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Hi Spinningspark, your two reversions ( [1] and [2]) leave me puzzled as they have left the articles in a very weak state now. WP:CITEVAR applies to articles with a consistently established citation style. Before my edits, these two articles were not among them as they were using a mixture of general, full and short citations, templated and non-templated references, even in different formats, and inline and list style. Several references were incomplete, others were redundant or contained horribly looking grammatical and capitalization errors. Among other things like fixing the badly carried out category link my edits aimed at fixing these issues by removing the errors and bringing the references into a consistent format. Another aim was to improve the functionality of the references, that's why I chose template-based references instead of text-only ones. The styleguide you mentioned encourages editors to do so. My edits were very obvious improvements to help bringing the articles into shape, whereas your reversions did the exact opposite, unfortunately. -- Matthiaspaul ( talk) 08:49, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
On 8 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Warren P. Mason, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that scientist Warren P. Mason said that polymer chemistry was not "civilized" because of the awful smells produced? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Warren P. Mason. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Warren P. Mason), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 14 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Distributed element circuit, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that distributed element circuits include butterflies (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Distributed element circuit. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Distributed element circuit), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Time in Poland for me? I thought about starting this, and maybe the deleted version contains something useful (if it is pure gibberish, don't bother, but if there is even one useful sentence, I'll take it). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:54, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your speedy GA review! Please let me know if you have any GA noms that need review - I have enough knowledge of electronics and astronomy to do a review. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 11:20, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, noted. Although BRD says "If you genuinely believe the reversion was a mistake you might try speeding things up by reverting the revert, but you should explain why you think the other editor made a mistake in a note or edit summary to reduce the risk of edit warring." - which is pretty much what I did in reaction to your That's not a redundant heading and the image is not especially appropriate for the history seciton
edit summary. On checking policy it was an inappropriate subheading and a photo of frying bacon is surely more appropriate in a section which mentions the cooking of bacon than one that does not (although I appreciate I failed to explain my thinking in the original edit). Will bear BRD in mind in future though. --
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I saw your reversion of my edit that deleted the word 'ironically', and your comment. I have to point out that I'm not the one who named this paragraph of the Wikipedia Manual of Style ( Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Instructional_and_presumptuous_language). But no matter what the section is called, it states, "Do not tell readers that something is ironic, ...etc. Simply state the sourced facts and allow readers to draw their own conclusions. Such constructions can usually just be deleted, leaving behind proper sentences with a more academic and less pushy tone..."
As an aside, I do not see the irony in Maskelyne making the original proposal, and since it's unlikely that I'm the only one, that makes whether or not it's ironic a matter of opinion, which is not for Wikipedia editors to express.
Even if something is ironic, the word 'ironically', along with several others that are overused, does not belong in Wikipedia articles, unless it's part of a quotation or expressing an opinion that can be sourced. In this case, the word is instructing the reader that something is ironic. As the Manual of Style states, only the facts should be stated. The 'ironically' in this article should be deleted.
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I notice the change to plural on category:transfer functions, which seems to make sense. Yet I notice also that category:frequency domain analysis is not plural. Even more, there seems to be discussion (but I couldn't find it) on a change to category:frequency-domain analysis. (Presumably with redirects.) Seems to me that, either way, it should be plural, like other categories. Should we have category:frequency-domain analyses? Gah4 ( talk) 23:14, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
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Since you did such an excellent job in the GA review of Cantor's first uncountability proof, I thought you might be interested in the current GA review. I was mainly responsible for the version of Cantor's first uncountability proof that you reviewed and am mainly responsible for the current article that is being reviewed. If you check the talk section: The article rewrite and thanks to all those who helped me, you will find that I used your excellent GA review to restructure and rewrite the article.
