Error -128

Anon vandalism reverts

Please refrain from blindly reverting all edits from anonymous I.P. addresses who are vandalizing, often they are shared by many users. Your overly ambitious revert of Image:Aprilmayjune2.png has been undone by another respected editor, user:JIP. Thank you. 64.230.84.159 (talk) 01:34, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Excellent; my eagerly-awaited welcome greeting! Ah—maybe not. Oh well...

Thanks anyway for your message, which I've noted. Please allow me to explain, however, why I don't agree with your interpretation of events.

Before undoing your edit, I made a few preliminary checks on your claims about the Disney nieces; namely "They do not normally wear gloves, and the green one is usually yellow" (emphasis added).

Firstly, I carried out a general image search; this served only to demonstrate that, while there are a few color variations, there is little around to support your contention. The image on the Danish site Weird Space, for example, shows the absence of gloves and the use of yellow in place of green—although this does not in itself suggest any kind of convention.

I also looked at the April, May and June Duck article, together with its cited sources (which were broken, but should now be fixed). They gave the following information:

Like the Nephews, April, May & June usually wear the colors "Red," "Blue" and "Green," but unlike them, a color assignment has never been established. The girls also frequently wear "Yellow," "Purple" and "Orange." However, one might consider "blue" to be April's color since that was the color she wore when she appeared solo in "Dell Giant" #35.

From this, I felt that the statement in your edit was misleading, removed it, and left a polite message on your talk page to notify you.

In view of the above, I'm somewhat surprised by your assertions that I was "blindly reverting all edits" and acting in an "overly ambitious" manner, comments that suggest a certain lack of good faith—and which might even be construed (by some) as a form of personal attack. Please calm down on this score, and be assured there's nothing personal about it. I generally try to consider the implications of every edit I make, and this was no exception. (Feel free to check my contribution history.) You may also like to note that, in spite of several questionable edits from 64.230.84.159 in the space of just a few hours, I refrained from ramping-up the level of the warning each time, thus avoiding any final warnings or threats of blocking.

Of course, I make mistakes, and will happily rectify them as they are identified. But the fact that another editor has since reverted me is neither an indication of consensus, nor a vindication of your claims. Sorry, but my original opinion in this case remains unchanged.

If you wish to avoid the reversion of your own edits in future, please consider:

• avoiding original research
• maintaining a neutral point of view
• checking your facts
• submitting only verifiable information
• citing your sources
• including an accurate edit summary to help other editors

Finally, if you still believe that your edits could be unfairly judged or penalised because they are made from a shared IP address, you might consider creating an account for yourself, so that you can personally build trust and respect through an individual history of reliable edits.

I apologise for not being able to respond earlier today, due to personal commitments elsewhere. However, I hope this adequately conveys my own position in the matter, and wish you well in your future edits. --Error -128 (talk) 20:04, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Welcome

I forget how I got on your talk page but I saw you said nobody gave you a welcome greeting. That's no fair. I got one on my third day. I don't know how to give you one of those big ones like I got but WELCOME TO WIKIPEDIA! (cheer cheer). I hope you like it here. Teenly (talk) 19:00, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Teenly. Sorry for not responding sooner, but I'm often away for some time, so I didn't catch your note until a few moments ago. I know just what you mean about the mysterious, seemingly random processes that cause us to land on a particular Wikipedia article or talk page. (I can rarely figure out how or why I end up editing a certain page.)

Thank you for your charming welcome. To be honest, after some nine months of rather sparse and inconspicuous editing, I wasn't really expecting one. Nevertheless, your message brightened up my day considerably—and is very much appreciated. I see that you registered quite recently, so I hope that you enjoy yourself here as much as I do. Your nifty edits to the Nonchord tone article interested me; are you a musician?

Thanks again for the greeting—and if you ever feel that I might be able to help you in any way, please don't hesitate to give me shout. :-) Error -128 (talk) 02:02, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi Error -128. Thank you for your note, and thank you for saying I may ask you for help. I will ask if I really don't understand something, but I think I learn things better if I work them out by myself. I have been trying to learn by snooping around to find out what other people do on Wikipedia. Some of them are very angry. I wonder why they come here if it just makes them angry.

I practice the piano a lot and I try to know about theory and history. I hope I can make a recording some day for one of the articles about composers. If I do you will be able to hear me play. I think that is the only way I can tell you whether I am really a musician or just somebody that thumps on a piano! Teenly (talk) 20:25, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi!

So... I happened by your page, and it looks to me like your contributions have gone unappreciated for a while.

Sophus Bie ^(talk) has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!

Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Sophus Bie ^(talk) 11:03, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Teenly

Wikipedia can be an impersonal enterprise at times, but there is a living being behing every pseudonymous Wikipedian. I do not know whether the passing of a human being whose path once crossed yours in a small way is a matter of concern to you; but in case it is, I am bringing THIS to your attention because you once made her happy, and for that I thank you. Fenneck (talk) 21:06, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

My response appears here. Error -128 (talk) 15:06, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello Error -128. Thank you for your kind words. Although I have no desire to be impartial where Teenly is concerned, it is reassuring that your perceptions of her as an inspiring and special human being are so very close to my own. Her pain-filled life made her deeply empathetic to the hurts of others, and her remarkable gifts enabled her to express her inner nature as few children can. Teenly's welcome to you was among her earliest edits. She must have sensed the pathos in your "Excellent; my eagerly-awaited welcome greeting!" and wanted to cheer you up. She was delighted to think she had brightened up your day, then deeply concerned when you did not edit for a long time, then happy again to see you had returned after her crisis at the end of last year.

I am sure Teenly would have loved "Oh Tiny Star", and the way you imitated her signature in the title. (You are right, she was proud of her signature, and I think it is as pretty and elegant as any I have seen.) She loved poetry, and wrote some very touching poems of which I have taken possession, although I do not yet have the strength of heart to look at them. Her favourite book of verse was "A Shropshire Lad", and her favourite poem was "Loveliest of Trees", which always made her cry. Wondering why such a poem would make a little girl cry, I asked what she thought it meant. Her answer was, "You love things because they are not for always". Now that she is gone from the woodlands in only her seventh spring, I see perfectly well what made her cry. (It is difficult to read the poem now without thinking that she passed away at Eastertide.) She was deeply conscious of her own mortality, and when in her last note to "Fenneck" she said she played Liszt's Funerailles before she went to the hospital, I knew in my heart she was not coming back.

It is very quiet here. We who loved Teenly can hardly speak of her, yet we have no desire to speak of anything else. She brought meaning to many lives, and despite the ache of losing her we are all very much the richer for what she left with us. People say that love is blind, and in some ways that may be true; but in the deepest and most meaningful sense the eyes of love are the only eyes that see anything worth seeing.

Teenly was very gifted at many things, and it appears that not the least of her gifts was for finding the friends she deserved. It is said that whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. I do not know whether Teenly was familiar with the scripture, but she was living proof of the principle. Once again, I thank you. Fenneck (talk) 14:30, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you again, Fenneck, for giving me yet further insight into Teenly's extraordinary character. (My full response appears on Fenneck's talk page.) Error -128 (talk) 21:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

The new barnstar makes a lovely accent on what has become a very touching memorial page. For me, hearing her praised satisfies a certain thirst of the spirit, but I know she would not have understood the reason for it at all. She said of her music that it happened by itself "like when it rains, not on purpose". What Thalo calls "the simple, innocent goodness of her little heart" was just like that. Fenneck (talk) 17:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

You're right, of course, Fenneck. (more...) Error -128 (talk) 18:29, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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