themselves partake of notability; and i personally account it as being obvious (tho YMMV -- as may the response you receive, if you choose to mention your disagreement).

= <Big friendly letters> =

Effort to escape from notification of my own talk page edit...[[ meh]] JerzyA (talk) 18:37, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For me, this one “?” Will suffice esp at this late date.—JerzyA (talk) 14:27, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

JerzyA (talk) 14:27, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! You've come to the Right Place!

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   Yes, Jennifer and Williamsen, there really is such a thing as Fake Truth! And right here, either on an article's talk pg or on one of my malevolently many pages in my family of "user"-prefixed- name spaces is exactly where "all of it that matters is manufactured! If they ask you, tell 'em I said so. (Whew, & okay.)
   I believe that Kung-Fu Tze really
did say that "The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names", but not that it is a good starting point for seducing innocent young ladies. And, by the way, even very young men should... should... uh, mebbe i'll recall later something clever, that I might even have been originally intending, by my little pea-brain, for here.
--User talk:JerzyA (73.114.17.18 (talk)) 21:59, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

= Bonus Episode: The Jerzy/JerzyA Scandale =  

I preempt my usual tasks, to address the over-the-top breaking news.


Hell, thot I'd already started this page. GTORS.
--JerzyA (talk) 12:43, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. --JerzyA (talk) 12:45, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, I'll clean this up later (by cut&paste: I recall nothing about whether I should expect to be able to move this page to my talk page, and then replace the resulting Rdr by something more formal, even if no more attractive. Bah, humbug!
--JerzyA (talk) 13:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   I was interested to find today wikt:honyock, clearly cognate to the term my father used (and must have been taunted with in Mower or Erie County (Pennsylvania)|Erie]] County), i think only once (in chiding me).within my hearing. He was the last-born of six among the first "birthright" Yanks on his (wikt:deutsche wikt:lutherische) Stamm, of my ancestry. Now, this is not an admission of the justice of any recent slings nor arrows, but i sincerely hope that, however outrageous i seemed, i nevertheless succeeded, despite all obstacles internal and external, in setting a good example -- as a relative pioneer, and retired admin should -- to the scholars and rabble who also have jumped aboard our Toonerville Trolley.
   (Relevantly, if memory serves, mememidine or something close phonemically. [Oh, yeah: due in 31 minutes (as i now write, without any confidence that Minder Number 1 won't end up taking the initiative, before i do my save of this contrib. Should i have to account to her for the occasion, i shall endeavor to mention all colleagues, without (however well justified) exclusion, with a minimum of high regard. The "mob of vampires and werewolves" image won't soon leave my mind, but otherwise i have no history of paranoic ideation, ["Hi!" Well, she came up for her own reasons] and i'm trying not to cover, all the time, all the possibly relevant ground.
   Any-whoose, pillz are now (however comfortably) a half-hour overdue, and that's long enuf to justify concern by one whose obsessive-compulsive complex is one of his more valuable assets as a Wiki-Pioneer. Even when he's stifling his inner [[The A Hell, thot I'd already started this page. GTORS.
--JerzyA (talk) 12:43, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm. --JerzyA (talk) 12:45, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, I'll clean this up later (by cut&paste: I recall nothing about whether I should expect to be able to move this page to my talk page, and then replace the resulting Rdr by something more formal, even if no more attractive. Bah, humbug!
--JerzyA (talk) 13:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   I was interested to find today wikt:honyock, clearly cognate to the term my father used (and must have been taunted with in Mower or Erie County (Pennsylvania)|Erie]] County), i think only once (in chiding me).within my hearing. He was the last-born of six among the first "birthright" Yanks on his (wikt:deutsche wikt:lutherische) Stamm, of my ancestry. Now, this is not an admission of the justice of any recent slings nor arrows, but i sincerely hope that, however outrageous i seemed, i nevertheless succeeded, despite all obstacles internal and external, in setting a good example -- as a relative pioneer, and retired admin should -- to the scholars and rabble who also have jumped aboard our Toonerville Trolley.
   (Relevantly, if memory serves, mememidine or something close phonemically. [Oh, yeah: due in 31 minutes (as i now write, without any confidence that Minder Number 1 won't end up taking the initiative, before i do my save of this contrib. Should i have to account to her for the occasion, i shall endeavor to mention all colleagues, without (however well justified) exclusion, with a minimum of high regard. The "mob of vampires and werewolves" image won't soon leave my mind, but otherwise i have no history of paranoic ideation, ["Hi!" Well, she came up for her own reasons] and i'm trying not to cover, all the time, all the possibly relevant ground.
   Any-whoose, pillz are now (hoever comfortably) a half-hour overdue, and that's long enuf to justify concern by one whose obsessive-compulsive complex is one of his more valuable assets as a Wiki-Pionier.

