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Inapprorpriate early non-admin closure of AfD

Hi, you recently closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2010 ANZAC Test more than two days early invoking WP:SNOW. Firstly, I do not believe SNOW should be invoked for non-admin closures, and you should not be closing discussions early in any case. Secondly, it is perfectly clear from the discussion that there is disagreement and no-one has rebutted my comments making a snow close an invalid outcome. I have listed it at DRV. Regards, wjematherbigissue 10:01, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Not entirely agreeing with Wjemather's full post, but a rule of thumb for snow closures is eight or more keep !votes, and as such I have reopened the debate. Please don't take this negatively, just as a note that the result was not obvious enough to justify a snow closure. Stifle (talk) 10:59, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
I am always willing to have any of my NAC closures reopened for further discussion. I will always invoke my best judgement, and I don't believe that it was an inappropriate closure - in any sense, what's done is done. Dusti*poke* 15:37, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

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Looie496 recall

I think this is a little premature—if we recalled admins for making one or two routine actions with poor judgment, we would have not any admins. Could you specify a recurring pattern that requires recall, a purely disruptive action, or some disruption that would stop if the sysop flag were removed? Otherwise, will you consider withdrawing the request for recall? /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 22:34, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I thought this through before I called for a desysop because it's a serious move and a serious measure. If you read the recall page, Louie stated a clear disregard for the community who entrusted him with the bits. There is a clear consensus that this is wrong, and as such there is support for a desysop. I will not be withdrawing this request. Dusti*poke* 00:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Mmk. I think I see where you're coming from, and I'm thinking about this. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 02:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
I wouldn't mind it so much if he said "I misread" or had some form of an excuse, but he states pretty clearly that he disregarded the consensus and then he refused to comment. So it was an "unblock and hide" action. When you do something as a sysop, you are subject to community scrutinty and you should be willing to explain your actions and be ready to admit you made a mistake and revert your sysop action, but he hasn't and refuses to. Dusti*poke* 02:49, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

February 2011 Wikification Drive

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user page

Not a place to express thoughts? GrayFishYo (talk) 06:46, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Not a place for clear profanity and you should review the user page policy. Dusti*poke* 06:47, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
I thought the censorship of the cuss words was okay and you should review "Miss Manners" Judith Martin — Preceding unsigned comment added by GrayFishYo (talk • contribs) 06:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Unblock Request

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Dusti (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I've been hit by an autoblock by having a proxy on to watch netflix online. I'm requesting IPBE and an unblock, of course. I'll be in Puerto Rico until March, if that helps any. The IP that's autoblocked me is 174.133.0.0/16. Dusti*poke* 01:21, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Accept reason:

IP block exempt

I have granted your account an exemption from IP blocking. This will allow you to edit through full blocks affecting your IP address when you are logged in.

Please read the page Wikipedia:IP block exemption carefully, especially the section on IP block exemption conditions.

Note in particular that you are not permitted to use this newly-granted right to edit Wikipedia via anonymous proxies, or disruptively. If you do, or there is a serious concern of abuse, then the right may be removed by any administrator.

Appropriate usage and compliance with the policy may be checked periodically, due to the nature of block exemption, and block exemption will be removed when no longer needed (for example, when the block it is related to expires).

I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

This user's request to have autoblock on their IP address lifted has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.
Dusti (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
174.133.108.170 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Block message:

{{blocked proxy}}: <!-- theplanet.com -->

Accept reason: ^ :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Risker informs me that she has spoken to you in IRC and suggested you try using one browser to do whatever you're doing that needs the proxy and another browser for WP, editing via a regular IP. Could you try it and see if it works? While I don't think you're likely to abuse IPBE, if there's such a simple solution, it might be better. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 04:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Dusti. I'm oceanski, a student of Public Policy class at Michigan State Univ. Although I've registered my ID on wiki for a couple of yrs, I'm not familiar with wiki at all! It's really great that you are willing to help us : ) Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oceanski (talk • contribs) 21:16, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Dusti, can you be my mentor for this class? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oceanski (talk • contribs) 21:30, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify's Coordinator Election

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Mentor

Hey Dusti,

My name is Emily Fuerst, I am a senior at James Madison University. My Technical Editing class is fortunate to take part in this great project with Wikipedia. I look forward to learning more about this website, and all of the interesting possibilities it has to offer. After briefly looking throughout the mentors, I noticed that you live in Puerto Rico. I think traveling is extremely important, and I hope that I can travel more this summer. Anyways, I hope that you can become my mentor throughout this semester. Please let me know if that is a possibility, I look forward to your response.

