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Hello, my name is UserboxMaker35! I got a message from your bot so I thought I could talk to you. I make custom userboxes, so if you want one, just ask. You can to sign my Guestbook, and sign up for my userbox catalog. [[User:UserboxMaker35|UserboxMaker35]] ([[User talk:UserboxMaker35|talk]]) 20:05, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, my name is UserboxMaker35! I got a message from your bot so I thought I could talk to you. I make custom userboxes, so if you want one, just ask. You can to sign my Guestbook, and sign up for my userbox catalog. [[User:UserboxMaker35|UserboxMaker35]] ([[User talk:UserboxMaker35|talk]]) 20:05, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello I am carl can you contact me and i can ask you questions please my email in degnicarl1@yahoo.com please or contact me here because i don't have the experience doing this i want to be correct thanks God Bless --[[User:Degnicarl1|Degnicarl1]] ([[User talk:Degnicarl1|talk]]) 17:33, 7 September 2018 (UTC)


== Retitling an article ==
== Retitling an article ==

Revision as of 17:33, 7 September 2018

Welcome!

Hello, Jtmorgan, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay.
I noticed you've made one or more edits to women's biographies. Should you be interested in helping to redress the balance of articles about women, you might wish to consider joining our Women in Red project. Less than 18% of biographies here are about women - and you could help us increase this!
Here are some pages you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Feel free to make test edits in the sandbox. Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~) This automatically inserts your name and the date. If you get stuck, please see our help pages. If you can't find what you are looking for there, feel free to ask at the Teahouse or at the Women in Red project's Talk Page. Alternatively, contact me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help you. Again, welcome! Nick Moyes (talk) 20:52, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]



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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Milestone for mix'n'match

Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

3D printing
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:26, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Cliff Mass

The article Cliff Mass has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days 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/dated}} 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. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:44, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Robert McClenon I added 6 references in the edit I was working on when you PRODed this. I'm taking the tag off for now. Please give me at least an hour to add a few more of the refs I have lined up before adding it again :) J-Mo 03:14, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:Jtmorgan - Yes. It was in article space without references. If you need advice on how to build articles in draft space or user space until you have them ready for article space, you may ask at the Teahouse. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:42, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That's a pretty unhelpful response, Robert McClenon. And a bit offensive, but nevermind. I don't see anything in WP:BLP that says new articles need to have a dozen sources added within the first edit (or even one!), so if that's a piece of policy, you're going to have to point me to it. If not, I will politely ask you to allow me to continue to do my work, and perhaps consult other editors before PRODing me again. Regards, J-Mo 03:50, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please guide me how to my user page sandbox to move

Hi, I want's to know that, my userpage HaamiWPH is create 19th march . But till date I don't get any message or move bottom to sandbox to article page. How Many days are going to be published approx time and if you think, my page are need to be change any content then feel free and guide me to improve my page. Thank you.HaamiWPH (talk) 08:40, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Khaled Malas

I see you are interested in architecture, so I call to your attention Khaled Malas an article about an architect whose notability has been question, and which needs some work. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 01:31, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Does the Teahouse need a spring clean?

I thought you might like to see these thoughts prior to our call later today. Nick Moyes (talk) 08:42, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the link to your study paper about on the TH. I've posted my draft welcome template I mocked up for WP:WOMRED. (I'm not expecting you to keep it there!) Great to chat with you tonight. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 22:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

The 100 Skins of the Onion

Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.

Red onion cross section

From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar
Thanks JMorgan here's a star for you. I am impressed with the contributions

you have made. 

Kikkoman01 (talk) 13:18, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Teahouse

Hello, I would like to be one of the hosts whose names are included on automated invites. YoloMaxi GT (talk) 22:28, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]


UserGeorgi259 Hello Jtmorgan can I upload photos from this site http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/ Georgi259 (talk) 06:48, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello, my name is UserboxMaker35! I got a message from your bot so I thought I could talk to you. I make custom userboxes, so if you want one, just ask. You can to sign my Guestbook, and sign up for my userbox catalog. UserboxMaker35 (talk) 20:05, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello I am carl can you contact me and i can ask you questions please my email in degnicarl1@yahoo.com please or contact me here because i don't have the experience doing this i want to be correct thanks God Bless --Degnicarl1 (talk) 17:33, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Retitling an article

Hi Jtmorgan,

You left me an invitation--or maybe an automated system did--to ask you if I have any questions about Wikipedia. Well, I've finally got one. How do I retitle an article? There's an article called Black shame that I'm working on. The "Black Shame campaign" was a racist anti-French campaign following WWI, opposing France's Rhineland occupation by claiming their "black" troops were running amok. As a proper name, "Black Shame" should be capitalized, and that's how it almost always (though not always, see the top result in this link) is titled: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22black+shame%22+campaign

But the "s" is lowercase on the current article, and therefore incoming links also have to be formatted that way.

