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I'm hoping that removing some of these restrictions can help restore some sense of normalcy to the topic area. In any case I hope this list is helpful. <span style="font-family:times; text-shadow: 0 0 .2em #7af">~[[User:Awilley|Awilley]] <small>([[User talk:Awilley|talk]])</small></span> 23:50, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
I'm hoping that removing some of these restrictions can help restore some sense of normalcy to the topic area. In any case I hope this list is helpful. <span style="font-family:times; text-shadow: 0 0 .2em #7af">~[[User:Awilley|Awilley]] <small>([[User talk:Awilley|talk]])</small></span> 23:50, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
*[[User:Awilley|Awilley]], thanks for your note, but especially your diligence. No, I don't do a lot of sanctioning: by all means, do what you think is right and remove any restrictions you think no longer serve a purpose. Thanks! [[User:Drmies|Drmies]] ([[User talk:Drmies#top|talk]]) 23:54, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

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Yo Ho Ho

Notification of Dispute Resolution

Please note I have now taken the discussion at RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 2) to Dispute resolution. Spa-Franks (talk) 01:07, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Lord, people are still fighting about this. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 01:41, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Deepfriedokra: They also spammed the talk page with edit requests... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:47, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And now the IP who was messing with my comments seems to be back... They also blanked their TP when warned so likely same person as before... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 15:11, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Another SPA with the same kind of comment, though it must be a diferent IP. The IP is probably the same person as Special:Contributions/78.152.245.98, right? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 15:57, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, next time please put the link there to save some clicking around. I blocked the account for a week: let's see if they can come back in a more civilized manner. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:10, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
This is beyond ridiculous Special:Contributions/51.37.186.36 (already blocked) vs. Special:Contributions/51.37.69.16 (apparently, me providing a link to the ANI discussion is a deliberate attempt to "have the last word" - when the discussion right above is about just forgetting all this ever happened and moving on to something else [like writing actual articles; or catching the obvious and annoying vandals on the edit filter or recent changes])... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:55, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I feel like I'm reaching the end of the "this is so stupid it's funny" line and am rapidly approaching the "this is just so so stupid" point. This is just a monumental lack of patience (and a blatant disregard, if not provocation, based on the comment I made 2 minutes before that), though (prob. no action required other than removing the comment, but I'm unwilling to get bothered with that). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:27, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I hate to say it, but if there's other editors active there, maybe you can step back and do other things. We don't need you to start wikilinking "patience"--it's one of the Seven Signs. BTW that IP editor has a bad track record and I acted on it. Drmies (talk) 23:51, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I tried chess but apparently whoever was white wanted to play this so that was equally a waste... Any suggestion of a backlog I could help with clearing, besides recent changes? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:20, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, I shouldn't be telling you what to do; it's dickish. Still, there is something that always needs attention: Category:BLP articles lacking sources from August 2014 and all of the others. Take care! Drmies (talk) 12:53, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rifles, once more

This is not stale, not even a wee bit.

I see you've used your surgical scalpel (more like wholesale blowing up) on that article before... Time for something other than just keeping it on watchlist? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:58, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Shamelessly appending an entirely unrelated thing: Special:Contributions/WanderingEskimo (SPA, Covid, immediate tendentious restoration of material removed by plenty of others on that talk page of a redirect). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:02, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • CU blocked now. Do me a favor and file a new pro forma SPI, and ping Maxim from there--they might have an interest, given they ran a check on a range earlier. Drmies (talk) 03:50, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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There's also something on an entirely different matter, a wee bit stale from a few days back, but not too important. Hopefully the newer one didn't bounce like DFO. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 03:48, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Since the SPI for the other one is in progress; I'll add Special:Contributions/Spyreguy; who seems to have a strong proclivity to cite the WSJ despite the repeated explanations about MEDRS... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:46, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • zzuuzz, I can't make sense of what I'm seeing--how the account was created, what else is there, the really really old accounts that are there... Can you help? Drmies (talk) 01:53, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • I did LOL. That was a robot-ized mass account compromise attempt, on a scale I don't think I've seen before. Hopefully my recent logs will provide more information, or if you want to know the magic involved drop me an email. I think I've cleared up this little lot, but I'll obviously now have to look further into whatever you and they were talking about before. -- zzuuzz (talk) 07:25, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
        • zzuuzz, you should be on payroll. Drmies (talk) 15:10, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
        • @Zzuuzz: Thanks! Any opinion on Talk:Investigations_into_the_origin_of_COVID-19#This_article_is_propaganda; where one editor keeps accusing some of us of, and I quote, "this article and its editors continue to run interference for the CCP"? This reminds me of both the now blocked sock and of Special:Contributions/Dinglelingy... Though to be fair anything that looks like an SPA and goes in the COVID pages is immediately suspicious (ex. Special:Contributions/68.148.28.136, even if I can't link it to absolutely anything else)... Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 14:33, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
          • Compromised or just a sleeper (created February last year)? Special:Contributions/CatDamon whose sole edit is to concur with another editor's accusations... Hopefully we don't need protection for the talk pages. Or I'm just being too cynical and seeing ghosts. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 17:45, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
            • The account histories will be a useful thing to keep an eye on... but I think (as well as probably some socks) there are probably some different people. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:04, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
              • @Zzuuzz: Yes, indeed. You aware of that AN thread where there was reports of explicit off-wiki (Twitter) canvassing? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 18:08, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
                • No, but that sounds about right to me. I'm still catching up on this topic (having already reviewed the SPI), plus I have a metric tonne of compromised accounts to sift through. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:13, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've seen this table before, right? This is clear evidence that this new editor is either a sock or a canvassed editor... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:33, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Well, tell me who you think they're a sock of, and I'll look further into it. A MEAT or NOTHERE block is a possibility. Drmies (talk) 21:09, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • The natural guess would be this one but with all the unrelated results I'm not quite confident it's that one in particular. I'm 100% sure I've seen that page (or something very similar) before, though, I just can't seem to remember who it was, and it appears to have been deleted at some point since an "insource" search for some phrases from there doesn't yield anything but that page. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 21:26, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Furniture, eh!