--JerzyA (talk)Jerzy📭🕰 02:16, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]


= pas de scandale =

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I'll sit down and try to figure out how I offended that bot. But so the day shouldn't be a total loss, I may as well ....er, make what seems to be my first edit on my newly created talk page. Bye, now.--JerzyA (talk) 13:28, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dave Mattingly (Producer/Newscaster). Since you had some involvement with the Dave Mattingly (Producer/Newscaster) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. 84.46.53.14 (talk) 09:58, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Still doin’ my best....JerzyA (talk) 13:43, 29 January 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 13:43, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Hi! Your last few edits to Talk:Main Page have been reverted because they look like test edits. Looking back at your contributions in the past few days, many of them seem to be gibberish. If you want to make test edits to check how editing works, you can use the sandbox. In any case, please stop adding random stuff to talk pages. Thanks, and happy editing! Isa (talk) 06:22, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

* ack.--JerzyA (talk) 15:38, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Also, with this edit, I've closed a <big> tag you had opened above so the rest of your talk page looks somewhat normal. I'm assuming that was your intention and that the missing slash was a typo. Feel free to revert this if that's what you actually wanted. Isa (talk) 06:25, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   What can we do about limiting the damage done by these daft old codgers?
::--JerzyA (talk)JerzyA🖌📭 🕰 04:09, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   So (not so much Isa... as anyone daft enuf to read my talk pg).... Here i am puzzling over whether i'm confused tonite about the date, or was on the night i signed the above. And if the latter, did i hand type the date for some reason AND by chance mistate it? 'Cuz that HOUR of today is in the FUTURE! UH--- wow. Oh. Wait, i get it: using my local time is at least irrelevant, and inanycase confusing, to most people among our community of English-as-a-first-language-dominated nations, not to mention the many editors in English-as-one's-primary-international-language nations AND in a scad or two of other nations using English as a valuable foreign language. And i've always kept the clocks on local time, without worrying about sun time unless i'm phoning or flying, and been civilized about not expecting the rest of the world bear all the burden of most species' time sun-boundedness. Sigh, us Yanks, always behind the times; we're just lucky so many of the really forward-looking cultures lost vitality before The West started inventing "modernity".... Long story short, i kinda fergot how local real (as opposed to any social notion of time is. Now, on the other hand (the one "with the sticky choc'late mess", in the old commercials, i guess) ... can it be the case that point-brackets-font-sizing jus doesn't affect the WP-gen'd sig & time? Hmm, i think tilde parsing works on ev'rything in the text being saved....Hmm!
::--73.114.17.8 (talk)JerzyA🖌📭 🕰 07:36, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

--07:55, 14 May 2019 (UTC) 73.114.17.8 (talk)** --07:55, 14 May 2019 (UTC) 73.114.17.8 (talk)[reply]

??? El_C 07:59, 14 May 2019 (UTC)* self ack.--JerzyA (talk) 15:38, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

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Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:JerzyA. Isa (talk) 06:30, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Look, JerzyA, for the sake of our collective sanity, please learn to condense! There's nothing in the rules about being long winded, but there's a limit. Thanks in advance. El_C 07:00, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

15:41, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

well. all may be Hopeless, then. Maybe i can move beyond this damn ipad. but there are folks who want to ban me, i think, esp. as my learning capacity, and concentration have deteriorated and afluctuated. find the editor i met in the online help chat room, who found me credible as the person behind user:Jerzy, and fulfilled my rqust for the acct JerzyA, so i could continue editing without my accustomed admin powers constiting an undue hazard. i was still touched by their kindness, even knowing now that there'ssomething like a valediction for retiring admins, with "Thank you for your service" in it. But yes, that erasure was notonly accidental, but unaware until i started typing this. I came to bed 10 hours ago, and i think have edited, doggedly and unproductively, the entire time. Fortunately i can t remember enuf of "Must not sleep, troll will eat me" to obsess o that. I'll take this to my upcoming session with my social worker, and learn to grieve if thats the advice i get.

::--2601:199:C202:287E:82:FA78:3AD9:7BAE (talk)JerzyA🖌📭 🕰 15:01, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

JerzyA (talk) 13:29, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Resilient Barnstar
Hi Jerzy/JerzyA,

I'm not sure what the result of the discussion at WP:ANI is going to be, nor am I honestly sure what the actual best result would be. I do know it's a place unburdened by kindness. So I thought it worth noting somewhere that your 56,000+ edits and 16 years of contributions are appreciated. I recognize an O.G. when I see one. Thank you, and a hat tip. Floquenbeam (talk) 15:42, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thumbs up icon What Floq said, minus their cultural savvy. Commiserations about the iPad and thanks for volunteering to continue as a regular editor. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:49, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ThNks to both,—JerzyA (talk) 13:46, 29 January 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 13:46, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

please contact the Arbitration Committee

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I've blocked both your accounts as an Arbitration Committee action. Please contact us at arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Thank you. Katietalk 16:04, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

   OK, i may be able to get a reset of my email-password thru our provider, or write via my love's acct. (And if you blocked that library terminal, or that whole server, a rethink might be worthwhile.)
--2601:199:C202:287E:FCE3:B712:567C:97EA (talk) 06:16, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

