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User talk:Koavf/Archive001

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By the way, the relevancy between Western Sahara and Gustav's quote is a bit unclear for me (it doesn't seem not to refer to the country as is, but a quote addressed in that area, or counrty... and if so, it is a bit different from usual way). Would you want to add some remark on that quote? --Aphaia 04:11, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

categories
Hi Koavf. I undid or reworked some of your edits to categories (e.g. Category:India / Category:Indians, among others) because Wikiquote treats articles containing quotes by a person and articles containing quotes about a theme as two completely distinct categories. If you would like to propose reorganizing the Fundamental categories, please discuss it at Category talk:Fundamental or at the Village Pump. Thanks. ~ Ningauble 16:54, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Jim Jarmusch
I have added a "" template to the article Jim Jarmusch, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but it may not satisfy Wikiquote's criteria for inclusion, for the reasons given in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikiquote is not" and Wikiquote's deletion policy).

You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Votes for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:53, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Email received.
Thanks again for your efforts on this. BD2412 T 21:05, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Remove boldface from most "Last words"
Hello. Can you please weigh in and give your opinion at Village pump? There, I'm proposing to remove boldface from most quotes in Last words, Fictional last words, and their subpages. Details and reasons are given in the discussion itself. Thanks in advance. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 07:09, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Request
Can you replace Template:Welcome with this (please take from the source code not from the display):  G M G  talk  17:50, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello,, and welcome to the English Wikiquote, a free compendium of quotations that written collaboratively by people just like you! To ask for advice or assistance feel free to drop by the Village Pump or ask on my talk page. Happy editing! And again, welcome!
 * For a quick overview of what Wikiquote is, read Wikiquote.
 * See also What Wikiquote is not for common activities that Wikiquote does not support.
 * To browse Wikiquote, take a look at our browsing start page.
 * Before creating new articles, consult our guide. You may practice how to edit a page at Sandbox.
 * Please remember to use edit summaries when editing pages.
 * When posting to a discussion, please sign with a date by writing four tildes (~~) and saving.
 * Be bold.

es:Template:Welcome eu:Txantiloi:Ongietorria fi:Malline:Tervetuloa Wikisitaatteihin
 * Thanks for following up on this. Can you also fix my stupid typo, removing the "that" in "a free compendium of quotations that written collaboratively"  G M G  talk  12:39, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Brilliant. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:31, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Hmm...See here. Any idea why the template would be changing the linked user talk page when another user leaves a comment?  G M G  talk  21:15, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I can't reproduce this problem. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:55, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I posted the same welcome at User talk:GreenMeansGo-test. Try posting a warning there and see if it resets the talk page link.  G M G  talk  22:00, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Do you see any problems on this page? I don't. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:40, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Yep. Check the link to the talk page linked to in my comment, near the end of the template before my signature. It now links to your talk page.  G M G  talk  22:48, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, this is how REVISIONUSER is supposed to work. I've just removed dynamic code from that part. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:26, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Regular Show
Koavf, stop editing the Regular Show page and go to the Cartoon Network Studios to talk to the creator to revive the series (without 25 years later) along with Adventure Time (without 1000 years later) because it was canceled too... --186.12.105.137 22:50, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

IP vandals...
A bunch of IP addresses constantly bully admins such as Kalki, UDScott, and Tegel, and vandalize the Administrators' noticeboard without explanation or remorse. No matter how many we block, another IP with the same MO continues where it left off. I request permanent protection of all pages they vandalized, including all talk pages. But something has to be done to stop that vandal permanently. WikiLubber (talk) 12:45, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hm. Sorry that I haven't seen this. We may need to escalate somewhere on if we can't handle it locally. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:52, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * To prevent IP vandals from ever creating a talk page for 94rain again, I recommend you put indefinite protection on it. WikiLubber (talk) 12:35, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Another good suggestion. I've decided to do indefinite with autoconfirmation. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:12, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Mark5916
Please revoke talk page access, thank you!--94rain (talk) 03:11, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Good thinking. ✅ —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:15, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

IP vandal...
IP user 98.214.101.235 is constantly adding categories that are absolutely wrong to certain series.
 * Examples:
 * It refers to Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series) as a Cartoon Network show, but that series was cancelled BEFORE Cartoon Network even existed!
 * It refers to certain anime series as American TV shows, but none of them are!
 * It refers to some anime series as cancelled shows, but virtually none of them are!

I request that this user be blocked indefinitely and that all of its edits be undone. There are so many, I cannot do it alone. WikiLubber (talk) 15:09, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Since he's already blocked, I don't want to interfere but if the IP continues, please ping me and I'll indefinitely block. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:18, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

The IP is at it again. Has learned nothing from its prior block. WikiLubber (talk) 00:19, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for patrolling this. Looks like he's already blocked. A better method for reporting this would be to post on the admin's board and if you want to get my attention in particular, please use ping. Great work, WL. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:28, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Another IP vandal...
IP vandal 24.13.202.205 continuously adds family members to certain articles without explanation (again!). I request it be blocked indefinitely. WikiLubber (talk) 16:19, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * He's only been warned once on his talk and while what he is adding is definitely not helpful, it's not obviously vandalism. I'm doing two weeks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:16, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Just a note
But it's good to see you back around Justin. G M G talk  22:59, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , you too. I get busy and wikis fall by the wayside sometimes. :/ —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:26, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Untitled
Hi Justin. I need some help with the village pump. Can you help? See my user page (click my signature) and we'll email (The subject MUST be Wikiquote Village Pump). Josephina Phoebe White (talk) 06:57, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I sent you an email. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:16, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi both Justin and Josephine. I'm a friend of Josephine and I heard about you. Would you like to help? (I work with her at her website and I send some confirmation emails). Address is {astronomy.service-no.reply@outlook.com}. Thanks. Reply me on email all right? --Alexandria Sterdenia (talk) 06:30, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Justin, my email's not working anymore. UH-OH, a huge problem. I saw a notification on my iphone but couldn't read the message. Can you send it to my other email? Thanks a lot. ——Blessings, Josephina (Talk 2 me | Mail 2 me) 02:50, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't have anything to mail to you. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:51, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Block
Hi!

Block 86.179.156.192, please. Stanglavine (talk) 11:45, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , as you can see, the helpful User:GreenMeansGo has already gotten to this but I would have been happy to help had I been conscious. The best place to report things like this is Administrators' noticeboard. Thanks again to you and GMG. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:54, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Hello.
Hello Koavf can you nominate me becoming an admin? Thanks a lot. ——Blessings, 1001 sorrows (talk) 12:02, 2 September 2019 (UTC) P.S.: Good night. (I'm in China and we have opposite times.) ——Blessings, 1001 sorrows♞♞♞♞♞ (talk) 12:05, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I could but I will not. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:02, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Please block
Hey Koavf, please range block this address for a bit to quell the significant disruption. Please also revoke TPA. Praxidicae (talk) 18:47, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:55, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * this one too Praxidicae (talk) 18:58, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 * and another. Praxidicae (talk) 19:02, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Mind Blocking...
The vandals that replaced my talk pages’ contents now reverted and on the Edit History? Thank you! ~ Josephina • Talk 2 Me 09:00, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

