I am leaving English Wikipedia and all Wikimedia projects. After I relocate in August, I will create a new username.
Wikipedia is causing me more stress than it's worth. After discussing my options by email correspondence with three administrators this week, I have decided to leave.
I created a rant about 60 kilobytes long on my computer to complain about how unfairly the community treated me. I will not post it. That's not how I wish to be remembered.
I'd like you to read one article I've written or improved during the last two and a half years. Pick any article from my list or the toolserver's list. That's how I wish to be remembered.
Shalom also means "goodbye." I offer best wishes to everyone who made editing here such a pleasant and fulfilling experience. Yechiel ( Shalom) 15:34, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
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If you happen to see this, i have left more comments and added some questions. Cheers, Dloh cierekim 01:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC) EK has a penchant for re-writing history in his favor. See this. Take what he says with a grain of salt. Raul654 ( talk) 05:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC) Greetings! You are invited to attend the second annual
New York picnic on August 24! This year, it will be taking place in the Long Meadow of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. If you plan on coming, please
sign up and be sure to
bring something! Please be sure to come!
WHAT Wikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City. The event is based on last year's Wikipedia Takes Manhattan, and has evolved to include StreetsWiki this year as well. LAST YEAR'S EVENT
WINNINGS? Prizes include a dinner for three with Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales at Pure Food & Wine, gift certificates to Bicycle Habitiat and the LimeWire Store, and more! WHEN The hunt will take place Saturday, September 27th from 1:00pm to 6:30pm, followed by prizes and celebration. WHO All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city). Bring a friend (or two)! REGISTER The proper place to register your team is here. It's also perfectly possible to register on the day of when you get there, but it will be slightly easier for us if you register beforehand. WHERE Participants can begin the hunt from either of two locations: one at Columbia University (at the sundial on college walk) and one at The Open Planning Project's West Village office. Everyone will end at The Open Planning Project:
FOR UPDATES Check out:
This will have a posting if the event is delayed due to weather or other exigency. Thanks, You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at
Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list. |
I am writing to say goodbye to those of you who still watchlist my talk page, and to offer a chance for you to wish me well. One of the hardest things about moving on from a relationship is forgetting the painful memories and the lost hopes associated with that relationship. I accomplished many achievements here, but I never helped the project as an administrator (though I performed administrative tasks without the tool-set); I never submitted a featured article (though I did submit a good article at Talk:Endgame tablebase); and I never completed coverage of towns and villages in Israel (though I did create more than 100 articles about these places). I am proud of what I did, broadly speaking, and for my mistakes and failures, I am trying to retain whatever lessons I can apply to life outside the four walls of Wikipedia.
Last year I spent an extraordinary amount of time on Wikipedia. Without revealing too much personal information, I'll explain that I was working freelance part-time but I had most of my waking hours to spend at my discretion, and I donated that time to the project. Two months ago I relocated and began graduate school in the chemistry department of a major research university on the east coast of the United States. (You can read my admission essay at User:Shalom Yechiel/Drafts and archives/Wikipedia got me into graduate school.) My teaching and learning responsibilities do not permit anything more than a cursory interest in Wikipedia, and sometimes not even that. Last month I created an anonymous user account for editing and creating articles related to chemistry. Yechiel ( Shalom) 19:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
