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Note for these interesting times. User talk:Iridescent#Reply, having slept on it is a smart take on what is likely to happen on WP for the next few weeks/months(/years?). I promise to try to (a) be less snarky than usual, and (b) be more understanding of others' snarkiness than usual. If you think I need to dial something back, emailing me to say "Dude, maybe dial it back" is more likely to work than publicly posting a lecture on my talk page. Only because I'm human and don't like getting embarrassed.
Normal humans: I'm an admin again! Not around too much, so best to ask another admin for help, but I'll do what I can, when I can. For the foreseeable future, I'm even less likely to have time to help than normal. Still responding to pings and talk page notes about stuff I'm already involved with, but any other requests will probably be politely deflected.
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You know...

I'm not so sure they haven't been trolling this entire time. Who knows? PRAXIDICAE🌈 21:19, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well I don't know. But I do have an opinion. Which is becoming stronger as time goes on. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:26, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Surprise surprise. Looks like I missed all the excitement. --Floquenbeam (talk) 13:48, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is the year

Fourteen in a row... Ty France hitting north of .300, J-Rod tearing it up, Winkler winning fights with the whole Angels dugout, Logan Gilbert over 100 innings before the All-Star break... MastCell ^Talk 15:51, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You jinxed it! --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:59, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I do have a sinking feeling that a 14-game losing streak is getting started, but I’m going to blame… regression to the mean? :P MastCell ^Talk 21:25, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

July 2022

Hello Floquenbeam,

Before you get too worried, this is NOT an appeal of my WT block, but rather a NEW concern about the behavior of another user on my WT talkpage (that I sadly never noticed until July 5):

If you look at wikt:User:RcAlex36's messages here, they sound like they're almost personal attacks, especially when you consider he said I was a "typical case" of 死不足惜 ("one's death is not or will not be a cause for regret", emphasis mine), even when I hadn't been edit-warring (disruptive editing, maybe, but not edit-warring; I had even thanked him for cleaning up after my bad edits previously).

Also, RcAlex36's edit summary here and his reply to my message about that edit seem uncalled-for, since on Wiktionary you're not supposed to link to an Alternative Form of a word (like off-colour as opposed to off-color) unless you're talking about the edit history of, or links made to, the page of that Alternative Form itself.

Is what RcAlex36 did a crime? And if so, is there any way you can reprimand him for it? Thanks for your time. Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 16:53, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh. I've had to block you indef. Hard to believe you thought this post was OK. I wish I had back the time I've spent trying to avoid blocking you. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:08, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but I wish *I* had back the time I spent harassing all those editors in the first place. (Sorry for any potential block violation Floq, but *sigh* this is [probably] my best chance at Taking Back The Foolish Things I Typed That Came Out Wrong. I did not WANT to make this post around my WT block, and you ARE right, I shoulda tried harder at avoiding that topic. I'm VERY sorry for this accidental dishonesty. Hey, you wanna be my proofreader or something?) (And one last thing, this is a WP:VALIDALT of mine on WP and Commons--please see the userbox on my main account's userpage.) Block Vader of the Sith (talk) 03:57, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lego

I don't get it Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:19, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What I thought he meant was "Doug Weller and his toys" (because sometime previous he referenced someone - maybe Doug, I can't recall - throwing toys out of their pram). What he apparently meant was "Doug, like Lego, makes billions of blocks". I suppose marginally better. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:30, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's his job. Deepfriedokra (talk) 22:54, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Shāntián Tàiláng/IPBE