"Actually, you are responding to me"
Hi Koavf yes, it is true I was responding to you, but I was responding to your first post in the thread, not the second one. Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 22:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Good thinking. Sorry. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:02, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * You seem to know everything that goes on around wmf projects, so you are probably already aware of the controversy about flow (wiki-structured-discussions development). I have always maintained that something flowlike is absolutely necessary to have, but my wiki-voice seems to be muffled. Today, after years of trying to discuss this, I finally got one of the most vocal persons opposed to flow development on my meta talkpage. Of course now is the wrong time for this discussion  due to covid, but that's the nature of this place. I hope I am making sense. Cheer, Ottawahitech (talk) 13:13, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know that it's the wrong time: all of us are locked indoors and unemployed. Seems like the best time. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:09, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Good point !
 * I myself find it very frustrating to try and contribute something helpful, since some of my edits are being deleted by good faith admins who think I am out to destroy their wiki-world. I wish they would at least notify me when they delete pages I created, such as pages created when I am the first to post on a user talkpage. It is very frustrating to not find something that you spent effort composing. I wonder how often this happens to newbies who may start doubting their own sanity. Sorry for my rant, I hope I am making sense?. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:55, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
 * It makes sense, I just have no context. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:32, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your understanding. Alls good. Ottawahitech (talk) 03:27, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Assistance requested
It concerns one
 * It constantly harasses users such as Rupert loup, დამოკიდებულება, and myself, and refuses to admit defeat.
 * Plus, it has a history of sockpuppetry on Wikipedia. We cannot take any chances that it may take its frustration out on Wikiquote.
 * And in this edit, it claims დამოკიდებულება has a "weird name", and it demanded დამოკიდებულება add an English name in his signature, just because it claimed it would be "easier to communicate". I request action be taken against this user immediately. I already notified other higher-ups. DawgDeputy (talk) 02:05, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

 * I am responding here as I was pinged from this page by DawgDeputy. You might want to see this report at Administrators%27 noticeboard.
 * DawgDeputy has created same blockshopping threads on 7 different Administrator's talk page,       even though a report is already posted on WQ:AN.
 * Weird name has already been explained in detail--Pratap Pandit (talk) 02:32, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

I think this should be discussed in a centralized place, not on my talk page. Please post to an appropriate board and ping me. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:13, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * there's a crazy thread on the AN here. It's all a bit frustrating so don't get so caught up as I might have（；´д｀）ゞ I made a comment there (a few, actually) at the bottom with info, context, and evidence goodies. Hopefully this'll get sorted out by you lol dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 08:24, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * If you read the threads at WQ:AN, it would be clear to you. The only diffs worth looking at in their report are the ones from Wikiquote, and they are all from content disputes being discussed on the respective talk page. After failing to find any evidence of policy violation against me, these members of the "We group" have added diffs of content dispute, hoping to mislead others into thinking that this is some kind of offence to have a content dispute and discuss it on the talk page. In fact User:Dibbydib himself is a big part of the problem here. While the content dispute was ongoing, it was Dibbydib who first escalated this by asking to take "Content dispute" to Village pump. And in his comment above he accusing me of reporting the other editor's behavior. Dibbydib is now turning a blind eye towards all the disruption and harassment against me and is siding with the other harassers in trying to bludgeon me on the AN thread. He seems to be incapable or unwilling to look at things from a neutral perspective. Reading the threads on this page, it would be clear to anyone, that they have no evidence for violation of any policy against me. It seems this group is hoping for sanctions based on "imaginary violations" and content disputes. --Pratap Pandit (talk) 09:56, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * User:Dibbydib You have already said the same things multiple times on WQ:AN. it will be helpful for everyone, if you now stop repeating yourself and let administrators handle the case on its merits. --Pratap Pandit (talk) 10:34, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Edit request
Hi. If you're online, can you take a look at MediaWiki talk:Recentchangestext please? --DannyS712 (talk) 08:35, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Apology and explanation
Justin I apologise if the thread on the WQ:ANI page caused you any grief. I was merely answering your question initially (and I probably should have tagged you then but anyway) - but consequent to that Ylevental demonstrated again his tendency to harass (and lie) which is what got him blocked on here previously. I'll leave it to you of course, but another block for a little longer (a month maybe) might just bring him to heel on this apparent obsession he has over me and DawgDeputy. Of course, if he ignores your instruction on said thread he'll get blocked anyway as you said. Again, I apologise if any grief was caused by my actions and I will follow your instructions there and move on after posting this comment. TLPG (talk) 22:16, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this. I just get tired of the sniping on this site: this is a small community and what we do should be fun. I don't like all of the drama that has been here lately and there are so many threads that spiral out of control with users talking about irrelevant things and making accusations. Add to that the standard vandalism and sockpuppetry and it just gets exhausting. Kind words help tho and I just want us all to move onwards and upwards. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:11, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

#she said & IPs
I saw your posting about her and was wondering if anyone is working on Jan Morris. I was impressed to see we already have a page about her, AND an IP already updated it after her death. What would we do without all those helpful IP's? Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 17:47, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed that IPs are necessary for what we're doing. I also have the same common skepticism to IP edits but I can't deny that they've been instrumental. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:25, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

#shesaid
I see that many wikiquote language sister projects have a dedicated page for the

#shesaid editathon. How can we start one on the enwikiquote?

BTW as I have just discovered many of the women in Category:Women:
 * Are Stubs, but we do not have a women-stub category
 * Have no image (I have added a few from Commons)
 * Have no wikidata entry

Of course most women with an article on wikiquote have not been included yet in the above Category.

Also Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 18:58, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Also just remembered: the postcard which I added to my userpage has no link to direct interested users to this editathon. Ottawahitech (talk) 19:00, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Wow, great question: I've never been successful at organizing one of those. :/ Great points. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:50, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

A sock you blocked has more socks
There are concerns over at EnWiki that this user has been creating or manipulating Wikiquote pages to push their personal ideological agenda. Global Contributions indicate they have been working on a Global scale. We aren't familiar with Wikiquote standards for quote selection, but I suggest all contributions from this user be considered agenda-driven at best. In at least one case they compiled a questionable page of quotes to malign the wiki community. I came across a concerning edit, where they add a link to someone's personal blog to wikiquote, in support of a quote they added. That blog appears to share much the same religious and political agenda of the editing by this sockswarm. Alsee (talk) 02:34, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * 20 June 2020 you blocked ΞΔΞ for "Abusing multiple accounts".
 * The current user page for დამოკიდებულება page admits they are a new account for ΞΔΞ, supposedly because they lost the password to ΞΔΞ. The დამოკიდებულება userpage has claimed to be "Retired" for the last half year, but they continue to edit as of yesterday.
 * In this user page edit from half a year ago დამოკიდებულება ago admits they intent to create yet another new account.
 * Editor Interaction Analyzer makes it clear that დამოკიდებულება and Vilho-Veli are the same individual, with massive overlap and coordinated back-and-forth edits within minutes. For example დამოკიდებულება creates this page and edits it for 15 minutes, then 6 minutes later Vilho-Veli manages to find it and add the the appropriate image and categories to complete the work.
 * Editor Interaction Analyzer makes it clear that Risto_hot_sir and დამოკიდებულება are the same individual. There is an 8 month gap between the accounts, but massive overlap. დამოკიდებულება's first day of editing begins with overlap reverts and a revert edit summary ranting about censorship.
 * EnWiki Sock Investigations have blocked Risto_hot_sir Sipe-Mika Savonhelmi and Vilho-Veli as the same sock.