At the top of the Talk page, you will find out that one editor has already expressed an interest in reviewing the article, but of course, other editors can review it, too. Since you did such an excellent job critiquing the last version of the article, I would be very pleased if you have the time to critique this version of the article. RJGray ( talk) 17:41, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
I have the impression that Michael Hardy won't be doing the review. I think that he is doing the same thing he did the last time: Nominate the article for GA Review and let others do the review. He states on the Talk page: "An editor has indicated a willingness to review the article in accordance with the good article criteria. Further reviews are welcome from any editor who has not contributed significantly to this article (or nominated it) ..." I take "An editor" to mean someone other than himself. Also, his statement: "Further reviews are welcome from any editor who has not contributed significantly to this article (or nominated it) ..." clearly excludes him from doing the review since he nominated it.
I'm looking forward to the GA Review. I learned a lot about writing Wikipedia articles from my first review and became a better and more active Wikipedia contributor because of it. Thanks again for participating in the last GA review. RJGray ( talk) 00:34, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
@ Spinningspark: Probably the best option is for you to attend to that. Michael Hardy ( talk) 17:53, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
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Spinningspark thanks for your comment. I would have preferred if you had raised your concerns elsewhere and simply let the candidate answer the question. If he thinks that there was nothing wrong with the speedy deletion he could have said so himself. For what it's worth: I was still evaluating the candidate and I would have preferred if I could have posted my findings without being preemptively presented to the other participants in the discussion as somehow incompetent to assess CSD contributions. I don't think I'll be participating in the discussion any further. Vexations ( talk) 22:17, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi there - I noticed your name pop up a few times on the Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion page, and so I thought I'd give you a shout with a quick question you could maybe answer. I've gathered a decent experience with anti-vandalism patrol, and recently branched out to AfD patrolling as well. I came across this AfD. As you'll see, a few responses to it are that of a Procedural Keep, since it had been decided to keep the page in the previous two AfD's, and that Wiki policy has not changed since. Are such circumstances entirely objective? In other words - is it largely the case that, regardless of the circumstances of newer AfD's, if an article's AfD was once decided Keep, all subsequent AfDs must also be keep, unless a policy that was previously used has changed? Specifically, in your opinion, would the aforementioned AfD be one that could be closed as a Speedy Keep for that reason? Is it a candidate for a non-admin closure? Thank you very much for your time! -- HunterM267 talk 16:48, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Sorry if I stepped out of line, I guess the symbols and phrasing aren't that clear to me yet. To explain my "messing" with your original post ( diff) I was told in talk page discussion that having a direct link which shows up on What links here is used by some reviewers to check if a DYK review is claimed for credit by more than one editor. The rules are rather vague on this point and thus my confusion. (In any case my comment on Template:Did you know nominations/Railway surgery contains a direct link to the WRS review so it isn't necessarily needed on the Reviewed line.) I thought this was a rather small point, like minor ce/proofreading of a nom which can be done boldly. I'm still learning DYK and there seem to be a lot of unwritten rules/practices which I'm trying to pick up by going through the noms. – Reidgreg ( talk) 15:06, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
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Hey I saw you reverted an edit I made to the Chip disambiguation page. The purpose of the edit was to make the biology related subjects easier to find. I made a new edit, which takes your comment into account. Can you take a look at it? VENIVIDIVICIPEDIA talk 14:23, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi. You declined the speedy for this recreated article. I still think it is a case (at least) of WP:TOOSOON, so sent it back to AfD. However, the prior version of the article which was deleted had a different name, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruhaan Rajput (Ruhan), so on the current discussion, other than my mention, the typical prior AfD discussion didn't appear. Don't know if it matters, but thought it might. Thanks. Onel5969 TT me 12:22, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the help with the revert #3 of magnetic moment. Yun Tzu has also made the same move in Hexamethylbenzene. May you take a look? -- MaoGo ( talk) 19:58, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello Spinningspark, thank you for your constructive contribution to the article's AfD discussion. In the spirit of transparency: I have cleaned up a lot of the extraneous listcruft and removed entries with no evidence of significance (like the probably unremarkable COLECTY indices, which have almost no visibility on Google). I have also added your book suggestion as a "Further reading" for future improvements and another source. Hope this is an acceptable compromise to improve the previous mess into something resembling an encyclopedic article ;). A rename or redefinition of the article's scope would of course also be possible in the future. If you are still interested in the topic, it would be great if you could have a quick look on the new situation. GermanJoe ( talk) 18:45, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