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Thanks for your message, but it got removed and your IP blocked for block evasion. (I woke up and found the situation.) Don't worry about getting me in trouble, but I do hope you can get unblocked so you can edit again. All in the hands of Arbcom now. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:33, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion has interrupted my efforts to bludgeon this page into somewhat less confusing form, without obscuring what already speaks for itself. This save may be a temporary step backward, but i'm committed to putting it back to rights, and stating, then, that i've done so. --JerzyA (talk) 00:44, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]


--2601:199:C202:287E:FCE3:B712:567C:97EA (talk) 05:51, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

   Hmm, this under wp icon, not google one; am i still an Ip?
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   Doesn't look; and you should consider unblocking that library terminal (or that whole server, if you went nuclear).
--[[Special:Contributions/2601:199:C202:287E:FCE3:B712:567C:97EA|2601:199....(User:Jerzy)
— Preceding

unsigned comment added by 2601:199:C202:287E:FCE3:B712:567C:97EA (talk) 06:34, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please take my earlier suggestion to heart though, Jerzy, aiming at concise, intelligible edit summaries. Thanks & good luck! El_C 10:18, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ack.--JerzyA (talk) 15:51, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please be informed that i (User:JerzyA) have taken the liberty here of down-grading the section-heading levels (reflected primarily in the font-sizes of headings inside these enclosing sections (well, technically, sub-sub-sections and deeper levels), and followed this "Praeludium" with (at least) sections and subsections that are not (structurally) subordinate to these, but appear below them only to reflect having been written later; the Praeludium reflects confusion that i trust will have been alleviated by later sections, much as some writers will (perhaps in light of any of unnumbered reasons) at least begin writing an "afterward" when the main body of the work is barely begun, and may even make the preface the final touch.

= May, no, i think April, of 2019, most likely; i note, for my own edification that Easter, probably the firstre "but not the worst" calendric sacrilege (looks to me like a miss-spelling [<playful iro<n></n>OK, NEW ROL RULE: irony italics begin <n>now</n> and end now [giving my self a time-out' r ironicaal of the first , and setting a -- hmm, not a way mark? marker, no, i think unlike with "way mark" (a real term of art, i think), that "way marker" is neologism that i. invented on the spot =

I note that the immediately preceding (page-rather-than-section) heading entails an almost-always ill-considered practice; it can be confusing, but may have slightly lessened the chaos on this talk page. In time, i may also come back here, once my user interface is less awkward, and retrofit the sig-and-time-stamp lines that responsible editors, more lucid than i then was, always include at the end of each talk edit. (They can, for the impatient, also be deduced from the wp:Edit histories, but noting that does not suffice to fulfill my obligations.)
--2601:199:C202:287E:29E2:4E0C:B2F8:22C4 (talk) 02:51, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pro'ly (on reflection or prob'ly) Tuesday

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--73.114.18.200 (talk) 14:34, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:JerzyA

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Congratulations! You've found it!

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But first, it's time to reveal what may be one of the least, (or even the most) notable Jerzy/JerzyA projects:

(fans with a good ear may detect that I am espoused to a straight lady who is a fan of gay men and of Ru Paul's Drag Race , though I am not a fan even of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (even if it still appears), and seemingly accepted well among our gay female rock-climbing buddies)
To wit, a list article, of things that are among the most notable things notably sharing a particular notable property. It may seem obvious that it is going to be useful only if (but pro'lly not also if) the aforesaid properties themselves partake of notability; and i personally account it as being obvious (tho YMMV -- as may the response you receive, if you choose to mention your disagreement).

= <Big friendly letters> =

”Like a dog without a bone,
like an actor out on lone,
into this world we’re thrown:
Riders on the storm.”

Editing on a wiki where bots roam unsupervised is a lot like that. Of course, so is living in a universe where the more intelligent Rube Goldberg devices can’t scratch the itch embodied by this image of the scrap of W/markup that the bot was bawling about, to wit: === Institutions so named === <!-- My guess was that these plausible pages would turn out to be disambiguation pages; I presume that those with the interest will welcome them Willy-nilly. --> * * * [[Grace Christian High School]] <!-- Perhaps a dry hole, perhaps some will have the faith to drill deeper. * Denominated institutions: ** [[Grace Episcopal School]] ** [[Grace Methodist School]] Aha! Struck paydirt with GCHS, my last gasp: GCHS! Carry on from here if you have the interest; "My work here is done!" Heigh-ho, Dawkins, Away! Hey, can't "grace" be construed as "unearned benefit"? ("What'd ever do to deserve that?", he mused".) "Think on this, and weep." -->

JerzyA (talk), the alter ego of the self-retired Heroic Age admin User:Jerzy 22:57, 6 April 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 22:57, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ack. JerzyA (talk) 14:56, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! You've come to the Right Place!

