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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:04, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

You should take a look at this

See ticket 2021100110005621. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:36, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Concerning a file you undeleted that was deleted again on the Wikimedia Commons

@King of Hearts:, I didn't want to do this as I personally think that it's quite a tasteless barnstar, but... I've added the "Hot Sex Barnstar" here as it's a controversial one that was discussed in a reliable source. If you wish you can file an undeletion request at the Wikimedia Commons (I would advise against using your sysop powers to undelete it again), it could theoretically be used here, but I don't think that it would be a visual treat to the readers. In fact I didn't really want to add that section here, but it's relevant and it means that the image itself now has educational value for another Wikimedia website as it seemed to constantly fall on deaf ears there. Do with this information as you wish. --Donald Trung (talk) 18:54, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

It could theoretically be linked to like this as is done in the source article itself. --Donald Trung (talk) 19:02, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

I realised that you might not see the thing there (as I don't seem to get pings on Wikipedia talk pages), note that I specifically state file an undeletion request and not undelete as that would be a sysop edit war. I would advise against directly using the file on the page simply because it looks very tacky (I only "like" the file because its absurdity gives me such a laugh), but what's odd is that finding information about Wikipedia "barnstars" is scarce online, but this "barnstar" (actually anchor stars) seems to be described in detail so I would argue that this is the most educational barnstar. Anyhow, do with this information as you wish. --Donald Trung (talk) 19:49, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

• Let me clarify my intent from the discussion as I noticed that some users used it to both insult you and me. My issue with the original DR was that it was interpreted against policy, as usual it attracted a Deletionist user that immediately began arguing that it was within policy despite "COM:INUSE" arguing the opposite (as the file was in use at a template which after long discussion had consensus to stay), the DR just circumvented this consensus and the nominator claimed that another barnstar was better (WP:IDONTLIKEIT) but didn't actually insert the barnstar after deletion making it seem like blatant censorship. At the VP discussion the other user kept misrepresenting policy and arguing with a Contrarian is like playing chess with a pigeon, every time the goal post moves, the user says that the file should be deleted because it's not educational, I point out that the policy dictates that in use files are considered educational, they say that Wiki-specific files aren't so, so I point out that their interpretation of policies would get the Treahouse logo deleted (which they deny without actually building an argument as to why), note that this user has spearheaded many DR's that violate "COM:INUSE", of their DR's quite a number of in use files have been deleted over their assertion that fantasy flags don't have educational value, the issue is that they don't actually care about sources, for example a file sourced at the English-language Wikipedia was ignored because they claimed that "the uploader was likely the same person as the designer in the source" (note that everyone else in the DR was discussing copyright). When I mentioned that this barnstar was controversial and mentioned by external parties he called it "trivial", so I found a reliable source and then he dismisses it. You can't argue with a person who's always moving the goalpost, yet I am supposedly "trolling" to point out that breaking policies shouldn't be allowed and that it's a slippery slope. I will admit that the above was done to spite the user for calling reliable sources "trivial" whenever they dislike something, a behaviour they also express in their DR's.

Note that at the time I was quite upset about a closed UnDR where the admin refused to undelete a file that was exactly as I had described it based on an external source and she told me specifically to not ask admins how it looked, likely because it was identical to the description of the source, the file was in use at half a dozen different Wikipedia's and the nominator is known for a similar crusade against symbols they consider "fictional" and ignore any policy and contrary evidence when presented. While the file is undeleted now, I notice how a lot of admins that came from Nlwiki tend to have this dismissive personality, this is due to the culture there essentially allowing insults by admins and admins never respond to users who ask them why they ignore policies.

As I rather don't want any arguments with people that clearly assume bad faith and can't seem to be collegial I prefer not to continue discussing the topic over there, I just find it odd that such blatant ignoring of policies like "COM:INUSE" and "COM:CIVILITY" are considered acceptable. By preference I would rather not have to deal with these people, I just wrote it here for clarity, as I don't know if any of them e-mailed you with more insults towards me. My issue is that "COM:INUSE" is systematically ignored and many admins don't actually seem to care about policies like that. To give an example, this file is actually a free file as it's ineligible for copyright under United States copyright, but was deleted at the Wikimedia Commons as "a fantasy flag" despite actual photographic evidence being presented in the DR which the nominator dismissed as "trivial", so a "COM:INUSE" flag with no copyright issues gets deleted despite photographic evidence, I would rather not upload it locally here but in the current culture I am not sure if it would be wise to upload it to the Wikimedia Commons. --Donald Trung (talk) 07:06, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Query

