User talk:Samboy

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Apology[edit]

Samboy I apologize for my wording at the Biden Talk page. I was operating from frustration and have no real excuse. I will update my entry. I am not always the best with wording, so it might take me a bit, but I wanted to get this out here first. Regards. --Davemoth (talk) 20:57, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the apology. It shows a strong character and a good person to do that, and you have earned my respect. If I have offended you in any way personally, I apologize too. I look forward to your continued contributions to the Wikipedia. Samboy (talk) 12:04, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

3o[edit]

I don't know if it applies or not, but I've tried to file for a third opinion regarding the wording of Marvin Minsky's window's claim, per wp:3o:

It is recommended that the filing editor notifies the second editor about the post here. If the second editor disagrees with this process, the first editor still has the right to receive a third opinion; however, since this is non-binding, the second editor is free to ignore the third opinion if they wish to.

I field the issue as 'Disagreement over the use of the term "all of the visits to Epstein's residences".' Regards, Rolf H Nelson (talk) 22:26, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I see the third opinion request was denied. While consensus can change, it hasn’t for the Marvin Minsky article. I don’t think consensus will change unless new information comes out, which is unlikely since Minsky passed away several years ago.

On a personal level, while I feel #MeToo has been a much needed counterbalance to the Free love movement started in the 1960s, it has also become in some ways a witch hunt. People tend to believe lurid stories of sex without looking at the evidence; see, for example the Duke lacrosse case or how many people believed the A Rape on Campus story, so I am very careful when it comes to allegations of sexual misconduct. Samboy (talk) 19:36, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Fantasque Sans Mono for deletion[edit]

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Fantasque Sans Mono is a beautiful open source font, no one is making money from the font, and it in no ways harms the Wikipedia to have a short article about something like this. It’s unfortunate rampant deletionism took over the Wikipedia; the Clarice Phelps affair shows how bad it has gotten. Samboy (talk) 22:12, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Luculent for deletion[edit]

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See my comments about Fantasque Sans above. Here’s the webpage for Luculent: http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/ Samboy (talk) 22:14, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have made a GitHub mirror of this font: https://github.com/samboy/Luculent-Font Samboy (talk) 22:47, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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ARP 2600[edit]

Hello Samboy, I’d like to add Mary McCarty Snow to the user list in the ARP 2600 article, but I can’t figure out how to add the footnote. She composed with the ARP 2600 and actually wrote a book about it:

Snow, Mary (1977-01-01). The waveform music book: Composing, teaching, performing electronic music with the Arp 2600 synthesizer. Lariken Press.

Could you explain how to add the footnote, or point me towards instructions? Thanks. T. E. Meeks (talk) 21:55, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a reference backing up their use of the 2600? information on the Wikipedia should always be referenced. Samboy (talk) 00:02, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

SPI FYI[edit]

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/5n4nek4 --JBL (talk) 23:21, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it looks like they finally filed an unblock request. A blank one, mind you, but they filed one. We’ll just have to block their IP range from making new accounts for a while and block any other sock puppets they make. Samboy (talk) 13:49, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

9LX - niiiiiiiiiiiice[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fischer_random_chess&type=revision&diff=1096055682&oldid=1094171847 Thewriter006 (talk) 18:56, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks![edit]

—for taking BLP seriously. Cheers, Ovinus (talk) 17:00, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Greg Bear[edit]

Thanks for your recent work on the article. If you have a moment, Astrid Bear's Facebook page is filling up with heartfelt tributes from those who knew him and have stories to share. --Pete (talk) 21:07, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I have done so. Samboy (talk) 12:59, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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