Also დამოკიდებუილება2 is a declared alternate account of დამოკიდებულება. Alsee (talk) 03:13, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

It turns out Vilho-Veli was just globally locked, so I reported the other accounts to be global locked as well. Alsee (talk) 06:37, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Wow, I just saw this. Thanks for this thorough post: I wish I could have gotten to it earlier. Please let me know if you need any feedback from me on Meta for the stewards. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:41, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * After looking into it further, Risto_hot_sir/Vilho-Veli/Sipe-Mika/Savonhelmi/etc is one user with (global locked) serial accounts, and ΞΔΞ/დამოკიდებულება/დამოკიდებუილება2 is a different user with serial accounts. The suspicious overlap was likely a coincidence, both have large edit counts. Concerns have been raised about the second user using wikquote to push and ideological agenda, but I am unclear how serious those concerns are. I haven't looked into the circumstances regarding your ΞΔΞ block for "Abusing multiple accounts". Alsee (talk) 11:18, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * This was confirmed off-wiki. Unfortunately, this whole issue with edits related to Hindutva and Islam in India is complicated by a small group of admins, byzantine edits, a lack of local CheckUsers, and this project just being small. As you can see, some of this was caught and investigated over the course of the past several months but not all of it. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:16, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Are you saying there is an off-wiki confirmed link between the Risto_hot_sir set of accounts and the დამოკიდებულება set of accounts? I find that wildly implausible. I see two sets of accounts with incompatible behavior.
 * First set of accounts has an intense interest in Hindutva-Islam content edits, it edits EnglishWikiquote, Wikidata, and Metawiki. It has a sequential timeline of account use: Jedi3, Luke Jedi Skywalker, ΞΔΞ, დამოკიდებულება.
 * The second set of accounts has an intense interest in Finnish proverbs content edits, category gnoming, and hits literally hundreds of language-editions of Wikipedia/Wikiquote adding Wikiquote_templates/images. One of the accounts hit 349 different wikis, and another account used for just two days hit 79 wikis. It has a sequential timeline of account use: Risto_hot_sir, Finnish IP addresses, Savonhelmi, Roope_poor, Veli-Turo, Vilho-Veli, Minä muka. About 95% of the edits to Finish Proverbs in the last two years were made by this account-set. None of the first account-set appear in Finnish proverbs at all.
 * The first account set makes lots of large content-edits in Bhimrao_Ramji_Ambedkar. You do find overlap edits from the second account set, but note that the second account makes small gnoming edits. The second account set doesn't care about the Hindutva-Islam quote content. I also find it striking that the timeline of edits there clearly violates the sequential-account-use pattern. In order to be the same person, they would have to run two parallel and desychronised sets of accounts, bouncing back and forth for years for different types of edits. Not plausible. Alsee (talk) 18:22, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I am saying that the second set of related accounts (the delta and Georgian text usernames) from your previous comment were confirmed off-wiki. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:11, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

"What? Why are you inserting a redlink?"
Hi Koavf,

You asked why I was inserting red-links, so here I am trying to answer: It is my understanding that red-links can be a measure of needed pages. When one clicks on What links here (even on a red-link page) one gets to see all the pages that are trying to link to it. Am I making sense? Ottawahitech (talk) 06:04, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure but I think that really makes more sense in the main namespace to point out gaps in the reference work rather than a string of redlink templates on project pages. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:56, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pinging me, @Koavf. I happened to be re-visiting some old bussiness on the flagship, and saw this:

Links should not be created to templates unless and until the templates have been created. Do not create red links to files. Such red links are categorized for cleanup at Category:Articles with missing files.

Do not create redirect pages to pages that do not exist.
 * I am not sure how else one can gauge the need for new templates and files, but I guess these are the rules, so I will try to memorize them. Happy holidays, Ottawahitech (talk) 21:24, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * It is very hard to know until you do it and then see if others run with it. Until then, you can post to the Village Pump and that may gauge interest. Merry Christmas and happy new year up north. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:04, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

We have a bullying vandal on our hands...

That user randomly posts caricatures to further its ridiculous agenda and mocks my name, and no one is doing anything to stop it. This user must be blocked indefinitely.
 * And it is a sockpuppet of vandal Oohtqejjhh.
 * When you block this user, also strike all of the user's edits, as well as the edits of its original account. I do not want any trace of it left. DawgDeputy (talk) 13:12, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Just to let you know
Just to let you know about a discussion that may be of interest to you. Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 00:52, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Joe Biden
Just wanted to clarify: I certainly did not think the additional sourcing information was fine print or such, but rather that it might be better to link to the full text of his speech. And since it is the inauguration address for the President of the United States I didn't feel that notability was a question (and thus didn't think it required additional sources). But I am not against having them there and will not revert your edits. Just wanted to explain my rationale. Cheers. ~ UDScott (talk) 21:54, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * No worries and to be clear on my rationale (and sorry if this was too snippy): "The small tag is not intended for making things visually smaller (that's CSS), nor is it for asides (that's what the aside tag is for) but is only for fine print such as terms of service or legal disclaimers; this is not those, therefore, it shouldn't be here." But there's definitely no beef on my end with any edit of yours that I've seen on any of our projects, UD. Thanks for the note. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:07, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

template:Sister project links
Hi, There seems to be some kind of trouble with template:Sister project links. I tried looking into it, but I am out of time for now, so thought you may be interested. Cheers Ottawahitech (talk) 23:09, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * ? No posts to talk in 7.5 years, no meaningful edit history...? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:14, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

DawgDeputy
Hi Koavf. You probably already know my name as DawgDeputy reported me to see if I'm to be blocked for my edits. To be honest, I'm never meaning to vandalize articles. I'm only wanting to revert some of my unnecessary edits and correct typos. I'm also mostly often mistaken as a vandalizer, although I am not starting to be one now. For any user including Eaglestorm saying I mocked them, I'm very sorry to them. When you have time, discuss with Dawg on my reason for not getting blocked indefinitely. But, if Dawg had the decision for you to have me leave, then it will be okay. It won't even matter as it's not a big deal. Thank you. --Christian M. (2016) 0:26, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Acceptable behaviour?
Hi, User:DawgDeputy is in the habit of removing a posts made by others. I believe it is Ok when they do it on their own usertalk but not anywhere else (my usertalk or AN, for example). Just wondering if it is acceptable behaviour in your opinion. btw thanks your comments on AN. Ottawahitech (talk) 20:35, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * It is not (minus things like violent threats, doxxing, etc. which need to be escalated to admins or office actions for deletion anyway). See my user talk page log for how I blocked him from this very page for that behavior. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:37, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry for bothering you again, I know you are busy. I tried to view your "user talk page log" which I think is this https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User+talk%3AKoavf but there are no items there (visible to me). Ottawahitech (talk) 15:08, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * View the block log for the user, not the protections for the page. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:07, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * OK thanks I see. Looks like the user has learnt their lesson as far as  User & other talkpages are concerned (I hope?), but not on WQ-AN where they have reverted someone else's edits on  March 4 and on March 5 2021? Ottawahitech (talk) 03:24, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Diffs? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:26, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Sure, but it'll have to wait a bit. Thanks for your prompt reply. Ottawahitech (talk) 03:32, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

How to edit my signature design
Welcome here! Today I want to ask you how I can design my username in comment signatures. For example, your username signature has the word Justin in it when your username doesn't. Your signature also has emojis in it. How do I change the design of my signature on my comments on talk pages? Like the following one: Rockstar Arianagrande (talk) 20:59, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Go to Special:Preferences, the section "Signature". If you wanted one identical to mine for instance, it would be —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ and check the box "Treat signature as wikitext (without an automatic link)". —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:36, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Template loop
I thought this issue was already fixed (per comment by Ningauble). Is this change you are making necessary? ~ UDScott (talk) 16:22, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes it is! Thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:29, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, what do you mean? Why is it necessary - and if so, then should we not be using any more? (Or did you mean that the issue is actually fixed and no further changes are needed?) ~ UDScott (talk) 16:48, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I am an idiot. The answer is "No, it isn't! Thanks." I don't have strong feelings on using the template versus magic words but since the template seems easier, then I'll lean that direction. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:18, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Could sure use your help
Hi Koavf

