User talk:Soap/Archive 20

Although I am very busy outside Wikipedia lately, I still read Wikipedia frequently and will be able to find and reply to messages left for me fairly quickly.

I am not feeling well so will not be very active for a while.

Accomplishments

This user is POTY trained.

Yeah, that's about it.

Weather and climate

Mostly putting this here for my own use .... User:Soap/climate

Record low of -9F at Anaktuvuk_Pass,_Alaska#Climate on 9/26/2021 but it may be a different station.

it would seem that AAAAAAAALL weatherboxes for locations in MEEEEEEIXICO have the "maxima mensual" and "minimal mensual" params wrongly translated and thus need tgo be relableed or deleted.

Poem

See /poems.

Placenames

Native American placenames with Latinate appearance

I have no single must-have trait to put a name on this list; it's all subjective. Most are places near where I live. A final vowel plus /-s/ can change the sound of the whole name, but this can be undone by other traits. For example, Aziscohos does not sound particularly Latin or even Greek.

I live in New England, so I am much more familiar with local placenames, including relatively obscure ones such as Agamenticus, than I am with placenames further afield. Some of the names on this list are towns, rivers, or other landforms I found while looking through paper road atlases as a young child. However, I also looked at other states, so I think that the phenomenon is real, not just my local bias, and that the original colonists of New England and the Canadian maritimes maintained a preference for Latinate names even where the original Native American names did not always suggest such respellings.

Northeast US and eastern Canada

• Matapedia
• Cascapedia
• Mystic: surprise!!
• Scituate
• Passumpsic
• Presumpscot
• Kancamagus
• Sokokis
• Agamenticus
• Coös
• Hyannis
• Mégantic
• Saratoga
• Capisic
• Secaucus
• Sabattus
• Piscataqua and Piscataquis
• Matinicus
• Meductic
• Taconic ~ Ticonic
• Ripogenus
• Schoodic
• Ecum Secum
• Monocacy
• Nonantum
• Seneca, NY (probably)
• Quantico
• Natick

Lesser-known placenames

• Mattamiscontis
• Molunkus

Everywhere else

• Attapulgus, GA
• Opelousas, LA
• Tampa, FL
• Pensacola, FL
• Osceola, a Seminole name that also turns up in New Hampshire
• Tunica, Mississippi (probably)
• Lenexa, Kansas
• Saponi
• Squalicum / Qualicum (related or not?)
• Pecatonica, IL

For more, and for their meanings, see here. Cascapedia and Matapedia are not yet on that list. It may be that there are more placenames like this in the southeastern United States and that I simply don't know about them because I haven't lived there. It's perhaps worth noting that I recognize more such names in the southeast than, for example, in the Midwest or the West, suggesting perhaps that Muskogean languages are superficially similar in sound to Algonquian languages even though they are not known to be related. A relation has in fact been proposed (see Gulf languages because the idea doesnt have a page of its own), though I think it's unlikely, as Algonquian languages seem to have arrived from the west, and Muskogean languages seem to have links in Mexico and the Caribbean.

I grew up thinking that Tampa was a Greek plural.

It would amuse me if Mooselookmeguntic, which means "moose feeding place", was cognate to Lac Mégantic, which describes abundant fish.

Non-placenames

The name Metallak may be the source of the apparent Native American surname Metallic (as borne by the scholar Janine Metallic).

Edge cases

Edge cases

• Schenectady, Saratoga, Ticonderoga, Conestoga .... none of these have Latinate endings, so I dont really think they belong on the list, but in a sense they continue the same familiar prosody found in New England. Conestoga was once spelled Quanestaqua.
• Canobie, only here because someone mistook it for "canopy"
• Machias for spelling only, because the sound of the ch is in fact tʃ.
• Osseo, an Ojibwe name in Minnesota which means bony in Italian (but not anything in Latin or Greek).
• Sysladobsis, off the main list only due to use of b where Latin and Greek would both use p. Possibly a localism since this is Penobscot territory.
• Androscoggin, since I dont think ndr is a native Algonquian cluster, and in fact Algonquian names typically don't even have r. But I could be wrong.
• Nantucket was at least once spelled Nautican, but if it was just once I don't want to put it on the main list, and it might even be a misreading of Nantican.

