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.
I view my own contributions page frequently, and thus don't usually need to be alerted when someone's replied to me with a {{talkback}} notice.
Please let me know if something on this page appears strangely; it's mostly customized and I only have one computer to test its appearance on.
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.
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.
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).
Sysladobsis, off the main list only due to use of b where Latin and Greek would both use p. Possibly a localism since this is Penobscot territory.
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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), ...
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
(The roundness of some early video game characters may be explained as a graphical limitation, since sprites in early video games were usually squares (Big Mario was actually two squares stacked), but Bob-ombs were styled after cartoon bombs and similar characters have appeared in other media, probably pre-dating video games)
Could you please undelete this article? We have received OTRS permission for it which I can add as soon as it is restored. VernoWhitney (talk) 18:56, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
That works fine. I've added the OTRS tag and will let them know where the article has been restored. Thanks! VernoWhitney (talk) 19:32, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Or was that just a random bombing? HalfShadow 01:14, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
It was due to my stopping their attempted vandalism on another user's page. I've already sent off an email with more information. I would have protected my page myself, but I had to step out of the room for a few minutes. —Soap— 09:58, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Well, I'll keep an eye on you for a bit; I highly doubt I'm the only one, but now I'm one more. HalfShadow 20:16, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Yes, it's wikEdDiff. It happened to me as well (and it happened before on wikEdDiff upgrades). I made it work by clearing the cache and restarting Firefox.—EmilJ. 11:05, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
I know that bus stops are commonly placed at intersections, but can you please elaborate what "Not a meaningful intersection of topics" means in context of the PROD. Thanks. Chesdovi (talk) 10:25, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
No... that's not me, and his/her editing history is a million miles from my interests. No idea why they'd have cloned me. Kind of creepy, don't you think? Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 20:56, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Might as well bar his IP from creating accounts, or else there will be a harry.lewis9 later. I am a violinist ♫ talk to me here! 12:19, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Blocks do that automatically, even though the blocking admin doesn't know the underlying IP. The fact that he was able to keep coming back shows that he must have access to either a mobile IP address, or a range of static ones. —Soap— 14:54, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Just a note: indeffed Harrys 9 and 10 for block evasion. Airplaneman ✈ 22:34, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the maintenance stuff while I slept! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:32, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
I appear to have made one though, although his ire is somewhat misplaced. He's User:Sleeping water, who was posting some unorthodox material on Celts over the last few months. He appears to have mistaken me for his arch-nemesis because I placed some warning templates on his talk page. I'm away from my home computer at the moment, so don't have a great deal of time to devote to wikipedia, but I'm not overly worried. I'll get a sock investigation going once I'm back. Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 18:39, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
As a related question, is there a way of checking if a user is banned or restricted from editing a particular article or its talk page? Thanks. Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 17:43, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks... The person I had in mind isn't on there, but there's sufficient evidence that they believe they are banned from editing... here, for example. I'm not sure of the best way to procede on this. Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 18:18, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Just so I know if I should keep an eye on another page. HalfShadow 00:22, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
I've done a few page protections and vandalism deletions tonight; mostly this is what they're on about, I'm sure. I can explain more fully over email if you'd like, as I did before. —Soap— 00:41, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Nah, like before the specifics aren't as important as who or what I should be keeping an eye on. Often they think if they've got access to proxies, they rule the world, so they may or may not stop. HalfShadow 00:45, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
I think they pretty much pick random targets. User talk:Supreme Deliciousness was the most recent but I'm not sure that is evidence of a long term pattern. —Soap— 09:49, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page.--I dream of horsesIf you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 06:17, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
I suspect I haven't seen the last of that, but...
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
It's all gone by the time I get to see it... thanks and apologies for the extra work it's causing you! Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 21:51, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Well, probably a returning user, but the original creator of the Colorful sheep page was never blocked, so I don't see any reason to call this sockpuppetry. —Soap— 17:45, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I know it seems a bit pedantic to explain the adminhelp template to this user but this was the nature of the request they made to my user talk page. Obviously this is a non-starter but at least they are using their own talk page rather than lobbying on articles until they get blocked. Thanks, Fæ (talk) 22:39, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey, regarding the online pharmacy article, we have follwoe all your guidelines, we are not trying to advertise, there are no links whatsoever. We are simply trying to offer a genuine update int he field of pharmacy which we feel is landmark. What are we doing wrong that the other guys on top of us(pharmacy2u) and below us (dr fox) are doing right? Surely in that view they are all advertising? I dont understand what you expect? The sentence is clearly non advertising? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.223.89.157 (talk) 11:08, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
It doesn't help readers learn about the concept of an online pharmacy. Even if it did, you would need to create an article for the site first (and ensure that it meets all of our guidelines, such as being mentioned and described in detail by unrelated entities) and then we can talk about mentioning it on the online pharmacy article. This is not, of course, a recommendation that you create an article about OneClickPharmacy that doesnt meet the requirements, as that would be seen as worse, not better, than doing nothing. —Soap— 11:13, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
I do understand that, and thats why we provided links initially to independent pharmacy news organisation which are respected, and we were dismissed as advertising?