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The lede picture for the planar transmission line article is certainly an improvement. It would be nice to distinguish planar transmission lines from the distributed element circuits built with them - but any useful photograph will show both, so if it is to be a photo rather than a diagram, then I reckon you have chosen the best available. -- catslash ( talk) 22:52, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
On 3 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Railway surgery, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that some railway surgeons opposed the introduction of first aid kits on trains, maintaining that only doctors should carry out this work? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Railway surgery. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Railway surgery), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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I won't revert your revert [3] but [4] indicates they developed modern Stethoscope-- Ozzie10aaaa ( talk) 10:14, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Telling a keepist that his argument is invalid is like talking to a dead sheep, they will never understand and always use their same list of shitty arguments again. Keepists also use vandal tactics sometimes to get an article kept. » Shadowowl | talk 15:58, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
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16:10, 2 September 2018 Spinningspark deleted page List of cottages in Dorset (WP:POINTy creation relating to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Villas in Naples)
This action appears to be quite improper as Spinningspark was involved and so they should please revert. If they think that there is something wrong with the redirect they can use the appropriate process of WP:RfD. But note that I would contest such action as I myself am quite familiar with cottages in Dorset. There are certainly notable examples such as Old Came Rectory. That is currently a red link but not for long as I shall make a start on it too. This is how we build the encyclopedia, and insofar as I have a point, it is that we should be constructive. Red links are a "clear indication of which articles are in need of creation, and encourage it." Andrew D. ( talk) 16:46, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
I have asked for a deletion review of List of cottages in Dorset. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Andrew D. ( talk) 23:09, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hiya. I went there yesterday as we were in the area. Dariush Zandi's book is totally useless, BTW - the entire topography of these areas has changed massively since 1991 and Zandi's book describes wadis and tracks that in the vast majority no longer exist - tracks have been washed away, whole towns have sprung up and others gone away. For years I've been meeting confused, lost people offroad clutching sweaty copies of 'Offroad in the Emirates'!!! The Hatta track is now, for instance, black top all the way and inaccessible unless you are a GCC citizen. And Sinadil is a new settlement, there's no sign of the old one - and it's inaccessible from the UAE side - the border fence is a 'hard' border and the crossing point was closed and unmanned when we went there. Best Alexandermcnabb ( talk) 05:27, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
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Your close of the AfD for this states that "Large chunks copied vebatim from The Ancient City of Azia". This was not proven during the discussion. Did you get hold of a copy yourself? Is the book available online? Please advise. Andrew D. ( talk)
FYI - In 2009 there was a mass bot creation drive of articles from a horrifically unreliable site, and a bunch of us were deleting the products. We did not have time to verify them, but using this method meant that if someone wanted to recreate the article and tend and water it, so to speak, there was no objection to doing so. Certainly, if there's good cause to recreate it, simply do so (though don't use fallingrain as a source). Orderinchaos 02:30, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
I suspect you are right (Re Cydippe (mother of Cleobis)) Thanks for paying close attention and having the right wiki sense to challenge it. I do catch quite a few copy_within_Wikipedia issues but I miss a few. One of my frustrations is that it is my sense that detecting these would be a relatively modest addition to the Copy Patrol software but so far my requests have fallen on deaf ears.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 16:12, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
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MrEagerMcBeaver ( talk) 19:02, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
Dear Spinningspark,
I am writing to you regarding the deletion of the wiki page of "Grace Sai".
From the history log, I have noted the reason listed as "G4" but the "deletion discussion" (what I understand to be the rationale for this proposed deletion) is unclear to me.
I am writing to enquire the rationale behind this deletion, and to seek your advice how to restore this webpage as I believe there is significant value in having this webpage restored with sufficient amount of relevant and recent webpages to support the (re)existence of this webpage.
