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This user used to be an admin, and decided to [[Kill two birds with one stone]] when he got so daft that remembering his password became daunting: his new account is [[user:JerzyA]], he has a cool set of backups for never again forgetting it again, and the acct does not have admin permissions.<br>--[[User:JerzyA|JerzyA]] ([[User talk:JerzyA|talk]]) 14:51, 8 April 2019 (UTC)<!--
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== (an odd little tool) ==
This section exists so that i can, almost invisibly, provide a link (in the midst of talk that ''others'' have saved) which can inform others,<br>
who can see no indication (that IMO ought to have been made by a third editor) clarifying whether a short unsigned 'graph and a following short ''signed'' 'graph, on a talk page, represent
* one signed contrib, or
* one '''un'''signed contrib, followed by 2nd, signed, contribution (which was made by a presumably ''different'' colleague).<br>--[[User:Jerzy|Jerzy]]•[[User talk:Jerzy|t]] 00:35 <s>&:53</s>, 8 January 2017 (UTC) (UTC)<br>
= Slightly less odd stuff =
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Most of the dozens of "Jerzy" accounts i control on various WikiMedia Foundation projects (and three that i do not) are displayed at [[:meta:User:Jerzy/Jerzy accounts]].
<small><small>My (non-global) acct at Commons is [[Commons:User:enJerzy]]</small></small>
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== note to ''Non-Native Speakers'' of English ==
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And thanks for being so neighborly as to gain whatever facility you have with this brash, typically American, and endlessly frustrating language.
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Somewhere and -when since writing that, i stumbled across the orthodox (and IMO probably correct) explanation of the odd (and seemingly egotistical) casing: it apparently dates back to the age of [[manuscript]]s and [[scriptorium|scriptoria]]. When you're dealing with [[oak-gall]] ink and [[parchment]] from [[Pergamon]] (or with [[papyrus]]) (and [[pen]]s made by cutting off the tip of a goose [[flight feather|quill]] at a sharp angle, then cleverly [[nib (pen)|splitting the new tip]] to [[quill pen|make it feed]] the way a [[fountain pen]] does), you're going to have a fair number of stray marks -- particularly if it's not yet standard to [[tittle|"dot"]] the [[lowercase]] letters i and j (which i conjecture was another means of distinguishing them from strays). I presume that (except in the cases of royal personages) ''that'' need, institutionalized as orthography, was the source of the way i was ''taught'' to spell the nominative first singular pronoun. YMMV, an' dat's 'kay w/ Me!
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'dja notice i never got around to saying that capitalized "I" (especially with handwritten [[serif]]s) is a lot more distinguishable from a stray mark than is "i", which does not become much more distinctive by including that silly dot?
(And, by the way, that lower case I and J share the dot, bcz (i've observed and/or heard or read that) I and J are variations on a single letter (in a language that didn't make a distinction between an "ee" or an "aye" phoneme), and the Y-like consonantal sound you end up hearing when someone draws out "ee" or "aye" long enuf, and then slides into a following vowel, as in ee-aye-(y)ee-(y)o. And is it mere coincidence that I and J are not distinguished in ancient Roman jnscriptjons, and that the Latin alpha-beta didn't distinguish U from V, nor have a W, but the name of W is pronounced "double ee-yoo" (or, in some languages a version of "doop'l-yoo") and the letter looks like "VV". And the W-like consonantal sound you end up hearing when someone draws outwhen someone draws out "oooo" long enuf, and then slides into a following vowel, as in ooo-(w)ee.<br>
(I haven't checked, but i'll bet our articles on I, J, U, V, &/or W, and/or those in other Romanized-language editions of WP, would confirm my [[Decalcamamia|cockamamey]] [[WP:original research|OR]] ravings. Or not.)
== One of Your Friendly Local Neighborhood Admins ==
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; [[Deflavorizing machine]] : I started it minutes ago at 2008-09-03 22:38; i've no confidence it can be more than a stub, but i started work on it unsure i could keep it from being [[WP:OR|OR]]. Time will tell.
