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I am requesting a name change to Joy. --Shallot 12:16, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

This page is now archived. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 12:07, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Joy!

Happy New Year!

Joy,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Happy New Year 2024!

	Happy New Year!
	Hello Joy: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 23:12, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Request move comment

Hi, can you please make a comment so a consensus can be reached at: Talk:History of the Balkans#Requested move 27 December 2023 and Talk:Slavic migrations to the Balkans#Requested move 27 December 2023. Miki Filigranski (talk) 13:10, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

"bad SMC, bad!"

I think you mean {{Strongbad}}. Heh.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:54, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish I forget to preview as well sometimes, too :) --Joy (talk) 14:43, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

I even did, and simply didn't see it. Same with another typo someone caught after you.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:47, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish I guess the best way to do it is to split the copyedit up into smaller chunks. --Joy (talk) 15:06, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Joy and “self control issues”. Thank you.Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 08:23, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations, sort of

WP:ANI has more than the usual number of attacks by new or unregistered editors against established editors. Welcome to a strange club. Some of them have been blocked. Your enemy hasn't yet been blocked. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:08, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Talk:King Charles

Hi Joy, thanks for the update on Lord Cameron, which I'll be subscribing to. I was just wondering what you thought about the statistics for King Charles and whether another move request might be justified now or a little later down the line. All the best, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 17:06, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

@Neveselbert thanks for the note. That's an interesting case as well, because it might be indicating that the current formatting might be causing about a thousand misclicks a month? :) We can't be sure, but sure looks like it. Either way, if we combine those two, it's still 4.62k out of 8.2k, which is ~56%, so ~44% of the readers either aren't looking for the current British monarch or couldn't identify him from that list. This is so still much reader traffic that it would probably be worth the effort to try to experiment a bit. Maybe putting him on top of that list might change this? Maybe extending his caption to indicate something like "former Prince of Wales" would be helpful? Maybe a common meanings section on top of it everything? --Joy (talk) 17:50, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Sure thing. I've edited the disambiguation page, would this be OK? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 21:11, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

I would have done that Charlemagne change in a separate edit, but sure. Since we're now in the middle of February, the first month where we see the full impact of the change will be March, so let's check back in mid April after the stats regenerate. --Joy (talk) 10:58, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi Joy, it's mid-April now. Looking at the stats, I think there's a stronger case now for both King Charles and Lord Cameron. What do you make it? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 18:42, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@Neveselbert I actually followed up at Talk:Lord Cameron already - it actually subsided a bit from the initial spike. Given the downward trend, I'd track that one for a couple more months to make sure. I'll have a look at the other one. --Joy (talk) 18:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

So, wait for Lord Cameron, King Charles stays as is? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 17:43, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

@Neveselbert in each of those cases there were organized discussions, using the WP:RM system. They were both somewhat contentious, so regardless of what you and I observe now, if substantial changes were to be made, they should be made using the same organized discussion process anyway so that interested people are notified in a consistent manner, as a means of following the WP:CONS policy. --Joy (talk) 07:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Hamm

Thanks for sorting out most of the incoming links :) 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 14:10, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

@Cremastra I actually only did a few, I think you should thank Onel5969 :) --Joy (talk) 14:56, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Why a /28 block?

I must confess I never even knew Croatian kuna existed, much less had any thoughts of editing it, so it's not as if it'll really affect me. But all the same, why did you block the entire 2603:800* range from the article, when from looking at its history only a single /64 range (2603:8001:b202:3294:*) was the one editing the article? (For context, the /28 range includes 68 billion other /64 addresses (and thus devices) besides the one actually causing you problems.) 2603:8001:4542:28FB:13D:3E61:A292:EAAC (talk) 14:23, 19 February 2024 (UTC) (Send talk messages here)

Could you at least reduce the block from 1 year to 6 months instead? 2603:8001:B202:3294:A943:8193:E260:B3E6 (talk) 15:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

My grandfather

Hello and dobry den , I am the granddaughter of Jan Smudek - thankyou for this Information - I’d love to know more and add some things ! jsem Katuš Young , vnučka Jana Smudka . Děkuji za přidání této informace. Rád bych k tomu někdy přidal další! A pokud o něm máte nějaké další informace, budu rád, když se o ně podělíte, Dekuji, Katuš Katuš young (talk) 16:41, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Croatian kuna blocked user now vandalising Ryan Bang

Hi. You blocked this IP from Croatian kuna; they have now begun to vandalise Ryan Bang. Not sure if this is relevant to you, but thought I would highlight just in case. BobEret (he/him) (talk) 23:29, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

"TAR" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect TAR has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 February 25 § TAR until a consensus is reached. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:17, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Sofronije Podgoričanin

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Heads up on disruptive user

Just wanted to let you know 216.174.64.0/18 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) or 216.8.128.0/18 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) is still at it, still with the same awful hagiographies, still doesn't communicate with anyone. So sadly, nothing has changed in that regard. Aleksamil (talk) 17:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Aleksamil you're saying we need to restrict their edits to draft space again? --Joy (talk) 18:54, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Joy Oh, I thought they were banned back then from all namespaces. Idk what the course of action in cases like this should be, honestly. I haven't really seen this behavior before.

The articles they're churning out are usually egregiously violating WP:NPOV, and I think it's safe to say they're consciously refusing to communicate with the community. Aleksamil (talk) 19:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Oh yeah, the block was set to a year and it expired since. If there's been no apparent change in pattern, I'll just extend the blocks again. --Joy (talk) 19:43, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Bludgeon?

