User Talk: The Hurdy Gurdy Man

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

Welcome!

<div class="MainPageBG" style="border:1px solid lightgrey; vertical-align:top; color:#000000;">
{| style="width: 100%; vertical-align:top;"
! <div style="margin:0; font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; border:1px solid lightgrey; text-align:left; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Hello, The Hurdy Gurdy Man! '''Welcome to Wikipedia!''' Thank you for your contributions ↗. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place '''<code>{{helpme}}</code>''' on your talk page ↗ and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name ↗ on talk pages by clicking 22px|link=Wikipedia:How to sign your posts|alt= ↗ or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted ↗" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject ↗ to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here ↗ for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary ↗ field when making edits to pages.</div>
|}
{| style="width:100%; font-size:85%;"
|class="MainPageBG" style="width: 55%; border:1px solid white; background-color:lightgrey; vertical-align:top"|
{| style="width: 100%; vertical-align:top; background-color:Lavender"
! <div style="margin: 0; background-color:white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid lightgrey; text-align:left; color:grey; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">Getting Started</div>
|-
|

'''Introduction ↗''' • Contributing to Wikipedia ↗ • Your first article ↗

The five pillars of Wikipedia ↗ • Simplified ruleset ↗

How to: edit a page ↗ • upload an image ↗

|-
! <div style="margin: 0; background:white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid lightgrey; text-align:left; color:grey; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">Getting Help</div>
|-
|

'''Get help at the Teahouse ↗'''

Frequently Asked Questions ↗

Where to ask questions ↗

Department directory ↗

Request administrator attention ↗

Neutral point of view ↗ • Verifiability ↗ • No original research ↗

Reliable sources ↗ • Citing sources ↗ • Content guidelines ↗

What Wikipedia is not ↗ • Biographies of living persons ↗

----

Manual of Style ↗ (Simplified ↗) • Three-revert rule ↗

'''Copyrights ↗''' • Non-free content ↗ • Image use policy ↗

External links ↗ • Spam ↗ • Vandalism ↗ • Sockpuppetry ↗

Deletion policy ↗ • Conflict of interest ↗ • Notability ↗

|-
|}
|class="MainPageBG" style="width: 55%; border:1px solid lightgrey; background-color:Seashell; vertical-align:top"|
{| style="width: 100%; vertical-align:top; background-color:Seashell"
! <div style="margin: 0; background-color:white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid lightgrey; text-align:left; color:grey; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">The Community</div>
|-
|

'''Community Portal ↗''' • Adopt-a-user program ↗

Assume good faith ↗ • Civility ↗ • Etiquette ↗

No personal attacks ↗ • Resolving disputes ↗

Build consensus ↗ • Village pump ↗

Discord server ↗ • IRC channels ↗ • Mailing lists ↗

''The Signpost'' (Wikipedia's newspaper) ↗

|-
! <div style="margin: 0; background-color:white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid lightgrey; text-align:left; color:grey; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;">Things to do</div>
|-
|

'''Task Center ↗''' • Be bold in editing ↗

Maintenance ↗ • Peer review ↗ • Requested articles ↗

Join a WikiProject ↗ • Translating articles ↗

Cleaning up: General ↗ • Copy editing ↗ • Vandalism ↗

Categories ↗ • Disambiguation ↗ • Stubs ↗

User pages ↗ • Talk pages ↗

Useful templates ↗ • Tools ↗ • User scripts ↗

|}
|}
</div>
Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 00:46, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

IShowSpeed editing

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on the IShowSpeed ↗ page. In cases of multiple edits that you can't easily undo, it is usually better to revert to a previous version. Instructions can be found on Help:Reverting#Restoring_a_past_version ↗. 45dogs (they/them) (talk) 04:05, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks for the link. I was looking for an option like that when I noticed the vandalism. The Hurdy Gurdy Man (talk) 14:38, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

{| style="background-color: var(--background-color-success-subtle, #fdffe7); border: 1px solid var(--border-color-success, #fceb92); color: var(--color-base, #202122);"
|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px ↗
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Copyeditor's Barnstar'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Good eye for spotting the typo here ↗! Plasticwonder (talk) 07:29, 6 November 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. <small>MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:57, 18 November 2025 (UTC)</small>

</div>
</div>

Thanks :)

Thanks for your thanks on my recent edit of List of attacks during the 2026 Iran war ↗ :) AGiantPulsatingMindisaTerribleThingtoWaste (talk) 22:04, 17 March 2026 (UTC)