Hope you are well. I have not seen you at WQ lately. We could sure use your help at: SheSaid/Suggestions. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 21:46, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the invite. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:12, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Help
A lot of wikis keep banning me for no reason Rn 001 project quotes (talk) 21:36, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That seems hard to believe but if that's true, what I recommend is trying to resolve this on m: with the help of a steward. What I do not recommend is making several accounts, as that will only look bad for you long-term. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:43, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Take a look on Wikipedia mediawiki etc and thanks for the advice also can you name a steward pls Rn 001 project quotes (talk)
 * I don't doubt that you're blocked, but I doubt that it is for no reason. Please see Stewards. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:18, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I have two story’s about the blocks which one do you wanna hear first2600:1700:15EB:2810:F8AE:6C4C:217F:CC43 22:32, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Neither, thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:35, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * K have a nice day Rn 001 project quotes (talk) 22:44, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Which one of you recommend I talk to a lot of them don’t respond for daysRn 001 project quotes (talk) 23:09, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

COVID-19 vaccine
Hello Koavf, could you remove the Edit=Allow only autoconfirmed users (indefinite) from COVID-19 vaccine? I would ask BD2412 (he is the one who put it on), but he hasn't made an edit since January 2nd. --2001:8003:DDB1:C600:D934:D8B8:2321:F9D5 05:56, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * BD has been active across Wikimedia projects. I'll give him 48 hours to respond before I try to undo another admin's actions. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated. --2001:8003:DDB1:C600:D934:D8B8:2321:F9D5 06:00, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Whenever the page is unprotected, it immediately gets IP-dumped full of quotes that come nowhere near meeting our standards for inclusion. Twitter tweets, bits from blog posts from persons with no discernable quotability. This seems likely to persist until the pandemic is over. BD2412 T 06:10, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * No harm in removing the protection - if it happened again it could be easily reinstated, and if good quotes instead are added that's a win. It's win/win. --2001:8003:DDB1:C600:D934:D8B8:2321:F9D5 06:24, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * There will be serious harm if the protection is removed. Vandalism is never to occur again on that page. The protection stays indefinitely. If the protection is removed, all vandalism will be on you entirely, not the administrators.
 * Koavf, I do not trust this IP. I sense foul play. DawgDeputy (talk) 16:35, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, motives aside, BD brings up good reasons for protection. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

GRP again
Could you revdel this edit? It appears to be a rather disruptive one. Thanks, --Daniuu (talk) 21:26, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Today is laundry day, so I'm busy, but I finally got to this one. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:55, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! Daniuu (talk) 22:15, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you from me too. Appreciate it. :) Antandrus (talk) 22:38, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Re:DawgDeputy
I have attempted to negotiate with DawgDeputy, but they refuse to negotiate and reach consensus, instead stonewalling arguments with repeated assertions they are just “following the rules” (for reference LOQ, which they endlessly use as a universal trump card, is only an unofficial policy draft): https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DawgDeputy&diff=prev&oldid=3082612 https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DawgDeputy&diff=prev&oldid=3082607 https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DawgDeputy&diff=prev&oldid=3082599 More complaints can of course be found on Admin’s Noticeboard. Dronebogus (talk) 10:25, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * UDScott previously explained to User:DawgDeputy (then using the user name WikiLubber) that LOQ "should not be used to exercise extreme limits on the number of quotes, especially in the middle of a contentious discussion."

 * They clearly don’t care and aren’t listening. Dronebogus (talk) 17:24, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Need I remind you that several IP users have been blocked for violating LOQ? This is one example. DawgDeputy (talk) 17:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * DawgDeputy, two wrongs don’t make a right. Dronebogus (talk) 18:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I was not doing wrong. I was making a point. DawgDeputy (talk) 18:35, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I was stating that the IPs’ wrongs did not make right your behavior. Dronebogus (talk) 18:48, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * That makes no sense. The term "two wrongs do not make a right" means if one party did something wrong, another party should not do the same thing they did. I did not violate copyright laws like the IPs did. DawgDeputy (talk) 21:35, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * You are violating local rules by bludgeoning, gatekeeping, stonewalling, edit warring and owning pages. I’m not going to bother explaining why because I’ve provided extensive evidence of those behaviors below. Dronebogus (talk) 21:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

I asked you to post a new talk page thread and invite me via ping. Why won't you do that? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:46, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I explained because DD refuses to listen when I try to communicate with them on their talk page. I don’t see why any other talk page would be different Dronebogus (talk) 18:48, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I am also going to attempt individual threads but I don’t expect anything to come out of them. Dronebogus (talk) 19:20, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Additionally, here is the full list of complaints from admins noticeboard: As can be seen in all the above diffs, DawgDeputy doesn’t seem to believe in collaboration and compromise, the whole point of a wiki, instead deciding they and they alone are allowed to determine article content and relying on edit warring to wear down those they disagree with. Their behavior is similar to user:Eaglestorm’s issues with rules abuse and article ownership only DawgDeputy does their bludgeoning and edit warring civilly. Since they’re also one of the few users who doesn’t find Eaglestorm’s behavior completely insufferable I’d even tentatively postulate one might be the good hand/bad hand account of the other or a w:wp:meatpuppet. User:Dronebogus (talk) 07:22, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * DawgDeputy thinks the non-official policy proposal Limits on quotations is essentially copyright law and must be followed to the exact letter: https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Return_of_the_Jedi&diff=prev&oldid=3082614
 * DawgDeputy refuses to negotiate and reach consensus, instead stonewalling arguments with repeated assertions they are just “following the rules” (once again LOQ is only an unofficial policy and not gospel truth): https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DawgDeputy&diff=prev&oldid=3082612 https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DawgDeputy&diff=prev&oldid=3082607 https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DawgDeputy&diff=prev&oldid=3082599
 * Despite claiming “not to make the rules”, DawgDeputy makes up their own non-textualist interpretations of guidelines: https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=3082714&oldid=3082711
 * DawgDeputy engages in pointless edit warring over trivial changes that do not improve the article at all: https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Back_to_the_Future_Part_II&diff=prev&oldid=3082616 https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Back_to_the_Future_Part_II&diff=prev&oldid=3082547 https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Back_to_the_Future_Part_II&diff=prev&oldid=3082601
 * DawgDeputy only edits a narrow range of articles related to, to be blunt, films and TV that would probably be of interest to kids or otherwise don’t require much thought to superficially enjoy (i.e. cartoons, action/adventure movies and comedies— I like those too but I also like more serious media), seemingly showing some topic ownership issues and possible immaturity: https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/DawgDeputy&target=DawgDeputy
 * DawgDeputy seems to be obsessed with gatekeeping and civily violating w:WP:BITE, seen both above and in https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=3082710&oldid=3082691
 * Two things I don't want are 1.) conversations in several places about one topic and 2.) turning a content dispute into a personality-based conversation. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:55, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * 1. First you ask me to try and make a discussion, now you’re saying don’t; 2. “Personality” is relevant if someone’s “personality” is extreme stubbornness and hostility to even reasonable change. Dronebogus (talk) 23:59, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I did want you to make a conversation. I did not want you to make four conversations all over the place. If one person is being intransigent, then it will be obvious who is in the wrong. If two persons are intransigent, it's very heard to tell who is at fault. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:01, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
 * DawgDeputy has a well documented history of doing this sort of thing, namely pointless and aggressive content gatekeeping. I’m being stubborn with them because I have a right to edit the pages they refuse to permit changes to and I refuse to be bullied. Dronebogus (talk) 00:08, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree that DawgDeputy has some inappropriate behavior, but that doesn't justify actin inappropriately yourself (again, speaking from experience). —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:37, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Revdel
Hello, looking at, you have deleted some revisions of User talk:DarkMatterMan4500 by Special:Contributions/93.189.27.86; however, there are still subsequent revisions left that contain the same text. Maybe you can take a look at them too for consistency. Thanks, 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 16:45, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I got another one, thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:13, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I see @Ferien had handled the vast majority between my request and your response. Thanks to you both. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 21:33, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Dilemma: attributing work to globally banned user
Hi Koavf,

I hate to monopolize the VP, so decided to come here to address your last post.