Sincerely, Fuerstem (talk) 01:54, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I am at your disposal :) Let me know how I can help you!! Dusti*poke* 01:56, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring JMU Class

FYI, check out this. Cheers Sadads (talk) 02:16, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Adoption offer

Hello. A while ago i believe you offered me adoption. Would you still be interested, i have not heard anything back from you ,so i was wondering Thanks Birdstothewind (talk) 13:18, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Theodore Chipmunk (disambiguation)

No, a disambiguation page should usually have no incoming links, so you don't need to tag it as {{orphan}}. It is not a {{stub}}, it's a disambiguation page. The most helpful thing you could do is to add {{dab}}. It needed some more cleanup per WP:MOSDAB, which I'm about to do. PamD (talk) 11:09, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Same applies to José Campos (disambiguation). PamD (talk) 11:32, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Golmaal Radhakrishna

This article had no content, so it would be more useful to nominate it for Speedy deletion under {{db-empty}} (WP:CSD A3), rather than waste time tagging it. PamD (talk) 11:55, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Dusti

Dusti,

I was recommended to you by a friend and have heard great things about you already. My name's Joe, I'm 20 and a student at James Madison University. Anywho, I was just looking for someone who could help me along as class ventures into the breathing time machine that is Wikipedia.

Joe Stelfox — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joe stelfox (talk • contribs) 20:20, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey! My name's Jenn, I'm a junior at JMU. I'm a Writing Rhetoric and Technical Communications major and I'm taking a class this semester where I am required to use wikipedia. If I have any questions this semster, would you be able to help me?

Thanks, Jenn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walla2jl (talk • contribs) 20:33, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I will take on the two of you as well, making me full for mentees. Dusti*poke* 20:36, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Relisting of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shohei-ryu

Hi, you relisted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shohei-ryu on the 24 January AfD log. That discussion had been closed for nearly 3 years when you relisted it, so I reverted it. By chance, did you mean to relist Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shohei-ryu (2nd nomination)? —KuyaBriBriTalk 20:49, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

My error, thank you! :) Dusti*poke* 21:10, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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hey can u help

can u help with my page about the bandits real important — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyson&Thunder (talk • contribs) 01:42, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Botanical Garden of Mérida

Good Night from Calabria, i see your intervent, please you could to help the article, to change i traslate an article of your interest in sicilian and other italian dialect..a greet from calabria and Morally from Venezuela!--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 21:51, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Que? Hablas espanol? Dusti*poke* 21:53, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

si señor...tengo familia a Venezuela...porfis puedes ayudarme en esa traduccion?..gracias de corazon--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 21:54, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Que tu quieres que yo te traduzca? Dusti*poke* 21:56, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

este articulo, osea lo del Jardin por ahora, estoy a la orden por tu solecitud de traduccion en siciliano y otros dialectos.--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 21:58, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Donde? En.wiki, es.wiki, ... ? Donde? Dusti*poke* 22:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

en ingles naturalmente...y gracias pa tu ayuda en adelante..--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 22:01, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

vea la pagina. Dejame saver si me necesitas. Dusti*poke* 22:12, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
gracias...pero yo quiero decir si puedes meyorar el articulo en ingles...ya lo tradujé en siciliano y en italiano del español...en cada modo si quieres alguna traduccion a siciliano y otro dialecto italiano estoy a la orden!un abrazo y feliz noche desde calabria y moralmente desde Venezuela--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 22:15, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
lol Lo siento, pensé que simplemente quería que traducirla página del español al Inglés. Por supuesto que voy aarreglar la página. Tengo un par de cosas que hacer yvoy a volver a la página. Ok? Dusti*poke* 22:19, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
no te preocupe..haces con calma..yo que te puedo traducir en siciliano?..nos veemos mañana..feliz noche todavia--Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 22:22, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

