Wikipedia talk:Editors who may be confused

This page was nominated for deletion on 6 June 2020. The result of the discussion was keep.

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I always have trouble with User:SNUGGUMS and User:Snooganssnoogans, but I think that's more about the hash function my brain uses when reading names than actual confusion. --JBL (talk) 11:30, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If it helps, my name is the shorter of the two. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 13:46, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably I'm the only person who has a problem with User:Sphilbrick and User:SMcCandlish (I mean, they both start with S and ... have a hard C sound?) --JBL (talk) 18:04, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As well as Coffee and CoffeeCrumbs, there’s also User:Coffeeandcrumbs, which certainly confused me. P-K3 (talk) 18:22, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, I changed my signature for that reason. I have no objection to being added. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 18:27, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I hate to admit it since I have worked closely with them but, I sometimes confuse Masem and Maile, since they are both sysops and work in similar areas (i.e. projects leading to the Main Page). --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 18:38, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I have been confused with User:FloNight before, especially when others in the conversation referred to me as "Flo" (though I won't go hunting for a diff). If this is of any use to anyone, feel free to add. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:00, 7 June 2020 (UTC) p.s. it's possible this is how I inexplicably got elected to ArbCom... --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:01, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Everyone's free to edit the list directly. EEng 00:51, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh dear, are we? Andrewa (talk) 18:49, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know of anyone who might be confused with me (maybe ferret?) but I'm just confused in general. creffett (talk) 14:04, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I've definitely gotten names wrong in type. Kind of a product of my brain and some sort of strange dyslexia/misattribution, and it's only getting worse as I get older. Anecdotally, away from the keyboard, my brain enjoys addressing other people by wrong names. Such as addressing my brother by my son's name, or vice versa. I'm fairly certain I'm a product of my parents' misguided intentions. Leitmotiv (talk) 06:11, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Greylist

I'm guessing that the editor who proposed this for G6 speedy doesn't want to be listed.

If so their wishes should be respected, along with anyone else who objects to inclusion. Not sure whether to call this a blacklist or whitelist, so let's call it a greylist. Nor what to do if they also object to being on it.

And not sure what to do when one of the confusants wants in and the other wants out. Maybe suggest that the agreeable confusant set up and disclose an alternate userid so as to allow their inclusion, without needing to name the objecting confusant? (I first typed in "disagreeable confusant" but then thought no, not good.) Or is that just more confusing? (;-> Andrewa (talk) 18:34, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'd suggest anyone who doesn't want to be on the list should just remove themselves from it. Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 18:37, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly they should be encouraged to do so. But that doesn't go far enough IMO. If someone is repeatedly added against their wishes, for example, I would think they had a right to be annoyed.

So maybe it's also good form to ask their permission first, maybe by pinging them here rather than cluttering their talk page which could also be annoying, and regarding no reply as a "no". That would also leave a record here of their objection-by-default. Andrewa (talk) 19:04, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree if someone was repeatedly added against their wishes, they'd have a right to be annoyed, but I think it's extremely unlikely that there will be a problem with repeated re-additions, and if there is, an HTML comment (like "") should be all that's needed. Of course, my optimism here may be related to my inexperience. Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 19:14, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with Levivich on just delete oneself; no need to make some new page-specific "procedure" to listed or de-listed from here. If this is actually found to be a repeating problem, we can then go ahead and create a list of anyone who removed themselves or others from the list so others know they shouldn't be re-added without discussion. The list could be here in talk, but I think a simple hidden comment in the article's list would do.

Note the user in question was specifically named in the original article title, since removed, so this is likely a singular case; there's no evidence this is a problem needing our attention yet. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 19:18, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Wikipedia:Editors who don't want it known that they may be confused"?--WaltCip (talk) 20:54, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipeda:Editors who have or have not stopped beating their wives. E Eng 21:30, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please, respect diversity: Wikipeda:Editors who may be confused about whether they have stopped beating their significant other. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 03:51, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Though it's conceivable I've misread the tea leaves, I'm guessing that the person who made the G6 nomination does not, in fact, object. I think it's a bit early for removal requisitions and countermands filled out in triplicate on prenumbered forms memorialized in a blockchain archive. E Eng 21:30, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously anyone who objects to being included here should just demand to speak to the manager, call 911, and finally report EEng to ArbCom. Separately, should "Greylist" go on line 17 with Grayfell and Graywalls? --JBL (talk) 22:00, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- People might just think we're overreacting. Better to create a bot to randomly select a panel from the non- Category:Wikipedians with red-linked categories on their user talk page to try the offending Wikipedian on charges of being hillariously unfunny. We could call it CLOWNCOM. Andrewa (talk) 08:12, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  Organizing a Clowncom is a great idea. Its jurisdiction could be:
  1. Impose discretionary laughter (WP:CC/DL) upon talk pages;
  
  2. Oversee placement of {{humor}} tags;
  and if we want to be funny,
  
  3. Official enwiki liaison to the WMF. Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 04:42, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

CLOWNCOM

There is many a serious word said in jest. In fact all the best humour has an undernote of tragedy.

See User:Andrewa/How not to rant#Linking to this page.

And that is why humour can be so constructive. Food for thought? Andrewa (talk) 18:21, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, what does this have to do with this page? EEng 18:37, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- About the only thing that looks in-place here is that unflattering BoJo image, considering that this is an EEng-authored talk page.--WaltCip-(BLM!Resist The Orange One) 18:08, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm afraid I find it (added here with no signature or useful edit summary) quite out of place. Andrewa (talk) 20:06, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    - Poor Boris... There's just no place for him to fit in, it seems.--WaltCip-(BLM!Resist The Orange One) 11:47, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Has he tried doing the Monster Mash? Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 09:00, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

- I was replying to this post above. Sorry if I didn't make that plain. Andrewa (talk) 20:06, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  Agreeing with Levivich is always on topic, on any page. Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 15:47, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  I agree with ~~Levivich~~ Leitmotiv. --JBL (talk) 15:58, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  Please try to stay on topic. Levivich ^{[dubious – discuss]} 19:07, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  
  I agree of course. E Eng 18:34, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  Is this where the agree party is at? Totally agree! Leitmotiv (talk) 18:37, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  
  Disagree. I think you may be confusing them with someone else. Andrewa (talk) 02:58, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6GbYdB1c --Guy Macon (talk) 04:33, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bewhat?

A diff to the "wacky comedy-of-mistaken-identity" where Beland became, or was mistaken for, Begoon, to cause its addition to this page, would satisfy this poster's curiosity, maybe... -- Be-mused 12:56, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Name change required

I'm very confused most of the time, and yet I dont appear. Can somebody do something? -Roxy the elfin dog . wooF 10:48, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]