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This is (unsurprisingly) my user page.

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Translation

I can't remember quite how, but today I came across the German word Sprachmittler, where 'mittel' is a means or medium. And suddenly the idea of 'rendering' or even (gods forbid) 'translating' something seems happily distant, and now I know myself to be a 'language mediator' :> MinorProphet (talk) 01:21, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

=Schopenhauer=

Pinched from [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Neun-x#Schopenhauer Benutzer:Neun-x]

„Wer etwas Sagenswertes zu sagen hat, braucht es nicht in preziöse Ausdrücke, schwierige Phrasen und dunkle Anspielungen zu verhüllen. Er kann es einfach, deutlich und naiv aussprechen, und dabei sicher sein, dass es seine Wirkung nicht verfehlen wird.“{{cn|date=March 2025}}

:"Whoever has something to say worth saying, it does not need veiling in precious expressions, heavy phrases and dark allusions. It can be articulated simply, clearly and without pretension and thereby will be sure that its effect will not be missed."

Draft articles in various states of completion

=Ongoing unfinished articles=

=Current obsession:=

  • Draft:Knights for the body
  • On my vague idea of creating a complete list of all Knights for the Body ever, the words of William A. Shaw in the preface to his [https://archive.org/details/knightsofengland01shawuoft/page/n23/mode/1up The Knights of England] pp. ix–x about collating the records of Knights Bachelor will serve as a warning:

:::"No words of mine can convey an adequate idea of the welter, chaos, confusion and contradictions of these manuscripts. The names of Knights are given with every possible variation, the lists disagree perpetually amongst themselves in the order of the names, and the dates assigned to the battles or other occasions on which knighthoods occur, are in the majority of cases totally incorrect. In the attempt to collate these manuscripts and to verify them from extraneous sources, I have spent four painful years, and I regard the outcome as the most distressingly unsatisfactory piece of historical work I have ever set my hand to."

=List of things I REALLY REALLY should have completed aeons ago...=

=Related to ''[[The Miracle (1912 film)|The Miracle]]'' but lost interest=

  • Joseph Menchen - theatre lighting man and film producer
  • George C. Crager - his somewhat dodgy business partner
  • Elite Sales Agency - UK distributors of the fake Das Mirakel (1912 film)
  • NY Film Co. - US importers of the fake Mirakel
  • Battle of the Miracles - the whole episode could have been a deliberate con, designed to draw attention to the real thing.
  • [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-theatre-quarterly/article/reinhardts-miracle-at-olympia-a-record-and-a-reconstruction/83D6D41ECF1FA8ED72404EE2F48EDF07 Reinhardt's ‘Miracle’ at Olympia: a Record and a Reconstruction] - Book about the massive stage production

=Other=

  • {{My sandbox}}  —Peruvian steel, an early type of stainless steel.— Pretty much ready for mainspace.

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I randomly came across this and just couldn't resist...

H. E. Porter was Harold Everett Porter (19 September 1887 — 21 June 1936). He was an author of plays, verse, novels and short stories, who often wrote under the pen name of 'Holworthy Hall', the name of a dormitory for 1st-year students at Harvard University. The following words fit fairly well to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPBLiU0cY8 the tune of Mattinata] (YouTube) by Leoncavallo.

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Opera Porteri

O carmen jadlowker dalmorès

O lucia sextetta bizet;

O dippel caruso dolores,

Gioconda, o andré-caplet.

O conti, o eames tetrazzini,

O scotti mascagni farrar.

O gadski busoni puccini,

Calvé constantino, maquarre.

Ah, verdi, pagliacc' trovatore,

Aida fremstad meyerbeer;

Pol plançon and that tells the story,

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/20561812 The opera season is here.]}}

Useful links

  • [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/MinorProphet Xtools] - Complete info on my Wikicareer, or any other WP editor - subsitute a user name into the last part of the url.
  • [https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States]
  • {{U|IABot}}, archives live links in articles, and automatically adds archive params to the article refs.
  • [https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php?page=user&id=37521754&wiki=enwiki My user page for iabot]
  • Wikipedia:Citation templates
  • |ref={{harvid|Los Angeles Times, July 4,|2019}}
  • Help:Pipe trick
  • Help:Interwikimedia links
  • DABs etc.
  • {{Histmerge | title of original page to be migrated from }}.
  • [http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf Adobe Reader command-line params]
  • [http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=493513.0 Online copies of The Navy List 1814 - 1884], plus [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4opgAAAAcAAJ Navy List to end of December 1819]
  • Pirsig, Robert M. (1974) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Or maybe Easy Rider: but which came first? But if you had read, marked and fully inwardly digested Fear and Loathing then the question would be moot. OR: In which film at around 00:26:00? does some random yee-hah cop take aim at a still shot of Easy Rider at around xx:xx:xx? Hey, y'all don't at rush at once, gimme some breathing space
  • Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over - sometimes you come across an article that reads like someone got dressed by putting their overcoat and galoshes on first, and then attempted to put everything else on in an entirely random order. Every sentence is somehow wrongly phrased; every ref is malformed in some way; there is no flow, no over-arching consistency. It's like the townie who asks a local leaning on a gate, "Excuse me, my man, how do I get to such-and-such a place?" — "Well, moy dear, Oi wouldn't be a-staartin' from 'yere."
  • Wikipedia:Etiquette, to be read every week. {{done|2017-05-9}} • {{done|2017-05-29}} (oops, missed a couple of weeks) • {{done|2017-06-6}} • (wiki-break) NB Remember the Golem Rule: Clay is cool. • {{done|2017-09-24}} • {{done|2017-10-10}} • {{done|2017-11-23}} (It is possible to be too bold). Well, I used the words 'assholes' and 'wankers' to define the editors whose combined efforts resulted in the almost fact-free entry on List of dates for Easter#Latest Easter. Fail, I imagine. "Treat your fellow productive, well-meaning members of Wikipedia with respect and good will." But suppose they are being counter-productive? And how to prove it? {{done|2018-02-20}} • {{done|2019-10-17}} (inc. various w/breaks, sheer laziness etc.,) but WP:Disinfoboxes made me chuckle. What about WP:Disarticles? • {{done|2020-02-02}} at 02:02 am approx. Please do not bite the regulars, which I recently managed not to do. WP:Forgive and forget? Just give up, more like.
  • Etiquette revisited: Maybe just to be read every so often, my timekeeping is atrocious.{{done|2020-04-28}}

