# What would happen to a John/Jane Doe?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 26, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-to-a-john-jane-doe/989157 "2023-08-26T22:08:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-to-a-john-jane-doe/989157/22 "2023-08-28T17:04:54Z")

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> Put each of those two URLs together into one line, since we’re not allowed to link to them.

It’s not that we aren’t **allowed** to post links to Youtube; it’s that, for the past few months, Discourse has been intermittently flaky about how it treats Youtube links:

> [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/246):
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> I do web design professionally as part of my job, you can’t have spaces in a web address. That’s why we love putting \_ in file names. If you want a space in an address you use HTML code %20 instead, because an actual space doesn’t work.

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