User talk:Drmies

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Chuck Entz (talk) 03:24, 7 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi ! We customarily head this as "Determiner", so for consistency's sake I have reverted your edit Leasnam (talk) 21:56, 9 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

• Hmm. Thanks for the note. But this confuses category and function. Drmies (talk) 21:57, 9 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
  • Right or wrong, it's the way everything is set up. You may notice the category at the bottom, Category:English determiners. That is put there by {{en-det}}, which is designed specifically to be put under a "Determiner" header. Everything at Wiktionary is tied into an infrastructure of templates, modules and categories, so changing only one thing just makes it clash with the rest of the entry, and with all the similar entries. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:36, 10 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Drmies: Hi Drmies, I'm writing you here because I've seen this is one the main wikis where you edit and because here you're confirmed by password. I think I've found a few proxies used recently by a single user who hides behind them to make similar unconstructive edits in different pages, and a few socks used to do the same kind of edits created recently. If I write here the suspicious proxies IP ranges, will you be able to block them (as they're forbidden on Wikipedia) and do the same with the socks created over such ranges (as they weren't created for reasons according to community standards)? Let me know, please, I'd like to be helpful to the project by reporting vandals in bad faith who use proxies and socks such as this one! 54.196.7.36 09:30, 3 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

• Not here. Drmies (talk) 15:42, 3 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Drmies: Ok. Where? Thanks! 54.92.150.68 18:01, 6 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

• On en-wiki, of course. Yes I know your range is blocked: be like the legitimate ones, sign in with your account, and get IPBE. I'm not going to respond here anymore, thanks. Drmies (talk) 19:30, 6 July 2018 (UTC)Reply