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Operation Pax Romana

Thanks for following up Calamondin12 (talk · contribs)'s well-justified tag by starting the AfD. I've just deleted the article for being an obvious hoax. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 09:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Nick-D: Thanks. I am hesitant about tagging a possible hoax with G3 if it takes an hour or so's research to be sure, but once the evidence is laid out, speedy deletion often becomes the right answer. I have met some things that on the face of it look like a blatant hoax, but turn out to be true. My favourite example: would you believe an annual festival to celebrate the culture of people of mixed Croatian/Maori descent? Check out Tarara Day. JohnCD (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That is obscure... That said, I've had Emu War watchlisted for years ;) Nick-D (talk) 09:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Grace Sai

Hi JohnCD,

I did not fully understand the Sandbox feature. I have now submitted a Draft page for "Grace Sai" for review, so hopefully you can look at that and approve?

Cheers

"Tobias Tan" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tobiastan (talk • contribs) 11:23, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Tobiastan: You don't have to apply for your draft to be reviewed, it is in the queue at Category:Pending AfC submissions, but there are about 500 waiting - a reviewer will get to it in due course. JohnCD (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unreviewed Article

Hello there. I was just wondering if you could just spend a moment and review this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Caszadeh and possibly remove the "tag" from the top of the page if it doesn't need any cleanup. Thank you in advance. SlimSlim (talk) 13:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@SlimSlim: be patient, it does not need an admin to review a new article, and you do not have to ask for it to be reviewed. The reviewers are working their way through Category:All unreviewed new articles, which tells them what needs doing, and your article will be reviewed in its turn. JohnCD (talk) 21:35, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for the response.SlimSlim (talk) 12:00, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of my user page ICEM4K

I would like to understand why my user page user:Icem4k why it was deleted cause that reasron on the discussion page is so not true. cause I know how a facebook profile looks like and my user page was far from that I just an about me where I edited and what created what is wrong with that help me... help me understand help me. **Confused** — Chabota Kanguya 08:41, 1 April 2015 (UTC) comment added 08:37, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 16:28, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

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The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

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Looking ahead

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

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-Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk), 17:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

chinese wiki

Thanks for your advice. I will try your suggestion. Jiminycricket55 (talk) 21:19, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

PattiMoly99 - thank you!

I'll be looking this over with out tired eyes tomorrow! Thank you so much for your help!

PattiMoly99 (talk) 21:56, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Predatory educator

John – thank you very much for your helpful comments on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Predatory_educator page I created.

I added some more information and references of the usage of "predatory" in this context. Is the page closer to being acceptable?

Thank you again for your help and feedback. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mstuartanderson (talk • contribs) 12:19, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Mstuartanderson: Sorry for delay in replying - I will try to get to it in the next couple of days. JohnCD (talk) 22:21, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

THANK YOU

Thank you again for the help yesterday. I've read through everything and, well a lot it.. and I think using the wizard might be my best bet. Would you be willing to look at it as I go along? CassieMe is also helping me! (Phoenix Nuclear Lab). Thanks so much! PattiMoly99 (talk) 18:00, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge

FYI, a user editing from a bunch of related IPs removed most of the content from John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge and then tried to get it speedy deleted. Looks like it could be the same user. Best, Mackensen (talk) 01:34, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yes, that's him all right - easily recognizable, but unfortunately nothing to be done as he hops between too wide a range of IPs to block. JohnCD (talk) 09:21, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cant find draft review

Hi JohnCD,

Did you receive my draft of my redone article? I can't "find" it on my account.

Thank you,

PattiMoly99 — Preceding unsigned comment added by PattiMoly99 (talk • contribs) 14:18, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:19, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Normani Kordei

The article Normani Kordei has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Wgolf (talk) 17:41, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I think there has been some misunderstanding with the comments below.

The Johnnie Johnson mentioned in the Earl of Buckland article isnt the same Johnnie Johnson who is a fighter ace of WW2 Johnnie Johnson - fighter ace lived in Leistershire whilst the Johnnie Johnson as in Earl of Buckland comes from Devon. Johnnie Johnson -Earl of Buckland also died some 10 years later than Johnnie Johnson fighter ace. They are not the same person. Johnnie Johnson -Earl of Buckland has also never wrote any books whereas the Johnnie Johnson fighter ace has according to your comments.

I have many reference sources that should have been added at the time which may have avoided the conclusions reached that was an error on my part for not posting them.

If Tinkertailorsoilderspy comes back with that nonsense, I shall block him. He has two IPs, 193.173.115.7 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 193.173.115.8 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), who are both up to a final warning for constantly re-adding it; I guess that's why he has made himself an account. He is probably Buckbuster (talk) who wrote an article Earl of Buckland last year claiming that the WWII fighter ace Johnnie Johnson was made Earl of Buckland in 1947 (funny, I have a 1964 book by him which says nothing about that) and this Robin Charles Johnson was his grandson and so the third Earl of Buckland. It's not clear how his title is supposed to have changed to Kent. There are some real nut-cases out there. JohnCD (talk) 22:08, 14 April 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buckbuster (talk • contribs)

Grill'd

Hi,

I've got no connection to Grill'd, but I think it was an error to delete the page.

Sure, the page could be toned down a little (i'd delete the "Grill'd focuses on made to order customer service with high quality, locally sourced ingredients. Products are often noted to be of gourmet quality with close attention to customer satisfaction. Grill'd enjoys a high proportion of brand loyalty." comments), but most of the information was simple statements of fact.

In Australia, Grill'd is the biggest new food chain I can remember in quite a while, so it seems at least worthy of a wikipedia page.

Plus they make good burgers, which in Australia is quite unusual!

Anyway, I think it was a mistake to delete the article rather than just adjust the text to be more neutral (which I would be happy to do).

Again, I've got nothing to do with them, I've just eaten there a few times in the last year at three different shops they've opened around Perth (which again, I think says they have some importance because when you're 2000km away from the next nearest big city you don't get a lot of new things opening!).