User talk:Liz

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Well said!Liz ^{Read! Talk!}

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Staying cool when the editing gets hot!

If you came here just to insult me, I will delete your comments without a reply.
And if I wasn't involved, personal attacks clearly warrant a block.

In need of ANI intervention

Hello. I have opened an ANI here. Could you have a look at it and, if possible, impose sanctions where needed?
Last time I opened an ANI for this user, no action was taken until three days later after I asked some admins to have a look at it, so this time I decided to start asking sooner. The admin Ymblanter does not want to intervene for - from what I understand - ethical reasons. Thanks in advance. Veverve (talk) 10:49, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Veverve,

I'm sorry for the delay in seeing and responding to your message but it looks like the problem was resolved at ANI, I hope, to your satisfaction. I sometimes get busy and neglect to check my talk page and I apologize for that. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:19, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Indigo Muldoon hoax archival

Hi, I'm reaching out since you were the one to carry out the AfD for Indigo Muldoon.

It seemed to me that the consensus was deletion (in the sense that the article is no longer in the main namespace) and moving to Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia for archival. CompliensCreator (who originally discovered the hoax) has created Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Indigo Muldoon based on a snapshot of the page, but from what I understand the accepted hoax archival procedure is to restore the original (so that the revision history is available) and move it to the subpage.

Thanks. aismallard (talk) 00:33, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, aismallard,

I've dealt with a hoax article before and those weren't the steps that I took (I think I created a separate page on an archive site) but I need to look into this a bit more. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:17, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

We wish you a merry Christmas

We wish you a merry Christmas×3 And a happy new year the tithings we bring to you and your king we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year................ .......😍😍 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.114.227.134 (talk) 11:27, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, 41.114.227.134,

I think you need to buy a new calendar. But thanks any way. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:15, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Game Boy Advance family

FWIW, I've implemented the redirect to Game Boy Advance#Revisions that was proposed in the discussion. It'd be reasonable to restore the history under that redirect, per WP:ATD-R: while everyone agreed that a standalone article shouldn't exist, the nom first listed the redirect target, and no one opposed it. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 21:11, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Jclemens,

I read the consensus as one to delete the page but I have no objections to turning it into a redirect instead. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:14, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

There's absolutely no question most people just opined for straight deletion. However, per WP:NHC "... discarding irrelevant arguments: those that flatly contradict established policy...", WP:ATD "If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page.", and WP:DGFA "When in doubt, don't delete." Redirect, though numerically quite inferior in the discussion, is actually the policy-based outcome. Redirection certainly isn't opposed to deletion in most cases, but when we leave the realm of things covered by CSD's G10-11-12, where the title in question often should be salted to deal with the underlying issue, it becomes obvious that a redirect is often the best, most encyclopedia-friendly way to remove the content, while leaving it accessible to non-administrators should there be a desire for later reuse.

I've been suggesting this in DRV for some time, but it seems to be lost in the shuffle, so I'm approaching admins individually, on articles where I have zero involvement or emotional stake in the outcome, to try and get us (as an encyclopedia-building community) to better implement our deletion process as written, even when simple deletion is clearly fastest. Thanks for listening. Jclemens (talk) 21:33, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

A big lump

Liz, perhaps my next sculpture-related draft after Statuette of the lady Tiye has been the one I talk (possibly too much) about in Draft talk:Jade Mountain Illustrating the Gathering of Scholars at the Lanting Pavilion. When I first encountered the draft it was very promising and very problematic. Now it's much improved, yet in a few, newly added places acutely problematic. Perhaps I've gone about this in the wrong way. I've a hunch that you could sort it out. And I have a second hunch that you'd enjoy the draft: certainly I do, or anyway the great majority of it. -- Hoary (talk) 02:31, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Hoary,

I'm not clear on what editor or adminning thing you are asking me to do. Or, if you are just sharing your sculpture-related draft, I'll give it a look. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:50, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

WP:SHAREDACCOUNT possibility meets a possible WP:C (in expression) IR issue meets the possibility of WP:HOUNDING (by me, and if so, then only in that talk page) meets a draft about a carved lump; and come on, admit it, carved lumps beat Gameboy stuff and the like. I don't think that any administratifying is called for; it's just that you are experienced, have your head screwed on right, view stalled drafts sympathetically, and may be able to make sense of snippets of prose (and luckily they're only snippets) that don't make sense to me. -- Hoary (talk) 05:49, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Update: Vexations is (or possibly are) onto it, so you needn't be vexed by this remarkable rock. -- Hoary (talk) 09:09, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

I'd like to end my involvement in that article. I have the impression that the student who is working on it is struggling, and clearly frustrated by our efforts. There may be more than one person writing though that account, but I'd rather see them get some help. I'm not sure if this is still required: The student is a participant in https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Concordia_College,_Moorhead/ART_365_-_Renaissance_and_Baroque_Art_(Spring_2022), which has a Assignment End date of 2022-02-26. Vexations (talk) 12:30, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

I suppose I might simply remove the bits that make no sense, promote the result, and wish it well. -- Hoary (talk) 13:11, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

I support that. Vexations (talk) 15:06, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Done! -- Hoary (talk) 23:16, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for popping up in my watchlist everyday and cleaning up the files! --Minorax«¦talk¦» 02:43, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Minorax! You know, I can not figure out what time zone you live in because I see files PROD'd by you at all hours of the UTC day and night. Maybe you just don't sleep? Or, like many, when plagued with insomnia you edit? Thanks for the barnstar! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:48, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

I live in a +8 and I do have some trouble sleeping :> --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 02:51, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

H808Beats

The article was draftified mid-AfD without community consensus. What's the procedure here?-KH-1 (talk) 05:33, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, KH-1,

That is bizarre, I've only seen this done by page creators, and very new ones, who want to bypass an AFD discussion but Akevsharma was not the page creator. I have posted on their talk page asking them to revert their move. If it's not done by tomorrow, I'll move the article back but I'd like to give them a chance to repair the damage. Thanks for letting me know. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:39, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Johnny Plescio

Hello Liz I really do apologize, as you saw I didn't agree with the decision made by the other editor, I would have just moved it out of the draft space but I don't know how to do that to be honest. I also do not know how to combine page histories ,I apologize tho truly as you saw though it was justified other people reviewed the article and it was accepted it was just that one editor being silly.CanadianHistorian(MMA & History) (talk) 06:40, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

re Jonathan Pershing

Hello Liz. Have you read WP:POLITICIANS? Dondervogel 2 (talk) 11:23, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Vandalism in Rohitha Rajapaksa

Hello,

I'd like to inform you (as you're one of the recently active admins and I do not yet know where to report this), that the page Rohitha Rajapaksa appears to be under massive vandalization by multiple IPs: Besides some reverts and one (seemingly unsourced) contribution, all edits to that page after this one appear to have been done to insert (supposedly) Sri Lankan insults and to add unsourced information about that person's family being corrupt.

I do not have any knowledge of Sri Lankan politics nor of their insults (the most I could do was confirm they were insults with urban dictionary/google), but the vandalism there seems pretty significant.

(actually as I was writing this another user reverted the page to the revision I linked, although the page appears to still be being vandalized so I will still make this section)

Thank you for your time. 2804:F14:C060:8A01:2C92:228A:7828:ED9C (talk) 05:26, 4 April 2022 (UTC)}}

Update: Seems another admin solved it after the user who reverted the 40+ vandalism changes asked for the page to be protected. I won't delete this as I don't know if that's how things are done, you're welcome to though. 2804:F14:C060:8A01:6084:9868:98AC:FCDF (talk) 07:12, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Víctor Jara songs

Thanks for performing the move. I didn't want to make a request out of laziness. The original category name had a typo. --Bedivere (talk) 16:49, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Quick vandal block needed

Jackthekim (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Hi Liz, I noticed you on the recently active admin list (and AIV is a bit underwatched at this hour). If you or one of your friendly talk page stalkers with the special buttons are around, would you mind blocking the above-noted user? Thank you. Aoi (青い) (talk) 03:49, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Aoi (青い),

It looks like this editor is already blocked. I don't visit that noticeboard much but I will check it out. By the way, what is this "recently active admin list" you speak of? Just curious. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:52, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Liz, I appreciate your quick reply! (And sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you or anyone else need to keep a close eye on the AIV board, definitely no one is under any such obligation!). Regarding the "recently active admin list," This is the tool I was referring to. I find it useful when it's an odd hour of the day and there is something urgent that needs attention, especially since I am not super familiar with IRC. Aoi (青い) (talk) 03:57, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Oh, that's not how I took it. That's an interesting tool, I've been here years and I never knew about it. I think it tracks edits, not admin actions as it is missing an admin I just noticed had deleted a page. It would be easier to track editing behavior than logged admin acts. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:03, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Category:people of Malay descent

Hello Liz

I noticed that you added a quick deletion template to Category:Moroccan people of Malay descent and you were reverted by the ip [1] of MohdFajar243 [2]. I found ou that his IPs were adding the Category templates to different pages without any reasons. Another one of their IPs is [3].197.153.6.83 (talk) 00:45, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, 197.153.6.83,

I will look into this, thanks for the head's up. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:20, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

They did it again [4].197.153.23.190 (talk) 07:52, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

antineutronium

You deleted the page "antineutronium" with a reference to a defunct (non-)discussion from April 2020, but haven't participated in the current discussion for April 2022. Was this in error? If you haven't already, please review the discussion at "Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2022 April 4#antineutronium" and add any relevant input you may have on whether the redirect page should be restored or kept deleted. Nicole Sharp (talk) 06:05, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Barrie (band)

Hello! Few hours ago I speedily tagged Barrie (band) with A7, but the user contacted me saying that he disagreed with the speedy deletion. I have rechecked the source he provided on the Talk page when he contested the deletion, and in my opinion, the only sources that establish their notability is this Pitchfork article. It is also my opinion that this article is not in-depth enough to establish the notability of the band itself. Other sources provided by the editor creating the page is just their discographies which in my opinion does not add to their notability. What do you think? Do I did right with the A7? Thank you! SunDawntalk 09:14, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

All the links are from websites that have wikipedia pages. They are music publications like NME which are well established. I've even included an article from the New York Times. Metrotitan

Userfy request

Liz, could I get a userfied copy of the deleted 2020 draft: Sinsemilla Tips for potential content rescue/integration with the new article of the same name? ☆ Bri (talk) 13:55, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Bri,

Sorry for the delay, I'll take care of this tomorrow. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:34, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

File:Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness poster.jpeg

Hi Liz. I declined the speedy on this title. Why did you still delete it? -FASTILY 05:22, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Fastily,

Oh, my, that was my error and I restored it. I must have had the page open on a tab and then returned to it after you untagged the page and acted on the tag. I didn't refresh the screen and see your action. I just thought it was an unneeded redirect. This should teach me to not extend my work to the File area where I have less experience. I appreciate you catching my mistake and letting me know so I could restore it, thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:33, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Quick Question

Hello, I saw your comment on my talk page — thanks for informing me of that action, I will log onto my regular account when talking to someone on their talk page or any talk page in general.

Anyway, I was wondering if I could have this old user page of mine (now redirected) deleted? The whole reason why I changed my username was because I no longer felt comfortable using my real name, and I was concerned/and convinced that I was being stocked on external social media pages. I don’t feel comfortable with it being a redirect — I’d rather it just be entirely deleted.

If you could point me in the right direction to have it deleted, that would be helpful. Thanks --Lord of Fantasy (talk) 06:49, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Question about why Charissa (Musician) page was deleted

Hi Liz,

I just wanted to kindly ask why my Charissa (Musician) page had been deleted, and what can we do to improve it and make it better?

Thank you.

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G5 decline

You decline here is frankly pointless. Only the sockpuppet happened to create and expand the article so far thus it should be deleted per G5. Abhishek0831996 (talk) 19:17, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

@Liz: Are you going to respond or I should raise this issue on WP:AN already? Abhishek0831996 (talk) 18:10, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Why would this need to go to AN? The next step would be to just send it to AfD if you would like to see it deleted. This page had edits Special:Diff/1066228023 and Special:Diff/1075865055 by two different editors after the sock creation, thus making it G5 ineligible. -2pou (talk) 18:29, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Those edits are minor, not major enough to take responsibility of entire article. Abhishek0831996 (talk) 11:18, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Abhishek0831996,

Sorry for my delay in responding to your message. I either seem to see my talk page messages right away or it takes me a while for me to get to them.

CSD G5 is frequently misunderstood. Please read over WP:G5, it is not page deletion merely because the page was created by a sockpuppet but because the sockmaster had been blocked and the sockpuppet was being used for ban evasion. Yes, the article had been created by a sockpuppet but if you look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hammad Chaudhry and the page history, you'll see that the page was created before the sockmaster was blocked. So it's not a situation of ban evasion. Muslim Kids TV was created by User:RaheelAnsar on December 27, 2021 and the sockmaster wasn't blocked until January 25, 2022 so they were not evading a ban when the article was created.

For CSD G5, you need to look at the SPI case, the block log for both the sockmaster and sockpuppet, the date of account creation of the sockpuppet and the date that the article was created (and also whether other editors had contributed to the article). CSD G5 usually fits for long-time sockmasters who have recently created new sockpuppets and when they are the only contributors to the article but it often doesn't apply to new SPI cases when the sockpuppetry is first found because the sockmaster isn't blocked until recently and so their sockpuppets weren't being used for ban evasion but just as illegitimate sockpuppet accounts. Also, if you go through my talk page and talk page archives, you'll find I've had this discussion often with editors so it's a frequent mistake page taggers make. You can take this to WP:AN if you want but I think it would just be energy on your part that you could spend on more productive activities.

I apologize again for you having to wait a day for my reply. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:59, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

@Liz: The SPI says "This appears to be a fairly prolific UPE or group of UPEs." Just because the master account wasn't caught because of 90-days limit of CU record, it doesn't mean that this person wasn't evading block on an already banned account. Abhishek0831996 (talk) 11:18, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Nonsensical redirect

Hi Liz, the page Traditional Sunni–Salafi relations was only created in the last 24 hours when a relatively new editor made a controversial page move that has now been reverted. Now normally I wouldn't even be worried about whatever lingering redirects were out there, but in this instance, the editor who tried to move the page seems to have gotten the thoroughly wrong end of the stick, and the destination of the move (and now redirect) is actually nonsensical relative to the original name of the page and its contents. This is why it and its talk page were tagged as CSD R3 - because it is a complete misnomer. Iskandar323 (talk) 20:14, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

A7 on Andrea Martínez

Hi Liz -- I don't feel particularly strongly either way, but I declined the A7 a minute before you deleted the article. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 06:18, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Espresso Addict,

I must have been acting on the page seconds after you. You took first action so I reverted myself and restored the page. Thanks for letting me know. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:24, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! It's unlikely to survive long but I think it's important to maintain the A7 threshold as distinct from notability, and I tend to think that recreation after a prod deletion implies that the prod was contested and escalation to AfD is indicated. Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk)

Re removing erroneous redundant redirect at Hittite Empir

About my attempt to remove the erroneous redundant redirect at Hittite Empir [5]: I will read the instructions at How to list a redirect for discussion and go through the procedure to get Hittite Empir discussed. I realise it is not a recent creation, but it seems an obvious typo, and there already exists a proper target ("Hittite Empire") for redirection (everybody was very lucky to get "Hittite" spelled correctly). I really think there's a bit of a case for Ignore all rules here. I'll look at improving things tomorrow, then, if you haven't in the meantime seen clear to reversing your reversal. Cheers. _signed, Willondon (talk) 06:30, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Spider eater

Hi! I've noticed that the page Spider eater got deleted per G7 a month ago. Sorry, that may come across as a weird question, but did I really ask for it to be deleted? I have no recollection of the context any more. – Uanfala (talk) 13:10, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Uanfala,

You were not the page creator, User:Zxcvbnm was and they asked for the page to be deleted. The rationale was "Nothing left to disambiguate now that the D&D monster article was soft deleted". It looks like Spider eater (Dungeons & Dragons) was the only article on this disambiguation page and it has been turned into a redirect. The other listing was simply "an organism that feeds on spiders" and was linked to Arachnophagy so I don't think the page really fulfilled the purpose of a disambiguation page once the D&D page was gone as an actual article. I hope this answers your question. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:19, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Yes, Liz pretty much summed up my line of thinking. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:48, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, Liz, I may have things awfully mixed up, so I'm sorry if this is incorrect, but I do seem to distinctly recall creating such a disambiguation page myself. Would you mind restoring it please? From your description it seems like a standard dab that disambiguates an informal term for an arachnophage and a fictional monster (it's completely irrelevant if this is not a separate article but a redirect to a page with relevant content). – Uanfala (talk) 21:26, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

OK, so you don't seem like you're interested in responding any further. Here we go again: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2022 April 8#Spider eater. Liz, why do I always have to go through all this rigmarole for such simple cases? – Uanfala (talk) 23:55, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

I just got back home. I'm sorry it wasn't swift enough for you, Uanfala. You seem very impatient and I gave you a very thorough answer. Good luck with your deletion review of a disambiguation page that probably could have been tagged CSD G14. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:08, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, I only noticed that you were hard at work closing discussions and deleting pages in the meantime, and it didn't occur to me that you may be in a situation where you're at ease to do these things but can't answer my request.

You brought up WP:G14: the previous issues I've had have involved exactly this criterion. To quote from the policy, it applies to disambiguation pages that disambiguate zero extant Wikipedia pages. From your description, I infer that the page you deleted disambiguated not zero, but two extant pages, so this criterion shouldn't apply. – Uanfala (talk) 00:15, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

You are correct. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:49, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Relativity

So if by chance everything in the world relates Then what?.... Your definitions are absolute.. What was my definition on theory in life as we speak encyclopedia so my book comes out and it will here next couple weeks then can I say what I had to say. Because it be apart of history right? I'm just wondering Crsvncnt (talk) 20:39, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Crsvncnt,

Can you tell me what you are talking about? Does this concern an article or draft? If so, please give me a link to the page. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:09, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Worker Bee

Hi Liz, great work on deleting all those old drafts. I see them showing in on my watchlist. Keep up the good work lass :) scope_creep^Talk 08:14, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, scope_creep,

I didn't expect compliments from you, I sense some of my AFD closures don't sit well with you. But I appreciate the kind words. Stale drafts and empty categories are kind of what I do these days. Not exciting work but pretty predictable and steady....every day, there is somewhere between 150-250 drafts that expire and need to be put away until someone wants to revive them. I like to work at WP:REFUND when I have time because it's where editors go to get back drafts that want to work on...kind of balances out all of the deletions I seem to do these days. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:27, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Wunder (Gamer)

Hello, while it was not my page, I was wondering if you have to ability to give me access to the article Wunder (gamer) (deleted yesterday). It was already on my list of articles to improve, and I'm confident I can take the page to a minimum of start-class. I take my first break in a couple months and my timing couldn't be better. Thanks for your time Chaddude (talk) 23:17, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Chaddude,

I don't ordinarily restore articles deleted through AFD but this discussion leaned toward weak delete. Can I ask that you submit it to WP:AFC when you think it is ready? Because if I restore it and you move it directly into main space, it'll get tagged for speedy deletion, CSD G4. There is no point in restoring a page if it just will be immediately deleted again. If you get a positive review from AFC, it'll help it keep from being deleted again. And, I'd like to restore it to your User space if that's okay. Let me know if these are conditions you can accept. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:30, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

I'd like to think I have a decent amount of experience creating esports biographies from scratch Hans Sama Ssumday Vulcan (gamer) Licorice (gamer) as well as seriously improving standing articles that are close to deletion status Bwipo Impact (gamer). I hope you could take my word that I can bring it up to main space quality within a couple hours of it being in my user space. If not, and you really want an AFC positive first then I would reluctantly accept those terms as well. Thanks either way Chaddude (talk) 23:39, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Chaddude,

 Done You can find it at User:Chaddude14/Wunder (gamer). Please read over Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wunder (gamer) so you can see the arguments for why some editors thought it should be deleted, it would be great if you could address their concerns. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:47, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks again! Chaddude (talk) 23:50, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

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Template:User LGBT3

Hi Liz. I see that you have deleted the user box that prompted me to start an account on Wikipedia. Thank you. From my watchlist it says "(G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND)". Can I ask who it was that requested deletion or blanked the page? Polycarpa aurata (talk) 16:37, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, again, Polycarpa aurata,

Editor User:Sundostund created a number of userboxes and asked for several to be deleted. I removed template listings from some of the master userbox lists but I didn't remove the red links from User pages, I assume editors can do that themselves. I hope you are well! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:42, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, Liz. I hope you are well also. Polycarpa aurata (talk) 22:44, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Thank-you for the invite to Teahouse! ZackAshley (talk) 01:14, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, ZackAshley,

Thank you for the pie! I hope you find the Teahouse useful, it's generally a very helpful place. Some editors who help out there can be a little jaded from editing here for years but I found that it is the best place to send editors who run up against Wikipedia rules that may seem confusing or laced with Wiki-jargon. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Liz. It's been helpful reading other peoples questions! I looked at your user profile, wow very impressive! Why do you do what you do here on Wikipedia! ZackAshley (talk) 16:07, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Wong chi keung

Thanks for your work keeping the vandals down, but would it not be better to leave that minor draft page unprotected so that editors with it watchlisted can ban the account whenever the page is recreated? With it protected the vandal is surely going to just choose another slight variation on that title, which risks getting overlooked because nobody has their eye on it. They've already moved on from Draft:Wong Chi-Keung which you protected last month, as well as other capitalised variants of that.

The harm isn't in the creation of the draft (which will never, ever make it to mainspace), it's in the related vandalism where they also add their photo and a silly claim to an existing article at the same time, which might otherwise go unnoticed. --Lord Belbury (talk) 09:46, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Lord Belbury,

Well, there are two ways to think about it. If you remove a possible target, they'll stop trying to recreate it and maybe lose interest. Or, you can think of the page as a "honeypot", a place to attract sockpuppets so you can catch them when they appear. My reasoning was that I wanted to stop recreation of the page since it just gets created and deleted over and over again. But I'm not really invested in this sockpuppet hunt so I've followed your advice and unprotected the page. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:12, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

True, they might give up once we'd blocked every variant of their name. Or they might just cycle through other variations which they don't mind if it means they get to "have a Wikipedia article". I'd guess we were more likely to exhaust them if their account was always quickly blocked and their page deleted, than if they had the gambler's thrill of sometimes getting an unnoticed draft that stayed up for a few weeks. But who knows the mind of vandals. Thanks for the revert, anyhow. --Lord Belbury (talk) 18:23, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

delete a redirect

Hello, You delete Category:WikiProject Punjab, Pakistan templates few month ago. the page Category:WikiProject Punjab (Pakistan) templates redirect to this deleted page. do you thing this redirect need to be delete too? Yona B. (discussion) 17:28, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Yona B.,

Good catch! Those broken category redirects don't show up on any lists or in a speedy deletion category. We usually only find them if there is a broken link on the talk page, that page will show up on User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects but not the category redirect page itself. Thanks for finding that and alerting me. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:06, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

someone request to delete in wikidata the item of this redirect, this is the way i found it. anyway, thanks for the delete. Yona B. (discussion) 20:16, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Gryphon (band) album redirects

Hi, Liz. I did not get around to commenting on the relevant AfD, but I should have. Anyways, I believe it was sound logic to redirect them, because the articles did not have enough citations to stand by themselves. Emotionally, I would have rather kept them, but I know that Wikipedia's rules and guidelines are not conducive or friendly toward keeping such articles. Thank you for your help around there. Also, ping to @Loew Galitz: for starting the AfD. Mungo Kitsch (talk) 19:34, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Mungo Kitsch,

Well, you know, when the articles are converted to redirects, the articles are not deleted, they are just changed to a redirect. The content is still all in the page history. I don't think at this point, the sourcing will dramatically change but it's all still there. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:56, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Right, I'm aware of how the redirects work, and I think it is a good thing that the history is still there and publicly accessible. If I or anyone get access to some reliable sources contemporary to the albums' release, as was touched on in the discussion, then maybe they can be reanimated as articles later. That is something to think about later, though. Take care. Mungo Kitsch (talk) 20:42, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Mungo Kitsch,

You've been editing here much longer than I, I'm sorry if I sounded like I was talking to a new editor. I spend a lot of time explaining things to new folks here that I have adopted a "teaching voice" by default. Of course, you know how this place works! I hope one day all of those magazine or newspaper articles that are concert or album reviews get digitized and they become more accessible to our editors. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:50, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

I wasn't going to say anything outright, but I am glad you caught that. I have been editing Wikipedia for... a while. But don't worry, all's good on my end. You're doing great work here. Mungo Kitsch (talk) 05:26, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, that actually means a lot. All the best, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:32, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Those Peacocks/Peahens categories

Thought I'd reach out to you regarding those reverts for further clarification. That move request I referenced changed up a lot of categories per WP:C2D, primarily because unless there is a specific "men's" vs. "women's" designation, anything "Peahens" or "Peacocks and Peahens" is now just "Peacocks". I have a bit of a list of related category moves listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy#Current requests that will hopefully be processed in about 12 or so hours. In the process of doing all of this, the new naming scheme resulted in at least 2 now-redundant categories, and those were the two edits I reverted in order to match the subcategories with their new, more appropriate respective parent category. (In all honesty though, a lot of these categories fail WP:SMALLCAT, but that's a fish for another day.) Steel1943 (talk) 19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Steel1943.

I wasn't aware of this larger discussion. Feel free to revert my edits or I'll take care of them. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:52, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

No worries, and already done. Cheers. Steel1943 (talk) 19:56, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Request to Speedy Deletion of Aviram7

Dear Liz , I'm Here to Request to Speedy deletion of Aviram7 due to Pure Vandalism and A Ip is Abuses My Mother, this talk is very Bad For Me , If You Protect My Usertalk for Creation temproary , I'm aware about this Ip operated by blocked and globally locked User Adam Chacko.Aviram7 (talk) 02:38, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Aviram7,

 Done I've deleted the vandalism and blocked the editor temporarily. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:43, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Liz Thanks a lot for this Fastly Action, I am sure that he will again criticize my talks because he was abusing my User talks on Hindi Wikipedia many times, which was Protected by the reason Administrator for 1 month.Aviram7 (talk) 02:50, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Ancient Egyptian deities in popular culture AfD

Hi. Would you mind explaining your close of WP:Articles for deletion/Ancient Egyptian deities in popular culture as redirect? My count is 1 keep to 6 delete with 2 non-bolded mentions of redirect as a less-favored choice.

WP:Articles for deletion/Mont Saint-Michel in popular culture appears similar, and you closed it as delete around the same time.

Thanks! Flatscan (talk) 04:32, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Flatscan,

Since two participants, Piotrus and NiklausGerard, suggested a possible redirect along with their Delete vote, I took that suggestion as an alterative to deletion, per WP:ATD-R, A page can be blanked and redirected if there is a suitable page to redirect to, and if the resulting redirect is not inappropriate. I read through the comments and didn't notice whether the remarks were bolded or not bolded. A redirect was not suggested by participants at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mont Saint-Michel in popular culture. I assume from your message that you think the redirect is inappropriate? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:03, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

I believe that the consensus was delete. Both of the participants in question bolded "Delete" but not "redirect", which is why I described it as "a less-favored choice". Furthermore, no one presented an argument specifically for redirect. It seems that you gave redirect a considerable amount of extra weight. WT:Articles for deletion/Archive 61#RfC: Merge, redirect established a consensus that the weight of "merge" and "redirect" arguments is equal to the weight of "keep" and "delete" arguments. That was in 2011, and WP:Consensus can change, but I am not aware of any discussion that overturned it.