For non spanish speaking users: The above discussion was a request for me to clean the article up in English, and an offer for another article to be translated into Sicilian. Dusti*poke* 07:41, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Mentor

Hey, I'm Courtney! I'm a junior at James Madison University and my Technical Editing class is working on a Wikipedia project this semester; we are creating US Public Policy articles. I was wondering if you would be my mentor? This is all really new to me, but hopefully I will start to get the hang of it. Let me know! Thanks! Wood3cm (talk) 23:03, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

LOL alright, alright. You are the LAST individual I can take under. I need to make a template stating I'm full for mentees. :) Dusti*poke* 23:29, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Reenem's RfA

Asking a candidate who's failing that badly to answer 5 more questions is a little bit mean, in my opinion. 28bytes (talk) 05:23, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

They're honest questions. It's up to him to answer them, but it could spark a change in votes, and if worse comes to worse, provide honest needed feedback for him in the future. Dusti*poke* 05:25, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Editor review

See Wikipedia:Editor_review/Dusti2,

Also: I sent you an email.

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  09:39, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

UAA

Hey, promotional usernames shouldn't be reported until they've actually edited, because we don't generally block just for having the name of a company/organisation. We wait for them to edit and then {{softerblock}} or {{spamusernameblock}} depending on the nature of the edits. If you could wait for them to edit in future, it would be appreciated. Btw, do you still need that IPBE? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:10, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

With me traveling right now, I have to use proxies a lot. It'd be appreciated if I can keep IPBE until March, when I return to the states. If that's not possible, I understand and I'll try to figure out how to make it work. Dusti*poke* 21:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion contested: Pangunahing Balita

Hello Dusti, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Pangunahing Balita, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: rvt. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Dusti*poke* 08:14, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Hehe, I've rejected my own speedy nominations too after users improved the articles. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:07, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Church chairs for deletion

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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Church chairs until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

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Speedy deletion converted to PROD: SpecialThanks

Hello Dusti, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I have converted the speedy deletion tag that you placed on SpecialThanks to a proposed deletion tag. The speedy deletion criteria are extremely narrow to protect the encyclopedia, and do not fit the page in question. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Dusti*poke* 01:44, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Bringing hope home to central falls

I declined speedy deletion of this page because WP:CSD#R2 does not provide for the speedy deletion of redirects from the article namespace to the Wikipedia namespace. However, if you can find another speedy deletion criterion that applies, please feel free to re-tag the page. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:18, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

It's possible to ignore all rules and delete that redirect, as it's an obvious not likely redirect. Dusti*poke* 04:20, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
You've templated me about the above article: I am not the article's creator. Maybe this was an auto-thing because I had moved it? The Interior(Talk) 04:22, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
I used twinkle and I think it automatically notified you. Sorry :) Dusti*poke* 04:23, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
No worries. Darn robots. The Interior(Talk) 04:29, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Level 3

Hi, Why level 1 ? That is the 3rd one in this month. Please change the warning. Thanks. *** in fact *** ( contact ) 07:39, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

That message was given in an automated format, but after review I actually agree with the current stance. Our goal is to assume good faith, as IP's can change their owners rather quickly. I reviewed their most recent contributions and their well intended contributions. Let's see if that changes, and if needed, the next warning can be escalated. Dusti*poke* 07:43, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Namramuni Gurudev

You "declined" the BLP-prod on Namramuni Gurudev on the grounds that it is about a group, not a person. However, I believe you misread the article. The article is about one person, the "guru" of a large group of Jains. As such, this does appear to be about a person, not a group. Also, I have removed the speedy deletion template, as I believe the claim that the person is a leader of millions of people is claim that the person is "important or significant", a lower threshold than "notable." Qwyrxian (talk) 09:35, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Operation R.E.L.P

I see you have relisted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Operation R.E.L.P. Can you help me understand why? Thanks... ttonyb (talk) 05:26, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

