Buster7

Today's Events July 21, 2026
Birthday Worldish2024
Adminship Anniversary none
First Edit Day Beeblebrox, D-Day, evrik, MBisanz, Rejoy2003, Sir Joseph
Other events: this month | this year

Feel free to stop by and chat! But be nice, or I'll ask you to go sit at another bench in some other park in some other city

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension

The Principle of Least Drama says that given a choice between several ways of dealing with a problem, pick the one that generates the least drama. If the only approach you can think of is laden with drama, sign off for the night. You may think of a new alternative in the morning, or someone else may have implemented a better approach. Wikipedia:Drama#The_Principle_of_Least_Drama

Happy Belated First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, Buster7, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! ☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 05:29, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

Hi Buster7, thank you for all your work you do with maintaining Editor of the Week - I wanted to check how many times I can nominate in a space of time (I have one or two more I'd like to do, but I should let other people nominate their editors as well ofc :) ) RossEvans19 (talk) 02:33, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment. It's kind of implemented on a first-come first-served basis. My basic consideration is that each nomination adds a week to the time-frame between nomination and awarding. Currently, there are four nominations in the Accepted Queue and your recent nomination will be moved over later today making it five weeks from now that the editor will receive it. It is kind of you to consider other nominators but now may be a good time to add one more. There are times when I personally find new recipients as needed to keep the queue full which I estimate to be about five or six. But having a community of people seeking out recipients is what makes the whole initiative worthwhile. If the Queue gets too long, I put a HOLD on the Nomination Page. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 16:04, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

User:Carptrash

Sad to say, he passed on 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:37, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

Different viewpoints on Sources

• The first thing to note is that sources must be published, and accessible to at least some members of the public. Therefore things like closed archives, private correspondence, eyewitness accounts, live broadcasts which were not recorded for posterity, etc. are not acceptable sources. Sources should ideally be online, to make them easier to verify, but offline sources are also acceptable as long as they are cited with sufficient bibliographic details to enable them to be reliably identified for verification purposes; see WP:OFFLINE for more on that. There is no need to upload scans, screenshots or other images of any source, in fact that would quite possibly amount to a copyright violation anyway. DoubleGrazing
• Wikipedia is amazing. It’s a dream come true from the perspective of people who want free, accessible knowledge. It’s literally the greatest thing the internet has ever produced. Wikipedia is free, accessible, well-organized, and constantly moderated by an obsessive army of volunteers who make public edits. Articles have citations. Articles link to each other, showing the connection between concepts. We should be ENCOURAGING our students to use Wikipedia. Sure, tell them to cite the sources at the bottom if they are writing a research paper. But in the age of LLMs, we need to dispense with this idea that Wikipedia is generally “unreliable” because humans write it. Wikipedia invariably has the most accurate, comprehensive, and well-organized explanations of historical events online (outside of maybe a really excellent textbook accessible in a pdf or something). Hagne on reddit
• Long-term Capital Gains. Long‑term capital gains apply to assets held for more than one year before being sold. These gains benefit from preferential tax rates, which are typically lower than ordinary income tax rates and are based on your overall taxable income. Reinvesting the proceeds from a sale does not eliminate or defer capital gains taxes in a taxable account. When a capital asset is sold at a profit, the gain is generally taxable in the year of the sale, even if the proceeds are immediately reinvested. Capital gains taxes are triggered by the sale itself, not by how the proceeds are used.