User talk:Iridescent

An administrator "assuming good faith" with an editor with whom they have disagreed.

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Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:47, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Keep in touch

Hey, you haven't been on wiki for six months. Please squawk and let your faithful talk page stalkers know that you're still alive. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:30, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

I sure hope you're OK. Missing you. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 17:22, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

+1 Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 17:58, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Me too. Wehwalt (talk) 18:10, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Me as well. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:51, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

me four jp×g 08:34, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Heh at keepalive. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:51, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

I thought about linking it, but I still have lingering fears about putting links in section headings. ;-) WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:25, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

bugger. I hope everything is okay with you in IRL. —usernamekiran (talk) 23:07, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

I'm thinking he's ok - the contributions had been tailing down for a long time, unfortunately, & we were mostly talking among ourselves here. Hope so, anyway. Johnbod (talk) 00:07, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Realistically, Iridescent's RL activities have resulted in them largely disappearing for extended periods before (including a 4-year span where they only made a few contributions), and Occam's razor indicates that's what has happened again. Definitely missing their wise words, though. Risker (talk) 02:19, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

In the four-year span in question (July 2011 to May 2015 more or less), Iri made several hundred edits with only relatively short breaks. This is the first time they've gone six months without editing since 2006, before which they'd only recorded one edit with this account. I hope it's just real life getting in the way. Graham87 16:53, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

@Graham87 I hope it's just real life getting in the way. Same, and that's what I'm assuming. I dream of horses ^{(Contribs) (Talk)} 23:23, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Perhaps an All-American meal will entice a response from Iri. I dream of horses ^{(Contribs) (Talk)} 23:26, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Agreeing with everyone else...and wondering while we're all concentrated here if any TPWs might be able to identify the source of the recently-added image on Charles Domery? The source cites 'Twitter', without even a link to a tweet, and various reverse image sources have had unimpressive results. I'd imagine a well-known authentic-enough image would've been added long before, but don't want to rule out a recent discovery someone with more subject knowledge than me might be aware of. (Several more articles have had edits since Feb 2023 that might want a quick check, such as Tarrare and Daniel Lambert.) Vaticidalprophet 06:05, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

It's been around on Commons as File:Polyphag.jpg since 2011, with added context that was cropped from the version now in Domery's article. Assuming the provided date and description (which stem from this now archived source) are remotely accurate, it wouldn't seem to pass the smell test. Dr. Duh 🩺 (talk) 09:31, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

I trust the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas much more than I trust allthatisinteresting.com. The attribution to I. F. Leopold is just about visible on the image: this could be Joseph Friedrich Leopold, German engraver 1668–1727, which would line up with HRC's dating of the print to c.1701 and prove that it does not depict Domery, who was not born until 50 years after Leopold's death. Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 10:06, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

In fact, on the basis of this discussion I have removed the image from the lead of Charles Domery Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 10:41, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

That source still works if you remove :8080 port from the link, it then redirects to the new page. AstonishingTunesAdmirer 連絡 15:48, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Good catch, I updated the URL on Commons. Dr. Duh 🩺 (talk) 12:41, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

• just got an email from Iri saying they’re fine, just “insanely busy”, and that they’ll post here in a while when they get a chance and can find their login info. —Floquenbeam (talk) 02:24, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
  • How ambiguously boring. Couldn't you have twisted the truth a little; instead saying that Iridescent was insanely busy fighting his way out of the dark WMF dungeons after being kidnapped by evil cabalists, or that they were sent on a top secret mission by Jimbo himself to investigate the rumours of the reincarnation of a disappeared LTA? Where's the dramah, the tension, the action, in something so prosaic as "insanely busy"? 128.189.68.54 (talk) 04:59, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

    Sorry, I just assumed all of that was kind of implied. Floquenbeam (talk) 05:21, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

    Could he not be on a Bond-style mission to infiltrate the WMF offices, Blofeld's headquarters, and reprogram the UCOC to set free the wikis? Wehwalt (talk) 13:17, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

