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Why deleted my article

Hi

I hope you're well.

I wondering why my article about ArabiCollege was deleted and how can do such article without being deleted.

Thanks a lot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.185.56.181 (talk) 11:24, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

I explained on your account's talk page (User:Mohamed Abdellah223 that it was a copyright violation. It was also purely promotional. Our articles are meant to first meet certain notability criteria, eg Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) in the case of a college, and to be based on what reliable independent sources say about the subject (of course if those don't exist then our criteria for notability won't be met. If you are in any way connected with it you need to declare that. You should use articles for creation and read what it says very carefullyh. Doug Weller talk 19:34, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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Siege of Jerusalem

Its helpful to have similar events listed at top, otherwise the article is pidgeonholed by specific title. -Inowen (talk) 21:47, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

See the link at the top of the life article, and then explain how my linking was improper. -Inowen (talk) 23:06, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

@Inowen: see Template:Other uses which says "Do not use this template on an article with an unambiguous title; for example, a reader who searches specifically for "Paris, Virginia" is not likely to have been looking for an article about a city in France (or anywhere else), so it would no tbe appropriate to add

For other uses, see Paris.

to the top of the Paris, Virginia article." For instance, Siege of Jebus has an unambiguous title. Doug Weller talk 15:29, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Wow, I never knew that. I have used it a lot over the years. It's an interesting decision because we don't actually know what the reader was searching for, only where they landed. - Sitush (talk) 15:45, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

L@Sitush: Inowen used it for Siege of Jebus, which seems pretty specific. Doug Weller talk 15:48, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Oh, yes. I agree that it seems rather unnecessary there. I'm just surprised at the potential for a less widespread application of something that could be genuinely useful to the reader even when the article title is unambiguous, such as the Paris example you give. Think of things such as, say, the White Mountains when someone lands on White Mountains (New Hampshire) - they may not even be aware that there are other places bearing the name and unless they understand our titling guidelines being at the latter article is not a means of informing them otherwise. - Sitush (talk) 16:01, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Warning about vandalising and history-censoring of the now 4 year existing Ezidistan autonomous area

Dear Doug, I would please ask you to stop you're highly offensive actions against the now 4 year existing Ezidistan de facto autonomous area in West-Sinjar. Nobody is trying to remove the state you're living from wikipedia. Why are you even considering this doing these kind of vandalism toward other peoples state.

Please show some respect toward the Yezidi people that live and govern the de facto autonomous region in Iraq and do not try to remove an entire currently de facto autonomous region from wikipedia.

This is extra offensive as Daesh tried to whipe out the Yezidi people from history in a genocide recognized by UN. Now they bounced up and created a peacefull autonomous area governed by themeself, you are trying to whipe out any knowledge about this autonomous area. In the procces you removed 25 sources about the area from wikipedia, providing not one source you'reself and in statments only making clear you have no clue whatsowever governing divisions in this region.

You're effort to hide important and essential geographical and geopolitical information is at moment extra problematic, as Erdogan in several news outlets threatend to attack the Ezidistan de facto autonomous area in Iraq, in an effort (just like you) to wipe it of the map.

How would anyone in the world understand such a new war, if one party in the conflict is banned without any logic or reason by you from wikipedia? You also do not remove the existence of Turkey from wikipedia, why do try to remove the existens of autonomous region Yezidis established and maintained for 4 years now?

It is unbelievable that something like this can happen on wikipedia. It is trying to falsify history. Sensoring the existance of a autonomous area, in an highly NPOV-effort to try to let the world forget and ignore this autonomous area.

While all mapmakers on wikipedia are mapping this autonomous area with a seperate colour on all the current maps of the area, you seem to think that you can lift you're personal ignorance about the region, above the +25 provided sources and all mapmaker experts on wikipedia, caring just nothing about the fact you're falsifying history by doing so.