I see that ATD-R is mentioned above in #Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Game Boy Advance family. Did that discussion influence your reasoning? Flatscan (talk) 04:41, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Checking back – did you lose track of this? While I understand that DRV may not be your favorite place (per #Moral support below), I am planning to file there. Flatscan (talk) 04:30, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Mine was the most recent DRV case against a deletion by Liz, but I really can't find faults with this closure. The outcome is the same either way: consensus against the existence of the article. Some editors mentioned redirecting, no-one raised an objection, and it was within admin discretion to make a call here (esp. given that AfD discussions tend to almost never broach the question whether a title is suitable as a redirect). "Ancient Egyptian deities in popular culture" is a perfectly plausible term for what the target article Egyptian influence in popular culture is mostly about. Do you believe this is not a plausible redirect? I'm sure that if it were nominated at RfD, the result would be an easy "keep". – Uanfala (talk) 16:16, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

I explained why I disagree with the weights apparently used. Delete and redirect are distinct recommendations/outcomes, see the table at WP:Guide to deletion#Outcome summary. AfD and RfD have independent standards and outcomes. Flatscan (talk) 04:24, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Sorry for my delay in responding, Flatscan. I can easily lose track of messages that are in the middle of the page. I have amended my closure to provide an explanation, as I stated here, and I'm surprised that you feel so strongly about having this page deleted that you would take this case to Deletion Review. I'd recommend nominating this page at WP:RFD instead but it's up to you. While another admin might have closed this case differently, I don't think my judgment was so out-of-the-box enough to warrant reverting my closure. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:43, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for your replies and the AfD note. One detail: you wrote that "several participants" mentioned redirect, but wikt:several#Determiner defines "several" as more than two but not very many. Flatscan (talk) 04:49, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Seeing your other message, the discussion about Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Game Boy Advance family didn't affect my decision in this case. But I will say that if I compare myself to other administrators who close AFDs, I'm probably more open to alternatives to deletion than some admins who go for a simple Delete/Keep dichotomy and see things in a more black/white fashion. If the content should be removed from the project because of copyright, BLP or promotional concerns or there is a unanimous call for deletion, then, yes, delete. But if other editors are open to a merge or redirect, I probably pay their comments more attention than some other administrators. That comment will undoubtedly not help me in a Deletion review but I'm trying to respond honestly to your query.

Can I ask why you want this page deleted so much that a redirect is unacceptable to you? Is it for policy consistency's sake or do you think retaining the page history in this redirect is a detriment to the project? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:56, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

WP:Deletion review/Purpose 1: the closer of a deletion discussion interpreted the consensus incorrectly. I explained why I disagree with the extra weight. Skimming recent non-delete/keep AfDs at WP:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Popular culture/archive (Special:PermanentLink/1083642170, as new AfDs will be added), WP:Articles for deletion/Tower of London in popular culture (merge), WP:Articles for deletion/List of references to the Matterhorn (merge), WP:Articles for deletion/Chinese mythology in popular culture (redirect), and WP:Articles for deletion/Werewolves in popular culture (merge) all have plurality support for the outcome. WP:Articles for deletion/Kitsune in popular culture (2nd nomination) (redirect) is less clear, but Daranios wrote a detailed recommendation that convinced Dronebogus, and two others supported redirect. Flatscan (talk) 04:49, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

• Liz, if you want to insist on the unbolded redirect suggestions instead of the explicit delete votes, then, in cases like this, I suggest following the precedent of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Lawton (canoeist), which ended in delete and redirect. Otherwise I agree with Flatscan here: the consensus was to delete the content, and you didn't do so. Whether to find an ATD is up to consensus. The unbolded mentions of redirect simply indicate that the authors would be ok if consensus changed towards that, but deletion was still their favored course of action. Avilich (talk) 14:11, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
  • That was a BLP, this is not. Jclemens (talk) 20:49, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
    • The previous George Lawton (canoeist) article (I found a cached search result) presumed that he had died, as he was born on 9 February 1911. The likelihood of this should have been apparent based on him competing in the 1936 Summer Olympics as mentioned at the AfD. Flatscan (talk) 04:31, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

• Liz, Thank you for reviewing policies and closing things this way. We need more admins who are willing to use common sense approaches to ATD. Jclemens (talk) 20:49, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Deletion review for Ancient Egyptian deities in popular culture

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Ancient Egyptian deities in popular culture. 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. Flatscan (talk) 04:35, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Execution

Greetings, Liz. Could you please delete "Wunder (gamer)", following the relevant AfD decision? Thanks. -The Gnome (talk) 12:56, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, The Gnome,

I actually restored that page to User space and it has been greatly improved, with references, it has grown 7X the length since its condition at the AFD (compare previous AFD version to its condition now. It had 4 references, it now has 85 citations. If you are seeking deletion, it will need a new AFD since it is a substantially different version of the subject. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:52, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Alright. The tag "Article focuses on team results, rather than the subject", though, is still up. Is the restoration of the article compatible with the tag? -The Gnome (talk) 17:34, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, The Gnome,

I see you took it back to AFD. I appreciate you coming to talk to me first and I've made a comment on the AfD. I'll be interested in seeing whether the participants think those 85 citations are enough to establish notability. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:56, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

GOCE April 2022 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021. Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators. January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details) February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details) March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details) April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now! Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Afd/Pirtek

Hi! Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pirtek was closed, then vacated two days later by FormalDude; It's from March 30 and the list of old AfDs at the main AfD page only go back to April 3 so do you think you could relist it? I was only made aware of the closure becoming vacant because I was pinged today. Thanks for your time! -"Ghost of Dan Gurney" 23:27, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, GhostOfDanGurney,

I'm not sure why the closure would be reverted but I've relisted the AFD. Thanks for bringing it to someone's attention. I don't look at old AFDs very frequently so I wouldn't have otherwise seen it. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:34, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Looks like it was challenged by the nominator at FormalDude's talk page. [6] -"Ghost of Dan Gurney" 01:39, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Moral support

Sorry you're getting a kicking in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2022 April 8. Some of those comments are overly harsh. We don't normally do that at deletion review: it's meant to be a drama-free zone.—S Marshall T/C 12:14, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, S Marshall,

I've been an admin for 6 1/2 years but had never had an deletion decision reviewed at Deletion Review until this January. I have to say that even when my decision has not been overturned, these reviews have been unpleasant experiences and make ANI look like a slumber party. If a deletion decision I made is overturned, well, I was wrong, I can take that feedback and learn from it. But some of the comments aren't about an admin decision that was made but a review of me, as a person and an admin, as if one isolated action under review reflects every one of the many thousands of deletion decisions I've made here.

It's heartening to hear from a regular participant that Deletion Review is intended to be drama-free. I guess it just depends on who decides to show up and weigh in and sometimes it is folks who make things personal.

My question for you is that when I got my first notice about a deletion review, I thought that what happened is that an admin would explain their decision, the other editor would state why they disagreed and participants would review both sides along with the AFD discussion or the CSD decision and state whether they Endorsed the decision or thought it should be Overturned. But looking at other review discussions, it seems like many admins skip participating in them. Is it helpful for participants to hear from the admin or should I just let the action speak for itself and spare myself from the vitriol? Thanks for any feedback you can offer...I appreciate hearing your perspective on the review environment. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:01, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Whether it's helpful for you to participate really depends on what's happened. With most deletion reviews, the nominator is relatively inexperienced and our role is not to overturn but to explain a decision. We can do that and it's not necessary for you to participate -- in fact it might be easier if you don't, because inexperienced noms sometimes perceive the closing sysop as a hostile authority figure. But more complex deletion reviews really do benefit from the closer explaining their thinking. This is particularly true when there are now-deleted revisions that you took into account, where you've closed against the numerical consensus, or where there were reasons to suspect socking or other bad-faith editing.

I hope you're able to bear Cryptic's words in mind without taking them to heart.—S Marshall T/C 16:53, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

+1 moral support. I don't approve of the manner some of those concerns (regarding other instances of your deletions) have been expressed, although the underlying comments if viewed as constructive criticism may be fair (esp. if they were written more kindly). You have given me some advice a few times on csd matters, though we all make mistakes and I guess you just need to learn from them. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:23, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, Bungle, I don't mind acknowledging when I make a mistake and I think I did in my comments at Deletion Review. That's how we all avoid future mistakes. And I'm nearing 300,000 edits and almost as many logged admin actions which means if you look through my contributions and admin logs, you will likely find a few mistakes. I take to heart constructive feedback and try to learn from it, it's the unnecessary slurs that can bring a person down and seem counterproductive to an evaluation process and collaboration. I appreciate the moral support from you both, thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:34, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Category:Righeira compilation albums

Hi Liz - as I pointed out in my edit summary when I asked for speedy deletion of this category, in fact it IS empty... because the only "entry" has actually been redirected, so in reality there are no articles in this category at all. No matter, I will put it up for CfD instead. Richard3120 (talk) 15:31, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Richard3120,

Well, Category:Righeira compilation albums isn't empty, even if it just contains a redirect, so CSD C1 doesn't apply. For a more final deletion decision, CFD is the route to take. It isn't "speedy" but it will determine if the category should continue to exist, whether or not it is empty. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:11, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't know that - well, thanks for letting me know. No problem, it's not a big deal, I was just hoping I could speed up the deletion process. Thanks anyway. Richard3120 (talk) 16:19, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Archduke Sigismund of Tuscany

I'm requesting that this recently -deleted page (Archduke Sigismund of Tuscany) be restored, as it is of historical interest ( it links past history of the Hapsburg Empire with the present). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Windemere2 (talk • contribs) 16:13, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Windemere2,

The consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archduke Sigismund of Austria (born 1966) was very clear that this page should be deleted and I can't unilaterally overturn it. If you feel like the AFD wasn't closed properly, you can make an appeal at Wikipedia:Deletion review for a review of my closure of the discussion.

You are welcome to write a new draft and submit it to Articles for Creation for review. Approval by an AFC reviewer would be one way to reintroduce this article to the project. However, if you move a draft directly into main space or were I to restore this article to main space, it would quickly be deleted again under Speedy Deletion CSD G4, the recreation of an article that was deleted through an AFD. Your best bet is to work in Draft space and submit it to AFC.

If you have questions about the deletion processes on Wikipedia, please bring them to the Teahouse where you can receive advice and support from more experienced editors. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:02, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Is there anywhere on Wikipedia where I could look at the comments on the article that led to its deletion ? Thanks for your help. Windemere2 (talk) 23:17, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Yes, you can go to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archduke Sigismund of Austria (born 1966) and see the arguments for why the article should be deleted. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:21, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for that reference. But ubfortunately, the deletion of the 'Archduke Sigismund' article has also messed up the 'House of Habsburg-Lorraine' article, as he was #43 on that list, and that space now is empty. Windemere2 (talk) 00:30, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Windemere2,

You're absolutely right. I've repaired that gap. Thanks for letting me know. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:36, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

I just noticed the addition. Thank you for doing that. Windemere2 (talk) 00:49, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Loona-related draft articles

Hi, I'm Hatto. I noticed that you deleted Draft:HeeJin (singer). She is the member of K-pop group Loona. Other Loona member's draft articles were created. (Draft:GoWon (singer) and Draft:JinSoul (singer)) Draft:Running Girls, which Loona member Chuu appeared in, was also created. Do you think that you should delete these draft articles as well as HeeJin? --Hatto (talk) 16:06, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Hatto,

Draft:HeeJin (singer) was deleted, not because of the quality of the draft, but because it had been 6 months or longer since the page had been edited. This is what we call a "stale draft" and, at that point, drafts are considered abandoned and are deleted through speedy deletion, CSD G13. But they can be restored upon request if there are no other problems with the article.

The other draft pages that you mention have all be edited in the past month or two so they would not be eligible for CSD G13 until August or September of this year if they go on unedited until then. If you believe a draft should be deleted, you can always nominate it for deletion through MFD but you need to have a good reason for why the article should be deleted. I hope this answers your question. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:13, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Foam (organization)

Hi @Liz I would like to help fix the page of Foam that was deleted. Do you mind recovering a copy to my user space? Thank you! --Zblace (talk) 20:42, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Bad Dreams (Christin and Mézières comics)

Hello, and thank you for your message. I considered opening a Deletion Review but ultimately decided to follow what you had written in the deletion message of the article. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 10:15, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

AfD for Cole Preston

Hello, yesterday you closed the AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cole Preston. I voted in favor of the ultimate outcome, redirecting to Wallows, but I also emphasized that this has already been done several times and contentious editors keep recreating Preston's article. I would not be surprised if this happens again. I and another voter suggested protection so the redirect is not undone yet again. Have such steps been taken? Thanks. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 18:25, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, doomsdayer520,

I saw your suggestion of page protection but I was unsure about the necessity of doing it. I'll look at it again today, thank you for the follow-up on this. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:03, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Looking over that page, things were really stable until the page was nominated for an AFD and then IPs began to vandalize it, just over the past week. There hadn't been much disruption on the page until April 9, 2022 so I'm reluctant to lay down some kind of indefinite page protection. So, I've semi-protected the page for 3 months. It was originally converted from a redirect to an article by an experienced editor and I'm unwilling to put this redirect page under full protection. If an experienced editor ignores the recemt AFD as documented in the page history and attempts to recreate an article on this page, it can always be tagged for CSD G4s. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:02, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Easter

This user celebrates Easter and loves Easter Eggs!

Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:14, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Stop deleting pages under the criterion G5

I don't like when you or anyone delete pages created by Agustin Sepulveda Venegas 2004 Fan's banned or blocked sockpuppets under the criterion G5 (page created by a banned or blocked user in violation). Can you stop? 191.125.99.197 (talk) 17:19, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, 191.125.99.197,

I don't remember deleting pages by Agustin Sepulveda Venegas 2004 Fan's banned or blocked sockpuppets in quite a few months. You don't have an argument with me but with Wikipedia policy. We have new page patrollers with keen eyes and very good memories and they will tag pages they think you've created. I could delete those tagged pages or it could be any one of our other many admins who might care of them. You should really stop socking and make an unblock request in six months if you'd like to return and do some productive work, according to our policies and guidelines. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:35, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

G5 is applied to all or most pages that were created by a banned or blocked user in violation without substantial edits by others. Sasquash-Bigfood (talk) 20:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Hey Liz, Please Assist

Hey Liz, thank you for tagging me in the /KyleMcmahon AfD. Unfortunately I just saw it as I was offline for a bit with a death in the family. I worked with numerous experienced editors and admins on perfecting that article, as it was my first full article (I tend to just do small edits on Delaware related pieces, entertainment, etc.) The subject is clearly notable per Wikipedia's own requirements including as a radio DJ / host in (as far as I can tell) most / all (?) major markets, in addition the podcast, which has numerous A level talent. There were links to those stations websites on the article, including KISS-FM, the largest radio station in the country by listeners (according to Wiki). I appreciate your efforts on keeping Wikipedia clean, but would kindly ask you to re-review this particular one. I also feel the sole "DELETE" seemed to be a personal attack against the subject, which I feel is inappropriate. Thanks for your work for the community, Liz. FrankNSteinJr (talk) 02:03, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, FrankNSteinJr,

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kyle McMahon (2nd nomination) was closed several weeks ago and can not be withdrawn. Also, it is not appropriate to add new content to a closed, archived discussion so I have removed your recent comments that, for some reason, were dated March 31st instead of April 20th. Please do not add content to archived pages or falsify the dates of your remarks.

I think the best you can do is either start a new article from scratch or ask the administrator who deleted the page, who is the same person as the admin who closed the discussion, to restore the article and move it on to a User page where you can work on improving it to overcome the deficiencies that caused it to be nominated for deletion.

If you have questions about deletion policies on Wikipedia, you can bring them to the Teahouse where experienced editors can offer you advice and support. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:22, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the response @Liz, I did not falsify any dates whatsoever and wouldn't even begin to know how to do so, so that should not be directed towards me. I did add content to the archived page and now know in the future not to do so.

The Teahouse editors are the ones that helped me get the article written, so it seems strange after doing that with experienced editors, one would not look at the numerous editors who contributed to the page and then mark it for deletion. It's one thing to edit articles for clarity, or mark AfD to sock puppets or purely paid promotional or self promotional articles, particularly edited by one person. It's another entirely to mark AfD for articles existing for two plus years with multiple editors and admins that are quite clearly substantiated according to our own policies because we are not aware of someone ourselves. Clearly, the numerous contributors, editors and admins that contributed to the page did not find the issues you found.

Appreciate your response and time

FRANKY (talk) 02:36, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Walter White

Hi, Liz - just letting you know that I moved Walter White back to Walter White (Breaking Bad) and the disambiguation page back to the base title. Your edit summary when you moved the page was about WP:PRECISION, so I'm assuming you didn't notice that a newer editor had moved the disambiguation page away from the base title and that there were a couple old move discussions at Talk:Walter White (Breaking Bad). Apologies in advance if that assumption was incorrect. - Eureka Lott 12:09, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Eureka Lott,

When I reviewed the move request, it seemed like it was proper and in order. I saw the most recent move discussion on the article talk page that seemed to support the change. Thanks for fixing this and letting me know. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:23, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Your block of MADSHINE

Hi, Liz! I noticed that you recently blocked the user MADSHINE. You blocked the user for 72 hours, but left a message (diff) stating that the block was indefinite. Just letting you know! Tol (talk | contribs) @ 06:27, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Tol,

The default is indefinite but I intended only 72 hours. Thanks for letting me know! I will correct that. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:28, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

No problem; thanks for your work! Tol (talk | contribs) @ 06:30, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Article Review

Hello, you deleted my article Inikiri Umuezeoka, what should I do to restore the deleted article. Thanks for your response Topsy4men (talk) 14:38, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Topsy4men,

I didn't delete your article. It was moved to Draft:Inikiri Umuezeoka and I deleted the redirect. A redirect is a page that just contains a link from the previous location of an article to its current location, redirects are created when pages are moved. Please work on your article in Draft space and submit it to Articles for Creation when you think it is ready for review by an experienced editor. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:08, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your candid advice. I have moved it to article for creation as you suggested. I wish you can assist by reviewing the article Draft: Inikiri Umuezeoka so that it will be moved to article mainspace.

Thanks for your assistance. Topsy4men (talk) 01:27, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Christian Brückner

I think the edits I requested you delete last year can be undeleted. The main article now uses his name. Thank you for your time. Scorpions13256 (talk) 23:02, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Scorpions13256,

I'll have to look into this one since they were violating BLP guidelines. There have been other edits on that page that have been revision deleted as well. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:10, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

I made my current request because Disappearance of Madeleine McCann also now contains his real name. It didn't do that when I made my initial request to you last year. Maybe the edits need to be deleted there too? Scorpions13256 (talk) 21:14, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the Disappearance article because there is a The Times article referencing him and they are a reliable source. I'll ping JJMC89 who also did some revision deletion on the biography article and get a second opinion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:32, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

For some reason, I thought you did both of them. Thank you for the speedy response. Scorpions13256 (talk) 22:07, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for removing the CSD tag from Draft:Jon Moses

It was valid when I placed it (it was an article then), though I don't have admin goggles to compare it with the deleted article, but the creating editor whisked the article to Draft, where you found it. You will see from the article, now drafts talk page that there is a problem with the material, and will see from the creating editor's talk page that I am trying hard to convince them to work well. If you have advice to give them I am sure they will benefit from it, though whether they appreciate it is a different matter. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 07:14, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Fiddle Faddle,

You will find a range of opinions from admins about whether CSD G4 applies to Draft space. Some strongly believe it doesn't, others do not think the namespace matters. I've initiated a discussions on this at WT:CSD (one of many CSD G4 discussions) without clear consensus. It seems like another area on Wikipedia that is determined on a case-by-case basis.

No worries though about tagging a page in main space that then gets moved to Draft space. That was a miss on my part. I guess we have to look for this namespace juggling when articles get tagged for deletion...I've seen it with AFDs but not CSD G4s before. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:06, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

For me the namespace matters. I suspect those who think it does not have a different axe to grind, perhaps with Draft: space itself.

The creating editor juggled twice and has now listened, which took some effort. They have now started to rebuild the draft from the ground up, whcih is the only way I think it might just posisbly succeed. Regrettably they are a fan of a WP:ROTM cabaret singer. Heigh ho.

We all miss things. Why would we not? There's always someone else to catch the things we miss. I had some mistakes pointed out recently, and it proves I am still almost human 😂 though I have edited here for rather longer than many. I may be starting to become a crankily and pedantic bot! 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:14, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Liz, thanks for removing clutter from this place =D I was wondering if there’s a way to delay the deletion of drafts I make. I just lost something I was planning to continue working on and I don’t have offline copies of everything :/ el.ziade (talkallam) 21:52, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, el.ziade,

If you had a draft that was deleted simply for being "stale" (CSD G13), it can easily be restored, either by asking the deleting admin or by going to WP:REFUND. You can delay deletion just by actively editing the page. Drafts are considered abandoned when they go 6 months without a human edit (which means that bot edits don't count) so just do a minor edit to the page every few months while you continue to polish up the draft. Ideally, these drafts will get submitted at some point to AFC but if they need more time, just pay them a little attention once in a while they'll be fine as long as there are no other problems (like advertising or copyright issues). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:59, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Liz, much appreciated. el.ziade (talkallam) 02:16, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for being around! JBchrch talk 01:08, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Wow, thanks, JBchrch. It's appreciated. Although, I'm probably around too much! Thank you for your contributions as well. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:17, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Consensus

A really trivial point, but I felt like mentioning it. You beat me by seconds to declining the speedy deletion but blanking the page at User talk:2A01:4C8:805:6487:AD8F:8E80:5876:1238. I was going to do exactly the same. JBW (talk) 18:44, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, JBW,

Tagged by an intoxicated editor. I haven't run into that in a while...that I'm aware of. I think that was more common in the "old days". Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:48, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

I don't specifically remember that particular thing happening, but it sort of has the feel of being the kind of thing that used to be more common long ago. I don't tend to think about it much, but when something happens that prompts me to do so, I find there's quite a lot of things that Wikipedia editors used to do frequently years ago, but whuch faded out. Thinking about how much things have changed on WP is one of (unfortunately) many things that remind me how old I'm getting. Like black and white photographs, and horse-drawn carts delivering milk to houses, and... oh, well. JBW (talk) 19:02, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Oh, c'mon now, JBW, I'm talking about 15 years ago, not 115 years ago! In some ways, I think Wikipedia has gotten more professional and reliable than before and I definitely don't miss the days I spent hanging out at ANI back in 2014 when some days were a slugfest. It was a lot busier on ANI back then and disputes were personal and pile-ons were not uncommon.

I know that, along the way, there has also been a loss of enthusiasm and innocence that existed in the 2000s on the part of many. But, frankly, I'm more surprised that so many editors are still around after 10 or 15 years than that so many have departed. It's rare to have a hobby that can hold your interest for that long, especially on the internet and in these days where there are so many more options like streaming services.

I have a small hope that these new activity requirements might lure a few semi-active admins back to full participation even though I know, realistically, that is unlikely. People move on, lives get busy and full, free time disappears. But who knows? I came back after being away for 2 years after a cross-country move and a bout of cancer, maybe other folks will find they can still enjoy putting in some time here and will return to editing and adminning more regularly. One can hope! Even a few additional part-timers will help lighten the load around here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:13, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Most of that I agree with. I'm sorry to read about your cancer. I hope that isn't something you and I have in common. As for 115 years ago, I find many people even just a decade or so younger than me refuse to believe that when I was a little child horse-drawn carts used to come round the streets delivering milk to the houses, but I assure you it's true. JBW (talk) 19:26, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Apologies for riding rough-shod into somebody else's conversation, but...... there are probably many of us who would be very willing to be "part-timers" if only there was some other way than the steam-roller ride that the RFA process currently is. Revisiting RFAs, and their questions and answers demonstrates very clearly that asking the simple question "Why do you want to be an admin" and then having a vote! would be an equally effective process. Sigh..... Oh and yes, our milk was also delivered by a horse drawn cart with a horse with an oat filled nose-bag!  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   19:30, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

We had milkmen when I was a child but they had vans and trucks, not horse-drawn carts. It was the California suburbs in the 1960s but probably a decade before, where the houses now were, were empty fields so there might have been horses then!

As far RfAs, well, I don't try to persuade people to go through them since my own experience was rather scarring. You need to know that you have a lot of support going into one. In my case, the gloves were off! You definitely need a thick skin or maybe I just had my own at a particularly bitey time (2015) in the project's lifetime. I don't know whether adminship ever will be "no bid deal" again. I think it's more likely that at some point, the toolset will be further broken down into parts like they did with rollback.

Actually, I think the most useful tool of adminship isn't page deletion or blocking editors but being able to see Deleted Contributions and I wish every editor had the ability to see all of the edits they have made, even to pages that have been deleted. I wish that ability was available to all extended confirmed editors but, well, systemic change on Wikipedia is really, really hard to achieve and it usually takes a few tries before you can get any RFC to pass with substantial approval. And then there are the technical limitations, oy. You really need a groundswell of active editor support to initiate these kinds of changes. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:45, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

TV show prod cleanup

I took a more organized approach to my TV show prod spree. Thought you might want to see what I'm up to so I don't flood the queue like that again. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 07:26, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, TenPoundHammer,

That is hundreds and hundreds of articles. It kind of makes me wonder where this passion for deleting articles comes from. I know of editors who take on the project of cleaning up a specific subject area, like uninhabited towns or private air strips, but you tag pages for all kinds of deletion across over a wide variety of topics.

Do you see Wikipedia as cluttered with unacceptable, unworthy articles that need to be removed? Is it about elevating Wikipedia's reputation for quality? Many editors tag badly sourced or promotional articles for deletion should they come across them in their work but it looks like you actually seek them out.

You don't have to comment, I've just become curious lately as I've worked with PRODs and moved into helping out a little at AFD. I seem to see you everywhere! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:31, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Some of it comes from me working on the "Articles needing cleanup" queue because I despise the {{cleanup}} tag and its rampant misuse. The current focus on TV articles was because I kept finding so many unsourced stubs from ages ago by navigating through TV series templates Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:37, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Well, it's good to know that you try to improve articles and not just seek deletion. I'm not passing judgment, we are underhanded in so many areas but I'd like to think that if an article can be fixed with a little bit of effort, that it is improved rather than thrown out. I'm not a content creator myself but I respect the work of those who came before me. But those limited series reality shows on country music channels? I think those were definitely not encyclopedic and I wasn't sorry to see them go...I don't think anything important was lost when those pages were deleted. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:44, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Ways to improve Bad Homburg Open

Hello, Liz,

Thank you for creating Bad Homburg Open.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

This article needs more references in order to provide significant coverage for this article. See WP:SIGCOV
References that have scores, lists, order of merit and video do not pass as reliable sources for WP:NSPORT. (There have been changes to the notability guide for sports - you may wish to read WP:NSPORT ) To meet notability requirements, one more reference with significant coverage will suffice. Thank you.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Whiteguru}}. Remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

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Whiteguru (talk) 22:02, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Whiteguru,

Thank you for the notification but I didn't create the page, I just moved it to its current title. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:23, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. The issues were a previous deletion, and although your move tag was in history, identifying the original author could not be resolved. Whiteguru (talk) 22:26, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Pat O'Malley (actor)

Hi, why did you delete(March 2020) the Wiki bio to actor Pat O'Malley, aka Patrick H. O'Malley Jr., without rewriting a new article? Koplimek (talk) 21:53, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Close

You didn't leave a closing summary here Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Julia Bodina so I have to ask. Why did you redirect to that page when there was no consensus on the actual target, and most of the votes were 'delete' anyway? The two redirect votes don't suggest a merger and they cancel each other out by suggesting different targets, so why did you favor one of them and ignore the entire remainder of the discussion? Avilich (talk) 23:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

More importantly why did you remove the deletion tag here Julia Urania ? That page is also under discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Julia Urania. Avilich (talk) 23:03, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

• Uh, you there? I'm pretty sure you made a mistake by irregularly removing an AfD tag without reason, and I think may have confused two separate discussions and consequently closed one of them incorrectly. Avilich (talk) 23:21, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm in the middle of doing some work. I use XFDCloser to close discussions so I'll look into this and see what the problem is. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:23, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Ok, now please answer the original question: what was you rationale for picking that particular redirect target in the first AfD I mentioned, and how did you determine there was consensus for that? Avilich (talk) 23:56, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

The consensus was to Delete but a Redirect was proposed as an alternative to deletion so I opted for it. Since you are contesting my closure, I'll change it to Delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:00, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Note that there were two suggested targets, not just one, hence why I coudn't understand why you picked one of them in particular. Avilich (talk) 00:02, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Kabza and Kabza (2022 film)

Hi Liz. You deleted and salted Kabza but a new article has reappeared at Kabza (2022 film). Could you take a look? Thanks! Tassedethe (talk) 00:19, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Tassedethe,

Thanks for the notice. This article keeps reappearing at new titles. I've tagged it CSD G4 for another admin to review. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:28, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Arbcom clerk

Hello Liz! I'm a relatively new editor (3 years of service). I've looked into arbitration committee clerking and noticed you are one. This is not something I plan on doing soon, but what are the general requirements for being an arbitration clerk? Is it a competitive process? What do the clerks do? I might be interested in doing it in the coming years. Thank you! Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 04:09, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Iamreallygoodatcheckers,

It's actually been a while since I was an active clerk but I can talk to you about it. When you send in your inquiry to the clerk's list, you'll be sent an email questionnaire to fill out with some general questions. They'll be a discussion among clerks and arbitrators and you'll either be asked to be a trainee, be told to apply again after a bit more time on the project or gently told that you are not a good fit with the position.