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   Yes, Jennifer and Williamsen, there really is such a thing as Fake Truth! And right here, either on an article's talk pg or on one of my malevolently many pages in my family of "user"-prefixed- name spaces is exactly where "all of it that matters is manufactured! If they ask you, tell 'em I said so. (Whew, & okay.)
   I believe that Kung-Fu Tze really
did say that "The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names", but not that it is a good starting point for seducing innocent young ladies. And, by the way, even very young men should... should... uh, mebbe i'll recall later something clever, that I might even have been originally intending, by my little pea-brain, for here.
--User talk:JerzyA (73.114.17.18 (talk)) 21:59, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

= Bonus Episode: The Jerzy/JerzyA Scandale =  

I preempt my usual tasks, to address the over-the-top breaking news.


n

Hell, thot I'd already started this page. GTORS.
--JerzyA (talk) 12:43, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. --JerzyA (talk) 12:45, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, I'll clean this up later (by cut&paste: I recall nothing about whether I should expect to be able to move this page to my talk page, and then replace the resulting Rdr by something more formal, even if no more attractive. Bah, humbug!
--JerzyA (talk) 13:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   I was interested to find today wikt:honyock, clearly cognate to the term my father used (and must have been taunted with in Mower or Erie County (Pennsylvania)|Erie]] County), i think only once (in chiding me).within my hearing. He was the last-born of six among the first "birthright" Yanks on his (wikt:deutsche wikt:lutherische) Stamm, of my ancestry. Now, this is not an admission of the justice of any recent slings nor arrows, but i sincerely hope that, however outrageous i seemed, i nevertheless succeeded, despite all obstacles internal and external, in setting a good example -- as a relative pioneer, and retired admin should -- to the scholars and rabble who also have jumped aboard our Toonerville Trolley.
   (Relevantly, if memory serves, mememidine or something close phonemically. [Oh, yeah: due in 31 minutes (as i now write, without any confidence that Minder Number 1 won't end up taking the initiative, before i do my save of this contrib. Should i have to account to her for the occasion, i shall endeavor to mention all colleagues, without (however well justified) exclusion, with a minimum of high regard. The "mob of vampires and werewolves" image won't soon leave my mind, but otherwise i have no history of paranoic ideation, ["Hi!" Well, she came up for her own reasons] and i'm trying not to cover, all the time, all the possibly relevant ground.
   Any-whoose, pillz are now (however comfortably) a half-hour overdue, and that's long enuf to justify concern by one whose obsessive-compulsive complex is one of his more valuable assets as a Wiki-Pioneer. Even when he's stifling his inner [[The A Hell, thot I'd already started this page. GTORS.
--JerzyA (talk) 12:43, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm. --JerzyA (talk) 12:45, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, I'll clean this up later (by cut&paste: I recall nothing about whether I should expect to be able to move this page to my talk page, and then replace the resulting Rdr by something more formal, even if no more attractive. Bah, humbug!
--JerzyA (talk) 13:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   I was interested to find today wikt:honyock, clearly cognate to the term my father used (and must have been taunted with in Mower or Erie County (Pennsylvania)|Erie]] County), i think only once (in chiding me).within my hearing. He was the last-born of six among the first "birthright" Yanks on his (wikt:deutsche wikt:lutherische) Stamm, of my ancestry. Now, this is not an admission of the justice of any recent slings nor arrows, but i sincerely hope that, however outrageous i seemed, i nevertheless succeeded, despite all obstacles internal and external, in setting a good example -- as a relative pioneer, and retired admin should -- to the scholars and rabble who also have jumped aboard our Toonerville Trolley.
   (Relevantly, if memory serves, mememidine or something close phonemically. [Oh, yeah: due in 31 minutes (as i now write, without any confidence that Minder Number 1 won't end up taking the initiative, before i do my save of this contrib. Should i have to account to her for the occasion, i shall endeavor to mention all colleagues, without (however well justified) exclusion, with a minimum of high regard. The "mob of vampires and werewolves" image won't soon leave my mind, but otherwise i have no history of paranoic ideation, ["Hi!" Well, she came up for her own reasons] and i'm trying not to cover, all the time, all the possibly relevant ground.
   Any-whoose, pillz are now (hoever comfortably) a half-hour overdue, and that's long enuf to justify concern by one whose obsessive-compulsive complex is one of his more valuable assets as a Wiki-Pionier.

--JerzyA (talk)Jerzy📭🕰 02:16, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]


= pas de scandale =- </ nowki> * self ack.--JerzyA (talk) 16:00, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I'll sit down and try to figure out how I offended that bot. But so the day shouldn't be a total loss, I may as well ....er, make what seems to be my first edit on my newly created talk page. Bye, now.--JerzyA (talk) 13:28, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Your recent edits

