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Your user page [[User:Whyiseverythingalreadyused/A message to Hong Kong editors]] is highly inappropriate per [[WP:POLEMIC]]. I recommend you to blank or delete this page or I will nominate it with [[WP:G10]]. [[User:Northern Moonlight|<span style=”background-color:light-dark(#f3f3fe,#252558);color:var(–color-progressive,#36c);padding:2px 5px;border-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap”>Northern Moonlight</span>]] 02:11, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

:Additionally, neither is it acceptable to {{Diff2|1316379823|call to have an entire region IP banned}} or {{Diff2|1316371618|coming after an IP}} who’s likely not an English speaker just because they used {{tpq|he/she}} instead of {{tpq|they}}. I initially let both comments slide, but apparently you don’t want to stop so here we are. [[User:Northern Moonlight|<span style=”background-color:light-dark(#f3f3fe,#252558);color:var(–color-progressive,#36c);padding:2px 5px;border-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap”>Northern Moonlight</span>]] 02:19, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

My pronouns are he/him, in case you haven’t seen my user page, have never interacted with me, or otherwise have never seen my conversations

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Happy editing! Lklundin (talk) 07:53, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Whyiseverythingalreadyused! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. “Minor edit” has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Aaron Liu (talk) 11:33, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ok ty Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 11:38, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Please review MOS:OVERLINK. Please do not link country or state names, common words or other concepts that are commonly known to English speakers. Also, please do not cite gossip sources, YouTube, or Wikipedia itself. Please review WP:RS. Thank you. — Ssilvers (talk) 17:51, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Whyiseverythingalreadyused.
I noticed your 11 June edit of the Ideology Section of the article on the Traditional Unionist Voice political party – ‘Abortion’ and ‘Same-sex marriage’ paragraphs.
As regards the edit you made to the paragraph about their policy on Abortion Law, have you a moment to explain why you made the change? (there was no explanation given with the edit.) Also, you removed a reference source from the paragraph, again, with no explanation
given. It’s of interest to me because I wrote the original version of the paragraph after reading the election manifestos of the party and trying to summarise as concisely as possible their viewpoint. I’m not very experienced as an editor on Wikipedia but I know they have a preferred approach of WP:BRD when it comes to reaching consensus on a compromise edit.
Feel free to reply here and I’ll check back occasionally, or you can edit my Talk page, if you want to discuss the issue: we could then set up a discussion on the Talk page of the article itself.
Regards BrownBowler (talk) 12:18, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Whyiseverythingalreadyused.

I’d now like to amend this paragraph, restoring a bit of my original edit, including the removed reference. Reason being that the phrase “The TUV opposes abortion” ignores part of what they themselves say on the subject in their manifestos. If you feel that some discussion is necessary about that then please use the Talk Page of the article. BrownBowler (talk) 15:37, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Is the company related to the prize?

Yes. I guess your doubts stem from the apparent time disparity? That is not a paradox: an endowed scholarship can outlive the sponsoring person/company/organization. In fact, this page shows that the prize was still being awarded as recently as 4 years ago (the page does not seem to have been updated since around that time). Furthermore, although first impressions from the company article may seem like it hails from colonial times, the company/brand identity “Straits Steamship” existed until the late 1990s. It was considered a “big name” company, with the name in common usage (e.g. in news, like this 1989 business times article), such that the phrase would have presented no ambiguity in Singapore’s local context. The name only disappeared when Keppel Corp rebranded its divisions under a uniform identity (having acquired the company in the 1980s).

If there’s no other objection, I would appreciate if you’d undo the revert. Thanks, — 2406:3003:2007:1F3:B4FC:62FA:6BF7:F6CD (talk) 08:59, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

…ok, I will, thank you

I’ve never wanted to enter an edit war ever since I lost to a certain Singaporean administrator Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 04:09, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Being anon IP I also like to take extra care which is why I prefer to discuss and ask for self-revert like I did here. Cheers, 2406:3003:2007:1F3:B4FC:62FA:6BF7:F6CD (talk) 07:45, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Elections Department of Singapore has an official gazette for the elected date for each MP here. While primary source, it is a basic fact and can be used. I do not see the need to cite this but it is a good reference for setting the date. ~ JASWE (talk) 08:24, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you 🙂 Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 09:27, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hey what’s up, i noticed that you reverted quite a few of my edits yesterday so i thought i’d clear up some points if you don’t mind

there is a precedent for including individuals’ birth names in infoboxes even if they never changed it (see lawrence wong, gan kim yong, mahathir mohamad, anwar ibrahim, etc.)
shawn huang says he was “previously known as shawn ingkiriwang” in his facebook post where he addresses his name change [1], and he was referred to as “CPT shawn ingkiriwang” in defence publications from before he began going by shawn huang [2][3]; i believe that as per WP:COMMONNAME this should be how his birth name is formatted. while huang says he was registered as “ingkiriwang shawn wei zhong”, there are many examples of singaporeans with legal names arranged last-first-middle, like “de souza christopher james” [4] and “palmer michael anthony” [5]. i don’t think it’s a stretch to say that “wei zhong” was treated as huang’s middle name, so it follows that huang’s full birth name was shawn wei zhong ingkiriwang. idk why you were kinda passive-aggressive about that in your edit summary tho

thanks in advance 🙂 WaterproofDuck (talk) 07:21, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Other than the literal instruction given on the birth name thing, I think we’re chill lol

) Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 08:01, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I meant to type 🙂 after an enter but for some reason the colon didn’t register… oof Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 08:02, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ok that’s cool thanks again 👍 i’ll restore my edits then

WaterproofDuck (talk) 09:04, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

yeah sure 🙂 Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 09:06, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I’m enquiring as to what this edit is about?. It’s random and smacks of gravedancing. This is not an edit that is helpful to the building of this project, nor for civility and assuming good faith. Canterbury Tail talk 16:22, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I was gravedancing; I’ve already reverted it

In my defence though, they were clearly exhibiting bad faith from my POV Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 01:49, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, my name is also Aidan and I’m also a Singaporean political junkie/wiki editor.