The main responsibility is managing case requests, open cases and arbitration talk pages and noticeboards. There are a lot of templates you need to become familiar with using but that's pretty easy to pick up. And you send out a lot of notifications about when a case opens, as it progresses and the results when it closes. It helps to be organized but, when I was a clerk, there was often two clerks assigned to a case which makes things much easier. I think the only difficult part is how to deal with editors when discussion veers into personal attacks or other unhelpful comments or unacceptable behavior. Clerks are generally the ones to post warnings about this and also remove or redact comments. So, there might be some resentment directed toward a clerk but if you have done any vandal-fighting, you should be familiar with this...the main difference is that the editors who get upset with you when you are a clerk, they are generally long-time editors rather than anonymous IP editors.

I think the important thing to remember is when challenging situations emerge, there is a clerk email list where you can post questions, like "What should I do about X? Does his response to question 3 need to be redacted?" and you'll get feedback, especially when you are a trainee clerk. The arbitrators also subscribe to the clerks list so they are generally aware when problems emerge. Arbitrators are very good at keeping their deliberations on their own arbs email list which is private.

The trainee stage can last long, it generally lasts until you have clerked a couple of cases and I don't think there are as many cases these days than there were a few years ago. But I encourage you to look through some old, archived cases and see if the process interests you. It doesn't hurt to express your interest! I hope this helps! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:24, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

@Liz: thank you so much for the information! Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 04:32, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Parental Guidance (film) talk page

Hi Liz, hope all is well. You recently helped clean up a bit of a mess another editor cause by moving the aforementioned article around. I just checked its talk page and it appears to be blank, with its history beginning with some of the page moves. From checking that user's logs, it seems that at some point they moved the actual article to its talk page and vice-versa. Could it be that the original history of the article's talk page was lost during the clean up? I dunno if it's even worth looking for it, but maybe you could check and restore it? Isabelle ^🏳‍🌈 23:01, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Isabelle,

Yes, it is a mess. And I use Twinkle to delete pages which automatically deletes talk pages and redirects when you delete an article page. I'll look around and see if perhaps the editor moved the article but neglected to move the talk page and it was accidentally deleted. Thanks for letting me know. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:04, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

I think I found it at Talk:Giahayayaya but I probably checked 7 or 8 deleted talk pages before I found one with some edits before today. I wonder if the editor will ever explain that strange behavior involving multiple page moves. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:13, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Sorry for giving you some extra chores! While it was all very weird, specially with an IP showing up to support the deletion of the history of the original article, I don't think we will have any explanation for why that happened. Isabelle ^🏳‍🌈 23:26, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

It can be hard to catch bad page moves with articles like this one that are probably on few Watchlists. Thanks for spotting this one and stepping in to warn the editor. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:28, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Tekla Åberg

• Tekla Åberg · ( talk | logs | history | links | watch ) · [revisions]

Could you please undeleted this article? It was created by a sock with UPE and COI issues, but it covers a non-controversial 19th century teacher and is unlikely to have issues related to their reason for being blocked; I believe the encyclopedia is better with this article kept, rather than deleted. BilledMammal (talk) 00:24, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, BilledMammal,

I saw your request at WP:REFUND. The policy of restoring CSD G5s is unclear to me, I've seen some admins give a flat "No, no way" while others believe that it's possible if a new editor "takes responsibility" for the article (which is pretty vague, I'll admit). I don't want to restore a page that will just be tagged again for deletion.

So I've contacted another admin to ask what they think. It might take a while to have an email discussion but don't worry, I won't forget your request. There were other articles by this sockpuppet that I also had questions about. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:41, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, there is no rush; I haven't looked at the other articles. BilledMammal (talk) 00:57, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi Liz, I just wanted to ask if there was any update on this? BilledMammal (talk) 13:49, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

List of Thumb Wrestling Federation episodes

Would List of Thumb Wrestling Federation episodes qualify as a G8 speedy "dependent on a nonexistant or deleted page"? I think it does. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 16:38, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello to you this morning, TenPoundHammer,

I don't think that criteria fits, myself, but I'm not going to untag the article. Have there been instances on Wikipedia where we had a "subarticle", like an episode list, without the parent article, the series? We'll see what other admins think about it. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:46, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

I have never seen a "list of episodes" where the series doesn't exist. To me, it follows the same logic as an A9 deletion. If the artist doesn't have an article, then the album is presumed not to be notable and can safely be speedied absent any assertation of notability. Would the same not be true of a TV show and a list of episodes? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 16:53, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Louis Partridge

Hi there.

A few months ago you deleted Louis Partridge's page. I would like to Draftify the article. Since the reason was WP:NACTOR, the fact that the subject of the page has several upcoming roles (including one in a show premiering in less than a month and another one announced just today) makes me think that he would qualify the criteria in the near future. It seems a shame to have to rebuild the article from scratch, but I am unsure what to do to Draftify the page. Is my posting here enough or should I do something else?

Regards, Thariqziyad (talk) 01:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Thariqziyad,

Sure, I'll get to this a little later tonight. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:34, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Thariqziyad,

Sorry for the delay in restoring this contested PROD. It didn't need to be draftified but I moved it to Draft:Louis Partridge any way because PRODs that are contested are often immediately sent to AFD upon restoration so I think you'll have more time to work on the article and improve while it stays in Draft space. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:46, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Much obliged, Liz. Thank you! Thariqziyad (talk) 00:15, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Almagest (journal)

Hi Liz, although I don't really have anything against the soft delete here, I'm not sue it's admissible: the article was PRODed and then dePRODed back in 2012. If you feel that this is so long ago that we can ignore it, that'd be fine with me, but should perhaps be mentioned in the close. --Randykitty (talk) 07:18, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Randykitty,

You are absolutely right, I don't see how I missed seeing that earlier PROD, by you, in the page history. I decided to revert my AFD closure and relist the discussion. I could just straight out Delete the article but I'd prefer letting a different admin reevaluate the discussion. I appreciate you coming to me to point out my error so I could rectify it, thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:41, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grandpa Gohan

Hi Liz, thank you for taking the time to close the above discussion. I note that you have also salted the page Grandpa Gohan as suggested. Is it also possible for you to salt Grandpa Son Gohan as well to prevent any potential editors from recreating the same? The reason why I suggested salting the other page was because the other page has a history of being frequently recreated without consideration for Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and Grandpa Gohan was simply the latest variant of the persistent disruption from Grandpa Son Gohan. At least one other editor who participated in the discussion agreed with my observation of the history of disruption. Haleth (talk) 08:08, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Haleth,

 Done It was also a double redirect so I fixed that, too. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:50, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

I need suggestions

Hi @Liz:, Hope you are fine there. Can we review the drafted article (Article for creation) upon personal request placed on our talk page? Fade258 (talk) 15:42, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Fade258,

Are you referring to User talk:Fade258/Archive 2#Request for review? I see from the userbox on your User page that you are an AFC reviewer so you have some training in doing reviews. I think AFC reviewers' response these kinds of requests varies, some editors accommodate these requests but I think most AFC reviewers insist on doing their own selection of drafts to review, often by age of the draft or picking them randomly, rather than doing reviewing drafts by request. I assume this is because if they did respond to individual requests, their talk pages might become besieged by editors looking for help reviewing their drafts. But it's your decision.

I don't review drafts myself so I think you might find more helpful advice at WT:AFC or by contacting an experienced reviewer directly on their talk page. Sorry not to be of more assistance in this matter. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:01, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Ok, Thank you mam for giving me a right direction and suggestions. Fade258 (talk) 23:59, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Deletion - Crowfield Airfield

Hi, I think it would be beneficial to undelete the article about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowfield_Airfield

It's privately owned, but is very much still an active airfield open to the public, I landed there only a few weeks ago.

Happy to add some references if you want?

Cheers! James JamesKingdom (talk) 18:29, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, JamesKingdom,

Crowfield Airfield was tagged for Proposed deletion and no one challenged the tagging so the article was deleted. It was part of a group of private airstrips and small airports articles that were tagged for deletion because they were not considered notable.

But any page deleted for a "PROD" can be restored upon being contested so I have done so. The article still might be tagged for an Article for Deletion discussion in the future but this would involve at least a week's period of discussion. Some of these small airports that were considered for deletion have come up at AFD and opinion is definitely mixed on whether or not they are considered notable by Wikipedia standards. References to reliable sources, probably in this case, local newspapers would definitely help establish notability.

Should you want to get more involved on Wikipedia and participate in these discussions, you might consider becoming involved in WikiProject Aviation...they seem to be one of the more active WikiProjects. Glad I could help! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:40, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Delete if eligible

Hi Liz, please see https://w.wiki/58Df , i tagded three article for deletion as those were created by a LTA sock. I think we should not encourage sock by keeping them. I have no problem if someone else create those articles. Please delete them if they eligible, if not decline. Thank you. --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 19:19, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, আফতাবুজ্জামান,

Thank you for the link to the WP:AN comment. I'll look over these pages as soon as I'm done with the task I'm working on. If there are contributions to the article from other editors though, I typically don't delete pages tagged for CSD G5s. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:25, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Okay, I didn't delete Draft:Paradoxical Sajid because the page creator, Botrank1000, is unconnected at this point to the sockpuppetry. Pak-Bangla language was created by an IP who also hasn't been connected to sockpuppetry but, as you know, it is being considered for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pak-Bangla language. I did delete Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir because the IP account that created the article had been blocked by a checkuser, NinjaRobotPirate.

I think I'm a little stricter than some admins about CSD G5s in that I need to see that the page creator is confirmed as being the sockpuppet of a blocked editor before deleting a page, not just a suspected sockpuppet. I did untag Pak-Bangla language because there is an active AFD discussion going on and, for me, deletion discussions are more significant than a quick speedy deletion unless there are serious problems with copyright or BLP violations that need to be taken care of immediately. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:52, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Please review Postjer Ltd

Hi Liz, hope you are well. I just submit a draft for [Ltd|Postjer Ltd] about the information I gathered online for this so we can help the community that needs to know more about this company and CMS.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Techinalbania (talk • contribs) 22:44, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Liz — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sara Tarannum Akther (talk • contribs) 00:08, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

File PRODs

• File:Evantattoo1.jpg
• File:Evantattoo2color.jpg
• File:Evantattoo3.jpg
• File:Evantattoolegpiece1.jpg

Can you please explain why you deleted these files despite the fact that you nominated them, in direct violation of WP:PROD which requires an uninvolved administrator to deal with tbem? ✗plicit 00:16, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Explicit,

You know that I ordinarily leave pages I've PROD'd for you to delete, you, more than anyone else here, know my editing habits. You examine my contributions and logs on a daily basis. I can't make a mistake without you bringing it to my attention or someone else. I wouldn't be surprised if you maintained a list somewhere of every error I've made in the last two years. Do you want me to restore these files so that you can then delete them?

You know, Explicit, you make your share of mistakes but I don't come to your talk page to point them out to you. You have deleted PRODs that had already been PROD'd before. You delete files that shouldn't be speedy deleted. You do batch deletions when you should be examining each page individually. But I give you space because, for some reason, you despise me. There are tasks on Wikipedia that I have been doing faithfully for years that you try to usurp, I have no idea why, maybe it is simply the pursuit of more page deletions. You are rude to me and make unjustified personal attacks against me on noticeboards. But, unlike you, I don't go to WP:ANI, life is too short so I just focus on the work. Yes, I probably should have left these four, old personal photos of an editor's tattoos for you to delete but I got busy and just deleted them.

There, you got an acknowledgement that you were correct. What else are you looking for, for me to resign over this? Isn't looking over my shoulder kind of a waste of your time? Could you move on to focus your attention on someone else for a few days or months? You know, people like vandals who do actual damage to the project? I think that would be a more constructive use of the time that you spend on Wikipedia rather than looking for "Gotcha!" moments. Now, back to work. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:44, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

First of all, I highly suggest you retract your baseless accusations of wikihounding and tab keeping, you are well within WP:NPA territory. Believe me, I do not care about you in the slightest. I was aware these files were up for deletion because I saw them at CAT:PROD, so I naturally expected them to be there when I logged in this morning. I brought this to your attention as you shouldn't be deleting pages you tagged with PROD. It's not that deep.

Wow, I delete things all the time that shouldn't be deleted and I don't examine pages when I use batch deletion. That's rich coming from you, considering the amount of times this issue has repeatedly been brought to your attention. Please feel to cite the plethora of instances this has occurred, as it seems you are keeping track of me. Otherwise, you're right back to NPA territory.

"There are tasks on Wikipedia that I have been doing faithfully for years that you try to usurp"—Ah, there it is. The WP:OWN/gatekeeping mentality you have long denied. Over what, me tagging empty categories? Where was this energy when you moved into AFD, RFD, and TFD? Or is this a one-way street where I'm made to look like the bad guy anytime I do... anything?

You're still hung up on that one ANI thread? Did that even occur this year? In fact, I had to go search for it: it's from August. Get that chip off your shoulder. ✗plicit 01:41, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, dear Explicit,

Now I understand why you chose your username.

My talk page has been visited by trolls, vandals and sockpuppets. But in all of the years I have edited here, I have never said this to anyone before: You are not welcome to post here. If you need to give me an obligatory notice, then post it and leave. I'll chat with almost anyone, offer help or advice, explain my actions, accept constructive criticism but I'm done with your personal animosity towards me. Good bye. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:30, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

P.S. Oh, and until you brought me to ANI because you thought I was trying to "intimidate" you (that's rich), the only other time an editor started a discussion about me on ANI was because I didn't post a notification on their talk page after tagging a category they created for deletion. That is the reason why I post so many deletion notifications and some day, I don't know when, there will be an editor who is upset that you didn't notify them when you deleted a page they created. That's my own little bit of crystal balling there. Have a nice life and good luck with your pursuit of reaching #1. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:49, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Yippee (noodles)

FYI, after you declined the improper G7 tag, the creator came along and did G7-tag it. So I've honored that request, but have also left both accounts {{subst:maq}}, since it's just a touch suspicious for one user to have correctly guessed that another wanted to G7 a page. (At a glance, the EIA looks pretty damning too.) -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 06:14, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Tamzin,

I am heading to bed so don't have time to look into this but the editor who tagged the article CSD G7 (which they didn't create) did create a different article with almost the same page title. So, I thought they were trying to eliminate a competing article by tagging it for deletion. Did you check the original taggers contribution history? You might find an almost identical article only it was only edited by the page tagger while the original article, which I guess you deleted, had a number of different contributors who worked on it.

I hope my explanation doesn't make this more confusing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:31, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

The only substantive edits to the one I deleted were by the creator; the only others were an AfC decline, an image removal, a copyvio removal, and then the invalid G7 and your removal of it. But I hadn't noticed Draft:Yippee (noodle). Thanks for pointing that out... The plot thickens. More for me to ask the two (or one) of them about. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 06:35, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Well, I didn't really analyze the page history, I just noted that the page tagger wasn't the page creator and that several other editors had contributed to the draft. After I declined the CSD, I just moved on. I have no idea what connection there is between the two articles or why the editors seem to be drawing so much attention to themselves. Maybe they are both associated with the company and were told to go write an article on it? Any way, good luck figuring that out! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:40, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

G5 on categories

You may be interested in participating in Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#G5 doesn't apply to categories?. I'm trying to get a definite answer on the G5 criteria in regards to categories. Steel1943 (talk) 17:21, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Steel1943,

Thanks for letting me know about this discussion. If would be an absolute mess to delete a non-empty category, the page tagger would have to go remove every page from the category before it could be deleted. Transcluded templates would be another absolute chore. I think it's just simpler to bring the cases to WP:CFD and WP:TFD where they have processes to untangle these pages if it's decided to delete these pages that have been created by block-evading editors. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:26, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

I hope you understand I do understand what you mean by this, especially since we've ran across this roadblock before. I'm thinking it's time to revise how that criterion is worded since what is worded there is apparently not what is done in practice. (I'm not big on gray areas when it comes to the technical wording of things, and in this case, I think the "gray area" here somewhat contradicts the current wording of the criterion.) Steel1943 (talk) 17:32, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Balen Shah

Hi @Liz:, Hope you are doing well and may be fine there. Recently, you had deleted the article of Balen Shah which has been in AFD process and you had draftify that article into Draft:Balen Shah 2 but there is still another draft Draft:Balen Shah. So, I request you to delete one drafted article as your wish. Thank you! Fade258 (talk) 05:52, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Fade258,

I've been in this situation before, years ago with two versions of a draft. When I deleted one copy, I was quickly instructed by another admin that being a duplicate draft is not a valid reason for deletion. But I can turn one into a redirect so I will look at them tomorrow and see which one is in better shape. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:57, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

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• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

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• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Archive issues

May i ask why my edits to NeverTry4Me's archives have been reverted? I was fixing the fact that, at some point, his archiving was set up incorrectly, causing archives to be placed in different formats and all over the place. I was simply condensing them to have them be in the correct order, as well as respecting the size limit (See this conversation). Thanks. Aidan9382 _(talk) 06:48, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Seen comment on my talkpage, thanks for clarifying. You can ignore this. Aidan9382 _(talk) 06:54, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Aidan9382,

I posted a message on your Talk page. I can't take your word for it that another editor wants their User page deleted. They need to post a deletion tag themselves. It's great that you wanted to help someone out but a CSD G7 tag has to come from the page creator, not from a third party. I'm sure you wouldn't want me to tag your User pages because I thought they should be deleted, unless there is some content that violates policy, the request for deletion for User pages has to come from you, not another editor. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:56, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Understandable. Thanks for clarifying. Aidan9382 _(talk) 06:58, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Live with rule promise you that you be happy

Rule number 1 is stay happy and be strong

Rule number 2 is never allow a people to being you down Kabelo nkwazi (talk) 19:06, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Damian Torres CSD

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Criterion G6 for speedy deletions

Hi Liz. I really appreciate your speedy response to my request for deletion of the redirect page "Australian little penguin” and the redirect page “Galápagos penguin”. I’m new-ish to Wikipedia, so I’m approaching you respectfully with the intent to learn.

Look at criterion G6 for technical deletions. “This is for uncontroversial maintenance, including:[…] Deleting redirects or other pages blocking page moves”.

I assumed that the speedy deletions that I requested were trivial housekeeping, and thus covered by CSD G6.

Regarding the Australian little penguin, almost all Wikipedia articles about animal species that are still alive today or are recently extinct use their English name for the title of the page. I recently had success with a similar effort to change the title of an article from a scientific name to an English name.

Regarding the Galápagos penguin, there is a good mix of articles that do or do not bother to include accents in the title. To be honest, I don’t care much about this issue relative to the Australian little penguin question. Still, I feel like the accent is a little more professional.

Have a good day, Columbianmammoth (talk) 7:59, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Columbianmammoth,

If I remember rightly, you had tagged some redirects for CSD G6 deletion which is for uncontroversial deletions. The problem was with your tagging. With speedy deletion, we have very strict criteria that have to be met. You can't just say "Delete" and then offer a long explanation for why you want a page deletion. A tagged page either meets the CSD criteria or it doesn't and I didn't understand your explanation.

If you want to argue for why a redirect page should be deleted, I think it would be appropriate to either nominate the page at WP:RFD or use the CSD G6 Move option in Twinkle where you state the page you want to be moved to a new title. Most admins will not delete a page under CSD G6 without first looking to see what page is being asked to be moved so they can assess whether or not this is good idea. I encourage you to make use of Twinkle for any tagging of pages, admins are very familiar with the way it works. I hope this explanation helps you understand my actions a bit more. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:38, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

PA Server Monitor deletion

Hi Liz. I see that you deleted the draft for an article about PA Server Monitor. I had been planning on making some edits and resubmitting, but got distracted and didn't get back to it in time. Would it be possible to undelete so I can try to fix the problems on the article? And I appologize if this isn't the proper way to go about this - noob here :)

Have a nice day, Dnebeker (talk) 7:51 AM (CST) 12 May 2022

Hello, Dnebeker,

I'm sorry for the delay in responding to your request. I can lose track of messages on my talk page at times.

 Done I've restored PA Server Monitor which was deleted via PROD. Please know that this page can very well be nominated for deletion at WP:AFD so I'd read over the grounds offered for deletion and see about addressing them. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:29, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Faegre Drinker

Hello,

A page that I edited and worked on extensively (Faegre Drinker) was deleted by you on April 24, 2022. It was flagged due to conflict of interest and vandalism violations. I wasn't aware of how to disclose COI, but I will work to resolve that and do it going forward. My main question is, how do I get the original Faegre Drinker page back? I appreciate any help you can provide.

HilaryLynn320 (talk) 15:59, 12 May 2022 (UTC)HilaryLynn320

Hello, HilaryLynn320,

I'm sorry for the delay in responding to your inquiry, I sometimes miss messages that are in the middle of the page as I look at the bottom of the page for new messages.

This article was deleted via Proposed deletion which means I can restore it for you if you'd like to continue to work on it. I should let you know that the editor who tagged the article for a PROD can then move to nominate it for deletion at Articles for Deletion which is much more final. So, I'd like to hear back from you first before I restore it so you can either post about your COI on your User page or decide to move the page to User or Draft space where there is more leeway allowed to improve articles over time. Let me know when you return to editing on the project. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:24, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

No problem, @Liz thanks for the reply!

If you could restore the article, that would be greatly appreciated. At this time, I don't have additional changes, to make. I also don't anticipate having to make many edits going forward, but may need to intermittently. As far as the COI, would you happen to have information on how to go about adding that to my user page? I'm by no means a wiki expert and want to be sure I'm following the necessary rules.

Thanks again! HilaryLynn320 (talk) 16:47, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Prod on Arye L. Hillman

Hi Liz -- Not my area and agree the article is a bit of a mess, but I believe the subject clearly meets WP:PROF; the citation profile is excellent, he held a named chair, editorship of a journal, an honorary doctorate, and a couple of the awards might be notable too; there are also two books that might generate reviews as an author. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 17:02, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Espresso Addict,

If I made an error tagging this page with a PROD, and you can see in my PROD log that I don't tag a lot of pages for Proposed deletion, then simply remove the tag. If you already have, no worries, I don't pursue this deletion further.

I could see that this professor had a respectable publishing record but it seems to me that we usually require more than that for academic biographies. In fact, personally, I think we have unrealistically high standards for notability for professors. I'm glad editors/admins like you are watching over the PROD list and removing pages tagged that might be considered borderline. I think some of these cases are judgment calls and if your judgment disagrees with mine, that is fine if we disagree. But thanks for letting me know your opinion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:56, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Quarry help

Hey @Liz: I hope you could help me on Quarry. I'm trying to list French sub talkpages 'À_faire' (like fr:Discussion:Dantès/À faire) that still exists while talkpage (like fr:Discussion:Dantès) OR main page (like fr:Dantès) doesn't exist.

From your following quarry, I wrote :

SELECT page_title
FROM page talkpage
WHERE talkpage.page_title LIKE '%/À_faire'
AND talkpage.page_namespace IN (1,5,11,15,101,119,711,829)

How should I use NOT EXISTS here to only get non-existant main page (like fr:Dantès) and talk (like fr:Discussion:Dantès) ?

From what I have understood, the following code that you use would list French sub talkpages 'À_faire' WHEN fr:Dantès/À faire doesn't exist BUT that's not what I'm looking for. So how to check fr:Dantès / fr:Talk:Dantès instead ?

NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM page mainpage
WHERE mainpage.page_namespace=talkpage.page_namespace-1
AND mainpage.page_title=talkpage.page_title)

If that is not clear enough, as this is not my native language, let me know!

Thank's for any help! --LD (talk) 19:43, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, LD,

I am not an expert in using Quarry! There is one I make use of that you came across but it was written for me by another editor. Going back through all of the times it's been "forked", it looks like the original query is here and was written for me by Xaosflux. I adjusted their query to allow searches in additional namespaces and to allow for a larger group of results. But Xaosflux might be able to answer your question about the language used in a query.

You could also try asking for help at Wikipedia:Request a query as the editors who frequent that page seem to know what they are doing. I've also gone for technical help at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). You can also look at the Quarry run list to see which editors are doing Quarry runs and approach those whose names appear frequently (maybe that's how you came across my name). I'm sure that those editors have knowledge about creating a Quarry query or, if they, like me, are the beneficiary of the work of another editor, they could point you in the right direction. I'm sorry to not be tech-savvy enough to help you with your particular problem. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:46, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Rashi Shapiro

On April 22 You Liz talk deleted a long-standing article about my husband who is well known throughout the Orthodox Jewish community in the US and in Israel. All the facts in the article are verifiable. Please reinstate the article. Thank you Charna shapiro (talk) 14:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Charna shapiro,

I believe you are referring to Rashi Shapiro. The article was deleted because it was an article about a living person which had no references to verify any of the claims in the article. It was deleted through a criteria we refer to as WP:BLPPROD, proposed deletion about a living person with no citations. If you can provide some references to support the claims made in the article (biography, education, work history) especially if they are references from a neutral, independent source, like a book, magazines, mainstream media website, journal, etc., then the article can be restored and the references added.

Alternatively, you can go to WP:REFUND and ask for it to be restored there but they will probably ask for the same thing, evidence that this individual exists and that he has done what the article claims he has done. As you can imagine, when the subject of a Wikipedia article is a living person, we have to be very careful how they are written about and need some verification on the claims in the content. This is most often insisted upon when the claims are negative but it's true no matter what the individual is notable for. I hope this information helps you understand our policies a bit better.

Should you have more questions I haven't answered, you can find more help at WP:REFUND or the Teahouse. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:33, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Reactivate revived WP class categories

Hi Liz, is it possible you can undo deletion on the Merseyside wikiproject class categories, such as Category:Start-Class Merseyside articles and others? It was only August they seem to have been deleted but I think there is a new effort to revive the WP. They were only deleted under G6 so should not be controversial. Thanks. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:14, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Bungle,

So nice to see an inactive WikiProject come back to life! I restored Wikipedia:WikiProject Merseyside/Assessment and then restored all of the categories listed on that page so I think I got them all. Let me know if there are any ones I missed. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:25, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for this. Many of my edits are to Merseyside related articles (which is no surprise) and there is definitely a big enough scope for the WP. Appreciate it. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:27, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Deletion of Prince of Wales–St. Sebastian's Cricket Encounter

Hello Liz, you have recently deleted the page Prince of Wales–St. Sebastian's Cricket Encounter saying "Non-notable inter-school cricket match. Lacking in historical significance to establish notability". I know you deleted it because it was proposed for deletion and you have nothing to do with it. I'm not not here to argue with you, please try to understand. Actually this cricket league is happening since 1933 and it's happening between two leading schools in Sri Lanka. The deleted page was including past results and lot of information about that cricket league. As Sri Lankans we call them Big Matches (March Madness). These cricket matches are happening between lot of Sri Lankan schools and this league is one of them. It's like a part of Sri Lankan culture. So we know how notable they are in Sri Lanka. The person who proposed to delete this page is actually from United Kingdom and they might probably don't know about that. (I saw s/he's from UK when I visited their user page) And I've seen s/he has proposed some of other big match cricket pages for deletion, For example Ananda-Nalanda. And that cricket league is happening since 1924. So that user probably don't have an idea about these cricket leagues. So can you please consider about restoring the page Prince of Wales–St. Sebastian's Cricket Encounter.

Thank you in advance. Be safe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 43.250.241.18 (talk) 20:17, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, 43.250.241.18,

You don't have to present me with a big argument. Proposed deletions are restored if they are contested which this one is. Of course, it can still be nominated for deletion at WP:AFD but I can restore it no problem. You can also go to WP:REFUND if you have questions about article restoration. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:46, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Request to restore Davenport Family (band) to my userspace

Hi, could you restore Davenport Family (band) to my userspace? Want to take a look at it, thanks. Herostratus (talk) 03:32, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Herostratus,

 Done I moved it to User:Herostratus/Davenport Family (band). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:54, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

thanks! Herostratus (talk) 04:04, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Removal of G5 tag

Hello, I just noticed that you removed G5 tags from a page that was highly likely to have been created by a sockpuppet. However, the criterion does not say that this tag can only apply to pages which have been created by blocked socks. The sentence "To qualify, the edit or page must have been made while the user was actually banned or blocked" reads to me that the "user" is the person who operates a blocked account and a sock, not specifically the account that created the G5 eligible page. One of the reasons as to why I tagged the page for deletion is to bring attention to the open sockpuppet investigation for possibly interested admins. I am aware of "what if the account was not actually a sockpuppet", however if the connection between two accounts is so obvious, then there's a very small chance that's not the case. In addition, admins have previously deleted pages which I've tagged for G5 deletion before the sock was blocked, but I know admins think differently. EDM fan 2 (talk) 05:19, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, EDM fan 2,

I don't take the deletion of a page lightly. For me, and for most admins, we need to see that a) the page creator is blocked for being a confirmed sockpuppet (not blocked for any other reasons), b) that there is a clear sockmaster identified, c) that the page creator account was created after the sockmaster account was blocked so there is clear block evasion. Do not take this personally, but I won't take an editor's suspicions about a possible sockpuppet or their feelings that the connection is "so obvious" as evidence that the page creator is a confirmed sockpuppet. That's my approach to CSD G5s, you're right, a different admin might react to the tagging differently but I have seen enough CSD G5-tagged pages untagged that I know other admins do agree with my stance.