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Hi! Your last few edits to Talk:Main Page have been reverted because they look like test edits. Looking back at your contributions in the past few days, many of them seem to be gibberish. If you want to make test edits to check how editing works, you can use the sandbox. In any case, please stop adding random stuff to talk pages. Thanks, and happy editing! Isa (talk) 06:22, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also, with this edit, I've closed a <big> tag you had opened above so the rest of your talk page looks somewhat normal. I'm assuming that was your intention and that the missing slash was a typo. Feel free to revert this if that's what you actually wanted. Isa (talk) 06:25, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   What can we do about limiting the damage done by these daft old codgers?
::--JerzyA (talk)JerzyA🖌📭 🕰 04:09, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   So (not so much Isa... as anyone daft enuf to read my talk pg).... Here i am puzzling over whether i'm confused tonite about the date, or was on the night i signed the above. And if the latter, did i hand type the date for some reason AND by chance mistate it? 'Cuz that HOUR of today is in the FUTURE! UH--- wow. Oh. Wait, i get it: using my local time is at least irrelevant, and inanycase confusing, to most people among our community of English-as-a-first-language-dominated nations, not to mention the many editors in English-as-one's-primary-international-language nations AND in a scad or two of other nations using English as a valuable foreign language. And i've always kept the clocks on local time, without worrying about sun time unless i'm phoning or flying, and been civilized about not expecting the rest of the world bear all the burden of most species' time sun-boundedness. Sigh, us Yanks, always behind the times; we're just lucky so many of the really forward-looking cultures lost vitality before The West started inventing "modernity".... Long story short, i kinda fergot how local real (as opposed to any social notion of time is. Now, on the other hand (the one "with the sticky choc'late mess", in the old commercials, i guess) ... can it be the case that point-brackets-font-sizing jus doesn't affect the WP-gen'd sig & time? Hmm, i think tilde parsing works on ev'rything in the text being saved....Hmm!
::--73.114.17.8 (talk)JerzyA🖌📭 🕰 07:36, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

--07:55, 14 May 2019 (UTC) 73.114.17.8 (talk)** --07:55, 14 May 2019 (UTC) 73.114.17.8 (talk)[reply]

??? El_C 07:59, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

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Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:JerzyA. Isa (talk) 06:30, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Look, JerzyA, for the sake of our collective sanity, please learn to condense! There's nothing in the rules about being long winded, but there's a limit. Thanks in advance. El_C 07:00, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

well. all may be Hopeless, then. Maybe i can move beyond this damn ipad. but there are folks who want to ban me, i think, esp. as my learning capacity, and concentration have deteriorated and afluctuated. find the editor i met in the online help chat room, who found me credible as the person behind user:Jerzy, and fulfilled my rqust for the acct JerzyA, so i could continue editing without my accustomed admin powers constiting an undue hazard. i was still touched by their kindness, even knowing now that there'ssomething like a valediction for retiring admins, with "Thank you for your service" in it. But yes, that erasure was notonly accidental, but unaware until i started typing this. I came to bed 10 hours ago, and i think have edited, doggedly and unproductively, the entire time. Fortunately i can t remember enuf of "Must not sleep, troll will eat me" to obsess o that. I'll take this to my upcoming session with my social worker, and learn to grieve if thats the advice i get.

::--2601:199:C202:287E:82:FA78:3AD9:7BAE (talk)JerzyA🖌📭 🕰 15:01, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ack.—JerzyA (talk) 01:13, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

JerzyA (talk) 01:13, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ack.—JerzyA (talk) 01:15, 4 February 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 01:15, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ack.—JerzyA (talk) 01:15, 4 February 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 01:15, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Resilient Barnstar
Hi Jerzy/JerzyA,

I'm not sure what the result of the discussion at WP:ANI is going to be, nor am I honestly sure what the actual best result would be. I do know it's a place unburdened by kindness. So I thought it worth noting somewhere that your 56,000+ edits and 16 years of contributions are appreciated. I recognize an O.G. when I see one. Thank you, and a hat tip. Floquenbeam (talk) 15:42, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thumbs up icon What Floq said, minus their cultural savvy. Commiserations about the iPad and thanks for volunteering to continue as a regular editor. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:49, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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   OK, i may be able to get a reset of my email-password thru our provider, or write via my love's acct. (And if you blocked that library terminal, or that whole server, a rethink might be worthwhile.)
--2601:199:C202:287E:FCE3:B712:567C:97EA (talk) 06:16, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

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Thanks for your message, but it got removed and your IP blocked for block evasion. (I woke up and found the situation.) Don't worry about getting me in trouble, but I do hope you can get unblocked so you can edit again. All in the hands of Arbcom now. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:33, 21 May 2019 (UTC) -->[reply]