And this is a bus stop. Mind you, we have long since established that Drmies swum to skool, and did not take the bus.

What we do, M. Canadian, is lure Doktoro in with bacon, and then hit xem with a bus stop, otherwise xe goes off and improves the Jada Facer article again.

Uncle G (talk) 08:01, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Jacques and Hay was a 19th century furniture manufacturer in Toronto, in 1872 to be re-named Robert Hay and Company and later still to become Charles Rogers and Sons Company.[1] In its heyday it was colloquially known as "jakesenhay".[2]

Co-founded in 1835 by John Jacques (then a journeyman cabinetmaker from England) and Robert Hay (a journeyman cabinetmaker from Scotland),[3][1][4] originally the company started as just one small shop in Toronto, which Jacques and Hay had bought from Jacques' then boss, William Maxwell;[4] but it expanded over the next several decades, in keeping with a regional boom in furniture manufacturing in the middle of the 19th century.[1] The firm had a large plant in Toronto by the 1850s, which had an annual production of (amongst other things) 1,000 beds and 15,000 Windsor chairs, which were sold by outlets in several towns in the province of Ontario that the firm opened that decade.[1] At the same time, the company had expanded its supply of raw materials with a timber plant at New Lowell (now part of the town of Clearview) and had industrialized its manufacturing at the Toronto factory to include multiple steam powered machines, including a jig saw, a belt sander, power planers, a multiple-drilling machine, a moulding machine, and twenty circular saws.[1] It was the largest factory of its kind in British America in 1864.[5]

The firm was by that time also employing marketing tactics such as manufacturing bespoke furniture for Albert Edward, the then Prince of Wales, and his retinue on his 1860 royal tour of several cities in the province.[1] These marketing stunts proved to be ineffectual in the longer term, however.[1] The firm lacked product catalogues, faced competition from other firms with lower production costs (such as not needing to ship lumber by rail from New Lowell to Toronto), and after that initial burst of mechanization in the 1850s failed to keep up with further advances in machinery from the 1860s onwards.[6]

The firm changed to Robert Hay and Company in 1872 when Jacques retired, Charles Rogers and George Craig then becoming partners with Hay.[7] Rogers, born in Glasgow in 1816, had immigrated to Canada in 1851, joining the firm as a carver; and Craig, also born in Glasgow but in 1819, had earlier immigrated to Canada in 1842 and joined the firm as a machinist.[7]

Eventually, as Charles Rogers and Sons Company, the firm dissolved in 1922.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Forster 1996, p. 163.
  2. ^ Bloomfield & Bloomfield 1987.
  3. ^ Johnson 1968, p. 263.
  4. ^ a b Kealey 1991, p. 19.
  5. ^ Lerner & Williamson 1991, p. 291.
  6. ^ Forster 1996, pp. 163–164.
  7. ^ a b Robinson 1885, p. 385.
  8. ^ Forster 1996, pp. 164.
Reference bibliography
  • Forster, Ben (1996). "Finding the right size: Markets and competition in mid- and late- nineteenth-century Ontario". In Hall, Roger; Westfall, William; Sefton MacDowell, Laurel (eds.). Patterns of the Past: Interpreting Ontario's History. Dundurn. ISBN 9781554882649. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Lerner, Loren Ruth; Williamson, Mary F. (1991). Art Et Architecture Au Canada. Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981. Vol. 1. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802058560. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Robinson, C. Blackett (1885). History of Toronto and County of York, Ontario: pt. 1. Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Johnson, J. Keith, ed. (1968). "Hay, Robert". The Canadian Directory of Parliament, 1867–1967. Queen's Printer. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Kealey, Gregory S. (1991). "Toronto's industrial revolution". Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867–1892. Reprints in Canadian history. Vol. 247. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802068835. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Bloomfield, Elizabeth; Bloomfield, Gerald (1987-01-01). "Mills, Factories and Craftshops of Ontario, 1870: A Machine-Readable Source for Material Historians". Material Culture Review. 25. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Further reading

