User talk:DontClickMeName

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I wish I hadn't clicked your name

Because it led me to your userpage. I'm pretty thick skinned most of the time but I gotta tell you I found your "interesting information" about why the U.S. joined in World War II very offensive, not to mention an extremely weak conclusion based on entirely specious logic. Frankly it seems like a statement deliberately designed to be offensive to Americans rather than an honest attempt to relay interesting information. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:07, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorry it was 100% a joke. Was pretty obvious lol. Since you see it that way, I'll get change it. Oh boy how easily it is to get offended these days. DontClickMeName _talk^{contributations} 09:22, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

In this text-only environment it is often difficult to tell what is intended as humor and what is not, and frankly I don't find anything about the deaths of millions of people the least bit funny anyway, but I appreciate your willingness to change it. Beeblebrox (talk) 15:08, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

"Joke" doesn't necessarily mean something is meant to be funny. "Joke" is also defined by a obvious case of sarcasm. For example, someone saying "yeah, Jesus killed President Kennedy" is called a joke even though it is not in any way meant to be funny, but rather as sarcasm.

You are the person who, once hearing this, would be offended and rant "No, no no! that's an extremely weak conclusion! It's not true!!! Jesus didn't do it!" DontClickMeName _talk^{contributations} 02:59, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Wow I see that I did not follow those guidelines on my userpage in the past DontClickMeName _talk^{contributions} 05:09, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

And spelled "contributions" "contributations" in my Wikipedia signature. DontClickMeName _talk^{contributions} 05:10, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Verifiability

About this question - I'm pretty sure it says this in the policy, but yes, you may challenge and remove anything that is not cited to a reliable source. Judging from the example you gave, you probably should also read up on our policy on no original synthesis and our guideline on identifying reliable sources. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 08:36, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, I've been wondering bout this for decades -DontClickMeName _talk^{contributions} 01:23, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Social anxiety/phobia

Hello DontClickMeName,

According to the respective Wikipedia article Social anxiety, "a psychopathological (chronic and disabling) form of social anxiety is called social phobia or social anxiety disorder, and is a chronic problem that can result in a reduced quality of life." ... "Some use the terms social anxiety and social phobia interchangeably." We don't know whether this author uses social anxiety and social phobia interchangeably or uses social phobia strictly in the psychopathological sense. We shouldn't speculate. By using exactly the term the author himself uses, we are on the safe side. You're right that on Wikipedia, we don't have to render quotes word-by-word, but we mustn't alter the statements contentswise and we mustn't slip our own interpretations in. If social anxiety and social phobia can have two different meanings, we should avoid to use them interchangeably to preclude misinterpretations. In cases of doubt, the wording that is closer to the original, is the better. Sorry for not answering you earlier. Kind regards. --RJFF (talk) 08:23, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for your contributions! Here, have a kitten.

Saruman IV (talk) 08:19, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I just saw it on someone's talk page, and it had a link that led to Project:Wikilove. It was one of the templates at the bottom. There's other ones besides kittens, too. Saruman IV (talk) 18:07, 18 September 2012 (UTC)