I just do not see a rush to delete pages. If the connection between the page creator and the sockmaster is so obvious, then a case at SPI is appropriate. As soon as a Checkuser or SPI clerk confirms that the page creator is guilty of block evasion, I'm happy to delete their page creations, I do this every day. This is probably not the answer you wanted to hear but I have also seen pages tagged CSD G5 untagged or even restored when a page creator has been cleared of sockpuppetry and I don't want to jump the gun before the confirmation has been done. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:28, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I was mostly looking to understand your reasonings, I did not want this to come off as attempting to oppose the removal of the tag or trying to get you to restore it. EDM fan 2 (talk) 05:33, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, EDM fan 2,

Explanations, I'm happy to provide. I just wanted to add that 3 or 4 years ago, we had admins patrolling CSD categories who would basically delete any page that was tagged, often without evaluating it themselves. They aren't admins any more. So the current group of admins who look over CSD categories are much more careful about examining to see whether or not the tagging is consistent with CSD guidelines. No one wants to be taken to Arbitration about being careless about deleting pages so we probably err on the cautious side these days. And, personally, I think that is preferable than being hasty. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:50, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Restore DJ Kelblizz (Nigerian DJ)

helllo Liz i saw that you recently deleted the above acount i took to create, plsease this is an article of a nigeria disc jockey, i got those reference from independent news and web source but you didnt care to search the enitity before deleting the page, please check the page reference and restore it, thanks Kenpmi (talk) 09:30, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Kenpmi,

This article has been deleted twice because the individual lacks notability. I won't restore it to main space because it will just get tagged for speedy deletion so there is no point in that.

What I can do, if you accept it, is to restore it to Draft space where you can continue to work on it and improve the article. I suggest submitting it to Articles for Creation when you think it is ready so that it can be reviewed by an experienced Wikipedia editor. However, if I restore this article to Draft space and you just move it to main space without any changes, it will not only be deleted again and it's likely that there will be protection put on the page so that no future articles can exist at this page title. So, do you want to move on and work on other articles or do you want to take the time and make DJ Kelblizz (Nigerian DJ) a better article? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:18, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for clarification sir, I’ll suggest you move the article to draft as DJ Kelblizz and not DJ Kelblizz (Nigerian DJ) when I checked the article DJ Kelblizz is protected only for admin access so I suggest you move it to draft with the subject name as DJ Kelblizz so when more reference are gotten it can be published. Kenpmi (talk) 03:25, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Sir I’d also want to ask , a biography can’t be uploaded on a news source but it can be uploaded on an independent biography blog so that’s all I see on google and some news article, which of this source is a better reference for the artist biography because so of the news source of DJ Kelblizz carries so facts and personal information about the entity, so which is of better reliable reference. Kenpmi (talk) 03:28, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Restore article

Hello Liz, hope you're having a great weekend.

I'd like to have Rue le Caire restored, just so I can redirect the page to the director's article. Thanks in advance! Mooonswimmer 13:57, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Mooonswimmer,

 Done I think turning the page into a redirect is a good idea, I'm familiar with the editor who PROD'd the article and they are likely to send it to AFD next. They are pretty on top of following through on articles they've tagged for deletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:11, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Shooting suspect

The same name was being abused for yesterday's shooting in Buffalo. I think we'll have to set up an edit filter, and in the meantime, any occurrence of that name should be a signal to block on sight. Acroterion (talk) 00:44, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Acroterion,

I followed some of the "sources" that were being claimed by the registered account and the IP to a Medium account whose entire goal is to post slanderous information about some teenager named "Frank Mortenson", really preposterous stuff about ties to Pakistan, embezzlement, CIA investigations, white supremacy, KKK and he just seems to be a 17 year old kid who acquired some trollish enemies online. I reported the account to Medium as every story is fake news. I'm going to do a search on his name here and make sure it hasn't been surreptitiously added to any articles, an edit filter would also be a great idea. This kid doesn't need his name linked to every act of violence that makes the news. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:55, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Suffusion of Yellow has already picked it up in filter 58, per his note at ANI. There's an LTA that's been doing this too. Acroterion (talk) 00:59, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

That is fast action, thank you to both of you. I didn't find any use of that name in any articles so it's either been removed or this troll is only going for high profile articles that get a lot of attention. There was another person they were doing this to on the Medium account but I haven't seen them using his name on Wikipedia. I'll keep an eye out for it though. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:08, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Liz, maybe it's best to revdel my edit (and all subsequest revisions)? It probably wasn't best to post that link, but I thought at the time I was dealing with a good-faith editor who had fallen for a hoax. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:16, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

 Done, okay, Suffusion of Yellow, I think I got them all. It might help if you went to that Medium account, log in and report the account. I also reported the individual entries as harassment. Thanks for working on that edit filter. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:31, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Seems medium.com wants an email address to create an account, and I don't feel like creating (yet another) throwaway email right now. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 16:52, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

What qualifies as "enough involvement" for a show to be included in a category?

Hello, can you kindly please explain to me when to put a show in the categories I made for Kumu (social network)? I have just seen your revert of my edit on Game Ka Na Ba? (I am NOT looking for an editing fight over a simple revert, that's too ridiculous even for the most drama queen out there) and I would to ask when it is appropriate to add a show to the category I made (Category:Kumu (social network) original programming). Does the show in question have a (A) direct interaction with the Kumu audience (e.g: A unpopular housemate on PBB is kicked out of Big Brother's house after a vote to kick a housemate out in Kumu), (B) the show must be broadcast from the beginning on Kumu (social network), (C) something in between or (D) none of these guidelines? I would to know so I can properly add articles to Kumu categories. Thank you. ShiriEdits^Talk 03:53, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, ShiriEdits,

If you are looking for a formula, then I can't answer your question. I just looked for content regarding this social network in the article and it was marginal. The thing about categories is that they have to be substantiated by content in the article. You don't provide references or citations for a category but it has to be clear in the article why the category is appropriate and it just didn't seem supported by the content where Kumu was just mentioned once or twice as part of a call-in segment. It wasn't a core element to the show's production. If I were to give advice, I'd add more information on how this social network is involved in the show because right now, it doesn't seem like a key element, the show has been airing for years and this is just a new addition, who knows if it will even go beyond this initial season?

I have to say, in general, I'm skeptical about an online social network being a key part of any television series. It just seems like a gimmick to attract viewer's participation, the show could go on without it just as easily. It's like a TV series having a Facebook page, it's just advertising, it has no effect on the content of the programming.

But you could always add content that demonstrates that I'm incorrect. Or you could decide that Kumu isn't integral to the program. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:06, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

CSD removal?

A lot of the pages that I tagged were valid candidates for deletion. Draft:Elfnism even states that it was a repost. 72.10.126.194 (talk) 18:10, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Not to mention pages which I didn't even tag for deletion, such as Draft:Rebecca Salazar. 72.10.126.194 (talk) 18:11, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, 72.10.126.194,

First, you are an IP account so there is little past history of yours I can use to judge whether or not you have good intentions. And not even editors who have registered accounts and have been active on Wikipedia for decades tag dozens of pages for speedy deletion in a matter of minutes. It was too much too quickly which was suspicious. What was your method for finding these pages so quickly? Obviously some of the taggings were correct because some pages were deleted but if was a sudden burst of activity from an unknown account, it raised red flags. My best guess is that you are a regular editor who, for some reason, logged out of your account to tag pages for speedy deletion. Please do not do this.

As for your legitimate edits, I'll go through your contributions now and revert the ones that shouldn't have been reverted. My apologies for those that were caught up in the mass revert that I did. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:27, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

My method was just searching "how" "why" "gay" "shit" "subscribe" "fortnite" "homophobe" and "hitler" 72.10.126.194 (talk) 18:30, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Izaak Opatz

Hi Liz-

You recently deleted a draft page for Izaak Opatz. I had been communicating with another moderator (who initially deleted the article), and he restored it as a draft for me to make a few corrections on. Do you mind reversing the deletion so I can make the appropriate changes? Thank you so much! Semonative (talk) 22:25, 19 May 2022 (UTC)Semonative

Hello, Semonative,

It's a simple thing but could you supply a link to the page you want restored so I know what namespace it was in? If it was restored as an expired draft, the restorer has to make an edit to the after restoration or it can be deleted again. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:29, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

It was never restored as a draft. They're referring to Izaak Opatz, Liz. PRAXIDICAE💕 22:30, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

I never deleted Izaak Opatz, that was Primefac you must speak to. But that page was deleted for a number of reasons including copyright violations so I doubt he will restore it for you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:32, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

We spoke on it here - they attempted to reverse the deletion, but it was deleted directly after that. I may be confused - do you mind reviewing the thread? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Primefac#Izaak_Opatz Semonative (talk) 23:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)Semonative

That's great, it looks like you and Primefac have come to a resolution. I'm not sure what my role is here since Primefac has indicated that they will restore what parts of the article that they can. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:11, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Rosa Brítez

Hello Liz. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Rosa Brítez, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not previously been deleted via a deletion discussion. Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 09:16, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Shirt58: Um, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rosa_Brítez. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 11:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't even think Liz was the tagger, but just corrected the tag that another editor had done. Besides, as already noted, it was previously deleted at AfD (even if there was minimal participation), so I don't think the csd request should have been removed. I can't see if it is identical or not, but if Liz endorsed the csd then I assume it must be. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:11, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

@Liz, Writ Keeper, Bungle, and Scanlan: Hi all. Apologies for the late reply. I'm annoyed with myself about this - I had written up a carefully considered edit summary explaining why I thought the article had avoided WP:G4 deletion... and then proceeded to click the wrong button, resulting in the obviously incorrect Speedy deletion declined. Criterion G4 does not apply: Not previously been deleted via a deletion discussion. I can't go back in time and make my mistake disappear, but this is what the edit summary should have looked like: In my opinion, this article is substantially different from the article deleted in 2014 and addresses the issued raised there. The references in the 2018 version of the article are from reliable Paraguayan media sources, that to my mind either reconsider her significance after her death or perhaps re-confirm her significance while still alive. Peter in Australia aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:47, 22 May 2022 (UTC) --Shirt58 (talk) 09:47, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. :) Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 13:49, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

I appreciate the notice. If I don't have questions about a speedy deletion, if it is obvious and uncontroversial, then I just delete the page myself. But I did have questions about this one so I corrected the tag and tagged it to pass it along for another admin to judge the merits of the claim. In this case, I wanted a second opinion so thanks for getting back to me. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:03, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Reporting an editor for vandalism

I would like to report an editor who has been involved in vandalism. This editor is taking things up to their own liking and is not being objective. The recent conversation is available on my page. They are either inexperienced with the edited topic or otherwise are involved in targeted omissions. They are claiming that the information is unsourced despite being publicly available specifically on Wikipedia. The only reason I could think of for such an act is altering things to their own liking and wishful status. AyCem Fan (talk) 04:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, AyCem Fan,

You have been editing Wikipedia for one day. The editor you are arguing with has been editing Wikipedia for almost 7 years and has made 290,801 edits over that time. I think they are more familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines than you are. I'd listen to their advice.

If you want a second opinion, besides mine, I encourage you to take your questions to the Teahouse which is a forum where newer editors can ask questions of more experienced editors. It's a friendly place but I would stop making accusations that you have no evidence for because that could backfire on you. Saying someone is committing vandalism, without providing edits that demonstrate this is occurring is considered a personal attack that can lead to a loss of editing privileges. Good luck finding your way around the project. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:45, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi Liz, thanks for your prompt feedback. I totally understand your point of view and I totally know what hot plate I’m in right now. I do appreciate the experience you both have, but if you could please look at the case in depth rather than at face value. This is targeted as the editor amended only Aytaç’s page but not Cemre’s. If you check the history of their edits, you’d know this is out of place. I will do my best to add all required validations and citations required so as to eliminate any doubts or controversies. If that person still omits the info, then please know they are intentionally doing so. Take care and thanks again. AyCem Fan (talk) 05:12, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, AyCem Fan,

I'll be blunt here because you seem overly focused on this one article. If you leave angry edit summaries calling other editors "haters" and posting on their talk page, accusing them of vandalism, you will be blocked. You need to move on from arguing about this article or move to discussing your disagreement on the article talk page. You have to change your approach immediately or you find yourself unable to edit at all. This is a collaborative writing project which means you need to get along with others even if you disagree with them.

In your first day, you don't demonstrate the demeanor of an editor who is going to be here very long. If you get angry with every editor who challenges your edit or reverts what you write, then Wikipedia is not the place for you. I've been here for a long time and if you look at my talk page, you'll see that people still challenge me or get upset with things I've done. It's the nature of working with other people that there will be conflict. You don't need to like every editor here but you have to stop with the personal attacks or some admin will block you instead of taking the time to explain all of this to you. Maybe take a break from working on the article where you have a dispute and focus on something else for a few days or weeks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:33, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Liz,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 816 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 847 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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I don't want to be blocked

It may be useful visiting the page Wikipedia:Blocking policy and going to section When blocking may not be used. Sasquash-Bigfood (talk) 20:21, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Sasquash-Bigfood,

The only way you can edit here again is if you stop creating sockpuppets for at least 6 months and then make an unblock request from your original account. As long as you keep doing what you are doing, your edits will be reverted and your page creations will be deleted. I'm sure that is frustrating for you but this is how Wikipedia deals with sockpuppetry to discourage your activities. It would also help if you worked on other Wikimedia projects like Simple English and made productive contributions there, then your unblock request might have a chance of being accepted. Aren't you tired of going through this same routine every few months? Please take some advice, stop creating sockpuppets and establish a good track record on other Wikimedia projects. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:29, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

User creating draft article on a theory he / she made

Hello, I recently found this weird draft article created just recently through my check of the recent changes page. This " article" is basically the user trying to be MatPat and trying to pull it off in Wikipedia. The theory is attempting to make the connection that Rec Room (video game), a game made for roleplaying purposes is a clone of LittleBigPlanet. This, obviously, ludicrous theory/article (let alone a draft on Wikipedia attempting to become an article) seems to be made by a new user. (oh boy, I'm already getting triggered by the number of grammatical mistakes here) I'm pretty sure this is in violation of Wikipedia:MADEUP, but I want to ask how to properly (and kindly) interact with the user on why this article is not fit for Wikipedia. I don't want to make this into a long dispute, so I want to know how to properly interact with the user in regards to their article. Thank you. --ShiriEdits^Talk 04:25, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, ShiriEdits,

Well, I read the draft article and didn't understand any of the content. I left a talk page welcome message with some guidelines and an invitation to the Teahouse. If you want to take the time to talk with this editor, which I think is great, I'd focus on the lack of any sources and the fact that they state the paragraph is "his theory" which means it's original research which is not permitted. It sounds like you are more concerned about the content of the draft but that could lead to a more involved debate so I'd stick to what Wikipedia expects from articles which is the same no matter what subject you are writing about. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:38, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Undelete request

Hello Liz,

I would like to request an undelete of your recent clean up of my draft page, I have been in hospital with health issues in the past 6 months and so my editing of the page had paused. I am now recovering and wish to resume my edits.

This is the page to in question from your notification 2 days ago:

request its undeletion

Many thanks Quakefan (talk) 09:28, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Antu Gulandaz

Hi Liz. I saw that you declined the CSD for this draft. What should be done with this draft? I think it is a test page. Should I tag it accordingly? Because, there is nothing in this draft. Just a image and some information on what to include in each section. What could this actually be? Itcouldbepossible^Talk 06:40, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (May 25)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by HenryTemplo was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Hispanas Organized for Political Equality and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Hispanas Organized for Political Equality, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

HenryTemplo (talk) 14:12, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Liz! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! HenryTemplo (talk) 14:12, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Been seeing you welcoming new users a lot today. Really appreciate you making Wikipedia more friendly! Taxin609 (Talk To Me) 01:23, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Taxin609,

This barnstar actually means quite a lot to me. Thank you. I wish more editors, especially those who patrol new pages, would write out personal messages or even leave a Teahouse invitation instead of just leaving warning templates that a new editor will not understand. Some do try to help, but it's not as common as I'd like. I could do more than I do but if I think a new editor is just a little confused about the purpose of Wikipedia or what goes where, I try to point them in a helpful direction. I will give thanks to admin JBW who I noticed long ago spent more time explaining Wikipedia than scolding editors about what they weren't doing correctly. I try to follow his example when I can. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:30, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi

Hello sir can I know the reason why the page of Pioneer Football League Bangladesh has deleted?

If you look at the page, Pioneer Football League (Bangladesh), it lists the reason for deletion. It was the recreation of a page deleted in an AFD discussion, CSD G4. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:55, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Revision deletion request, per Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests

I believe this edit should be deleted from the revision history. I've already removed the content. BilledMammal (talk) 08:16, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Done by Tamzin, thank you. BilledMammal (talk) 08:24, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @BilledMammal: Since Liz seems to be offline right now,  Done. For future reference, it's best not to make RevDel requests onwiki (with the exception of {{copyvio-revdel}}). Instead, you can email admins in the RevDel category, or you can swing by #wikipedia-en-revdel ^connect, where there's almost always someone online. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 08:25, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for handling this, Tamzin. Yes, I was sleeping. As far as leaving a message on an admin talk page, for me, it depends on how egregious the comment is. If it is standard troll stuff, I can get to it quickly or one of the helpful folks who watch my talk page can. But if it is racist, BLP-violating ranting, yes, it's better to find contact Oversight who I think must work shifts because someone is always watching that email account. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:32, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of #wikipedia-en-revdel (I don't use IRC much) but it let me in as a guest without check my admin status so I wonder how private it is. I have major issues trying to log into Discord so I don't know if they have an admin channel there. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:37, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Category:Films featuring Sylvester the Cat has been nominated for renaming

Category:Films featuring Sylvester the Cat has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. ★Trekker (talk) 10:33, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

UTRS appeal #58923

DeaconShotFire requests unblock. They write,

I understand that I was blocked for rude behaviour and edit warring. I fully admit to doing this. If I am unblocked, I will not begin edit wars or harass other users. I will not engage in this behaviour again. I have a genuine interest in improving Wikipedia, as evidenced by my edit history. I have made significant changes (that are still in place) to lead sections of major articles such as Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth II. I hope to continue improving the lead sections of articles. Another editor stated on my talk page following my indefinite mute that I should be given a chance to appeal it, an editor with whom I made those kinds of major edits.

Would this be acceptable as far as it goes? Do they need a TBAN as an unblock condition? --Deepfriedokra (talk) 13:05, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Hey, Deepfriedokra,

How are you? I hope you are well. I think you must have posted this on the wrong talk page because the only previous contact I had with DeaconShotFire was on their talk page, basically warning them that they shouldn't insult administrators if they wanted to be unblocked. But I never issued them a block as far as I can see in their block log. I don't know their editing history or edit warring history enough to know what kind of topic ban might be issued but from looking at their contributions, they did edit a lot in U.S. and UK politics & history areas. If a topic ban is issued, I wouldn't target the specific pages they want to work on unless that is the area where they have had problems with edit warring. But, again, I'd confer with the admin who issued them an indefinite block.

Thank you for all of the work you do at UTRS, you seem to be one of a handful of admins who reviews unblock requests there. I don't quite understand the technical aspects of that site regarding reserving cases and replying to requests. But I'm also such a big believer in WP:ROPE, I don't think I would do a great job there being able to evaluate who's actually turned over a new leaf and ready to be a productive contributor and who is just saying what they think we want to hear. Well, we all have our strengths and areas where we could use more work! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:52, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Just getting a feel for the subject. On the insult problem, those come in flavors! Or levels. I mean "dumbass" is pretty mild compared to "sumbitch", and the one DSF used was in its own league. What! ever! I've been called worse in real life, so the common insults just roll off. DSF's problems are like an onion layerwise. Is there a collegial, constructive editor under all that? I'm retired nurse, so with problems of this breadth, I try do find the root causes. So, I will keep "asking the next question." They'll tire before I do, 'cause my inner Aspie or OCD freak or whatever will just keeep going till there's nothing left. Ever try to get a Pit Bull to drop it!

Hpw do you like these "reply" buttons. Keeps moving what I type to the wrong end of the line. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:07, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Liz, you aren't alone. I never managed to figure out the mechanics of UTRS either. Every month or so I visit UTRS to try my hand at it again and I end up leaving no more enlightened than when I started.

On the other hand, I just looked at it today and saw that the user interface is now vastly improved. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:37, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Yes. Try it; you'll like it. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 17:32, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Mud Mouth

Hi Liz, I saw you restored this article and said it should be considered for an article. The problem is, it already has been, and there don't seem to be any reliable sources at all in existence for it. As far as I can tell, it hasn't been reviewed in a single publication, not even specialist hip hop websites. The two sources in the article tell you almost nothing – one is a single paragraph in a WP:PRIMARY interview with the artist explaining why he put the album out, the other is one line (which is a cut-and-paste copyvio) about how it would maybe soundtrack a documentary. Nothing about the background to the album, or what the songs are about. It's difficult to see how this record could ever meet the requirements of WP:NALBUM, to be honest. Richard3120 (talk) 17:08, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Richard3120,

I was looking at the artist's profile because of a broken redirect, if I recall correctly, and was surprised to see their latest album was a redirect when it seemed like their career was in full swing. So, I reverted the edit creating the redirect. But now, hopefully today, I'll see if there have been any new sources since it was last edited in February and if I can't find anything, I'll revert myself. Thanks for bringing my attention to this. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:50, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Well, Richard3120, I found reviews but they look like they are from hip hop magazines/blogs so I guess they would be unacceptable. Is there a list of approved sources for contemporary music that goes beyond Rolling Stone, Spin and major newspapers? Most of the coverage I'm finding for contemporary music is from online magazines. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:08, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

There's a list of acceptable sources at WP:RSMUSIC, although it's not exhaustive. I think the only thing I've found approaching a review is this article at HipHopDX [7], although it's more of an announcement of the album's release. In general, HipHopDX and HotNewHipHop are recognised as the best of the online websites specialising in hip hop music: RapReviews is another that's commonly used, although I don't think we've ever had a discussion on its reliability over at WP:ALBUMS. I take your point about the artist's profile: Yelawolf was certainly one of the highest profile of Eminem's proteges, but since he left Shady Records a few years ago his stock has fallen rapidly. Richard3120 (talk) 18:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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Good morning Dear Madam I am new to Wikipedia & need help in creating & polishing up a Wikipedia page which will be submitted for a review, I have links & news articles etc. Would you be able to help me out to create a page for a Netflix Actor

Thank you 2A00:23C7:5081:9801:5D8E:5B93:E8D1:1372 (talk) 10:10, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello, 2A00:23C7:5081:9801:5D8E:5B93:E8D1:1372,

I recommend going to the Teahouse or Articles for Creation for help. I have many tasks I do on Wikipedia and can't spend time coaching you on writing articles. But there are editors who will offer advice and support to you at those two sites so please give them a try. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:55, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

"2021 Oting Nagaland Massacre" listed at Redirects for discussion

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POTD categories

We're creating a terrible feedback loop here: Categories are getting removed for not existing yet, e.g. [8], and then getting deleted for not having something in them. This is a Wikipedia process that eventually should have an entry for every single day of 2023. It's important categories exist for them. I'm going to try to sort out this mess. Please hold on. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.9% of all FPs} 01:21, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Adam Cuerden,

• First, let me apologize for overwhelming your talk page with notices. I should have left a personal note discussing this instead of individual deletion notices.
• Second, empty categories sit for a week, they are not deleted immediately unless there are other issues like they were created by a sockpuppet or there is BLP-violating content on it. So, there is always some time to sort things out with empty categories. It often happens that categories are only temporarily empty and in those cases, we just remove the tag before the 7 days are up.
• Finally, there is something you can do with categories like these, where you want to create categories that will be periodically empty. It's not mentioned much because it should not be misused in order to retain empty categories that should not be kept. But for maintenance categories like these, put {{emptycat}} tag on the page and there will be a notice not to delete the category even if it is empty and, more importantly for folks like me, these categories will stop showing up on the nightly Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories list which is how we are informed about empty categories.

Please do not remove CSD tags from any pages you have created, that shouldn't be done but there are other ways we can address this. If you just remove the tag without placing an empty category tag on the page, it'll just show up on tomorrow's list of "Empty categories" and we'll go through all this again which I'm sure you don't want. I hope this helps. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:31, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Well, they should all be unempty now. I've just gone through and sorted everything by creating the month archives for each category. Sorry about that. It was kind of an awkward situation, and I just started trying to maintain POTD. I have a suspicion there should be an easy way to make these pages, but I instead did search and replaces on the extant day listings while chanting "30 days hath September..." Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.9% of all FPs} 01:39, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

And I've added {{#ifexpr:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:{{BASENAME}}}} <1|{{empty cat}}}} to the header that gets autoadded to the category pages, and set them up to... well, frankly, to the point of the most distant POTD that was already set up, so that categories won't mistakenly get deleted by accident. At least not for a while. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.9% of all FPs} 01:55, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Bassano Vaccarini

I know some Wiki politics- destruction, vandalizing.Xx236 (talk) 06:30, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Xx236,

I'm not sure what your comment is all about. If you would like Draft:Bassano Vaccarini restored, you can ask me or go to WP:REFUND. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:34, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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Deletion of Romanian Brazilians article

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Hello! I would like to know why the Romanian Brazilians article got deleted, it had nothing to do with the previously deleted article and my article used sources presented in other articles such as the Romania-Brazil relations. the page citing the recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion speedy criterion when the content was different enough for it to not apply. Also take a look at the pages about European diaspora in Brazil, basically only the Romanian one is missing even though having a substantial diaspora of more than 40k people. Thank you for your time if you ever see this :)

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Okay, I'll look into this. Please sign all of your talk page posts with 4 tildes ("~~~~") so I'll know who is talking to me. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:41, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks for your reply, so can i remake the same page if it's ok?