With only two comments, I don't feel that there was enough discussion on the AFD, as I personally like to see more discussion. It never hurts to ask for more opinions on a matter, especially when it comes to deleting an article. Dusti*poke* 06:30, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you from Qui Tam Relatir

Thank you Dusti for your support of Roland Gibeault. A great source for Gibeault is, http://rolandgibeault.googlepages.com you can also see is info on googlesites as "Roland Gibeault a Relators story" he is one of the most important whistleblower stopping any further fraud from occurring during the 1980's and 1990's regarding the HARM Missile production on false testing of the Altimeter and saved countless military and civilian life and hundreds of millions of dollars of future fraud. Thank you for your ear and your patience166.205.138.74 (talk) 07:33, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Punjab Juvenile Justice System Rules 2002

Hi. The Punjab Juvenile Justice System Rules 2002 hereinafter referred to as the Rules have been made by the Government of the Punjab, Pakistan in 2002, for protection of juveniles in conflict with the law. The article does not include the original text or any copyrighted material of these Rules that may make this article a candidate for deletion. The article can be expanded by including (e.g.) material about the following:

  • What change these Rules have brought about regarding treatment of juvenile delinquents as compared with the adults?
  • What are the shortcomings of these Rules?
  • What are the international instruments involved e.g. United Nations' conventions on the juvenile justice?
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  • Implementation issues?
  • Etc., etc.,

For the above reasons, this article shall not be deleted and indeed expanded in scholarly manner.--182.177.145.81 (talk) 16:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

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Re: Regent Motors, Morecambe

I am not very happy with you for deleting my wiki article of Regent Motors, Morecambe. I am new to wikipedia and have offered to help create new articles and edit existing ones. The article I created and YOU deleted had valid sources and references and all its content was true. Please get that article back up because I don't know how to do it and you do!

216.164.128.152

Hi Dusti,

To let you know, I disagree with your warning to 216.164.128.152.

I found 216.164.128.152's change to be consistent with another article, The Show Must Go, and with a source, Hedley Hoping Third Time's A Charm (: so I've reverted your reversion. :)

--Kevinkor2 (talk) 10:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Hauskalainen

I have reported Hauskalainen at the admin notice board. The link is here. [1]Intermittentgardener (talk) 21:10, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

I've been away for a bit and I see that it's been archived without a conclusion. It may be worth reposting to get it out of archival status. Dusti*poke* 03:07, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Jriley95

Hi Dusti,

Jriley95 has been making changes to other people's edits on your talk page.

--Kevinkor2 (talk) 11:50, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Semi-pro football discussions need feedback

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Hey Dusti! I hope this is where I'm supposed to write to you haha. I picked my public policy topic...Excessive Bail. Do you think I will be able to add to that page? I need to have four good sources...so I hopefully I can find some. Anyways let me know if you think my topic is a lost cause..have a great day! :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fuerstem (talk • contribs) 21:34, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

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marking mentees' userpages

Hey Mike! This is just a quick reminder: please be sure to add {{WAP student}} (for an example, see User:Sfofana) the user pages of your mentees. And once they are working on articles, be sure to tag the talk pages with {{WAP assignment}}. Cheers--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:25, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Why did I call you Mike? That's the second time I've left a message for you and forgot to change the name from what I copied and pasted! Argh! I'm sorry about that. Anyhow, just a friendly poke about marking your mentees' userpages. Be sure to leave replies to mentees on their talk pages, too, since they usually won't check back on yours. It looks like KrakatoaKatie accepted an second mentor request from Fuererkm, who hadn't seen your reply; they left a message asking for help from KrakatoaKatie, who is still away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:KrakatoaKatie#Public_Policy_Project
Maybe you could mentor Fuererkm until Katie returns? Thanks!--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:33, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
I've sent all of them a quick note, I'm not sure what project or class they're all involved with. And I'll send Fuererkm a note too :) Dusti*poke* 06:04, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
User account "Fuererkm" is not registered. Dusti*poke* 06:06, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Whoops! I spelled it wrong. User:Feurerkm. Thanks! I'll try to figure out which classes they are in; most or all should have made an edit to the course page to list themselves, so it should be in the contribution history.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 14:25, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I tagged one, just waiting on a reply from the others. Dusti*poke* 00:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring students: be sure to check in on them

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Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!