Another analysis

Instead of saying that names like Pensacola are Latinlike, I could say that they're Algonquinlike, and that the northeastern USA may have influenced the later-settled areas of the country (Florida, the West, and to some extent also the South). This would allow me to expand the list. But I'll hold off for now.

ough in Native American place names

• Youghiogheny
• Ramapough (but cf Ramapo university)
• Poughkeepsie, New York ... i wonder if there's a reason why they seem to be confined to the northern Appalachians.
• Quiyoughcohannock was in eastern Virginia, but may be from an older stage of the language ... there is no modern place with this name. I found the tribe name spelled Quiocohànoes in a document of 1801 written (or at least edited) by Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps by 1800 the ough spelling was already in retreat, or maybe TJ, being fluent in many languages, did his best to override the ough trend with a more phonetic spelling.
• Toughkenamon

There was also Nandtaughtacund. Interestingly enough, Hyannis above seems to be named after someone called Iyannough, which suggests there may have been an -ough stage in early colonial New England that got covered by a later trend of Latin-like names. Saratoga was once spelled Sarraghtoga.

Waughpaughkonnetta

Other lookalikes

Japanese

• Toiyabe not from an early Japanese settler.
• Temagami
• Pokegama, MN also sounds Japanese, although I know now that Pokemon is not really a Japanese word. There is also a Pokagon. Both names are Algonquian and might be related.
• See also some placenames in the southeast. Muskogean languages seem to straddle the line between the Latin-like names of New England and the Japanese-like names of other areas (mostly in the West). This gave me an idea for how it would look if Japanese names had been spelled according to how we handle Native American placenames. Imagine Noggasaukee and Sarporough?

(Regarding the /r/ in the above word: there was an early layer of nonrhotic pronunciations in colonial America; see words such as sagamore. Many nonrhotic speakers lived in the southern states too though I dont have examples at hand; see older Southern American English. Possibly still hints of nonrhotic speech in Mississippi in the 1940s here.)

Polish

• Nistowiak Falls
• Winooski

Vulgar-sounding names

There is a cluster of vulgar-sounding names like Big Assawoman Bay (and yes, it's pronounced like that), Cuttawoman (possibly the same as Cuttatawoman), and the now-lost Pissasec around the Chesapeake Bay, particularly in what is now Virginia. Pissasee might be a misreading of Pissasec rather than a separate form of the tribal name.

Big Butt Mountain, NC

Meanwhile in Canada, the placename Nipissing has no particular reason to have a double -ss-, and I'd have chosen a spelling like Nippasing instead to make it clearer that the word is accented on the first syllable. Actually, it occurred to me it might be a French spelling convention, as Lake Nipissing is fairly close to Quebec and French speakers have for a long time lived outside Quebec as well. Offhand I don't know of any other placenames with the substring -piss-. I tried searching once, and it turned up nothing, but I suspect the search tool wasn't coded to look for substrings and was therefore useless to me (I tried some other strings for comparison and they also mostly came up empty). Even so, the placenames where one might expect to see a double s in this position always seem to use single S, like the above Capisic.

By contrast, the tribal name once spelled Cowass was soon respelled to Coös (listed above).

Capisic was apparently once spelled Capissick.

Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England

23:41, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Reading this book...

• There are many very long names. Long even by Algonquian standards. I can't be absolutely certain the names in the book are entirely accurate, as there are some odd spellings, like Xsebem. Mooselookmeguntic Lake is listed as the slightly funnier MooseTOOKmeguntic alongside a few spellings with L, but not as the modern Mooselookmeguntic, which leads me to wonder if the T spelling is a mistake.

• There are some entries with a question mark, like moxie, which might mean that the author isnt sure they come from Algonquian. Another is Pentacost (sic) which could be either an interesting coincidence or an actual use of the English word Pentecost.

Maine

• Seeboycook, possibly a doublet of Sebago ... meaning that it's the same Algonquian word, but not the same lake. Whether or not it's a doublet of Sebago, it seems the present-day name is Sebec.
• Spurwink is apparently a Native American name, according to this book.
• Elandamookganopskitschwak Falls

Interestingly, there is no Waban. Perhaps that was never a placename and was only recently revived as a name in modern times.

New Hampshire

• Apparently, Androscoggin was once Ameriscoggin.
• There was a tribal chief named Mahomet.
• Quoquinnapasskessanahnog and Quoqunnapassackessanahhoy
• Lake Winnepesaukee has had at least 132 attested spellings (maybe more since the book was only written in 1909).

Vermont

• Ticklenaked Pond

Massachusetts

• This book doesnt assert that Nantucket and Nantican are the same island.
• Evidently, Martha's Vineyard was once simply called Nope
• The author breaks up the Lake Webster name Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg into Chargoggagogmanchogagog and Chaubunagungamaug, giving them the same meaning.

Named after other Native American placenames?

