Kwamikagami

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Astrology has no effect on reality, so why should reality have any effect on astrology? – J.S. Stenzel, commenting on astrological planets that astrologers acknowledge don't really exist

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The official state rainbow flag of Russia (official in JAO since 1996) Do you think the liberals are using these school shootings to further their anti-tragedy agenda? — Col. Erran Morad, Who Is America?, s01e01 yod-dropper — (when you need something that sounds like an insult)[1] ALL keys matter — response to the scale-wandering rendition of the national anthem at CPAC 2021 The Lunatic-in-Charge becomes the Lunatic-at-Large Lame duck à l'orange (AKA canard à l'orange) It is a mortifying circumstance, which greatly perplexes many a painstaking philosopher, that nature often refuses to second his most profound and elaborate efforts; so that often after having invented one of the most ingenious and natural theories imaginable, she will have the perverseness to act directly in the teeth of his system, and flatly contradict his most favorite positions. This is a manifest and unmerited grievance, since it throws the censure of the vulgar and unlearned entirely upon the philosopher; whereas the fault is not to be ascribed to his theory, which is unquestionably correct, but to the waywardness of Dame Nature, who, with the proverbial fickleness of her sex, is continually indulging in coquetries and caprices, and seems really to take pleasure in violating all philosophic rules, and jilting the most learned and indefatigable of her adorers. [...] The philosophers took this in very ill part, and it is thought they would never have pardoned the slight and affront which they conceived put upon them by the world had not a good-natured professor kindly officiated as a mediator between the parties, and effected a reconciliation. Finding the world would not accommodate itself to the theory, he wisely determined to accommodate the theory to the world. — Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York Pela primeira vez na sua vida a morte soube o que era ter um cão no regaço. For the first time in her life, death knew what it felt like to have a dog in her lap. — José Saramago, Death with Interruptions / Death at Intervals It is now generally accepted that the megaliths that make up Stonehenge were moved by human effort. — as opposed to by what? Anybody who says you only have yourself to blame is just not very good at blaming other people. — It's Happy Bunny When poppies pull themselves up from their roots and start out, one after the other, toward the sunset – don't follow them. — Slavko Janevski, 'Silence' And the dough-headed took their acid fermentation for a soul, the stabbing of meat for history, the means of postponing their decay for civilization. — Stanislaw Lem, Return from the Stars The Church says that the Earth is Flat, but I know that it is Round, for I have seen its Shadow on the Moon, and I have more Faith in a Shadow than in the Church. — (commonly misattributed to Magellan) In the early years of the study there were more than 200 speakers of the dialect, including one parrot. — from the WP article Nancy Dorian Mikebrown is unusually eccentric and not very bright. [...] Astronomers have not noticed any outbursts by Mikebrown. — from the WP article 11714 Mikebrown Ecce Mono Keep Redskins White! "homosapiens are people, too!!" a sprig of spaghetti "I've always had a horror of husbands-in-law." awkwardnessful anti–zombie-fungus fungus "Only an evil person would eat baby soup." (said in all sincerity)

Thank you (delayed)

Hi Kwami,

You really won't remember interacting with me, and until I checked my edit history today, and then followed the breadcrumbs, I don't think I knew who answered my very first post on WP.

Over 16 years ago I put out a request to update an image - you then answered it. I can remember feeling really pleased that I put in place something that would provide a (very) small improvement to accuracy of this article. This emboldened me to actually edit WP articles and then join WikiProjects that shared a common interest to work collaboratively. I know I do not currently edit as much as I would like (real life and all that), but I thought I would just give a little thanks to someone who gave me faith to carry on my WP journey. Cheers! Zangar (talk) 22:43, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Glad to hear it. Thanks for remembering. — kwami (talk) 23:26, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Just a little bit of WikiLove to brighten your day

A lot of people need WikiLove. Here, have some. {{subst:friedchicken}} Xeno User : Amoxicillin on a Boat 02:05, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:26, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Stop re-publishing editions which lack necessary citations

Your 'Phags-pa' theory section is backed by little to no sources, and have 'citations needed' notifications that have not been addressed for years. If you want to keep these things in the article, ADD CITATIONS. The article was covered with the citations needed template even before I new it existed. Daldidandal (talk) 20:48, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

All sources for the article are listed, they're just not cited for every statement. Adding 'cn' for those statements is fine. Placing those tags in the section headers, rather than in the statements themselves, defaces the article, but more importantly, falsifying quotations is completely inappropriate, and repeatedly doing so could possibly get you blocked. That falsified info is the reason I reverted you. [If your edits were corrections, then you're obviously going off the refs and so have seen that those refs exist.] Going on to blank content because you're annoyed at your bad edits being reverted is also inappropriate. I have no problem with you tagging statements or sections that you feel need better referencing, just use the templates as they were intended to be used. — kwami (talk) 00:13, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

WP:ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Daldidandal (talk) 23:38, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Bono dialect

Your second renaming of Bono dialect on 10 November was improper. Instead of insistently repeating your reverted bold move of 12 October, you should have submitted an RM request for discussion. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 13:48, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

I've made a move request. The current name contradicts the consensus of sources. — kwami (talk) 21:20, 14 November 2024 (UTC)