A Way forward

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Hi Jerzy. I'm just thinking of ways to move forward here. I've seen a few places where you've said you'd be happy to transfer to "administrator emeritus". I'd be happy to remove your admin rights and per Katie's comment, lift the arbcom block. If you could just confirm that you'd be happy with this course of action by either commenting here, or emailing me at worm.that.turned@gmail.com or the arbcom as a whole. WormTT(talk) 10:37, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That'd be swell if i hadn't failed to get any email working. Speaking as an already de facto former admin by virtue of forgetting my password, and an in spriritu one b/v/o by requesting a non-admin acct, am i being harassed and stymied for
a) unprovably claiming to be the same person, or
b) being so loopy as to
  1. edit while old or
  2. edit while using a prescribed psychoactive as prescribed, first in compliance with instructions to titrate up by 1/4 of intended dose per week (until it caused what we paraprofessionals call "gleemania"), then cease and detox, and second similarly to start from scratch and increase dosage only once every two weeks. (Lest i get carried away with jargonizing, in case i haven't already, that, uh, excess of caution approach made no difference visible to my paraprofessional eye.
I was already de facto not an admin, and if my recent confusion, or my not so much confused as ironic tone, makes me a liability to the project, i won't go away, i think, mad, so much as chuckling about (in Shaw's words)
[Villain]] Oh, nothing, just the irony of the Universe.
[Hero] Oh, yes, of course: that.
If i am harsh, i am nevertheless under no illusion that i or WP was put here to meet each others needs, nor on the other hand that anything can necessarily be done to remediate the .... malfittedness. I'd love to continue contributing whether my claim that Jerzy and JerzyA (or for that matter JerzyB) reflect the activity of some of the same braincells or not. But, if not "There's nothing to be done about it.
It it would make anyone else more comfortable, i can tell someone my full name and primary real-world alias, how Michael .... Church, IIRC ... deduced it in the period when he was hijacking our server, and maybe other persuasive evidence weighing against fraud by me.
In any case and in case i didn't already say it ... uh... something important that'll come back to me and mebbe i'll remember to write it down. 64.251.61.194 (talk) 23:59, 3 June 2019 (UTC) (aka Jerzy and JerzyA, tho ur not obliged to believe it.[reply]
Post scriptum: Oh, sure: email is not totally off the table if it will help, but for right now it would be my wife's email, not my own.
 &;nbsp Perhaps i forgot to sign that; perhaps i am mistaken in imagining that i did sign it, or that it had been considered a violation of a ban and thus removed. It's hard to tell where i stand, but i my impression is that it's worth exploring whether anything with a brain reads what i save.
 &;nbsp If this save is not a further scandale, progress has been achieved.
--2601:199:C202:287E:FCE3:B712:567C:97EA (talk) 05:51, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   Hmm, this under wp icon, not google one; am i still an Ip?
--2601:199:C202:287E:FCE3:B712:567C:97EA (talk) 05:59, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
   Doesn't look; and you should consider unblocking that library terminal (or that whole server, if you went nuclear).
--[[Special:Contributions/2601:199:C202:287E:FCE3:B712:567C:97EA|2601:199....(User:Jerzy)
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Please take my earlier suggestion to heart though, Jerzy, aiming at concise, intelligible edit summaries. Thanks & good luck! El_C 10:18, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Ack.—JerzyA (talk) 01:16, 4 February 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 01:16, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ack.—JerzyA (talk) 01:17, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

JerzyA (talk) 01:17, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ack.--JerzyA (talk) 01:21, 4 February 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 01:21, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ack.--JerzyA (talk) 01:22, 4 February 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 01:22, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

When waiting is filled listed at Redirects for discussion

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Tnx, E.{{ping|Eric]] But please avoid welcoming us veterans from circa 1993; I think you can see how “tacky” it feels, tho I may be considered complicit in setting you up for that. (I requested & got a name change this year, the spring IIRC.) User:Angela had made me feel mentored, esply when I pointed out that my adminship nomination seemed bizarre to me, but she encouraged me to accept it. The recent name change was upon my own initiative, to avoid those who remember me in that role feeling intimidated by my 15 or so year tenure, so I asked the next quasi-sysop who showed up and responded to “Hi?”, at something that I think of as the Troubleshooting Desk, to create User:JerzyA to retain a connection to that identity, tho I no longer trusted my reliability at that level of trust and responsibility, and didn’t want anyone cowed by their own uncritical assumption that that history should put them in awe of me. (I don’t recall whether they really understood the two requests I made, but AFAIK User:Jerzy is disabled from logging on; I’m not worrying ‘’per se’’ over whether my woes and indignities since reflect my having gone thru the wrong person, and/or asked for the wrong action. By the time I save, I I’ll learn whether —- I’m having a rough time finishing tasks, including the one involving the article you linked. In the session that included the pg u mention, IIRC I found that at least two articles were collectively concerned with at least three companies, probably all German, French, or British, making motor cars and/or bicycles, in the same decade, probably 1900-‘10. One was a subsidiary of another, but they were in separate articles; two, treated together on a page, IIRC, were competitors, sharing what was not remotely close to being a legitimate Dab page: two ‘graphs, IIRC one each by separate and presumably non-communicating editors. (The lead secn wasn’t even close to a proper one; in fact to me it was clear the second one’s contributor jumped to an unstated conclusion, either that It was a Dab page (blatantly not a compliant one) or that any difference in their names or other data is natural in related companies of that era. (It may be the bikes were a sideline of one; in any case confusion was rife, and probably too few editors have been even willing rely on reliable sources, and some may simply suffer from editcountitis —- ..., a few years later, are topics of two sections of the same article. —- ....odds I understood Dabs when you were, odds are, “still in short pants”. —— (There was, IIRC, a subsidiary of one in .... —— Well, you can’t responsibly stop w/o saying at least this:
G’nite, Gracie
JerzyA (talk) 06:09, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Misplaced editing note on Writers Guild of America West?