Vladdy Daddy Silly (talk) 23:34, 2 June 2022 (UTC)Vladdy Daddy Sillly

• I think a good solution would be restoring the page under draft or userspace so that this editor is able to further work on it if necessary. Super Ψ Dro 13:05, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Vladdy Daddy Silly,

I thought the two articles were similar and the new version didn't overcome the objections in the AFD that caused the article to be deleted. But I'm willing to restore the page to Draft space. Read over the AFD and when you think the article is in better shape, submit it to Articles for Creation for review. If you move it directly back into main space, it will just be tagged for speedy deletion CSD G4 again but if it meets AFC approval, it is less likely to be deleted. Does that sound okay to you? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:13, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Yes, sure. Give me the link of the Draft page if you have it because i can't find it, thanks a lot. Vladdy Daddy Silly (talk) 16:23, 4 June 2022 (UTC)Vladdy Daddy Silly

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sorry i forgot to mail notify you about the draft page, i'm ok with it of course, i'll edit it more and add sources that i found. Vladdy Daddy Silly (talk) 15:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Sock

Hi Liz. You blocked two users who created Draft:Julian Lawrence Hall (Julian Lawrence Hall and Md ruhin ahmed) for socking. Now there is a 3rd, Arzubayer03 - possibly another sock? --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:29, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Drm310,

Thanks for the notification. I'm going to be on and off Wikipedia for the next couple of hours but I'll look into this. Socks are nothing if not persistent. But some, it seems, eventually get tired of all of the games and move on. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:43, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Another one has cropped up at User:Olviha/sandbox. I've opened a case at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Julian Lawrence Hall requesting CU. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:14, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

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I'm Sorry

Hello Liz,

I am very sorry for mindlessly tagging drafts for speedy deletion and MFD. I'll try not do it again and actually look in the page history to see if it will be eligible for G13. I have learned my lesson and please forgive me. I will also not submit anymore speedy deletions or MFDs on drafts unless it is really problematic. THE Pizzaplayer!^{TALK TO MEE!!} _contribs 18:46, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Pizzaplayer219,

I'm sorry if I sounded harsh. It was at the end of a long day and I think I was exasperated. Once you know about the CSD G13 status, you don't need to be told twice. If you look at User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon, you'll see that we have hundreds of drafts expiring every day that are evaluated so most times, an MFD isn't warranted unless there are severe problems with the content that can't be dealt with by speedy deletion. Any way, thank you for your contributions to the project! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:43, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Refund request 2

Draft:Boeing F-15EX Eagle II. It's being discussed at Talk:McDonnell_Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle#F-15EX split, and having it visible would be useful to the discussion. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 21:18, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, BilCat,

 Done Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:20, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

That was fast! Thanks. Btw, what does "ME" in the edit summary, "ME after draft restoration", mean? BilCat (talk) 21:22, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, BilCat,

I guess that is an abbreviation that only I use but it stands for "minor edit". After a draft has been restored, unless you make an edit to the page, it becomes immediately eligible for CSD G13 deletion again. The page restoration doesn't affect the page history which will show that the last non-bot edit to the page was over 6 months ago. So, to prevent the page from getting tagged for speedy deletion again, I, and good folks at WP:REFUND, typically make a minor edit to the page like adding a space or adding a line between AFC comments. It also resets the 6 month clock for drafts. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:27, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Ah, OK. We should have a decision on whether or not to move it to mainspace in a few weeks. I may work on it in the meantime. It's not a notability question but an editorial one of whether or not the F-15EX content is better covered in its own article, or should remain at McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle. As a Page Mover, I can move it to mainspace myself if we decide to do that. Thanks again. BilCat (talk) 21:39, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Gehad Hamdy

Hi Liz. I think the only reason the IP isn't blocked is because the CU can't actually confirm. Any other suggestions? It's clearly someone from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Salem_Imam/Archive#02_June_2022 logged out given the verbatim creation. Thoughts on SALTing? I asked the same at the SPI, but no issue if it's also used as sock catcher. Star Mississippi 02:41, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Hey, Star Mississippi,

I have this "thing" about CSD G5s because, in my experience, many editors tag pages for speedy deletion based on suspicions before there are any conclusions at an SPI or before an SPI is even filed. So, I have this, "I have to see that the page creator is a confirmed sockpuppet, I have to know who the sockmaster is, the page creator has to have been blocked for sockpuppetry not for another reason and there can't be any substantial contributions from other editors" G5 rationale which, I admit, some folks have found to be rigid. I've been challenged on this before but I just ask them to wait until the SPI confirms sockpuppetry (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't). I had gotten in hot water years ago about G5s that were deleted that shouldn't have been deleted but never for removing a CSD tag that I thought was placed prematurely. And it also can be difficult because sometimes, the checkusers will not identify a sockmaster, they just know that the account is a multiple account. I've asked them to try and be more specific about this but I've been brushed off before so it must have something to do with privacy or their certainty about the results.

You could try CSD G4, due to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gehad Hamdy, but some admins believe G4 doesn't apply to Draft space, others believe it does while other admins decide this on a case-by-case basis. I (and others) have brought up this contradiction at WT:CSD without any firm consensus arising. The references, regarding the organization Speak Up look decent, less so for Gehad Hamdy but she did win this Women SME Leaders Awards 2022 which looks notable that probably happened after the AFD discussion. I guess I have mixed feelings about this draft because even though sockpuppets were involved, it looks like exactly the kind of article Wikipedia should have, about a recognized and effective community activist in a developing country. It's unfortunate that sockpuppetry is involved. But I want to add that this "feeling" didn't affect my decision to untag this draft, it was my understanding of how CSD G5 is to be interpreted.

You could always wait until the draft goes stale and goes CSD G13. And I have seen some admins stretch CSD G11 all out of shape to apply to almost any kind of article but I don't think that is a good practice. That can happen with CSD G7 but G7 has more built-in limitations to it than G11 does. My only other suggestion is to retag it and see if another admin comes to a different conclusion than I did. That action is discouraged but I've seen it happen before. These are the only possibilities that occur to me right now. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:47, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you would leave the G5 CSDs to another admin to review if your requirements are so stringent. There are many socking cases that don't have an SPI and drafts are articles are routinely deleted as CSD G5 without an SPI. As a checkuser there are many reasons why a specific master is not identified, especially when dealing with IPs. If you're not comfortable with deleting on that basis, is there any harm in just letting another admin review the request? Asking someone to retag the CSDs as you've done here, and below at "tagging a test page" (which I also think most admins would have deleted as a valid CSD), is less than ideal as the majority of admins won't CSD a page if another admin has declined it. You do a ton of heavy lifting with speedy deletions (thank you!!!), is there any harm in leaving a few for another admin to review if you know you're out of step with common practice?-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 19:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

It's not G4 eligible as it's substantively different, but the same one the sock farm has been copy/pasting so there's no doubt that this is the same editor. @TheSandDoctor has blocked per the SPI so hopefully concerns are resolved? If not, I hope they get bored for six months or realize that this isn't going to result in an article for what I presume is their client. Someone can definitely write an article SpeakUp and discuss Hamdy within it, but that's not what this group is interested in doing, sadly. Thanks! Star Mississippi 12:54, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

@Star Mississippi and Ponyo: Liz hasn't responded to this thread, so I gather they are busy. I've gone ahead and G5'd since it now meets the criteria, as discussed and per my blocking of the IPs. If there is any objection to this, please discuss and ping me. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 15:54, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion - Mayor of Frankfurt

Hello, I see that you have declined my page move. Just to clarify, Frankfurt and Frankfurt am Main are the same place. Wikipedia generally uses just "Frankfurt" to refer to "Frankfurt am Main", as seen on the Frankfurt page. The Mayor of Frankfurt-am-Main article refers to the city as "Frankfurt am Main" in the lede but elsewhere in the article it is refered to as "Frankfurt". Thus I don't think that moving the page would make the title not agree with the content. But also this is my first time moving a page so maybe I'm doing it wrong. Medarduss (talk) 07:43, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Medarduss,

You could very well be right here, Medarduss. It looks like the page used to be titled List of mayors of Frankfurt until this edit in 2018 when it was changed from a list to an article with its current title. It's just that this is an established article that has existed since 2005 and so page moves and retitling has to be done with a bit more care than if it was a page about a new film or video game. Typically, although this didn't happen in 2018, for a longstanding article, there is a proposal and discussion on the article talk page first. After that is concluded, or if there is little response to a proposal after a week or so, then an editor can take a bold action and either move an article or request a page move. But first, the article is rewritten so that, at least in the lede paragraph, the new title is how the article subject is identified. This doesn't have to involve a lot of editing. But an article shouldn't be titled "Mayor of Frankfurt" if that is not how the mayor is identified in the first sentence of the article and any infobox. If there are several titles that can be used, then they can all be mentioned there but "Mayor of Frankfurt" should be the primary one if that is the new article title.

But I suggest you start a talk page discussion first and see if other page watchers agree with you. You might be surprised at how controversial some page moves can be so it's best to get a feeling if there is general agreement before moving an article. Oh, and you really didn't do anything wrong by making the request, I probably should have not just declined the page move but should have also gone to your talk page and explained all this, too. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:13, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

A CSD G11

Hi Liz. I had nominated Draft:Abdolrahman Sarraei for G11 deletion, which has already been deleted multiple number of times. Also Abdolrahman Sarraei was deleted multiple number of times, and then recreated again and again. There is also this SPI case regarding the matter. Considering all these, why did you remove my CSD tag? Could you please explain me I had gone wrong somewhere. At least, I can tell you, all the time, I had nominated this for CSD, always it got deleted. It was I who first discovered this article and put a CSD tag on it. Were those deletions wrong? What do you say? Itcouldbepossible ^Talk 15:22, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Itcouldbepossible,

First, I think you need to consider all of the pages that you tag for speedy deletion where I agree with you and not just focus on the handful where I come to a different conclusion. But you ask a valid question here. Editors and admins can disagree on whether or not a tagging rationale is valid, I work with Proposed deletions and articles get de-PRODed every day when another editor disagrees with a tagging. You look at a day's AFD discussions and probably at least half of the deletion nominations are contested by other editors who believe an article should be kept. Regarding page deletions, good, thoughtful editors can disagree.

As for this particular draft, I didn't investigate the page history, I just looked at the current page content and I didn't think it was overly promotional, at least not by my standards for CSD G11. I made my judgment based on the content of the draft and we usually allow more leeway in the Draft world than in the project main space. Now, if I had looked more carefully at the page history and seen how many of the latest edits were done by User:Sarraei Team, then I probably would have seen what you had seen and deleted the page. You are clearly more aware of the history of the article subject than I was at the time I was evaluating the page. But it's interesting that the admin who did delete the page after I untagged it (see Draft:Abdolrahman Sarraei) did so for CSD G5 reasons and he removed the CSD G11 deletion rationale so it wasn't deleted for being advertising but because of sockpuppetry activity.

If I made a mistake here it's that I shouldn't have simply reverted your edit, I should have brought up the subject on your talk page. But, unfortunately, sometimes admins get busy, the CSD categories are full of pages that need to be reviewed and taken care of and having discussions like this can take up time that folks would rather spend on other tasks. I do think that you have been doing quite a bit of deletion tagging that I have had questions about but if a situation like this comes up again, I'll come to your talk page instead of simply reverting your edit. Does this help explain things a bit better? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:34, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

First, I think you need to consider all of the pages that you tag for speedy deletion where I agree with you and not just focus on the handful where I come to a different conclusion. Sorry, but I didn't want to mean that. It is not about disagreeing and agreeing. You have deleted many pages that I had CSDed. I was quite amazed when you removed the CSD tag from that promotional article which has already been deleted multiple number of times, and the editors blocked as sockpuppets. I thought this might be a mistake from Liz's side, so I thought of bringing this up to you.

As for this particular draft, I didn't investigate the page history, I just looked at the current page content and I didn't think it was overly promotional, at least not by my standards for CSD G11. Well that must be up to you, but to me it looked like promotional, so I CSDed it. And I got this strong, when I saw other 2 administrators had agreed with me. So the third time, I, you can say, alomost blindly tagged the page for CSD. But I check my CSD log daily to see which articles are still kept even after I CSDed them. Like that I improve my knowledge on deletion situations. I see when administrator agree with me and when they don't. That day when I saw my CSD log, I found out that the page was still 'blue linked'. I saw the page history and found out that you had removed the tag.

Now, if I had looked more carefully at the page history and seen how many of the latest edits were done by Sarraei Team, then I probably would have seen what you had seen and deleted the page. Yes, but a draft promotional to that extent should be deleted (though you didn't think it was promotional). There are many instances by which we know that the draft or article is actually promotional. The user KIIFF is creating an article in a 'promotional tone about the KIIFF film festival itself. And then this Abdolrahman, who as far as I remember is associated with this film festival in some way. So overall, as per what we see, it was promotional, according to me.

Now, if I had looked more carefully at the page history and seen how many of the latest edits were done by User:Sarraei Team, then I probably would have seen what you had seen and deleted the page. Probably, but administrators like you, who are involved with so many things on this wiki, are way busy to go and inspect the page histories of the articles that turn up in the category. But, if you won't block me, then I would just suggest you something. You can install this script, to find past deletions and AFDs. This is a really helpful script for new page reviewers and also administrators who perform deletions. This Writ Keeper man, oh what a user! This script helps you to find out if the article or draft has been deleted in the past, or if there was any AFD of the article. Would you please use that script from now on to see if the article or draft has been deleted previously? And when you see the page has been deleted previously, then you can have a look at the page history also (to detect anomalies like this one). In this way you won't have to check the page history always. Now please please don't mind this suggestion from a new and unexperienced user like me. I am no one to suggest to users or rather administrators like you, who has been working for the community for so many years, and has so many peoples support. Please take this as a friendly suggestion from a newbie.

But it's interesting that the admin who did delete the page after I untagged it (see Draft:Abdolrahman Sarraei) did so for CSD G5 reasons and he removed the CSD G11 deletion rationale so it wasn't deleted for being advertising but because of sockpuppetry activity. Well, I am not sure (you can check it once more, I don't remember it, for I have been tagging tens of articles for CSD everyday, and it is hard to recall what the article or draft looked like, or how many CSD tags were there, unless there are special problems with the article, like obvious vandalism, creation by LTAs, or promotional articles that are being repeatedly created using different article naming schemes), but I myself had tagged the draft first for CSD G11, and then included a G5 too, since it would also be applicable. But the deletion administrator took the latter CSD criteria and deleted it accordingly. It has happened quite a few number of times. I nominate an article for deletion using multiple CSD criteria (obviously those which can be applied), and sometimes, the deletion admin chooses the best out of it. So maybe this is what had happened this time.

If I made a mistake here it's that I shouldn't have simply reverted your edit, I should have brought up the subject on your talk page. But, unfortunately, sometimes admins get busy, the CSD categories are full of pages that need to be reviewed and taken care of and having discussions like this can take up time that folks would rather spend on other tasks. I understand that. That is why I thought of bringing this up to you as nicely my English let me to do. Alas, I hate to say this again and again, but being an Indian, and English being my 3rd language (not applicable for every Indian), I am struggling to learn to phrase sentences correctly, so that they don't mean bad to English speaking people like you. And I even ran into a problem once. You can see my talk page archive to know how my problematic English made by good intention look bizarre.

I do think that you have been doing quite a bit of deletion tagging that I have had questions about but if a situation like this comes up again, I'll come to your talk page instead of simply reverting your edit. I would be pleased if you do that. But no need to take this as a burden. You are free to decline my CSDs. Just be careful about the past deletion histories. We want Wikipedia to be a clean place, isn't it? If you want to contact me, then you are free to, my talk page is always open to everyone.

Does this help explain things a bit better? Well it explains a lot how good and very forbearing you are. Thanks for putting up such a nice and kind explanation. Many administrator have forgot to behave in a civil manner. At times, I understand, due to the huge stress, administrators look like harsh, but actually, in the end it looks like you people are good. That is why you are an admin and not me.

PS: This is not to make you go unhappy, but just a note. This draft was CSDed by me, but you reverted the edit saying that "it could become potentially notable", but I re-tagged it, and then it was deleted by Jimfbleak. I should have brought that up to you, but didn't know that. Always thought that you people develop a 'grudge' suddenly out of nowhere and then start acting in your own way. But then someone(better not to bring the person into this), changed my idea about administrators completely. Then I understood the facts, and I brought this Abdolrahaman Sarrei deletion related problem up to you.

I apologize for this wall of text, but I couldn't help myself other than write this much. I as a distant speaker of English have to spend a lot of words to convey something. Thanks again for your extreme patience in handling this matter, even though you have dozens of cases like this. Wikipedia needs administrators like you. Thanks for your service here, and I also want to follow you footsteps, and reach a place so great as you. Sincerest regards, Itcouldbepossible ^Talk 16:13, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Tagging a test page

Why was the CSD tag removed on Draft:My Test Draft? It was clearly a test page and the creator of the article probably did not intend to ever move it to the mainspace or even submit it. 72.10.126.196 (talk) 16:40, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, 72.10.126.196,

Because it was a Draft page where editors are allowed to test things out. Re-tag it if you want, I won't untag it again. That was just my opinion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:35, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

William Helfand

Hello! I haven't heard from you in sometime. Next week, I plan on recreating the page on William Helfand. There will be similar content, but of course, nothing will be a direct copy. I apologize for the past copy, which was not meant to be a final draft. I removed that directly copied part shortly after I was notified about it, but the page was still deleted. William Helfand deserves a Wikipedia page and I believe I am in a good position to create one for him. Thank you for your help and support! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cczollo (talk • contribs) 19:56, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Category:Danish–Romanian translators

This category did have any entry. Now, it does. Thank you for signalizing it. :-))) When I created it, I had in mind the translator, writer and poet Barbu Nemțeanu. Something happened then and I was unable to add the category to the aforementioned article. Therefore, I have just done it, some minutes ago. Thank you, again. Yours, Wars (talk) 09:32, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

In the still of the night (Whitesnake song)‎

Hello Liz, my apologizes, as soon as I saw your edit summary, it dawned on me, one of the main reason for redirects is for search purposes. Thanks for reminding me. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 02:57, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, FlightTime,

To be honest, we have a lot of, what I think, are dumb redirects. I have nominated redirects that are wordy and long to WP:RFD and editors who frequent that deletion discussion board have found value in them...long, extended titles, misspellings, phrases that you think would never be a search term, and they have decided, "Keep". So, what seems "uncontroversial" to you and me, is not to others. Also, being brought to Wikipedia:Deletion review can result in an admin hewing closely to the speedy deletion criteria. Please do not take an untagging personally as some editors are wont to do, it just meant that I saw things differently based on my experience patrolling CSD categories. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:04, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Draft:AliNawazChanna

hi liz this is musical Artist page you can search Google and check this official musical Artist dj music producer check in Spotify amazon music apple music search on Google Ali Nawaz Channa and check result — Preceding unsigned comment added by Channa Ali Nawaz (talk • contribs) 03:43, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

He's doing it again

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Smasongarrison (talk) 23:08, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Hey Liz,

Unfortunately, he's escalated. I have reached out to an additional admin @Hammersoft: who knows about Mathsci's long history of problematic behavior.

But anything here's the current mess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Wheelchair_bound Smasongarrison (talk) 03:55, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Please help me stop harassment from datalounge.com users Vandalizing and now trying to have my article deleted

Please help me stop harassment from datalounge.com users Who have not only posted that they’re actively trying to have my article removed that has been up for almost 10 years but the user who has just today put it up for deletion has a long history of causing problems according to his talk page. My page has also been vandalized extensively since October which is all visible in the edit history. You’ll also see where it links to postings on datalounge.com about some fanatics attempt at having my page removed all culminate in one direction, vengeance or a vendetta. My page might need some sort of polish from somebody who is editing skills understand the format but everything is properly referenced and I’ve had five top 40 billboard records, I’ve starred in the TV series, I’ve been a member of the Out 100 list I’ve won the Los Angeles drama critics Circle award I’m on TMZ‘s 10 funniest drunk celebrities. (That’s not listed on my Wikipedia obviously) and all of this is due two months of harassment from the online troll community at datalounge.com which a quick search will show you is the most vile disgusting cesspool on the Internet. Any help you can offer would be incredibly appreciated. Please forgive any weird typos I have a recovering injured right arm and hand therefore I’m relying on voice to text. Huge thanks, Jason Dottley Jasondottleyofficial (talk) 05:45, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

He would help if I told you a bit more information. My article is “Jason Dottley” and even though you can see this information on the talk page here is a link to a thread about having my article removed as a group effort https://www.datalounge.com/thread/30947120-miss-dottley-thinks-she-is-a-god-and-must-be-stopped! This user has suggested it for deletion but he also has a very bad reputation reading his talk page and he just blanked his talk page if you read what he removed it’s atrocious User:MisterWizzy also see User:AugustusBuzby who vandalized in November.

Hopefully this is enough to get you started considering all the information is available on the talk page for my article. Thank you again Jasondottleyofficial (talk) 05:55, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Jasondottleyofficial,

Can you provide me with a link to the page you are concerned about? We don't consider articles anyone's property so the article isn't yours or mine or anyone else's, all pages, including this talk page, belong to the project. If it's been deleted, I have to see why it was deleted to know if anything can be done about it or whether the deletion was justified. If it hasn't been deleted, I need to see if there has been vandalism which you seem to think happened. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:06, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Of course absolutely. And yes I understand the page/article doesn’t belong to anybody it’s just an adjustment to make which is easy. Here is a link to the article Jason Dottley And the vandalism has occurred in the past 6 to 9 months and you can see that in the edit history and you can see how the editors have had to revert things that they called “vandalism” like someone added the word “allegedly” in front of nearly every word in the article.

The upsetting part is this collective troll effort from datalounge.com users who are posting and trying to gather people together to help get this page deleted, as well as doing other things that are very disruptive in my life. Thanks for the help and prompt response Also the page is not deleted, that was just added today by the user I mentioned, and so far no one agrees with him. Jasondottleyofficial (talk) 06:16, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Weird new account around WP pages

Hi,

Saw that you've been recently active via the Recently Active Users tool, and I know that you've been around AfD a lot, so I kind of want to ask for some help.

This concerns Jim Bobs Doo Doo, created a few hours ago. I first noticed them when they voted keep on my AfD nom; this isn't about that specific vote, but associated behavior. They didn't sign their comment, but apparently knew enough to cite WP:NEXIST, albeit incorrectly, which I find as a bit of a contradiction. Maybe they edited before via an IP, because new users who know enough to go to AfD on their third edit while not having pages nominated for AfD themselves are few and far between. Even fewer are those who know to cite policy. They've also commented on ANI, again citing policy here. All (excluding my AfD nom because of my COI) of their comments or votes go against recent consensus/contradict the user they are replying to.

I know to WP:AGF, but this fact pattern seems awfully strange to me. Do you mind recommending courses of action? Iseult ^Δx parlez moi 06:48, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Teahouse invites

Hi Liz. Any idea why your tool would generate the teahouse invite when he already had been? Not a major issue, just trying to figure out why it didn't detect the earlier one? I'll delete mine but leaving for the evening in case you want to trouubleshoot. Star Mississippi 02:37, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Hey, Star Mississippi,

You are very observant! I sometimes go ahead with Teahouse invites if the previous one was accompanying an AFC evaluation. I think those ones might be missed by the editor rather than a stand-alone invitation. But in the future, I'll look at the date of the AFC invite and only place them on the Talk page if the previous invite was long ago, say a year ago. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:43, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Oh that makes total sense. I don't always tick it to generate an invite, but sometimes I think it might be helpful. I may be overly optimistic in this case but we'll see. Thanks for checking so quickly. Star Mississippi 02:53, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Liz is great at remembering Teahouse invites. Several times I've seen her follow up with it when I've forgotten. Much appreciated. ––FormalDude talk 05:48, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

I went to Wikipedia:Request a query to see if I could find out how many Teahouse invitations I've posted, using the standard template (I also invite in personal messages) and found I'd posted that message 7,142 times. I actually thought it was more! If I see an contributing editor has no User talk page, I post a Welcome and Teahouse invitation out of habit. I'm sure many of those editors never come back to Wikipedia but in case they do, there's some information they can use. I just know that if the Teahouse hadn't been there when I first started regularly editing in 2013, I would have quit the first month, I was so confused and frustrated. It's a great resource for those who know about it. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:01, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

7 thousand. Wow. That's wonderfully insane. I agree about welcoming being an encouraging tool. We need all the editor help we can get. Star Mississippi 15:12, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	Teahouse Barnstar
	Thank you for your work promoting the Teahouse. ––FormalDude talk 06:35, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Özlem Sarıkaya Yurt page

Hii Mrs. Liz I am not in this language who opened the article, but you know how correct it is to delete the article with just one vote? Shouldn't there be a more participatory vote, so I ask you to bring back the article and ensure a more comprehensive voting, if not, you know?--176.234.225.66 (talk) 09:15, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Regarding soft deletion

At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/V-Man - would you mind converting this into a redirect with a non-deleted history? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:45, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Piotrus,

I'm not sure I am fully understanding your request. I created a redirect to Fox Feature Syndicate#Fox characters. You nominated the page for deletion so I'm not sure why you would want the deleted history restored as a contested Soft Deletion. Let me know if you wanted more than a simple redirect created. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:44, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

@Liz In general, I think that in such cases soft delete means redirecting while preserving history. If the topic becomes notable one day, it can be restored then, and more importantly, if we hide the revisions, the (re)creator may not realize there is some content to work with. I'd prefer to pre-emptively save time of that future editor, even if all they get is the lead/infobox/categories/some plot summary. And it also should save the closing admins's time, too - there's no need to delete anything, just close the Afd and redirect the entry (non-admins can do this too). PS. Also, the same applies to the talk page (Which I prefer to preserve whenever possible, as an archive of some old discussions that who knows what may be relavant for). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:12, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Managed Extensibility Framework

Liz, you deleted the article (as expected). However, there is an ongoing report on the ANI against an crosswiki LTA. Please restore the article In order to improve them, as it is my current campaign. Thanks. --Amitie 10g (talk) 17:33, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Amitie 10g,

 Done As a contested PROD, it's been restored. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:40, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Newt Scamander

Thanks for declining that speedy on Newt Scamander, I've been looking at it for 3 days and hesitating to do anything with it.

You said in your edit summary though that, "This page has sat at CSD for over 3 days with no admin taking action. They obviously don't think this draft article is ready for main space." I can only speak for myself, but it wasn't so much that I didn't think the draft was ready for mainspace, as that this redirect has history from before the article was merged, and I found the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested_moves/Closing_instructions#Moving_procedures confusing, so I was leaving it for someone with more understanding of the round-robin procedure, but apparently such a person did not come by.

Anyway, at least now I don't have to see it in the speedy queue. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 18:36, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, ONUnicorn,

If a page has sat for 3 or more days in a CSD category with no one taking action on it, I typically remove the tag. We don't have as many admins patrolling CSD as we used to but I assume at least a few admins see each request and if no one takes action on it after a few days, then there is some disagreement about the validity of the tagging. The only exception I make is for copyright violations and I think that is because there is some confusion among admins about the degree of copyright violation that would require deletion, rather than rewriting. At least, I see articles linger in that category for days and that's my best guess for why that might be the case.

I didn't know about the merger and page history, I should have looked more closely at that. My point of view is that to be moved from Draft space to main space, the draft should look like a main space articles, all of the AFC tags and comments need to be removed first. It should be camera-ready for readers. That is usually done in most cases but some editors request a move while the draft is still in the submission phase, before anyone has reviewed the draft. Or a page creator says that the draft has been AFC approved and needs to be moved when you can clearly see a page full of declines and maybe even a rejection. I know that some admins disagree with my position, some will delete the main space page before a draft is ready to be moved so I typically don't untag CSD G6 move request pages unless they have been sitting there for days. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:54, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Good morning

Good morning, ma'am! In fact, I want to change my username too. And I want my talk page to be deleted. Now, please tell me what I could do. I want to take your suggestions! Regards! --Haoreima (talk) 02:29, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Haoreima,

To change your username, just make a request at Wikipedia:Changing username. Then, after your name has been changed, request that any redirects, from your old account to your new one, are deleted. I recommend reading Wikipedia:Clean start. If you want to leave Wikipedia completely, you could request a Courtesy vanishing but that is only intended for those editors who want to leave and never come back. It is awkward if you do a courtesy vanishing and then come back to edit because then the vanishing has to be undone and you're back to your old account. And it sounded like you really wanted a new account so follow the advice on the Clean Start page. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:44, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Deletion of Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Archive 1

Hi Liz, it appears you may have accidentally deleted this page, which I think contained conversations spanning the first half decade of the Signpost (2005-2010) and is still linked from various other pages. Note also that G8, the quoted rationale, does not apply to such talk page archives. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:52, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, HaeB,

First, thanks for recognizaing that it was an accident! There was a deletion tag on Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archive 1 and I use Twinkle for page deletions that have been tagged for speedy deletion. When you delete an article, Template, Category or Project page, Twinkle typically deletes the talk page and any redirects to the main page which was what happened. Of course, this shouldn't occur with talk page archives so thanks for bringing it to my attention so I could fix it. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:50, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Regards, HaeB (talk) 01:35, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Translated Arabic articles

Hello Liz,

I've only recently started monitoring Recent changes, specifically newly created pages. In the past two or three days, I've come across at least 20 problematic articles created by the same few users.

The articles are all translations of articles from the Arabic-language Wikipedia. All concerning relatively well-known books in Arabic. The contributors do not change a single thing. No translation template either. The article is machine translated, word-for-word, and the result is a badly worded, poorly referenced article that does not conform to English-language Wikipedia's guidelines on notability, referencing, and layout/style. I recognize many of these books, and I believe a large percentage of them clear the notability bar. It could be a great iniative, but this is not how it's done.

What should be done about this?

@Hanan Wadi, @Farah Afana, @Sanabagh, @Reyami.Alsalman, @Fatimah Al Ani Mooonswimmer 12:46, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Mooonswimmer,

A couple of questions. Do the editors provide attribution to the Arabic version of these articles? That's an important step with any translated article. Secondly, have you tried communicating with any of these editors, do they utilize talk pages? Something this complex, involving translated works and multiple editors is more than I usually handle as an individual administrator. If you are worried about any copyright violations, I'd go to Moneytrees as I consider them the admin most involved in the nuances of copyright. If it's a matter of editing the articles, I'd look over Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world/Members and see if there are any members who are still active editors on Wikipedia. For example, User:Faycal.09 still is active although they focus on sports, they might know an Arabic speaker who works in the area of literature.

