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What is an OP

Although I am not commenting on Trump or political talk pages, or at least try mightily not to. I still have Donald Trump on my watchlist. So when I encountered this diff. I checked help for OP and best I can find is Open Proxy,butI don't know what an Open proxy is. Who is this OP that has been blocked? Is it an Open Proxy?If so then who is the Open Proxy? I would assume that an open proxy would be an IP address,but that collapse did not contain an Open Proxy. Hope you don't mind educating me.Oldperson (talk) 16:45, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

@Oldperson: the reference is to original poster. El_C 16:47, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Oldperson: So, for example, in this small thread, you are the "OP"  :) ——SN54129 16:51, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129:Much obliged. That really clears things up. Also instructive. I followed the OP to their talk page and see that they were indeffed, then followed there edits to see why. Instructive because I am learning what kind of behaviors to avoid. Apparently they had consecutive edits on a single article changing one or two words each time to promote an ideological POV. They would have been better off taking their concerns to the talk page, rather than editing the article, a lesson (it appears)that they learned a little too late.Oldperson (talk) 17:16, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

@Oldperson: See also WP:Misplaced Pages abbreviations. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:31, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Mandruss. It's take a year to learn there was such a page.Much obliged. Oldperson (talk) 19:36, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Oh I can beat that, it took me three years. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:37, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

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