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Hello. Regarding your addition of a single middle initial (for which I had received no disambiguation link notification) on Writers Guild of America West. Thank you for adding the overlooked middle initial (to one of three mentions of the name), but your accompanying note is quite a mystery to me, since that was your singular edit:

Latest revision as of 16:06, 17 July 2019... JerzyA...
→‎History: "Corrected lk to Dab into bio link. Although duplicate links are often removed as redundant, I argue many factors apply that should weigh.in favor of duplication at least until the labor dispute is resolved. Not the exclusion of factors I may be incompetent to weigh, I argue that remediation corrects defacto disparagement of the person's significance and an excess of caution against possibly deliberate information sabotage."

I have no idea as to your meaning above. Please explain. Thank you, AHampton (talk) 19:21, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Noted; tnx; buttock/alligator juxtaposition crisis constrains me currently. JerzyA (talk) 03:43, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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tnx. Haven't been keeping proper track of Talk. I'm satisfied for now w/ having it in the edit history.
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JerzyA, there was quite a bit of broken wiki markup on your talk page. I cleaned up a bit of it – most importantly some unclosed tags that were rendering the rest of the page incorrectly. I also added <nowiki /> tags in front of various level 1 headings; these are reserved and shouldn't be used. As is, there's still likely some broken stuff, and there's a lot of duplicated material, but it should at least be a bit more usable now. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 00:51, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ack.--JerzyA (talk) 01:20, 4 February 2020 (UTC) JerzyA (talk) 01:20, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ack. JerzyA (talk) 14:53, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I am interested to know where you were going with this edit summary? ... discospinster talk 00:33, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

   Thank you for the collegiality of your query, and plz accept my apology for the incoherence of that contrib by me. (I think I must have lacked the patience, or perhaps the concentration, to finish it properly on this wretched, duct-taped, iPad 2.)
I had not realized that I had left that contrib unfinished. The removal was bcz the ref I found was utterly worthless, but pretended to support the article. The ref is a bare mention of an actor, or perhaps just an insinuated actor with a very common first name, and an equally undistinguishing last name. Nothing in the reference supported the implicit claim that the two actors were in fact the same person. (They may be, esp. since his later self may have finally realized that two vanilla names do not memorably, nor even reliably, identify him. I did not compare the dates of the stages of the career (or careers), but the mention of the IIRC NYC engagement covered by the first-cit'n was of zero value to the article, having failed to (1) demonstrate that both cit'ns concerned the same actor, nor (2) add any certainty of being ine same person, nor factual substance about either, nor (3) add anything but a worthless edit to the contributor's "edit-count-itis". Perhaps another ref amused an editor or two, but it distracted from the mission too much to justify its existence. [precautionary save].16:57 & 22:54, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
   (More detail coming.--JerzyA (talk) 21:53, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Minor. Colleague may like to get off on the right footby quickly perking up our ears with a momentous-sound BUT, but the best to be said about that choice is “so what?” Cyprus presumably doesn't import enough oil lot of oil from Ukraine, but it IS known for registering ships that go all over the world, and oil tankers are the only flexible means for getting oil to markets that are in a position to exchange sound currencies for it.... When (I think there may be a handful of aircraft car...

but now it's in the permanent history of that article. An Edit summary is a brief explanation of an edit to a Wikipedia page. Not only did your edit make no sense—your edit summary was WP:DISRUPTIVE. - MrX 🖋 13:03, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And since you were warned about this just five weeks ago to no effect, consider this a final warning. If you continue in this fashion, you may be blocked from editing for disruption. - MrX 🖋 13:10, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

An interesting side effect of being mostly away from WP for a while is the realization of how fucked the wikipedia culture of issuing "final warning" and "you may be blocked" messages to people who harmlessly don't conform to our idea of what the perfect editor should be. You get immunized to the rudeness when you see it daily, I guess. For what it's worth, JerzyA, I understood the edit summary. --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:52, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Well hey, thanks for calling me rude and undermining my effort to put a user back on course. Nothing rude or fucked up about that at all. - MrX 🖋 13:56, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
MrX, the "final warning" might be a bit heavy-handed. Floquenbeam, your comment surprises me. The edit in question was not an improvement, was inarticulate, and the edit summary completely inappropriate. See Help:Edit_summary#What_to_avoid_in_edit_summaries. Eric talk 14:58, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's fair. The final warning may have been a little heavy handed, but I judged that it was warranted because of several previous complaints from editors about similar behavior, documented above. - MrX 🖋 17:27, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Your draft article, Draft:Willey Range

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Yeah, I get it * Ack. —- JerzyA (talk) 16:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your help desk question

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  • Ack.
Tnx, that’s fairly fresh. Tho present priority is shutting down stale YGM MSGS, I may get calm enuf to respond.
And a tip o’ the Hatlo hat t’ye. —- JerzyA (talk) 16:47, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Transform faults

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Hi JerzyA, I've had a go at rewriting the lead and nomenclature sections of transform fault. Let me know if its still too vague. Mikenorton (talk) 13:08, 16 February 2020 (UTC) * Ack.[reply]