Some placenames seem to recur. Often a name is found in New England and reappears further west. Some of these, such as Osceola, are likely what they appear to be .... an newer interior settlement named after an older one near the east coast. But coincidences also happen, and some adopted placenames may be smoothed out into a more familiar shape.

Piscataway, New Jersey, though clearly within Algonquian territory, may in fact be named for a river forming the border between New Hampshire and Maine.

Shakopee ~ Sacopee ~ Chicopee (several locations) ... at least two independent roots, possibly three or more.

The Miami of Indiana are linguistically unrelated to Miami, FL.

At least two unrelated Jamaicas (the island and Jamaica, Queens); see Jamaica (disambiguation) for more possibilities.

Kennebec could go either way ... according to this book, the name was chosen by Milwaukee Railroad officials, but this doesnt rule out its having come from the placename in Maine.

Other common elements

Annieopsquotch, the world's largest playground. The /psk(Vt)/ sequence also occurs in Swampscott, Presumpscot, and possibly Passumpsic. But it is not necessarily from the same Native American root word in all these names. The last three all have an /m/ before the consonant sequence, as well.

Magog

An honorable mention for Magog, Quebec, because I grew up thinking it was the actual placename referred to in the Bible as Magog, and didn't even consider that the Bible may have influenced the name of the Quebec town until early adulthood. This is, nonetheless, a legitimate Native American placename, and the full version of the name is still seen: Memphrémagog. Indeed, I suspect I didn't realize the truth about the name until I saw the full version of it on a road sign or perhaps a map.

Popinac

For a change in the other direction, the popinac plant gets its name from Greek opopanax, but sounds to me more like a loan from Nahuatl or perhaps an eastern North American language.

Old World placenames of New World origin

I had a list for these but I found so few that I think I moved it to a subpage and forgot about it. Most of these are small villages or landforms.

• Florida in Norway, assuming it is named after the US state (which I find likely, but not certain)
• Kalifornien, Germany
• Mexico, Pampanga, Philippines.cthere is also an Alaska
• New York, Ukraine. I think this is the standout example since it's a town rather than a location within a town, and is called "New York" rather than being half-translated.
• America, Netherlands.

Edge cases

• There's an Arizona market in Brčko District, Bosnia. American troops may have provided the name during NATO's intervention.
• Boston (Hasidic dynasty)

There was a Nazi war camp in WW2 named Kanada though I'm not sure this is really in the same category as the rest.

Facts about biology

I read more about biology on Wikipedia than any other science, but I've never worked in the field or even undertaken formal study. I actually know much more about meteorology than biology, but for a reason that's hard to explain, I find weather stressful. Other sciences, like astronomy and biology, are "always new" and can relieve stress for me just by me reading about them.

I ❤️ horizontal gene transfer

Entognatha is the wingless, callow arthropod clade.

fish

Fish have a minimum eye size. Compare paedocypris with taimen. copy-paste is disabled so look for 1987 fine armatus... date 01:39, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Sea shells made of limestone evolved several times ... for example, once as seashells proper and once as foraminifera.

Although tadpoles carry many parasites, lake trout and other tadpolophagous fish seem largely unaffected.

Enteroxenos is the parasitic snail that is "little more than a string of gonads".

male rotifers have no anus, and also no mouth. females of some species do eat but still have no anus.

what do the quote marks around "Nematophyta" mean?

Humans as parasites

Humans are the world's only lactoparasite, but other animals eat the eggs of different species. Humans are in many ways like traditional parasites (loss of unneeded body parts and abilities), ...

fill this in later

...and in many ways like nothing else in nature:

Only animal where female SSC is larger than male?

insect incest: Dicopomorpha echmepterygis males mate with their sisters inside their eggs, and are never actually born. its possible their chromosomes are different from ours in such a way that this does not cause massive genetic losses.

Retrograde adulthood

Tantulocarida is the crustacean that reproduces by budding, perhaps the only crustacean or even the only arthropod to do so. It is also the only animal in the world in which the larva form is larger than the adult. (The reason why the smaller stage is called the adult is because it is the sexually reproducing stage. It appears that the male "adults" are little more than packets of sperm cells, and they do not even eat.)

Four chordates. Upper right is an "animal" that cannot move and has no brain or body symmetry, but is closely related to vertebrates. See also commons:User:Soap/animal gallery for what happens when the tiger gets tired of posing for photos.