  • "Jacques and Hay's Cabinet Factory". Journal of the Board of Arts and Manufacturers of Upper Canada. 2: 193–196. July 1864. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Dunning, Phil (November 1974). "The Jacques and Hay Styles: Canadian Cabinet Makers and Victorian Style". Canadian Antiquities Collector. 9 (6): 14–17. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Radforth, Ian (1989). "Managing Jacques and Hay's New Lowell operations, 1853–1873". In Baskerville, Peter Allan (ed.). Canadian Papers in Business History. Vol. 1. Public History Group, University of Victoria. ISBN 9780921278023. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Cathcart, Ruth (1986). Jacques & Hay: 19th Century Toronto Furniture Makers. Boston Mills Press. ISBN 9780919783294. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
This submission to Articles for creation is about a furniture maker, eh! There are entire books on furniture manufacturing in Canada, Doktoro. Be afraid.
  • Oh, I am! And now my IKEA order is stuck in the Suez Canal? Drmies (talk) 03:02, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Ah. Reasons for furniture delays is it? For sure! Uncle G (talk) 09:45, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Stratford furniture workers' strike of 1933 was a strike by 650 furniture workers and 100 chicken-pluckers in Stratford, Ontario in 1933.[1]

After the Great Depression workers' wages were below subsistence level, and they went on strike demanding that their wages be reviewed.[2] The recently formed Workers' Unity League organized unionization and the strike at various companies, as it had just done in Toronto.[3] The individual strikes began on 1933-09-15 with strikes in the six of the seven local furniture making factories that the League had successfully unionized, and spread in subsequent days to the women and men at Swift's, a poultry company, who had unionized as the Food Workers' Industrial Union.[3]

In response to an incident at Swift's, the mayor of Stratford requested the support of the Canadian military, and soldiers arrived by train along with machine gun carriers.[3] At its height there were more than 2,000 workers out on strike, including sympathy strikes, and the striker's response to the calling in of the military was to organize a large rally and parade.[4] The machine gun carriers, from Carden-LLoyd, were never employed in the end.[3] The strike ended peacefully in November of the same year, with one of its local leaders, Oliver Kerr, actually elected as mayor of Stratford the next year.[4][3] It was to be the last time that the Canadian military was called out to help with a strike.[5]

James Reaney, who had witnessed the strike firsthand as a seven-year-old child, turned it into a play, entitled King Whistle!, in 1979; and is recorded as jokingly claiming in a seminar that "the reason that Tom Patterson started the Stratford Festival" was "to get rid of the shame".[6] The strike was one of several factors, including the rumours of the onset of what was to be World War Two and the end of the steam railway era causing a decline in the town's fortunes, that caused a sense of gloom in Stratford over the next couple of decades that Patterson sought to dispel.[7]

References

  1. ^ Lyon Endicott 2012, p. 210.
  2. ^ Bart-Riedstra 2002, p. 77.
  3. ^ a b c d e Bart-Riedstra 2002, p. 78.
  4. ^ a b Walker 2001, p. 67–68.
  5. ^ Melady 2013, p. 175.
  6. ^ Walker 2001, p. 67.
  7. ^ Melady 2013, p. 176.
Reference bibliography
  • Lyon Endicott, Stephen (2012). Raising the Workers' Flag: The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930–1936. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442612266. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Bart-Riedstra, Carolynn (2002). Stratford. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738511481. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Walker, Craig Stewart (2001). "James Reaney: Metamorphic masks". The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 9780773520752. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Melady, John (2013). "Tom Patterson: Saving a town with culture". Breakthrough!: Canada's Greatest Inventions and Innovations. Dundurn. ISBN 9781459708532. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Further reading

  • Morton, Desmond (1974). "Aid to the Civil Power: The Stratford Strike". In Abella, Irving (ed.). On Strike: Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada 1919–1949. James Lorimer Limited. ISBN 9780888620576. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Leach, James (1968). "The Workers' Unity League and the Stratford Furniture Workers: The Anatomy of a Strike". Ontario History. 60 (2): 39–48. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
This submission to Articles for creation is about furniture makers, eh! Hey look! Some theatre person has put it into popular culture.

Wine, but no bacon

Doktoro, you lost a bunch of stuff in Special:Diff/1014753071. I've put this back. Gerda Arendt has put xyr comment back, too. Uncle G (talk) 08:06, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Escalle region of (what is now) Larkspur, California takes its name from Jean Escalle, a 19th century French immigrant and vintner whose name was given to many things in the area before it was incorporated into Larkspur, including the local railway station, and a vineyard, quarry, resort, and brickworks that he owned. The site of the buildings that remain from the original estate is a class H historic zone.[1]

With his brother Pierre, Jean Escalle immigrated to Larkspur in 1881 from France, to join his friend and fellow French immigrant Claude Callot in operating a brickworks.[2][3] Callot had been operating the brickworks since 1874, having leased it from a Patrick King that year and then outright bought it in 1879; and in the year of the arrival of the Escalles they together built a house, a barn, a water-tank, and a winery on Callot's property.[4] Escalle married Callot's widow Ellen after Callott's death in 1888, expanding from running the brickworks into also running an inn, named the Limerick Inn and opened in 1894 next to the house.[5][6][7] There he sold wine from grapes grown in a 23 acres (9.3 hectares) vineyard expanded from the original, which by that time was producing 23,000 US gallons (870 hL) of wine per year.[8][9]

