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special syntax on the A10 talk page, and I'm expanding the "duplicate article" portion of CFORK to mention A10 (in the sense that we don't want to lose any new information and highly encourage further participation on the topic. Semi-related: Did anyone make, or do you think it would be good to make some short templates that could be placed on user's talk pages that explain the outcome of their A10'd article? Because it has multiple outcomes it could be helpful to summarize what we did and how they can keep going on it from there. Thanks for your time.

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A10 could go. Sizable concern though-- would it be left to admins to mark for merge to be done to do the redirect immediately when checking an A10? I have a nasty feeling about open encouragement, but then again anyone can PROD or open a deletion discussion. My opinion would be that gigantic, endless

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Afd discussion as well as my first article I had brought back from deletion. I must say I learned a lot, and made some Wikifriends (as well as some Wikienemies). My overall goal of bringing awareness and reform to the Bio Afd process is incomplete, however I have found and will soon close some of the

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Just wanted to second the kudos. While I supported deleting, fully agree with you that there was a "valid argument" for doing so, and think it would have been possible to close the discussion as "no consensus" while giving a bit more weight to the delete side, you were right that it was clearly "the

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My colleague, I reverted your close, because I do not think sufficient time for discussion was allowed. I've explained why at the talk page there, and also explained why I did not engage more strongly in the debate. . If you are really unhappy with what I did, I certainly do not want to provoke an

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preferred. I can appreciate that A10 shouldn't be deleting one scrap new content, which is why I'm smacking myself for not considering redirect as a probably most cases. As it looks to me, A10 is a narrow-spec shotgun AfD sharing the same possible outcomes? Keep delete merge redirect because 4 ways

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for next year's competition. Contributions to those discussions would be appreciated, especially concerning the flags, as next year's signups cannot begin until the flag issue has been resolved. Signups will hopefully open at some point in this round, with discussion about possible changing in the

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Hello Backward slash forward slash. I believe you have deleted my User Page along time ago. I was wondering if you could make it available to the public. My user page name is User:Nelson_1998. If would be great if it could be replaced as soon as you get this message because I can't even access it

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Hi Backslash Forwardslash!! Thank you for letting me know about this. Sorry I couldn't get back to you earlier. I haven't checked my account lately. I will think about it and get back to you about restoring that stuff. Please let me know on my talk if you got this message. Thank you very much for

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for the entire month of April. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 200. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in

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Thanks for the explanation in your edit summary on that government article, and thinking about it I feel rather silly for not thinking of that in the first place. Good timing, too, since this might fit into a few of the things I'm trying to edit-- I'm creating a talk page with obsvervations and

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Thanks for getting the ball rolling with some actual text to build off of. Originally I was going to ask if it was appropriate for non-admins to input sizable changes... mind you I know we're allowed to, but weight and experience are a factor. The other contributors thusfar are Rollbackers like

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I added the examples to the criteria A7 because it seemed to me obvious that an individual animal or plant is not the same as a species, but many of the most active AfDers are single purpose accounts nominating as many articles for deletion as possible, and don't seem to understand some of the

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have a clause for BLP concerns; and given that Hasan is still alive labeling him a terrorist is enough of a BLP concern for me to remove the possibly defamatory material. Note, this is not an endorsement for any side of the content dispute, and shouldn't be given any weight in your discussion

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Maybe I missed something in the previous discussion, but I don't know what this comment is referencing. I'm not asking as a rhetorical question; I'd like to comment on that RfA but your comment gives me pause, but I can't easily find what exactly you're referring to. If you think it's more

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about personal information on his userpage and as a parent (and decent human being) I applaud you for that. He now has created a page on himself that is at AfD and I think it best if it is speedily deleted, perhaps A7? I don't want to see him publicly disparaged at the AfD. Thank you

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for you. Anyway as I fear this conversation will drift off topic for some unknown reason, Ill be going off to edit. Thank you and once again, I hope that you did not take the "award" in bad faith. (this may also be off topic but Im still waiting for Dylan620 to respond about adopting

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be done by someone with even a sole puppet and the actions could be substantially separated and not remotely suspicious to report. Though not easy it would be practically foolproof from the examples I'm randomly thinking up. I hope there aren't A10s that pop up this week like

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removing yourself from the WikiCup. This is simply a way for the judges to take note of who has not yet reconfirmed their participation. If you have not removed your name from that list by December 30th, 2009 (by 23:59 (UTC)) then your name will be removed from the WikiCup.

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If this is a new development (i.e., if he had not played for the Latvian Higher League last year when the article was deleted), you can re-create the article with the new information. If it's not, but you disagree with the deletion decision, you can appeal the decision at

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I'm at a loss as to what exactly you should do about it, though. I know you're not supposed to revert the page you've protected. Perhaps you could ask another administrator to consider the BLP issue, and they could decide to revert or not. Does that seem reasonable?