Examples of relevant supporting webpages as follows;
http://www.hnworth.com/article/2015/08/20/grace-sai-societys-missing-piece-ceo-co-founder-the-hub-singapore/ http://www.womensweekly.com.sg/inspire/meet-the-great-women-of-our-time-2017-education-public-service-nominee-grace-sai/ https://medium.com/@give_womentum/grace-sai-fostering-startup-communities-6968f9799977 https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/18/singapore-is-global-start-up-hub-but-lacks-vision-in-tech-ecosystem.html https://sg.asiatatler.com/generation-t/2018-list/gracesai https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/chinese-tech-giants-battle-alibaba-tencent-southeast-asia-10702424
Webpage in matter: /info/en/?search=Grace_Sai
Awaiting your advice and/or resolution on this matter.
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Hi Spinningspark, Looking at creating a page but you removed the page "Lincoln Townley" in 2016 - "Does not meet wp:gng and does not meet wp:creative". With notability, I'd just like to ask if you think this has changed.
(one of the first artists to accept bitcoin Here, his association with the Bafta's here and him selling out at the Saatchi gallery here to name a few).
I can't find many press/sources before you deleted though. I've added a page lincoln Townley and would love any insight. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbgriffiths ( talk • contribs) 10:55, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi admin, just got a notification that my edits was reverted on the Freshworks deletion discussion page. I was replying to another user on that same page, who had tagged me. Just thought of letting you know. Csgir ( talk)
First, thanks. Some people, even some admins, are too quick to take any link that works at face value. It occurred to me while looking through this that Internet Archive, while extremely useful, isn’t a stable source, nor an inherently reliable one, and that there should be some caveats placed on it for anything other than a convenience cite. It also made me wonder whether Wiki itself has any arrangements with IA to report this sort of thing. Again, thanks for rapidly flushing this hoax off of Wikipedia. Qwirkle ( talk) 18:14, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Spinningspark, your two reversions ( [1] and [2]) leave me puzzled as they have left the articles in a very weak state now. WP:CITEVAR applies to articles with a consistently established citation style. Before my edits, these two articles were not among them as they were using a mixture of general, full and short citations, templated and non-templated references, even in different formats, and inline and list style. Several references were incomplete, others were redundant or contained horribly looking grammatical and capitalization errors. Among other things like fixing the badly carried out category link my edits aimed at fixing these issues by removing the errors and bringing the references into a consistent format. Another aim was to improve the functionality of the references, that's why I chose template-based references instead of text-only ones. The styleguide you mentioned encourages editors to do so. My edits were very obvious improvements to help bringing the articles into shape, whereas your reversions did the exact opposite, unfortunately. -- Matthiaspaul ( talk) 08:49, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
On 8 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Warren P. Mason, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that scientist Warren P. Mason said that polymer chemistry was not "civilized" because of the awful smells produced? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Warren P. Mason. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Warren P. Mason), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass ( talk) 12:02, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
On 14 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Distributed element circuit, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that distributed element circuits include butterflies (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Distributed element circuit. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Distributed element circuit), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass ( talk) 00:01, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Time in Poland for me? I thought about starting this, and maybe the deleted version contains something useful (if it is pure gibberish, don't bother, but if there is even one useful sentence, I'll take it). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:54, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your speedy GA review! Please let me know if you have any GA noms that need review - I have enough knowledge of electronics and astronomy to do a review. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 11:20, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, noted. Although BRD says "If you genuinely believe the reversion was a mistake you might try speeding things up by reverting the revert, but you should explain why you think the other editor made a mistake in a note or edit summary to reduce the risk of edit warring." - which is pretty much what I did in reaction to your That's not a redundant heading and the image is not especially appropriate for the history seciton
edit summary. On checking policy it was an inappropriate subheading and a photo of frying bacon is surely more appropriate in a section which mentions the cooking of bacon than one that does not (although I appreciate I failed to explain my thinking in the original edit). Will bear BRD in mind in future though. --
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I saw your reversion of my edit that deleted the word 'ironically', and your comment. I have to point out that I'm not the one who named this paragraph of the Wikipedia Manual of Style ( Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Instructional_and_presumptuous_language). But no matter what the section is called, it states, "Do not tell readers that something is ironic, ...etc. Simply state the sourced facts and allow readers to draw their own conclusions. Such constructions can usually just be deleted, leaving behind proper sentences with a more academic and less pushy tone..."
