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	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you GenQuest for your great technical ability, you have done marvelous work on the article, very much appreciated. Ladytwentytwo (talk) 09:20, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Now that you've explained it, this seems entirely appropriate. I'll admit, I got duped. Still dumfounded. Great work! Stalwart111 05:54, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation.

	The Original Barnstar
	Because you're BRILLIANT! Ladytwentytwo (talk) 22:55, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

		The Invisible Barnstar
		For your constant work on the revamped Proposed mergers notice board, on which you have helped a great deal lately. I know dealing with merge requests can be thankless and easily overlooked, so I wanted to take the time to thank you for your work. NickPenguin(contribs) 20:35, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to GenQuest for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words as part of the GOCE November 2013 copy edit drive. Thanks for the great work! – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:08, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your extraordinary contributions in the more than 30(!) merge and redirects carried out as a result of the mass AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Constitution Party of Alabama you are hereby awarded the Original Barnstar. -Ad Orientem (talk) 06:46, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	You are a brilliant editor, please help with 'The N Factor Normandy Youth Club', it needs it with a table incorrectly inserted. Thanks for being a great Wikipedian! Ladytwentytwo (talk) 12:05, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you very much for honouring my work at WP:PM. I really appreciate your support. Nightwalker-87 (talk) 10:44, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thanks for your hard work on resolving the proposed mergers site, which was left untouched since at least November, but saw great resolution work and overall improval since your involvement. Lordtobi (✉) 16:11, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

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February 2019

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Talk:CAF Confederation Cup#Merge with CAF Cup. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Matthew hk (talk) 22:55, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

• What the hell you talking about, @Matthew hk:? Please explain yourself. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 06:33, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Special:Diff/810931526. Brio-En made a comment almost a decade ago before your thread on the possible merge, but did not express it was a vote, which you added the support wording for him, which is outside normal page formatting or unsign matter (even typo, usually are forbidden to correct for others). Special:Permalink/844111154. Right before your close, he use alternative account Brio to made another vote of support, thus, for such thread, you may ping the user, but not refactor the comment from just comment to clear vote, and it was a bad close i already talked about. Matthew hk (talk) 06:40, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

My bad. I was going through old merge requests and cleaning up. Pretty sure I read that one as 2018, not 2008. Those requests will sometimes sit for months, so April wasn't t0o far out of normal. Now, ten years is a different matter. :-) GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 06:56, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

You added the comment in 2017, so not that possible to misread as 2018. Also, no sure about other project, but posting stuff in Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Nominations for deletion and page moves, would usually generated enough discussion to close (either clear consensus of yes/no, or no consensus / clear stalemate and then cooled down thread), but that thread no one even noticed. Matthew hk (talk) 08:42, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Not impossible, as that is exactly what I did. As a major contributor to the Wikipedia:Proposed mergers, I am often dealing with messages a upto a year or more old, and have to put them into an order that makes sense to the discussion. I just misread this one as it was already under a Merge sub-header. Sorry again. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"}

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Hope Diamond

I would have thought that as a member of Project Kindness and as a libertarian you would have allowed me a red link in the Hope Diamond as the way that I prepare for writing new articles. But that’s what I get for thinking, I get to be wrong. Carptrash (talk) 16:25, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

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Caleb Shomo

Why was I blocked from making Accurate changes to an article? I am sorry for wanting Wikipedia to be a more accurate environment, but I thought that was the point of the matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darthsevere (talk • contribs) 19:59, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

You need to cite those kind of changes that you made to the band articles. Adding "...He is also Famously Related to the great Business man and ninja Joshua Severe of Ohio and his Son Tyler Severe (neurologist)..." is just plain vandalism, which will always red-flag your account for further scrutiny around here. Regards, GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 20:20, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Tee Hock Seng

I was about to delete, when I noticed has has been an MP, so notability is not an issue; promotionalism is, of course, but I rewrote it. Could you help keep track to see it is not restored? DGG ( talk ) 01:50, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

@DGG: Sure. I missed that addition. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"}

What are you doing??