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criteria. This one in particular gets ignored with prods to species stubs. It will probably work without the examples, but I'm not sure. I think it should have worked "individual animals" without having to point out that's not the same as a species... --

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I don't like your opinions on WP:CENSORED, and the arguments you made at various DYK discussions when 'censorship' comes up. (Here). I can't support an editor with a view so contrasting to mine. \ Backslash Forwardslash / (talk) 23:47, 3 December 2009

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majority will of the participants that the article be kept." Given the arguments that's ultimately what mattered and as such it was a very fair close, so thanks for taking care of it and reading through an overlong debate in the process. --

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which bases on sheer number of 2nd AFD votes and misapplied Wiki Guidelines referring to tabloid news. I added several more RS news sources that covers the story about the case which resulted a ban by IDF against wearing the t-shirts, in

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Hi backward slash forward slash. I would like to ask you if you could restore my user page. This would be greatly appreciated. Thank You for your time. I would also like to wish you a happy easter to you and your family.

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Hey Backslash Forwardslash. I was not thinking about the db- template notice when I changed to the un-named parameter format (and have updated the documentation subpage I created to detail the named parameter). However

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page, and your name is in the "unsorted participants" column. Would you be so kind to add yourself under the proper location column, with some of your interests listed? We'd love to know more about you. Thanks much!

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Thanks for reverting. I was on my (touch screen) iPod and I accidentally clicked on rollback. You reverted before I could. Lesson learned, I'll never edit while on my iPod again. Sorry for the inconvenience. :(

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template is meant to explain everything that is going on. If you want to expand CFORK, make sure the scope of A10 in that is as narrow as possible. A10 should not interfere with anything that could be useful.

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myself (but by account creation date I still am way into newbie territory... not quite a month yet), which I think works just fine since this is one of the two basic patrols areas. This should be fun!

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weiss research, I have published it on my talk page. Also, how do I check the notability factor for each article that I may post. Please also comment about quality and standards for my article.

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Hi, Backslash Forwardslash. You nominated a number of secret pages for deletion in November 2009. Since you are experienced in this matter, I hope that you can participate in the discussion at

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It's actually not that bad; good job! Typically, Knowledge (XXG) articles should have more than one source; it makes the text more reliable. Try doing Google searches for the German phrase (

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I'm not an expert on non-free uploads, but from my look over you could really use some more verbose descriptions on why the image is needed, and why it is irreplaceable by free media. See

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and see if you can help. The competition has continued to tick over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. Good luck to all!

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Aside: It's not too clear on your page that you are an administrator. That's why I reverted. I was looking for an infobox. I did not see the plain text until it was too late.

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and tell me if there are any problems with my uploads? I believe I have dotted the i's and crossed the t's with my NFC uploads.... but wish a second set of eyes. Thanks.

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edit war, so you are welcome to revert me, say it was with my permission so it's clear what's going on, and I will proceed further by way of an RfC on the policy.

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template used in the AfD; that's what caused the box to end partway down the discussion. I removed the tag from the quote template, and that seems to have fixed it.

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so that I can keep the references and original history of this article. Before it was deleted, I frequently contributed to that article. It was deleted for being .

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Sorry. When I reverted the deletion discussion tag, I was not aware you were an administrator. There has been so much vandalism to that discussion, I knee-jerked.

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loopholes used by the pro-deletionists. In your experience with other Afd's, have you ever seen another discussion that was as protracted or as contentious as

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You misspelled making, and more recently 'I'm', 'didn't', 'understanding'. Will make it easier when copyediting your articles if you watch your spelling. :)

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Good topics (which were worth 5 points per article last year) will now be worth 10 points per any article in the topic that you were a major contributor to.

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Right. Hm. Actually I might leave a note on that talk page about it, as someone who was part of reinstating it or wrote the template changes would be

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As you know, administrators can't be taking sides in an editorial dispute when they have exercised their privileges. However, the protection policy

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I would like to be adopted. Looking for general guidance, to be able to edit articles/revise existing articles. Extremely interested in wikipedia.

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the articles, rather than nominate them. There are enough experienced DYK'ers that other peoples articles don't need to be nominated for them.

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Thanks for looking in. I thought I had provided proper fair use rationales when I added a seperate FUR section to my uploads like I did with

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selection process has started; to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months. If you are interested in running, please sign up

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put the {{ab}} too high up; it is about halfway down the discussion, leaving many comments orphaned. You might want to fix that. Cheers.

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I want to be adopted by you so that i could learn all the things i have to learn in order to be a good editor. BTW love your username.

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that you have protected is a BLP violation. We cannot call Hasan a terrorist when the FBI is not yet willing to call him a terrorist. ~

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elections has opened; all users are encouraged to participate in the elections. Voting will conclude 23:59 (UTC) on 28 March 2010.

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appropriate for me to ask this on the RfA page itself then let me know and I will, so you can reply in the proper place. Thanks

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When that syntax is used the code for copying works correctly. I am working out a way to incorporate that requirement into

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Well I guess the best way to find out is to try. Anyway I have gotten 2 DYK's under my belt...I am makeing progress!--

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because it's like the same but with more so move it all back!" ...Okay, extra CSD patrol for me this week. Cheers~

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