    Special:Diff/1190169126, December 16 -- the man's got style. jp×g🗯️ 10:27, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

    Officially no longer missing! Glad they found their login info. Pawnkingthree (talk) 20:39, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

File:London Necropolis bombing.jpg listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:London Necropolis bombing.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Felix QW (talk) 20:10, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed

Hello Iridescent 2! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily removed. If you do not resume editing within the next week, your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! — MusikBot II ^talk 17:21, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Collective memory

Can someone give me a link to a page like Wikipedia:Randy in Boise, except the version in which the expert gets so irritated that he loses his temper and we block him for bad behavior? WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:22, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Is Special:Permalink/520449457 kinda the version you're remembering? I think Special:Permalink/749790288 might be the most recent example of that variant. Folly Mox (talk) 22:42, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Not really like Randy, but WP:BAIT is about that scenario. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:48, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Student protests in the 1960s

Hello, talk page stalkers: Would some of you please look over User:WhatamIdoing/Grinnell 14 and let me know what you think? I'm not sure whether I should keep adding sources (which will mostly be newspapers from the 1960s), or move it to the mainspace as-is, or give up. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:13, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Looks fine to move to MS now (I can do it if you like). Johnbod (talk) 05:47, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, @Johnbod. I'd appreciate it if you moved the page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:17, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

At Grinnell 14. Johnbod (talk) 18:44, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:22, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

	A very happy Christmas and New Year to you!
	Have a great Christmas, and may 2024 bring you joy, happiness – and no trolls, vandals or visits from Krampus! Cheers SchroCat (talk) 09:34, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Season's greetings!

Hello Iridescent: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:22, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Seasons Greetings!

Hello there, thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2024! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:05, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

A solstice greeting

❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️

Hi Iridescent! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. I always enjoy visiting your talk page and reading the discussions! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!

Cheers,
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Solstice Celebration for Iridescent, 2023, DALL·E 3.

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Note: The vibes are winter solsticey. If you're in the southern hemisphere, oops, apologies.

{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:41, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year

		Happy New Year!
		Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free and may Janus light your way. Ealdgyth (talk) 14:37, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Skunks in the doorway

In the early days of web commerce, Silicon Valley types told stories about the problem of a skunk in the doorway: If a skunk were standing in the doorway of a brick-and-mortar store, the store employees would notice that nobody was coming inside and would investigate why people were on the sidewalk but not coming in the door. Perhaps some supportive would-be customer would find a way to let you know that there was a problem, and if anyone managed to get past the skunk, it was likely to be mentioned in a small-talk kind of way. But in e-commerce, if there was a big, obvious, solvable problem, you might not find out about it.

I am here to ask a few talk page stalkers to please take a look at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/When there is no consensus either way and tell me if there's a skunk in the doorway. It's been listed as an RFC for two and a half days now, with zero responses. Yapperbot is no longer posting Wikipedia:Feedback request service messages, but I'm not sure that's a sufficient explanation for it going completely unnoticed. I can (and plan to) post the usual sorts of announcements, but I'd appreciate it if some folks would take a look and tell me if I've made it too complicated or irritating first. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:09, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

I noticed that in your signature in the RfC, it shows a timestamp but not your name. This (as you probably know) happens when you type five tildes instead of four. Maybe try re-signing with four tildes and see if that makes a difference? FWIW I think the fact that five tildes creates a name-less signature is a bug not a feature. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 17:47, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing Double checking, I noticed the same thing; you have a date, there's even fine print provided by a userscript that you created the page, but there's no signature.

@Clayoquot FWIW I think the fact that five tildes creates a name-less signature is a bug not a feature. I've used five tildes when noting when I've edited a talk page message. However, if this bug/feature were to disappear tomorrow, I wouldn't miss it much. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 01:48, 9 January 2024 (UTC)