Wikipedia talk:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Helpdesk Emails

Omitting addresses

Those can still be found in the archives... Gerrit ^CUTEDH 10:36, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

But that won't get picked up by spam bots, afaik.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 17:44, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

We all want our ignorance enlightened (which is why some Wikipedia stubs are created), we all ask "silly" questions on occasion (and sometimes we only realise that they are silly once asked) or request "the obvious" to be clarified, but there is no cure for stupidity. Jackiespeel 15:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

SPAM

Many of these are obvious SPAM that went to the Wikipedia Help Desk along with other untold billions of addresses. No reason to publish them on a page... The ones that appear to be random clueless people actually uniquely contacting Wikipedia's help desk perhaps are modestly interesting.Cander0000 (talk) 20:24, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Concerning recent edits to this page

There were four edits on the same day (2022-11-15), all made by a user using an IPv6 address. These edits removed two of the emails formerly listed on this page, and changed the text for the link pointing to 419 scam to just that. I wonder why this user decided to make these changes. In my opinion, the 419 scam link, after the edit, has kinda lost its humorous charm.

I'm wanting to see what other Wikipedians think of these edits before I or someone else goes and reverts them. Yoshi128k (talk) 22:07, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

The first revision just made the scam description less funny, and I was confident enough to revert it off the bat. Not fully sure in regards to the others, though. They all seem uncessecary, but there could be a good reason for them. 70.166.73.23 (talk) 14:38, 16 December 2022 (UTC)