If you keep doing this I will report you're offensive actions, as they are completly irresponsable, unethical and 100% against wikipedia's goal of providing reliable, sourced and correct information to the world.--Niele~enwiki (talk) 02:47, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

• Niele~enwiki, the moment you suggest that one of your editors is a genocide artist because they wish to uphold the integrity of our beautiful project is the moment some admins will take a very close look at your work here. To make sure you know I'm serious, I am placing a templated warning on your user talk page. Your accusations are uncalled for, unjust, and unacceptable. Drmies (talk) 02:51, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
  • Users that remove autonomous area's like Abchazia, South Ossetia, Rojava, KRG, Nagorno-Karabach,... from wikipedia including +25 sources do not uphold 'the integrety' of this beautiful project but or attacking and damaging it.
  • I'm also very serious about this, this is higly offensive toward the inhabitants of this autonomous region and '...' history. The action of emptying these pages is called like they are by everybody? --Niele~enwiki (talk) 03:12, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

@Niele~enwiki: please stop personalizing disputes and making claims that normal editing activities by respected, experienced editors are "highly offensive" to anyone. Acroterion (talk) 03:18, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Beïng 11 years on wikipedia is not giving does not void Doug Wellers lack of any touch with reality in northern Iraq. I'm myself am more then 13 years on wikipedia now and know very well how WP works.

Doug is spreading absurd lies about the Ezidikhan Autonomous Region, pushing his personal unfounded beliefs that are not backed up or even suggested by any ANY source watsoever.

The Ezidikhan autonomous region is an undeniable ground-reality for more then 4 years now.

A now 4 year existing autonomous region, fully controlled and governed by an selfgoverning instituations of the EPC with no outside troops inside and with understanding/agreements with the Iraqi federal goverement.

It is a higly encyclopedical topic.

Moreover very relavent and actual because Turkish goverment has today anounced a operational room with the goal to attack the Ezidikhan Autonomous region in an effort to wipe it of the map

The iraqi government already announced that it will not support Turkey.

What Doug is doing is censorship of non-questionable non-opinionated ground reality and systematicly preventing wikipedia-users of adding sources and adding sourced material based upon his personal completly out of touch beliefs. --Niele~enwiki (talk) 09:54, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

@Niele~enwiki:, you may have been around for 11 years but you have less than 2000 edits with less than 500 of them to articles. That isn't enough to make yourself familiar with our policies and guidelines and that's obvious in your editing. I've got about 18o,000 edits, half of them to articles. You also don't seem to care at all about WP:Civility or good faith, having decided that rather than find the sources that 3 Administrators have asked you two you're just going to call me names. I have no stake in whether or not there is an article so long as it meets our polices of no original research and has independent reliable sources. The fact that you haven't provided any directly discussing such a region but resulted to name-calling suggests that you can't. Of course, if you can source your claim about Turkey, great. The issue for me is not whether such a region has been proclaimed, it clearly has. That doesn't mean it actually exists. At the risk of repeating myself, to show that this is a notable topic, find reliable independent sources directly discussing it by name. Doug Weller talk 11:21, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

I have different account on different language-wiki's. And I edited already on wikipedia in 2003. You simply ignore all provided sources and immidiatly prevent any source from being added.

While you yoursef keep making false claimes without provideing any source whatsoever. You can simply stay dismissing every source provided and preventing any source from beïng added

You do not have one source to back-up that west-Sinjar is not under the control of the 4 Sinjar Alliance groups. While there are many articles even on wikipedia that state it does.

The autonomous region is discussed by several douzens of different names in the press and there exist already a douzend different writings of the word 'Ezidikhan'.

The major international press groups will just go on referring to the larger area as Sinjar simplifing things for their audience. Most press don't provide non-audience-symplified long reads.

That offcourse does NOT change the obvious reality about the ground control.

Besides of that a large amount of sources from different news organisation, ARE provided. You just dismisss all larger news organisations located in ther region of North-Iraq and North Syria.

All conflict maps, including all those of Wikipedia, draw the area under the control of Sinjar alliance groups. But you just claim to know it better than all the conflict maps available.

The Federal Iraqi government forces did not enter this West-Sinjar since 2013-2014 when they fled from IS. They did took Sinjar town, and took Sinjar towns militairy base and east-Sinjar from the KRG.

But they made a deal with the Sinjar alliance that controlled west-Sinjar and Sinjar mountain that only seeks 'self governence within Iraq' as alowed in the Iraqi constitution, in a bid to weaken the KRG in east-Sinjar and Sinjar Town after KRG's full independence bid.

You simply removed 30 sources and then falsely claim 'own research' while there was NO 'own reseach' in the article.--Niele~enwiki (talk) 12:09, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Blocked editor Truequeenofisreal

Hello. Trueshemitiequeen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who was active two days ago, is obviously the same user as Truequeenofisreal. Cheers, - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 20:03, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

@Thomas.W: Thanks. Pretty obvious. I'll block and do a CU later. Doug Weller talk 20:18, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Request for comment on permanent implementation

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