Yet, the less celebrated tunicates also reproduce by budding, and because they are part of the clade that gave rise to vertebrates, this could be seen as even more remarkable than Tantulocarida. In fact, both species have oddly out-of-place "adults" .... with the tunicates, the adults are much larger than the children, but are sessile and grossly non-animallike, to the point of not even being symmetrical despite being long-established members of Bilateria. it seems that this is because they've lost their segmentation.

Also the paradoxical tadpoles, pseudis & lysapsus, have larger larva than adults.

Other biology ideas

I believe humans are megafauna. Not by weight but by body plan .... we are essentially gorillas, of above average height, who have lost most of our muscle mass through evolution towards holding weapons. This is similar to the evolution of parasites towards a very thin body form, as they lose the muscles and other organs they no longer need as they evolve towards reliance on the other. I've also compared humans to fairies, as we are much more delicate and easily injured than other apes, and also lacking in natural bodily weapons, yet as if by magic we have become much more powerful than all of those other animals.

interestingly, the article has moved towards my POV since I wrote the paragraph above about five years ago.

I wonder why that name didnt catch on?

In the 19th century the Carboniferous Period was often referred to as the "Age of Ferns" but these discoveries during the first decade of the 20th century made it clear that the "Age of Pteridosperms" was perhaps a better description.

— this article

chlamydia

Chlamydia_pneumoniae is the koalas' disease. it is not clear if humans are to blame ... either directly (humans handling koalas) or indirectly (humans handling animals who later transmittted it to koalas). It's even possible koalas infected us, though here again it could have been indirect or from some other animal. This is not the same STD-based chlamydia that we usually pass amongst each other.

Other science

Electron jugs repel

Fundamental_interaction#Electromagnetism once said "This is larger than what the planet Earth would weigh if weighed on another Earth." but it has since been reworded to something more clever. Also, note that this is both the electron jugs repel article and the high school magnet experiment article. high school no longer mentioned in page today. i may want to restore it, as it was only removed recently.

Perhaps the paragraph could be improved by saying it is not the magnet which is so impressive, but the electromagnetic force that keeps objects together in the first place. Unless (though I dont think so) this is actually the residual strong force.

Anthropocene has an interesting time chart showing modern events as if they were like the million year long catastrophic events.

Oort cloud edit. here, i actually amplified a claim i disagreed with to call attention to it, as i felt that had i removed it i would be unable to explain myself in scientific words.

Spacetime#Privileged_character_of_3+1_spacetime has the "tachyons only" chart

This planet is hundreds of times larger (not more massive) than its star. The lack of remark in our article suggests maybe this is not so rare.

Donna Williams claimed she could see individual air molecules.

Apparently we found the Asterite!

Size of the universe

Not sure why this got deleted.

Humans, the yellow tadpoles

Children's tadpole drawings look a lot like certain cartoon characters: the M&M's mascots, Pac-Man (in some games), Bob-ombs, and certainly many others. Additionally, a less common style of emoji shows round head-bodies with arms and legs erupting directly from the body. Is it possible that we still as adults have this mental image in our heads? The traditional explanation for children's tadpoles is that they cannot see their own necks, and simply draw what they see when they look down at the rest of their bodies. But this would not explain why children also draw other people the same way.

Note that the so-called tadpole stage is not the stage with the familiar (to me) triangle bodies, but occurs at even earlier age.

And why do we prefer yellow emojis?

To my surprise, the Altuna Runestone depicts vertical eyes and a round head just like our modern emojis.

Assorted articles that I will read many times over

I am particularly fond of articles that teach a subject in chronological order, whether it is the history of the event or the history of the discovery. In either case it reads just like a story would.

Astronomy and physics

• Oort cloud
• Scattered disc
• Kuiper belt
• Galactic tide
• Fundamental interaction
• Graviton
• Time dilation and Lorentz transformation
• Neutron drip line
• Atmosphere of Jupiter

Linguistics

• Proto-Afroasiatic language
• Afroasiatic languages
• Laryngeal theory
• Greek language question
• Kluge's law
• Standard Chinese phonology (especially vowels)
• Old Chinese phonology and Reconstructions of Old Chinese
• Phaistos disc and Decipherment of rongorongo

Earth science

• PETM
• key col

Other science and math

• List of paradoxes

Music

Music is not a subject I understand well, so almost any article will do. I honestly cherish my inability to understand even basic concepts like tablature, as it reminds me of my early childhood when everything I encountered was like this. Italian is the language of strict parents and furniture too big to move.

History and politics

Likewise, almost any article will do, though I have a preference for events far from home.

Weather and climate

My lack of interest in weather, the science I know the most about, is difficult to explain. It brings me stress, unlike the other topics, but right now I can't fully understand why.

