Daniel
Hello Daniel, In the Afd you stated, "the sources presented by the individual editor refuting deletion do not qualify for the GNG threshold. " May I draw your attention on the fact that there are at least two contributors who voted Keep (the second being myself). Also, I concur that bludgeoning in the page was not making it easy to read, but can you confirm that you're not referring to bludgeoning by (the same) one editor only? Regarding this issue, there are times at Afds when sources and K !votes are challenged, so that !voters are forced to insist (and the page is deleted because they haven't....) I understand there's a difference between replying and bludgeoning but when your !votes are challenged constantly and relentlessly, you can either only give up or insist, which may eventually looks like bludgeoning, I'm afraid. @Owenx, who closed as Delete. Anyway, just mentioning this issue for the record. Best, -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 11:35, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Removed TemplateeditThank 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)
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)
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Help please - Deletion review - Articles_for_deletion/Down-balleditHello 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)
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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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