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Hello, my dear old friend. It is very nice to hear from you. I've been meaning to drop you a line.
You know, you have always seemed to be the most 'right-next-door' Wikipedian (and Susan next over). I mean, in my imagination, how I picture you, (I guess your user and talk pages), you are right next to me. I guess it's because you were the first person who really helped me when I started. It was my account and your account, and I didn't see much beyond that. Odd, isn't it.
I'm not sure if I ever thanked you. Well, thank you, very much. You were a wonderful mentor. You helped me with Kamilo Beach, the dirtiest beach, if I remember right.
Anyway, I ramble maudlinesquely (a perfectly cromulent word).
It is nice to see that you are still editing. I read something on your userpage recently about how it's all become a farce. I get the very strong impression that many articles have been hijacked by baddies who seek to cleanse content about dirty organizations and disparage dissidents who point out the BS of the mainstream, corporate media's mono-view. Am I imagining things? According to this giant rabbit next to me, I have that tendency.
Good to hear from you as always. I will link to Harvey so people don't think we've lost our marbles! BTW, I'm about to learn whether avocado goes well on pizza. Wish me luck! Viriditas (talk) 00:24, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! It will probably turn brown and be gross. Consider adding some to one half before you cook it, and half to the other side after it's cooked and see which you like best. You'll probably end up with at least half a good pizza. Do let us know if you survive. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:50, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'm not as stupid as I look! I only added the avocado after the pizza was cooked. It was okay, but not my thing. I decided to try again later and added it to some angel hair pasta. It wasn't bad. Enjoy the holidays and keep warm. Viriditas (talk) 21:59, 24 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
BTW, I've been putting chopped broccoli on my homemade pizza for years now. Apparently there's an animated film (I think?) that makes fun of this practice, but I haven't seen it (I looked it up, it's called Inside Out. Any good?), I just saw someone talking about it on Reddit which made me think they were talking about me! It's surprisingly good, but it needs some kind of sauce, which I haven't quite figured out. Obviously, the non-pizza sauce thing has caught on, with chains in the states offering a variety of different sauces you can drizzle or dip. Any ideas what would be good on broccoli as a sauce? Viriditas (talk) 00:19, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi Viriditas! Inside Out is one of the last great Pixar films. Now they are rubbish.
I guess cheese sauce. Cheese sauce is great on brocolli.
Do you know what's big here? Durian on pizza. Nicknamed 'stenchfruit' by me, it smells like garbage, tastes like rotting fruit, looks like pus, and hurts your hands when touched. Just the thought of that is awful. If that fruit made a gross noise when you cut into it, it would offend all 6 senses! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:42, 23 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, the durian jokes are old school internet! You should have seen the internet in the early 1990s. There wasn't a single day that someone wouldn't start a 500 comment discussion thread on how bad durian smells. IIRC, most of them came from followers of James "Kibo" Parry. Viriditas (talk) 23:43, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
My jokes are original me! The subject is old school internet. Don't tempt me to prove it by inventing rhyming orange jokes!
I wish you had asked me back in December of last year. I created a list of unusual articles to create. Don't know what happened to it, but I could try to find it and get back to you. Here's something funny to consider: I created the article on Marie Engle based on this old photo from 1890. If you zoom in, you can see that I made part of it clickable, and her face showed up. This led me down quite a rabbit hole. First, I was able to identify her and start the article. But then, it turns out, there's a larger mystery as to why her photo was on the ship, which led to some very unusual ideas, some of which are mentioned on the talk page. Long story short, she was a famous opera singer at the time, but there's no real reason her photo should be on that ship unless that ship had taken her to Europe (or at least on one leg of the journey) which is a possibility given that she shows up on some of the manifests related to the company. But it gets even more interesting. It looks like she was going under another name related to a very high profile politician at the time. Curiouser and curiouser. She was already divorced at the time, but when her ex-husband died much later, the NYT lied about the date of her divorce for some strange reason. Viriditas (talk) 00:56, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
If you do bump into that "list of unusual articles to create", I'd be very interested.
