TonyBallioni

A beer for you!

Tony. A beer for you. Hope you are well. Drmies (talk) 02:49, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Drmies, thanks for leaving this. Glad to see there's people around who still think of me. Hope you and your family are doing well and have a great holiday season :) TonyBallioni (talk) 17:48, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Absolutely, old friend and colleague. I hope you're doing well. Wait. Did I see you edit Bolano? DYK that once upon a time I taught 2666? One of the greatest novels ever. Drmies (talk) 00:02, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Bolaño is my favorite author. I'm making my way through 2666 in Spanish now - one of the things that makes him such a master of Spanish prose is his unique ability to use the exact word he means to in every situation. The other thing that's interesting in 2666 from the Spanish prose perspective is because of the unique circumstances of his life, his writing style changes depending on the geography of where he's writing about/the nationality of the characters. In Mexico he writes using Mexican vocabulary. In Spain, he writes like a Spaniard, the Chilean characters speak chileno etc. Its a work of art on so many levels.

Re: his article, yes, I was going to try to update his article a bit by translating from the es.wiki article on him( es:Roberto Bolaño.) Main problem is that a lot of the sources are print that aren't easily available in the US and I didn't want to introduce content I didn't have the ability to verify (in part because I'd be translating a summary into a summary in another language, and I feel like there's too much room for error there, even though my Spanish is professional level.) TonyBallioni (talk) 20:10, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Whoa you are a man of many talents: I bow to your linguistic knowledge. I only read him in English of course, but what you're telling me only impresses me more. What else have I read recently in that area? Among the Lost, a while ago, which I thought was great and terrifying and I should, but don't want to, read it again--it's a really hard read. I was less impressed with his No contar todo. Drmies (talk) 16:43, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

to go with the beer from Drmies. I've been away for a couple of years and on my return I'm dismayed to see that RfA has never changed its spots. I thought that the new monitoring policy was designed to reduce the toxicity, not stoke it. I stand by your comments and I'm glad to see you're still around. It's been a long time. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:19, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not nearly as active as I used to be, but do stop by from time-to-time. I was pretty surprised to see people think that oppose was a policy violation - I wasn't expecting to have so many edits today... TonyBallioni (talk) 01:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Good to see your plain speaking again TB. And you haven't lost the art of cutting to the chase. Kudpung's right though, WP:MONITOR is slowly—not yet, but gradually—looking like a tool for "civilty policing" rather than honest brokering. SerialNumber54129^{A New Face in Hell} 11:30, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

The removal drew more attention to it than the comment would have gotten initially so there’s that. My bigger concern is that they’re just ignoring the emerging consensus that my comment didn’t violate any policy. I took it to their talk page and we’ll see how it goes. Not worth taking to AN, but a big enough concern that it’s worth asking about it on their talk. TonyBallioni (talk) 12:16, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I stand by you 100% too, btw. Therapyisgood (talk) 15:20, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Did you get an answer? SerialNumber54129^{A New Face in Hell} 22:17, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Not yet, probably should follow-up in case they didn’t see the talk page message. TBallioni (talk) 22:30, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Serial Number 54129 Since you were curious. TBallioni (talk) 09:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Io Saturnalia!

		Io, Saturnalia!
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth (talk) 15:29, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

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Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello TonyBallioni, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 23:28, 24 December 2024 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

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