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Help?

Dusti,

I was just looking to gather an outside editors opinion on the page I've been working on: Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act . This is a stub listed under the US Public Policy Act and has been revised from the opening paragraph. I am a little unclear exactly how to cite my first source as listed in the document however,the source is cited as [1] within the document and a [1] within the source section.

Thanks for the help,

Joe stelfox (talk) 21:04, 23 February 2011 (UTC)Joe_stelfox

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Marking articles students are working on

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Your RFA

Just so you know, I closed your RFA per WP:SNOW. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:37, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot to mention why I closed it. From the looks of it, things were rapidly going downhill there and I felt it would just be best if the drama was ended and people got back to editing. Sorry for any disappointment and I hope you have a great day. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:48, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you! I was actually copying someone from here recently, but I'll go remove it now (unless you've already done that) Dusti*poke* 01:34, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I would appreciate it if you would explain your username issue

I left you a reply on my talk page. MNyv2WhCXHJuGDYmoDvAUB043QDXsu (talk) 01:38, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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Not eligible for CSD I'm afraid, please take to WP:AFD. Regards, GiantSnowman 15:46, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

_________________ You sent me a message re nookat. I am just driving through the village now. I can upload photos to prove the point if it helps but there is obviously no 'citation' other than what I can see in front of me. Surely such info is useful?!

Sorry I didn't have time to log in as didn't know how long internet connection would last. — Precedingunsigned comment added by 194.176.111.159 (talk) 03:56, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

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I'm confused

I've mentioned a couple of your AfD NACs at User talk:Dennis Brown#Speedy renominate because I am confused about process. No doubt there is sense but I can't see it, perhaps because I'm a bit off-colour at the moment. - Sitush (talk) 12:52, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm no AfD expert but I'd assume that no discussion after several weeks defaults to delete (since the only valid argument is to delete the articles). Just a thought. --regentspark (comment) 13:16, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Sitush and User:RegentsPark, you can check Wikipedia:NPASR#No_quorum for more information :) When there is no consenus to delete or keep, the default is "No Conensus" and the article is retained. Articles are brought to AfD for consensus to delete, so lack of discussion doesn't provide the consensus needed, and therefore it would not default to a delete. Both articles that Sitush nominated, due to it being closed as No Consensus, are able to be relisted for deletion. Dusti*poke* 14:17, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
OK. Perhaps Sitush should just prod them and see what happens. Though, I note on WP:NPASR that the closer does have the option to go with the nominator. :) --regentspark (comment) 14:19, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
It's entirely possible that the PROD wouldn't be contested, as nothing was contested on the AfD. *Shrugs* :) Dusti*poke* 14:22, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I'll PROD, linking to this thread. The situation is a bit weird, given WP:BURDEN effectively says the opposite to "no consensus = keep" and NPASR is not actually opposed to deletion. It is also a bit scary since it potentially permits obscure hoaxes to remain. - Sitush (talk) 14:41, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Actually, even perma-linking to this thread is tricky and your one-day archive system is unhelpful. I'll do my best! - Sitush (talk) 14:43, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
The situation itself isn't a mess, I'm afraid. I understand your passion in wanting the article deleted, however, WP:BURDEN doesn't really say anything regarding a closure of an AfD. I followed consensus guidelines and closed it as No Consensus, as there wasn't any input by the community. No input, No consensus. It'd be like if you were to run for RfA and nobody voted. A Bureaucrat can't just promote you because nobody objected - nobody supported you either. It's the entire definition of consensus that creates the issue. There's no support one way or the either regarding the fate of the article. So what we, in essence, have is lack of participation from the community. I'm seeing a trend at AfD with a lot of articles. It used to be (a few years ago) a relisting of an AfD was rare. But that's an entirely different matter.RegentsPark, I'd have no qualm if you disagreed with my closure and deleted the two articles. I'm a neutral NAC party here :) Dusti*poke* 14:57, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
No. I'm not going to undo your closes. They are within policy and are made in good faith so being an admin or not has nothing to do with it. You do have the option to change your mind though because a prod, perhaps followed by another AfD does seem unnecessary :) If not, we might as well stick with the prod route. --regentspark (comment) 15:30, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
It isn't passion, I assure you; it is common sense, at least as far as I see it. There is a conflict between WP:BURDEN and keeping long-unreferenced articles that are nominated for deletion - that, too, seems like common sense. Your RfA analogy has zero chance of happening, whereas the situation being discussed here hashappened. It might have been best if you had not NAC'd the things because "No consensus" is not equivalent to "uncontroversial", whereas a clear consensus one way or the other would be. Basically, you were doing some housekeeping but your rational of "speedy renominate" makes no sense and in the absence of 100% support or oppose to the nomination it is always dodgy to NAC. You see, my issue here is now your close, not the articles themselves. - Sitush (talk) 15:06, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