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I wish to leave my thoughts on various issues that I expect will engage the community's attention during the next months and years. Honesty is the best policyWikipedia:Honesty is marked as an essay, not even a guideline. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Honesty where someone had the gumption to suggest Wikipedians should abide by such a basic ethical principle. "Honesty is the best policy," according to a popular saying, and honesty should be required of all users on Wikipedia. Making baseless accusations against another user is unacceptable. Misrepresenting your real-world credentials is unacceptable. Misrepresenting the content or intent of sources is unacceptable. Wikipedia:Honesty should be at least a behavioral guideline on par with Wikipedia:Civility. RFA reformI support the efforts of Gazimoff and others in the RFA review. I have spent many hours thinking about what might discourage users from engaging in the false statements, assumptions of bad faith, and borderline personal attacks that pushed my temper over the edge in July. I prefer not to discuss my particular case anymore, but I recognize it as a wider problem. I perceive that RFA has become a toxic environment, one where false statements, assumptions of bad faith, and borderline personal attacks are tolerated as the price of vetting candidates for the stressful situations that some administrators may face. Standards of conduct from RFA commenters need to improve: users who can maintain neutrality in a particular RFA discussion should watch for comments that cross the line and not be shy about challenging them, and if necessary, asking a bureaucrat to remove or disregard them. Administrator accountabilityI support the proposal for bureaucrats to remove adminship after suitable discussion. I don't understand all the details, but the delays in recent arbitrations cases have shown clearly that the community needs a functioning process for removing administrators by a vote of no confidence. In the C68-FM-SV arbitration case, 16 users (including me) supported a proposal to desysop one of the parties, while only four opposed and one was ambivalent: by RFA standards this counts as consensus, yet not a single arbitrator submitted the desysop proposal for consideration. (It's possible that the commenters at the ArbCom workshop were biased, but I don't think so: most of them were not significantly involved in the case except as observers.) The community logically holds the power to remove admins as it does to promote them; it should be able to exercise that power if needed. The benefits would be a streamlined process, lasting one to two weeks instead of four months, and a confidence that adminship will again be not such a big deal because anyone can be demoted almost as easily as they were promoted. Jimbo's roleI would like User:Jimbo Wales to resign or limit his special powers to ban or unban, promote or desysop, appoint or remove from ArbCom, etc. I never granted him these powers, and I do not think he has used them wisely enough to justify retaining them. I support Sarcasticidealist's effort to clarify the role of Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia. Just recently Jimbo wrote on the page for preparing the 2008 ArbCom elections that he would retain the power to appoint any candidate who receives 50% or more of the vote, even to promote a candidate at 51% and reject another candidate at 80%. There is no justification for one man to veto the wishes of hundreds of voters. Wikipedia is not a democracy, but when it pretends to be one, the pretense should be legitimately founded. I won't resign in protest if Jimbo appoints the wrong candidates to ArbCom, but I can voice my displeasure in advance, and I am doing that now. I should note in passing that Hebrew Wikipedia, where I participated in community affairs for a short time, functions just fine without an absentee figurehead deciding critical issues once or a few times every year. Other large Wikipedias and sister projects also function as well or better without Jimbo or even an Arbitration Committee. English Wikipedia really does need the Arbitration Committee, but it does not need Jimbo's role. Candidates for the 2008 ArbCom electionsI have learned that Rlevse, WJBscribe and Sam Korn are considering to run for ArbCom in the 2008 elections, and I would support all of them. I am looking for candidates who will resolve disputes, not simply to say that everyone needs to act kindly and give "hugs all around." I initially wrote a more detailed explanation, but this will suffice. Correcting mistakes by administratorsIf I were an administrator for a day, I would undertake the following actions to correct mistakes other administrators have made.