Hello, King of Hearts,

I look at the Deletion log and noticed a page restoration based on Wikipedia:Deletion review#List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation (closed). I was wondering if your decision also meant that List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation II should be restored as well. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:32, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes - List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation II was not explicitly discussed as a separate entity in either the AfD or DRV, so whatever happens to the main article should also happen to this appendix. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:36, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

And BOOM! It's done. I usually don't get such a fast response to my talk page messages. Hope all is well with you! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:37, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

• re. your DRV close. I don't understand it. consensus at this DRV is that the closer erred in concluding that there were only two valid "keep" !votes does not seem to be an appropriate summation of the discussion: whether there were only two or maybe a few more arguments about the list not being OR (when the more convincing argument, re. the overall lack of sources presenting a similar list and the differences with sources which did present a Nobel affiliation list in some form or another; was firmly on the side of the list indeed being OR) does not seem to have been a major concern (although there was plenty or relitigation of the OR question itself). I might have missed a few bits in all the noise, but secondly, it has been argued that WP:NLIST is in fact a valid counter to NOR, since it establishes that the concept of the list is not fundamentally flawed does not seem to have been a major concern, either: could you point out some comments which discuss this point? Because of how lopsided the !vote count was in the end, it is not sufficient for "endorse" !voters to simply point out that some of the "keep" !votes, or even a significant proportion of them, did not address the reason for deletion does not seem accurate, either: lopsided or not, it was not merely half, but the vast majority, which did not address the OR issue. And finally, I don't see how there is a consensus for overturning, period. A "no consensus" close (whatever that entails for the list itself - likely, allow recreation in a policy compliant manner) would probably have been more appropriate. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:00, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

  Many different policy-based arguments were presented in the DRV on both sides, and it would be impossible to mention every one of them. On a raw !vote count I see 28 to 20, so it is definitely within the DRV closer's discretion to find a consensus here. I chose to highlight one argument, because it directly refuted the evidence Sandstein used to defend his close while accepting his framework. There are many other plausible arguments, like this one from Andrew which challenged the framework altogether: "You can't have it both ways. If you're going by strength of argument then you consider only the arguments. If you're going by headcount, then you do just that. So, far as the argument goes, the close conceded in conclusion that the topic was viable; they just didn't like that version. But, as the article has a huge history of over 1500 versions over 15 years, it is not sensible to delete that long history which may well have contained better versions."

  A lot of arguments are implicit, and that is something I think Sandstein missed in the original AfD. Returning to the DRV, the explicit association of NLIST with NOR was made by Sdkb, Alalch Emis, and Danstronger, but there were several arguments which made a similar argument without explicitly mentioning one or both by name (e.g. Hut 8.5, Dream Focus, Mysterymanblue). -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:30, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

  When both sides have equally valid arguments, and neither side has an overwhelming majority (28-20 [ignoring those that should be discounted per NOTAVOTE] is 58%, which is not particularly striking as a "strong majority" to me), the outcome should have been "no consensus". Some of the overturns are as flimsy as the AfD keeps: Overturn. The topic is clearly notable, and the Nobel association itself has a list, so NLIST is satisfied (does not address any way how the close was wrong); Overturn per SDKB and several others. (useless, not only because it is vague but because, of course, those very points have been disputed and they are not offering any new argument), Overturn I totally agree that it is now WP:NOR-compliant. (self-explanatory)... re. the NLIST/NOR argument: A few editors out of 48 making one side of an argument (and likely an equal number saying the opposite, like Sandstein answering Sdkb's claim; Tompa and XOR answering Alalch, ...), is not a "consensus" that this argument is valid. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:58, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