I followed the guidelines that I set forth there. I suggest that, if you have a qualm, you can take it up at WP:Deletion review. Do you disagree withtheseclosures aswell? Dusti*poke* 15:12, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

I am only one of the many, many people who have asked Dusti to stop closing AfDs. For years. Literally. He clearly lacks the judgment necessary, but seems equally incapable of listening to the advice he has been given repeatedly. Here's another recent example of the problem. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 15:29, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Carbuncle, seriously? You're here again? You, once again, are wrong. Show me where this closure is a problem? Please :) Dusti*poke* 15:33, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Dusti, although RegentsPark thinks otherwise, your close was against policy. Forget citing NPASR guidelines and stick with the core policies, notablyWP:V, and bear in mind my considerable experience in dealing with caste-related articles and the sourcing thereof. This is not a DRV issue: the more I think about it, the more I think that you are wrong. If only because this clearly is no longer a non-controversial decision, you must revert. - Sitush (talk) 15:38, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
It'll take me a moment to get them relisted, however, sure - it's being disputed, and I'm absolutely okay with getting them re-opened. Carbuncle, I do see an issue with that closure now that I take a closer look at it. The delete !vote appears to have been outdented and not bolded, I'm going to take a closer look, however, these two (at the time) were in line with policy as expressed above by User:RegentsPark. Dusti*poke* 15:44, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I think you are confusing guidelines with policy and that in those two instances you were choosing to adopt one particular variant of the guideline when others would have been more in compliance with policy, but what the heck. It would be a lot easier if NACs were disallowed entirely, or at least for situation where there are less than, say, five unopposed supports for keep. - Sitush (talk) 15:57, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

New Message

Hi Dusti, I was trying to create a page for my company which I work for. however now I want to delete the page, but not finding a way to do it. can you please help me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuti.hk (talk • contribs) 11:36, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi there Stuti.hk, the best way to request deletion for a page you've created (providing nobody else has contributed to it) is to use {{db-g7}}. Dusti*Let's talk!* 20:13, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks you very much Dusti! I shall be trying to create page again. Hope I don't make mistakes this time! Stuti.hk (talk) 12:25, 26 July 2013 (UTC)Stuti.hk

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CSD declined - The kings school, Goa

Hi. Just to let you know that I have declined the speedy deletion of The kings school, Goa, as educational institutions are not legible for speedy deletion under notability. I see from your talk page that this isn't the first nomination that has been declined for invalid reasons. It might be an idea to refamiliarise yourself with the Speedy Deletion Requirements before nominating any further articles. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note on my talk page. Stephen! Coming... 11:31, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

I tagged it for CSD as it was speedily re-created moments after being deleted. Dusti*Let's talk!* 18:30, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
In which case, tag it accordingly. Please don't tag with one thing and mean another; that doesn't help anybody. Stephen! Coming... 19:33, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
I just used the same criteria as the admin used when deleting it - it was non notable. My apologies :) I'll keep that in mind should it come up again. Dusti*Let's talk!* 19:37, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
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