; [[Yellow Pages]] : I started it six years ago at 18:09, 8 May 2004; now over 1100 edits by over 700 users.
; [[Squeeze bottle]] : It was a bad Rdr to [[Wash bottle]] for almost 2 years (one of the main-namespace uses was from its own target, and the other two made use of the redirect grossly illogical; i described two more distinct classes of squeeze bottle, with links, in a stub at 06:12, 11 November 2011.
=== Settling In ===
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::'' 17:01, 25 Oct 2003 and modified through''
::'' 02:31, 28 May 2004.''
:'' I now consider it obsolete, except for the parts that have been copied above. In particular, i eventually noticed that the [[List of people known as war heroes]], which survived [[Talk:List of people known as war heroes/delete|one AfD]], and whose relationship to people gaining political power by being ''perceived'' as war heroes [[Talk:List of people known as war heroes|interested me for a while]], was [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people known as war heroes (2nd nomination)|later deleted]].]''
Yes, i like it here. I'm doing a lot of random editing, and editing that diffuses out from something regardless of the fact that the post-diffusion subject matter doesn't interest me.
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==== Outcome ====
(It didn't work [wink]: they voted for me anyway[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship&diff=3745214&oldid=3743481 .])
=== A wiki-moment ===
I may change my mind tomorrow, but today the following exchange seems to say something interesting about me, and perhaps even about the, uh, Wikipedia process:
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Please revert immediately [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Db-disambig&diff=421319942&oldid=420779559 your recent talk-pg Rdr], or explain why reversion of is not necessary.<br>--[[User:Jerzy|Jerzy]]•[[User talk:Jerzy|t]] 16:49, 30 March 2011 (UTC)<br>
:All other CSD talk pages redirect to [[Template talk:Db-meta]], as it helps centralize discussions. There is a box on that page that says, "To help centralise discussions and keep related topics together, all CSD template talk pages redirect here. For discussions on each individual template prior to July 2008, see the histories of each talk page." They probably forgot to redirect [[Template talk:db-disambig]] to [[Template talk:Db-meta]], which is my reason for redirecting. Thanks, [[User:Logan|Logan]] <sub>[[User_talk:Logan|Talk]]</sub> <sup>[[Special:Contributions/Logan|Contributions]]</sup> 16:51, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
:I have also copied your suggestion for [[Template:Db-disambig]] to [[Template talk:Db-meta]] so that it is not lost in the history. Sorry about the confusion! [[User:Logan|Logan]] <sub>[[User_talk:Logan|Talk]]</sub> <sup>[[Special:Contributions/Logan|Contributions]]</sup> 17:01, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
:: I'd argue that the Rdr'd (former) talk pages also require central archiving of the old discussion, but thank you for your thoro explanation, diligently moving that page from my
::: WTF?
:: list to my
::: I can't fix every WP problem [frown] -- nor in practice ''any'' of them, if i insist on seeing every one that i notice thru to its complete resolution! [shrug]
:: virtual list. Happy editing, and thanks again.<br>--[[User:Jerzy|Jerzy]]•[[User talk:Jerzy|t]] 17:50, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
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:<small>In the spirit of wiki-based copy-left attribution, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Logan&dir=prev&offset=20110329195154&limit=7&action=history the relevant portion] of the history of the talk page where that discussion took place.</small>
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== Before you edit this page .... ==
<big><big>I am likely to miss messages you leave for me on this page, for as long a month or more. Messages belong on [[User talk:Jerzy]], generally at the bottom of the page.</big></big><br>And by the way, no one is supposed to edit "user pages", such as this one, except the pages' respective owners, whose username makes up most of the page's name.<br>--[[User:Jerzy|Jerzy]]•[[User talk:Jerzy|t]] 00:22, 8 January 2017 (UTC)<br>
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