BanningUsers should not be banned trivially. Keep in mind that many of these people are young and may grow up someday. They should not be banned for the rest of their lives without first trying a one-year ban. VandalismVandalism is a continuing problem. I support any and all efforts that might be undertaken to curtail its insidious effects. Under my new account I stumbled across "[Name redacted] from miami fl is a g!" at the top line of a major article. It had been there for 20 minutes. I can cite numerous examples where I removed vandalism that had lasted much longer. Wikipedia's openness to vandals is unprofessional. Any variant of stable versions that can curtail this scourge should be encouraged. I would even recommend requiring all users to login in order to edit. This would deter some vandals, and the overall cost-benefit analysis for anonymous editing is overwhelmingly negative. Even if login is required, Wikipedia is still the encyclopedia anyone can edit. Especially with single-user login enabled, I see no reason why Wikipedia can't take this very reasonable step. Imagine if a named user would vandalize Wikipedia one edit out of every ten or twenty or whatever the rate is - how long would he last? So why do we tolerate that vandalism rate from anonymous users as a whole? The amount of time wasted of good-faith contributors is unconscionable. If people simply stopped fighting vandalism and let it slide, maybe the foundation would recognize the problem. I am not optimistic. ClosingA user requested by email that I apologize to another user for saying bad things about her. I apologized privately but will not do so publicly. Apologies on Wikipedia are meaningless except as evidence to use against the fellow who apologized in later proceedings. However, I have removed from public view statements I made about that user that she found objectionable, so that will have to suffice. I rambled much more than I had intended - this was intended for me to let go, not to keep posting loads of useless crap. Anyway, I'll stuff this in an archive box, and that will be the end. |
- Hate to see you go, but I'm glad we can still count on your contributions, albeit under a new name. Good luck out there. EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:44, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
If you returned merely to move junk from your userspace into the mainspace and personally attack other editors... Enigma msg 05:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, I did. I have been waiting for the opportunity to finally be done with this place, and it came at the right time. On that note... Yechiel ( Shalom) 20:29, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
{{ helpme}}
Would an administrator please do the following:
{will post in a moment}
- Thanks, Hersfold.
- Delete redirect pages from my old user subpages [1] and [2] and the user talk subpages [3] and [4].
- Delete my user talk archive subpages and all other user talk subpages [5]. Note that my talk page is structured so that archives are copy/paste. Therefore if you left me a comment last year you will still have it in your contribution log (something which I think is generally important to maintain as long as the user who left the comment is active, barring truly exceptional reasons to delete user talk history).
- Delete my user subpages, listed here. Be careful that if the subpage is a redirect to a different namespace page, such as a Signpost article, you delete the redirect but keep the actual page it points to.
- Blank my userpage and delete the page history, which is several hundred revisions. I'm not sure how you want to do this, but when you're done there should be a single revision with an edit summary of "blanked the page" or similar, and nothing from beforehand. Leave the full protection in place.
- Blank and full-protect this talk page. Leave the revision history alone because, as above, I believe it benefits other people for it to stay, even though it does me no good.
- On a non-technical note, thank you for doing this. It is unfortunate - and despite what others might think, not entirely my own doing though certainly that was part of it - that my extensive contributions to the encyclopedia have been overshadowed by other issues which should have been forgotten long ago. I hope that as a result of my action, those issues actually will be forgotten.
- Unblock User:Arthana. I'm trolling now, but seriously, he is innocent, and I like to point it out whenever I can get people's attention. He is not the only innocent user who has been blocked, but to my knowledge he is one of the few who didn't manage to get unblocked. If my attempt to become an administrator had succeeded, I would have unblocked him.
- In the interest of disclosure, I will also ask for deletions of userpages belonging to other accounts I've operated. I will do this confidentailly through the proper channels, but I note here that it is being done.
- Goodbye, and I hope the work I did here will benefit people in the world out there. Yechiel ( Shalom) 20:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Camp Moshava (Bnei Akiva)
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"...Fys/Dbiv/Sam Blacketer is sneaky and evasive but would not lie directly..." [6]
Not true. In response to a personal request, Mr. Boothroyd directly lied to me about his sockpuppetry, followed by a story which may or may not be true, but certainly did not explain the fact that the e-mail address attributed to him had no trace elsewhere that could be found. [7] -JR 64.250.228.220 ( talk) 00:53, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
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The article Fenix, North Carolina has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- This article is about a formerly unincorporated community; it's notability is nonexistant and anything notable that happens from this point forward should be placed within the Fayetteville article. There is no chance that this article can grow beyond this. Ncboy2010 ( talk) 13:56, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
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Nomination of Camp Moshava for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Chief rabbis of Ireland
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Nomination of ICGA Journal for deletion
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Your draft article, Draft:Hyper Poland
Hello, Shalom Yechiel. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Hyper Poland".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 17:52, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
The article HaAyin HaShevi'it has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Good article reassessment for Endgame tablebase
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I am leaving English Wikipedia and all Wikimedia projects. After I relocate in August, I will create a new username.
