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Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2021
I hope your New Year holiday is enjoyable and the coming year is much better than the one we are leaving behind.
Best wishes from Los Angeles. // Timothy :: talk

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
I hope your St. Patrick's Day is enjoyable and safe. Hopefully next year there will be more festive celebrations.
Best wishes from Los Angeles. // Timothy :: talk

About “Zhou Chengzhou”

Hello, could you tell me why the page I created was deleted? What is the reason? Can you give me a feedback? What's more, since it was deleted, why was it approved at that time? Thank you. Armidazhou (talk) 01:46, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Armidazhou, Zhou Chengzhou was deleted because of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zhou Chengzhou. Nobody approves articles. Sandstein 15:02, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Sandstein: I believe Armidazhou is referring to Arthistorian1977 accepting the article's draft at AfC. Of course, however, approval at AfC isn't a guarantee that the article won't be removed at AfD, just that one AfC reviewer believes that, based on the reviewing guidelines, it won't be. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 18:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Weil

Greetings. The opening description of Andrew Weil is Celebrity doctor. Sometime in the past, I edited Chuck Blazer's opening description to something like "convicted criminal", instead of "soccer administrator." That was pounced on as bad editing, and I was ready to dispute the issue--until I checked Adolf Hitler, still today described first as "politician" and then "dictator," which is rather neutral language given his crimes. Shouldn't Andrew Weil be afforded the same courtesy and be described initially as "physician?" Tapered (talk) 21:38, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tapered, you should ask this on the article‘s talk page, perhaps without the Hitler comparison. I have no opinion about this. Sandstein 21:48, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Philosopher's view on Meat

Dear Sandstein. I have recently edited the Meat article, and I explained my rationale on the edit summary briefly, and on the talk page more profoundly. I see you have reverted the changes and provided a brief rationale on your edit summary, I believe that due to timing you have missed the talk page comments, in which I explain why I think my sources are secondary, not primary.

In the future I will make sure to prepare the talk page comment in advance so I can publish the edit and talk page comments simultaneously to avoid this. In the meantime, I hope you can read my comments and await your commentary on the subject.

Regards, Tomás.--TZubiri (talk) 23:41, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

TZubiri, thanks, I'll reply at Talk:Meat. Sandstein 09:40, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Halo (PC Game)" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Halo (PC Game). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 April 6#Halo (PC Game) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 12:58, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can you assist at Talk:ByteDance

Hi Sandstein. I recently made a proposal at Talk:ByteDance#Fixing MOS:LAYOUT and MOS:LEAD issues for a significant change to the ByteDance article, but I've had little success encouraging other editors to evaluate my proposal and implement it. I'm prevented from being WP:BOLD due to my COI and the proposal is extensive enough that the COI edit request process is not an appropriate avenue. I noticed that you recently added some content to the article on TikTok (which is owned by ByteDance) and that you appear to be an experienced and helpful admin, so I'm hoping that you can spare a few minutes to look at my proposal and implement it to the extent you feel is appropriate. Thanks a lot, JatBD (talk) 13:07, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]