The Limerick Inn was a part of the area becoming a resort, with its bocce ball court and gardens; to which customers would travel by railway or buggy.[9] The local railway station came to be known as Escalle.[2]

Because of Prohibition, the inn ceased selling wine in 1920.[10] Escalle also died that year, causing legal complications to ensue from his relatives in France that effectively left the entire estate in limbo for the next two decades.[10] Adolph A. Tiscornia, an attorney and investor who acquired a significant fraction of Larkspur over the years, eventually bought Escalle in 1941, after the legal complications were finally resolved, and in 1978 Escalle Village was built.[11]

In the 21st century, the original estate buildings still remain, most of Tiscornia's other property having been sold by Tiscornia's granddaughter Mary, including the barn, the water tank, and the winery, which retains its original Italianate false front with "Escalle's" and "1888" on the upper storey and its original brick lower floor and wood upper floor.[12] The additional signage "Corte Madeira Vineyard and Winery" that existed in Escalle's lifetime is, however, no longer present, and various additions have been made to the winery that are not visible from the front; as well as a two-car garage added.[13] The Limerick Inn was damaged in 1982 by a landslip, and is now mainly a shell albeit one that was stabilized after being threatened by the nearby growth of elm trees in 2003 and redecorated in 2008 for a Centennial celebration.[14]

References

  1. ^ Heitkamp 2010, p. 253.
  2. ^ a b Teather 1986, p. 25, ESCALLE'S.
  3. ^ Arrigoni 2000, p. 131.
  4. ^ Heitkamp 2010, pp. 248, 356.
  5. ^ Teather 1986, ESCALLE'S.
  6. ^ Heitkamp 2010, p. 355.
  7. ^ Heitkamp 2010, pp. 18, 248–249.
  8. ^ Mason & Van Cleave Park 1975, p. 90.
  9. ^ a b Heitkamp 2010, pp. 249.
  10. ^ a b Heitkamp 2010, pp. 250.
  11. ^ Heitkamp 2010, pp. 250, 355, 358.
  12. ^ Heitkamp 2010, pp. 248, 252, Epilogue.
  13. ^ Heitkamp 2010, p. 252.
  14. ^ Heitkamp 2010, pp. 252–253.
Reference bibliography
  • Teather, Louise (1986). Place Names of Marin: Where Did They Come From?. Scottwall Associates. ISBN 9780961279080. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Arrigoni, Patricia (2000). Carroll, Dana (ed.). Making the Most of Marin: A California Guide. Travel Publishers International. ISBN 9780962546877. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Mason, Jack; Van Cleave Park, Helen (1975). The Making of Marin (1850–1975). North Shore Books. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Heitkamp, Helen (2010). Larkspur Past and Present. Larkspur Heritage Preservation Board. ISBN 9780615395128. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Further reading

This submission to Articles for creation lacks the essential furniture element. But when the deletion nomination outright tells one what the notable subject is, what is one to do?

Did you know …

  • … that Adolph A. Tiscornia's obituary in one newspaper gave him the titles "King of Kearny Street, Earl of the Eyesore" because of how he let his properties in Larkspur, California run down?
    • "Adolph Tiscornia, King of Kearny St., is Dead". The San Francisco Examiner. 1967-01-10. p. 42.
  • … that Adolph A. Tiscornia's estate once chopped the top off the Little King without permission?
    • "Emergency Meeting set in Larkspur". Daily Independent Journal. San Rafael, California. 1972-05-12. p. 1.

Uncle G (talk) 08:06, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

… and no pineapple

This is not corned beef, Doktoro.

I will probably laugh quite hard if fortuitously you end up closing Pineapple cheesecake (AfD discussion) too.

In the meantime, you might enjoy Edgar "Eddie" Ray Woolbright's old restaurant. He didn't just help invent Balut (game) (AfD discussion). He knew Imelda Marcos from school and once sent her a note, to his advantage. I don't know whether the restaurant puts pineapple on the corned beef, though.

Uncle G (talk) 10:30, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Uncle G, I made corned beef last week, with all the spices and the liquid and all that, and I don't care for it. I'll take corned beef from a can with some jerk seasoning on rice, please. Drmies (talk) 13:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Block evasion

Hi Drmies, Tympanus whom you blocked has signed a post as an IP here.--Ermenrich (talk) 15:53, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment...