There's a valid reason for the IPBE (tl;dr caught in a hard block of a residential range that will be lifted a few centuries after the rapture), but since they're actually blocked now, I do think it is a bit weird that they have it. We'd probably regrant if they were ever unblocked just because its one of the few IPBEs that is because of a residential range and not VPNs, though. Meh. Use your judgement on what to do with it. Just thought I should flag it for you. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:37, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've removed it with (I hope) a clear enough explanation. I hadn't thought to look. --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:15, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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 ::I do have a sinking feeling that a 14-game losing streak is getting started, but I’m going to blame… regression to the mean? :P '''[[User:MastCell|MastCell]]'''&nbsp;<sup>[[User Talk:MastCell|Talk]]</sup> 21:25, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
+== July 2022 ==
-== Something I already told Svartava re:RcAlex36 ==
 Hello Floquenbeam,
-Before you get too worried, this is NOT about my en.wikt block, but rather about the behavior of one of its users on my talkpage (that I sadly never noticed until July 5):
+Before you get too worried, this is NOT an appeal of my WT block, but rather a NEW concern about the behavior of another user on my WT talkpage (that I sadly never noticed until July 5):
-If you look at [[wikt:User:RcAlex36|RcAlex36]]'s messages [[wikt:User talk:Shāntián Tàiláng#Unblock_request_2021|here]], they sound like they're almost [[WP:NPA|personal attacks]], especially when you consider he said my case was a case of {{linktext|死不足惜}} ("one's '''death''' is not or will not be a cause for regret", emphasis mine), even when I hadn't been edit-warring (disruptive editing, maybe, but ''not'' edit-warring; I had even thanked him for cleaning up after my bad edits prior to the block). In addition, I think that what he said ("I think you shouldn't be editing anything at all") may have...''driven'' me to do [https://web.archive.org/web/20211207173113/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/72.82.45.69 these] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20211102110941/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/72.82.47.169 these] block-evading edits. (Both of them involved creating Japanese names from redlinks, such as those listed [[wikt:ゆいな|here]]; at the time, I assumed that this permablock had mainly been done because of me ''continuing'' to make the bad edits—inaccurate Chinese entry creations—that RcAlex36 was unhappy about and for which I'd originally been blocked; I was not aware that "block evasion" applied to both good ''and'' bad edits.) Of course, RcAlex36's messages don't exactly ''excuse'' my later block evasions, but they still sound somewhat like taunting to me.<shrug>
+If you look at [[wikt:User:RcAlex36]]'s messages [[wikt:User talk:Shāntián Tàiláng#Unblock_request_2021|here]], they sound like they're almost [[WP:NPA|personal attacks]], especially when you consider he said I was a "typical case" of {{linktext|死不足惜}} ("one's '''death''' is not or will not be a cause for regret", emphasis mine), even when I hadn't been edit-warring (disruptive editing, maybe, but ''not'' edit-warring; I had even thanked him for cleaning up after my bad edits previously).
 Also, RcAlex36's edit summary [https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sh%C4%81nti%C3%A1n_T%C3%A0il%C3%A1ng&diff=64455151&oldid=64448352 here] and [https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASh%C4%81nti%C3%A1n_T%C3%A0il%C3%A1ng&type=revision&diff=64462699&oldid=64462591 his reply] to my message about that edit seem {{linktext|uncalled-for}}, since on Wiktionary you're not supposed to link to an Alternative Form of a word (like {{linktext|off-colour}} as opposed to {{linktext|off-color}}) unless you're talking about the edit history of, or links made to, the page of that Alternative Form itself.
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 Is what RcAlex36 did a crime? And if so, is there any way you can reprimand him for it? Thanks for your time. [[User:Shāntián Tàiláng|Shāntián Tàiláng]] ([[User talk:Shāntián Tàiláng|talk]]) 16:53, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
-:Sigh.  I've had to block you indef.  Hard to believe you thought this post was OK.  I wish I had back the time I've spent trying to avoid blocking you. --[[User:Floquenbeam|Floquenbeam]] ([[User talk:Floquenbeam#top|talk]]) 17:08, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
+:Sigh. I've had to block you indef. Hard to believe you thought this post was OK. I wish I had back the time I've spent trying to avoid blocking you. --[[User:Floquenbeam|Floquenbeam]] ([[User talk:Floquenbeam#top|talk]]) 17:08, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
+::Yes, but I wish *I* had back the time I spent [[WP:HA|harassing]] all those editors in the first place. (Sorry for any potential block violation Floq, but *sigh* this is [probably] my best chance at Taking Back The Foolish Things I Typed That Came Out Wrong. I did not WANT to make this post around my WT block, and you ARE right, I shoulda tried harder at avoiding that topic. I'm VERY sorry for this accidental dishonesty. Hey, you wanna be my proofreader or something?) (And one last thing, this is a [[WP:VALIDALT]] of mine on WP and Commons--please see the userbox on my main account's userpage.) [[User:Block Vader of the Sith|Block Vader of the Sith]] ([[User talk:Block Vader of the Sith|talk]]) 03:57, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 == Lego  ==