Serpent's Choice

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AfD closures

I am concerned about some recent non-admin speedy closures of AfDs that you have made. The most striking example I have seen so far is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tony Berg, which you closed with the comment "Nominated article is unrelated to the problematic content now removed from Eureka, California. As a result, there is no deletion rationale for this article, although the nomination was clearly made in good faith." However, the nomination contained "Following the link to the Tony Berg page that the anonymous editor linked to his/her edit, I found nothing of notability and was unable to verify the information on the page", which is a perfectly valid deletion rationale. The fact that the nominator also mentioned irrelevant information in another article does not in any way detract from that rationale. Likewise you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo? with the comment "nominator did not advance a reason for deletion". However, the nominator certainly did advance a reason for deletion, namely lack of sourcing. Speedy closure criterion 1 is for a nomination in which no reason for deletion is given at all, not for cases where you think the reason is insufficient. You went on to say "Although this article could -- and should -- probably be more tightly written and more comprehensively cited, those are editorial issues, not causes for deletion. The Emmy Award is sufficient to meet notability requirements, and, indeed, all such recipients have articles." That is a reason for you to support "keep" in the discussion, not a reason for summarily closing the discussion without giving anyone else a chance to comment. AfD discussion should almost always be allowed to run for a full week, and non-admin speedy closure should take place only in very exceptional circumstances, where the nomination was clearly totally inappropriate. In particular, please read the examples given at number 1 in Wikipedia:Speedy keep. You will see that those examples are ones where the nominator does not actually say that the article should be deleted at all, not cases where the nominator says that the article should be deleted but gives a reason which someone else does not regard as adequate. (The examples are "only proposing a non-deletion action such as moving or merging" and "posting a nomination in response to a proposed deletion but advocating a keep position".) JamesBWatson (talk) 11:49, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

I concur. See also notice about DRV on System bus model below. Ipsign (talk) 15:25, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Deletion review for System bus model

An editor has asked for a deletion review of System bus model. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Ipsign (talk) 15:25, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

BLP discussion

Hi there. I've started a discussion about one of your old subpages (User:Serpent's Choice/Sandbox/Review) at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. It dates back to 2007 so you might not even want to be part of the discussions, or you might be passionate about it still - any contribution you have would be good. I raised it there because I wanted to avoid retreading old ground about this (by merely removing/restoring it) and it's an interesting situation. violet/riga _^[talk] 19:24, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Henderson Award (2nd nomination)

In a revisit of a previous AFD you commented on, you might be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Henderson Award (2nd nomination).--GrapedApe (talk) 03:32, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Information

I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat (talk) 09:26, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:06, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Crossgen Chronicles promo poster.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:15, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Trafficinsoulsposter.jpg

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