User talk:Atomic putty? Rien!

October 2022
Hello, I'm Lord Belbury. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions&#32;to Mind games have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. If you believe that a link was added as a joke by a "rouge editor" twelve years ago, why add it back to the article? Lord Belbury (talk) 19:58, 12 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi! Lord Belbury! Thank you for your courtesy; to answer your question, allowing the link between the two articles seemed harmless enough, and it *does* make a somewhat-justifiable link between two articles with related subject matter-- but mostly, it seemed like a small price to pay, to keep Wikipedia's own unique sense of humour alive. ( The Game is, after all, a Mind Game-- even though its inclusion can only be seen as humorous). It just felt like the thing to do. ^-^  Atomic putty? Rien!  13:13, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * (Stumbling across these fun little easter eggs, left behind by enigmatic editors long ago, always makes me feel a little bit like an archaeologist, digging through ancient ruins-- there's an immediate urge to preserve and protect them, as a part of Wikipedia's cultural history, and evidence of the unique eccentricity of its editing community)  Atomic putty? Rien!  16:00, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * P.S. -- did you know that your user page is one of only three pages on the english Wikipedia to host an image of the Temple de la Philosophie moderne at Ermenonville? It's one of my favorite examples of symbolic architecture. It was intentionally left partially constructed, to make the point that humanity's knowledge still has to grow-- which is so utterly metal. Very cool indeed.   Atomic putty? Rien!  13:32, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * Atomic putty? Rien! 18:36, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Altering user comments, white space changes, and AutoEd
I'm sure this edit of yours at Talk:Trans woman was well-meant, and maybe there's even a quantum of improvement for some people in seeing "Talk:Trans woman/Archive 4" instead of the underscores in "Talk:Trans_woman/Archive_4", but the problem is, that's not your Talk page comment, it's someone else's, and that runs into WP:TPO. It's best not to mess with others' comments; ask them to fix it in a reply comment if you think it's important enough; otherwise, you're basically substituting your opinion of how they ought to write something for theirs, and I can't think of any good reason to do that (and also, MOS:VAR, and WP:TPO).

Four of the other five edits were also problematic. Your edit to Palmer Report was the one acceptable one, because along with white space changes, you improved a wikilink per WP:NOPIPE. The other edits weren't okay however, as they only removed discretionary white space in the wikicode with no improvement or change to the rendered page. The WP:AutoEd instructions specifically say not to do that. Please be more careful in the future with AutoEd, avoid Talk pages if there's any risk of altering anyone's comments, and don't use it solely for cosmetic improvement of the wikicode, especially including white space changes that don't affect the rendered page. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:11, 11 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Ah, shoot. I think I’ve horrifically misunderstood AutoEd. Thanks for the courtesy call!  Atomic putty? Rien!  12:22, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries! As with all these semiautomated tools, you have to watch what they're proposing to do, and change anything that doesn't look right, or just bail out. Once you hit "Publish", it on you, but you don't have to go along with it. I've seen the same sort of result with AWB, which can be very useful, as long as you're watching. So feel free to use AutoEd, as long as it's doing what you want it to do. Happy editing, Mathglot (talk) 17:21, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Sounds good! If I use AutoEd again, I'll be going through the change summary item-by-item for sure. XD (For now, though, I think I'll use scripts sparingly, or just stick to ReFill 2 for my post-edit cleanup-with-a-button-push).  Atomic putty? Rien!  17:38, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

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