Hi Drmies, thank you very much for your hint. Since I work with Huggle, the messages happen automatically via this software. In the inserted message this is also clearly noted. This text cannot be changed in Huggle. Therefore I do not understand your comment. The message also seems to be justified, since you have blocked the user. How can I understand your comment and what can I change to make it easier for the admins to work on my messages? I am looking forward to a feedback from you. RacoonyRE Message meContributions 18:05, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • User:RacoonyRE, I don't know what Huggle does or does not do, but something shouldn't be reported to AIV unless it's clear that it's vandalism. If you report it, you need to be sure, at least in your own mind. And in this case, there were at least two edits that made it perfectly clear that this was just pure vandalism--so I went from "well I suppose I need to check very carefully" to "why did I have to check this at all". Admins are simple people, and we eat simple food--so we like our meals to be easy to digest. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 18:10, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Addendum: so in this case, there is no point in leaving a level-2 warning or go "if this was a mistake"--no, no mistake, this person has a stable IP and has been vandalizing in the same way since January, so warn at the highest level, and/or report to AIV and say "they've been doing this for months". Does that help? Drmies (talk) 18:12, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi Drmies, Thank you for the information, which I will gladly implement. In fact, at the moment I am still cautious about the messages on AIV. I actually come from dewiki and there are different rules than here. Even though I have read them all, I would rather be prudent. I appreciate your comments very much and will implement them that way. I am well aware that admins are normal people. You will certainly have noticed that this Huggle text is used by many. But you can be sure that Huggle will only give this message after 4 warnings have been given. I also make sure that not all 4 warnings come from me, so that we have a 4-eyes principle here.
    In this sense I wish you a nice evening / day and look forward to a good cooperation. RacoonyRE Message meContributions 18:20, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Sure, but keep in mind that one takes ownership of every gadget one uses. As for more eyes--if someone makes some racist or sexist kind of comment, there is no need to wait or get others to look at it: in that case the admin will (or should) take action immediately. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 21:47, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User:MyPreferredUsernameWasTaken

Earlier this month, you blocked User:MyPreferredUsernameWasTaken, an account that had retired in January 2021. The editor User:CaliIndie appeared in Feb 2021 and immediately started editing in a way similar to a veteran editor and in particular, the retired account. Per the editor interaction analyzer, CaliIndie has edited 30 pages in common with the blocked account out of total 102 pages edited, which seems like a startlingly many articles edited in common.[1] The blocked editor was not a 20-year veteran editor or anything like that, so it can't be that the blocked editor just happened to have edited every other page on the website. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 22:30, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Enquiry

Hello friend! Comes to know that there is a sockpuppet investigation is happening. Let me know whether you guys confirmed that I'm the sockpuppet of Phoenix man?

The man who nominated me described that I'd made an edit on Priya Prakash Varrier, is that wrong? Anyone can edit anytopics on this project, right?

I'd created two article on this encyclopedia, one is Divya Gokulnath - who is the co-founder of Byju's, with the help of Beccaynr. And the other is Prarthana Indrajith.

BTW, I haven't done anything wrong here. I'll surely quit Wikipedia If you want to..

Thank you Faithfully YogeshWarahTalk 04:53, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yogeshwarah, I opened as SPI against you not only because of your edits on Priya Prakash Varrier. I have provided evidences there. This is alos just one of them. And the thing is that, the SPI against you is about to get closed. And if the investigator needs more evidence, Im ready to present it there. But I think the current eevidences are enough as well as well the CU confirmation. If you havent done anything wrong, you must present it in the SPI rather than coming here. Its just a waste of time. By the way,dont take this as personal and if you are editing here based on our guidelines and policies, you can stay here. Regards Kichu🐘 Need any help? 05:32, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet of Ajhenson21

Hi! can you permanently block the account of Gardo Versace (talk), Johnra 21 (talk) and Pipamidalton (talk)? because I looked at their Checkuser and it confirmed I was Ajhenson21's (talk) sockpuppet and I tried to block them but they can still edit so I really want to block them permanently so that there is no Edit Warring, Thank you. Jricaplaza (talk) 06:07, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Jricaplaza, sorry, but you did not look at CU data because you are not a CU, and you should not put those templates on anyone's user pages. And you can't block because you're not an administrator. I find it very odd that I have to explain this. Drmies (talk) 14:06, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ah that's right, but can you just block Gardo Versace permanently because I saw in Categories that he has many accounts. Jricaplaza (talk) 14:16, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think Gardo Versace is a Ajhenson21. Jricaplaza (talk) 14:19, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keeping declined unblocks

Hi Drmies,

User talk:GrignardReagent007 removed their failed unblock request from their user page (which you edited), counter to WP:KEEPDECLINEDUNBLOCK. I have no dog in this fight, I just bumped into this and thought I would let you know.

Kind regards, RWalen (talk) 08:42, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

English Professor Vacuum

It seems that someone else has already sumbitted Political views of American professors (AfD discussion) to AFC. But I did find a Dutch professor who seems to be on to something.

  • Floré, Fredie; McAtee, Cammie, eds. (2017). The Politics of Furniture: Identity, Diplomacy and Persuasion in Post-War Interiors. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317020479. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

It even has a Canadian connection, which will please M. Canadian. That said, for your quest for youth cred we probably need something modern.

