:Obviously is. But no activity on that IP since April, so I don’t see a reason to block that one now. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks#top|talk]]) 05:31, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
:Obviously is. But no activity on that IP since April, so I don’t see a reason to block that one now. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks#top|talk]]) 05:31, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
::@DMacks, this user has been going around trolling admins (here and on meta) to do nonsense things like this for them. They’re also socking: the reports I’ve investigated have turned out to be one user making disruptive edits, logging out and generating a new TA, then reporting their own disruptive editing. I have blocked them as well as I can but please feel free to ping me or another checkuser if you get more requests like this. Cheers. [[User:Ivanvector|Ivanvector]] (<sup>[[User talk:Ivanvector|Talk]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Ivanvector|Edits]]</sub>) 13:21, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
== What Compels You? ==
== What Compels You? ==
I want to include a synthetic reaction that is known as Clar’s reaction. It is of a certain class of cyclic ketones that condense with themselves when heated to 400 C in a mixture of zinc dust and zinc chloride.
I will add references and a description of what it is used for in synthesizing new polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
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MediaWiki message delivery 18:55, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
is probably a block evading IP of User:Jiwood23… look at contribs – WP:ENGVAR trolling – Uw-ipevadeblock for 6 months – it should look like this:
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. - If this is a shared IP address and you are an uninvolved editor with a registered account, you may continue to edit by logging in.
or to remove tpa use
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. Thanks. ~2025-38650-35 (talk) 23:59, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
- Obviously is. But no activity on that IP since April, so I don’t see a reason to block that one now. DMacks (talk) 05:31, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
- @DMacks, this user has been going around trolling admins (here and on meta) to do nonsense things like this for them. They’re also socking: the reports I’ve investigated have turned out to be one user making disruptive edits, logging out and generating a new TA, then reporting their own disruptive editing. I have blocked them as well as I can but please feel free to ping me or another checkuser if you get more requests like this. Cheers. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:21, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
Hello DMacks, this is ~2025-38896-51. I understand why you removed my edit on the page for Calico, as it was an obviously political statement. But it was also obviously true. Calico is just one of many large corporate biotech companies funded by billionaires and with the obvious goal of extending the lives of the wealthy. If they were interested in improving the health and extending the lifespan of the majority of people, we do not yet even need to come up with newfangled technology, as the causes of illness and premature death for most are well understood issues with extant solutions prevented by global political and economic structures. So what drove you to depoliticize the article in such a manner that covers the obvious intent of this research. What is your interest in presenting this information in inaccurate neutral terminology?
“”Num conscientia daemonica corporata in carne intra cranium tuum an in crumena tua habitat?”
– 38896-51
- WP:NPOV and WP:V are policies that require all statements, and especially opinions or analyses, to be supported by citing a reliable source. DMacks (talk) 00:12, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
You’re right that that use of “light-water” was a compound adjective, and should indeed be hyphenated. I came back just a few minutes later to fix my mistake, and you had already reverted it! Wikipedia is incredible. ~2025-32080-25 (talk) 01:08, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- Cheers! Welcome aboard. DMacks (talk) 02:53, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 17:42, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators’ noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Harold Foppele (talk) 19:00, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