I just wanted to clarify your latest edit on the 2025 Singaporean general election page, can I check why you add the quotation marks? Thanks Aidanic (talk) 11:00, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Aidan, I’m Aiden (lol)

Seriously tho, without reading the source, I thought it was a direct quote from the PSP

Imma go and revert it now 🙂 Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 11:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ok sure thanks haha. i also emailed you btw Aidanic (talk) 11:32, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

huh… never saw the email

Also, you’re gay and a right-libertarian? Ngl reminds me of this ST article (title: S’porean boy, 14, given ISA restriction order; first self-radicalisation case from mixed ideologies)

I’m not accusing you of extremism or anything, it just popped up in my head lol Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 11:42, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

its on the one linked to your google my maps account you used to make the districts on your main userpage Aidanic (talk) 12:07, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ohhhhhh… right thanks 🙂 Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 12:09, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

is it the correct one? haha Aidanic (talk) 14:42, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

yep 🙂 Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 14:54, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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There seems to be a long term disruptive IP that appears from time to time on Singaporean political and media articles, and it has likely been going on for several years. The same pattern keeps showing up with odd word changes, random paragraph breaks, strange numbers and other unhelpful edits that us users constantly have to fix. The current IP seems to be 220.255.60.227 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), which I am sure you are currently very familiar with. They were blocked for a month before, but nothing seems to have changed.

I have also come across other IPs doing the exact same thing, which includes, and not limited to:

Based on their editing patterns and the time frames where one IP stops being used and another appears with the same behaviour, it really seems like the same person all along. I know you have been dealing with them quite a lot recently which must be very frustrating to handle. I truly wonder who this person is. Aleain (talk) 11:00, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the whack-a-mole is frustratingly fun lol

Perhaps I should report it to the ~~police~~ folks at CheckUser Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 11:04, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have more suspects

(list requires reorganisation) Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 14:57, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At this point, it should be regarded as a long-term abuse case. The problem is that this user is clearly using dynamic IPs from their mobile network (seems to be Singtel). This whack-a-mole situation will likely continue as a war of attrition until either he gives up or the rest of us are no longer active, giving him free rein. Aleain (talk) 16:24, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey man I think they flushed the report you made down the drain

Edit: my re-report got through, the mf got blocked for 3 months Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 08:06, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, we could mark bro as an WP:LTAer at the next return to Wikipedia Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 07:56, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Whyiseverythingalreadyused. Thank you for your work on Ong Teng Koon. Another editor, MPGuy2824, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

the dates for his mp term in the infobox are wrong

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|MPGuy2824}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

–MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:59, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MPGuy2824:

Thank you for the review

I’m just not sure… how exactly are they wrong? Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 07:21, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I checked again: they do seem to be right. I think i compared two different terms in the lead and the infobox. –MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:25, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh ok thanks Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 07:27, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May I know why you are reverting my recent edits massively?[6] 203.145.94.15 (talk) 13:21, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reversion of your vandalism lah

See this Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 13:25, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was in fact typing something in the talk page when he/she made the false report, and you went on to revert my talk page message as well. 203.145.94.15 (talk) 13:27, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply] (Meanwhile…, English please. I don’t understand Singlish.) 203.145.94.15 (talk) 13:28, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I hardly type in Singlish really

To rephrase in non-dialectal English, I do not believe your claims and do not intend to entertain them in the affirmative Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 13:30, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You got the duty and the burden to justify why you have to reinsert the errors in the articles which SigillumVert has insisted. 203.145.94.15 (talk) 13:56, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Refer to this. Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 13:58, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was referring to the re-addition of extraneous plural “s” and the removal of the superscript template, in particular, at Central and Western District. That isn’t something you’ve responded to. 203.145.94.15 (talk) 19:02, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For your attention: [7]. 203.145.94.15 (talk) 18:59, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not re-file AIV reports purely because they have been removed as stale. AIV is for urgent and ongoing cases — anything more than ~6ish hours old (which is still a generous estimate) does not belong there. Thanks, Giraffer (talk) 17:22, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ok Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 17:23, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, your reports at AIV have been declined by @Giraffer: (and previously removed) because the edits on those IP addresses are stale (some have no edits in the past two days). I would create an WP:ANI report so that other admins can keep an eye on the behavior and block them when the disruptive activity restarts. Thanks. ConnerTT (talk) 17:39, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks 😀

I was already contemplating a WP:LTA subpage (you can see this topic by me on WikiProject Singapore) Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 17:50, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page User:Whyiseverythingalreadyused/A message to Hong Kong editors is highly inappropriate per WP:POLEMIC. I recommend you to blank or delete this page or I will nominate it with WP:G10. Northern Moonlight 02:11, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, neither is it acceptable to call to have an entire region IP banned or coming after an IP who’s likely not an English speaker just because they used he/she instead of they. I initially let both comments slide, but apparently you don’t want to stop so here we are. Northern Moonlight 02:19, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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