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Please comment on Talk:Israel

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Comment

OK Delete I created archive page Talk:World War II casualties of the Soviet Union--Woogie10w (talk) 01:10, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Phoenix!-! Hello, Sorry I couldn't get back faster, I realized the grammar mistake and forgot to change it, I would love to help though.

Please create me a Wikipedia page Molise Lesley Maqelepo (talk) 12:23, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Feels Like the First Time

I apologize about the issue regarding the dab page for Feels Like the First Time. I admit I should have discussed it as a formal move request first, and I understand why you moved it back. So I am going to open a formal move request at Talk:Feels Like the First Time#Requested move 10 January 2018 to see how other users feel about the move, and I encourage you to give your opinion on why the Foreigner song is the primary topic. Thank you. JE98 (talk) 16:42, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

@JE98: - hey! Sorry for not replying sooner, my activity here has been patchy lately (blame law school). But first off, don't apologize! While you did arguably act against policy, you did so in good faith, and I certainly can't blame you for that. We all make mistakes. So, don't worry, and thank you for trying to improve WP - genuinely! I don't have any strong opinions to add to the move discussion, but thank you for notifying me! I appreciate that. Cheers, and I wish you the best. I look forward to working with you going forward. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 16:20, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

It's alright, we all made mistakes in this situation. I appreciate you getting back to me and I hope we work together more in the future. JE98 (talk) 16:54, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Re: "apparent sock"

Hi. I see you reverted an edit on the Ferdinand Marcos page for apparent sock puppetry on my part. I'd appreciate it if you can head over to the discussion page and weigh in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Object404

-Object404 (talk) 02:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

"A trout may be in order"?

Greetings and felicitations. I saw your comment and just want to understand the (apparent) reference. (Lew Zealand (Wikia) and "something from Monty Python" are the only things that come to mind.) —DocWatson42 (talk) 04:21, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

@DocWatson42: WP:TROUT is the relevant page here. Essentially, it's just a way to let a user know they've done something wrong and/or silly without being overly harsh. (talk page stalker) SkyWarrior 04:23, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Ah—okay. Thank you. ^_^ —DocWatson42 (talk) 04:26, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

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Page curation

Re [1]. What have I done wrong here? I am a bit new to page curation. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:01, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7: - Hey! In all honestly I was meaning to review the page, not UN-review it, and in my deranged state I didn't realize that I was doing the opposite, and it had already been reviewed (to be fair the graphics for reviewing and unreviewing are pretty identical, though ;P). Sorry about that! I also think it's stupid that the browser notifies people when you unreview pages they curated at all.. seems like an awful waste. Anyway, sorry for the misunderstanding. Let me know if you have any other questions! best ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 13:24, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

J Robert Porter

I understand the deletion of this page. Thank you for advising me.

Blue. Bluehowler (talk) 01:43, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

@Bluehowler: - hey, thanks for the note and your understanding! If you have any questions, let me know :) Salud ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 13:25, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Kaldighi Park...

...and Kaldighi, both created by the same CU blocked editor, should probably be moved to draft space. Before I do anything, I wanted to touch base with you since you reviewed the park article. I already checked with another reviewer about Kaldighi so I'm sharing that info with you. ^{Atsme📞📧} 19:18, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

@Atsme: - Hey, thanks for the notice, but please go ahead and do whatever you think is right! I actually remember that user creating a lot of subpar articles and acting a bit strange. --‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 23:15, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

List of songs covered by Indian singers

Hi dear, you said that those are my favorite singers. No dear, you are wrong! List do exist in Wikipedia see Category:Lists of cover songs Category:Lists of cover songs. Zafar24Talk 17:42, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

@Zafar24: ok, thanks, dear. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 17:42, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

See this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_cover_songs Zafar24Talk 17:46, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Using word 'Dear'

I even call boys dear. See in my talk page etc.Zafar24Talk 17:55, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

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Please comment on Talk:March 14, 1891, lynchings

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Holocaust denial

I've started a discussion on this article's talk page. You can make your arguments there. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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Done--‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 13:55, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Don't understand maintenance templates