Tohoku dialect questions

19:32, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

from Talk:Tōhoku_dialect#do_we_know....:

do we know...

• does this dialect lack /ki/ altogether?
• does it retain old /kwi/ as /ki/?
• do /ti/ and /ki/ merge? (the article Tōhoku dialect gives a /dʒi/ transcription for standard Japanese /tši/, rather than /di/)
• are loans from standard Japanese containing /ki/ borrowed with /ki/ or /chi/?
• since /p/ is marked in Japanese, does this mean that Tōhoku Japanese has almost no intervocalic /b/, only /mb/ and /pp/? Are loans with /b/ borrowed with [b], even if this would therefore be /p/?
• are the [mb nd] allophones of /b d/ distinct from sequences of moraic nasals followed by stops? Some languages do this.

I havet used WP:REFDESK in a long time, but i might be able ot get help at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language.

Other notes

m:User:Soap/global.css

red rover apparently not Canadian

Five point scale

Rather than the Dewey story test, maybe this is tied to 5 is against the law (though the publication date is newer). Possibly both are derivatives of something older.

From an older edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Five_point_scale check to see if this has achieved wider use over the last 20 yrs, maybe even outside autism

it is called the Dewey Story Test, after Margaret Dewey. it seems that the point scale had four judgments, not five, so maybe the five point scale was a derivative of it. Dewey story test is still empty; it may fit in an article about its creator, which is still also red. Dewey Social Stories Test is one other name; it has been translated into other languages and may have originated in Sweden despite its name (but i think it was maybe English > Swedish > English).

Robozero

ru:Робрека may be the Robozero over which the 1663 UFO sighting took place. Information about it is surprisingly hard to find and I am questioning whether it even happened. One source says it was in 1666 instead, but this may be a conflation with this.

Riddles from the Deep

Sunàqwa the Sea Lamprey asks:
What do you call a bottom dwelling microscopic sea animal with eight retractable tentacles, teeth on both ends, blinking bioluminescence, colonial reproduction through simultaneous release, light-seeking behavior, and a tiny, poisonous calcite seashell?

Answer

An octopodotropholophophorophosphostroboscoposporogonoconophonospodosolopornopomponoctophobodontoproctoplooooprotozoon.

Archie

Indiscretions of Archie's plot sounds a lot like Archie Comics and even has a character named Reggie. Were those names just more popular back then, or did the creators of Archie Comics choose the names as a tribute?

Junction

Was CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) named after a children's song? If so, was the fetish site named after the company or the song? (Note that the link here is to Reddit, not to the fetish site.)

Alternatively, is the children's song referencing something older than all of these other things? Compare wikt:Malfunction Junction and (less likely) wikt:commotion lotion for other examples of popular culture phrases using the same pattern. This shows that Malfunction Junction is older than the children's song, but yet it could still be that the other things were named by people who had heard the song but were unaware of the older military term. Likewise, while the military term is about 25 years older than the kids' song, and children's shows are known for parodying things familiar to adults, it is still possible the two rhyming phrases were coined independently.

Bear and Sun

if i have time i might make pages for Bear and Sun, two very old computer companies associated with the automotive industry. Bear is still around but uses WIndows now, whereas I believe Sun didnt syurvive into the modern era. however it seems that Sun did last long enough to coexist with the far better known Sun Microsystems. the older Sun is probably the second entry on the list at Sun Electric, but it doesn't have its own page.

https://suntestsystems.us/ still has a website, but i suspect this is only a related company using the name the parent company owns, not a direct continuation of 1931's Sun Electric Corporation.

Bear is even older, founded in 1917. tas above, theyre still around, but their presence seems tiny and a site that claims to be their website isnt even fully in eng,ish. I cant find that site now .... I think I deliberately chose not to link it just in case it was malware. Bear is the company that made the computer I saw in high school shop class that was fixed on a platform that had a vacuum attached to it. I thought that this was a vacuum computer until recently when I realized that a vacuum computer was something completely different. So what was the vacuum for? I dont know. It's possible it was an ordinary vacuum that the computer controlled, or it's possible that it wasn't even related to the computer at all.

it would seem thus that both companies got their start making automobile repair equipment and got into computers as the industry grew, but perhaps both fell by the wayside as it became nearly impossible to align their needs with the increasingly rigid designs of modern computer OS'S.

Surnames

Smerconish

Smerconish may be an eastern European surname respelled in an unusual way; this would be most likely if it were originally written in Cyrillic, so perhaps Serbian is the source. Still, I can't find an exact match. Smrkovský is a surname of Czech origin.

