User Talk: DVdm

Server-side rendered snapshot of this editor's Wikipedia talk page discussions.

<center>
{|align="top"

|
{{scrollbox | width=350px | height=41em | {{TOCleft | width=98%}} }}
|
  
|
<div style="align: center; height: auto; padding: 1em; border: solid 6px; border-color:#A08040; background-color:#E7FFD7; background:radial-gradient(ellipse, #B7CFA7, #E7EFD7 60%)">
<center>
<big>'''''— Welcome to my talk page —'''''</big> 
''Please leave new comments at the bottom and sign them with tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) at the end. I'll respond here.'' 
''If I have left a message on your talk page, please respond there. I'll try to keep an eye on it. If you think I forgot to check don't hesitate to remind me here.''
{{!xt2|"They never be working' when they oughta should. ↗" "Watch out where the Huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow ↗." "Remember there's a big difference ↗ between kneeling down and bending over." "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny ↗." "Everybody in this room ↗ is wearing a uniform, and don't kid yourself."}}
{{Userboxtop | toptext= | backgroundcolor = #8B4513 }}
{{user talk vandalized|at least 356}}
{{userboxbottom}}
</center></div>
<div style="align: center; height: auto; padding: 1em; border: solid 6px; border-color:#A0522D; background-color:#E7FFD7; background:radial-gradient(ellipse farthest-corner at 10% 10%, #B7CFA7, #F7FFE7 90%)">
<center>
<big>'''''— Canard du jour —'''''</big> 
{{xt|''Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune after a little torture.''}} — Jack Handey ↗
{{Userboxtop | toptext= | backgroundcolor = #8B4513 }}
{{User Wikipedian For | year=2005 | month=5 | day=9}}{{User 100,000 edits}}
{{userboxbottom}}
</div>
|
  
|
{{archive box | title= Archives downhere ↗ | style=background-color:#0077BE; background:radial-gradient(ellipse farthest-corner at 20% 20%, #0077BE, #000000) | box-width=200px | search=yes | image=200px ↗ |
:::2025 ↗&emsp;2024 ↗
:::&ensp;2023 ↗&emsp;2022 ↗
:::&ensp;&ensp;2021 ↗&emsp;2020 ↗
:::&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;2019 ↗&emsp;2018 ↗
:::&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;2017 ↗&emsp;2016 ↗
:::&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;2015 ↗&emsp;2014 ↗
:::&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;2013 ↗&emsp;2012 ↗
:::&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;2011 ↗&emsp;2010 ↗
:::&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;2009 ↗&emsp;2008 ↗
:::&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;2007 ↗&emsp;2006 ↗
:::&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;&ensp;2005 ↗
}}
|}
</center>


{{User:MiszaBot/config
|archiveheader = {{talkarchive}}{{archive nav|%(year)d}}
|minthreadsleft = 15
|algo = old(14d)
|archive = User talk:DVdm/Archive %(year)d
}}

Frank Zappa

I merely edited one sentence, removing a not especially relevant portion of the quote and substituting a better explanation for the choice of Frank Zappa for a memorial.72.173.82.128 ↗ (talk) 00:34, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

: With this edit ↗ you removed sourced content together with the source pointer, and replaced it with an unsourced explanation. See wp:Verifiability ↗. - DVdm (talk) 13:33, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Help undoing dismiss of specific watchlist page announcement

{{helpme-helped|There was an announcement (about blacking out or something) on my watchlist page and instead of going to the page link, I accidentally clicked the ''dismiss'' link. How can I undo this?