FWIW, I don't agree with the charge (especially as the roles could easily have be reversed ). It seems perfectly reasonable to me for the proponent to offer rebuttal to points made against the motion – and conversely. To me, bludgeoning would be to just say the same thing over and over, no matter what points were made. I doubt that this will escalate but if it does, do please let me know as I will be very happy to lend my support. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 12:55, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

@JMF thank you for your kind words! I agree, we are merely having a polite disagreement, and the consensus-building process is not being disrupted, or rather there was little to explain an alternate interpretation of how the discussion is going. Certainly a volume of comments can be an indicator of a problem, and goodness knows I can be verbose, but still, I think this is still a quality discussion. In either case, I don't hold a single such charge against the commenter, I've seen people throw around potentially inflammatory wiki-lingo in various situations before :) --Joy (talk) 13:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

@Dekimasu I don't know if you were closing this arbitrarily today, or with the explicit intent of preventing an escalation of a disruptive discussion, but either way, I would appreciate it if you could share with us a bit more about why Talk:Maus#Requested move 11 February 2024 was ready to be closed. --Joy (talk) 13:27, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

I thought perhaps the most telling point made is that on the one hand we have a Pulitzer-winning novel and featured article; on the other we have a unit that never saw service. We don't count !votes but the majority is clear for no change. I struggle to understand why you would consider that Dekimasu might consider it likely that any substantive new point will be added at this stage. Why prolong the agony? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 14:23, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm mainly worried about this impression is that we ended on a bit of a low note, with this accusation of impropriety, a couple of new !votes without much comment and the close without much explanation all coming in the same day. I don't know about the potential for new points to be raised, but it didn't strike me that anyone was really agonizing there. --Joy (talk) 14:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the message on my talk, since I didn't receive the ping. This was my first visit to the page, and I arrived there directly from the backlog section of WP:RM. I read the full discussion and closed it normally. If I thought there were particular problems with the behavior of editors in the discussion, I would have mentioned that in the close. As far as the strength of individual arguments, less is usually more when writing a close; mentioning specific points often makes editors feel less heard rather than more. A "no consensus" close in this type of discussion is often awkward, since it is a place where our standard processes point to different solutions: "no consensus" usually retains the status quo, but "no consensus" that there is a primary topic means a disambiguation page would be better at the base title. In this case, I read the discussion as a consensus (though not unanimous) on the question of whether there was a primary topic with regard to significance, and a consensus (though a weaker one) on the question of whether there was a primary topic according to usage. It's possible that closers visiting the page earlier in the discussion may have thought more time was needed in order for a clear consensus to emerge and avoid the scenario mentioned above, but I saw a consensus in a backlogged discussion when I came to the page. I hope this explanation is sufficient. Best, Dekimasuよ! 04:10, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Croatian wikipedia

Hello Joy, can this page be edited better, so many things are written incorrectly here, look at my edits of this page, but some users do not agree with it. They write that it says that it is the past tense, but it doesn't say that it is the same today, which confuses the readers. Thank you. I won't edit anymore if you can improve it.[[1]] 78.1.143.81 (talk) 16:33, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Incomplete block?

Please check

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2603:8001:B202:3294:A9C8:9E7E:475:AC44

He is still editing. How?--Estopedist1 (talk) 14:27, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

@Estopedist1 they are only blocked from one particular page. If you think there is reason to block this IP address from other areas of Wikipedia, please start a thread at WP:ANI to explain why. --Joy (talk) 17:50, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Could we end this block by December or January? Besides, Bulgaria is scheduled to replace the Bulgarian lev and adopt the euro in 2025 (originally planned for 2024). 2603:8001:B202:3294:5C30:C30C:67BE:C42F (talk) 05:29, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Dear anonymous user from 2603:8001:B202:3294::/64, do you understand why you were blocked? Please also see Wikipedia:Appealing a block. --Joy (talk) 09:20, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Croat-Bosniak War result dispute

Ok so, I messaged you about this since I figured you would know, you do work with these types of pages (im assuming), so here is this question:

How did the Croat–Bosniak War end? Was it because of a Bosnian victory or because it ended by the Washington Agreement? I am saying this because two users are disputing about how the war ended (I'm not naming). I personally think the agreement ended the war, but one person says it is a Bosnian victory, while another says the agreement ended it.

If you could message me back and tell me your opinion, that'd be great. If a talk page discussion should be added, let me know.

Tvoj zločinac iz Srbije, Overthrow-dictator (talk) 16:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

@Overthrow-dictator please feel free to use standard WP:Content dispute mechanisms to deal with this matter. --Joy (talk) 18:56, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Piped links and WP:NOTBROKEN

Hi. Piped links through redirects is not the same thing as redirect links. WP:NOTBROKEN does not apply to links that are already justifiably piped; in piped links, the linked name should always be the exact name of the target so the reader is led to the page not through a redirect but directly. This is because piping through a redirect complicates things unnecessarily for the reader who then gets a message that they were led to the article from a term that they did not even see because it was hidden in the pipe. Otherwise, for the reader, the difference is imperceptible, and the markup is technically equivalent insofar as piping is used in both cases. NOTBROKEN is about avoiding unnecessary piping. It's either-or: Redirect link or piped link, but not piping through a redirect. —Alalch E. 10:12, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Bajamonti "last Italian mayor"

Yes, sorry, you're right, it was my mistake. Hi, --LukeWiller (talk) 21:06, 7 April 2024 (UTC).

Category:Legacy of Austria-Hungary has been nominated for merging

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