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Request for admin assistance

{{Admin help}} Hello, I accidentally edited Deprivation while logged out. I went back and reverted the edit, then repeated the change under my named account. Is it possible to remove the IP edit from the page history for privacy reasons? Thanks, AnonQuixote (talk) 05:02, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I have suppressed the edit. PhilKnight (talk) 11:53, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

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Deleting others' talk page comments at Misplaced Pages:Main Page/Errors

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Misplaced Pages:Main Page/Errors, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ― Tartan357  06:36, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Misplaced Pages:Main Page/Errors. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. ― Tartan357  06:39, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

@Tartan357: I think you are missing some context. I had reverted another user's edit which deleted a section I had created. This revert also re-introduced some unrelated comments which that user had deleted, pertaining to a discussion which no longer existed, so I deleted those comments. However, it turned out that the section I restored was also no longer relevant as the issue had already been addressed, so I ended up deleting it again. The net result of all these edits was no change. AnonQuixote (talk) 06:46, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm not missing any context. You cannot delete others' talk page comments except in very exceptional circumstances. The issue already being addressed is absolutely not one of those. See WP:TALKO. ― Tartan357  06:49, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

@Tartan357: I'm very confused now. I deleted talk page comments that had previously been deleted by another user, which I inadvertently un-deleted via a revert. What, in your opinion, was the correct thing to do? AnonQuixote (talk) 06:51, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

AnonQuixote, you were correct to un-delete them, and should not have deleted them again simply because you deemed them no longer necessary. ― Tartan357  06:52, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

I see, that was my mistake. I'll let some other editor handle the cleanup in that case. AnonQuixote (talk) 06:55, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

AnonQuixote, great, thanks. ― Tartan357  06:57, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

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Username

I just wanted to say that I really like your username Happy editing! GorillaWarfare (talk) 17:46, 8 January 2021 (UTC)