Should I recreate the article with the current text at the proper title and try to delete the one at lowercase-s-shame? Sorry to bother you, but I just can't figure this one out. And very belated thanks for that welcome! GreatBalfoursGhost (talk) 14:41, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Teahouse Invitation

Thanks for the invitation! Kpgjhpjm (talk) 16:11, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Would like to get to know more about handling Wikipedia!

I need to grey educated and enlightened on or about Wikipedia! How it functions, how i can operate as an admin and everything else I need to know!.. Thank you. Iwunzebrunochibuoyim (talk) 22:31, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Art+Feminism, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Saturday, May 12th, 1-5pm

Art+Feminism
For more info see
the meetup page
for Art+Feminism.
 Wikipedia is one of the most wide-reaching repositories of shared knowledge, yet a 2011 survey found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female, suggesting an alarming absence of voices. What and how information is shared is skewed by this gender disparity. To help change this, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is organizing a quarterly series of Edit-a-thons to improve Wikipedia's coverage of womxn artists of color.

This Saturday afternoon's gathering will focus on creating, editing, updating, and expanding pages for womxn artists from Latin America and the Caribbean. The Edit-a-thon will feature a talk by Dan Paz, Lecturer in the UW School of Art + Art History + Design, an artist, and an educator who explores the labor of digital imaging production as a collaborative site where the intersections of the image-idea and lived experience are produced and contested. Through videos, photography, and sculptural projects that query the ability of documentary processes to be manipulated—to be multiplied and replicated, stopped and started, rewound and advanced—Dan works within the impossibilities of absolute replication to question the very ability of the image to truly represent.

Everyone is welcome. Access to UW WiFi will be provided for non-UW affiliated participants. All you need to bring is your laptop, power cord, and ideas. No previous Wikipedia experience required! Childcare, snacks from local businesses, and editing tutorials will be provided. Please check the Facebook event page for updates.

When: Saturday, May 12th, 1-5pm
Where: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building #132, 1915 NE Chelan Ln, Seattle, Washington 98105
Who: Everyone is welcome.
What to bring: A laptop and power cord. Access to UW WiFi will be provided for non-UW affliated participants.

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thanks for the teahouse invite.

host bot sent me an invite to the teahouse and I thank both of you for it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adultcartoonlover56 (talk • contribs) 14:53, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for teahouse invite Zeeshan Afzal Arain (talk) 05:06, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the algorithm!

Thanks for your time and energy in helping to create and maintain quality updated information for all.

Philosophy, Logic, Mathmatics, Geometry, and Physics are the heart and soul of science truth and demonstratable facts.

The only constant in the universe is change! Herclitus appx. 500 BCE

Cheers William G Russell (talk) 18:52, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

ScienceSource funded

The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

A medical canon?

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

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Help

Please kindly tell me how be a researcher and to add myself to the group. Shevonsilva (talk) 17:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
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Respecting MEDRS

Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions.

Close to home also, a template, called {{medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter.

This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.

Evidence pyramid leading up to clinical guidelines, from WP:MEDRS
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:19, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Allama Bilal Saleem Qadri

Hello, Jtmorgan. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Allama Bilal Saleem Qadri, for deletion because it's a biography of a living person that lacks references. If you don't want Allama Bilal Saleem Qadri to be deleted, please add a reference to the article.

If you don't understand this message, you can leave a note on my talk page.

Thanks,

Xevus11 (talk) 14:48, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

July 2018

Hello, Jtmorgan. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia-- the world's largest free content encyclopedia. I'm sorry, but  Allama Bilal Saleem Qadri has been deleted as meeting WP:CSD#G11. "This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to conform with Wikipedia:NOTFORPROMOTION." These must be rewritten from scratch from "reliable, third party sources unconnected to the subject." See WP:RS.