  I can also find poor endorses (e.g. scope_creep's, which belongs on AfD, not DRV), and ones that add little in the way of new argument (e.g. Zaathras, Stifle, Hemiauchenia). 48 is a lot of participants at a DRV; the more participants you have, the lower the rule-of-thumb threshold for consensus drops. In an ideal world where we can get literally everyone's opinion, a simple majority is sufficient for consensus. But we don't live in that ideal world, so any real discussion is subject to sampling error. The reason why we require a supermajority is because we don't want consensus to shift every time the populace is re-surveyed, but in a theoretical environment where consensus cannot change, there is no reason for tyranny of the 49% minority. If we do a one-sided confidence interval on 28/48, we are 85% confident that the true proportion of support is over 50%. To me that is enough confidence to declare a consensus assuming the arguments are sufficiently well-reasoned. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:32, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

  If the concern is sampling error ("every time the populace is re-surveyed,"), your confidence interval would be calculated using the 48 participants out of a population of (total number of usually active editors, which, judging by this; (and going by the number of editors with 100+ edits/month, which is pretty much the case of everyone in that DRV), would be something like just about 5 thousand);... Of course, disregarding that discussions are not votes. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 03:48, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

  Right, so let's return to the substance of the arguments, shall we? WP:VAGUEWAVEs by the "overturn" side can, of course, be answered by VAGUEWAVEs on the "endorse" side, and vice versa. However, once we get into the specifics, the "endorse" side has not made convincing arguments as to why the AfD opinions of Andrew Davidson, Mysterymanblue, Gah4, and Tiredmeliorist, among others, should be thrown out. If we're counting !votes at AfD, then that gets us to a dead heat. If we're not counting !votes at AfD, then to get to a "delete" result you would have to decide that these 6 "keep" !votes are somehow weaker than the 6 "delete" !votes - something which the "endorse" side has failed to do. Instead, many of their arguments boil down to WP:OSE - because some of the "keep" !votes are weak, nearly all of them must be weak. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:05, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

• I must say that it was a very bad DRV close. It has failed to even acknowledge very strong policy-based endorsement points, and ultimately resorted to vote-counting. Effectively, you have torn up WP:NOTAVOTE, by not enagaging with the policy-based position of either camp. Like RandomCanadian, I do not see a consensus to overturn in that DRV, not even close, and I don't find your argument that WP:VAGUEWAVEs by the "overturn" side can, of course, be answered by VAGUEWAVEs on the "endorse" side as persuasive... in fact, it was very WP:VAGUEWAVE itself. I did !vote "Endorse" but I'm totally indifferent as to the future of this particular article; but I find the points raised in that DRV too important for future cases to be so laconically closed (and wrongly summarized). I'd respectfully ask that you undo that close and leave it to someone else. No such user (talk) 11:03, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
  • Really a very good close, though I strongly disagree with one sentence. I get that you and RC see the world in a certain way--that the policy-based arguments for deletion are just obviously true. But the policy-based argument for deletion A) really misunderstands how lists work on Wikipedia and B) was strongly rejected at AfD. The justification used for deleting the article by the closing admin (counting those that mentioned NOR) was utterly bogus on all levels. Even if one accepts counting references to a policy as a reasonable basis for a close, as KoH points out, *that* didn't really did get there either because of all the folks that discussed the issue of OR without actually linking to WP:NOR. All that said, the notion that counting votes in the way the closer did is an even vaguely proper way to close a discussion is wrongheaded. One judges strength of argument, not counting who mentions what policy. Hobit (talk) 11:20, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
    • This is probably not a place to discuss philosophical differences. But, try as I might, I haven't seen a cogent argument addressing WP:SYNTH allegations in all those megabytes of discussion and the DRV closure. And your explanations such as "really misunderstands how lists work", "utterly bogus", and "wrongheaded" do not help my understanding as to the way you see the world. No such user (talk) 11:55, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
      • The way I see the world is that many of our list articles require local consensus about what to include. For big schools, a "List of Alumni" article can't include everyone with an article. And for a very small one, such a list (often in the article) will include people without an article. We do allow editorial decisions. We do this in lists. We also do this in articles. I spent a fair bit of time reviewing British Empire. There are tons and tons of editorial decisions made about what to include and what not to include--the topic is just too large. What you see as "original research" I see as "editorial discretion". Not every decision can, or should, be based on exactly how the various sources address things--especially when the sources are all different. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have an article on the British Empire, it means we need to work to find the best way to cover the topic. I see that as applying here as much as it does in the British Empire article. I don't expect you to agree with that, but do you understand my philosophical viewpoint here? I believe that was the view held by many in the AfD. Hobit (talk) 12:34, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
        • I understand now, and even sympathize. But that essentially means that we should have no rules other than local consensus, and that would be a rather different project than Wikipedia. My understanding is that this project (its content part, specifically) is very much rules-driven, to the extent that many decisions can be made almost algorithmically: "this is WP:SYNTH, isn't it?" "well, um, but it's notable!" – "well, WP:TNT, then". This AfD and the DRV were all about policy-wonking (or wikilawyering, if you prefer) so I'm disappointed to see it ended by the close that does not even acknowledge the fine points, and proclaims consensus where there is not one. As for the article itself, I wouldn't mind an IAR-keep, but let us at least acknowledge that. No such user (talk) 12:57, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
          • And I understand your point though I think to some extent it ignores the shades-of-grey that must be involved in any project like Wikipedia. But thanks for the serious question. While we continue to disagree, I'm glad we understand where the other is coming from. Hobit (talk) 13:10, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
• The contrast between Sandstein's much better close (which honestly and clearly explains how the conclusion was reached) and this very poor close (which would have been much better as your own contribution to the discussion) is really striking. --JBL (talk) 11:58, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
  • What? Sandstein couldn't identify what WP:OR argument he found strong enough to go against the strong numeric consensus. That's a huge problem. "Count folks who mentioned a specific policy" is not the basis of a good close... Hobit (talk) 12:28, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
• Because of how lopsided the !vote count was in the end, it is not sufficient for "endorse" !voters to simply point out that some of the "keep" !votes, or even a significant proportion of them, did not address the reason for deletion; in fact, discarding half of the "keep" !votes would not be sufficient to find a consensus to delete. – So that means that dodging a key issue and arguing a strawman is now an acceptable approach to discussion, as long as your side garners significant enough number of !votes to lopside the count? No such user (talk) 13:09, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