The Engle matter is very interesting. It's all sordid and Epsteinian. Quite the detective you are too. And well done with the article.
You remind me of my late mum. She bought lots of old photos from rummage sales. We would sometimes sit down together and look for clues about the people in them -- easy stuff as we were kids, like wedding rings and if they were left-handed and things. It was wonderful. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:26, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the kind compliment. Your late mum sounds wonderful. My condolences on her passing. I know exactly the kind of memory you are describing, and it's remarkable that we share these idealized moments, sitting down on the couch, looking at photos. It's so interesting that we can draw from similar archetypal memories, these same things, same events, happened to most of us, yet we are all different and individualized. Which reminds me of something that happened to me last year: I was working on A Balloon in Mid-Air when I stumbled across these old photos about Woodward's Gardens. You can see some of them in those two articles, but the one that really disturbed me isn't used anywhere, it's only in the commons cat. This is one in the series that I'm talking about, but there are others. Anyway, when I saw this photo I started ruminating on the fact that all of these people were dead, long gone. Then I started looking at their hats and facial hair, which got me thinking about the style at the time. Card Zero shared a glorious quote that you will love, so read that discussion! As these things often do, one thing led to another, and I ended up on the bio article about Eadweard Muybridge, who was involved in a dangerous stagecoach crash which apparently left him with some kind of brain damage. Thankfully, this terrible event gave us what became known as the modern motion picture. Viriditas (talk) 10:43, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
Wow. You write good. Me no good you as. (Hey, I sounded a bit like Coco the gorilla there, and I wrote it with buttons....using my knuckles.) Seriously, A Balloon in Mid-Air is so good. I just don't have the noodle to put together such an article.
Loved the pic! They all look like tall Toulouse-Lautrecs. Actually, I didn't know so many Americans had beards at that time.
I read the quote twice and laughed twice. Priceless are "...stuffily unsuitable..." and "...religion bulked large...". Not sure about "...evasively hirsute...". Terrific points at the end about how the "The beard could take the place of..." and "It could serve, and did serve, as..."
I just went to Eadweard Muybridge and can't see how his accident gave us the modern motion picture. Do tell. Oddly, there, I see hirsute impressionists. Did all the men in the world have daft beards back then??
Muybridge was a book seller before his accident. While recuperating from his injuries his doctor recommended photography. His interest led to the zoopraxiscope which was built to project his chronophotographic pictures. A lecture by Muybridge in 1888 influenced Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Dickson, leading to the combination of the zoopraxiscope and the Edison phonograph in 1895. If the random stagecoach accident had never occurred, history would have been slightly different. Further, one doctor believes the brain injury freed "his creativity from conventional social inhibitions", contributing to his success with discovery and invention. Viriditas (talk) 20:23, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
No worries. It's always a pleasure. I've been curious about the brain and creativity for a long time now and I've investigated several different angles over the years. Right now, I'm more curious about sleep + exercise = creativity because I find the most benefit from that combination. How to replicate it is the tough part. I have found the best results using DHA Omega-3 and choline, but getting the right amount is tough. Viriditas (talk) 00:23, 26 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
I read the beard quote to a friend, and they found it very charming.