There is also Skrmetti.

Unexplained

I believe both of these men chose to respell their ancestral names. they just haven't told us exactly why. I can speculate though

• O'Billovich. Of Serbian descent (I think the name was originally Obilovich, though the link I used to lookj this up isnt working now), he was born and probably grew up in Butte, Montana, which has a large Irish population, in fact the most per capita of any US city I believe. Reading his name as if it were Irish may have begun as a joke. There are apparently birth records for Obilovich in Silver Bow County, Montana which makes it almost certain.
• Nightow. My guess is that he chose this spelling because it looks like "night owl" and he is one.

Jafra

Jafra (a cosmetics company) did not get its name from Persian, according to their website, but rather from the names of its founders, Jan and Frank. But why did I think it was Persian in the first place? There may be such a word, that I have been unable to find because of my inability to read and write the Persian script.

It may be this word from Avestan, since I specifically remember wondering if it was intended to be a pun about how beauty is only skin deep. (It's probably not.)

Other fun things

User:Soap/fun

Gallery of interests

Round things resemble breasts; they are generally more attractive to pacific temperaments than straight lines and hard corners. -- Xiong

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My love of traffic lights may be unrelated to the fact that they are round. I will leave the picture here for now but may remove it later. When I was very young, I used to play with the traffic light shells, which at the time had the colors as part of the material, not dependent on lights shining from behind. Indeed, I think they were lit up from within and the arrows were coated with a black substance so that the light would only get through the arrow-shaped gaps. I think newer traffic lights use LED's and therefore the shells are just blank.

Other interests

I have contributed a lot of climate data, particularly for places with unusual climates and places I've lived or visited before. However, this is now very difficult for me. I may adopt other interests only to drop them months later, though I still check in with edits I've made in the past. For example, I will probably never get around to finishing the parasitism project I started in 2017, as I was unable to work on it for over two years and had completely lost interest when I got free time again.

If I knew more about chemistry, I'd be better able to contribute to the soap and detergent articles. Theyre not wrong, but they provide surprisingly little information.

Fonts

I've made a few fonts, mostly simple ones, for use in a game wherein the player uses an in-game computer (a diegetic interface). These fonts have emojis which stand out particularly as the in-game computers are otherwise primitive. I only do pixel-by-pixel editing, though. No vector graphics.

Identity

Stimming and habits

This section is very embarrassing, and I may remove it later, but for now it reminds me who I am. The habits themselves are no longer embarrassing to me, for reasons I explain at the end. What embarrasses me is that there seems to be little else to write about me that distinguishes me from other people.

This section is now archived, but I will come back and re-add a permanent link soon. The content will be updated at User:Soap/stim.

Phobias

Trypophobia and fear of falling

I have mild trypophobia (if you don't know what it is, and you're worried you might have it, I recommend using this link to get just a bare dictionary definition with no pictures). I've mostly gotten over this through exposure, but I don't recommend exposure therapy to everyone, particularly those who suffer more severely from it than I ever did. The fact that my phone shower looks quite a bit like a lotus head may have helped me get over the fear, because I associate showers with pleasant things.

Unrelatedly, I also have a fear of falling, such that even as an adult I was unable to play a certain video game that had a bug in which the player sometimes fell through what looked like a solid floor. I'd been the same way as a child with a different video game where there was not a bug, but a Game Genie code that led to false floors as a side effect of an otherwise fun cheat. I describe this as a "there/not there" ambiguity and that is what scares me. Both of these fears involve holes, but I think they are unrelated.

Since nearly drowning at age 2, an event I no longer remember, I've had an instinctual fear of deep water. It's possible that this was the trigger for my fear of falling, because being in deep water means losing contact with the ground, even if I am not actually sinking. This is just a wild guess, though.

Other information

Likewise, although I've never had koumpounophobia, I have a few edits on the page because I want to make it clear that it is the fear of clothing buttons, and does not extend to buttons in the modern sense such as the flat circular things we used to press on early smartphones. I believe the claim that Steve Jobs removed buttons from the iPhone because of koumpounophobia is inaccurate, as the "buttons" on an iPhone are very different from clothing buttons and it's just happenstance that we use the same word for both. Even so, it's possible that some people with koumpounophobia do extend the fear to flat circular machine buttons; I can't read minds.

Mobile account

My mobile account is user:Lollipop, a name I chose purely for its sound. I've never been particularly fond of candy, although I did eat candy when I was young just like my friends did. I actually had the name Lollipop before I had Soap, but I was much more interested in getting this name, so I usurped the old inactive Soap (who had never edited at all) and ended up with both names. I am much less active than I once was, and I don't really need two short names, but nobody seemed interested in taking over the Lollipop account, even after years of leaving up a notice saying I was willing to part with it. Perhaps it's best to just hang on to it now that I've had it for 18 years.

