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oh hey you're back, how you doing [[User:CalibansCreations|'''<span style="color:#ff0000;">Caliban</span>''']] ([[User talk:CalibansCreations|talk]]) 17:34, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
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:@[[User:CalibansCreations|CalibansCreations]]: Doing okay. How about you? <span class="nowrap">—megan [[user talk:megan|talk]] [[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</span> 08:19, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
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::could be better, could be worse [[User:CalibansCreations|'''<span style="color:#ff0000;">Caliban</span>''']] ([[User talk:CalibansCreations|talk]]) 16:45, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
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:::@[[User:CalibansCreations|CalibansCreations]]: understandable. Anything in particular that's troubling, or is that not a question for a public space? <span class="nowrap">—megan [[user talk:megan|talk]] [[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</span> 04:37, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
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::::eh, I ain't the type of guy to talk about it [[User:CalibansCreations|'''<span style="color:#ff0000;">Caliban</span>''']] ([[User talk:CalibansCreations|talk]]) 10:39, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
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:::::@[[User:CalibansCreations|CalibansCreations]]: in that case, we need a new conversation topic. (Or we could end the conversation.) Thoughts? If not, just ask me to suggest a topic. <span class="nowrap">—megan [[user talk:megan|talk]] [[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</span> 04:02, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
  
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Uhhhh hi! I don't think we've ever met, so just wanted to introduce myself.--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al |<span style="font-family:Atomic Age;font-size:12pt;color:red;">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:DollarStoreBa'al |'''''Converse''''']]</sup>[[Special:Contributions/DollarStoreBa'al|'''''My life choices''''']] 01:06, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
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:@[[User:DollarStoreBa'al]]: hihi! <span class="nowrap">—megan [[user talk:megan|talk]] [[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</span> 04:02, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
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== what are you ==
 
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why do you have no user page --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.119|172.68.205.119]] 08:19, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 
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:because they redirected the user page to their talk page [[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict|talk]]) 13:07, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 
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::but why? why should she do that? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.190|172.69.79.190]] 09:34, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 
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:::She has no wish to say anything, her*self but is neat enough not to leave that page uncreated/liable to being created by someone else in a way not wanted.
 
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:::(* - presumptive, but it feels churlush to go with "theirself" and unwittingly perpetuate the concept of TANGOTI...)
 
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:::The other answer is 'because she can'. And it doesn't break anything. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.157|172.70.91.157]] 10:37, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 
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::::172.70.91.157: Actually, it's possible to automatically choose a pronoun for a named user by typing this text: <code><nowiki>{{gender:Megan|he|she|they}}</nowiki></code>. (Renders as: {{gender:Megan|he|she|they}})
 
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::::TANGOTI is wrong with exceedingly high probability if you consider demographic evidence - of the billions of women, at least one uses the Internet. Also I contradict TANGOTI by being a "girl on the Internet", though I can't prove it to you unless we arrange for something where we meet IRL and I show you me logged in to this account. The costs of doing that, though, clearly outweigh the benefits of it. —megan <sup>[[user talk:megan|talk]]</sup>/<sub>[[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</sub> 08:10, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 
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:172.68.205.119 and 172.70.91.157: Hi. I'm surprised you came here. I don't really have anything to say about myself, which is why I don't have a user page. I created a redirect so my user page isn't a red link, which is seen as a sign of inexperience. —megan <sup>[[user talk:megan|talk]]</sup>/<sub>[[special:contribs/megan|contribs]]</sub> 08:10, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 
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::Hi, as ...91.157 (whatever I am this time round), definitely nice to have Word Of God(dess) on this whole, ultimately trivial, issue. Would have left it to you, ideally, but for some reason I decided to contribute. Perhaps to save you the effort. Yeah, that didn't happen like that.... :p ...but nice to know my stumbling around was fairly close to target on pretty much all counts. (Hmm, does that sound smug? I intend it to mean that I'm relieved.) I don't disbelieve your gender at all, of course, I just hedged my bet a bit more than necessary in an attempt to be hypercourteous.
 
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::Aside from whether or not I might be (irrelevent!) I definitely knew actual GOTI back in pre-web times, when there weren't anywhere like billions of ''people'' OTI, and TANGOTI was an emperically disproved trope even before I landed on it. But perhaps it was more likely that proper ''girls' names'', in self-chosen usernames, were more likely to be 'virtually cosplaying' males, as most people who didn't care to (perhaps falsely) advertise chose neutral names. And more than one of my known-female online aquaintences even chose a male-type identity - on occasions when I've 'presented as female' (just username, nothing more, in a MUD context) I've been 'hit upon' shockingly quickly that has (surprisingly?) never happened under my usually more abstract (or maybe male) choice of screen-name. And your choice of themetic name might have just been because it was the first name of any kind that came to mind, not already 'claimed'.
 
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::So I know that anybody can be anything (or claim to be anything, actively or passively). Rather than doubting you, I was just trying to anti-pigeonhole you. Clumsily. You're (probably) human, which is all that matters. (And, if not, I would find that interesting, but also not necessarily my business; even if it might be someone else's... like MIB, an exorcist, Dr Doolittle or any number of other AI businesses who need to play catchup.)
 
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::The reason why *I* came here to edit, BTW, is that I was attracted by the prior edits. I'm a lurker at heart. A long-standing trait, though one I don't always stick to, hence replies like these. I suspect .205.119 just got here through following the (non-red) link, randomly from an intriguing contribution. Sorry to impinge upon you more (once I start unlurking, I tend to rabbit... as you see). [[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.244|172.69.43.244]] 12:18, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 

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oh hey you're back, how you doing Caliban (talk) 17:34, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

@CalibansCreations: Doing okay. How about you? —megan talk contribs 08:19, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
could be better, could be worse Caliban (talk) 16:45, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
@CalibansCreations: understandable. Anything in particular that's troubling, or is that not a question for a public space? —megan talk contribs 04:37, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
eh, I ain't the type of guy to talk about it Caliban (talk) 10:39, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
@CalibansCreations: in that case, we need a new conversation topic. (Or we could end the conversation.) Thoughts? If not, just ask me to suggest a topic. —megan talk contribs 04:02, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

Uhhhh hi! I don't think we've ever met, so just wanted to introduce myself.--DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 01:06, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

@User:DollarStoreBa'al: hihi! —megan talk contribs 04:02, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
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