You said: give attribution if it's required, and my reponse is: there is no attribution required as far as copyright law is concerned (I think?). However my personal preference is to not plagiarize, even in situations where copyright does not apply. This is why I want to attribute this work to the person who designed it before they were banned by the Wikimedia Foundation.

I hope I am making sense? Cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 21:59, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

 * Sure. I say go ahead and give credit in an edit summary if you want to do the minimum. If you're concerned about pinging as some kind of backdoor to reaching out to a banned user, just don't include Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:02, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I did not think one could ping banned (or even blocked) users? Ottawahitech (talk) 22:09, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Who knows? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:11, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Could you lend a hand to protect my talk page and user page?
Recently, LTA: GRP seems to keep attacking me on my talk page, user page, and also through emails.

I'd like to request your help to protect my talk page if permitted. Thanks a lot.

Pavlov2 (talk) 17:45, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

 * Done. Sucks to read about this and also your health stuff. Let me know how I can help. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:53, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot!
 * I'm terribly Insomnia these days. I went to the hospital yesterday, the doctors were nice and gave me some medicine. I hope I will get better soon.
 * Have a good day! Thank you again! Pavlov2 (talk) 18:01, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I was really moved! If permitted, I will email you for what has happened these days Pavlov2 (talk) 18:02, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Spider-Man
Dear Koavf since Spider-Man is Marvel's most well-known superhero could you be able to edit Spider-Man as the protagonist of the Marvel Universe? 166.205.141.9 16:43, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

 * I guess. What is this in reference to? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:59, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Spider-Man is arguably Marvel's most well-known superhero he's best of all characters have you ever edit on Wikipedia because if you have could you be able to edit him as the protagonist of the Marvel Universe? 107.122.97.17 17:17, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I can't help you. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:29, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Why not it says so on here. 107.122.97.17 17:34, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * You are asking me questions about Wikipedia on Wikiquote. I suggest that you ask someone else (not me) on Wikipedia. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:35, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I literally can't the Spider-Man article on Wikipedia it's edit button is lock you've been on Wikipedia longer I was hoping you can edit the article. 107.122.97.17 17:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * If you can't edit him as the protagonist could you still be able to edit him as Marvel's most popular superhero since he still is Marvel's most well-known superhero. 107.122.97.17 17:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * You've been on Wikipedia for years would you be able to edit him while it's locked? 107.119.45.37 18:39, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * No, I cannot. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:41, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * You can't what happened? 107.119.45.37 18:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Please stop. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:45, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Hidden categories
Hi Koavf,

I cannot remember anymore how to create a hidden category. Can you help? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:08, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It's a Magic word, which is __HIDDENCAT__ . Just put that in any category to make it hidden. Let me know how else I can help. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:52, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks Koavf, worked like a charm on two maintenance cats I inserted it in, (I think?). But, it looks like the hiddenness is not inherited by daughter sub-cats. So this is going to take me much more work than what I bargained for, depending on the the number of offspring sub-cats. I hope I am making sense?
 * BTW here is an example of an offspring cat: Category:Articles deleted on the English Wikipedia. cheers, Ottawahitech (talk) 17:57, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Correct, hiddenness is not inherited. If you have a prohibitive amount of categories to add this to, w:en:WP:AWB is a useful tool. Do you need help with adding HIDDENCAT? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:02, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Boy you are quick!!! Anyway, so far this was only a hypothetical question. I have to plan what is the best use of my limited available time. Thanks again. Ottawahitech (talk) 18:08, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I heard that, friend. Let me know what I can do for you. Cheers. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:09, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Category dilemma
At .Discussion at talk page. Your category experience would be appreciated. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:34, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

 * A category intro can certainly be helpful and is more-or-less routine on some other projects. Why wouldn't we have them? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:46, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * One reason off the top of my head: because it would be a backdoor for so-called POV pushers. Can we take this to Category talk:Postmodern authors? Ottawahitech (talk) 14:53, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure, but it probably wouldn't get many eyeballs. I recommend the Pump. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:37, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Please protect User talk:Ilovemydoodle
LTA:GRP was attacking that page again and again recently. Please semi-protect it if possible, thanks in advance.--PAVLOV (talk) 05:48, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

User talk:PAVLOV
Please change your protection of this page, at least to semi-protected but preferably to not protected at all. Active editors should be contactable via talk pages - this editor currently has 188 edits, I'd consider that active. Thanks. --Ferien (talk) 16:14, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Okay， semi-protected seemed better because the LTA:GRP... PAVLOV (talk) 06:37, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * If you need it protected again after expiration, let me know. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:42, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you
– Ilovemydoodle (talk) 18:27, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

 * How kind. Thanks, dood. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:31, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Email
Could you remove the political links from your email, if people are emailing an admin, it should be NPOV. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 22:16, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

 * I'll pass thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:21, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Why? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 22:27, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Because it's my email address and I want to promote those political and religious values to everyone with whom I interact. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:38, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Reinstate "White (color)"
Reinstate "White (color)," I have some quotes. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 00:34, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Please fix
Can you please fix the template that automatically appears on an IP user's talk page, it is different from the regular that appears on all other IP pages, instead of saying "IP address", it says " w:IP address ." – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 03:05, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Sure. Please link to it. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:58, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Here – Ilovemydoodle (talk / e-mail) 04:42, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AAnontalkpagetext&type=revision&diff=3121789&oldid=832455 —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:13, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * {| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #fdffe7;"
 * {| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #fdffe7;"

 * rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | Original Barnstar.png
 * rowspan="2" |
 * style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Original Barnstar
 * style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks. – Ilovemydoodle (talk / e-mail) 06:18, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * }
 * }

Username
What does your username mean? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 03:38, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

 * "King of all Vext Fans". —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:58, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Oops – Vext may be deleted at Wikipedia. ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:32, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I know. </3 —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:55, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Variables
Could you add mw:Extension:Variables? – Ilovemydoodle (talk | e-mail) 14:01, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

 * That has to be done at the server level, so we'd have to request it at . If you think it's worth, adding, I would get consensus on the Village Pump and once that happens, post a ticket there. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:59, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Username pronunciation
Koe-awf, Koef, Koe-aff, or something else? – Ilovemydoodle (talk / e-mail) 06:23, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

 * "kay-oh-ay-vee-eff". My dad would always say "ko-way-fee" for some reason, so I'll take it. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:56, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I say koe-awf, also how do you say Ottawahitech. – Ilovemydoodle (talk / e-mail) 07:00, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * "Ah-tuh-wah-hy-tek" —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:37, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * "On-eesh-shuh-wuh-tek" – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 13:02, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Also could you please fix the backlog of block requests at Vandalism in progress? – Ilovemydoodle (talk / e-mail) 07:16, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:45, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Admin accountability poll
Admin accountability poll is open, vote here. – Ilovemydoodle (talk / e-mail) 09:57, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

WQT
Could you please make WQT a namespace? – Ilovemydoodle (talk / e-mail) 10:01, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

 * That would be a technical thing, so we'd have to get consensus and then post a ticket to —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:45, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

mediawiki:Emailpagetext
MediaWiki:Emailpagetext should say Wikiquote instead of Wikipedia. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 08:27, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Great find. Thanks for this. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:59, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I found this after searching through all MediaWiki pages, I was inspired to try to find this kind of error after seeing this. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 13:01, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

