User talk:Thepsyborg

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Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:25, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Revert of collapsed text at ANI

I collapsed a subsection on WP:ANI due to it being off-topic (it was just complaining incessantly about the WMF not fixing a notification bug, while the section was about an editor refusing to use sources), but you reverted the collapsing. In turn, I would like an explanation for the revert, because I do not understand why you undid it. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 03:19, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Totally accidental, and fixed. Sorry about that. Thepsyborg (talk) 03:31, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

No problem. And Softlavender and Ritchie, sorry for the ping over this accidental removal of your ANI report. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 03:34, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

@Softlavender: I would also like to bring attention to the fact that in the same edit I'm notifying for, Thepsyborg also deleted, with no explanation, an entire ANI report that Softlavender made that was addressed to @Ritchie333. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 03:30, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

sigh Also accidental. Also fixed. Also sorry.

Really not sure what I did there. Frustrating. Thepsyborg (talk) 03:35, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

• It's simple: When starting a new thread on any talkpage or noticeboard, click the + symbol at the top. DO NOT try to scroll to the bottom and add it that way. Above all, when you get an Edit Conflict notice, DO NOT click Publish changes. You'll have to make the post all over again, but the Edict Conflict notice will include the text of your intended post if you look carefully, so just copy that, open a new page, and repost on a clean version of the page. Softlavender (talk) 04:19, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

  AHA.

  Figured it had to be something along those lines- I did get the Edit Conflict notice, so I copied the text of my addition, closed the editor, reopened it from the page, re-added my addition, and published...and I think I forgot to refresh the page before reopening the editor, so I was "editing" from an old version.

  Thanks for the tip about the + symbol. Thepsyborg (talk) 04:22, 22 July 2022 (UTC)