As an aside, I do not see the irony in Maskelyne making the original proposal, and since it's unlikely that I'm the only one, that makes whether or not it's ironic a matter of opinion, which is not for Wikipedia editors to express.
Even if something is ironic, the word 'ironically', along with several others that are overused, does not belong in Wikipedia articles, unless it's part of a quotation or expressing an opinion that can be sourced. In this case, the word is instructing the reader that something is ironic. As the Manual of Style states, only the facts should be stated. The 'ironically' in this article should be deleted.
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I notice the change to plural on category:transfer functions, which seems to make sense. Yet I notice also that category:frequency domain analysis is not plural. Even more, there seems to be discussion (but I couldn't find it) on a change to category:frequency-domain analysis. (Presumably with redirects.) Seems to me that, either way, it should be plural, like other categories. Should we have category:frequency-domain analyses? Gah4 ( talk) 23:14, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
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Since you did such an excellent job in the GA review of Cantor's first uncountability proof, I thought you might be interested in the current GA review. I was mainly responsible for the version of Cantor's first uncountability proof that you reviewed and am mainly responsible for the current article that is being reviewed. If you check the talk section: The article rewrite and thanks to all those who helped me, you will find that I used your excellent GA review to restructure and rewrite the article.
At the top of the Talk page, you will find out that one editor has already expressed an interest in reviewing the article, but of course, other editors can review it, too. Since you did such an excellent job critiquing the last version of the article, I would be very pleased if you have the time to critique this version of the article. RJGray ( talk) 17:41, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
I have the impression that Michael Hardy won't be doing the review. I think that he is doing the same thing he did the last time: Nominate the article for GA Review and let others do the review. He states on the Talk page: "An editor has indicated a willingness to review the article in accordance with the good article criteria. Further reviews are welcome from any editor who has not contributed significantly to this article (or nominated it) ..." I take "An editor" to mean someone other than himself. Also, his statement: "Further reviews are welcome from any editor who has not contributed significantly to this article (or nominated it) ..." clearly excludes him from doing the review since he nominated it.
I'm looking forward to the GA Review. I learned a lot about writing Wikipedia articles from my first review and became a better and more active Wikipedia contributor because of it. Thanks again for participating in the last GA review. RJGray ( talk) 00:34, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
@ Spinningspark: Probably the best option is for you to attend to that. Michael Hardy ( talk) 17:53, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
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Spinningspark thanks for your comment. I would have preferred if you had raised your concerns elsewhere and simply let the candidate answer the question. If he thinks that there was nothing wrong with the speedy deletion he could have said so himself. For what it's worth: I was still evaluating the candidate and I would have preferred if I could have posted my findings without being preemptively presented to the other participants in the discussion as somehow incompetent to assess CSD contributions. I don't think I'll be participating in the discussion any further. Vexations ( talk) 22:17, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi there - I noticed your name pop up a few times on the Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion page, and so I thought I'd give you a shout with a quick question you could maybe answer. I've gathered a decent experience with anti-vandalism patrol, and recently branched out to AfD patrolling as well. I came across this AfD. As you'll see, a few responses to it are that of a Procedural Keep, since it had been decided to keep the page in the previous two AfD's, and that Wiki policy has not changed since. Are such circumstances entirely objective? In other words - is it largely the case that, regardless of the circumstances of newer AfD's, if an article's AfD was once decided Keep, all subsequent AfDs must also be keep, unless a policy that was previously used has changed? Specifically, in your opinion, would the aforementioned AfD be one that could be closed as a Speedy Keep for that reason? Is it a candidate for a non-admin closure? Thank you very much for your time! -- HunterM267 talk 16:48, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Sorry if I stepped out of line, I guess the symbols and phrasing aren't that clear to me yet. To explain my "messing" with your original post ( diff) I was told in talk page discussion that having a direct link which shows up on What links here is used by some reviewers to check if a DYK review is claimed for credit by more than one editor. The rules are rather vague on this point and thus my confusion. (In any case my comment on Template:Did you know nominations/Railway surgery contains a direct link to the WRS review so it isn't necessarily needed on the Reviewed line.) I thought this was a rather small point, like minor ce/proofreading of a nom which can be done boldly. I'm still learning DYK and there seem to be a lot of unwritten rules/practices which I'm trying to pick up by going through the noms. – Reidgreg ( talk) 15:06, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
