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[1] Is your autocorrect acting up, Just Step Sideways? No sarcasm here. starship.paint (RUN) 13:25, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, it has seemed to me for a long time that my autocorrect doesn't play well with WP. If I'm writing an email it highlights the typos, if I'm writing a WP comment, it does not, and I make a lot of typos. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 18:06, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I see, well as long as it's business as usual on the human end, then that's all right. Hope it gets better on the technology end! starship.paint (RUN) 15:08, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Name change

Hi Just Step Sideways, How come you changed your name? You used to be Beeblebrox!! scope_creepTalk 20:21, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Mostly just an opportunity to say "hi"

But, <pedantic> "project space" refers to WP space, not article space. </pedantic> --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:39, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I realized after I made the block that I'd screwed the wording up, but I didn't care enought to redo the whole thing. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 16:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I make enough errors in my edits to be annoying, but nothing grates on me more than doing it in a log entry or an edit summary and knowing I can't fix it without initiating a Streisand effect. Luckily I was here to helpfully point it out even when you didn't try to fix it.
I misunderstood that thread, I thought your block from article space, while leaving project space available, was because you thought they might just be new. Didn't want to reblock at first because I thought it would be stepping on your toes. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:57, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think they probably are actually a new user, but not one that was here in good faith. I didn't want to elaborate on exactly what made me sure about it as that would just be giving them advice on how to troll. I guess I basically gave them a chance to prove me wrong, and they did not. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 17:20, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I was wrong about that, now CU confirmed as a sock. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 18:58, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WT:U

Hi Just Step Sideways. I see that you semi-protected WT:U back in November 2023‎. That's a long time for a Talk page. Is there any chance you can change the protection to pending changes? --62.166.252.25 (talk) 17:53, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The thing is, the protection log [2] shows that the page was previously protected nine times for short periods, and every time it was unprotected, disruption started almost immediately. It's actually a bit of a head scratcher to me how so many new accounts find their way to that specific page and make posts that have no relevance to the username policy. I guess it's worth a try but if there end up being constant pending garbage edits I expect that I or another admin would put it back to semiprotection. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 18:05, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've noticed two things: the current protection is set to expire in a week, and it is actually not technically possible to apply PC on a talk page. I probably should've known that.... Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 18:10, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay... Well, maybe you can - and are willing to - answer my question here then. Is there a procedure in place to allow users to obtain their usernames with(out) spaces? For example User:Axel Boldt redirects to User:AxelBoldt; how can one obtain such a redirect. One reason for a redirect is to prevent impersonation, as happened with e.g. User:Broken Segue. A workaround might be to register with(out) spaces, and then get a username change, to force the creation of a redirect. --62.166.252.25 (talk) 18:16, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm pretty sure the procedure would be simply creating the redirect. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 18:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And creating the redirect will automatically prevent that user registration? For example, if you redirect User:JustStepSideways, then I cannot register as user "JustStepSideways"? --62.166.252.25 (talk) 18:25, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it would prevent the account being registered, but we routinely block accounts that are that similar to the name of an active user anyway. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 18:45, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey...

...old friend. I'll get used to the name. Good to see you. I'm about to head out and get a beer; you should come. Drmies (talk) 21:58, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey back at you. It's been a weird adjustment for me as well, but I'm digging it now. I believe I have a couple of cans of "Quilter's Irish Death" in the fridge, it's like 9%ABV and dark as the night, and I don't have anywhere to be this afternoon, so consider it done. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 22:20, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure the whole thing should be closed simply because it's being discussed at DYK

I have no objection to closing the 24-hour block issue, but discussion at DYK can't really result in a...well, result. There is an actual problem. Valereee (talk) 22:10, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The main discussion had actually stalled out pretty much the moment the block subthread was opened, I just left a pointer there in case people still wanted to discuss the underlying issue. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 22:18, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth I agree with you about the utility of 24-hour blocks. That's actually a big part of why I closed the discussion. Short, timed blocks are usually issued shortly after the incident that justifies them, to stop ongoing disruption. As a 24-hour block was the only sanction being actively discussed, and nobody had issued it after two days, it just seemed pointless to leave it open. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 00:02, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your close at ANI

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


Your close at ANI was not appropriate, especially based on your off-wiki friendship with ATG. I ask you to allow discussion to continue and consider yourself involved. The discussion was less than two days old and participation was not completed. You closed two discussions involving ATG in their favor twice this week. Lightburst (talk) 23:07, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Off-wiki friendship? Um, what? Since when does posting on the same forum, and occasionally agreeing with each other, constitute sufficient evidence to merit claims of being 'involved'? If that is the standard we are going to apply, we need to ban the entire Wikipedia contributor base, since they regularly express agreement with each other regarding all sorts of things, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:36, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is more than that. It is on an anti-wiki group that posts personal info of wikipedia editors and skewers DYK every day in a thread called cluster fuck. You and JSS are frequent participants WO. We need a review of this involved action which served you by cutting off ongoing discussion. Lightburst (talk) 23:46, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure. Why not add 'burn the heretics' to Wikipedia policy and go the whole hog. Everything will then be wonderful in Wikiland, because nobody in their right mind will say otherwise... AndyTheGrump (talk) 23:49, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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