TOC extension
@Koavf: Could you add this? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 15:15, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Can you clarify the request? What is a heading that you do or don't want to show up that presently doesn't or does (respectively) and in which context? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:56, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I want you to add an option to have a section that doesn’t show up in the TOC. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 20:01, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * That requires server access. You'd need consensus here and then post to —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:17, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I can’t post anything to phab. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 20:20, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Then you would need to get consensus and then ask someone to post a ticket to —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:22, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Can you post a ticket? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 20:24, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I can. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:27, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Did you? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 20:33, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * No. See above: get consensus first. I'm not going to unilaterally ask for a change to the site's settings without assessing that it's what the commnuity wants. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:07, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Block log
When a User is Blocked indefinitely it says "Admin blocked User with an expiration time of infinite," shouldn’t just say "Admin blocked User indefinitely?" – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 17:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Those are equivalent. The blocks need a number or duration and in this case, the "number" is infinity. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:55, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I know, I am talking about wording, I think the second option sounds better. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF) (talk / e-mail) 20:03, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

hi
I am trying to reach you but the Shueisha paid editors keep undoing me, quick help me 2600:6C5D:5100:30B4:8D75:817A:16F0:88FA 21:10, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Not paid. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 22:00, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Tip
Tip: Use the Template to redacted comments from globally banned users. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 03:39, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

 * I'll pass, thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:55, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Why? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 03:56, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I prefer to keep the integrity of the comments. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:06, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, your Talk Page, your choice. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 04:10, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * What about just striking the section title? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 04:15, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * No thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:18, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, your choice. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 04:23, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Or you could just remove comments instead of redacting them, if you wanted to get rid of them... --Ferien (talk) 05:57, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * But the policy says to only remove comments for ban evasion or libel. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 06:02, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * This is WMF ban evasion, so I think that falls under ban evasion. You can also just delete comments once you have responded to them. --Ferien (talk) 06:04, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 06:08, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Also could you delete Must Have Apps For Your Targeted Samsung Galaxy S2? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 06:09, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

UlrikeEbsworth0
Why did you give UlrikeEbsworth0 such a harsh ban, he only made one edit. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 06:57, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

 * He's clearly only a spambot: crazy username, posts highly specific spam, no attempt at any constructive engagement, etc. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:59, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, but a life-ban seems overkill. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 07:01, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It's up to the stewards if they want to globally lock him. I've seen many accounts like this and they are all just spambots. If he's a real person and wants to be helpful, he can follow the process at Meta. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:03, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Can I close this discussion? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 07:04, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Of course. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:05, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Before I close it, I've noticed some user have an irrational fear of closing discussions, do you know why this is? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 07:07, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't really see the need to close an informal discussion on user talk anyway, let alone a reason to be afraid. You do you, friend. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:15, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Idea
You should create a list of editors you trust. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 07:59, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

 * I don't see the value in that. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:51, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, I made a list on my page, viewable here. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 16:53, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Which I appreciate, but I'm not particularly motivated to do the same. Thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:56, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Adenoghie
Can you please re-enable his Talk Page access, he didn't abuse it. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 16:47, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

 * ✅ —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:52, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, infinite seems excessive, the editor seems to be acting in good faith. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 17:00, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Is it a sockpuppet account? If so, then infinite is appropriate. If it's not, then I agree. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:02, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * The other account is, but Adenoghie is not a sockpuppet, only a sockpuppet master. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 17:04, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * If it's the main account, the others should be indefinitely blocked and he should be given a reasonable time block and if he abuses sockpuppets again, indefinitely blocked with talk page access. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:07, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It is the main account, only one sockpuppet. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 17:10, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Nice to see you still contributing here
Hey, nice to see you still contributing here, sorting admin tasks etc. Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 17:06, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

 * And you as well: always good to bump into a familiar username. I get busier and then less busy at times, so I just happen to have some bandwidth now. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:07, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Thank you, and same really, currently multitasking with some college work today. Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 17:08, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

sorry
sorry you got blocked from Wikipedia, keep up the good fight 2600:6C5D:5100:30B4:845F:4D07:D9CE:656D 03:22, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:55, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Signature
Why is the "a" highlighted? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 04:26, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

 * It's a secret. ;3 —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:27, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Have you told anyone. – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 04:28, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * No. :3 —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:30, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Top banner
On every page there is a banner that says "Help Copyright Cleanup," this is only really used by few editors that are very active, basically no new users do this, so the message is pretty redundant. Instead could you replace with a message encouraging new editors to edit? – Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 15:04, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Agreed that it's very crusty and probably not doing anything helpful. I'd recommend your proposal for the village pump and get consensus or solicit ideas before changing it. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:14, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan FRS (Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ஐயங்கார் ராமானுஜன்) (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician and autodidact, noted for his extraordinary achievements in the field of mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. In his uniquely self-developed mathematical research he not only rediscovered known theorems but also produced brilliant new work, prompting his mentor G. H. Hardy to compare his brilliance to that of Euler and Gauss. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and India now observes his birthday as National Mathematics Day.

Quotes

 * If $$n$$ is any positive quantity shew that $$\frac 1{n} > \frac 1{n+1} + \frac 1{{(n+2)}^2} + \frac 3{{(n+3)}^3} + \frac {4^2}{{(n+4)}^4} + \frac {5^3}{{(n+5)}^5} + \dots$$ Find the difference approximately when $$n$$ is great. Hence shew that $$\frac 1{1001} + \frac 1{1002^2} + \frac 3{1003^3} + \frac {4^2}{1004^4} + \frac {5^3}{1005^5} + \dots < \frac 1{1000}$$ by $$10^{-440}$$ nearly.
 * (p. 39)

 * Sir, an equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of GOD.
 * Statement to a friend, quoted in Ramanujan, the Man and the Mathematician (1967) by Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, p. 88
 * Variant:
 * An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
 * Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians

 * I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office at Madras... I have no University education but I have undergone the ordinary school course. After leaving school I have been employing the spare time at my disposal to work at Mathematics. I have not trodden through the conventional regular course which is followed in a University course, but I am striking out a new path for myself. I have made a special investigation of divergent series in general and the results I get are termed by the local mathematicians as "startling". ...Very recently I came across a tract published by you styled Orders of Infinity in page 36 of which I find a statement that no definite expression has been as yet found for the number of prime numbers less than any given number. I have found an expression which very nearly approximates to the real result, the error being negligible. I would request that you go through the enclosed papers. Being poor, if you are convinced that there is anything of value I would like to have my theorems published. I have not given the actual investigations nor the expressons that I get but I have indicated the lines on which I proceed. Being inexperienced I would very highly value any advice you give me. Requesting to be excused for the trouble I give you. I remain, Dear Sir, Yours truly...
 * Letter to G. H. Hardy, (16 January 1913), published in Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary American Mathematical Society (1995) History of Mathematics, Vol. 9

Quotes about Ramanujan

 * Sorted alphabetically by author

 * Ramanujan lived in a tiny hut in India. No formal education, no access to other works. But he came across an old math book and from this basic text he was able to extrapolate theories that had baffled mathematicians for years. … Ramanujan's genius was unparalleled.
 * Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, in Good Will Hunting (1997)

 * Paul Erdős has passed on to us Hardy's personal ratings of mathematicians. Suppose that we rate mathematicians on the basis of pure talent on a scale from 0 to 100, Hardy gave himself a score of 25, Littlewood 30, Hilbert 80 and Ramanujan 100.
 * Bruce C. Berndt in Ramanujan's Notebooks : Part I (1994), "Introduction", p. 14

 * He began to focus on mathematics at an early age, and, at the age of about fifteen, borrowed a copy of G. S. Carr's Synopsis of Pure and Applied Mathematics, which served as his primary source for learning mathematics. Carr was a tutor and compiled this compendium of approximately 4000-5000 results (with very few proofs) to facilitate his tutoring.
 * Bruce C. Berndt, "An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks," Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys (2001) Berndt & Robert Alexander Rankin. Alternative source for G. S. Carr, A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics (1886)