Zen and the art of multiple choice™

A:

:a) Yes

:b) No

:c) Black

:d) White

Q:

:Is a panda?

; Zen in a nutshell

Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, carry wood, chop water.

Fave quotes from talk pages

  • "Well, according to the evidence, you're an asshole and a troll, Barry." [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Giraffedata&diff=707825001&oldid=705212530 quote] by User talk:Giraffedata
  • "Please do not have the gall to tell me to be reliable, when this website is a gargantuan void of misinformation." Talk:Panzer IV

  • "There are malicious people who would insert clearly false claims without legitimate basis, and claim that they in fact knew that Saddam Hussein was the fourth member of Busted." User talk:Redrose64
  • "Sorry, discussing should have been in quotes. In the way that a neighbor would discuss upkeep of a fence by writing in smeared fecal matter on your garage door." User talk:MB/Archive 7
  • "I'd forgotten quite why I resolved years ago, like so many, to avoid getting drawn into any talk page you were engaged in. Now you remind me." WP Talk:Manual of Style/Images
  • "The photo in user page is very ugly and against Wikipedia policy" User:Serial Number 54129
  • "PLEASE listen to me, you MUST NOT delete my edits, they are perfectly acceptable and valid, you are extremely stupid." User talk:Stepho-wrs
  • "I give up. You were right all along, and I've just been taking the piss." {{cn|date=July 2020}}
  • "I do speak English and my English perfectly very good. Maybe you guys misunderstood for what I commented." [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/83_more_navbox-based_portals&diff=893398013&oldid=893330403 Shamelessly pinched] from User:BrownHairedGirl, alas
  • "This is one of many WP articles which apparently thinks it is wrong to give a simple example of what is meant." [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Monophyly&oldid=446272732 Talk:Monophyly]
  • "There is no need to damn good research because it was done by a lamentable human being." The Bugle, March 2013 by Prioryman

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:*Nevertheless, I'm more and more tempted to start awarding the WikiPile™ to those whose esteemed efforts in this remote corner of accumulated nonsense appear to be laudable, but who—under examination—turn out to be mere {{font color|blue|WP:WikiWankers}} or even {{font color|blue|WP:WikiShits}}. You know who you are. Or were, Francis Schonken.

:::*Etiquette revisited: Maybe just to be read every so often, my timekeeping is atrocious.{{done|2020-04-28}}

=Other fave quotes=

  • Artur Nikisch to Albert Coates aged around 25, at the Leipzig Opera c.1904: "The conductor’s stick seems insufficient for your feelings, Coates. You’d better take a whip!"[https://www.naxos.com/Bio/Person/Albert_Coates/32333]
  • On a certain writer: "Useful information is not his core business." This dates from 1895:

::"The little coterie with whose labours I am about to deal has forced itself into public notice. Appealing at first to but a small section of the cognoscenti, Charles Ricketts, Charles Hazelwood Shannon, Lucien Pissarro, Reginald Savage, Sturge Moore, and others, have slowly but surely advanced. True is that the man in the street knows them not, nor does the Philistine aspire to understand them; but that is because they have not courted the glare of publicity, and have been content to discover and emend their own imperfections, to work out their own artistic salvation, unknown, save to a few. [My italics]

:::One of these "few" was 'Theocritus', a pseudonym for an unknown writer whose elaborate style demonstrates that "useful information is not his core business." Source: [https://charlesricketts.blogspot.com/2013/ Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon] by Paul van Capelleveen.
Shannon made a lithograph portrait of Savage reproduced in [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002800405f&seq=585 "The Vale Artists. IV.-Reginald Savage". The Sketch, vol. IX, 24 April 1895, p.683] (Hathi Trust). See also [https://1890s.ca/dial-review-the-sketch-apr-21-1895/], [https://1890s.ca/dial-review-the-sketch-mar-1895/] [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG45084], [https://1890s.ca/dial-review-the-sketch-mar-1895/] [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02705/John-Gray], [https://archive.org/stream/hetdrukkersjaar01unkngoog/hetdrukkersjaar01unkngoog_djvu.txt p. 112 De Herleving Der boekkunst in Engeland] re Vale artists, mentions Savage on p. 131 (in Dutch/Flemish)

List of articles wot I did do

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