Tnx, that’s fairly fresh. Tho present priority is shutting down stale YGM MSGS, I may get calm enuf to respond.
And a tip o’ the Hatlo hat t’ye. —- JerzyA (talk) 16:48, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting

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Please don't mess around with article formatting as you did in this edit. You may think that it helps you personally, but it is, at best, unorthodox and unnecessary, and confuses other editors. Just stick with normal formatting, and don't add unnecessary hidden messages. Thanks. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:26, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto. That edit was thoroughly unhelpful and somewhat disruptive. Eric talk 13:01, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
My thanks & regards, and I hope to review for valuable insight, once I feel less of a long-tailed cat in this room full of rocking chairs.
Yr graces’ H&O S, —-JerzyA (talk) 17:38, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Disruptive edit summary

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   Hi. Thank you for your useful edit to Virus. But please do not write essays as edit summaries as you did here [1]. This wastes other editor's time and such gibberish remains in the article history. Graham Beards (talk) 16:09, 4 June 2020 (UTC)    Thanks again, my frustration level gets the better of me, and i have some trouble just walking away. I get better outcomes on my real computer, but its often tough to set the iPad aside and learn how many ways i've recently screwed up. I've been editing for about 17 years, most of it as an admin (a task i've resigned from at my own initiative), and if you're willing to oversee further edits, you'd be doing me a big favor, and i like to think, the 'pedia one perhaps worthy a little of a less handicapped one such as i.[reply]
   My regards, [[User:JerzyA, ex-User:Jerzy,... offline, i'm Gary R. Zempel (which I don't mind revealing now that my role in electoral politics is well over). And i plan to go back and look at the damage done, and perhaps be able to clean up my act a bit.

Yours, GRZ
---JerzyA (talk) 05:56, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
<ping|Graham Beards> hmmm- testing<ping|JerzyA>@JerzyA:

Ah, @Graham Beards, @JerzyA... ... Mehǃ --̴̴̴̴̴̃

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Information icon Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Heavy water. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

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I undid some of your changes, with very specific explanation of each. You without addressing any of them, returned to your previous edit that I disputed. Please see WP:BRD. DMacks (talk) 15:55, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
ː I own up to my response on your talk page, and will copy it and resign it, if it seems appropriate to you, say as part of our discussion's prior history. My contribs on that page were indeed a mess, not bcz i was done but bcz i'd forgotten editing the page. If you would like to weigh the aspects i was trying to improve, i could try explaining on talk and listen to specific points you are, i doubt not, qualified to critique. Frankly, i don't recall i was trying to improve, and i am very loath to claim even what i envisioned is better than what was there, if it suits you i'd be glad to have you review any further drafts (not necessarily limited to topics that are closer to your wheelhouse than mine, tho that would be unforgivably ... bold (more to the point than would be simply "presumptuous" .... were i to stray into suggesting or requesting thatǃ No reply is necessary, especially as i needto stick to both keyboards a list entitled "Topics whose further editing by me would be injudicious". Thanks for your attention, if you've been so generous as to read this farǃ --Hoping to redeem the status of conditional colleague, i am y'r grace's most 'umble & obed't servant, -- JerzyA (talk) 01:24, et al, ...ː32, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

No worries. The more I look at it, there's probably some cut'n'paste problem or...who knows what magic happens in the various editing modes of this software. Please feel free to continue editing any field you like. Science sometimes gets in a rut of its own language that isn't as understandable to others and WP does need help improving its accessibility of technical topics. Sometimes "common lanaguage" words have shades of meaning that aren't obvious, so it just takes lots of eyes and keyboards and WP:BRD and revise/retry cycles)to figure out when a synonym is clearer as opposed to when it's drifting afield. DMacks (talk) 14:45, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Your draft article, Draft:Student squalor

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Hello, it saddens me greatly to do this, but I have just blocked your account and your IP range, 2601:199:C201:FD70::/64, for disruptive editing. You've made a lot of good edits in the past little while but also a lot of bad ones ... like this, and your addition of line breaks in edits like this one is highly disruptive these days. All that coupled with your floating IP, making it nigh-on impossible for most users to communicate with you, leaves me little choice but to block you. I would consider supporting an unblock if you stuck to *one* account and undertook to stop fiddling with line breaks, and also took in the other concerns people have expressed with your editing since your desysop. On a personal note, it's thanks to your comments way back in 2005 that I created my user page, so thank you for that. Graham87 09:58, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also pinging Drt1245, who has dealt with a lot of your edits ... sometimes a bit too harshly, I think, but certainly persistently. Graham87 10:11, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Graham87, FYI: User talk:JerzyTheRetired. Drmies (talk) 22:12, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just wow ... Graham87 05:52, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Please contact my wife, Virginia Kramer, at vak2019.com, who can better explain my situation than I can. Thanks.Please not that she and I share the same IP address, so that she is technically blocked.

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No. Make your request here. Yamla (talk) 18:15, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]


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