Wikipedia:Identifying blatant advertising#Typical signs of blatant advertising contains information about content to avoid. For more information on content that may be perceived as promotional, click User:Dlohcierekim/promo. These are just rough guides. Pages can avoid all those pitfalls and still be glaringly obvious ad copy. Sometimes pages meeting WP:CSD#G11 give the appearance of an editor violating Wikipedia:Conflict of interest or WP:PAID. Please read and heed them if they apply to you. Please read Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia-- subjects must meet notability guidelines with reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and providing verifiable information. That generally means someone unconnected with the subject needs to have written a great deal about the subject. Please see Wikipedia:Citing sources . Template:cite has templates you can use in citing your sources. Place the template {{references}} at the bottom of the page, and references cited in the text will appear there.

If you want to try again, please use the Article Wizard or articles for creation to guide you through the creation process. The new user tutorial can help you avoid future problems.

You may find this tool useful: Google custom search Don't feel discouraged. My first attempts at creating articles were deleted too.

There is more information at Wikipedia:Community portal. There is help available at THE TEAHOUSE. Cheers, and happy editing. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:01, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
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Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report

Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.

Hackathon mentoring table wiring

Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume.

If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".

Plugbar buildup at the Hackathon
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A barnstar for you!

The Real Life Barnstar
where would we be without your tireless work. Congratulations!! TTABLES (talk) 23:23, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Teahouse

Hi Jon. Just a note, as requested, to say I've added my name to your list at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts/Database reports/Automated invites. There are a few editors there who don't seem active at the Teahouse any more (such as Rosiestep, MissVain (doesn't exist), Doctree, Saikirantangirala (doesn't exist)) plus a lot of active ones who aren't listed, so is it worth trying to update the names there, or checking existing names are happy to remain on it? BTW: Do you know when/if you'll be in a position to report back on any conclusions from your interviews with TH hosts earlier in the year? Best wishes, Nick Moyes (talk) 19:56, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nick Moyes sorry for the extended radio silence. I've been taking a break from enwiki for personal reasons. However, I am happy to add you to the list of inviters. I'll also check in on the host talkpage to see who wants to be on the invites (typically, I'll keep anyone on the inviter list who wants to be, whether they're currently active on the Teahouse or not). Finally, I do have some updates on the Teahouse research I contacted you for earlier this year. There's an academic paper that just got accepted to a conference, which I will post a link to here once I've got the pre-print uploaded to an open archive. But perhaps more relevant to your interests, I'm working on a write-up of some of the more practically-focused observations/recommendations based on the research, which could provide some directions for improving the Teahouse (or at least discussion fodder). When I'm done with that, I'll post it in a sub-page of the research page linked above and share the link on the Teahouse. Thanks for reaching out, J-Mo 22:38, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hostbot

Is a warm welcome entirely appropriate for accounts like this? Perhaps the bot could be asked not to welcome editors who have got up to a Level 3 Vandalism warning on their talk page within a few minutes of registering. DuncanHill (talk) 16:10, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This ain't a bad idea, but it may be a better metric to limit it to three warnings, rather than a level three warning, in case we get someone over zealously templating test edits. GMGtalk 16:14, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the poke DuncanHill. Some false positives are inevitable, but I'm always open to improving the criteria for invitation. I've been thinking about fundamentally changing the invitee selection approach, actually. Eventually, I'd like to use ORES scores to select invitees. These scores take a variety of factors into account in determining whether a new editor is editing in good faith or not, including talkpage templates, and therefore probably provide a more robust overall solution. J-Mo 22:43, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that sounds promising. Good to know you are on the case. DuncanHill (talk) 23:38, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM
  • Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.
BAG
  • There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
  • In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.
BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

Also

Discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

New things

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Seattle Wiknic 2018
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Training module

If you can, kindly please leave a post of training module in my talk page.--PATH SLOPU (Talk) 05:55, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018
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Neglected diseases
Anti-parasitic drugs being distributed in Côte d'Ivoire
What's a Neglected Disease?, ScienceSource video

To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:23, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Teahouse!

Iron Warrior the Editor 08/16/2018
Thank you for the Teahouse invitation!

Speedy deletion nomination of Arvind Akela (Kallu Ji)

Hello Jtmorgan,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Arvind Akela (Kallu Ji) for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Nick Moyes (talk) 22:35, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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