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Hey I saw you reverted an edit I made to the Chip disambiguation page. The purpose of the edit was to make the biology related subjects easier to find. I made a new edit, which takes your comment into account. Can you take a look at it? VENIVIDIVICIPEDIA talk 14:23, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi. You declined the speedy for this recreated article. I still think it is a case (at least) of WP:TOOSOON, so sent it back to AfD. However, the prior version of the article which was deleted had a different name, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruhaan Rajput (Ruhan), so on the current discussion, other than my mention, the typical prior AfD discussion didn't appear. Don't know if it matters, but thought it might. Thanks. Onel5969 TT me 12:22, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the help with the revert #3 of magnetic moment. Yun Tzu has also made the same move in Hexamethylbenzene. May you take a look? -- MaoGo ( talk) 19:58, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello Spinningspark, thank you for your constructive contribution to the article's AfD discussion. In the spirit of transparency: I have cleaned up a lot of the extraneous listcruft and removed entries with no evidence of significance (like the probably unremarkable COLECTY indices, which have almost no visibility on Google). I have also added your book suggestion as a "Further reading" for future improvements and another source. Hope this is an acceptable compromise to improve the previous mess into something resembling an encyclopedic article ;). A rename or redefinition of the article's scope would of course also be possible in the future. If you are still interested in the topic, it would be great if you could have a quick look on the new situation. GermanJoe ( talk) 18:45, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
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The lede picture for the planar transmission line article is certainly an improvement. It would be nice to distinguish planar transmission lines from the distributed element circuits built with them - but any useful photograph will show both, so if it is to be a photo rather than a diagram, then I reckon you have chosen the best available. -- catslash ( talk) 22:52, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
On 3 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Railway surgery, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that some railway surgeons opposed the introduction of first aid kits on trains, maintaining that only doctors should carry out this work? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Railway surgery. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Railway surgery), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hi, I should welcome your reaction to my comment, here. I am also asking Boing! said Zebedee. Just Chilling ( talk) 22:38, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
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I won't revert your revert [3] but [4] indicates they developed modern Stethoscope-- Ozzie10aaaa ( talk) 10:14, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Telling a keepist that his argument is invalid is like talking to a dead sheep, they will never understand and always use their same list of shitty arguments again. Keepists also use vandal tactics sometimes to get an article kept. » Shadowowl | talk 15:58, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
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16:10, 2 September 2018 Spinningspark deleted page List of cottages in Dorset (WP:POINTy creation relating to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Villas in Naples)
This action appears to be quite improper as Spinningspark was involved and so they should please revert. If they think that there is something wrong with the redirect they can use the appropriate process of WP:RfD. But note that I would contest such action as I myself am quite familiar with cottages in Dorset. There are certainly notable examples such as Old Came Rectory. That is currently a red link but not for long as I shall make a start on it too. This is how we build the encyclopedia, and insofar as I have a point, it is that we should be constructive. Red links are a "clear indication of which articles are in need of creation, and encourage it." Andrew D. ( talk) 16:46, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
I have asked for a deletion review of List of cottages in Dorset. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Andrew D. ( talk) 23:09, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hiya. I went there yesterday as we were in the area. Dariush Zandi's book is totally useless, BTW - the entire topography of these areas has changed massively since 1991 and Zandi's book describes wadis and tracks that in the vast majority no longer exist - tracks have been washed away, whole towns have sprung up and others gone away. For years I've been meeting confused, lost people offroad clutching sweaty copies of 'Offroad in the Emirates'!!! The Hatta track is now, for instance, black top all the way and inaccessible unless you are a GCC citizen. And Sinadil is a new settlement, there's no sign of the old one - and it's inaccessible from the UAE side - the border fence is a 'hard' border and the crossing point was closed and unmanned when we went there. Best Alexandermcnabb ( talk) 05:27, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science#Manhole cover in space?