Wikipedia is causing me more stress than it's worth. After discussing my options by email correspondence with three administrators this week, I have decided to leave.
I created a rant about 60 kilobytes long on my computer to complain about how unfairly the community treated me. I will not post it. That's not how I wish to be remembered.
I'd like you to read one article I've written or improved during the last two and a half years. Pick any article from my list or the toolserver's list. That's how I wish to be remembered.
Shalom also means "goodbye." I offer best wishes to everyone who made editing here such a pleasant and fulfilling experience. Yechiel ( Shalom) 15:34, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
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If you happen to see this, i have left more comments and added some questions. Cheers, Dloh cierekim 01:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC) EK has a penchant for re-writing history in his favor. See this. Take what he says with a grain of salt. Raul654 ( talk) 05:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC) Greetings! You are invited to attend the second annual
New York picnic on August 24! This year, it will be taking place in the Long Meadow of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. If you plan on coming, please
sign up and be sure to
bring something! Please be sure to come!
WHAT Wikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City. The event is based on last year's Wikipedia Takes Manhattan, and has evolved to include StreetsWiki this year as well. LAST YEAR'S EVENT
WINNINGS? Prizes include a dinner for three with Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales at Pure Food & Wine, gift certificates to Bicycle Habitiat and the LimeWire Store, and more! WHEN The hunt will take place Saturday, September 27th from 1:00pm to 6:30pm, followed by prizes and celebration. WHO All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city). Bring a friend (or two)! REGISTER The proper place to register your team is here. It's also perfectly possible to register on the day of when you get there, but it will be slightly easier for us if you register beforehand. WHERE Participants can begin the hunt from either of two locations: one at Columbia University (at the sundial on college walk) and one at The Open Planning Project's West Village office. Everyone will end at The Open Planning Project:
FOR UPDATES Check out:
This will have a posting if the event is delayed due to weather or other exigency. Thanks, You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at
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I am writing to say goodbye to those of you who still watchlist my talk page, and to offer a chance for you to wish me well. One of the hardest things about moving on from a relationship is forgetting the painful memories and the lost hopes associated with that relationship. I accomplished many achievements here, but I never helped the project as an administrator (though I performed administrative tasks without the tool-set); I never submitted a featured article (though I did submit a good article at Talk:Endgame tablebase); and I never completed coverage of towns and villages in Israel (though I did create more than 100 articles about these places). I am proud of what I did, broadly speaking, and for my mistakes and failures, I am trying to retain whatever lessons I can apply to life outside the four walls of Wikipedia.
Last year I spent an extraordinary amount of time on Wikipedia. Without revealing too much personal information, I'll explain that I was working freelance part-time but I had most of my waking hours to spend at my discretion, and I donated that time to the project. Two months ago I relocated and began graduate school in the chemistry department of a major research university on the east coast of the United States. (You can read my admission essay at User:Shalom Yechiel/Drafts and archives/Wikipedia got me into graduate school.) My teaching and learning responsibilities do not permit anything more than a cursory interest in Wikipedia, and sometimes not even that. Last month I created an anonymous user account for editing and creating articles related to chemistry. Yechiel ( Shalom) 19:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