Logging out and in again does not do the trick, and I didn't find anything on the Help:Notifications/FAQ ↗. - DVdm (talk) 20:27, 14 November 2024 (UTC) }}

:Never mind: Found it with Google ↗. First hit on MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages ↗ has all the recent announcements. - DVdm (talk) 20:31, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

<div class="ivmbox " style="margin-bottom: 1em; border: 1px solid #a2a9b1; background-color: #fdf2d5; padding: 0.5em; display: flex; align-items: center; ">
<div class="ivmbox-image noresize" style="padding-left:1px; padding-right:0.5em;">40px ↗</div>
<div class="ivmbox-text">
Hello! Voting in the '''2024 Arbitration Committee elections ↗''' is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on {{#time:l, j F Y|{{Arbitration Committee candidate/data|2024|end}}-1 day}}. All '''eligible users ↗''' are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee ↗ is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process ↗. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans ↗, topic bans ↗, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy ↗ describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates ↗ and submit your choices on the '''2024|poll}}|voting page ↗'''. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{tlx|NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:10, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

</div>
</div>

About the blank summary

Thanks for the heads up/reminder. Sometimes I don't summarize the edit for fear of making a mistake (since I'm not a native English speaker).

This is not the first time I have made an "insignificant" edit and, shortly after, an anonymous "wrong" edit comes along that is later corrected by a more experienced editor. Having lived in Japan, I have a bit of a habit of only talking/responding when asked.

I'll try in the next ones, but in that case I just imitated the pattern I saw in other images in the same article.
GKNishimoto (talk) 01:06, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

{{-}}

MfD nomination of :User:DVdm ↗

30px ↗ :User:DVdm ↗, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion ↗. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:DVdm ↗ and please be sure to sign your comments ↗ with four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>). You are free to edit the content of :User:DVdm ↗ during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. TurboSuperA+(connect) 07:36, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Result and related links:

User page: keep ↗

Report ↗

User_talk:93.102.176.111 ↗

: - DVdm (talk) 09:12, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

Three incorrect errors in a row

You have recently given me 3 warnings about citations and misinformation. All three were false.

The first one could be proven correct by the rest of the page.

The second one was false for the same reason.

The last one was false because the original data was incorrect. Jack50nD4u3y (talk) 09:29, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

:Follow the links in the messages on your talk page, read the policies and guidelines, and you should understand why my reverts were correct. Good luck! DVdm (talk) 13:57, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Mathematical joke

I noted that you reverted a large number of edits. ↗ It's fine if you've a specific contention (I suspect it's mine. If so, are http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Fallacy.html and http://scribd.com/document/505643499/E-a-Maxwell-Fallacies-in-Mathematics-Cambridge-University-Press-2006-1#page=47 sufficient? We can open it for discussion) but reverting so many with a message ''"Restoring per unsourced addition (referring to the second zero-division). Feel free to redo the remainder, but please don't do WP:OR"'' puts the onus on other editors to parse what you mean.

I do not wish to get into an edit war, so please revert only the edit you object to.

Thanks, '''cmɢʟee'''⎆τaʟκ ↗ 20:03, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

:{{rto|cmglee}} I have left a comment on the user's talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ACiaPan&diff=1308119118&oldid=1303351713 ↗) explaining why I reverted. The content they added was an unsourced addition to already properly sourced content. The other changes they made were just more or less formatting and not really doing much, so I decided to restore the original looks, together with the topical content. If the other edits had been more substantial, I would of course have acted differently. I don't think that user CiaPan objected to my action, as they did not react to my message (yet). Cheers. DVdm (talk) 22:02, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks for explaining. It's unfortunate that the formatting changes were made by the same editor who made the objectionable edit. I haven't reviewed the formatting changes, but they may be useful. Mass reverting seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Anyway, let's leave it to {{ping|CiaPan}} to respond if they wish. Cheers, '''cmɢʟee''' τaʟκ ↗ (please add <code>{{ping|cmglee}}</code> to your reply) 01:10, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