Here are the links, judge for you self please and help me idnetify how to resolve this.
I think it definitely fits in the online pharmacy article here as the marketplace houses online pharmacies in the UK, only the genuine regulated ones. This helps patients buy online safely as they are all registered.
Links to prove it is news independently:
http://www.pjonline.com/news/new_web_concept_oneclickpharmacy_offers_online_sales_platform_for_independents
What is your view on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.223.89.157 (talk) 11:29, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
I've removed those other entries, for the same reason as I removed yours. I don't really think your response to me answers the objection I put out, though. The online pharmacy is not meant to be a list of online pharmacies, and if there was a list of online pharmacies it would only be those that have their own Wikipedia articles, and if you want to build a Wikipedia article about the pharmacy you would have to first prove show that it meets the notability requirements (which it may, I really am not the best person to ask for that), and get it off the blacklist (which even I cannot do). As for why those other links were on there, I imagine it just is because nobody notices them at the time that people were paying attention to you. As we're all unpaid volunteers, that doesn't surprise me. Also, if you see improper links to other sites such as that, you've just as much authority to remove them as I or anyone else would. —Soap— 12:47, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Our note is supposed to be progress and about online pharmacy int he UK. The UK has a marketplace for online pharmacies...
much like this line still there:
The first internet pharmacy in the UK was Pharmacy2U, which started operating in November 1999, after being backed from the British government.[21]
I still fail to understand how this line is relevant and yet the same development in a different form like ours is not?
Also how do we get ourself removed from the blacklist as we got our knickers in a twist trying to understnad how this works whilst getting blacklisted irresponsibly?
That was added by someone else, which I understand because it was a third-party source mentioning that site, rather than the site itself. I still don't agree with it but I won't remove it. If you want to have your site removed from the blacklist you should request it on MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#Proposed_removals. —Soap— 13:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I changed the vote and indented/struck the previous support. With a hectic real life, my memory is already going down the drain, and I'm not even that old. Thanks, Tyrol5[Talk] 01:23, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Well, look on the bright side: someday you'll be dead and it won't matter anymore. I suppose in retrospect that's not really helpful, is it?HalfShadow 01:27, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
hello I am shri krishna ramjuntar —Preceding unsigned comment added by ศรีกฤษณะ รามจันทรา (talk • contribs) 06:34, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
It would be automatically blocked ("autoblocked") for 24 hours by the other blocks, which is as good as anything since I suspect he's using a mobile IP. Though I see Tnxman has gone on to block it for 2 weeks in addition. That's good, because I wouldn't have been comfortable making that block myself without seeing the checkuser evidence. It could theoretically have been a coincidence, however unlikely. —Soap— 18:06, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Soap, I didn't know about the autoblock function... good to know. Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 19:21, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
That IP you just blocked, is that Catlover324, you think? Drmies (talk) 20:01, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I doubt it, this has been going on for a while. The first page of this kind that I found was entitled Talk:The_Thing_that_needs_to_fuck_off, back on September 28, but I get the impression he was already well-established by that point. Unfortunately it's not really easy to search for deleted pages so I can't find the "original", although I know he has had at least one named account, it wasn't older than the IP edits. —Soap— 20:09, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Well, my apologies to Catlover then. Hope you're still enjoying the job! (Hey, maybe it's someone at The Thing's RfA...I know, that's a bad joke.) Drmies (talk) 20:11, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, since User:HJ Mitchell is away/busy in real life, I'd like to ask for your opinion. Do you think I am ready for adminship? If not, what would you like to see me do? I am not an artist, but I do enjoy behind the scenes work. Thanks!:) --Addihockey10e-mail 17:58, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you update Florida please? CTJF83chat 19:45, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
The last I heard, you weren't sure what to update it to. Have you found more information? I'd be happy to do the change but I would need to know what the status of gay adoption is. —Soap— 20:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Okay, it should be done now. It might still appear as red on various pages if your cache isn't cleared, but the image itself has been changed. —Soap— 21:56, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, CTJF83chat 21:58, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Soap - JFYI - the UAA holding pen does have a bot (or at least it did) so I'm glad you left the edit summary that you did. I noticed the last time the bot edited was just before someone renamed the page to a capital H. I've moved it back and the bot started up immediately. That's a long way of saying that hopefully you won't need to remove blocked users in the future (however we still need to clear the old backlog of "waiting" users ourselves). Good catch. 7 12:16, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm confused; Kanterbrau and Kopacabana might not even be related to Sleeping water, since what they're doing is so different than the others, but they're surely socks of each other, and surely not new users, so I've indeffed both of them as well. (Kopacabana seems also to have copied his talk page from User talk:Derbeth). —Soap— 18:56, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
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