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I wish to leave my thoughts on various issues that I expect will engage the community's attention during the next months and years. Honesty is the best policyWikipedia:Honesty is marked as an essay, not even a guideline. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Honesty where someone had the gumption to suggest Wikipedians should abide by such a basic ethical principle. "Honesty is the best policy," according to a popular saying, and honesty should be required of all users on Wikipedia. Making baseless accusations against another user is unacceptable. Misrepresenting your real-world credentials is unacceptable. Misrepresenting the content or intent of sources is unacceptable. Wikipedia:Honesty should be at least a behavioral guideline on par with Wikipedia:Civility. RFA reformI support the efforts of Gazimoff and others in the RFA review. I have spent many hours thinking about what might discourage users from engaging in the false statements, assumptions of bad faith, and borderline personal attacks that pushed my temper over the edge in July. I prefer not to discuss my particular case anymore, but I recognize it as a wider problem. I perceive that RFA has become a toxic environment, one where false statements, assumptions of bad faith, and borderline personal attacks are tolerated as the price of vetting candidates for the stressful situations that some administrators may face. Standards of conduct from RFA commenters need to improve: users who can maintain neutrality in a particular RFA discussion should watch for comments that cross the line and not be shy about challenging them, and if necessary, asking a bureaucrat to remove or disregard them. Administrator accountabilityI support the proposal for bureaucrats to remove adminship after suitable discussion. I don't understand all the details, but the delays in recent arbitrations cases have shown clearly that the community needs a functioning process for removing administrators by a vote of no confidence. In the C68-FM-SV arbitration case, 16 users (including me) supported a proposal to desysop one of the parties, while only four opposed and one was ambivalent: by RFA standards this counts as consensus, yet not a single arbitrator submitted the desysop proposal for consideration. (It's possible that the commenters at the ArbCom workshop were biased, but I don't think so: most of them were not significantly involved in the case except as observers.) The community logically holds the power to remove admins as it does to promote them; it should be able to exercise that power if needed. The benefits would be a streamlined process, lasting one to two weeks instead of four months, and a confidence that adminship will again be not such a big deal because anyone can be demoted almost as easily as they were promoted. Jimbo's roleI would like User:Jimbo Wales to resign or limit his special powers to ban or unban, promote or desysop, appoint or remove from ArbCom, etc. I never granted him these powers, and I do not think he has used them wisely enough to justify retaining them. I support Sarcasticidealist's effort to clarify the role of Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia. Just recently Jimbo wrote on the page for preparing the 2008 ArbCom elections that he would retain the power to appoint any candidate who receives 50% or more of the vote, even to promote a candidate at 51% and reject another candidate at 80%. There is no justification for one man to veto the wishes of hundreds of voters. Wikipedia is not a democracy, but when it pretends to be one, the pretense should be legitimately founded. I won't resign in protest if Jimbo appoints the wrong candidates to ArbCom, but I can voice my displeasure in advance, and I am doing that now. I should note in passing that Hebrew Wikipedia, where I participated in community affairs for a short time, functions just fine without an absentee figurehead deciding critical issues once or a few times every year. Other large Wikipedias and sister projects also function as well or better without Jimbo or even an Arbitration Committee. English Wikipedia really does need the Arbitration Committee, but it does not need Jimbo's role. Candidates for the 2008 ArbCom electionsI have learned that Rlevse, WJBscribe and Sam Korn are considering to run for ArbCom in the 2008 elections, and I would support all of them. I am looking for candidates who will resolve disputes, not simply to say that everyone needs to act kindly and give "hugs all around." I initially wrote a more detailed explanation, but this will suffice. Correcting mistakes by administratorsIf I were an administrator for a day, I would undertake the following actions to correct mistakes other administrators have made.
