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Removed Template
editThank you for your monitoring of my talk page and removal of a stupid template. I think that this had been a case of responding to a template with a template. I had given User:Ratnahastin a [[WP:CTOPIC}contentious topic]] alert about Sri Lanka. As you said, I was assuming good faith, but I wasn't observing collaborative behavior. As we know, Sri Lanka is a contentious topic, and this AFD was contentious, and this DRV is contentious. What this exchange illustrates is the high level of stubbornness and anger. I will comment in passing that I think that an excessive level of anger is much of what is wrong with American politics, but that is beside the point. Anyway, I think it was a revenge templating, and that it illustrates that collaborative editing has failed. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:14, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Without wanting to relitigate the past - that would be disappointing if so. The CTOP template is a mandated template which cannot be altered, by order of ArbCom. It also has a very different tone (it explicitly says "This message does not imply that there are any issues with your editing" etc.). But anyways, glad it is somewhat resolved, and no problems about taking action on your talk. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 19:59, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
I couldn't reply to your question since the discussion is closed. But for your clarification, neither was I the one who said 'please help me save the article by voting', nor was it related to Baalveer 4. M S Hassan (talk) 04:05, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks M S Hassan, will follow up with the person who did post it. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 04:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
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Australian railroad IP (220.235.232.212)
editHi Daniel, I detected them editing an article on my watchlist at Special:Diff/1232485196. Regards, TarnishedPathtalk 03:32, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- Blocked, many thanks for letting me know. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 04:37, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- No worries. TarnishedPathtalk 08:08, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Daniel, I've found another one at 220.244.102.149. My watchlist found them undoing a redirect I'd set up and voting in a Merge proposal. TarnishedPathtalk 04:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Blocked :) Daniel (talk) 05:29, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Found them again at 110.175.51.243. TarnishedPathtalk 12:14, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Blocked again :) Daniel (talk) 21:33, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- And again at 121.45.242.35. Spotted them editing Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon an article that I've noticed they have an interest in. TarnishedPathtalk 00:04, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
- TarnishedPath — yep, checked contribs and reverted & blocked. How appropriate, I'm currently in Tokyo — and staying in the Godzilla head hotel too! Daniel (talk) 05:46, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Daniel, I was there a month ago for a family holiday. Enjoy your stay. TarnishedPathtalk 06:18, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
- TarnishedPath — yep, checked contribs and reverted & blocked. How appropriate, I'm currently in Tokyo — and staying in the Godzilla head hotel too! Daniel (talk) 05:46, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
- And again at Special:Diff/1245160910 TarnishedPathtalk 11:41, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
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Help please - Deletion review - Articles_for_deletion/Down-ball
editHello Daniel, it looks like you're experienced in Deletion review. I'm a relative Wikipedia newcomer and I'd like to request your assistance in helping me follow the process. No problem if you're already busy. Rockycape (talk) 02:53, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Rockycape, you have filed a deletion review at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2024 July 4. The process will go for 7 days, at which point another administrator will close the review. Best thing for you to do is reply to enquiries there, but be careful not to bludgeon the process with excessive (or excessively long) replies. A nice balance of brief and occasional is best. Hope this helps, Daniel (talk) 03:57, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Daniel, helps a lot and thanks, Rockcape Rockycape (talk) 04:34, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
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Deletion review for Akshay Kharodia
editAn editor has asked for a deletion review of Akshay Kharodia. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.41.10.107 (talk) 06:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Archiving note: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2024 July 8 closed as endorsed. Daniel (talk) 21:36, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Arbitration enforcement action appeal
editHey! I'm notifying you about an appeal in WP:AN regarding the topic-ban from the Israel-Palestine conflict topic area you imposed. ☆SuperNinja2☆ TALK! 15:43, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Super ninja2, thanks for the notification. Have provided a short statement there. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 23:06, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
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hi Daniel
editI noted during a certain recent ANI discussion about me that initially characterized me as a "far-left conspiracy theorist" and from there descended into a pile-on of falsehoods, misrepresentations and irrelevancies calling my integrity into question that you remarked as a total non sequitur that this article I created and almost entirely wrote needs to be reviewed thoroughly for BLP and related reasons.
As I replied to you, I encourage thorough scrutiny of the article.
Perhaps JPxG, who also irrelevantly mentioned the article during the pile-on, would also enjoy intensely scrutinizing it.
Please proceed. soibangla (talk) 08:13, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- I really don't appreciate the tone of this message. Please do not contact me about this issue again. Daniel (talk) 08:16, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
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numbers
editThanks for closing the ANI thread about numbers, and also... wow, not a year goes by on here without me learning that some topic area, which I would not have thought was contentious, is contentious. An ANI thread about mathematical numbers is up there with the time I found out there'd been an ArbCom case about tree shaping. 😅 -sche (talk) 05:23, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tree shaping was during my editing sabbatical (I made less than 100 edits that year), just catching up on it now — quite a ride! Daniel (talk) 07:12, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
AFDs
editHello, Daniel,
I see you are closing AFDs and I'd like to make a pitch for you to use Wikipedia:XFDcloser to close them. It makes closing discussions so much easier and takes care of most of the steps for you in seconds.
But I bring this up now because of your closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ahmedabad–Darbhanga Sabarmati Express. Including talk pages, this article had 25 redirects that I just deleted. If you had used XFDcloser, it would have taken care of all of those redirects for you and they wouldn't show up as 25 broken redirects that needed to be taken care of. So, I encourage you to try it out. Once you get used to it, the old way will seem time-consuming and laborious. It also removes all of the red links that can be caused by the deletion of a main space article. So, give it a shot! Liz Read! Talk! 04:58, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Liz, I do use XFDCloser - that debate there wasn't formatted correctly to include the other two pages as part of the bundled nomination, so I had to delete them manually. The primary page deletion (and subsequent unlinking) was completed with XFDCloser as part of the close. Daniel (talk) 05:58, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
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