I'd only go to ANI if the generation of newly created articles goes into overdrive and is more than our review processes can handle, like if dozens of low quality articles are being created daily. ANI tends to be a blunt instrument and the go-to solutions there are topic bans and blocks, neither of which sounds like the correct solution to potentially productive but inexperienced editors. Let me know your thoughts about these ideas. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:41, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Requesting revdel

[9] per WP:RD2. Thanks. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 19:09, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Dr.Pinsky,

I typically revision delete edits that violate our rules about biographies of living people so I had to think about this as it involves a work of fiction and could be just a different understanding of the narrative. But the edits could be considered disruptive so I honored your request. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:29, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

June GOCE newsletter

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AMU Henry Smalls

I don't know why my page was deleted, actually, let me rephrase that. I don't know why I can't make a page about myself. I just want people to know about more about me. I'm asking you to please, undelete my article, or send me a copy of my article. I worked hard on this and it hurts to let it go. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HenrySmalls17 (talk • contribs) 23:56, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Henry,

I answered your second query, below. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:02, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Contested page deleted Draft:E. L. P. Edirisinghe

Hi Liz, may I know why my draft was deleted when I had laid down my reason, contested it and no one had responded yet? I just received the notification that it was up for CSD. Delta fiver (talk) (UTC) 06:30, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for undeleting it. Delta fiver (talk) (UTC) 06:34, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Delta fiver,

I think the editor who tagged the page was looking for blank draft pages and your page turned up on the list. I have restored it. But to prevent it from getting tagged again, you might post some kind of content on the page to show that it is an actual draft and not a test page. We have a lot of editors who create pages and never return to edit them and I think that is what the page tagger was looking for when they were going through blank draft pages. Sorry for the mixup. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:36, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Oh I see, now worries as at all and thank you for informing me. I've just added some content, couldn't get to editing it as I'm having my finals now, but thank you again. Delta fiver (talk) (UTC) 06:40, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Deletion of Daniel Fisher (composer) article

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Hello Liz! I would like to discuss the deletion of the Daniel Fisher (composer) article. I wrote the text to be in the "style" of an encyclopedic Wikipedia article and Copyvio detected 0% similarity so there should be no copyright infringement. This is a notable musician who will appear in Billboard. Would you be willing to let me know what I should do or rewrite to have the page reinstated? MusicWizard7 (talk) 09:02, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, MusicWizard7,

Well, according to a very experienced editor, there was content on the article taken from https://danielfishermusic.com/bio webpage. There were not many edits to this page so I think the best solution for you is to write a new article from scratch in your own words in Draft space. The main space of the project is carefully patrolled by editors who tag pages for deletion for promotional language, copyright violations, advertising, for lack of notability and other unacceptable aspects. The atmosphere in Draft space is more forgiving and we allow for imperfect articles to improve over time and become better articles. It would help if you would submit a draft for review with our Articles for Creation who will review the draft and let you know if there are any problems that might lead to deletion. But please, do not borrow any content from any sources or closely paraphrase content either (just changing a word here and there). Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:01, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

There was one paraphrased paragraph, so upon the editor's concerns, I deleted it right away. What was left was fully original and written from scratch. Would you be willing to reinstate the article? MusicWizard7 (talk) 12:56, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Santadas Kathiababa's editing is important.

Why are you repeatedly deleting the important edit of Santadas Kathiababa. He was one of the important saints of Hinduism. He is the leader of the Nimbarka community of Hinduism around the world and the spiritual leader of the Hare Krishna movement. This edit is important to Wikipedia. His life was discussed in various media. So please make an edit of Santadas Kathiababa on Wikipedia. Srabanta Deb (talk) 10:37, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Srabanta Deb,

I don't know why you are coming to talk to me. I have never edited Santadas Kathiababa. I have never deleted Santadas Kathiababa. I didn't comment or close either Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Santadas Kathiababa or Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Santadas Kathiababa (2nd nomination). So, I don't know what you think I'm responsible for.

I have only two suggestions. If you want an article on Santadas Kathiababa on Wikipedia, write a draft article and submit it for review to Articles for Creation. An experienced AFC reviewer can asses your draft and advise you on where you need to improve it. Read the comments on both AFDs and you can see what problems editors had with the article that was deleted. Try to address these issues in your next draft so that there is no reason to nominate it for deletion again. You can't just claim that someone is important, you have to demonstrate why they are important by citing reliable, secondary sources that state this is so.

If you want a place to complain about Wikipedia policies, then, go to the Teahouse with your questions and perhaps someone there can better explain Wikipedia policy about deletion and AFD discussions. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:51, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs recorded by Armaan Malik

Hi! Re Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs recorded by Armaan Malik, I think your deletion of the article was closed too early given that the nominination relied on one single argument for deletion. Recent nominations of similar pages of songs recorded by singers (some opened on the same day) are getting wide support to be kept (this one, to name one), and this one would probably have gotten the same response had it not been deleted then.

Can you help us by restoring it or the nomination? Thank you, Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:53, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Shahid

Well, this discussion ran for 7 days so it wasn't closed too early. But since you requested it, I'll revert my closure, restore the article and relist it for another week. Please know that even with a relist, an AFD discussion that runs over 7 days can be closed at any time, it doesn't guarantee that it will be discussed for another 7 days. But I'll let another administrator close this. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:42, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello

Hi can you take a look at this user https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/185.237.17.44 . This user reverts my edits (that I provided sources) for no reason at all. S.G ReDark (talk) 15:28, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, S.G ReDark,

I've been out most of the day and it looks like admin discospinster already go to this and blocked this editor. If you believe vandalism is being done, first, post a warning notice on the editor's talk page (this is easy using Twinkle) and if they continue, report them at WP:AIV. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:38, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Draft:AMU Henry Smalls

I don't know why my page was deleted, actually, let me rephrase that. I don't know why I can't make a page about myself. I just want people to know about more about me. I'm asking you to please, undelete my article, or send me a copy of my article. I worked hard on this and it hurts to let it go. I don't have this anywhere else and I can't remember what I wrote. I was offline the whole time and it hurts that this would happen without me knowing. Can you please send me the data? HenrySmalls17 (talk) 18:27, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, HenrySmalls17,

You can write your autobiography but I can guarantee that it will be deleted. You need to meet Wikipedia's standards for notability to have an article. There are film & TV actors, politicians, scientists, authors, artists & performers, professional athletes, professors, musicians, CEOs, attorneys, etc., people who have a high public profile, who don't meet Wikipedia's notability requirements. Notability is something that is debated endlessly all day on Wikipedia at Articles for Deletion. Look over some of the discussions there and you can see there are lots of articles that exist on Wikipedia that are subsequently deleted because the individuals lack notability. Every day, I must delete over a dozen articles on different rappers. We get hundreds of drafts about rappers from all over the world, not just rappers in the U.S. but from all over Europe, Asia and Africa. I'm sure you are a good person, doing great work, but you must be exceptional and you must have your accomplishments verified by reliable, secondary sources to warrant an article on Wikipedia.

If you enable email on your account (set this up in your Preferences), then I can send you the content that was deleted. And please do not feel offended that you don't have an article about yourself on Wikipedia....yet. Now if you are ever discussed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Science, Billboard, Rolling Stone or any other major publication, then probably someone else will write an article about you.

I hope you stick around and do what the rest of us do, work on improving articles about subjects other than ourselves! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:35, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

I just confirmed my e-mail address HenrySmalls17 (talk) 22:47, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

 Done. Sorry for the delay, HenrySmalls17. I get caught up in my work here and off-line activities. I wish you luck in your music career. Hopefully, if you have some success, you'll find an article about you on Wikipedia! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:42, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello

Hy, hope you are well, could you please semi protect this page [[10]], this new ip [[11]] made so many changes on it (removed sourced material, made dead links etc. in short term vandalized it) that it took me several edits to restore back to previous version and to remove all the dead links. Thank you. Theonewithreason (talk) 06:29 16.June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Theonewithreason,

I see that you reverted their primary edit and they came back on a different IP address to make minor edits today. Vandalism has a very specific meaning on Wikipedia, policy staes that it deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free encyclopedia, in a variety of languages, presenting the sum of all human knowledge. While their edits might not have improved the article, I don't see repeated attempts to knowingly damage the article, it looks like they have a very specific POV that might not be neutral. It's not effective to block an editor who jumps from one IP address to another quite easily and I don't see repeated efforts to damage this article. But it's impossible to talk with an IP editor who changes addresses with every edit, otherwise I'd say start a talk page discussion.

I'm not going to protect the article today but you continue to see major edits that you believe falsify information or reflect a nationalistic POV, then come back to me or go to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection and ask for page protection. The admins who patrol RPP will want to see persistent edits that are clearly vandalism before they will issue protection and it will like be short-term, just for a day or two. Thank you for your vigilance and your efforts to keep the article accurate. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:31, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Liz ^{thank you for noticing that the ip uses different addresses for vandalising, I did ask for page protection but still no answer, meanwhile, there is another ip who actually reverted the rest of edits that me and another editor did not manage to do before, restoring it back to the WP:stable but still it is a bit strange so many ip in few days. That is why i am asking for page protection. Theonewithreason (talk) 04:16 17.June 2022 (UTC)}

Liz, did you delete my comment at Talk:Bernard Lewis bibliography#Use of table vs. list?

I'm pretty sure I left a reply to 2A00:7C40:C210:221:E009:BC7A:345E:62C1's there. I understand the result of the AfD was keep, but surely that wouldn't be grounds for deleting wp:civil comments, would it? — Guarapiranga ☎ 06:51, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Guarapiranga,

I looked through the page history of Talk:Bernard Lewis bibliography and don't see any comments by you on that page. I looked to see if there are any deleted comments for that page but there aren't any. Then I went through both your contributions and deleted contributions and can't see where you made any edits to that page at all, saved or deleted. I'm guessing you wrote out a response and didn't publish it. This can happen to me sometimes when I navigate out of a page to check a policy page or another article to get a reference or find a link I want to add to my comment. Since nothing had been saved, there is no way to recover whatever your comment was. I wish I could help you out and if I had accidentally deleted your words I would immediately restore them but I can't find anything. Sorry. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:19, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

I'm guessing you wrote out a response and didn't publish it.
It's quite possible. I only asked you bc I saw you closed the AfD. Thanks for following it up, Liz. — Guarapiranga ☎ 01:15, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Terribly sorry, Liz, just found I had replied here, not there. — Guarapiranga ☎ 02:57, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Well, Guarapiranga, I'm glad you figured that out. Those little things ("I know I commented SOMEWHERE!") can drive you mad! It happens to me with certain points of policy I need to refer to and I know I've read the reference many times but I can't find the exact page where that content is. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:04, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Deleted EdUBudgie Linux draft - no idea why

Liz - it appears you deleted th EdUBudgie Linux DRAFT page. I created this page, bookmarked it, and intended to come back to fill it in as soon as the webpage was updated. Then I received an email that this was deleted. It was a draft - my understanding was that draft pages can exist for some time - I thought that I had read something like 6 months before they were deleted. Is that incorrect? What is the timeframe then for drafts to exist before they are deleted? It has been one month. Can you please explain why this draft was deleted as it is something that I had intended to add to and do not understand why this has happened? "Deletion of old drafts Drafts that have not been edited in six months may be deleted under criterion for speedy deletion G13. Most G13 nominations for deletion are done by bots or users using Twinkle or AFCH, processes that inform the draft creator on their talk page. Pages deleted under G13 may be restored upon request at WP:REFUND (see Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion/G13)."

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Teacheradamodix (talk • contribs) 08:14, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Teacheradamodix,

I have restored Draft:EdUBudgie Linux. It was tagged for deletion as a "test page" because it had no content. Many editors create pages as test edits and never come back to them so I assume that's what the tagging editor thought. You might put some content on the page so that this mistake won't happen again. As for your question about draft, drafts are considered "stale" if it has been at least 6 months since a human being has edited them (bot edits don't count). But, as in this case, they can be deleted sooner if the page is blank. If you could just put some content on the page, hopefully relevant to the article you plan on writing, that would demonstrate to our page patrollers that someone is working on a draft on this subject, that would help. Sorry about the unexpected deletion and good luck with your article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:11, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

OK, I understand. Sorry, I freaked out for a moment there thinking that perhaps it meant that I couldn't re-open the page with that name at all and that it was gone forever etc etc etc.

I am new to this and joined specifically for this article, but I may edit others as you do in the future if this goes well.

I will add something to the page soon so that it isn't blank as you recommended. Thank you for the help and sorry for the extra efforts. Have a great weekend! Teacheradamodix (talk) 08:21, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Teacheradamodix, you're completely justified in freaking out. We really leave drafts alone, for the most part, unless there are copyright violations or if they are promotional or advertising, until they hit that "6 months of inactivity" mark. I'd also question an admin if a draft I was working on was unexpectedly deleted. I'm glad you came to me and I hope your work turns out to be a great article once you get all of the content and refernces that you need. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:19, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Racism in Myanmar (June 17)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by TipsyElephant were:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Racism in Myanmar and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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TipsyElephant (talk) 13:36, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

AfC and G6

Hi Liz! I hope you are doing well. I noticed you have left notes to AfC reviewers asking them to cleanup drafts to make them "mainspace ready" before requesting a redirect be deleted. However, that is not how AfC works. The cleanup does not occur until the draft is accepted and moved to mainspace. This is done essentially all in one click: cleanup (removes previous declines, AfC comments, the pending submission template, etc.), moves it, adds WikiProjects, categories, etc.). We cannot accept a draft/move it, until the redirect is deleted. Does that make sense? S0091 (talk) 21:13, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, S0091,

Thanks for the information but I don't really understand. It is only a minority of draft space page move requests that I encounter that still contain all of the AFC content on them. Most of the time, they are "clean", they look exactly like main space articles so it is no problem to move them. Why are some drafts polished and ready to be moved while others look like they haven't even been reviewed yet?

If there is still a "review in process" template at the top of the page, how do I know that the draft has been accepted? I encounter new editors all of the time that say their drafts have been AFC approved and want them moved into main space when the drafts often haven't even been reviewed yet, much less approved. Is there a way that an editor can "approve" a draft and later move it to main space? This would be very helpful.

If this is not possible, then I think the solution is just for me to leave these pages alone and not untag them. I'll let an admin who is more familiar with the AFC process to take action on them. There really should be a way that the AFC reviewer can say the draft is approved and is in process of being finalized so patrolling admins can identify an approved draft from one that hasn't been approved. But, like I said, I'll just let them be. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:27, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Without seeing examples, I cannot say why some are clean other than maybe they are not AfC submissions. There was actually a new CSD template created back in February to address your concerns (at least in part), {{db-afc-move}} which should make it clear it is a request from an AfC reviewer. However, absent that, you can check to see if they are an AfC reviewer at WP:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants. I generally state in my CSD edit summary why I am requesting the deletion (to accept such-and-such draft), then I add an AfC comment on the draft stating I waiting for a redirect to be deleted in order to accept but not sure what other AfC reviewers do.

There is no way for an AfC reviewer accept a draft without actually moving it because that is part of the accept, unless they choose to do all the things the script does automatically manually, which is not desirable of course. Yeah, if you are not comfortable doing the deletion then probably best to skip them unless you want to go through the extra steps to verify it is an AfC reviewer request, which is also not desirable. Its one of those situation where I wish you could see what I see and you wish I could see what you see. I think we both would have an "oh yeah...makes total sense" moment for our different perspectives. S0091 (talk) 22:08, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Okay, S0091. This is helpful, I'll look at the template. Two things occur to me. With the "clean" page moves I'm referring to, the admin is being asked to delete the redirect (it usually is a redirect) and move the draft in one click. But what you are talking about is the admin deleting the page and then the AFC reviewer doing the page move. Secondly, I can also see who is tagging the redirect page for deletion and see if it is an AFC reviewer vs. a regular editor. But, mostly, I think I'll just pass on taking action if things are unclear to me and just not tell anyone want they should or shouldn't be doing which I think was your original complaint! I'm sorry if I was offering advice to any AFC reviewers that was contradictory to the best practices you all follow. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:14, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Liz, you are a very conscientious admin and were giving correct advice based on your experience with the vast majority of situations you deal with, which I now understand from your comments. No need to apologize! Thanks for taking the time to discuss. :) S0091 (talk) 22:28, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

excessive vandalism

excessive vandalism in List of most-streamed songs on Spotify Tirso Gutiérrez (talk) 22:52, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Tirso Gutiérrez,

You have made the most edits to that page in recent days (by far the most), and I don't see a lot of vandalism that has been reverted. Remember, except for a small group of protected pages, anyone can edit Wikipedia and can contribute to this article in ways that you disagree with. That's why we have talk pages, so editors can discuss changes where there is disagreement. Don't be reluctant to start a talk page discussion if you find an edit of yours reverted and you what to discuss it. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:35, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Olympian closures

Hi Liz,

Regarding your closures of those discussions as "redirect", can I ask why you closed them as "redirect" rather than "delete"? I am not seeing a consensus there for redirection - for example, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kurt Reichenbach I say a redirect is not supported due to WP:R#DELETE #1 (three other Kurt Reichenbach's are mentioned on Wikipedia, any one of which it would be reasonable for a reader to be searching for, and the first two are probably more likely to be searched for than the Olympian - the commander of various U-Boats, the Swiss Mixed curling champion, or the singer). This argument was not addressed by the sole editor who supported redirection, while it was convincing to the other responding editor. BilledMammal (talk) 02:24, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker): I think BilledMammal has a valid point here and I don't believe the closure was appropriate, especially considering the two participating editors are now subject to an arbcom case in relation to deletion discussions. I'd suggest self-reverting and relisting as it isn't a clear consensus. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:54, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, BilledMammal & Bungle,

You make some valid points. I'll revert and relist this discussion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:18, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

 Done Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:29, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

DeaconShotFire unblock

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 17:40, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Deepfriedokra,

Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to refresh my memory on this case. I'm sure glad that you are handling so many unblock requests these days, you seem to have a better BS detector than I have. Not talking about this specific case but in general. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:31, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello Liz, I hope you are well. I just wanted to thank you for the help you gave me back in August 2020 when I set this account up but wanted to delete it. You helped me understand that whilst deleting accounts is impossible on MediaWiki, I could do stuff like delete my user page and blank my talk. In the end, I decided to stick around and now I am a pending changes reviewer, patrolling recent changes with RedWarn and hopefully soon I will be a roll backer. I have completely got to grips with the Wikipedia community and policies and I have really enjoyed contributing. I will be continuing to improve Wikipedia for a long time, it is good. Thank you again. Kind regards, Blanchey (talk) 17:05, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Deleting ‘The Spoof.com’ draft page

I received your message regarding deletion of my draft article. I have nothing to add to make the article meet publication requirements (it was my first attempt at writing a Wikipedia article.) Go ahead and delete it.

MvT (talk) 19:41, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Undeletion request

I am requesting undeletion of Negus Nurse article. No consensus reached.Capture2015 (talk) 05:34, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Capture2015,

This AFD closed as a Soft Deletion which means that the article can be restored upon request. So, I have done this. Please consider the criticisms of the article in the AFD and work on improving it. The article can easily be nominated for 2nd AFD and, in that case, there will be no second Soft Deletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:46, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Liz. I've got a question about this just out of personal curiosity. Should {{Old prod}} or {{Old XfD multi}} be added to the talk pages of articles which are soft-deleted (like in this case) via AFD, but then are subsequently restored. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:13, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Marchjuly,

What a good question. I think {{Old XfD multi}} would be more appropriate. Are you very adept with templates? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:17, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

I don't think I'd consider myself adept, but I gave it go and added the "Old XfD multi" template to Talk:Negus Nurse. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:24, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Liz,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 14:10, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Follow up: undeletion request

Hello, Liz. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Hello Liz, my reply to you above, regarding article Daniel Fisher (composer), may have gotten lost in the shuffle. When you have a moment, would you have a look at my undeletion request? Everything should be in order. MusicWizard7 (talk) 12:47, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, MusicWizard7,

Well, I asked you if you'd be willing to submit it to AFC because of previous copyright problems and you didn't answer that question. I don't want to restore a page that you'l move back to main space and it will just get deleted again for any number of reasons. Then someone comes to my talk page asking me why I restored a bad article!

I'm sorry for the delay in my reply though. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:02, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello Liz, Apologies that you were waiting for my answer to that question. I would prefer to avoid AFC because (after my edit) 100% of the article was written from scratch and there are no copyright issues. Thus, if you could restore the page, that would be appreciated and I think most efficient. Thank you! MusicWizard7 (talk) 16:59, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, MusicWizard7,

You're not telling me what I was hoping to hear. And, I'm going to tell you something that you probably don't want to hear: I've restored the article to Draft space, you can find it at Draft:Daniel Fisher (composer).

I advise you to submit it for review to AFC. I can almost guarantee you that if you don't improve the article, if you move it directly back into main space of the project, it will likely to be tagged for deletion again. We have very vigilant page patrollers. And it will be more difficult to restore the page a second time if it gets deleted again. I can't force you to take my advice, I'm just telling you what I've seen over the past 9 years I've been editing here when I've seen this situation happen. Articles that are deleted and restored, get deleted again if the reason for the first deletion aren't addressed and the article improved. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:05, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Turkupt13

Hi @Liz, if you get some time, please can you help me in checking the articles that I've listed at WP:CCI#Turkupt13. The user shared a document on VRTS that says a number of over 55 articles published on turkistantravel website are freely licensed and could be used on Wikipedia. The articles that I've listed have been deleted for copyright violation of this website. I'd be glad if you assist me in this. Thanks. ─ The Aafī ^(talk) 06:22, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, TheAafi,

I've never done any work at WP:CCI so I'm afraid I really wouldn't know what I'm doing. As far as copyright violations go, I just check pages that have been tagged as CSD G12 to make sure the tag is appropriate. I work a lot with draft pages so if I see something that looks copied, I'll check that but I don't know how you look at past, partial edits for copyright violations and how you resolve them. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:08, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps the best person I should seek help from would be Diannaa from whom I've learnt a lot about copyright. ─ The Aafī on Mobile ^(talk) 20:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

I just see C.Fred has restored one article that they had deleted. ─ The Aafī ^(talk) 20:09, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

The best thing to do is to ask the admin who deleted each article to restore it. Also, a {{ticket confirmation}} template will need to be added to the talk page of each restored article. — Diannaa (talk) 21:14, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

This is best. I've reached to all the deleting admins. I'd definitely be adding permissions on the talk pages. Thanks for the idea! ─ The Aafī ^(talk) 21:35, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Liz,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 14850 articles, as of 12:00, 5 January 2025 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

Reminders

• Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
• If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
• If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soumendu Lahiri (2nd nomination)

Respected Madam, I created an article on Soumendu Lahiri(Bengali Poet & Guitarist) which has been nominated for deletion, but I was not notified by the editor who tagged the page. Madam I have read wiki guidelines on notability and after that I created this article on this poet who got honor from The Hon'ble Governor of West Bengal, India. Soumendu Lahiri has some independent books which have ISBN. He has also been the subject of some news articles & his literary works have been published on renowned newspapers. But this page has been nominated for deletion and please permit me to mention that the person who tagged the page for deletion is not giving any satisfactory answer. You please see the afd debate as I'm not getting satisfactory answer from the person who tagged for deletion. Point to be noted that he is an Administrator of Bengali Wikipedia where from the page of Soumendu Lahiri has been deleted very recently. But the page had enough references to be remained. Respected Madam, I beg to you to please check the article Soumendu Lahiri on English Wikipedia and solve the matter. With Best Regards --- Tbengalieditor > Talk 12:58, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Tbengalieditor,

I'm not going to go into personal matters or a feud between you and another editor. But the problem that I see in this AFD nomination is that it is an argument between you, the article creator, and the AFD nominator. It needs feedback from other editors who can also evaluate the sources. So, I've relisted the AFD discussion for another week and hopefully more editors will weigh in.

I'm not a content creator but my suggestion to you, besides only providing high quality sources (a few reliable sources are better than many unreliable ones) is to reduce the Honors section to just the primary, prestigious awards he might have received. You don't need to mention every acknowledgment he has gotten and that section is generally only included for the most well-known authors. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:50, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Ma'am may I delete or reduce the honor section? Regards --- Tbengalieditor > Talk 03:06, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Well, in my experience, Tbengalieditor, it's better to have a short, to-the-point article, listing the most prominent, well sourced aspects of someone's career than to have a longer article with a reference from every time they were ever mentioned in the media. Concise is better than too long and padded with bad citations. You can save all of those other honors for when you write a book about them. Unless they won a Nobel prize, were elected Prime Minister or cured cancer, the top 2-3 honors is sufficient to show that they might have had a distinguished career. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:54, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Ok Ma'am I will reduce extra details from recognition section and will only keep the most important parts. Regards - Tbengalieditor > Talk 19:00, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

CSD G4 candidate

Thought you might be interested: I tagged Draft:Las Cruces Academy with CSD G4 template. Don't know why I didn't think of it before... Cheers! ─ Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 18:12, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Grand'mere Eugene,

Well, actually, there is disagreement among administrators whether or not CSD G4 applies to Draft space. Some admins say, "Absolutely not!" while other admins are less strict about it. The idea here is that the only way an AFD deletion decision can be overcome is to write a superior draft and submit it for review to WP:AFC. Since many AFDs were years ago and might have had few participants, there must be a way for new editors to address problems that were brought up in an AFD discussion and write a better article and Draft space is where this can be done. This situation is not true for the draft you tagged for deletion as it looks like the page creator had one copy of the article in main space and one copy in Draft space. Sometimes in these cases the admin closing the AFD discussion will delete the draft at the same time but not in this instance.

My own inclination is, as long as there is no problematic content, leave drafts alone if it looks like the page creator has stopped their work on it and let them "age out" as CSD G13s in six months. Then, if the editor returns one day, the page can be restored and the editor can try to write a stronger article. But that's just my point of view and I always hope that editors can learn from their unsuccessful efforts and write better articles with fewer problems...but the reality though is that most people facing the deletion of their articles just leave Wikipedia and do something else with their time. While I'm with most Wikipedia editors and want more, high quality articles added to the project, I can understand their frustration with meeting all of the requirements of our system. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:03, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, that's helpful. — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 22:11, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Band of Pride AfD

Hey, not sure how I missed this AfD. I haven't had time to do a full search yet, but just a quick search of newspapers.com revealed potential sources like this, this, this, this, this, and this that really should have been brought forward at the AfD. Thanks!! Ejgreen77 (talk) 04:25, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Ejgreen77,

The AFD closed as Soft Delete so I've restored it for you. Please feel free to add some superior sources to the article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:42, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!!! Ejgreen77 (talk) 17:06, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Pringle and Bardawil

Hi Liz. I see you deleted the article on Qasr Bardawil, and I guess also the ones on Denys Pringle and Paul Deschamps, because the one who created them is blocked. Technically more than correct, but I do miss the material on the two researchers. I would happily recreate those two articles, based on the pre-existing but deleted work, but I don't know how to access it. Can you please help out? The blocked editor was in no way someone I could agree with on many topics, the Qasr Bardawil article had no merit (a mere spin-off of the al-'Al Castle material), but I was indeed very happy for having the other two, stubs as they were. Thank you! Arminden (talk) 05:07, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Arminden,

I think I'm a little slow this morning but it's not clear to me exactly what you are asking for. Were you seeking restoration of the articles? Did you want me to pull out the references from the deleted pages, put them on a new draft page so you could write a new article from scratch? I did look at one of the pages and see that yuo had edited the page so if you made a substantial contribution (which is difficult to judge on a deleted page), then that would be grounds for restoring it.

If you could be a bit more specific then I could tell you whether or not it is possible. Remember, all I can do is say "No" so it doesn't hurt to ask. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:48, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Liz, and thanks. Yes, I would appreciate having access to the Bardawil, Pringle and Deschamps material as it was before deletion, if possible. Sorry, I don't know what the rules are, but I felt the principle were to offer information rather than punish wrongdoers, especially if articles created by them went on being edited by legit editors. I miss the 2 articles on Pringle and Deschamps, and I'd be happy to rewrite them (and salvage a small bit from Bardawil and move it to al-'Al), but starting from scratch after they'd already been there and taken time and work feels Sisyphean and cuts down my enthusiasm to zero. If you had pinged me before they were gone, I'd have done it while they were still there. What can be done now please? Thank you and have a great Sunday! Arminden (talk) 10:03, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi User:Arminden, yeah, I have the same problem as you. After I asked over here, the Pringle article thankfully got undeleted. I would wish for those other articles mentioned also be undeleted, perhaps moved to Draft-space? cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:24, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Arminden and Huldra,

I'm sorry for the delay in responding but I find if I don't respond immediately to talk page messages, the messages move up the page and I lose track of them.