BanningUsers should not be banned trivially. Keep in mind that many of these people are young and may grow up someday. They should not be banned for the rest of their lives without first trying a one-year ban. VandalismVandalism is a continuing problem. I support any and all efforts that might be undertaken to curtail its insidious effects. Under my new account I stumbled across "[Name redacted] from miami fl is a g!" at the top line of a major article. It had been there for 20 minutes. I can cite numerous examples where I removed vandalism that had lasted much longer. Wikipedia's openness to vandals is unprofessional. Any variant of stable versions that can curtail this scourge should be encouraged. I would even recommend requiring all users to login in order to edit. This would deter some vandals, and the overall cost-benefit analysis for anonymous editing is overwhelmingly negative. Even if login is required, Wikipedia is still the encyclopedia anyone can edit. Especially with single-user login enabled, I see no reason why Wikipedia can't take this very reasonable step. Imagine if a named user would vandalize Wikipedia one edit out of every ten or twenty or whatever the rate is - how long would he last? So why do we tolerate that vandalism rate from anonymous users as a whole? The amount of time wasted of good-faith contributors is unconscionable. If people simply stopped fighting vandalism and let it slide, maybe the foundation would recognize the problem. I am not optimistic. ClosingA user requested by email that I apologize to another user for saying bad things about her. I apologized privately but will not do so publicly. Apologies on Wikipedia are meaningless except as evidence to use against the fellow who apologized in later proceedings. However, I have removed from public view statements I made about that user that she found objectionable, so that will have to suffice. I rambled much more than I had intended - this was intended for me to let go, not to keep posting loads of useless crap. Anyway, I'll stuff this in an archive box, and that will be the end. |
- Hate to see you go, but I'm glad we can still count on your contributions, albeit under a new name. Good luck out there. EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:44, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
If you returned merely to move junk from your userspace into the mainspace and personally attack other editors... Enigma msg 05:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, I did. I have been waiting for the opportunity to finally be done with this place, and it came at the right time. On that note... Yechiel ( Shalom) 20:29, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
{{ helpme}}
Would an administrator please do the following:
{will post in a moment}
- Thanks, Hersfold.
- Delete redirect pages from my old user subpages [1] and [2] and the user talk subpages [3] and [4].
- Delete my user talk archive subpages and all other user talk subpages [5]. Note that my talk page is structured so that archives are copy/paste. Therefore if you left me a comment last year you will still have it in your contribution log (something which I think is generally important to maintain as long as the user who left the comment is active, barring truly exceptional reasons to delete user talk history).
- Delete my user subpages, listed here. Be careful that if the subpage is a redirect to a different namespace page, such as a Signpost article, you delete the redirect but keep the actual page it points to.
- Blank my userpage and delete the page history, which is several hundred revisions. I'm not sure how you want to do this, but when you're done there should be a single revision with an edit summary of "blanked the page" or similar, and nothing from beforehand. Leave the full protection in place.
- Blank and full-protect this talk page. Leave the revision history alone because, as above, I believe it benefits other people for it to stay, even though it does me no good.
- On a non-technical note, thank you for doing this. It is unfortunate - and despite what others might think, not entirely my own doing though certainly that was part of it - that my extensive contributions to the encyclopedia have been overshadowed by other issues which should have been forgotten long ago. I hope that as a result of my action, those issues actually will be forgotten.
- Unblock User:Arthana. I'm trolling now, but seriously, he is innocent, and I like to point it out whenever I can get people's attention. He is not the only innocent user who has been blocked, but to my knowledge he is one of the few who didn't manage to get unblocked. If my attempt to become an administrator had succeeded, I would have unblocked him.
- In the interest of disclosure, I will also ask for deletions of userpages belonging to other accounts I've operated. I will do this confidentailly through the proper channels, but I note here that it is being done.
- Goodbye, and I hope the work I did here will benefit people in the world out there. Yechiel ( Shalom) 20:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Camp Moshava (Bnei Akiva)
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"...Fys/Dbiv/Sam Blacketer is sneaky and evasive but would not lie directly..." [6]
Not true. In response to a personal request, Mr. Boothroyd directly lied to me about his sockpuppetry, followed by a story which may or may not be true, but certainly did not explain the fact that the e-mail address attributed to him had no trace elsewhere that could be found. [7] -JR 64.250.228.220 ( talk) 00:53, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
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The article Fenix, North Carolina has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- This article is about a formerly unincorporated community; it's notability is nonexistant and anything notable that happens from this point forward should be placed within the Fayetteville article. There is no chance that this article can grow beyond this. Ncboy2010 ( talk) 13:56, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
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Nomination of Camp Moshava for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Chief rabbis of Ireland
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Your draft article, Draft:Hyper Poland
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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 17:52, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
The article HaAyin HaShevi'it has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Good article reassessment for Endgame tablebase
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