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Your close of the AfD for this states that "Large chunks copied vebatim from The Ancient City of Azia". This was not proven during the discussion. Did you get hold of a copy yourself? Is the book available online? Please advise. Andrew D. ( talk)
FYI - In 2009 there was a mass bot creation drive of articles from a horrifically unreliable site, and a bunch of us were deleting the products. We did not have time to verify them, but using this method meant that if someone wanted to recreate the article and tend and water it, so to speak, there was no objection to doing so. Certainly, if there's good cause to recreate it, simply do so (though don't use fallingrain as a source). Orderinchaos 02:30, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
I suspect you are right (Re Cydippe (mother of Cleobis)) Thanks for paying close attention and having the right wiki sense to challenge it. I do catch quite a few copy_within_Wikipedia issues but I miss a few. One of my frustrations is that it is my sense that detecting these would be a relatively modest addition to the Copy Patrol software but so far my requests have fallen on deaf ears.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 16:12, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
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Dear Spinningspark,
I am writing to you regarding the deletion of the wiki page of "Grace Sai".
From the history log, I have noted the reason listed as "G4" but the "deletion discussion" (what I understand to be the rationale for this proposed deletion) is unclear to me.
I am writing to enquire the rationale behind this deletion, and to seek your advice how to restore this webpage as I believe there is significant value in having this webpage restored with sufficient amount of relevant and recent webpages to support the (re)existence of this webpage.
Examples of relevant supporting webpages as follows;
http://www.hnworth.com/article/2015/08/20/grace-sai-societys-missing-piece-ceo-co-founder-the-hub-singapore/ http://www.womensweekly.com.sg/inspire/meet-the-great-women-of-our-time-2017-education-public-service-nominee-grace-sai/ https://medium.com/@give_womentum/grace-sai-fostering-startup-communities-6968f9799977 https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/18/singapore-is-global-start-up-hub-but-lacks-vision-in-tech-ecosystem.html https://sg.asiatatler.com/generation-t/2018-list/gracesai https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/chinese-tech-giants-battle-alibaba-tencent-southeast-asia-10702424
Webpage in matter: /info/en/?search=Grace_Sai
Awaiting your advice and/or resolution on this matter.
Kind regards,
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Hi Spinningspark, Looking at creating a page but you removed the page "Lincoln Townley" in 2016 - "Does not meet wp:gng and does not meet wp:creative". With notability, I'd just like to ask if you think this has changed.
(one of the first artists to accept bitcoin Here, his association with the Bafta's here and him selling out at the Saatchi gallery here to name a few).
I can't find many press/sources before you deleted though. I've added a page lincoln Townley and would love any insight. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbgriffiths ( talk • contribs) 10:55, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi admin, just got a notification that my edits was reverted on the Freshworks deletion discussion page. I was replying to another user on that same page, who had tagged me. Just thought of letting you know. Csgir ( talk)
First, thanks. Some people, even some admins, are too quick to take any link that works at face value. It occurred to me while looking through this that Internet Archive, while extremely useful, isn’t a stable source, nor an inherently reliable one, and that there should be some caveats placed on it for anything other than a convenience cite. It also made me wonder whether Wiki itself has any arrangements with IA to report this sort of thing. Again, thanks for rapidly flushing this hoax off of Wikipedia. Qwirkle ( talk) 18:14, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
I have noticed that you have made excellent edit on my page Bishandot. Thank you very much for that. I need your help to improve it. I once had a conflict with PRehse and he promoted my article for deletion on irrelevant basis. Please Help me to improve that article and try to remove maintenance templates from my article. I have got frustrated with those. I don't know what should I do. I worked really hard on that article. If it will be deleted, It will be a great unjustice. Kindly Give few of your precious time to help me. I shall be very thankful to you for this favour. Raja Atizaz Ahmed Kiyani 17 November 2018
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I saw you pushed Omar Raja's article back to draft. Is it because of the tone of the article? It passes WP:GNG for notability with the articles presented, which is why I pushed it through draft. AngusWOOF ( bark • sniff) 01:44, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
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