I have restored Qasr Bardawil and moved it to Draft:Qasr Bardawil. I'm afraid if the article is in main space, it will just be tagged for deletion again unless more substantial contributions are made to the draft. I'm reluctant to restore Paul Deschamps because the page was only edited by the sockpuppet and it was deleted by another administrator. Thank you for taking an extra step, Huldra, to help Arminden out with Denys Pringle. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:14, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks to you both. I'm on a holiday, but will be back soon.

Regarding Deschamps: whatever means of not starting from scratch would do. I never knew about draft space, it's as good as any other method. If you place the deleted material here at the bottom for a while until I copy it, or send it by email, or in any other way: thank you Liz, and I'll take it from there. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 07:07, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

thanks, Liz, for moving Qasr Bardawil to draft. Is it possible to do the same for:

• Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey, important (historic) Crusader scholar; his work is used many places on en.wp
• Hauran Sanjak; important regional entity in the Ottoman Empire, (like Nablus Sanjak, Gaza Sanjak and Safed Sanjak), cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:48, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Liz. Thanks for taking the time. Draft:Qasr Bardawil: I only wanted to save whatever can be used for al-'Al Castle, which is where practically all of the material comes from anyway. The talk-page is of more interest to me than the draft article itself.

In contrast to that, the Paul Deschamps stump is certainly worth quarrying for a new start - French Wiki has a nice article on him. Could you please dump whatever Alas2022 had already written onto my talk-page, and I'll take it from there, together with Huldra? I promise not to start anew without substantial changes to Alas's material, so as to justify a new article.

I also fully support Huldra's other proposals, these are worthy topics constantly popping up. Thanks again! Arminden (talk) 14:48, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

A hand please?

Hello @Liz. I've seen you around at AFD, so your familiar name and recently active status means I have reached out to you for an admin perspective. I do a little 'lite' new page patrolling, tagging really low hanging fruit with CSD11 tags. Today I tagged Draft: Govind Dholakia, which by the way, has already been deleted thrice. The author, @Brakshit23 has left a polite but misguided note on my talk page about it's tagging. Normally I'd just respond, but last time someone tagged the article (an admin named JBW), immediately complained to JBW here, then before JBW could resolve it escalated to ANI. So, hoping you would please have a word with this user and see if we cannot end this salting>complain>delete cycle. Thanks, Max. MaxnaCarta (talk) 06:36, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Hie Max.. Appreciate your words and thanks once again to provide your inputs. I wrote that way harsh because it was my 1st proper contribution. But this time i have tried my bit as per the shared guidelines and shared knowledge. Please spare a bit time. read the article once and please share your views. this time its way simpler, neutral and without any biasness. please Brakshit23 (talk) 07:05, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, MaxnaCarta (and Brakshit23),

Although articles on this subject have been deleted before, and the main space page, Govind Dholakia, is protected from recreation of the article, your CSD tagging was reviewed and removed by an administrator as you know by their comment on your User talk page. Do not retag the draft unless you find it meets a different criteria for deletion such as copyright infringment. Even though past versions of this article have been deleted before, we don't normally prevent future, different versions from being created unless they are blatant advertising, which an admin decided this was not.

I don't see any threats or escalations made in their talk page comment to you so I don't see any misconduct occurring except an editor reaching out to discuss your deletion tagging of a page they created. While articles on this subject have been deleted in the past, unless recreation of a draft is prevented by page protection, editors have a right to try again. Brakshit23 will have to receive AFC reviewer approval to move this draft into main space after the page protection is lifted so I don't think you need to be concerned about this draft any longer.

I would advise you to let this one go and continue your good work and move on to reviewing some main space pages. We allow a lot of experimentation and article development in Draft space, more than is permitted in main space, so I think your efforts are better spent tagging promotional or copyright-violating content in main space than in reviewing drafts. We don't expect drafts to be perfect and meet Wikipedia standards which is why about half of the speedy deletion criteria (the CSD "A" ones) are only for main space articles, they don't apply to Draft space pages. I hope this has alleviated some of your concerns. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:23, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Liz. MaxnaCarta (talk) 23:28, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Liz. Thanks MaxnaCarta.

Liz Currently i am trying to improve draft in draft space and get approval in review. please refer this one and suggest me if something to correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Govind_Dholakia Brakshit23 (talk) 08:56, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Yamata Amasung Keibu Keioiba

I had pinged you at WP:Requests for undeletion#Yamata Amasung Keibu Keioiba. Jay (talk) 07:15, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Jay,

Thanks for letting me know. I've taken care for it. Have a great weekend. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:00, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SMP Negeri 1 Kemangkon

Hi Liz, thanks for the closure there, but I actually nominated two articles for deletion in that AFD ... did I not make that clear enough? I've gone and deleted the second one, SD Negeri 1 Pegandekan, myself ... I don't think that's a problem even if I nominated it because (a) you closed the AFD and (b) it's the worst of the two articles in that deletion discussion ... it's just about an elementary school. If you want to undelete/redelete it or something, be my guest. Graham87 15:11, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Graham,

Thanks for letting me know. I think it was a combination of relying too much on XfDCloser to do all of the work and having on-and-off computer problems for most of yesterday evening. I'll look more carefully in the future for additional pages proposed for deletion that are mentioned within the nomination statement. And maybe you can list them all together at the top of the nomination statement? Sorry for the mix-up. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:53, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Tetea Hmar

The page I created was deleted though I explained the purpose as: "This page should not be speedily deleted because it is meant for a redirect to Lalnghinglova Hmar, who in the media is popularly known by the name Tetea Hmar." I don't know what exactly went wrong with mu editing, but it had todo with the tool. In fact, the person is more popular as Tetea in his native community, and a redirect may be useful. Chhandama (talk) 06:03, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Chhandama,

Are you talking about Tetea Hmar? This page was blank with just a broken redirect. Feel free to recreate a new redirect page but please, target it to an existing article, do not have a broken redirect as that will just get deleted. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:44, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Yes, and thanks. Chhandama (talk) 04:02, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

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Clayola Brown

This article was written by me. However, it does not appear here. I'd appreciate, if you could spare some time to look into this matter. Regards. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 17:37, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Dr.Pinsky,

I'm no expert on https://xtools.wmflabs.org/! But if looks like Nathan2055 made the first edit on this page so he is given credit as the page creator...it isn't who added the most content to the article but who created or started the page who is given credit as article creator as far as I can tell.

If you have further questions, I recommend going to Wikipedia:Help desk or Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) where someone with technical knowledge about Wikipedia features and tools might be able to offer you some advice. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:20, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Why did I get this notification if Nathan2055 was credited as the author of the article? I'm perplexed. Thanks. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 18:51, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Dr.Pinsky,

Because the system is counter intuitive? For example, I look at expiring drafts all day and if I see one that looks promising, I submit it for review to AFC. So, when it gets declined or accepted, AFC notifies me, the person who submitted the draft, not the article creator. I've asked them about this but this is how the system is set up so I just accept that I get credit or rejection for draft articles I didn't write simply because I added an AFC submit tag to the page. I know this isn't a great explanation for why things work the way they do around here but I hope it does explain why you received a notification.

What I run into often is, Editor A writes an article. It is not in good shape. So, Editor B moves the article to Draft space and tags the original page for CSD R2 deletion. But, before an admin can delete the page, Editor A removes the speedy deletion tag and cuts and pastes the article back on to the main space page. Now, if this page gets deleted later, Editor B will receive the notification even though they didn't write the article but they created the page when they made it into a redirect to Draft space. So, I get get questions from page patrollers all of the time, "Why are you notifying me of this article tagged for deletion, I didn't write it!" But, as helpful as it is, Twinkle is also a little dumb and just looks for who made the first edit to the page. It looks like that is what happened with Clayola Brown, Nathan2055 moved the page from your User space to Draft space, creating a redirect and then an article was built on top of that redirect page.

I don't know if you keep count of these things on your User page but I think you can still list yourself as the article creator on your User page as it does look like you were the main contributor to the article (even if xtools doesn't recognize this fact!). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:14, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Liz. Much appreciated. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 19:20, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Dr.Pinsky: This happened because Nathan2055 moved a previous sandbox you had developed to Draft space before accepting, which "created" a redirect for navigational purposes. Dr.Pinsky created an article from this newly created history, so it is not showing in xtools, which is merely going by the first edit in the history. The AFC acceptance notification went to Dr.Pinsky because of who actually submits the article to be accepted. A history split for the first two revisions can be requested using {{History split}} at the top of Clayola Brown, or posting at WP:Requests for history merge (specifying you actually want a split, not merge). Or Liz (or any admin), could just delete the first two revisions from the history... I don't think you really need to split the history to preserve two revisions of a redirect in your own sandbox that were only helping with navigation (essentially a missed WP:U1 prior to new sandboxing). -2pou (talk) 19:22, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

@2pou: Much obliged. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 07:57, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Your AfC query

You might not check back at the AfC talk and I know your ping notifications are out of control so posting my comment here as well:

The acceptance notice is part of the AfC script and as far as I know not an option. The editors are not "purposefully" posting it their talk page like you do with most other notices. The more you and I discuss AfC the more I am recognizing how different it is from other processes. S0091 (talk) 23:42, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, S0091,

You are right on the money, I don't look at my ping notifications. It gets up to 99+, I try to clear it and soon it is back up to 99+ again. Doing this means that I miss out a lot on discussions but I just don't want to spend my time on Wikipedia following pings around to different pages when there is so much work to keep me busy.

I appreciate your explanation and that of other AFC reviewers. It kind of leaves the question of why an AFC reviewer would submit a draft (their own or someone else's) for review in order to give it approval when they could just move the page to main space. But maybe receiving that note of approval means a lot to people even when you are giving it to yourself! I know I think twice about tagging a page for deletion if I see in the page history that the article has gotten a positive AFC review so it can matter. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:57, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Deletion Review: Pauline Preterism

Hi! I would like to request for the undeletion of Pauline Preterism page and change its title to Pauline Eschatology since it's not a neologism. Also, it won't appear as an original work and it can be properly sourced. Please restore the page so that I can make edits to it. Thank you. Transformium (talk) 07:37, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Transformium,

I closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pauline Preterism as "Delete" based on the discussion I reviewed. I can't overturn this decision based on my own opinion. If you believe that my assessment was incorrect, you can file a notice at Wikipedia:Deletion review and ask for my decision to be reviewed.

The only way I know to overcome an AFD deletion decision is to write a draft article, which addresses the problems editors found with the original article, and submit it for review with Articles for Creation. However, if you write a new version of this article and put it back in the main space of the project, it will be tagged for speedy deletion CSD G4 as the recreation of an article deleted in an AFD discussion. Going through AFC would give you a better chance at creating a better version of this article. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:23, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the very useful info. Keep up the good work. Transformium (talk) 17:58, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Anthonie Palamedesz.

Hi Liz. The situation in the Anthonie Palamedesz. article is a little more complex than first appears, and you are not the only one who assumed (quite understandably) that the full stop at the end was a typo. However, as reliable sources indicate, his name does end with a full stop. Because we now have an open RfD which people, including myself, have commented on, it is not easy to sort this out. However, as the page mover, and the one who opened the RfD, you can resolve this quite quickly by reverting your page move, and withdrawing the RfD: Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2022_June_23#Anthonie_Palamedesz.. (Be aware, the most recent comment shows some frustration with your action, and your delay in responding to my earlier pings. I think the comment is out of order, though I understand the frustration that engendered the comment.) If you prefer, you could just indicate here that you agree that the RfD should be withdrawn, and I'll do the paper work. Regards. SilkTork (talk) 13:48, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, SilkTork,

I have withdrawn my RFD proposal and closed the discussion. I don't check my pings since it always looks like I have over 100 and I'd rather spend my time doing work than checking every time my username is mentioned. As for my talk page, I check it at the end of the day and respond to messages then.

There was an unexpected period at the end of a person's name. It seemed like a typo. I see mistakes like this occasionally and the pages are typically deleted at CSD as incorrect titles. It happens all of the time with category titles which seem to be misspelled frequently. I don't understand why a simple RFD proposal would elicit this kind of intense emotional reaction and backlash at the nominator. The discussion was obviously going to be closed at Keep on Thursday so I don't understand the urgency of all this and the bewildering claim that by initiating a discussion, I had caused "damage". At AFD, terrible comments are made about the subject of articles being proposed for deletion, that they are unimportant, that they are forgettable, that they are academics or athletes who had meaningless careers...this was a proposal about what I thought was a misplaced period! I didn't realize that this happens with some languages and proper names but the reaction to this RFD was completely over-the-top and I clearly hit a nerve that is bigger than my simple proposal. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:59, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

I also do not know why I was singled out on this subject. Both Primefac and Praxidicae moved this article to a title without the period because they also thought it was a typo. I think insisting on having a period at the end of his name on the main article title will cause continued move-warring. Best to keep that page as a redirect. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:32, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

I understand what you're saying Liz. However, as we name articles after what reliable sources say, then the article should be Anthonie Palamedesz. while Anthonie Palamedesz should be the redirect; the way to avoid future inappropriate page moves is to lock the page at that name, so only admins can move it. And, faced with a lock, admins will think twice before doing the move, realising that the name is not a typo as it first appears. Thanks for closing the RfD. I'll do the page move and lock. SilkTork (talk) 10:58, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Can you take a look at...?

Hello Liz. I hope you are having a good day. While I was patrolling Special:NewPages, I came across Draft:Notabot. The edit summary for when it was created contained racist material. I thought it would be an attack page, but it was a declined blank submission to AfC. I was wondering if there was anything you, as an administrator, can do about it, such as edit summary removal. Thanks. --LPS and MLP Fan (Littlest Pet Shop and My Little Pony Fan) 16:53, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, LPS and MLP Fan,

You are absolutely right, I have revision deleted that edit summary and warned the editor. Sorry it took me a while to get to this today. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:38, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Malacates, Mexico City

Hello, I just saw that you deleted an article I created for Malacates, Mexico City. While there is an article for Colonia Malacates Ampliación, this is actually a different neighborhood than Malacates. I am guessing the reason it was deleted is that it seemed a duplicate. Is there another reason?

Thanks! Matthew MatthewMMcM (talk) 18:24, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, MatthewMMcM,

Well, you are partially wrong and partially right. I did delete a page but it wasn't an article. It was a redirect and it was deleted because we don't allow redirects that point from main space to Draft space. The article that was at Malacates, Mexico City was moved to Draft:Malacates, Mexico City (by you, in fact) and I deleted the main space page that had a redirect from main space to a Draft space target. It looks like Draft:Malacates, Mexico City was then turned into another redirect pointing to Colonia Malacates Ampliación. If you want to continue to work on this draft, I believe you can undo the edit that changed it into a redirect if you believe you have content that would eventually be enough for a stand-alone article on this subject. But no article on this subject was ever deleted...it was just moved and later changed into a redirect page. You can find all of the content in the page history. I hope this explanation helps you understand what happened.

If you have further questions about article creation or redirects, please bring them to the Teahouse. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:37, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Raft of unreferenced/orphan human settlement articles

Hi Liz, I hope you are doing well. I have a somewhat odd question. I have been clearing out unreferenced articles and have noticed a number of 1-3 line pages of human settlements, a good number of which don't appear on Google Maps, even if the coordinates are listed, all created by user MIDI who seems have created literally hundreds of articles on Kenyan settlements, among other locations, using AWB. Some of these are substantial/notable and cited according but many have no indication of importance (importance for human settlements by virtue of being a human settlement) and some I cannot find proof that they even exist. I don't want to spam the good people of AFD but I think this is a serious issue to address, given the sheer volume and the amount of potentially inaccurate and erroneous information these articles may contain. As an admin, do you have any suggestions for a way of addressing these issues as a batch, or do I just keep chipping away one PROD tag at a time? Thanks for any help you can offer! Kazamzam (talk) 20:28, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Kazamzam,

Sorry for the delay in replying to you. I have deleted quite a few PRODs about unincorporated settlements but I haven't done much work on evaluating the sources that verify them (or the lack of sources). We have several editors/admins who I consider pros in this subject but the only names that come to mind right now are Hog Farm and Mongoe. Maybe if they watch their pings, they can come over and offer you some guidance. I know Hog Farm has dealt with hundreds of poorly sourced geo articles before and PROD can be pretty effective as long as you don't tag them all on the same day! Please, no! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:34, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

The one thing to watch here will be that coverage may not be easily findable on the internet - for African places in general sources often aren't digitized or aren't in English. But honestly, the ones I've tabbed through are mainly one-liners yanked from a database. (maybe GEOnet Names Server which is a problematic source for non-US places for a variety of reasons) A note on Google maps - any descriptions found on there are often pulled from Wikipedia or similar sources. Coordinates on there not matching may be a rounding/precision mistake (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Acodale, Virginia). I'd say if you're reasonably confident that there's nothing significant for a certain location, just to PROD it, although I wouldn't do more than 4 or 5 or so a day to start with (I've done more than that at times but I've also done that sort of thing for USA places long enough I can get away with a little more). Not necessary to bring a bunch to AFD unless the PRODs are contested or you're unsure on one; I do know of one case where a WP:AN discussion nuked a thousand or so but that was a very special case that also led to a desysopping. Hog Farm _Talk 20:53, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Many thanks for sharing your expertise, Hog Farm! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:56, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

I would check some of the coordinates given against GEONAMES; if they are the same, then it is likely they were created by scraping it, and that's not good. In some countries we have matched up census and geographic data. Unfortunately the Kenyan census site is at present being forwarded to some hacking site, so it's unusable.

The real question here is the amount of effort you should be putting into this. Having done this in two countries and a number of US states, my patience for looking at each and very article is wearing very thin. And my experience with GEONAMES and third world counties is especially poor. Finding sources beyond government databases for anything much short of a pretty large city or a regional capital has always been next to impossible. When I did Somalia the best we could do was look at GMaps to see if there was a sign of habitation there, which is a lot of work and dubious at that. My feeling is that if you find a lot of problems, we need to talk about deleting the lot en masse, as there doesn't seem to be much hope of verifying or expanding these articles as it stands. Mangoe (talk) 05:16, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Woof. I think the creator has, since this has been brought to his attention, gone through and redirected a lot of these stubs, which kind of helps but doesn't fully resolve the issue. Given the number of articles that were created simultaneously and the fact that they were done in alphabetical order, I assume this is from a scrapping of GEONAMES. I have already tried to cite/expand a few dozen myself but, yes, it's been a slog and my patience is not infinite. I'm open to waiting to see if/how the creator address them but this might become a larger issue of a mass deletion. Definitely feels out of my depth as a relatively new editor - thank you all so much for your advice and assistance! Kazamzam (talk) 19:26, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for deleting my error!

And thanks for the kind note explaining it. I made a mistake in forming the title; I set up another with the correct title, and I meant to go back and try to figure out what to do with the bad one. You saved me the trouble. Uporządnicki (talk) 01:29, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

No problem! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:24, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Categories for discussion

Back in January 2022, you promised that it's on my "To Do" list to try to take on some more simple closures next month, but don't appear to have followed up on that. Since the instructions for closing discussions have recently been rewritten again, and CfD is still badly backlogged, I figured I should remind you. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:14, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, * Pppery *,

Sigh. I really dread dealing with CFD. But it's hard to argue with oneself when someone else points out to you what you once said six months ago (I don't know if I'd call it a "promise" though). I'll read over the confusing CFD instructions again and see if they sink in.

By the way, have you noticed we have some very competent non-admins closing CFD discussions now? I delete category pages they have tagged and it looks like they are doing a good job. But I need to go farther so I'll try to teach myself all about User:JJMC89 bot III and how it functions. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:23, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

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Some data you may be interested in

...based on your evidence at arbitration. I'm not submitting it myself, since I don't think it really shows anything (other than, perhaps, the effect the introductions of A7, prod, and G11 have had on afd).

Total number of afds, average different users per afd, and total distinct users on June 20 of each year and in May of each year. (Not June of each year, so as to avoid the still-open afds from the past few week.) —Cryptic 21:22, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Cryptic,

I find this fascinating! Thanks for drawing this up. Boy, 2005 was a crazy time on Wikipedia, they needed all of those extra editors they had 17 years ago. Imagine having 15-19 editors weighing in on most AFD nominations! I bet things were very contentious.

I started editing regularly in 2013 so I don't remember a time before A7, PROD and G11. But I wonder what can account for the boost in AFD participants last year? More people working at home? I remember back in 2020 people predicting we would have more active editors because of COVID-19 restrictions but I don't think the number of editors curve really bumped up that much.

I don't think I would call my commenta "evidence", I just can see both sides in this dispute and I think it's important to consider the context of the AFD area now and what the frequent nominators are trying to accomplish vs. those who see their behavior as rash. I'm not sure if your stats would influence the consideration of this case but I think they add a lot to understanding the current decrease that the AFD area is seeing in editor participation. I think a lot of people who use to participate there are just tired of making the same arguments over and over again and have moved on to other activities. Thanks again for your work on Quarry! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:39, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

I think the increase on June 20 last year is probably a blip - the number of afds nominated varies from day to day, and the more afds you have the more total users you're likely to have. There's a much less-pronounced increase specifically in 2021 in the per-month data; and though there's an overall increase in number of users for the past three years of the pandemic, it too corresponds to an increase in the number of afds.

VFD in 2005 was plain awful. We didn't have the GNG or anything else approximating objective criteria, other than CSD (then much shorter than now) on the one hand and various often-edited and bitterly-disputed SNGs (then much longer); so when people were talking about whether subjects were notable or not, we meant it in the plain English sense of the word. And that wasn't just accepted, but expected. —Cryptic 22:11, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Question about fora

Hello Liz,

I've been around for a while, and although I help admin over at EN Wikt, I've not engaged here on EN WP with regard to the inner workings quite so much. I have some growing concerns about poor-quality machine-translated articles, mostly those coming out of Japanese as I can read the source (and which MT systems commonly butcher), and which the currently active new-article reviewers appear to be passing right through, including marking as "B-Class" despite grave issues with the content (such as at Talk:Yamato_Kingship).

I would like to bring up this issue in one of the discussion fora here, but I'm a bit at a loss as to which would be the most appropriate for striking up a thread with regard to getting a better handle on what review criteria actually are (since apparently the Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Grading scheme isn't really being used), and how to improve the review process. From our limited interactions so far, I think you're more knowledgeable about reviewing and WP processes than I am. Could you offer any advice about where I could post such a thread?

TIA! ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 22:20, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Eirikr,

Wow, I don't know much about this subject. I do know that machine translation recently became an issue on WP:ANI with some Arabic students writing a lot of articles about poets that some editors thought were machine translations. You could bring this case to ANI if you have clear-cut evidence that would seem obvious to others or you could nominate the articles for deletion at WP:AFD. I don't know of a policy page or a central place to discuss this subject, resolving problems on Wikipedia usually either focuses on problematic editors or problematic content/articles, not the underlying issue. Wherever you raise this issue, I think you will find some sympathetic editors as machine translations have been recently acknowledged to be an unaddressed problem on the project. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help to you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:32, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Might get some luck asking at WT:PNT. —Cryptic 01:35, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Nicholas Alahverdian

When you say former Wikipedia editor what are you referring to? I hate that I'm so invested in the article's subject and everything that's ongoing, but that was a bit of information I did not know about, and I can't find any mention of it in the article or the talk page. Like I know he (likely) edited his own Wikipedia page, but was he like an established editor before that or something? - Aoidh (talk) 00:48, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Not Liz but Alahverdian has edited extensively (about himself) for years, and even as recently as the last few months. He was never quite an established editor. PRAXIDICAE🌈 00:52, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

(ec)Hello, Aoidh,

He had a number of sockpuppets and actively edited his articles which were under several different names as well as AFDs that involved them. It goes back to 2007, I believe. It was all very self-promotional, inflating his credentials, I can look into it but I don't think he edited articles that weren't about him. I'll try to track down some links if you are curious but most of the details will be buried in deleted contributions.

But that's how the fact he faked his death became obvious to some of us and that folks at Wikipediocracy who first publicized it months ago...one of his sockpuppets started editing again. Kind of a sign that he wasn't deceased! But I was reluctant to add information to his article because at the time it was all speculation until he was arrested. I wouldn't consider him an editor in good standing here but I don't know if there was ever a formal SPI case opened. It is a compelling case and it looks like the British papers are more on top of it than U.S. ones. They want him out of their country!