You removed the {{lead missing}} template from the Beau Bokan article when it had a long introductory paragraph and no actual WP:LEDE. I manufactured a lede, even though it's not particularly good, but it does summarize the subject: he's a musician and he's best known for being a member of two bands. For some reason, you think that there should be more content added so you added {{lead too short}} and removed {{use mdy}}. The former states "This article's lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents." It doesn't? What other points need to be added to adequately summarize key points of who Bokan is? I can't see anything. The latter, is a piece of hidden communication as to what the appropriate date format is. It's used by bots when working on the article and to human editors so they don't use other date formats. I just thought I'd explain these things. The reason I'm commenting here is it's behavioural and doesn't make a difference to the article itself. This isn't like the two comments you left on my talk page. The first of which was specific to the content of the article. Just because the article had two sentences discussing the subject at the start does not mean it had a lede. I won't link you to the page on that subject again. The second was you being angry that I reverted you while I was starting to write this. For the record, yes, you do need to read edit notices. They're there for all editors. If you don't want to participate appropriately in the community effort of the project, you don't have to, but expect repercussions. I hope this helps explains my behaviour. Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:53, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

CIA activities in Peru, for example, has no lead. Having a lead that is too long or too short or that does not properly summarize the content does not mean there is no lead, and there are tags for all those issues. A lead is an opening paragraph, of any quality. The no-lead tag is a not a judgement call, it is an objective template for when there is no lead paragraph whatsoever. I am going through the pages missing lead category and doing my best to fix them, I was not looking for a debate. I don't understand why there was an issue. But let's leave this be and both agree to disagree. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 15:59, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Paektu Mountain

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Matchbook.com

Hey, I have researched Wikis guidelines and think I have found the issue why this article was deleted for promotional content. May I submit a salted version and hopefully should be ok this time under article name Matchbook — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddrumm1 (talk • contribs) 22:22, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

@Ddrumm1: - hey, thanks for reaching out! If you can link me to your draft article, I would be happy to take a look and either revise it or give advice on how to improve it. Do you know about how to use the draft process, or your sandbox? Cheers ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 13:47, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for taking your time to reply, This an online entity so this is a much information I could gather on it. I have created a draft for this article now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Matchbook — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddrumm1 (talk • contribs) 15:51, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

How to make article a start

Hello, I am new on this site, and I recently made some changes to an article, and I was wondering how to get it to a "Start" 'level'. I assumed you would know this kind of thing, Cheers

@BugBaron: - Hello, this page discusses the process through which articles are assessed. Which article are you discussing? I can likely provide more specific tips if you let me know, and perhaps I can help with my own edits. Cheers ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 13:07, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

@‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalenciaᐐT₳LKᐬ: - Hello, thank you for responding, the article is titled Dorymyrmex insanus, ant related of course, and I added 2 paragraphs (they aren't the best, I will probably edit them more but school is on my back for now) but I would love it if you could take a look. Cheers!

P.S. I don't know if you are particularly familiar with ants (reason I chose this ant is that I knew people who were going to sell me a queen)

Stir Fry article

You're good bro. I realized the article name was wrong so i was hoping someone would delete it. I'm not sure how to delete articles.

Adding a comment so this can be archived. --‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 13:07, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Hdstylez!

Good catch. The author put the article in AfC-space and did some sneaky page moves to get it into mainspace outside of NPP's radar ... then nobody ever looked at it. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 18:10, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Thank you! I'm always glad to help. I definitely see some things going through Category:Pages missing lead section. Cheers! ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 20:17, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion/disruptive editing

I apologize for making disruptive edits--that was not my intention. I was trying to add the requested references in order to prevent the speedy deletion, but I see how my actions could be misinterpreted. Can you let know if my edits have provided enough information to establish the pages of Toby Hansen and Chris Rowland? As you can see from my history, it's been over ten years since I tried to add a page! Thank you! Earlygrrl (talk) 03:14, 21 March 2018 (UTC)earlygrrl

Speedy deletion declined: Toby Hansen

Hello El cid, el campeador. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Toby Hansen, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Being or having been member of a notable band indicates importance/significance (WP:CCSI#SINGER). Thank you. So Why 08:25, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on article Pierre Kakhia

Hello. I started the article on Pierre Kakhia, and you were kind enough to improve it. I thank you for your time, and I appreciate that it can be improved. I am a total beginner here, so please excuse my mistakes to your prestigious encyclopaedia. BabasketFan (talk) 18:39, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello. I've just started an article about Jovica Milijić, the living legend of futsal in Malta. Writing this article I am also learning about writing Wiki articles. So, please give me some time to learn how to put the sources. Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoran Stojanovic (talk • contribs) 20:39, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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Chris Rabb

El Cid,

Thanks for correcting the title. Don't know how it got lower-cased. How did you fix it? Also, as you were fixing it, I created a new page (since I didn't know how to fix this one) called Christopher Rabb. How do I delete that page? Paulmlieberman (talk) 15:13, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

So, really, what I think should happen, is the Christopher Rabb page should be speedily deleted, and the Chris Rabb page should stay! Paulmlieberman (talk) 15:15, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Done15:18, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:National Rifle Association

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Hey!

