User talk:Finsternis

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Please be more careful with nominating articles for deletion. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 18:05, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nominating articles for AfD for purposes of cleanup

Hi. Thanks for your note at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michal Heiman (2nd nomination). I don't think new editors are useless. But I should point out that it is well settled that AfD is not to be used as a means to spur others to clean up an article. In fact -- it is not at all necessary that editors do so ... it is enough that the refs exist. The onus is on the nom to check for refs that exist but are not reflected in the article. If they do exist, and are sufficient, it is not proper to nom the article for cleanup. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 00:20, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Acroterion (talk) 02:35, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024

Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors. Thank you. Acroterion (talk) 02:57, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at Men Going Their Own Way, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Acroterion (talk) 03:12, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]