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Happy Cope and Seethe Day!

Felicitations to you, old friend, on this day, the glorious first anniversary of the most excellent troll comment there has ever been. You are likely celebrating by wrenching out a fake smile and telling yourself it's going to be okay, as is the custom.

We miss you around here. Not too much has changed. The GENSEX topic area is still messy, and the Cultural Marxism pages still get hit with waves of impenetrable content disputes. Both are suffering from a lack of people ready to propose compromise article language. Cornish Bronze Age is mostly as you left it.

I hope you're enjoying your horseless, chariotless, yurtless, Wikipedialess life. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:29, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take striking Tewdar over absent Tewdar. Glad to see you around. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:41, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. 😊 Congratulations on the super mushroom power-up. I'm looking forward to the next Cope and Seethe Day celebration. Tewdar 17:11, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

eyy welcome (sort-of) back! Where can I donate to the strike fund? --Licks-rocks (talk) 21:58, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I expect somebody would interpret that as paid editing, even though I am on strike. I would ask that you instead donate to your local donkey sanctuary, but I suspect that I would then have to declare a personal or professional connection to donkeys on my userpage, and I need the space to list all my ancestors and food I like to make. I suppose I should declare a conflict of interest for all of them, too... Tewdar 16:15, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kernow

I honestly don't know how you do this, but I wanted to say meur ras. Gwikor Frank (talk) 18:33, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This place is difficult to deal with. Make sure you stick to one account, the admins here are very good at spotting people using multiple accounts. Not saying you are... just... don't be tempted. Gwari hweg yw gwari teg, hag oll... Tewdar 18:37, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What really hurts is that the other guy started with all the disruption and incivility and when I stood up for myself and for us, only I got blamed for being 'disruptive', etc., etc. It just hurts a lot. Gwikor Frank (talk) 20:44, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I can only say that I know how you feel. But I think the best way to cope around here is to try and relax, and don't get drawn into insult contests or edit wars or whatever. Personally I find this quite difficult. But there are a lot of admins here, and they will block people who they think are persistently disruptive or uncivil, and that's no good for anyone. Hopefully the upcoming RfC will bring some guidance for when it's appropriate to describe someone as Cornish, rather than something else. Oll an gwella. Tewdar 21:00, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Before I make a silly suggestion in the RfC draft discussion: will it make sense to state (as part of option 1) that preference should be given to "British" over "English" in cases when the identifier "Cornish" gets contested in indivdual cases for more than just "It must not be!"/"I don't like it!"-reasons? Or is it just plague vs. cholera? –Austronesier (talk) 21:09, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

LOL 😂 First of all thank you for your always helpful input at the RfC drafting page. I'm glad you've been following the events so far. Secondly, I'm not sure whether human populations have any significant difference in immunity, but I think my instinct is that, given a choice between ~~plague~~ British and ~~cholera~~ English, the Kernowyon would probably choose British as the lesser evil. It would be a good suggestion to prefer British, if we're really not allowed to call everyone ever born in Cornwall from the Paleolithic to the present day 'Cornish'... Tewdar 21:49, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There once was an IP that wanted to add a paragraph about Java man to Javanese_people#History 😂. But really, image that WikiProject Guatemala decided to remove "K'iche'" from the leded sentence of Rigoberta Menchú, or WikiProject Belgia was unhappy about having "Romani" in Django Reinhardt...

I do understand that remaining silent about ethnicity/nationality makes sense when there's a chauvinist tug of war between multiple parties claiming an important historcal figure as theirs, see e.g. Nicolaus Copernicus. But not when people simply don't understand the difference between a county demonym and an ethnonym.

On a completely different note, I'm sure you have seen this already. Another paper that's not about WHG according our ill-spirited friend from St. Louis.–Austronesier (talk) 20:40, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think Loveday Jenkin will be happy when she finds out that Wikipedia says she isn't Cornish anymore. I really thought I was going to make a breakthrough with the Tortured Soul last time we interacted. Somehow I doubt that the linked paper would have convinced him either, he doesn't seem very open-minded, does he? Ah well. I tried my best. Perhaps we'll see him again one day. Tewdar 20:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Anyway, in protest, I'm changing my signature colours back to old gold, admins with poor vision be damned. Tewdar 20:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Poor vision is not an admin priviledge. Looking at your unreadable signature with my eyes that have reached US senior citizen discount-age (like the rest of the carcass around them), I have to take care not to call you "Tedwar" again. –Austronesier (talk) 21:03, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh alright, I'll change it back again, just for you. An admin asked me to change it to a more readable colour once, is the reason I said that. I always think you sound rather youthful and energetic...😁 Tewdar 21:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Glad you changed it back. The protest colour reminded me of these guys. 🤢🤮 Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 21:24, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah... looks good on tartan, not so good on a signature. Tewdar 21:50, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for making personal attacks towards other editors. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Sandstein 07:28, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is in response to the personal attack you made on Pepperbeast here. It's not clear what you mean by "legacy admin", but it's clearly meant to be a term of disparagement. I'd have normally warned you first, but that would not have been helpful in your case since you write at the top of your talk page: "Do NOT post generic templated messages on this page! I won't read 'em anyway, and even if I did, I probably wouldn't give a ha'penny fuck about whatever it is you're complaining about! 😁👍". Sandstein 07:31, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think you misunderstand, and I could probably have been clearer but it was late... I was referring to an incident a few years back, when an admin suggested that Cornish exonyms was not worthy of an article because it was about specifically Cornish Exonyms. He went on and on and on even after I told thrm this was highly offensive. It was certainly not a personal attack on Pepperbeast, who isn't an admin and with whom I have no problem whatsoever. I did not know that the term 'legacy admin' was considered off-limits around here, but you are certainly correct that it was being used as a term of disparagement. Tewdar 08:21, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ping Sandstein Tewdar 08:28, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]