You just deleted my whole article about Red Star Chickens! May I ask why!? Coolkid526 (talk) 01:01, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

@Coolkid526: - hello, I redirected it to the existing article at Sex link. I did this because your article: a) duplicated an existing topic; b) had extensive copyright and paraphrasing issues; c) was sourced from unreliable sources; and d) did not provide sufficient context on the topic. If you would like to expand the Sex link article using reliable sources and your own words, please do so! If you have any other questions, please let me know. Thanks ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 01:04, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

re: your redirect of List of Rump States

I've undone it, as there was no discussion, no consensus, and no justification offered in the edit summary or the talk page. The information in the List article was all cited, and none of the material from the List was incorporated into the rump state article. As per BRD, the addition of the redirect was a Bold move. It has been reverted. Now, its time to discuss and build a consensus. I welcome your input there. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 08:38, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

@Jack Sebastian: - it was done per the merge discussion on the rump states page. And it was not a redirect, but a merge, so all the cited content is now in the rump state page. No content was removed. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 14:15, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Might you point out where you sent notice of the merge discussion to the List of Rump States article discussion? - Jack Sebastian (talk) 14:19, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

I didn't propose the merge, and it looks like the nominator didn't follow proper protocol. But, I fail to see what harm was done, as two articles are now one, and no content or attribution was lost. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 14:23, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks El Cid

	Thanks El Cid
	Thank you for showing me that information regards. Kikkoman01 (talk) 18:25, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks Friend Kikkoman01 (talk) 22:19, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

:) ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 22:20, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello El cid, el campeador

You said A1 doesn't apply for non english article but the context doesn't explains titile by any means, so if A1 doesn't work can I add it under G1 or any such similar reasons? I can understand hindi and the text is not even connected to title it is a random story. Thanks-BRP^ever 02:47, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

@BRPever:- hey! This is a difficult situation. Per official policy (found here: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion), A1 and G1 BOTH explicitly do not apply to foreign language articles. Google translate says it appears to be about "Mr. Bhanwar Singh, son of Shri Bhanwar Singh". I cannot tell who this is - so I can't recommend a CSD. In this situation I can't make any better recommendation than PRODing it. WP policy is (for better or worse) set up in a way to avoid speedily deleting foreign articles simply for being foreign. I know this doesn't help, but I too am at a loss as to what to do. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 02:54, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Ah, I get it now. The policies are made in such a way that first the article needs to be translated before applying those criteria. Okay waiting till translation seems fine. Thank you for your time:)-BRP^ever 03:01, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rajpar

Dear, El cid, el campeador and @Sandstein: I would have provided you the references but I was offline at that time..JogiAsad 13:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

@JogiAsad: - hello, the page was deleted for failing to meet WP:GNG and provide sufficient WP:RS. If you can provide proper sourcing and show the topic is notable, as far as I know you may recreate the page. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 13:10, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Will try to find reliable secondary source references, and the topic is offcourse notable , Rajpar is the biggest tribe in Sindh, and some of its casts live in India and europe, there is a vicinity/village in India named under Rajpar, a.k.a Rajpari.JogiAsad

06:12, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Schießbach

Hi, you added a tag for unreliable sources to the article Schießbach (Saale) I've created (click here). Can you explain this? I even had a discussion with another experienced user, who said that Google Maps refs are absolutely fine, see here. Also, I created a lot of similar river stubs and never had a problem.

--Cyfal (talk) 17:04, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

@Cyfal: - I see what you are referencing, but I am fairly sure Google Maps is not considered a reliable source. I don't know of any policy that says google maps is a reliable source, though I guess I could be wrong. However, having Google Maps as the only source for an article is not sufficient, in any case. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 20:32, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Actually, I disagree – there may not be a policy saying google maps is a reliable source, on the other hand there seems to be no policy saying it's not reliable. Maybe I will try to find a consensus with the community. But not tomorrow, because I'm currently in real life... Anyway, thanks for your explanation! --Cyfal (talk) 19:29, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Deprod

Just dropping a line to say I've de-PRODed the Training masks article, since the deprod tag seemed to be playing up Nosebagbear (talk) 15:37, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Dawenkou culture