  • Wright, Virginia (1997). Modern Furniture in Canada, 1920 to 1970. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802073778. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Uncle G (talk) 22:08, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

removed Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
  • Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

  • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
  • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

block of User:2601:243:CC00:FF30:4BD:411C:F434:468D

I am curious about the fact that the "/64" range for this IPv6 address has been involved in a comparatively large amount of conflict, does it not make more sense to block the entire range? Or does the capability to do this not exist? And FWIW, is there any inference of improper editing for an IP user to blank their own talk page, while the state of this dispute is this recent? Would it be improper for me to revert the blanking of the IP user's talk page? Fabrickator (talk) 04:03, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • I looked at that, but I don't agree: that is not a comparatively large amount--it's a fairly small amount, and it's not very recent. It did not seem worth it to me. They can blank their own talk page all they want, and yes, sorry, you reverting that would be improper. If they return to the same pattern, the block can be extended and lengthened. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 13:26, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ha, the block is extended and lengthened. Drmies (talk) 13:30, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Jricaplaza and Shadzarie

Hi Drmies, you may like to have a look at my block of Jricaplaza (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) regarding your block of Shadzarie (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). Thanks in advance! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:21, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Sorry I forgot about this, ToBeFree--I just confirmed it. Gardo Versace 24 was also on that range. Drmies (talk) 21:35, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah, I had already forgotten about it :) Thank you very much and no worries ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:43, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh, ToBeFree, the party is not over. I just found another and blocked them, and I turned a range block into a hard block. I'm about to check their other, busiest range--if you're interested, see my log. Thanks again, Drmies (talk) 21:46, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Messen

Uncle G (talk) 20:52, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reasoning behind Ping

I make it short, the reasoning behind my ping was I am still behind hassled by Rusf10 (I was pinged by him). Since I am not allowed to comment on his comments and I have had no contact with him, I asked you and Floquenbeam to kindly ask Rusf10 to do the same. While I am disappointed you are "not interested", I am doing what I said I would and was told. This concludes my reasoning/explanation behind my ping of you. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:29 on April 5, 2021 (UTC)

Furniture emergency!

  • Special:Diff/1015709810

Given your recent edits de-linking furniture, Doktoro, for which you will live in infamy, I have to declare a furniture emergency. Uncle G (talk) 21:33, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • I can live with that. I mean, I already do. Did you retire recently? Does that explain this deluge of furniture and engineers and bricks? Drmies (talk) 15:48, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
For other people named William Radford, see William Radford.
One of 300 plans from Radford 1912

William A. Radford was a prolific author of architectural and construction books via his company the Radford Architectural Company in Chicago, Illinois.

Early life

Radford was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1865, where he attended school and then joined the Radford Brothers Sash and Door Company, eventually in 1890 becoming the company secretary and treasurer.[1] He married and had two sons with Helen M. Manuel, and by 1899 was living in Riverside, Illinois.[1] He was a Mason and a Shriner.[1]

Radford Architectural Company

It was the Radford Architectural Company for which he is remembered, whose output over the years comprised more than 40 books on various types of construction and more than 1000 plans and specifications for buildings ranging from homes to small commercial buildings.[1] Radford founded this company in 1902, and his publications were collaborations with prominent authors in the field at the time including Frank E. Kidder, Alfred G. King, and Ira O. Baker.[1] He was also the founder of various magazines: Beautiful Homes, Farm Mechanics, American Carpenter and Builder, and Cement Homes.[1]

Although, in the opinion of his biographer Neal Vogel, some of his designs were "lackluster versions" of Queen Anne or American Foursquare designs, some of his designs reflect the Prairie School aesthetic and his publications helped to spread it across the United States in the early 20th century.[2] Radford embraced what were then modern innovations, with books on construction types that were just coming into use such as his 1700-page long 1910 Radford Cyclopedia of Cement Construction which dealt in the use of concrete and whose articles were written by a team of experts on the subject.[2]

Retirement

Radford retired to a ranch in Cupertino, California at the onset of the Great Depression and died there in 1943.[2]

A plan for a Lutheran church, also from Radford 1912

Bibliography

Cross-reference

  1. ^ a b c d e f Vogel 1993, p. 24. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFVogel1993 (help)
  2. ^ a b c Vogel 1993, p. 25. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFVogel1993 (help)

Sources

  • Vogel, Neal (September 1993). "William Radford". Old-House Journal. Vol. 21, no. 5. Active Interest Media. ISSN 0094-0178.

Further reading

  • Roger Chambers (2019). introduction. Cement Houses and How to Build Them. By Radford, William A. (republished ed.). Independently Published. ISBN 9781797443270.
  • Daniel D. Reiff (2013). Introduction. The Most Popular Homes of the Twenties. By Radford, William A. Dover Architecture (republished ed.). Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486156439.
  • Mansgerber, Floyd (1999). A Tale of a Great Chicago Rivalry: The Radford Architectural Company versus Fred Hodgson and the Frederick J. Drake Company. Springfield, Illinois: Fever River Research. OCLC 911649886.
  • Reiff, Daniel D. (2010). "The Radford Architectural Company". Houses from Books: Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1783–1950, A history and Guide. Penn State Press. pp. 150 et seq. ISBN 9780271044194.
This submission to Articles for creation is about a member of the Radford family.

Ira Osborn Baker was an engineering professor at the University of Illinois and author.

