User talk:JMGN

Talk pages

Hi, I see that you've been writing comments on the talk pages of entries. Notice that most people won't bother to look there. If you have any questions or concerns about any particular entry, you can bring them to people's attention at WT:Tea Room. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 22:43, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: O.k., thanks.--Backinstadiums (talk) 23:33, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

No problem! — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 23:37, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

I usually take a look when I see there's something on it :) I mean when I'm interested in the entry. But they are probably right that many people don't. Kolmiel (talk) 20:27, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Babel box

Please correct the information in the Babel box on your user page. It's nice to know what someone's native language, what level of English they are capable of, and what level of proficiency they may have in other languages (and scripts, BTW). DCDuring (talk) 17:34, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

@DCDuring: Could you add Spanish as my native language please? --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:55, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done, please see this edit. Per utramque cavernam 21:15, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

• Incidentally, you've been active recently in discussions about Japanese and Chinese terms. It would be helpful if you could update your Babel box with your best guess at your current proficiency levels for these languages. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 20:30, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Plural verb with collective noun (series, etc)

Hi, you have posted many times on the Tea Room about the use of plural verbs with collective nouns, but then you never bother to look at the replies, and you just carry on generating more and more. In the August tea room, I replied on "series" and on "is/are a wide variety of patterns". 81.141.8.61

I do not know why nobody @81.141.8.61 or @81.141.8.61: --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:27, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Well, I get a different IP address every time I log on. My replies on the August tea room page to your two questions were by 81.141.8.25

• I think I missed the Tea Room thread, but in response to the above example noun phrase "a wide variety of patterns", I would have to say that style guides advocate for use of the singular for the verb, since the main noun here is the singular "variety". Same as "a group of many different cars" -- the main noun is the singular "group".

HTH, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 15:54, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

SUC, I got the email you sent me

Hi SUC. I got the email you sent me a few days ago but I'm afraid I won't open it or to go to mega.nz to look at the "Oxford English Dictionary" you sent me. Following email links is not something I typically do. Even if it were a PDF, I wouldn't, since who knows what's embedded in it. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 15:25, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz, this might be important for you to note. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 15:29, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

@Dentonius: what does SUC stand for?--Backinstadiums (talk) 16:03, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, mistaken identity ;-) I thought you were someone else. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 16:35, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

@Dentonius:why did you pinged Chuck Entz? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:40, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

I suspect it's malware. If you didn't send it intentionally, you might want to get your computer checked. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 16:42, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

you sound way too wary to be even a baby boomer... --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:47, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

I feel ya

Thanks for the thanks re. my now-deleted post. Putting up with egocentric, ill-tempered, socially-challenged bullies is part of the territory in environments that maintain users' anonymity. I don't mind his occasionally ridiculous arguments, but I'll be squarely in your corner if he posts any more ridiculously pugilistic outbursts. And he's been known to troll certain users, so don't let him bait you into to stooping to his level. I hope he's suffering just a mild case of BPD rather than something more serious. After reading The Professor and the Madman I sure wouldn't agree to having a beer with him. (Like he might even take time away from here for something like that? Ha!) Cheers. --Kent Dominic (talk) 12:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for help on en page Dinner

I found a copy of the work. https://canipa.net/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=en:chinese_pronunciation_c.pdf But the work itself costs a ton. ADDSamuels (talk) 07:23, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

@ADDSamuels: SSL is not enabled. JMGN (talk) 18:18, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Username: ‪Backinstadiums‬, IP address: 77.225.203.134, Block ID: 211431

This blocked user is asking that their block be reviewed:

JMGN (block log • active blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • user creation log • change block settings • unblock)

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Request reason:

Fallacious: no copyright infringement, no "crap" nonsense added, no disruptive behavior

Username: ‪Backinstadiums‬, IP address: 77.225.203.134, Block ID: 211431 --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:59, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

how should I proceed? --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:44, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Replies

Hi,

Did you see the replies I wrote? They would be here: [1]. I'll try to go through more, but there's a tradeoff between thoroughness and speed of answering. 70.172.194.25 18:42, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@70.172.194.25 d'you see mine? Let's do it for sure Backinstadiums (talk) 19:14, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

I did. 70.172.194.25 19:32, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@70.172.194.25 'Rona get you? ♡♡

user name

Entirely optional but if you are going to start signing "JMGN" then maybe you should match your name to the signing. Otherwise it's quite confusing to everybody. Equinox ◑ 09:35, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

I can't chane my profile name, can I? JMGN (talk) 09:49, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

[2] Equinox ◑ 09:51, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Wiktionary Police Force (I'm sorry if I caused any hard feelings!)

