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Square / Block comment on talk page

Gusfriend, I see that you commented on the Square (financial services company) talk page. The section where you left your comment is an old/stale discussion. You may want to repost your comment in the sections titled "How to show support for name change?" or "IAR" instead. Chrisclear (talk) 22:26, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have added it to the IAR. Gusfriend (talk) 22:29, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to AfD

Hi Gusfriend,

Welcome to Articles for Deletion. I have noticed that ~~several~~ some of your AfD comments fall under Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (such as this one, which falls under WP:INHERITED) as they are usually ignored by deletion discussion closers. May I recommend a thorough read of the rules as well, such as WP:AFDEQ and WP:DISCUSSAFD? Since you seem to be new to AfD, I highly recommend brushing up on those. Please also remember that you cannot vote twice like you did here, and that you should use Template:Strikethrough if you accidentally do so. Have a good one! Pilaz (talk) 09:48, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for passing that information through.Gusfriend (talk) 09:53, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for spending some of your time at AfD and keeping the process up and running, regardless. You'll pick up all the complexities and contradictions of Wikipedia guidelines and policies in no time. Pilaz (talk) 10:04, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just to follow up on this advice, I noticed your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Illinois Northern Railroad and it gave me pause. The question there was whether the article was a hoax or not (it was). If it really did exist, a railroad operating 110 miles of track in the United States would pass our notability guidelines. Best, Mackensen (talk) 12:50, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

yeah, well, ... =

so youre young enough to not know the toecutters by their names? Notability of a Melbourne solicitor with 10 refs and intrinsically linked with the gangland killings and you want more? nah, youre overstepping the threshold dont you think? Your user page gives it all away, and honestly, there are hundreds of oz articles with less refs and blood and gore that stand alone unchallenged. All this in good humour of course, I didnt have to step over dead bodies in the cross or darlinghurst in the old days, but got close to it... JarrahTree 02:12, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In terms of notability I have recently spent some time looking at AfDs and if one were raised for the page then there is a decent chance that the result would be a redirect to Lewis Caine and a note on a couple of other pages. To avoid that happening I added the tag in the hope that people would find things like the fact that she was suspected of tipping off Moran to improve the page. I also have no problem with someone removing my note about notability because (a) it is just my perspective and (b) my viewpoint is affected by reading AfDs. Gusfriend (talk) 02:33, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

well youre in the wrong business unless you have a good flack jacket - your honesty and reply put you in the calm and cool brigade, so few left in this damned colander... and I understand your hope that people would find things - just like a melbourne lane, strong smell but maybe no workable evidence... You deserve a long editing life with a reply like that, scuse me while I look for that safe house on the east coast of tassie for a quiet time away. JarrahTree 02:45, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Note on DAB page telling people that changes will be reverted

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I just went to edit Australia national football team (disambiguation) and there is a message in the page saying the following and I was wondering if that is appropriate or if it should be removed.

Gusfriend (talk) 10:53, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProjects are allowed to advise on topics and have guidelines/standards for pages, but they cannot mandate that all changes have to go through them first. I have removed the note. If you want more help, change the {{help me-helped}} back into a {{help me}}, stop by the Teahouse, or Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 11:15, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi! Please look at my draft. I am ready to listen to comments and correct the article. Thanks!31.40.143.16 (talk) 10:48, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]