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Software System Award edit

 

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Notability of Matt Kaufmann edit

 

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December 2007 edit

  Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from pages that you have created yourself. If you do not believe the page should be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) and make your case on the page's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you.-Carados (talk) 02:56, 24 December 2007 (UTC) For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Carados (talk) 02:52, 24 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

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AfD nomination of Matt Kaufmann edit

 

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Proposed deletion of David S. Miller edit

 

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AfD nomination of David S. Miller edit

 

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Speedy deletion nomination of Authoritative Name Server edit

 

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A tag has been placed on Authoritative Name Server, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Proposed deletion of CNS (DNS server) edit

 

The article CNS (DNS server) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced software stub from 2007 with zero evidence of notability

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