I mean using it as a supplement. In most of the most common forms, it's too much for me personally. I get very vivid dreams for days on end, and while it's definitely a creative boost, and sometimes restful to boot, the sheer wild imagery becomes too much for me and I have to stop talking it. Not sure why this is. It doesn't just give me vivid, lucid dreams, it puts me into entire alien environments where I'm not even on Earth anymore. There's only so much you can take of that kind of thing. There's also other things linked to it, such as a lingering afterglow, almost like a hangover. I didn't sign up for this! One of the odd after effects is that food tastes better, colors seem brighter, music sounds better, and smells are stronger. Then again, there's probably a lot of synergistic effects occurring here. I've always had a heightened sensitivity to life, probably from birth, including a sensitivity to light and noise. Viriditas (talk) 00:31, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
I've ordered the 5-gallon drum! Seriously, I want the same. I'll go heavy on the tobiko wil get goat kidney, lots about and nobody wants them. I imagine they're lamb's kidney, delicious fried and somewhat pissy. I also eat tons of flax -- tons. I'm ready to alter my state. I remember quitting pot decades ago and for weeks afterwards I got the experiences you describe. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:41, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
I used to buy boxes of Barlean's, Plant Based Total Omega 3-6-9, but get this, I bought them in these mobile packets, like the kind you might find with Emergen-C, basically a tea bag size packet with the oil inside. The idea was that you would open the packet and slurp it down while on the go. It had some flavoring to it, maybe blueberry, I can't remember. They stopped selling those years ago for some reason, but they were the best product they ever sold. I used to call them "dream weavers". Not only did they work, they worked too well. They still sell the same product but it's only in a 16 oz (454 g) bottle. Viriditas (talk) 09:16, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
Dream Weaver, great oldie. So, buy the bottle. I'm getting some online for sure. I'll let you know if I trip. We don't have drugs here, so it could be fun. Speaking of drugs, we were in the park, smelled pot, and found Cleome hassleriana, "spider flower". Same sort of leaves, but an unrelated plant. Odd. I couldn't find a good source that said it smelled skunky. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:04, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Can you please unprotect Valy Hedjasi so I can accept Draft:Valy Hedjasi? The article had previously been AfD'd for non-notability and then repeatedly A7'd, but the draft has 1 web citation + 1 TV citation, and the creator @Uditiyinfire says an Afghan TV channel covered them, so the subject now meets the minimum requirements for notability IMO (especially given the limited online media in Afgahnistan). See also discussion at User talk:Uditiyinfire. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs)23:17, 14 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for writing this. WP:AOPLACES isn't a reliable source.
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I'm a bit slow, but I didn't realize the swear jar image was from 2014! I love how you created a homemade lightbox for this purpose (which works perfectly as it adds texture that you don't get from a pro lightbox). But the best part, is it looks like it came straight out of one of your world famous illustrations. This is so very painterly of you! Viriditas (talk) 21:18, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
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To accompany the discussion above about interesting foods. One potentially delicious variation is to add hot chocolate powder to the coffee. ↠Pine(✉)17:33, 28 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hello dear Pine! Don't panic, have towel. This is just the demise of the last of the Western empires and the colossal tectonic shift in global economic and geopolitical power from one entire side of the planet to the other. Routine stuff. Happens in worlds everywhere. Will it end in nukes is what we spectators all wonder? Barring accidents and misunderstandings, the question is then: who are the men behind the scenes, essentially thieves or essentially ideologues? In the end, the former deals, the latter goes all the way... :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:29, 11 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
"Now we but see through a glass darkly..." (earlier English translation in the King James Bible, based on text from approximately year 55 CE/AD). However, I try not to let worries regarding tectonic shifts in history become the ruler of my personal life on a daily basis given that constant worrying is bad for health; as the Clough poem says, "Must still believe, for still we hope That in a world of larger scope, What here is faithfully begun Will be completed, not undone." ↠Pine(✉)03:06, 13 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
That's a nice bit of poem. And don't worry, Pine, I don't worry. I just feel disappointed in humans, my least favourite species, and sad for the dog, my favourite species. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:06, 28 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Hi! I noticed that you created the first version of the List of immigrant detention sites in the United States back in 2014. I've been doing a lot of work to automate data scraping to keep this page updated, while also pulling Wikipedia editors' contributions back into successive versions. As I'm writing up that process, I'm also curious about how other editors who have contributed large amounts of material to the article did their work. Would you have some time to share your process, either by message or in a conversation? -- Carwil (talk) 13:04, 28 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi, Carwil. Thanks for the good work on List of immigrant detention sites in the United States. I have no clue what "data scraping" means, nor "pulling Wikipedia editors' contributions back into successive versions" are, but that's okay!