Yes, there is a request that Az-Zeeb should be merged into Achziv, but editors have not showed a great enthusiasm for it. And then you go and unilaterally move it? Bad move, Huldra (talk) 22:14, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

@Huldra: Not liking the pointy question. I am working from the project merge que and following protocol. The discussion regarding this merge has been open since Aug of 2017. The two articles describe the same place—pretty much a no brainer where the merge requests are concerned. The only reason it has not been done so far is due to the complexity of the merge. If you didn't want the merger to happen, then YOU should should have voiced your concern on the article talk page AND gathered consensus there to remove the merge from the que so the Merge Project members are not wasting hours on a Saturday morning working on a difficult merge only to have it arbitrarily reverted. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 23:17, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Sorry that I came across "pointy", but to me this is a no-brainer: if you look at Az-Zeeb, you will see that for "current locations" we have Gesher HaZiv Sa'ar...in addition to Achziv. So how can we merge 1 article into 3? Answer: we cannot. Yeah, I should have done more to end the merge talk, but that got lost among the 7000+ articles I have on my watch list, Huldra (talk) 23:26, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Reversion of merge proposal

I reverted your merge proposal on List of named storms (Z) as no discussion was created for it. Please understand that this is an SIA article that is solely for the purpose of navigation. I am splitting the list of U-Z up to make it easier for users to find storms. It works better having the storm names larger and separated by horizontal lines (level 2) than smaller and without any lines (level 3). If you still want to merge the article, please create a discussion. Noah^Talk 20:22, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

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Edit warring at Lori Loughlin

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You will notice that I actually backed off after my second revert, you did not, and it is you who did not respect 3RR. You should probably read that guide. It seems that you are the only one trying to make a Point, as I really don't care; I was just trying to make the article better following what has become standard practice, and moved on. Apparently you can't, but it's all good on my end. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 19:21, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Glad it's all good. I just went by the instructions in the template along with how it's implemented in Wikipedia (as I showed examples in this edit summary). Sorry if I appeared to act as if I own the article. 22:45, 16 March 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoLatvia (talk • contribs)

Cool. Regards, GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 22:47, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

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Mergers

Thanks for carrying these out – I keep track of new requests and tag them, but I never know whether I should act on them or leave it to the proposer or interested parties.

One thing though: I think you've slipped up when merging G. M. C. Balayogi Athletic Stadium... you've left the article without a talk page, because the talk page now also redirects to the main article. Richard3120 (talk) 15:15, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome @Richard3120: Acting quickly on the low-hanging fruit is a direct way to reduce the backlog, so I go for it always in that situation. Only occasionally am reverted, but at least that, too, is an answer regarding if the merge should proceed. I knock out the rest when I can, but try to encourage the proposers and debate attendees to do the tougher ones, but you know how that goes. I stay away from most of the ones in which I have participated in the discussions, however.

I realize the problem with that article. Somehow, when doing the move without redirect, the drop-down menu changed to "Talk" from "Article". (Fat fingers on my part I suspect.) I didn't catch it til after I had created the new article. So now I'll have to transclude it or fix some other way. I'll figure something out. Thanks for the input, and the help on merging, by the way. Regards, GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 12:53, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

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Merge template code issue

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Missing content

I see you did an edit

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COMPLETE THE MERGE

But it ends mid sentence. WesT (talk) 03:14, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Tal's Hill Merger Proposal

I'm so sorry to bother you with this, but Robert McClenon has said that we must have another merger proposal discussion on merging Tal's Hill into Minute Maid Park, so if you don't mind, could you please weigh in on the new discussion as to where you support or oppose such a merger? 2600:1700:D6E0:65E0:8400:D781:3985:AB45 (talk) 12:20, 10 June 2019 (UTC)