Born in Linton, Indiana on 1853-09-23 the son of Amanda Osborn Baker and Hiram Walker Baker, Ira enrolled at the university in March 1871 and graduated in civil engineering in 1874, to become an assistant in civil engineering and physics and then in charge of the department in 1878.[1][2][3] He was in charge of the civil engineering department for 39 years, with an overall teaching career spanning 48 years.[1][2] His married his first wife Emma Burr on 1877-08-05 and his second wife Angie Ewing Ritter on 1913-08-07, and died on 1925-11-08.[3]

As an author, he was widely known for his 1889 Treatise on Masonry Construction which was the first comprehensive book on the subject.[4][1] He also collaborated with William A. Radford.[4] At the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition he led the division on engineering education, which formed the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (SPEE).[5]

A contemporary review in the New York Engineering and Building Record described the Treatise as a broad and satisfactory treatment of the subject, with a few areas worthy of improvement.[6] The reviewer called Baker's "almost unqualified approval of dolomites" questionable, noting that New York engineers found local sources of such material substandard.[6] The reviewer also took issue with the illustrations for kinds of masonry and finished surfaces, which Baker had taken from a report of the American Society of Civil Engineers, observing that they were not up to the quality of the other illustrations in the book, and were somewhat misleading as rather than being illustrations of good quality work were in fact pictures of farm fences in Connecticut.[6] Other points that the reviewer took issue with were the use of concrete to make pneumatic foundations watertight, the reviewer asserting that "no amount of concrete will do this".[6]

The reviewer observed an omission of a 1889 expert Report of the New York Aqueduct Commission, and the lack of a chapter on inspection, given the likelihood that the engineering students that the book was originally aimed at would likely find themselves doing masonry inspection after graduation.[6] Conversely, the book's index, and its various tables and diagrams were described as "good"; with theoretical problems "simply and clearly stated" and typical specifications "well selected".[6]

By 1809, the book was in its tenth edition, revised and enlarged from the first.[7] An example of a professional engineer's use of the Treatise was published as Fisher 1896 in the same Engineering and Building Record.[7]

Cross-reference

  1. ^ a b c Talbot 1933, p. 18.
  2. ^ a b ChE.
  3. ^ a b IU.
  4. ^ a b Vogel 1993, p. 24. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFVogel1993 (help)
  5. ^ Belanger 1998, p. 13.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Meyer 1889, p. 10.
  7. ^ a b Hess 1986, p. 178.

Sources

  • Talbot, Arthur N. (December 1933). Pask, Joseph A. (ed.). "The College of Engineering". The Technograph. Vol. 48, no. 2. Urbana: Illini Publishing Company.
  • Vogel, Neal (September 1993). "William Radford". Old-House Journal. Vol. 21, no. 5. Active Interest Media. ISSN 0094-0178.
  • "Ira O. Baker". Chi Episilon, UIUC Chapter.
  • "BAKER, IRA OSBORN: 1853–1925". Indiana Authors. Indiana University.
  • Belanger, Dian Olson (1998). "Engineering: An American Tradition". Enabling American Innovation: Engineering and the National Science Foundation. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557531117.
  • Meyer, Henry C., ed. (1889-12-07). "Baker's Masonry Construction". The Engineering and Building Record and The Sanitary Engineer. Vol. 21, no. 1. New York.
  • Hess, Jeffrey A. (1986). Historic Highway Bridges in Wisconsin. Vol. 1. Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

Further reading

  • Baker, Ira Osborn (1889). A Treatise on Masonry Construction. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Finch, James Kip (1978). "Baker: Masonry and Roads". In FitzSimons, Neal (ed.). Engineering Classics of James Kip Finch. Cedar Press.
  • Fisher, J. F. (1896-10-24). Meyer, Henry C. (ed.). "Building a small Stone Highway Bridge". The Engineering and Building Record and The Sanitary Engineer. Vol. 34, no. 21. New York. p. 380.
This submission to Articles for creation turns on the Engineering professor vacuum, although the pump seems to have a leak somewhere.
  • Wonderful prose there: "Wooden potting benches are potting benches made of wood" ... "You can find wooden gardening bench without without sink" Acroterion (talk) 22:03, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • User:Acroterion, how nice to see you here. If you don't mind, have a look at this, and the history of this little edit war, before I blow my top. In a nutshell, the reputation of this man is evaluated by a colonialist mass murderer, Ian Henderson (police officer), and a few notes in a sensationalist newspaper article. Whatever the crimes of the Mau Mau were, they don't need to be reported in this article without any kind of context, and certainly not in this way, with that witness, whom User:HarrySime inexplicably seems to regard as a valuable witness. The more I think about it the less patience I have. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 22:43, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • Can I stick to the advantages of different bench materials? I was looking forward to hearing about recycled plastic materials.

        I'll give the Kimathi article a look. At first glance I would tend to agree that the assessment of one of the antagonists shouldn't recieve significant weight. Acroterion (talk) 23:31, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

        • Funny that you should say that. While helping Doktoro with youth cred at /Archive 133#Youth cred I almost, but not quite, found enough material for a stub on Hansen's and Wegner's plastic injection-moulded stacking chair. I'm not kidding. Uncle G (talk) 23:43, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
        • I wasn't sure that I wasn't getting the Foreign all mixed up, as well. It could have been a conflation of the Panton Chair with the Elbow Chair. Uncle G (talk) 23:53, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
        • Do not worry, though, Doktoro. As you are interested in benches, we might be able to get you the Lutyens Bench or the benches of Dumbarton Oaks Park if Dumbarton Oaks Park ever fills up, although it has not yet.