Sure, we can discuss my process, but it's pretty simple: I only brought the article to this point, and if you check the refs, I'm fairly certain I just grabbed the data from some table and formed the article. The table was either just displayed as text or they had raw csv data you could use, and I just created and ran a bunch of simple macros in some text editor to convert it to wiki markup. There's no way I just typed all that manually.
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Thanks! I'm way too out of touch to have valuable input, but I'd like to watch. It's online, right?
I hope they'll try to solve this paid editing and problem of simply rewording and parroting the so-called 'reliable sources' we laughably call mainstream media. I mean, wow, some articles are now just such obvious hit pieces or pure whitewashing. For example, Jacques Baud and Jeffrey Sachs basically say the same thing, but their articles are so different.
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Thank you. And I was just thinking of you, dear Dr. Blofeld. Every time I think of someone, they turn up. I hope you are well! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm about to think of someone with a pizza. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:47, 15 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
A small sprinkling of lovely hard cheddar is dandy on pizza. And have you actually tried durian? It is revolting. Nothing innocent about that disaster of a so-called fruit. Outrageous! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:36, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
I have not tried durian. Someone tried to get me to eat it about 25 years ago. I declined. I will continue to live vicariously through you instead. Viriditas (talk) 20:00, 17 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
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ArcturusNotTaurus, thank you so much. Lovely kitten. I hope you will be a great editor here for many years.
I also very much hope Draft:Pascal Lottaz you've been working on becomes an article. I haven't checked, but I guess there might not be enough media discussing him to justify a mainspace article just yet. And of course, like the very sane Glenn Diesen, expect his article to gain a lot of attention once in the mainspace.
Thank you for you kind reply. I find a lot of similarities between Glenn Diesen and Pascal Lottaz, and it puzzles me that one has a wiki-article about him, while I struggle with publishing an article about the other. I understand the "significant coverage" criterion, but both of them are pretty much the same, when assessed on this scale. ArcturusNotTaurus (talk) 12:06, 13 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
I understand. But still, it's about WP:BIO's "People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject."
"significant" is the fuzzy one. It's a quality/quantity thing when it comes to approval for the mainspace.
And no, Lottaz and Diesen are not the same in terms of "...I understand the "significant coverage" criterion, but both of them are pretty much the same, when assessed on this scale..." The Diesen article has 58 references (I lot of which I would guess are pretty critical) while Lottaz has 15 refs, and there I see bios, Youtube channels, etc. Not great refs.
You want an article in the mainspace? Find news media that writes about him in detail where he is the main subject of the article. Get a bunch of those, and that will do it. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:45, 13 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your help. The biggest problem, that I find with draft articles, is that I have to do everything myself in order to get my draft published. But, once an article gets published, other editors can join and improve it.
Would it make more sense to allow multiple editors to work on a draft? I stopped working on many drafts, because I alone was unable to get them approved... ArcturusNotTaurus (talk) 13:39, 13 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
You're welcome.
A quick google tells me not enough notability -- not even close. I see university and book bios, and that's pretty much it. You want magazine and newspaper articles etc, where he is really discussed a lot.
Quality of initial content? Who cares. Refs? Huge. Even a single sentence saying "Pascal Lottaz is a professor and podcaster." is fine. Add all the refs to the end of that sentence. Shove it into the mainspace, and it will survive any AfD.
Look at first versions of articles I started. Many were only a single sentence. I was a mass producer of shoddy merchandise because I'm a lousy writer. I love to put notable subjects in the mainspace, begging for improvement, for people to discover. If they don't exist, they never get going because visitors walk if it's not there. But they edit if they see it. They add a couple of sentences. Now they're responsible for most of the content. They're hooked. It's their baby! Yeah!
Bottom line: Inadequate refs? It doesn't deserve to be an article. Move on to other edits come back in a year.
For next time, gather enough refs the first time. An article booted from mainspace trying to get back in might find the bar a bit higher.
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