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Tag

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The Assassin game has often been called a glorified game of tag, so would seem fine as a "see also" on that page: "Those who play the game Assassin say it is basically a version of tag that rewards players for being sneaky, investigative and aware of their surroundings."[1] Fences&Windows 23:21, 20 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Faith Middleton

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The article Faith Middleton has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

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Neurodiversity

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I have reverted your removal of material. I don't have a particularly strong opinion about it, but it is more or less automatic to revert edits that remove sourced material. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 22:34, 19 July 2011 (UTC) I moved that paragraph to a more appropriate page (a paragraph about Autism). And kept the sources. The neurodiversity movement is about accepting 'abnormal' brains for what they are, not singling them out for legal protection. So the legal protection paragraph specifically doesn't belong there and IMHO is actually offensive to members of the ND movement. It does belong on a general page about autism (although some info more specific to autism would have been useful regardless of which page the paragraph is on).Reply

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Your contributed article, Wild Card Showdown

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Name blending

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Hi - I'm glad you're still around. I came across your deleted 2008 article on "Name blending", and I have found a recent source that supports it: Emma Barnett, "Couples fuse surnames in new trend: ‘I now pronounce you Mr and Mrs Puffin’", The Telegraph (November 9, 2012). The existence of the practice is also mentioned in Eviatar Zerubavel, Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community (2012), p. 84, which is clearly a reliable source.

If you are interested, I would like to restore the deleted article and move it to your userspace to be reworked based on these additional sources, and perhaps others that can be found. I would also propose expanding the article to include blended given names, and blended surnames that are not adopted by the married couple, but are given to their children. Let me know what you think. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:17, 8 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

I have restored the article as a draft at Draft:Name blending (great use for the new namespace, I think). Thanks! bd2412 T 16:14, 29 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
I have restored Name blending to mainspace. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:13, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Proposed deletion of Tiny Fuppets

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The article Tiny Fuppets has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable website/webseries. After being the subject of a fluff piece on HuffPo once in 2014, it attracted no further in-depth coverage.

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Nomination of Tiny Fuppets for deletion

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