User talk:JohnHawkinson

Yes, I'm barmar on SE. I'm pretty sure I've seen you there, too. Barmar (talk) 23:29, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

ip comments

Hi. Speaking as a totally different IP to the one that you just had to deal with, there's really usually no point creating an IP's User Talk page to communicate with them (perhaps should mark that page to delete, again). We're pretty transient and don't have any reason to even bother to look at a "User Talk: <IP>" that we might have ever been connected with.
(I spotted your edit-comment admonishment, and then your creation of the Talk Page, only because I tend to review the Recent Changes log. I couldn't even know if the instigator of all this fuss is doing the same.)
It's a bother, I know. The one big disadvantage (amongst honest-editors... dishonest ones are naturally a different issue!) of being able to have transient IPs like me. And the one you're actually agrieved with. Although, right now, I ironically have the same sort of problem with a named user (who I'd really like to prod with a Talk comment, but doesn't have a User or User Talk page ...and I can't personally create one; or force them to check it, even if I could), so it's... complicated.
Of course, I totally agree with your idea of the editing policy for pages such as this. So please do clear this message off, once read. I will probably read your edit-comment, if you have any (short) closing comments to say in return. ;) 172.71.242.160 11:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't know why you think that there's no point. Some people have a stable IP, some people don't. Those that do will be shown the talk page automatically by MediaWiki. And others monitor Special:RecentChanges, as this IP editor may have (and as you did). And furthermore, the talk page was linked from User talk:Barmar in the thread the IP user was using. So for all those reasons, it sure seems to have a point to me. Thanks anyhow. JohnHawkinson (talk) 02:00, 19 April 2024 (UTC)