I support people using names that are not the actual username. The function exists because this website was made in an age when that kind of change was considered no problem. That era still exists, as far as I am concerned. You may even call yourself "NotBackinstadiums". And I would encourage you to use whatever signature you want to (within the scope of the rules and policies of WMF). diff. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 22:24, 16 June 2023 (UTC) (Modified)

Oh, have you changed from signing as "Backinstadiums"? I was just about to ask what a "Backinstadium" was! It feels a bit like a cryptic clue: e.g. a reference to arenina — whatever that might be. But I might be overthinking it. FWIW, I quite liked the quirkiness of it. —DIV (49.186.112.234 06:53, 6 December 2023 (UTC))

I misinterpreted the lyrics of a song https://genius.com/162542 JMGN (talk) 09:37, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Fair enough: "back in stadiums" would have made sense too :-) —DIV (49.186.112.234 01:32, 7 December 2023 (UTC))

desolate

Please stop this silly edit warring. Howling is NOT a synonym of desolate. I grant you that 'howling wilderness' is a plausible example, but there are NO OTHER WORDS modified by howling that I can find, for which you can convincingly substitute desolate. That is NOT the behaviour of a synonym. Kiwima (talk) 20:06, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

I see. Then, shouldn't it be howling wilderness? Best I can offer is OED: http://web.archive.org/web/20200712182036/https://www.oed.com/oed2/00108760 JMGN (talk) 20:13, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Don't know

This phrase has two pronunciations. The noun has the stress on the first word. Kiwima (talk) 19:26, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

@Kiwima: According to the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, its late-stressed : ˌdon’t ˈknows. JMGN (talk) 19:56, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Tea Room Mention

I've mentioned you in the tea room. Please take a look. [Languagelover3000 (talk)] 23:02, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

@Languagelover3000 It's no use, so delete it. Equinox is still prowling around. JMGN (talk) 23:08, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Why does @Equinox's "prowling around" mean that the topic I put in the tea room about you is no use? [Languagelover3000 (talk)] 23:16, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

edit at toast

What is this edit about? It's the second time you've pasted that into the middle of the definition, breaking it across two lines. (I also don't think "give" and "toast" are synonyms. Several dictionaries (e.g. Collins, 18) have "give" meaning "propose as a toast", but only in the set phrase "I give you..." - the object of the verb is the party who should toast, not the person being toasted. You can't say "The party gave the bride and groom".) Smurrayinchester (talk) 05:38, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

SPAM

This blocked user is asking that their block be reviewed:

JMGN (block log • active blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • user creation log • change block settings • unblock)

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What is all this animosity and hostility about? It's the third block in the last week. What spam am I responsible for in the Community portal in the last 72 hours? JMGN (talk) 17:51, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

You have been blocked from English mainspace and talk pages and you have immediately started posting all the same problematic stuff on individual users' talk pages. 2A00:23C5:FE1C:3701:F454:281E:B709:3B07 21:38, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

One single example? JMGN (talk) 21:52, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Yep. I have reluctantly escalated this to a total block (for clarity: after the user's initial post above, which was referring to an earlier extension of the partial block by two other admins), for reasons which are partly covered on my talk page here, though anyone wanting a full picture should peruse the many discussions the user started and the responses to them, including this BP discussion. - -sche (discuss) 22:05, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Go: compare

@Voltaigne

GO: to compare with other people or things of the same kind

As vacations abroad go, it was the best I've ever had''.

Othwerwise, as smething goes https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20%28someone%20or%20something%29%20goes JMGN (talk) 08:29, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

compare (verb, sense 4): "(intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative)." Go doesn't mean this, and can't be substituted sensically for compare in the usage example and quote which exemplify that sense. The usage example you provide ("As vacations abroad go, it was the best I've ever had") doesn't correspond to this sense. Voltaigne (talk) 09:18, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

@Voltaigne So what intransive verb do you use to paraphrase it? Rank? The notion of comparison seems to be inherent to the expression...

As vacations abroad _____, it was the best I've ever had

JMGN (talk) 09:30, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

I will not dignify that ignoble comment with a response.

@Deacon Vorbis: Otherwise, if it's an normal, appropriate comment, why not dignify it with a corresponding response?

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=dignify&oldid=prev&diff=86562518 JMGN (talk) 16:28, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Likes her cappuccino, Mary does.

@Deacon Vorbis

A bit rude of you to state that Brits talk Yodaspeak...

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=do&oldid=prev&diff=87230161 JMGN (talk) 20:44, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Stop pinging me from your talk page. Deacon Vorbis (talk) 21:03, 28 September 2025 (UTC)