 * At about the time Ramanujan entered college, he began to record his mathematical discoveries in notebooks... Ramanujan devoted all of his efforts to mathematics and continued to record his discoveries without proofs in notebooks for the next six years.
 * Bruce C. Berndt, "An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks," Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys (2001) Berndt & Robert Alexander Rankin

 * After Ramanujan died, Hardy strongly urged that Ramanujan's notebooks be edited and published. By "editing," Hardy meant that each claim made by Ramanujan in his notebooks should be examined. If a theorem is known, sources providing proofs should be provided; if an entry is known, then an attempt should be made to prove it.
 * Bruce C. Berndt, "An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks," Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys (2001) Berndt & Robert Alexander Rankin

 * Ramanujan's approach to the theory of theta functions does not appear to have been influenced by any other writer.
 * Bruce C. Berndt, "An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks," Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys (2001) Berndt & Robert Alexander Rankin

 * He was sent at seven to the High School at, and remained there nine years. ...His biographers say ...that soon after he had begun the study of , he discovered for himself "Euler's theorems for the sine and cosine (by which I understand the relations between the circular and exponential functions), and was very disappointed when he found later, apparently from the second volume of Loney's Trigonometry that they were known already. Until he was sixteen he had never seen a mathematical book of higher class. Whittaker's Modern Analysis had not yet spread so far, and Bromwich's Infinite Series did not exist. ...[E]ither of these books would have made a tremendous difference ...
 * G. H. Hardy, in Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (1940) Ch. 1 The Indian Mathematician Ramanujan, p. 2.

 * Ramanujan did not seem to have any definite occupation, except mathematics, until 1912. In 1909 he married, and it became necessary for him to have some regular employment, but he had great difficulty in finding any because of his unfortunate college career. About 1910 he began to find more influential Indian friends, Ramaswami Aiyar and his two biographers, but all their efforts to find a tolerable position for him failed, and in 1912 he became a clerk in the office of the Port Trust of Madras, at a salary of about £30 per year. He was nearly twenty-five. The years between eighteen and twenty-five are the critical years in a mathematician's career, and the damage had been done. Ramanujan's genius never had again its chance of full development.
 * G. H. Hardy, in Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (1940) Ch. 1 The Indian Mathematician Ramanujan, p. 6.

 * It has not the simplicity and the inevitableness of the very greatest work; it would be greater if it were less strange. One gift it shows... profound and invincible originality. He would probably been a greater mathematician if he could have been caught and tamed a little in his youth; he would have discovered more that was new, and... of greater importance. On the other hand he would have been less of a Ramanujan, and more of a European professor, and the loss might have been greater than the gain... the last sentence is... ridiculous sentimentalism. There was no gain at all when the College at Kumbakonam rejected the one great man they had ever possessed, and the loss was irreparable...
 * G. H. Hardy, in Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (1940) Ch. 1 The Indian Mathematician Ramanujan, p. 7.

 * The formulae... defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before. A single look at them is enough to show that they could only have been written by a mathematician of the highest class. They must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them.
 * G. H. Hardy, in Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (1940) Ch. 1 The Indian Mathematician Ramanujan, p. 9.
 * I hardly asked him a single question of this kind; I never even asked him whether (as I think he must have done) he had seen Cayley's or Greenhill's Elliptic Functions. ... he was a mathematician anxious to get on with the job. And after all I too was a mathematician, and a mathematician meeting Ramanujan had more interesting things to think about than historical research. It seemed ridiculous to worry him about how he had found this or that known theorem, when he was showing me half a dozen new ones almost every day.
 * p. 11, on why he never asked what book Ramanujan studied while in India.

 * He could remember the idiosyncrasies of numbers in an almost uncanny way. It was Littlewood who said that every positive integer was one of Ramanujan's personal friends. I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
 * G. H. Hardy, in Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (1940) Ch. 1 The Indian Mathematician Ramanujan, p. 12. The number 1729 is now known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number after this famous anecdote (1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103).
 * The years between 18 and 25 are the critical years in a mathematician's career, and the damage had been done. Ramanujan's genius never had again its chance of full development. ... a mathematician is often comparatively old at 30, and his death may be less of a catastrophe than it seems. Abel died at 26 and, although he would no doubt have added a great deal more to mathematics, he could hardly have become a greater man. The tragedy of Ramanujan was not that he died young, but that, during his five unfortunate years, his genius was misdirected, side-tracked, and to a certain extent distorted.
 * G. H. Hardy, "The Indian mathematician Ramanujan." The American Mathematical Monthly 44.3 (1937): 137-155.
 * In his insight into algebraical formulae, transformation of infinite series, and so forth, that was most amazing. On this side most certainly I have never met his equal, and I can compare him only with Euler or Jacobi.
 * G. H. Hardy, "The Indian mathematician Ramanujan." The American Mathematical Monthly 44.3 (1937): 137-155.

 * The formulae (1.10) - (1.13) are on a different level and obviously both difficult and deep... (1.10) - (1.12) defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before. A single look at them is enough to show that they could only be written by a mathematician of the highest class. They must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them.
 * G. H. Hardy as quoted by Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia (2009)
 * His death is the saddest event in my professional career. It is not for me to assess Ramanujan's mathematical genius. But at the human level, he was one of the noblest men I have met in my life-shy, reserved and endowed with an infinite capacity to bear the agonies of the mind and spirit with fortitude.
 * P. S. Chandrasekhara Iyer (tuberculosis expert who treated Ramanujan), diary entry on 1920-04-27. Quoted in Ramaseshan, S. "Srinivasa Ramanujan." (1990). CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 59, NO. 24, 25 DECEMBER 1990 Lecture delivered at the Ramanujan Centennial International Conference (15-18 December 1987) at Kumbakonam.

 * Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him.
 * Michio Kaku, Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (1995), p. 172

 * The number 24 appearing in Ramanujan's function is also the origin of the miraculous cancellations occurring in string theory. ...each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex motions in space-time by splitting and recombining, a large number of highly sophisticated mathematical identities must be satisfied. These are precisely the mathematical identities discovered by Ramanujan. ...The string vibrates in ten dimensions because it requires... generalized Ramanujan functions in order to remain self-consistent.
 * Michio Kaku, in Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (1995) Ch.7 Superstrings

He came to understand trigonometric functions not as the ratios of the sides in a right triangle, as usually taught in school, but as far more sophisticated concepts involving infinite series. He'd rattle off the numerical values of π and e, "transcendental" numbers appearing frequently in higher mathematics, to any number of decimal places. He'd take exams and finish in half the allotted time. '''Classmates two years ahead would hand him problems they thought difficult, only to watch him solve them at a glance. … By the time he was fourteen and in the fourth form, some of his classmates had begun to write Ramanujan off as someone off in the clouds with whom they could scarcely hope to communicate.''' "We, including teachers, rarely understood him," remembered one of his contemporaries half a century later. Some of his teachers may already have felt uncomfortable in the face of his powers. But most of the school apparently stood in something like respectful awe of him, whether they knew what he was talking about or not. He became something of a minor celebrity. All through his school years, he walked off with merit certificates and volumes of English poetry as scholastic prizes. Finally, at a ceremony in 1904, when Ramanujan was being awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao prize for mathematics, headmaster Krishnaswami Iyer introduced him to the audience as a student who, were it possible, deserved higher than the maximum possible marks. '''An A-plus, or 100 percent, wouldn't do to rate him. Ramanujan, he was saying, was off-scale.'''
 * Ramanujan learned from an older boy how to solve cubic equations.
 * Robert Kanigel, in The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (1991), p. 27