Haldrik

You note that Haldrik just reverted to a version that is identical to that of an anonymous IP. I should point out that Haldrik appears to be that IP. I think he's well, well over 3RR as well. The version he keeps reverting to also breaks basically every rule in the Wikipedia policy book, from WP:SYNTH, WP:OR, to WP:NPOV. Most of it isn't even referenced. :bloodofox: (talk) 02:29, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Now blocked by Tiptoety (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). —Soap— 02:40, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Sure. But do you want to restore your revert? If you take a look at the talk page, complaints by various users of this "dwarfs?-more-like-VAMPIRES" WP:SYNTH-essay reach back for years. :bloodofox: (talk) 02:45, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

That's been done by someone else now, but I was intending to leave the content to dispute to people who know more about the subject matter anyway. After all it's possible that at least some of what Haldrik wrote is correct; I agree it's not well referenced though. —Soap— 14:37, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Message about H.U.R.L.

I loved your H.U.R.L. fansite, and am trying to get in touch with you to see if you know the answers to a few questions about the game. I sent you a message on August 2nd, but haven't heard anything. Did you get it? Ecamber (talk) 20:40, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Yeah sorry for neglecting your email. I dont check my email often, but I did see it about a week after youd sent it. I dont really have any answers to the questions; I could search around, but at this point I've forgotten nearly everything and I'd have no more to go on than you in searching for more information about the history of the game. —Soap— 04:09, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Ok, thanks anyway! Ecamber (talk) 05:41, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Abuse filter rights

Hello Soap,

I noticed that you removed abuse filter rights for my account due to inactivity.

I am now back and would like them restored.

Thanks!

Triplestop x3 00:57, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Wow! I'm really glad you're back. I've restored the rights. —Soap— 01:04, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

thanks for the kind words

You're the first one to compliment my username. I guess your username relates to your clean-up duties. Leadwind (talk)

Thanks for the information

Thanks, I replied to your post on my user talk page. Banaticus (talk) 05:24, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Susanville, California weather

Greetings Soap: I left a full discussion of the Weather Box problem/solution on the Talk:Susanville, California. In this case the new editor's sharp eyes fixed something that has been incorrect for a while, I made the edits, and explained everything. Hopefully this will be fine, otherwise let's hash it out on the talk page! Hugs and kittens for all your work on WikiVandalism !! Ellin Beltz (talk) 05:07, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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Yes I linked to a dab page on purpose because in the context given, the term "dimension" isn't defined clearly. It used to be one of my pet peeves, but it's become so common that I rarely notice it anymore. —Soap— 12:41, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Deleted sub pages

Just the ones I've marked for deletion I hope. :P Abyssal (talk) 03:47, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Glad to be back and thanks for the warm welcome. I remember when NA, Fastily and Airplaneman were still hanging around the Copyeditors' club, and Fastily and you were always trying to help us. P.S. Too bad someone had to take lilypichu's name here huh? TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 11:32, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Subpages of User:C

I noticed that in the discussion at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Mark for speedy deletion 1,397 pages, the text "(except User:C/Sandbox)" includes a red link. It looks as if this exception wasn't mentioned at WP:AN, and you must have deleted 1,398 pages. Can you restore the sandbox? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:27, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

OK, done. I think the IP is very likely the same person (Amit6 (talk · contribs)) however. —Soap— 02:30, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

I couldn't see the content or history of the sandbox, of course. Now I've seen it, yes, you could have left it deleted. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:13, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

I can see no earthly purpose in keeping this page. The reason given for making an exception of it was that the page had been edited by another (IP) editor other than the one who created it, but examination of that IP's editing history gives me the very strong impression that it was in fact the same person who created the page, not logged in, in which case that reason fails. In any case, whether it was edited by another person or not, the page is serving no useful purpose, is in the userspace of a user who shows no evidence of ever having wanted it, and has not been edited for years. Finally, the editor who requested its restoration has effectively withdrawn the request (above). I am about to delete it. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:38, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I have looked again at the IP's editing history, and I would now replace "gives me the very strong impression that it was in fact the same person" with "makes it absolutely obvious that it was in fact the same person". JamesBWatson (talk) 10:45, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Pieter202's edits