By the way, there is an even more notorious former Wikipedia editor who is in current legal trouble but this can be a dreary rabbithole to fall into. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:59, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for that context, I don't know why Alahverdian's page was on my watchlist initially but I do the remember the "oh he's dead" then suddenly "is he?" back and forth. I'm all about rabbitholes lately, who is the other editor? - Aoidh (talk) 01:02, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Luka Magnotta? :P PRAXIDICAE🌈 01:04, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Oh goodness I hope not I thought all that was said and done. - Aoidh (talk) 01:06, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Okay, don't say I didn't warn you...Nathan Larson (politician). I see that the editors working on it decided to use the most unflattering image possible on his article. User:Nathan Larson~enwiki was his first account but his extensive SPI case is at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sarsaparilla/Archive. He mostly edited political articles, his extreme views on social issues like on race, gender and sexuality he mostly kept on his own blog/website. Truly predatory, creepy, abhorrent stuff. He makes faking your deah and fraud look like a standard conman stuff, not evil incarnate. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:20, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Wow. Well that's certainly something. I have no words. - Aoidh (talk) 02:11, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Aoidh, I was wrong, we do have an SPI on Nicholas Alahverdian's socks at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dr42/Archive and I see 5 related AFD discussions on articles about him that are listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicholas E. Alahverdian (honestly, there could be more than 5 articles but this is what I found in a five minute search). Two of the AFDs actually closed as "Keep". Interesting now to look at who voted to "Keep" these articles and see if they were sockpuppets. More rabbitholes for you to waste time on this weekend! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:38, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Looking more closely at the SPI, it shows that articles on this guy were deleted, either through AFD or CSD THIRTEEN TIMES! At least 13 times over the years this guy tried to have an article on himself on Wikipedia. That is dogged persistence. Well, he won out eventually, he does have an article on himself on Wikipedia, just not a very flattering one. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:47, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

ARS went ahead and ruined the deletion streak for us when they overwhelmingly voted to keep in one of the last ones because "he's an author" and "went to Harvard" (both of which were demonstrably true then and now.) PRAXIDICAE🌈 01:52, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

From what I've read, he attended some Harvard Extension classes but claimed he graduated from Harvard University but he was dismissed after some legal problems emerged. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:55, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

He attended a community college course basically (I can't divulge some of this because of ~reasons~) but none of it was real, for lack of a better word. His books are pretty terrible if you're into self-aggrandizing jack-offs who barely have a grasp of their own native language (and they're free on google books.) PRAXIDICAE🌈 01:57, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Yes, I'm wondering now if I need to cite RS on some of this info and if they could be seen as BLP violations. Some of these details are in his own article though. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:59, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

hey, he still claims he's dead, so BLP doesn't apply! ;) PRAXIDICAE🌈 02:04, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Yeah the irony is that he really wanted an article on himself. Now I'm sure he really wishes he didn't. - Aoidh (talk) 02:11, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Well that's easily evidenced by his multiple failed takedown notices PRAXIDICAE🌈 02:16, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Wow, Praxidicae, that's a new rabbithole for me to go down. I know, for some reason, he (I mean, his estate), wanted his photo with Pence removed. There was a phony image of someone else on his article for a while, his estate seems to want to eliminate all images of himself from the public internet. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:23, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Looks like you can add Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fred newman/Archive to the related sockpuppets too. Rabbithole indeed. - Aoidh (talk) 02:26, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

It gets even more bizarre. Arthur Knight, "the Irish-born man" who was arrested, and his wife both aren't keeping a low profile. They are pleading their case on social media, according to the British press. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:42, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

It does bring up a unique BLP dilemma...can one violate the privacy of a person who is claimed to have died 2 1/2 years ago when there is no evidence that he actually died? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:47, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

They are simultaneously trying to keep a low profile while also being as loud about it as possible. I think just because he's a (bad) liar doesn't mean that the lie invalidates something like WP:BLP. - Aoidh (talk) 02:56, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Then whose privacy are we protecting, Nicholas Alahverdian, who has died, or Arthur Knight who is definitely alive? Until it's decided in court who is who, through DNA, it's a toss-up despite whatever we believe on our own. But the court cases keep getting delayed for one reason or another. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:02, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

After rereading his article, which I hadn't done lately, I realize that it goes much farther than the discussion here, in terms of its substantiated claims. As far as the courts go, it's come down to a final hearing, he either has to face up to the truth or flee again. This article was interesting. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:57, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

I was going to comment on the article's talk page but this isn't really about the article. I didn't see any paywalls on the links that were posted on the talk page, but whenever I run into a paywall I can go to translate.google.com and input the URL in the "website" field and it will "translate it" from English to English and remove the paywall (for most paywalls). 12ft.io works similarly but also doesn't work on all websites. You may already know about that trick but I just thought I'd offer it in case you don't. I find it really helpful when trying to verify references and such. - Aoidh (talk) 03:59, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

I've tried that with Google with the Wall Street Journal but it hasn't worked. Some of the Providence Journal articles were only available to subscribers. I'll try this and see if it works. Thanks for the suggestion! I never thought about trying the translation page. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:02, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Yeah the WSJ is absolutely the one that doesn't play along with that trick, or any trick that I've found. I've even tried installing Chrome which I don't use and turning off Javascript to see if that would work and it doesn't. If you find a way to get around WSJ please let me know. - Aoidh (talk) 04:07, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

I got curious and went digging and found a way around WSJ's paywall (on Firefox at least). This addon worked perfectly. - Aoidh (talk) 04:15, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Cool, Aoidh! Thanks for the suggestion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:19, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

I subscribe to ProJo just for this. If you want copies of anything I can email them. PRAXIDICAE🌈 18:19, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Vsevolod Valentinovich Konstantinov (July 2)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by S0091 was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Vsevolod Valentinovich Konstantinov and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Vsevolod Valentinovich Konstantinov, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

S0091 (talk) 23:16, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, S0091,

I knew that this article wouldn't be accepted (although I didn't expect it to be reviewed so quickly!) but it was clear that the draft creator meant to submit it for review and didn't get the "submit" code correctly on the page so I fixed their edit. I might cut and paste this refusal on to their talk page so they can see why it was declined. Thank you for your prompt review. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:19, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

I will take care of moving the message. If you want the messages to go to the creator, I can provide instructions (I think). Give me a few to put that together. S0091 (talk) 23:22, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Ok,I copied the decline message over to the creator's talk page. I didn't want to mess up your talk page so left it as is so you can amend as you see fit. So to change the submitter, after you have submitted a draft edit the draft in source mode, then change the "u=" parameter from your user name to theirs:

{{AfC submission|||ts=20220702224304|u=Ghz91|ns=118}}

I copied the above from a currently submitted draft, Draft:Bioenergy economy. In this example had you submitted it, it would be u=Liz so you would change it to u=Ghz91. S0091 (talk) 23:40, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

The version for human editors is {{subst:submit|username}}, or (to put the afc template there without immediately submitting it) {{subst:afc draft|username}}. The documentation's at Template:AfC submission, where you'd expect it. —Cryptic 23:48, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, S0091 and Cryptic,

Oh, this is very helpful! I've been getting unearned congratulations and rejections for years for promising drafts I've seen and submitted while going through the daily expiring CSD G13 drafts that I had nothing else to do with! Now I know how to properly tag them. Many thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:53, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Cryptic, this was helpful for me as well. When did we become human? (ha!) S0091 (talk) 23:56, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Question, please, about a draft article Zoe Empowers

{{You've got mail}}

Hi, Liz, I hope I did the "You've got mail" template correctly.

I want to rewrite an article that was deleted. This is the first article I have tried to write and it was deleted, so I want to redo it. It is called Zoe Empowers. I am following the AFC template, and I saw the following (See below), so I am asking you what I need to do. I don't know why, but I am following instructions. Here is what I read.. Please tell me if it is OK to go ahead with writing the draft. Thank you so much! Namamacs

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A page with this title has previously been moved or deleted.

If you are creating a new page with different content, please continue. If you are recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page, or are unsure, please first contact the user(s) who performed the action(s) listed below.

• 17:16, 3 July 2022 Liz talk contribs deleted page Draft:Zoe Empowers (G8: Redirect to a deleted or nonexistent page) (thank)

Namamacs (talk) 23:26, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Namamacs,

I deleted Draft:Zoe Empowers which was just a page redirect. You wrote the draft and moved it to main space, Zoe Empowers, where it was deleted by a different admin than myself (look at the deletion note at the top of the page). The redirect was just a page that had a link from the draft page to the main space page. Once Zoe Empowers was deleted, it became a "broken redirect" and they are deleted.

If you want to try again, I suggest that you submit the draft for review by an Articles for Creation reviewer who can help you avoid having the article deleted by telling you if there are any problems with the draft. Moving pages prematurely to main space often can result in their deletion if they are written by new editors who are not familiar with Wikipedia's standards.

If you contact the admin who deleted Zoe Empowers and ask him to move the page to Draft or User space (like your Sandbox), you may not have to start from scratch but that would be his judgment call. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:59, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Namamacs, Liz and I agree with regard to the AFC process. I suspect they may also agree that once an article is deleted it is far better to start from the basics rather than to try to modify what proved successfully how not to do it. I linked to a useful essay on your talk page. Inside it is a process which works, provided the topic is inherently notable, It's vital to start by finding references and creating a storyboard from what they say. Doing it the other way around forces references to fit your text. That often fails. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 15:37, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Liz, for your explanation and information. I so much appreciate all the help I am receiving from Wikipedia folks. Yes, I contacted the admin who removed the page, and he sent very helpful advice. I am finding Wikipedia to be a very encouraging place with people like you and Timtrent so helpful to newcomers. Also, I agree with you and Timtrent that starting from scratch is a good idea. However, I am not sure the organization is "notable' enough yet to be on Wikipedia. So, I'll probably move on to my other causes for awhile. Namamacs Namamacs (talk) 22:45, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

NCAA Season 97 volleyball tournaments

Hi Liz, Good day, for context, the on-going season for NCAA Philippines is Season 97 (2022). The NCAA Season 98 (2023) is yet to be held; I also noticed that User:Chris 0411F has included the list of teams that are in another Philippine collegiate league, UAAP, instead of the local NCAA. They have done it in NCAA Season 97 volleyball tournaments page as well. My apologies, it should have been disruptive editing, and not necessarily vandalism. Thank you.   Linsanity   02:48, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Linsanity,

Thank you for the explanation. I didn't understand why the article that was tagged for speedy deletion was "invented" as it just looked like another season page. Right now, Chris 0411F has been briefly blocked for disruptive editing. Thanks again, I appreciate the context. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:52, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Tausch - article for deletion?

Cesar, Circus Maximus, Thumb up, Thumb down? User Randykitty seems to push for a quick deletion of the Tausch article, which she proposed already three times for deletion before.

But more neutrality, please. This morning, I visited the website of one of the best libraries of political science in the world, the Dudley Knox Library of the United States Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey in California. Any Wikipedia decision maker now deciding in this deletion Circus Maximus process is kindly invited to look at the Tausch entries in the Monterey library system, .

User Randykitty stated in her present contribution in a sentence that could imply a lack of the necessary neutrality and a rather sweeping value judgement about the curriculum vitae of a living person stating that:

"The way it is written, it's rather shocking to see that such an incredibly successful and influential researcher has only ever held adjunct and visiting positions...". But Wikipedia is not the personnel service office of a University.

This non-neutral statement, together with the other non-neutral statement:

„In my opinion, albeit not too convincingly, this academic meets WP:ACADEMIC“

And

„I tagged this for WP:CSD#G11, but that was denied by Liz given the AfD history“.

Well, if user Randykitty were more familiar with the academic system in Continental Europe, she would realize that it is quite normal that "Privatdozenten" , i.e. "adjunct professors" are working nowadays for hundreds of institutions, like government bureaucracies, think tanks, etc, and not only for the Universities. Arno Tausch, at age 71, joined the ranks of the Austrian diplomatic service in 1992, became Counsellor for Labour and Migration at the Austrian Embassy in Warsaw, and then, from 1999 onwards, worked for the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs in Vienna until his retirement in 2016.

In the framework of improving Wikipedia coverage of Austrian debates and Austrian political science, I will certainly do my best to improve the article over the coming weeks, and especially to shorten it and to free it from citation overload.

As to independent sources from the world press, I will refer to an interesting and very lengthy article published by Al Jazeera on Tausch, it's in Arabic, and I will certainly refer to it in the improved version which I will present. The reference is:

• 1. • [12]

Springer, one of the world’s biggest and most important publishing houses, now lists none the less than 70 entries with Arno Tausch as author, from 1980 onwards to the present day.

At the end of the day, there are not too many Austrian political scientists, who have made it to the pages Le Monde and Al Jazeera and of think tanks like the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. His regular contributions to Wiener Zeitung are a proof that this author also contributes to the defense of the values of the open society in Austria, so Wikipedia should handle this “thumbs up thumbs down” issue with great care.

Austrian political observer (talk)Austrian political observer (talk) 05:14, 4 July 2022 (UTC) Austrian political observer (talk) 05:19, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Austrian political observer,

You have posted a wall of content that I'm not going to read. What are you asking of me exactly? Please be brief, do not go into any more detail. I'm about to delete your excessive comments from my talk page. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:24, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

References

Deleted Draft - SOTI

Hello, Liz. Thank you for taking the time to read my question. I'm hoping you can help me. I had been trying to create an article for the company I work for, SOTI. It had been a while since I had actually created a new article (2009) and had not been aware of disclosure rules which are now in place and the draft I had created was not approved and eventually deleted by you (https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Draft:SOTI). It appears that Wikipedia also deleted my old account (Special:Contributions/Adaś), so here I am with a new account complete with a paid contribution disclosure in my user profile per the rules, as I understand them.

For the article draft itself, I have reviewed the requirements for notability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)) to check that this topic meets all requirements.

The following links which I included on the topic in the draft appear meet the criteria of being stand-alone and receiving significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Also, they seem to show “verifiable evidence that the organization or product has attracted the notice of reliable sources unrelated to the organization or product”: - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40504764 - https://financialpost.com/entrepreneur/growth-strategies/soti-builds-on-its-early-lead-in-mobile-enterprise-market - https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/soti-launches-soti-aerospace-in-collaboration-with-ryerson-university/438339 - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/case-patents-attorneys-fees-e-d-tex-2 o https://outline.com/LvGzeS - https://www.law360.com/articles/1385360 o https://outline.com/gTW5aK

Another reason for notability is the topic's significant or demonstrable effects on culture, society, entertainment, athletics, economies, history, literature, science, or education. I believe this article regarding drone research conducted by the company shows evidence of this: https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/soti-launches-soti-aerospace-in-collaboration-with-ryerson-university/438339

Also, the notability requirements for organizations note significant, independent, and reliable product reviews. Here are two examples: - https://www.techradar.com/reviews/soti-mobicontrol-mdm - https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/soti-mobicontrol

I would like to ask if it would be possible to retrieve the draft and allow me to submit for publication again now that I have ensured that I am properly following the paid contribution disclosure rules. I am happy to also add the Connected contributor (paid) template to the draft. I wanted to follow the recommendations and not resubmit a brand new submission but see if you would be willing to bring back the draft, given the background on the situation. Thanks in advance, it's taken me some time to wrap my head around this and I hope I haven't missed anything. Fab Colab (talk) 02:14, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Fab Colab,

First, Wikipedia doesn't delete accounts, we can delete User pages that are inappropriate but that is not the case with User:Adaś.

Second, thank you for posting the disclosure. Editors can be blocked for undisclosed paid editing so disclosure is the way to go.

Finally, Draft:SOTI was deleted because, as a policy, we delete draft pages which are considered to be "abandoned" which means no editing activity on them for six months or longer (what is what we call CSD G13 criteria). These drafts can be restored upon request either to the deleting administrator or by going to WP:REFUND and requesting it there. You don't have to demonstrate notability for this. But if you could incorporate any reliable sources you have located into the draft content, it is more likely to get approval from an Articles for Creation reviewer. This draft has gotten declined many times so, honestly, it might be best if you took the best parts of the article and started from scratch.

I hope this addresses some of your concerns. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:36, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Liz. I appreciate your helpful reply. Have a great day :) Fab Colab (talk) 13:59, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Soft deletion followup

Hi Liz. Hope all is well. I saw your relisting comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cavaliers–Celtics rivalry (2nd nomination) of "Not eligible for a Soft Deletion". Did you mean the page is not eligible at all for soft deletion, or that it should go through at least one relist first?—Bagumba (talk) 09:16, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The article is ineligible. For a soft deletion the closing administrator should treat the XfD nomination as an expired PROD. Articles that have previously been to AfD are not eligible to be deleted under a PROD. ​ Happy Editing--IAmChaos 00:32, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

@IAmChaos You seem to be referring to WP:NOQUORUM: If a nomination has received few or no comments from any editor with no one opposing deletion, and the article hasn't been declined for proposed deletion in the past, the closing administrator should treat the XfD nomination as an expired PROD and follow the instructions listed at Wikipedia:Proposed deletion#Procedure for administrators. If so, that wording explicitly mentions declined PRODs, but not past AfDs, which seems ambiguous, given your interpretation. —Bagumba (talk) 01:12, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

If you click through to the link you provided (procedures), see step 4. an article is only eligible for prod if it was never subject to a deletion discussion.. ​ Happy Editing--IAmChaos 01:17, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

If the intention was to have prior AfDs be a disqualifier, my suggestion for improvement would be that it be explicitly mentioned at NOQUORUM, along with the existing verbiage for declined PRODs. —Bagumba (talk) 01:38, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Bagumba,

Well, this is confusing. I have been told, adamently, that Soft Deletion was not available for articles that had been PROD'd before or been through a previous AFD. I was told this when I used Soft Deletion for articles that I was told weren't eligible for it. So, this was my understanding and also what I had seen since I started patrolling AFD a few months ago. I will say that most of the admins I see who regularly patrol AFDs only use straight "Delete" and don't use the option of "Soft Deletion".

Since this article had been deleted via Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cavaliers–Celtics rivalry, I thought it was ineligible for Soft Deletion. It has nothing to do with relisting the discussion. Personally, I'm a fan of relisting discussions with little participation and only the nominator's statement but other admins will simply close these discussions as "Delete". But right now, when I went to review policy on this subject, at WP:NOQUORUM, it doesn't say anything about previous AFDs it only talks about previous PRODs! So, either this has been a misunderstanding among admins reviewing AFDs, or I misunderstood the warning I was given on my talk page or I am missing some nuances in the policy about Soft Deletion that might be on another policy page. Since I know I'm not the only admin who has this understanding of Soft Deletion, this might warrant a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Deletion process.

If I (or we) have had an incorrect understanding of this policy, it likely means that some articles were deleted that might have been eligible for Soft Deletion. But since this deletion option is only used by a few admins who patrol AFDs (most admins just use "Delete"), then I'm not sure how much this misunderstanding has affected the results of past AFDs. But I really appreciate you raising this question and prompting me to review the policy once again. I hope for some future clarity on this subject and will avoid making statements about the eligibility of articles at AFD for Soft Deletion unless I can see they have been PROD'd before. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:20, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Bagumba, I was writing and rewriting my statement (above) before I saw your recent comment which echoes what I saw when I read through the WP:NOQUORUM policy. The policy doesn't mention XFDs, only declined PRODs. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:22, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the background. I'm not pushing for a soft delete (at this point), and wasnt that familiar with the process either, so my question was merely to educate myself. Regards. —Bagumba (talk) 01:30, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

I looked at the previous feedback that you mentioned. Perphaps they were referring to a previous AfD that was a "Keep" precluding a subsequent soft delete. That seems fair, though it doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. In the case of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cavaliers–Celtics rivalry (2nd nomination), the earlier AfD was closed as "delete". Thanks again for the explanation. Regards. —Bagumba (talk) 05:58, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, again, Bagumba,

Two things. I've removed all of my comments about Soft Deletion that I've come across where I made that recommendation based on a previous AFD. I won't write that again until this gets straightened out.

Second, I kept thinking, "This isn't just me! I've seen other admins in similar situations leave this comment." But it's just that most admins do not bother to relist discussions so it's those few of us who do relist who would put that recommendation in there in the relisting statement. Also, this understanding might have come from the the policy saying to treat the article of a the poorly attended AFD discussion AS IF it were a PROD and a PROD would not be valid if there had been a previous AFD on the article. In this way, with a previous AFD on an article, you couldn't treat it as a PROD, so Soft Deletion is not possible. But while I think this is how this conclusion was arrived at, the policy should spell it out more clearly and I think it warrants bringing it up at Wikipedia talk:Deletion process. Does this make some sense to you? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:06, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, I can see how we all got here. If prior AfDs are a consideration, I do think it would be clearer to mention at NOQUORUM, along with the existing declined PROD verbiage. And I do appreciate the rare times a fellow admin leaves any explanation at an XfD, so hopefully I havent discourage you. Best. —Bagumba (talk) 06:35, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello

Hello

Draft:Bitay Can you review the page? Captain388 (talk) 09:59, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Captain388,

I'm not an AFC reviewer, I don't review drafts. If you have questions about the AFC review process, either contact the editor who previously reviewed your draft or bring your questions to the AFC Help Desk. If you have questions about article creation or editing on Wikipedia, you are welcome to come to the the Teahouse where experienced editors can offer you advice and support. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:41, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

St. Vincent Grammar School

Hi Liz, could you undelete this article to my userspace? It was an expired PROD. Joofjoof (talk) 00:21, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Joofjoof,

 Done I've restored it to User:Joofjoof/St. Vincent Grammar School. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:36, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Sini Sadanand Shetty was moved to mainspace

Just thought you might want to know Sini Sadanand Shetty, which you draftified yesterday, was moved to mainspace today. Honestly I'm not sure whether it was ready. It's pretty hard on the eyes, but at least it has some references now. However you did tell the editor who moved it to use AFC. ☆ Bri (talk) 05:19, 6 July 2022 (UTC)v

Hello, Bri,

Thanks for letting me know. This article was actually moved to Draft space 3 times. I think articles about beauty show contestants are not valuable content for Wikipedia but there are others who think they do have some notability. I tell all new editors to use AFC but most don't take my advice when they can just move their articles right into main space. They don't realize how active our page patrollers are and how vulnerable new articles are to speedy deletion tagging. I'd say PROD this article but the page creator is likely to just remove the tag. Sigh. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:24, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Sometimes established editors de-PROD BLP1E beauty queen articles, too [13]. Double sigh. ☆ Bri (talk) 05:30, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Sutlej Reformed Church of Pakistan

Hello @Liz ! You quickly deleted the article Sutlej Reformed Church of Pakistan as it was marked as similar to the article previously created about this denomination. However, the article I created is completely different from the previous one. I showed independent sources, wrote impartially and showed the notoriety of the religious denomination, even mentioning news about it on various websites. Therefore, I would like to ask you to reconsider and compare the article I created with the previous one (which I don't know who created it) and you will see that, although on the same topic, they are completely different. Thank you very much in advance! Daniel Silva Mendanha (talk) 16:29, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Daniel Silva Mendanha,

Sorry for my delay in seeing your message and responding. I think the best strategy now is if I restore the article to Draft space and you submit it for review by Articles for Creation. Even if the articles are dissimilar, if you were to put it directly back into main space, it will be tagged for deletion again. Approval by an AFC reviewer is the only way I know to overcome a previous AFD delete decision. Does this sound acceptable to you? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:37, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Liz! OK. I will do it this way. Thank you for your help. Daniel Silva Mendanha (talk) 22:00, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Peter Jüni article, page protection

Days after the page protection you provided expired, IP vandalism is back. Considering the extent to which COVID-19 themed articles seem to be a vandalism magnet, I wonder if you'd consider re-adding a protection and for a longer amount of time? I've seen this with another article and it's always IP addresses. All the best, CT55555 (talk) 20:36, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, CT55555,

Well, protection ended on June 27th and there has been one IP edit over the past 12 days. I think I'd need to see more active vandalism before protecting the article again. Please let me know if vandalism resumes. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:34, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

That is understood. I'll give you a ping if the rate increases. Thanks. CT55555 (talk) 05:52, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

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Deschamps, Guillaume-Rey, Hauran Sanjak

Hi Liz!

As you have warned us, old messages move up the page and you lose track of them - so here are Huldra's and my own issues left over from above.

Paul Deschamps, Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey, and Hauran Sanjak are notable topics, deserving articles.

Any way of allowing us to access again the deleted material, to use for a fresh restart, would be welcome. I was offering for instance for you to dump onto my talk-page whatever Alas2022 had already written, and I'll take it from there, together with Huldra. She was very interested in redoing Guillaume-Rey and the Hauran Sanjak, I fully support her on those and I'll try to lend a hand if needed. You offered as an option to pull out the references from the deleted pages, put them on a new draft page and we would write a new article from scratch. Also fine. Scavanging already made formulations is easier, but the references are also a start.

Thank you!

PS: Paul Deschamps has a nice Wiki article in French, and shorter ones in Polish, Arabic, and Azeri.
Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey - a large one in French and one in Hebrew.
Hauran Sanjak - it has red links at Hauran, and mentions at Sanjak of Damascus and another 43 (!) articles. Arminden (talk) 20:21, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

• Support, Support, Support User:Arminden's request! Also, far more than 43 articles point to Hauran Sanjak, when we also include the different re-dirs (I think there were at least a dozen re-dirs), cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:22, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Arminden and Huldra,

Thanking you for bringing my attention to messages that have climbed up my user talk page. Before I consider taking action, have you tried contacting, Sir Sputnik, the administrator who actually deleted these articles? Most admins are reluctant to contradict another admin's decisions unless, for some reason, they are unresponsive. I know of a couple of admins who have a personal policy of not restoring deleted content or providing it to editors via email but the first step in these cases is always to contact the admin involved in a deletion or block. Maybe Sir Sputnik will see the ping and respond here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:57, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi Liz,

I wouldn't even know how to figure out who deleted what (no article => no edit history, so...). Thank you therefore for pinging Sir Sputnik and pointing him out to us! I'm confident that Wikipedia's only raison d'être is to inform the user, everything else is important but secondary, so done work by blocked editors, especially when they're not guilty of major transgressions (hate, vandalism, verbal violence, you name it) or of being utterly brainless, but rather of technical misdemeanors, should be available to be carefully "quarried" by experienced colleagues. What if I did have the idea of copying the content while it was still posted? Maybe it's even out there, via the WayBackMachine? This shouldn't be a contest over who has the better material recovery skills, or is pedantic enough as to store on his hard disk all articles he cares for. It's a bit like putting the cookie jar on the highest shelf in the kindergarten kitchen :) Just my opinion on it, sorry for clogging your page with it. Have a great day! Arminden (talk) 09:31, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Please be mindful of the rules on WP:FORUMSHOPPING, given that Huldra has already made this same request to User:Ponyo, who declined to restore the pages in question. I see no reason to overturn that decision. WP:G5 unambiguously applies to all of them. If you think the subjects are notable, you're more than welcome to recreate them in your own words, but restoring them would not be appropriate. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:53, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Sir Sputnik, hi. First, I've asked for access to the Paul Deschamps material on my own behalf. I have often come across the name Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey and the term Hauran Sanjak in my work, so when I saw them mentioned here, I supported Huldra's call for receiving access to the removed material. Again, on my own behalf.

Second, as I have written here-above, Wikipedia's only raison d'être is to inform the user, everything else might sometimes be important, but is always secondary. There's too much bureaucracy out there, why introduce it here too? The removal is based, as far as I can tell, on technicalities, not on the quality of the work itself or on anyone's serious moral transgressions.

Third, of course we can play Sisyphus and start everything from scratch, but that's ridiculous, given the above. We're perfectly capable to reword the material, but there's quite some research & other effort that went into putting it together - why waste what's good in it?

I'm often "escaping" onto Wikipedia from a more boring, scaringly irrational, stiff and bureaucratic "real" world. Let's not let that world spill into this one and spoil it. Not more than it already has. Your chosen name speaks of aristocracy and respect, the skies, and of a "fellow traveller"; that gives me hope. Thank you, Arminden (talk) 20:17, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

As regards to WP:FORUMSHOPPING, I asked Ponyo, as they were the blocking admin. After that, I happened to see that Armiden (who edits in the same area as I do), had asked here, wrt some other articles (Bardawil, Deschamps), and supported him. Here I agree with Armiden (and we two do not always agree!); please don't let bureaucracy come in the way of improving Wikipedia, thanks, Huldra (talk) 22:29, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

You've seen this request declined twice now. Making the same arguments again is not going to change anything. In case I didn't make my position clear in my previous comment, I will not be restoring these pages. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:49, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Need some clarity..

Hi, Liz i am newbie here.

• Alone Together (film) PUBLISH STAGE
• Alone Together (film) REDIRECT

My article again moved to draft space. In the article talk page i added Class=Start [14] Part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Assessment According to WikiProject_Film/Assessment Quality_scale [15] it should be in main space right. why the article move to draft space Redirect also criteria for speedy deletion CSD R2 Process. This is happening because I add Class=Start instead of Class=stub. Neu84321^(talk) 18:07, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Neu84321,

I'm almost absolutely sure that the move of the article to Draft space has absolutely nothing to do with whatever the content is on the article talk page. Experienced editors will move recently created articles to Draft space if they think they are likely to be tagged for speedy deletion. They are actually trying to preserve the article by allowing you to work on it in Draft space where it is much less likely to be deleted.

You are free to move the page back to main space but I think you should consider the chances that it might then tagged for speedy deletion after it's moved back. Ordinarily, I encourage editors to work on drafts in Draft or User space and submit them to AFC reviewers. AFC reviews are supposed to point out any potential problems in the draft that could lead to its deletion. Approval by an AFC reviewer greatly lessens the chance that the page will be deleted.

Whatever you choose to do, it would be smart to make a copy of the article in case it does get tagged for deletion, so you don't have start again from scratch. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:54, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Userpage

Kindly rescue my userpage. --Abdullah☆ (Talk) 05:15, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, MdaNoman,

You requested that this page be deleted! If you have changed your mind, I recommend requesting its restoration at WP:REFUND. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:18, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Mohan Babu G N

Hi! I noticed that you removed the speedy delete tag from Draft:Mohan Babu G N. Please see User:CANIGET. Thanks! VV 18:12, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, VV,

I look at the reason for their block and whether they are blocked for sockpuppetry and if there is a linked SPI case. In this case, neither of those is present. However, their User page now indicates that they are a sockpuppet so I wouldn't remove that tag now. But I look for confirmation of sockpuppetry. If an editor has been blocked for being disruptive or for CIR reasons, that doesn't mean that their page creations should be deleted. CSD G5 is specifically for block evading editors so even just being a recently discovered multiple account doesn't matter if the sockpuppeteer wasn't evading a block at the time. I've had many discussions about this speedy deletion criteria on this user talk page and asked Checkusers to confirm my understanding which they have. But it often happens that the checkusers know an editor is a sockpuppet by their style of editing but can't identify the sockmaster. These are more complicated situations. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:53, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Technical question(s)

Hi Liz, and sorry for bothering again.

A last attempt. Sir Sputnik seems impervious to my arguments, nor does he bother to read what I'm saying or even answer on a minimal level - I'm not Huldra, duh; and I don't want anything restored, just access to that material in order to quarry it for new articles. Lost case, basta. Now it's a strictly technical question, and I'm generally not interested in putting much time and effort into studying "Wiki sciences" beyond what's strictly needed for posting useful info for the user. So, is there a straightforward way of accessing material from deleted articles? Who has that privilege? I'm strictly not interested in being a Wiki "clerk" of any kind, but if accepting the invitation to join some lofty "ranks" offers me that tool, I'll take it (I'm old enough around here to get all kinds of invitations I'm otherwise discarding). The long march through the institutions, needed once they go bureaucratic and ego-driven. Thank you for your huge patience and advice, Arminden (talk) 07:55, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Deletion - Reinhold O. Schmidt

I added a 3rd-party source (Jerome Clark's UFO Encyclopedia) to this source, and came back to add another (James R. Lewis's UFOs and Popular Culture) but found it had already been deleted. Can it be restored so I can continue cleaning it up? SecretTerrorAmongUs (talk) 11:45, 13 July 2022 (UTC)