  Yep, this DRV close sets an extraordinarily bad precedent. Strawmen and red herrings should be disregarded whether they are made up of thin air or whether they appear to point at Wikipedia policy (as was argued by plenty of folks at the DRV, folks whose opinion was disregarded based on apparently a mere numeric counted). Anyway, this is all moot as the article has now been TNTed and started over again, so the issues of the AfD and DRV don't apply anymore (although they vindicate that my rationale, that this needed TNT, was correct). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:33, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

  When the AfD !vote is close, like 6 keeps and 5 deletes, then it is valid to argue that the discussion should be closed as "delete" since the "keep" side was weak in general. However, when the AfD !vote has an overwhelming supermajority to keep, you cannot simply talk in such generalities, but must pick apart every individual "keep" !vote which has been plausibly argued to be relevant and policy-compliant and explain why it is not. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 15:13, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

• Comment Good close at DRV, Kudos to you assessing such a contested issue and coming to a conclusion. Some people were bound to be flummoxed by any decision. Lightburst (talk) 15:48, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
• I concur that this was a good close, exceptionally well-articulated. To those who continue to object, I'd say it's time to WP:LETITGO. The article was challenged through the AfD. That AfD was challenged with the DRV, a challenge to a challenge. We're now at the stage of challenging the challenge to the challenge to the article, which is a bit much. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 16:45, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
• (talk page stalker) I have followed this with some slight interest. I agree with Sdkb's rather comical analysis: We're now at the stage of challenging the challenge to the challenge to the article, which is a bit much. Indeed, I don't think this can or should persist anymore. KoH closed the DRV as no-consensus which I think could (should?) have applied to the initial AfD and as such, on balance, was perhaps the most appropriate decision. The fact the article has now been started from scratch surely means it should be put to bed. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:02, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

  KoH closed the DRV as no-consensus This is not true. --JBL (talk) 22:18, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

JBL: I guess I meant that the debate was concluded overall as being one without consensus. Yes, the DRV "specifically" wasn't NC closed as that would in turn not affect the AfD outcome I guess, but maybe I mis-phrased. I didn't expect a somewhat pedantic scrutiny of my attempt to suggest the debate should be retired. KoH will no doubt appreciate getting his talk page back! Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:27, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

• You possibly feel like the Tommy Carcetti character in The Wire right now. However you closed that DRV there were going to be brickbats; irrespective of agreeing with you, my respect for stepping in and concluding a difficult close in good faith. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 03:18, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

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