Thanks for reverting my edit on 50 Tyson. Looks like Pieter202 got at least two right, then. If you look at his edit history, you'll see he's been categorizing dozens of articles, without taking care to ensure the applicability of the tag (and being reverted by a half-dozen or so other editors). I did leave one other that I recognized as correct: Naoki Higashida (because I just finished reading his book). TJRC (talk) 00:48, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your RfA support

Hi there, a bit of a form letter from me, Cyphoidbomb, but I wanted to drop you a line and thank you for your support at my recent RfA. Although I was not successful, I certainly learned quite a bit both about the RfA process and about how the community views my contributions. It was an eye-opener, to say the least. Thank you for assuming the best of me, in spite of our limited (if any) interactions. Thank you! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:05, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

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Recent sock blocks - 2 new ones

I see you blocked some socks a few minutes ago. Just to let you know, some more have appeared: Wikibuttleeks and SneakypeteDGG EvergreenFir (talk) 04:20, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

More SFK2likssphincters, SlinkyFirPhack EvergreenFir (talk) 04:21, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I was away so Materialscientist and some others blocked the new socks. And the article is protected now. —Soap— 04:57, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

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Edit warring

Hi again. Not sure if this is your department, but since you're an admin you'll probably know how/who should handle it. There is a minor edit war going on at Return to Oz. Just the same two people reverting each other over and over for the past several days. Nothing horribly serious, but it's annoying. Thanks, —BMRR (talk) 20:35, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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Taiwan guy

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It's yer old buddy ninteninja

Hey, I won't go into details, but I've been gone for a while. I got literally no progress done with that challenge you gave me. In fact, I switched the project to an RPG cause the platformer broke. XD Anyway, here's my email so we can talk more. I figure it's not appropriate to talk this much about it on Wikipedia.

PowefulKyurem@gmail.com

TheUnknownNinjaNN2(Talk,Always willing to discuss this subject) 04:41, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, Im really not able to be helpful, especially if you're saying a whole year's gone by and you didn't take my advice. I would look for other people to talk to, it's not like Wikipedia is the only place in the world to find people. —Soap— 06:27, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

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Request for unprotection

Hi Soap, I've noticed you fully protected the redirect Gang Rape two years ago. I would appreciate it if you could reduce it to semi-protected, or remove the protection altogether, to allow editors like me to perform maintenance on the page. Thanks! —Granger (talk · contribs) 15:43, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Okay, no problem. It was only like that because gang rape (the lowercase version) was also fully protected. I will remove the protection since there's hopefully no need for a redirect to be protected so long as the article it redirects to isn't. I'm not sure how I found that 3 minutes after it was created anyway, there must have been something going on. —Soap— 15:56, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

	Merry Christmas, Soap!
	Hey Soap! It's been a while since I've been on Wikipedia, so I figured I'd stop by, check up on some old wiki-friends, and make sure no-one broke the wiki in my absence :P Merry Christmas, Soap! Dylan620 (I'm all ears) 23:53, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Quick thanx

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Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant

Hi Soap,

Thank you for letting me know about this aspect of article protection. I do not protect articles often and I appreciate being corrected on the matter.

Neelix (talk) 22:37, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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Lord Laitinen & Rollback

Thank you for saying that I would make a good rollbacker; I certainly appreciate it. It was User:Beeblebrox who told me to make two or three dozen MORE anti-vandalism contributions, as they believed that to be enough to earn permissions for a user of my experience. In the end, however, Beeblebrox did not make the decision in my application for neither the reviewer nor the rollback permission the second time I applied. As I have been told by other administrators, I will wait at least a few weeks before re-applying for any permissions, and, hopefully, I will have achieved several more anti-vandalism contributions before that time. Thanks for your support, and, whenever you feel I may be ready to receive the permission, just let me know! Lord Laitinen (talk) 06:34, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

LL&P

I prefer mehe nakkhet ur-sevah, personally. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 02:02, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

LOL

Point taken. Fortunately, it should never happen again :) T. Canens (talk) 07:53, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for taking care of my requested deletion. Pine✉ 08:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Sock

Naturalshilajit (talk · contribs) might be a sock of Shilajitlife (talk · contribs) who you blocked recently. Babita arora 08:01, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Even though he immediately reverted himself there's no chance of him editing productively from that account. Still, just to be safe, I'll wait a bit before I put down the block. —Soap— 16:49, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer

I didn't notice this edit until recently. Thanks for the links! Protonk (talk) 17:57, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Test

Test TheMesquito^buzz 04:06, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I can see the appeal of blue, but I still think red is better. Essentially I agree with you. —Soap— 04:13, 17 May 2015 (UTC)