          "Site furniture". Cultural Landscape Report, Dumbarton Oaks Park, Rock Creek Park: Site history, existing conditions, and analysis and evaluation, Part 1. United States National Park Service. 2000. pp. 237–239. (Cultural Landscape Report, Dumbarton Oaks Park at the Internet Archive)

          Uncle G (talk) 00:28, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

        • The fact is that WP is seriously deficient in matters of the visual arts, with furniture in general being a useful example.

          As for Henderson, yeah, he's not somebody on whose words I'd base any serious account account of history, nor would I feel good about extensively sourcing contentious biographical material to the Torygraph. Surely there's serious scholarship on the Mau Mau Rebellion? and its leaders? Acroterion (talk) 02:26, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know …

… by the way, that the Guldner House on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sedgwick County, Kansas is Radford Design #7082 in William A. Radford's 1908 Radford's Artistic Homes? Uncle G (talk) 01:51, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Guldner House in Sedgwick County, Kansas is a Queen Anne style house built to a design by the Radford Architectural Company.[1]

Cross-reference

  1. ^ KHS 1418.

Sources

  • "Guldner House". National and State Registers of Historic Places. Kansas Historical Society.

Further reading

This submission to Articles for creation is a stub. Perhaps the lurkers could expand it for you, Doktoro.
  • Special:Diff/1016365355. The robots know the truth, Doktoro. Uncle G (talk) 11:25, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can these be zapped?

Hello D. I hope you and your family are well. I am wondering if some of the edit summaries by this IP on my talk page can be r/d'd as purely disruptive material. Turns out that after I went to sleep they came back here and here but neither of those hit my talk page. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 17:23, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Yeah, someone really needs to get a date, or a talking-to from mom. Drmies (talk) 17:56, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • BTW, ToBeFree, they're all throwaway IPs; I don't know if there's much point to dropping a two-week block. If you see them coming from the heartland, that might be different. I did yank talk page access, and I think that should be our standard MO. Thanks, and thank you too Ferret, Drmies (talk) 17:57, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks DM. Much appreciated. MarnetteD|Talk 18:02, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks, reduced to 72 hours; there had been no other contributions before, so collateral damage seemed unlikelier than someone re-misusing the IP address within the next 2 weeks. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:03, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yeah, they have some technical skills that they are wasting completely on some bullshit, inserting company names in various articles. What a shame. Drmies (talk) 18:15, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New message from Narutolovehinata5

Hello, Drmies. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/Abdallah Oumbadougou.
Message added 04:48, 8 April 2021 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 04:48, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ronald Lee Moore again

Hi Drmies, sorry to bother you again about this; this is a continuation of User_talk:Drmies/Archive_132#Ronald_Lee_Moore. The same user is over at the Ronald Lee Moore article again edit-warring by adding unsourced, WP:Original research to the article, and is trying give undue weight and push a non-neutral POV fan conspiracy theory to the article. Do you have any advice on how to deal with this? The user also went to my talk page to cast aspersions and attack me. Thank you, Some1 (talk) 16:03, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • I see what's happening in the lead; the way it is now strikes me as straddling the line between due and undue for the lead. It's important in that it continues a pattern of ... well, the thing he's known for, but it is true that the content itself is slim. I responded to the editor on your talk page. Drmies (talk) 16:21, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • I agree with you; I re-worded the sentence to better summarize the article and remove the undue weight problems the user had presented in the lead; I see that they are satisfied now [2]. If only they had gone to the article talk page first instead of threatening me on my talk page. Anyway, thank you for stepping in and responding, I appreciate it. Some1 (talk) 16:40, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • And I think they responded as well as I could have expected, so maybe we'll all be able to get along better. Drmies (talk) 17:19, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Whose sock is this one?

My intuitive reaction, given the username pattern and the edited article, would have been to add a new report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KızılBörü1071; but this doesn't look like that master: this one is more interested in promoting Serbia than the Ottomans. Unless this KB1071 guy is actually a sock of an even older master... (the username seems to be referring to Revolutions_of_1989#Yugoslavia). Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 21:06, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(Possibly) stale page restrictions

Hi, I was recently doing a review of all the page restrictions I've placed or taken ownership of over the years, and I noticed that a majority of the pages were no longer battlegrounds and didn't require restrictions anymore. I was looking backwards a couple of months on the article history and talk page looking for major diputes, and for the most part things were pretty quiet. I've removed the BRD restrictions from about 70% of the articles that I had put them on, and the 1RR restrictions from probably 90% of pages.

I figured while I was at it I might as well try to track down the other pages with active sanctions and see if the admins who placed them might also be interested in doing a similar review. The following list might not be complete, but it's the best I could come up with by tracking usages of the American Politics AE template. (Perhaps you can compare it to whatever system you have for tracking your active sanctions.) For convenience I'll put links to the edit notice page and the talk page.

I'm hoping that removing some of these restrictions can help restore some sense of normalcy to the topic area. In any case I hope this list is helpful. ~Awilley (talk) 23:50, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Awilley, thanks for your note, but especially your diligence. No, I don't do a lot of sanctioning: by all means, do what you think is right and remove any restrictions you think no longer serve a purpose. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 23:54, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Drmies&curid=12968401&diff=1016770416&oldid=1016769964

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