:{{re|cmglee}} Yes, my expansion to the explanation of invalidity was unsourced and I do not really care that it has been reverted. What concerns formating, my opinion is ''the simpler, the better''; that's why I shifted the comment to the text where it belongs, and removed the superfluous wikitable, whose sole purpose was adding a comment at a wrong place. Additionally, the comment was ''not'' a reference, that's why I changed {{code|ref}} into {{code|efn}}. I also added two valid URLs to dead references – and this I restored now → Special:Diff/1308397459 ↗. Feel free to revert again, it that's still wrong. I also restored :File:circle_staircase_paradox.svg ↗ in the 'Mathematical fallacies' section, which was not my addition (AFAIR) but somehow got deleted, too. Best regards, CiaPan (talk) 06:43, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks, {{ping|CiaPan}} I didn't know about ''efn'' and tried to use ''ref'' to make a footnote. That's much better. Cheers, '''cmɢʟee''' τaʟκ ↗ (please add <code>{{ping|cmglee}}</code> to your reply) 17:01, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, {{ping|DVdm|cmglee}}! I re-did formatting in the section we talked about above. I made the changes in two 'atomic' steps so it's easier to follow and verify them:

Special:Diff/1310751156 ↗,

Special:Diff/1310751309 ↗.

Looking forward to your comments, :) CiaPan (talk) 12:17, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

:{{ping|CiaPan}} Thanks for checking with me. In my opinion, I prefer the old formatting in which coincidentally, the "[a]" falls exactly at the erroneous line. With the new footnote, a reader has to go through the lines to see which line divides by "(a-b)". Cheers, '''cmɢʟee''' τaʟκ ↗ (please add <code>{{ping|cmglee}}</code> to your reply) 12:31, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

ArbCom 2025 Elections voter message

<div class="ivmbox " style="margin-bottom: 1em; border: 1px solid #a2a9b1; background-color: #fdf2d5; padding: 0.5em; display: flex; align-items: center; ">
<div class="ivmbox-image" style="padding-left:1px; padding-right:0.5em;flex-basis: 40px">40px ↗</div>
<div class="ivmbox-text">
Hello! Voting in the '''2025 Arbitration Committee elections ↗''' is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on {{#time:l, j F Y|{{Arbitration Committee candidate/data|2025|end}}-1 day}}. All '''eligible users ↗''' are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee ↗ is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process ↗. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans ↗, topic bans ↗, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy ↗ describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2025 election, please review the candidates ↗ and submit your choices on the '''2025|poll}}|voting page ↗'''. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{tlx|NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

</div>
</div>

Happy New Year, DVdm!

<div style="border: 3px solid #FFD700; background-color: #FFFAF0; padding:0.2em 0.4em; height:auto; min-height:173px; border-radius:1em; box-shadow:.1em .1em .5em rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); box-shadow:.1em .1em .5em light-dark(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75), rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75));" class="plainlinks">
left|x173px ↗x173px|right ↗
{{Paragraph break}}
{{Center|{{resize|179%|'''''Happy New Year ↗!'''''}}}}
'''DVdm''', Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year ↗, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
 Abishe (talk) 17:24, 31 December 2025 (UTC) 
</div>
   ''{{resize|88%|Send New Year cheer by adding {{tls|Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.}}''
{{clear}} Abishe (talk) 17:24, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Roses are Red

Violets are Blue

I read my sources

How about you?

Please read sources and edit comments before making nonsense comments on my talk page and have a great day. Strongwranglers (talk) 10:42, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

LINGONBERRY ALERT

The Lingonberry Committee on Wikipedia has detected you have not had enough Lingonberries.

Continued lack of Lingonberries may result in Lingonberry advisement prodcedures.

YAK YAK YAK YAK YAK Strongwranglers (talk) 20:50, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Great minds

It looks ↗ like you could have used a level-2 warning. ;) Paradoctor ↗ (talk ↗) 20:52, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Lingonberry Committee Alert

50px ↗ Strongwranglers (talk) 21:01, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

link=|25px|alt=Information icon ↗ There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents ↗ regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.

Strongwranglers (talk) 21:09, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

: Sure. WP:BOOMERANG ↗, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1349410919#User:DVdm_&_User:Paradoctor_are_trolling_edits_without_using_the_talk_page_and_reverting_good_faith_edits ↗, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AStrongwranglers&diff=1348725906&oldid=1348705961 ↗. - DVdm (talk) 10:18, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

{{User QAIbox/auto|years=Eight}}
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:51, 11 May 2026 (UTC)