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Happy editing! Austronesier (talk) 17:47, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'm not really new, it's just that I don't bother to log into my account unless I need to, and they keep changing my IP every couple of months or years. We've talked before here, too. :) Good thing the template is easy to post, so I haven't misled you into wasting too much time. :) 87.126.21.225 (talk) 18:22, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
We've talked before here Oh, I've guessed so :) Nice edits in Antipassive voice. Willi (2018) is a pretty unlikely source to use for that purpose, but sure, it's all there. If I have time, I will expand that part from more "classic" sources on the topic, so I can add the commonly used labels "indefinite antipassive" (bullet point 1) and "demoting antipassive" (bullet point 2). –Austronesier (talk) 19:48, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, I just figured this important info should appear in the article as soon as possible, so I resorted to the quickest and laziest option of citing whatever reliable source happened to be nearest at hand for me, even though it just summarises the sources that actually do focus on the subject. Early/Pre-PIE reconstruction is one hell of a drug, I do occasionally indulge.--87.126.21.225 (talk) 14:21, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your helpful edits - would be great if you used your account more often!

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Hi 87.126.21.225, I just noticed your helpful edits in the Muqaddimah article and wanted to invite you to create an account, but now I see that you already have one. Please consider using it more often, because it's really useful for other editors patrolling changes to recognize good editors by their username. If you would log into your account I would probably not look too critically to your edits, which in turn would save me a lot of time. Regards, ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 14:28, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for appreciating my edits as helpful. As for your suggestion - you see, I believe that editors should assess all edits on their merits and not according to who has made them. Even if they may feel that the latter approach is easier and saves them time, it is bound to lead to injustice and effects contrary to the project's goals. An unregistered user can make good edits - edits by unregistered users have always been allowed on Wikipedia, as is natural for the open-minded and inclusionary philosophy of 'an encyclopedia that anyone can edit' - and a registered and 'established' user can made bad edits and should not be exempt from scrutiny. All too often, editors revert edits by unregistered users just because they are unregistered and thus assumed to be vandals, as I experience on my own skin all the time. Even in this case, I dare say that the helpfulness of my edits was obvious - there were clear edit summaries and [citation needed] tags that were more explicitly motivated than even registered editors usually bother to make; in my opinion, establishing their helpfulness shouldn't have required more time than it is reasonable to expect, if one has taken it upon oneself to assess another editor's edits at all. And yet, I suppose that the reason for your polite message is that you were initially strongly inclined to revert them and that you now even feel a little bit that I have wronged you by wasting some seconds of your time ('a lot of time') and forcing you to actually reflect on what you are doing and the substance of my edits, instead of just going by your intuition and reverting them merely because they are by an unregistered user. I've had similar conversations many times over the years. This is like a policeman's making a habit of stopping and searching people just based on their wearing hoodies, then politely asking those citizens who turned out not to be criminals to stop wearing hoodies in order to 'look less suspicious' and not waste his time searching them. I don't think such requests should be fulfilled; indeed, the more people fulfil them, the more reinforced and entrenched the inadequate criterion for stopping and searching people will become. So, even though I realise that not registering regularly causes my edits to be treated as worse by default and often wrongfully reverted, it is at this point for me a matter not only of convenience, but also of principle not to do so. Regards, --87.126.21.225 (talk) 10:48, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, 87.126! I see that you have a philosophical issue with using your account based on the "it saves other editors time" rationale. I respect that; I try to treat IPs the same as I would a registered account with no or very few edits: with the expectation they're well-intentioned.

There are a large number of benefits to using your account other than building a reputation. For instance, I can notify you when I've reverted a change of yours, or just when I want to discuss something with you, like at Talk:Respectability politics. When I saw the notification show up and went there, I had zero memory what the discussion was even about because it had been so long ago. If I'd have been able to ping you and (of course assuming you'd had the time and interest to respond) we could have discussed. I can't ping an IP, so it's harder to communicate.

At any rate, that's my 2cents. It doesn't have to be about wearing a hoodie. Personally I think they look cool. :D Valereee (talk) 10:25, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thanks for the advice. I appreciate your tolerance for IPs. :) However: 1. you can in fact notify me when you revert a change of mine - by posting a message on my talk page. There are even dedicated templates for this, as I recall. It may be a bit less convenient than pinging, but only a bit. 2. I actually don't want to get an automatic notification on my screen whenever someone has replied to me or reverted my edits. I always find such notification messages very unnerving, as the reverts and replies are generally uncooperative and obtuse at best and hostile and malevolent at worst, so I prefer to find out about such things on my terms, when I feel emotionally ready to deal with the issue, if I ever do. Which may be a year later, five years later or never. --87.126.21.225 (talk) 10:44, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, you do you. :) Valereee (talk) 12:03, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Again, welcome! ~Sıgehelmus♗(Tøk) 00:14, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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