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Mass rollback

I used the script today. I probably used it sometime in the distant past because it was already installed. I don't know what happened before, but this time was painful. It was slow, did things in fits and starts, opened up tons of windows, and ultimately killed my browser (Firefox). Even getting Windows 7 to cancel the Firefox task wasn't easy. Of course, you know more about script writing than I do (zilch), and, knowing how bright you are, there are probably reasons it works the way it does, but I just figured I'd give you (hopefully) constructive feedback. I'll probably uninstall it, though; can't go through that again. It's tedious doing it manually, but it's much faster and doesn't take over my PC. Regards.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:07, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

I come back to you once more

<some stuff that people apparently don't want me to read from Colton Cosmic, though it's still in the edit history and God knows I've gotten more than enough notification emails about it in the past two hours>

Anyway. Yes, I find it a little weird that Kww is going to lengths to revert your edits, and I certainly wish they wouldn't do so here, but it's not against the rules to do so; this is still de jure block evasion. As for the talk page block, I think I've explained it to you before: while I disagree with the action they took, it's not up to me to be the final arbiter of who's right and who's wrong, and to enforce my will on the encyclopedia, admin/crat or not. I see where they were coming from; though I don't agree with the block, I can't say it was totally unjustified, so I can't unilaterally overrule it. It may or may not have been wheel-warring for me to do so, seeing as how I was the one who originally restored TP access (I'm actually pretty sure it wouldn't have been, but people could undoubtedly make at least some sort of case otherwise), but that's really neither here nor there anyway, as I don't refrain from doing things because I might lose my bits. I refrain from doing things because I think, as I've said before, that--notwithstanding protection of my own talk page--the use of admin tools cannot contravene the will of the community, and if memory serves (and I was going to look this up to see before the endless stream of notification emails started to piss me off), the related ANI thread didn't come to a consensus to revert Kww's action, so I don't feel justified in reverting it unilaterally despite a lack of consensus to do so after discussion. As I said before, I'm sorry that my philosophy is burning you, but it is what it is.

I'm more sorry that the pseudo-edit-war between you, a few other editors, and the edit filter led you to insult another editor in your most recent edit summary. As I've told you before, I'm fair game on my talk page, but other people are not. No quibbling over whether that was an insult or not, please, and no links to NPA or CIVIL or whatever; this isn't about Misplaced Pages policy, these are my ground rules. If you can't obey them, then we have nothing more to discuss here. Now, when this protection expires: you are allowed to post here. However, you are not allowed to post more than once before I've replied. I get notified of all edits to this page, of course, so I can always read your comments in the edit history if they've been reverted, and this boxing match shit between you and the edit filter has got to go. I have 12 emails notifying me about your posts in little over an hour: no thanks. I'd ask other editors, particularly Kww, to respect this and not revert, but, y'know, it's within their rights to do so, I guess. No insults against other editors: if you can't figure out whether something is an insult or not, then just don't say it. That includes edit summaries. If you violate any of these rules, I will start reverting your comments myself unread. If you don't like 'em, well, you can find another admin, I guess. K? Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 16:44, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

CC isn't permitted to post anywhere. Nowhere at all. If he chooses to communicate with BASC or UTRS via e-mail, that is his right, but that is the only method of communication available to him. By making statements that would appear to provide leniency, you do nothing but encourage him to evade his block again.—Kww(talk) 17:23, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

If all he's evading his block to do is appeal said block, well, I don't really think that's such a heinous crime, futile though it is. And it's not like discouragement has stopped him anyway. I mean, on the one hand, you're right of course, but I dunno: I just can't get worked up about evading a block just to appeal it. It's not doing the encyclopedia any harm, as long has his wilder excesses are curtailed. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:38, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Here's a beer to sit back and enjoy this sunny day with... :) — {{U|Technical 13}} 16:48, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, T13. That's actually not a bad idea, though I tend to prefer liquor to beer. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 16:57, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Snow in Louisiana

Please take a lookg. And don't die too much, cuz we'd miss you. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:42, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Er, what am I looking for? I don't see the phrase "rained in" used anywhere in that article. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 19:47, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Ah, I get it now. It's already been fixed by Yngvadottir (didn't even have to look up the spelling!) here. That's a whole other level of "rein" vs. "reign"; neither of those words would be appropriate there, even if either had been used instead of "rained". They probably meant "reined" as in "reined in", but I don't think that means what they think it means. They probably actually meant something like "brought in", but "produced", as Yngvadottir put it, was even better. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 20:02, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Good to know it's fixed now. I figured you were the reining expert. Best regards. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:09, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

One of these days, someone's going to have to reign in your rampant abuse of the English language for the sake of a pun. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 20:12, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Touché. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:16, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh yeah? Well, what did Mrs. Claus say to Rudolph when she told him he was going to be made king of the North Pole without having to pay a penny for the honor?— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 22:50, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

The same thing that, after discovering that Miles Black, the famous phrenologist from Yorkshire, was going to take up yodeling to lonely goats in Bali, James White said after he decided to balance four planks of wood on a beer keg and call it an abstract work of art in the style of a famous fourteenth-century architect: that people will read any old garbage if they think there will be a good pun at the end of it? Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 22:58, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

A Dobos torte for you!

7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos Torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it. To give a Dobos Torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:16, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Note

When you were added to Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats, you were marked as "TBD" for two entries in the table. Certainly these don't need to be filled in, but for now I've just removed them because TBD doesn't seem accurate some months on.

On an entirely unrelated note - have you considered registering User:Writkeeper (or WritKeeper or somesuch) and redirecting the user and usertalk pages here?

P.S. Please accept this belated welcome to the team; I'm not sure if I had the opportunity to do so before! –xeno 20:03, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Hm, dunno where the "TBD" came from, but it's probably best not to list me down for any time range in particular; my hours are pretty variable. Thanks. I haven't really considered registering those accounts; I suppose it's not a bad idea, though I don't think it's that big a deal. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 23:46, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

The only reason I suggested registering the account was to serve as a useful redirect for those looking for you who forget the space. –xeno 02:40, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

K, done. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 03:45, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

For helping me @ the IRC with DYK check tool thing. Thanks. :) Bananasoldier (talk) 03:49, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Yup, no problem. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 03:49, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

CensoredScribe

Don't know if you saw on Drmies' talk page that User:Cassandra Truth is an admitted sock of indef-blocked CensoredScribe. Says so on their user page as well. BMK (talk) 08:15, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Well, evidently I'm more vindictive than Drmies. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:23, 14 April 2014 (UTC)