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Nice to see you! Joyous! Noise! 21:52, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Helllloooooo. You still getting love notes I see. Knitsey (talk) 21:53, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- I am, apparently, irresistible. Joyous! Noise! 21:54, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Perfume a la vandblock. Exclusive to Wikipedia. Knitsey (talk) 21:56, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Saw you editing again, figured I'd stop by and welcome you back myself. As Joyous! says, it's nice to see you here again. JeffSpaceman (talk) 22:38, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- @JeffSpaceman Hi,I'm so pleased that you're still here. Thank you for the welcome back. Same old, same old as far the abuse you're as well I see 👀. Knitsey (talk) 22:45, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- For sure. With the fact that I'm heavily patrolling recent changes again, vandals are happy to constructively criticize the contents of my edits -- by which I mean personally attack me because I have the disadvantages of being both an anti-vandalism patroller and queer, of course! Same as it ever was. JeffSpaceman (talk) 23:03, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Trolls to the left of me, trolls to the right of me. Chin up me lovely. Don't let them get to you x Knitsey (talk) 16:11, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- For sure. With the fact that I'm heavily patrolling recent changes again, vandals are happy to constructively criticize the contents of my edits -- by which I mean personally attack me because I have the disadvantages of being both an anti-vandalism patroller and queer, of course! Same as it ever was. JeffSpaceman (talk) 23:03, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- @JeffSpaceman Hi,I'm so pleased that you're still here. Thank you for the welcome back. Same old, same old as far the abuse you're as well I see 👀. Knitsey (talk) 22:45, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Saw you editing again, figured I'd stop by and welcome you back myself. As Joyous! says, it's nice to see you here again. JeffSpaceman (talk) 22:38, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Perfume a la vandblock. Exclusive to Wikipedia. Knitsey (talk) 21:56, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- I am, apparently, irresistible. Joyous! Noise! 21:54, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Sharing all the sentiment above, glad to see you back! ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) 18:58, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you LT. Nice to see familiar 'faces'. Knitsey (talk) 19:05, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
Refactoring comments
As that user has elected to continue refactoring comments here and admiitted to sockpuppetry in previous edits, I'm not sure what the appropriate course of action would be, probably TPA removal. As they've explicitly told me not to edit the page, I will not be doing so myself, but I figured you may know how to handle this. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) 19:44, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- On second thought I should probably just bring this to the blocking admin, but will keep here if you still have input. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) 19:45, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- They can strike my comment as it's their talk page but the sock thing should go to the blocking admin I guess. They won't end up unblocked after that admission so I don't know if there is much point doing anything else. Unless they start messing around? I tend to let them scream into the void if they want. TP removal can go if needed. Knitsey (talk) 19:50, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- To my understanding, striking comments is considered refactoring per WP:TPO, unless I'm missing something. Agreed though that the socking is the more egregious admission, I imagine we might need to keep an eye on Kate King and related articles for a bit. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) 19:53, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- I will watch list the current linked pages. They should disappear if/when it is deleted. Was it you who thought they had tried to create this article before? Knitsey (talk) 20:01, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- Nope, I imagine that might have been UaMaol. I had never heard of the article subject until the page hit my RC feed the other day. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) 20:03, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- I probably imagined it. I'm so tired that I've forgotten most of what happened this morning lol. Knitsey (talk) 20:06, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- Nope, I imagine that might have been UaMaol. I had never heard of the article subject until the page hit my RC feed the other day. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) 20:03, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- I will watch list the current linked pages. They should disappear if/when it is deleted. Was it you who thought they had tried to create this article before? Knitsey (talk) 20:01, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- To my understanding, striking comments is considered refactoring per WP:TPO, unless I'm missing something. Agreed though that the socking is the more egregious admission, I imagine we might need to keep an eye on Kate King and related articles for a bit. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) 19:53, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
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