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For reasons I cannot go into, my talk page may be protected from time to time. If you wish a page I deleted restored, and you cannot edit here , please make a request at WP:DELETION REVIEW. I apologize for the inconvenience .. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:44, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to know how to get a wiki page on myself, would you know how to do this? Mentallyhyp (talk) 00:05, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mentallyhyp:. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a place to write about oneself. Please see Wikipedia:Autobiography. Subjects of encyclopedia articles must meet inclusion requirements with reliable sources which are unconnected with the subject and which provide verifiable information. Someone unconnected with the subject needs to have written a great deal about the subject. Thanks, -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 01:16, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Bishonen | tålk 09:59, 27 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

I'm curious as to your thoughts about the benefits of an administrator defending themselves in an ArbCom case. Marine 69-71 is the latest case, but far from singular. I'm not focusing on Marine 69-71 here. I don't see what benefit defending yourself brings. In essence, there are three options when an admin is brought before ArbCom:

1. Ignore the case request. Result: get desysopped.
2. Acknowledge the case, but don't defend yourself. Result: get desysopped
3. Contribute to the case, defending yourself. Result: get desysopped

All three options result in desysopping, as history shows. Since getting desysopped is a foregone conclusion, the best possible way of managing such a situation is ignoring the case request as this results in the least amount of time spent on the pointless endeavour. Your thoughts? --Hammersoft (talk) 13:06, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Acknowledge the concerns of the community. When those concerns are ill-founded, make the necessary explanations, clarifications, and corrections. When those concerns are well-founded, own the concerning behavior and make convincing assurances that the behavior will not be repeated. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:33, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

...which will result in them be desysopped. So, why bother making the effort and time expenditure? --Hammersoft (talk) 18:58, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is not at all true but whatever you want to think, think. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:04, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not what I want to think. I'd rather there be fair, equitable outcomes for all parties at ArbCom. But, that's not remotely the case with ArbCom. In this general category of case, I've had one (at M6971's talk page) case be made known to me that resulted in something other than desysopping. That's 1, against lord knows how many that resulted in desysopping. It's just reality. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:59, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Those who seek power are not worthy of that power." - Plato. Or to be more modern about it, desysopping follows the same logic as blocking: delivered not as retribution, but to protect the project and other users from disruption and inappropriate conduct, and to deter any future possible repetitions of inappropriate conduct. Being desysopped is only a "punishment" to those who view it as such. Sirocco745 (talk) 07:16, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sirocco745: good comparison. The advice I offer above is much like User:Deepfriedokra/dna. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 07:21, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you think the Marine arbcom case request is bad, you should see THIS -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 07:28, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was poking through the drama board when I noticed that second ANI thread first appear. That single admin recall request has 86 editors, 105 watchers, and about 8000 pageviews. If there's one thing you don't want doing numbers, it's the "this guy did a dumb" page, which is why I plan to keep my stupidity off-wiki! People forget, but the internet doesn't. Sirocco745 (talk) 07:44, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are wise -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 07:48, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you hard deleted one of that IP's talk page replies. I'm morbidly curious, on a scale of one to ten (or eleven), how bad was it? Sirocco745 (talk) 07:17, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sirocco745: if you like, can restore it. I don't talk like that. 😜 -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 07:24, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

11 -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 07:24, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welp, I am somehow not surprised. Thank you for hard deleting it then! Sirocco745 (talk) 07:27, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No? Really? Oh yes it does. JBW (talk) 22:29, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

enough's enough already. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:28, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Long time since I've talked to ya! It's been a rough season, that's for sure.

Watch out for Rafael now, though. Take precautions now if necessary. ~ Tails Wx 19:38, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank God the storm's not headed to the Carolinas. It was already a catastrophe when Helene hit us. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 19:42, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for quickly deleting Charlee.Mitschke. I can't understand why this remained unspotted here for more than four years. Thanks to some random IP that marked a picture they'd uploaded for speedy deletion. 4 years is a huge time. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 16:31, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Aafi: sometimes it takes a while for us to notice stuff like that. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:35, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

old bad boys, you know. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 16:54, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Deepfriedokra, should I transfer this image to Commons or keep local with Template:Userspace file? Myrealnamm (💬pros · 📜cons) 21:57, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bold 2.51.11.94 (talk) 22:04, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Myrealnamm: it's out of scope for commons. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 22:12, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They've been blocked. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 22:31, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Emir of Wikipedia: shocked -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 22:33, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Emir of Wikipedia Wonder why they even wrote BOLD there. Myrealnamm (💬pros · 📜cons) 23:07, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can get some strange vandalism and trolling on Wikipedia. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 21:42, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." --Hunter S. Thompson -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:47, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you watch this talk page, you will see things that cannot be unseen. Or forgotten. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 00:01, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Something in your "please reconsider your spam, dearest newbie" AfC draft comment template is breaking the AfC template when you use AFCH. Or are you doing this manually? It's leaving the AfC comment properly, but it removes the draft submission template for some reason. Eg: [1]. -- asilvering (talk) 20:39, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Asilvering: argh thanks. bang goes that idea -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:43, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon, you use templates when you make AFCH comments pretty frequently, and it doesn't break anything. Any ideas what's going wrong here? -- asilvering (talk) 20:46, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Probably something to do with my on-screen keyboard. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:48, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:asilvering, User:Deepfriedokra - I can see that the template that is mentioned here is more complex than any of my templates. I will take a look in a few hours, but I need to swim first. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:14, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In looking at the history of the draft, I see that the draft submission template simply isn't there after the message template is added. That is, the draft submission template is not being broken or interfered with but actually removed. The complex template may be beyond my level of skill, but I will take a look at it. What is the name of the template? Robert McClenon (talk) 03:28, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I copypasted in text from User:Deepfriedokra/del and trimmed as needed. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 08:07, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Seen you around a lot. You do good work with cleaning up spam and managing unblocks. Maybe you can give me some advice on the latter someday? Anyway, I felt like you deserve this :) Fathoms Below (talk) 20:58, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Fathoms Below: Thank you muchly. I mostly just fix broken ones these days. @331dot: is the exemplar for CAT:UNBLOCK. User:Deepfriedokra/dna sums up what I require but so seldom see in unblock requests. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 00:18, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]