User talk:Fish bowl

Nomination of NeXTWORLD for deletion

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— Mhawk10 (talk) 04:43, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

IP socking

I'm sorry, I should probably just indef block them, but TBH I don't have a ton of time to triple-check that I understand exactly what's going on, so I'm hesitant to act even when it's fairly obvious. I'm hoping a "second" final warning works, but I admit that's a bit lazy. Certainly let me know if they pester you again. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:15, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So frigging sorry about last July

I want you to know that I was the IP user who reverted Revision 1097890769 on your talk page over a year ago, and I didn't even know about the message Shāntián Tàiláng wrote on my old IP's talk page until this January. See, I had assumed that Shāntián Tàiláng's message to you was one sent by another person without an account, not a logged-out edit by a registered user. That's why I wrote the thing about WP:CIVIL, I didn't know who Shāntián Tàiláng was and I thought somebody in my IP range had simply been asking a question about how to properly sound clever.

For clarification: I remember that shortly before I reverted Revision 1097890769, I'd had to reset the router, as the Internet speed had gotten too slow. That always changes my IP address, and when I looked up my IP's contributions shortly afterwards to determine my new IP, lo and behold, there was that offending message, and I had no clue that it was secretly from Shāntián Tàiláng.

Besides, it struck me as rude to just revert a message without fully explaining why on Earth you didn't want it to be on your talkpage. I was assuming good faith, all right? See, it's not like I can watch you or other users type at their computers, unlike Skype!

Once again, I am truly sorry for sticking my nose into a matter I didn't fully understand. Besides, although I don't know if Shāntián Tàiláng has used this range anytime in the past six months, I only bought this cellphone a month or two ago and I've never left it out of my sight, so I understand that Shāntián Tàiláng could never have possibly used this device.

As they say in Japan, sayonara. 72.82.40.251 (talk) 18:41, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

stop talking about yourself in 3rd person dude — Fish bowl when reverting the preceding message

Look, Fishy. I don't know who you think I am, but I'm a woman, not a "dude", and I'm not trying to pester/harass/plague you or waste your time. All I want(ed) to do is apologize for that mistake I made last year. That's all. There's nothing sinister or deceptive about it. OK? 72.82.40.251 (talk) 21:00, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
PS. And BTW, please do tell me when you get a chance-- in general, why do editors sometimes revert messages left on their talkpages (that is, even when those messages are not copyvio or downright nasty)? I really want to know.