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NOTE: I plan to manually archive this talk page every year. To keep things organized, all discussions from the year should go in Archive n. Also, don't warn me about the blockchain and cryptocurrency general sanctions - I was already notified back in 2021. (This message shouldn't get archived, however.) Duckmather (talk) 23:19, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE 64.203.187.251 (talk) 01:06, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Being a dumb woke libtard

Please don't make random ad hominem attacks Duckmather (talk) 01:13, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The article Delacombe (surname) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unrequired dab page only one page exists as per WP:DAB

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@Mcmatter: Sorry, I made a silly mistake and got the first name of one of the entries wrong. Time to trout myself, I guess! Duckmather (talk) 13:13, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ahh no worries I tried searching for another Delacombe and it didn't show up but looks good now. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 13:16, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

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Fixed. Thanks. Duckmather (talk) 14:03, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to List of governors of Bahia: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. –HirowoWiki (📝) 23:55, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Duckmather. Thank you for reverting due to sockpuppet. :) –HirowoWiki (📝) 00:02, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Pee pee twp for deletion, because it's a redirect that seems implausible or is an unlikely search term.

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Your recent edits to my talk-page were duplicates and direct to the wrong day. I'm not very bothered, but thought you might want to look through your posting process, something seems to be wrong. CFCF (talk) 06:26, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@CFCF: It was autogenerated by Twinkle. I was RfD'ing two redirects (Template:Collapose bottom and Template:Collapose top) and it turned out you were the creator for both. If it's a Twinkle bug, you should bother the maintainers instead. (Plus I also wish that Twinkle supported batch-XfD'ing.) Duckmather (talk) 23:30, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This edit is good, but its more than just copy editing as its added new information to the article. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 18:59, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I had made this request since Elongated Muskrat was deleted a long time ago. Chuterix (talk) 00:11, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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CFDs were made for Elongated Musk and Elongated Muck. Chuterix (talk) 00:12, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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A page you created has been nominated for deletion because it is a biography of a living person that is entirely negative in tone and contains unsourced content, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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@Chuterix: Which page was this? Duckmather (talk) 19:28, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The page (now deleted) is Elongated Musket Gun. Chuterix (talk) 20:11, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is not in any way to bootlick Elon Musk, but it's probably for the same reasons why Elongated Muskrat cannot be recreated as an article and Mango Mussolini was deleted. I don't think "Elongated Musket Gun" is a common derogatory name for Elon Musk anyway, at least not mentioned in formal contexts (unlike Orange man (see Orange man bad) and Sleepy Joe). Chuterix (talk) 20:16, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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the nonfree rationale has been ignored FOUR TIMES and the stupid bots keep destroying the image and it is getting very distressing. please help please don't revert anything which the bots keep damaging please respect that I have been tortured and have had strokes and other harm so you must must be very very careful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flynn_1972_SIMD_Taxonomy.jpg Lkcl (talk) 10:37, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

this is getting dangerously distressing for me, I don't know how to stop the bots from damaging the page and the image. the work which was 1970 *is* US-Govtfunded. please can a proper investigation be carried out, if it cannot be sorted without causing significant distress I will have to stop contributing to this very important computing topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AFlynn_1972_SIMD_Taxonomy.jpg&diff=1304162261&oldid=1304162224 Lkcl (talk) 10:42, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

after recovering from another medical incident I decided I have had enough of the bots and hand-drew replacements for the image. by necessity they have to be near-identical otherwise the topic is not understandable. which is stupid. but as these are like mathematical diagrams a topological recreation is ok as mathematics may not be copyrighted. Lkcl (talk) 13:41, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried commenting out the non-free template entirely, so only the {{PD-USGov}} template remains. Let me know if that doesn't work. Duckmather (talk) 16:12, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lkcl: why did you revert my edit? Duckmather (talk) 16:29, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

because i was getting very distressed at the bots incessantly interfering, i was trying to get help to stop them destroying the image, but wanted to preserve the hard work on creating the nonfree fair-use exemption. i cannot cope with this so have redrawn the images by hand. Lkcl (talk) 17:53, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, @Duckmaster! Thanks for caring about copyrights. You tagged the bove article for revision deletion. But in the same edit you added the close paraphrasing tag to it. Was the paraphrasing not removed in the revdel? If not, what source is being plagiarized? I'll rectify the issue if I know what to go after. Stay fabulous! Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 08:16, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please ensure you use Template:Redirect category shell when creating redirects. Thanks! Electricmemory (talk) 17:34, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I can't see any evidence that either of the people here is referred to simply as "intersex mayor." This thus seems like an unnecessary disambiguation page. Could you provide any such sources? JJP_Master (she/they) 02:04, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The story went like this: At first (on July 22nd), I heard of Tony Briffa (politician), who at the time I thought was the only intersex mayor in the world. (This was remarked on in the news, so I thought that "intersex mayor" was a perfectly reasonable search term.) Later on I realized she wasn't, so the redirect had to go, and I eventually decided on dabbing it. I get your point that either of the people aren't simply referred to as "intersex mayor", so it's not strictly a dab page per se, and this is why I tagged it with {{dab cleanup}}. Maybe one solution could be to move it to some title like List of intersex mayors or List of LGBT mayors, but I'm not sure whether that would meet WP:NLIST. Either way, you're probably a lot more knowledgeable about the WP:GENSEX topic area than I am. Duckmather (talk) 04:30, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: using a wildly out of date and never particularly accepted transliteration system here [[1]]—blindlynx 01:27, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

(thank you for fixing the ref though!)—blindlynx 01:28, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Blindlynx: To be fair I was using the automatic citation button when I made that edit, so this is probably a citoid or zotero problem. Duckmather (talk) 00:02, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough! Every so often an edit warrior comes along and insist on some variation of that translit so I thought you just unknowingly going off of one of those edits—blindlynx 00:18, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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@Duckmather, I undid your revision of the "Madagascar" article because I had earlier placed a Guild of Copy Editors in Use notification at the top of it, as GOCE editors do when we're engaged in a requested copy edit of articles. The notification should help prevent exactly what happened in your case: that another editor comes along and makes an edit. It's really disruptive for us as we work on these requests.

Please wait till you no longer see the notification any more, then go ahead with any edits you'd like to make, including the one I undid. Augnablik (talk) 09:54, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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