User talk:Wlmg/Archives/2018/February
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| Wednesday February 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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  You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) 22:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC) P.S. You are also invited to Africa and the Diaspora Edit-a-thon @ Schomburg Center for Black Culture on Saturday February 24! | |
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Talk:Ben Shapiro
Please re-examine if your editing agrees with WP:BLP. I suggest that if you have feelings about the subject then perhaps you should avoid editing there. Chris Troutman (talk) 04:48, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
- I will consider it Mr.Thought Policeman. sir. --Wlmg (talk) 13:26, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. We're all trying to write an encyclopedia. I know I'm happiest editing where neither I nor anyone else cares. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
- Oh, I went off the reservation years ago and am an open POV pusher and almost a Wikiblackhat at this point. So in the department of WP:NOTSOCIAL what coins do you collect?Wlmg (talk) 16:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
- Whatever I get in circulation. When I was kid, I was told about mercury dimes. At the time they were in circulation, nobody collected them because they were just run-of-the-mill dimes. But of course, by the 1980s that coin design was gone and those dimes subsequently gained numismatic value not to mention there was value in the silver of which the coin was composed. It occurred to me that rather than spend real money on 1909 VDB pennies and the like, it would be cheaper to build type sets based off of the relatively new VG-grade stuff you find in your pocket. Most of my collection was stolen in 2005 and it has been slow rebuilding the 20 years of work I put into it. Collecting coins and paper money can be expensive but arguing with editors on Wikipedia as a hobby is free. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
- Mostly I concentrated on 19th Century American type gold and modern platinum. Not much going on with found in change stuff except I got a proof clad state quarter at Mc Donalds and wartime 1943-S nickel at a bodega. Also a proof clad half I spotted in a cashier's drawer. There was a time in late 1990s I was getting 1940s wheat pennies all the time. I consider it plausible that they all came from the same cache likely some deceased person's giant penny jar. I throw back wheat pennies not worth 2 cents or so my guy in Connecticut will pay. Wlmg (talk) 21:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
- Whatever I get in circulation. When I was kid, I was told about mercury dimes. At the time they were in circulation, nobody collected them because they were just run-of-the-mill dimes. But of course, by the 1980s that coin design was gone and those dimes subsequently gained numismatic value not to mention there was value in the silver of which the coin was composed. It occurred to me that rather than spend real money on 1909 VDB pennies and the like, it would be cheaper to build type sets based off of the relatively new VG-grade stuff you find in your pocket. Most of my collection was stolen in 2005 and it has been slow rebuilding the 20 years of work I put into it. Collecting coins and paper money can be expensive but arguing with editors on Wikipedia as a hobby is free. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
- Oh, I went off the reservation years ago and am an open POV pusher and almost a Wikiblackhat at this point. So in the department of WP:NOTSOCIAL what coins do you collect?Wlmg (talk) 16:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. We're all trying to write an encyclopedia. I know I'm happiest editing where neither I nor anyone else cares. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
- I will consider it Mr.Thought Policeman. sir. --Wlmg (talk) 13:26, 17 February 2018 (UTC)