Ramanujan's notebooks formed a distinctly idiosyncratic record. In them even widely standardized terms sometimes acquired new meaning. Thus, an "example" — normally, as in everyday usage, an illustration of a general principle — was for Ramanujan often a wholly new theorem. A "corollary" — a theorem flowing naturally from another theorem and so requiring no separate proof — was for him sometimes a generalization, which did require its own proof. As for his mathematical notation, it sometimes bore scant resemblance to anyone else's.
 * Ramanujan was an artist. And numbers — and the mathematical language expressing their relationships — were his medium.
 * Robert Kanigel, in The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (1991), p. 59

He was his own man. He made himself. "I did not invent him," Hardy once said of Ramanujan. "Like other great men he invented himself." He was svayambhu.
 * Ramanujan was a man for whom, as Littlewood put it, "the clear-cut idea of what is meant by proof ... he perhaps did not possess at all"; once he had become satisfied of a theorem's truth, he had scant interest in proving it to others. The word proof, here, applies in its mathematical sense. And yet, construed more loosely, Ramanujan truly had nothing to prove.
 * Robert Kanigel, in The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (1991), p. 359

 * Graduating from high school in 1904, he entered the University of Madras on a scholarship. However, his excessive neglect of all subjects except mathematics caused him to lose the scholarship after a year, and Ramanujan dropped out of college. He returned to the university after some traveling through the countryside, but never graduated. ...His marriage in 1909 compelled him to earn a living. Three years later, he secured a low-paying clerk's job with the Madras Port Trust.
 * Thomas Koshy, Catalan Numbers with Applications (2008)

 * Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends.
 * John Littlewood, as recalled in G. H. Hardy (1921), "Obituary Notices: Srinivasa Ramanujan", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 19, p. ivii
 * I read in the proof-sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: 'As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends.' My reaction was, 'I wonder who said that; I wish I had.' In the next proof- sheets I read (what now stands), 'It was Littlewood who said... '
 * John Littlewood, Littlewood's Miscellany, p. 61.
 * Ramanujan's great gift is a 'formal' one; he dealt in 'formulae'. To be quite clear what is meant, I give two examples (the second is at random, the first is one of supreme beauty):$$p(4)+p(9) x+p(14) x^2+\ldots=5 \frac{\left\{\left(1-x^5\right)\left(1-x^{10}\right)\left(1-x^{15}\right) \ldots\right\}^5}{\left\{(1-x)\left(1-x^2\right)\left(1-x^3\right) \ldots\right\}^6}$$ where $$p(n)$$ is the number of partitions of n; ... But the great day of formulae seems to be over. No one, if we are again to take the highest standpoint, seems able to discover a radically new type, though Ramanujan comes near it in his work on partition series; it is futile to multiply examples in the spheres of Cauchy's theorem and elliptic function theory, and some general theory dominates, if in a less degree, every other field. A hundred years or so ago his powers would have had ample scope... The beauty and singularity of his results is entirely uncanny... the reader at any rate experiences perpetual shocks of delighted surprise. And if he will sit down to an unproved result taken at random, he will find, if he can prove it at all, that there is at lowest some 'point', some odd or unexpected twist. ... His intuition worked in analogies, sometimes remote, and to an astonishing extent by empirical induction from particular numerical cases... his most important weapon seems to have been a highly elaborate technique of transformation by means of divergent series and integrals. (Though methods of this kind are of course known, it seems certain that his discovery was quite independent.) He had no strict logical justification for his operations. He was not interested in rigour, which for that matter is not of first-rate importance in analysis beyond the undergraduate stage, and can be supplied, given a real idea, by any competent professional.
 * John Littlewood, Littlewood's Miscellany, p. 95-97.

 * He was eager to work out a theory of reality which would be based on the fundamental concept of "zero", "infinity" and the set of finite numbers … He sometimes spoke of "zero" as the symbol of the absolute (Nirguna Brahman) of the extreme monistic school of Hindu philosophy, that is, the reality to which no qualities can be attributed, which cannot be defined or described by words and which is completely beyond the reach of the human mind. According to Ramanuja the appropriate symbol was the number "zero" which is the absolute negation of all attributes.
 * Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, as quoted in Crippled Minds: An Exploration Into Colonial Culture (1982) by Susantha Goonatilake, p. 317

 * Srinivasa Ramanujan, discovered by the Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy, whose great mathematical findings were beginning to be appreciated from 1915 to 1919. His achievements were to be fully understood much later, well after his untimely death in 1920. For example, his work on the highly composite numbers (numbers with a large number of factors) started a whole new line of investigations in the theory of such numbers.
 * Jayant Narlikar, in Scientific Edge : The Indian Scientist from Vedic to Modern Times (2003)

I was simply stunned. Since then I had meditated over this remark times without number. '''To me, that single remark was the essence of Truth about God, Man and the Universe. In that statement, I saw the real Ramanujam, the philosopher mystic-mathematician.'''
 * Ramanujam used to show his notes to me, but I was rarely able to make head or tail of at least some of the things he had written. One day he was explaining a relation to me; then he suddenly turned round and said, "Sir, an equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of GOD."
 * Anecdote presented by Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, in Ramanujan, the Man and the Mathematician (1967), p. 88

 * The manuscript of Ramanujan contained theorems and propositions that Hardy classified in three categories: 1) important results already known or demonstrable, through theorems which Ramanujan was certainly not acquainted with; 2) false results (few in number) or results concerning marginal curiosities; 3) important theorems not demonstrated, but formulated in such a manner that presupposed views... which only a genius could have.
 * Claudio Ronchi, The Tree of Knowledge: The Bright and the Dark Sides of Science (2013)

 * Hardy... in vain, tried to convince him to learn classical foundations of mathematics and, in particular, the rigorous expositive method of mathematical demonstrations. Every time Hardy introduced a problem, Ramanujan considered it ex novo [new] applying unconventional reasoning which was sometimes incomprehensible to his fellow colleagues.
 * Claudio Ronchi, The Tree of Knowledge: The Bright and the Dark Sides of Science (2013)

 * The great advances in mathematics have not been made by logic but by creative imagination. The title of mathematician can scarcely be denied to Ramanajan who hardly gave any proofs of the many theorems which he enumerated.
 * George Frederick James Temple, in 100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

 * That Ramanujan conceived these problems, sometimes before anyone else had done so, with no contact with the European mathematical community, and that he correctly obtained the dominant terms in asymptotic formulas are astounding achievements that should not be denigrated because of his unrigorous, but clever, arguments.
 * American Mathematical Society, Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary (1995) History of Mathematics, Vol. 9

 * Ramanujan proved many theorems for products of hypergeometric functions and stimulated much research by W. N. Bailey and others on this topic.
 * American Mathematical Society, Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary (1995) History of Mathematics, Vol. 9

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Uma Thurman

Uma Karuna Thurman (born 29 April 1970) is an iconic American film actress and model, starring in films such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.

Quotes

 * I have learned, I am not a child and I have learned that… when I’ve spoken in anger, I usually regret the way I express myself. So I’ve been waiting to feel less angry. And when I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say.
 * "Uma Thurman on Harvey Weinstein and sexual misconduct in Hollywood: 'When I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say", The Telegraph (5 November 2017).

Interview with Laura Yorke Reader's Digest (July 2006)

 * I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment. My father, when very young, was the first American to be ordained as a Buddhist monk. He now teaches Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University and is regarded as this country's foremost authority on Buddhism. When the Dalai Lama comes to America, it's my father who is his host. When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

 * I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

 * It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

 * Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

 * Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

 * I had a very traditional background. My parents are neat people. I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place -- Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

 * Because of [my father Robert Thurman, a former Tibetan Buddhist monk], I often get asked if I'm a Buddhist. I always say no, because I have such respect for the rigor of being a practicing religious person. I'm an actress and a mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practice them.

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