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hi

About Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of flags by number of colors (2nd nomination), where you commented about me sarcastically, that's okay, but I hope you don't really think poorly of me. :) If you'd care to browse my wp:AFDSTATS you would see I don't often comment anywhere near that much, and that I am more often than not with the final consensus. And however many edits I have, the vast majority are in mainspace contributions, mostly about historic sites. So you were a tad unfair, IMHO. But I grant that I gave some cause for a comment like yours, because it seems I did over-generalize about all the "delete" votes. Not diplomatic of me, though I was irritated by the quality of some of those votes. Do let's both avoid ad hominem comments at AFD. cheers, --Doncram (talk) 20:16, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for reaching out. I certainly don't have anything against you or your edits outside of this particular AfD. But for whatever reason, your behavior within the AfD was uncivil and involved heckling every voter who disagreed with your view. It was textbook wp:bludgeoning. Even if you were certainly right, which I don't presume, your behavior was improper. So, while my tongue in cheek comment on the number of edits you made at the AfD may have been in poor taste, I stand by the fact that you should not behave that way in an AfD again. Of course, your behavior is your own choice and that is just my opinion. Best! ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 20:19, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Total count

Hi, and I like the feature icon on top of the talk page. Saw you gave a total-views count at the RM on the Favre page. I know the history link to the 20 day-90 day count, but how did you get the total count if I may ask. Sounds like an interesting stat link to have handy. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 16:43, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

When you are on the page views site, go to the options on the left side, then change Daily to Monthly, and then change the dates to include all possible dates. I believe the stats only go back to July 2015, however. Does that make sense? Cheers ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 16:55, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, yes. I was hoping they went back way before that, the older count used to include years, etc. until it was changed to the new coding. Randy Kryn (talk) 17:03, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

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Please comment on Talk:Foreign involvement in the Syrian Civil War

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Why do you insist on spoiling the ending of a TV show???

The page is about a goddamn *song*, only marginally related to the show – why would you reinsert the TV show ending spoiler that I took the trouble to remove???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao#2018:_Renewed_popularity_with_Money_Heist — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.230.123.65 (talk) 01:39, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Well, there are three reasons, each of which, standing alone, would be sufficient: 1) your edit summary was grossly insulting to other editors and did not assume good faith; 2) the sentence, following your edit, did not make grammatical sense; and 3) we do not censor spoilers on WP. Please try to learn the rules of WP before lashing out at people. Cheers --‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 17:22, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

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Civility in infobox discussions arbitration amendment request declined

Hi El cid, el campeador. The Civility in infobox discussions arbitration amendment request filed 16 June 2018 has been declined. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 03:01, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Dr Dipo Awojide

I'm still working on the page. Hold on, I'll be placing citations soon Aghachi7 (talk) 13:26, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

@Aghachi7: - thanks for the note. And don't worry about your article - you will have 7 days to add reliable sources before the article will be considered for deletion. However, it's WP policy to tag unsourced biographies of living persons articles with that tag. Again, you will have time to improve it, but it is very important to source all claims about living people. If you have any questions, please let me know. Best ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 15:43, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

WP:SPORTSPERSON

Main page: Wikipedia:Notability (sports) A sportsperson is presumed to be notable if the person has actively participated in a major amateur or professional competition or won a significant honor and so is likely to have received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject.--Asher196 (talk) 15:36, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

@Asher196: - you're missing the point. The point is, we presume that individuals without articles are not notable. To disprove this presumption, you can create an article about the individual, supported by reliable sources, and then add them to the list. All the notability criteria are in re whether the individual should have a page, not whether they should be included as a notable person from a certain town. If red-links were allowed in lists if supported by a single source, the lists would be over-run with people who made the local news one time. In any case, I re-added the Steelers player since he did play in an NFL game. However, I left the other two out. I'm trying to compromise. The 'gemologist' is almost certainly vandalism, and the trick shot pool player has no coverage in reliable sources I can see. Cheers anyway. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 15:39, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

I don't know where you are getting this. WP:Notability Literally says "Notability is a property of a subject and not of a Wikipedia article. If the subject has not been covered outside of Wikipedia, no amount of improvements to the Wikipedia content will suddenly make the subject notable. Conversely, if the source material exists, even very poor writing and referencing within a Wikipedia article will not decrease the subject's notability." A person CAN be notable and not have a Wikipedia article. A person doesn't suddenly become notable as soon a WP article is written about them.--Asher196 (talk) 15:47, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

I will concede that the gemologist slipped by me. That for sure should not be there.--Asher196 (talk) 15:50, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

@Asher196: - again, you're missing the point. It's simply policy to not include individuals without WP articles in lists. We just don't do it. If an individual does not have a WP article, we don't include them in lists. It's a rule of convenience. If someone has a verified WP article, it is shown that they are notable. Just look around WP - lists rarely have red links. It's not a coincidence, it's just what WP does. Feel free to create articles for notable individuals supported by reliable sources and then include them in lists. It just makes more sense to verify articles instead of verifying listed people. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 16:01, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Please cite this policy.--Asher196 (talk) 16:10, 9 July 2018 (UTC)