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World Cricket League

Thanks so much for cleaning up the table! It looks much more organised now. :) Sam Vimes | Address me 17:42, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of French American International School (Portland, Oregon)

The article French American International School (Portland, Oregon) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No reliable sources to establish notability of a primary school. (I looked for some, and also spent time improving the article)

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Notability

Hello. Could you cite some sources for the article you created, Mission laïque française? As it stands, there is no assertion of notability. Thank you. 152.16.59.102 (talk) 00:16, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Mission laïque française

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Swahili

Hello, I was wondering why you are changing lots of instances of Kiswahili to Swahili?--BelovedFreak 19:49, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I saw an article that referred to both Swahili and Kiswahili and I thought I'd make it consistent in the article. Then I did more pages. I used this and this, so I thought that was the right thing. FJM (talk) 05:14, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough, I agree it should be consistent within an article. I had just noticed the changes, not the other instances in the article. Thanks for the explanation.--BelovedFreak 09:11, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association

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SDET: Software Development Engineer in Test or Software Design Engineer in Test?

Why, may I ask, did you change "Software Development Engineer in Test" to "Software Design Engineer in Test"? The former seems to be more commonly found on microsoft.com and on the Internet in general, which causes me to question why you consider the latter to be more correct. Jeremy Reeder (talk) 03:58, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

When I looked, I saw more "Design" than "Developer". Also, when looking for just "SDE" it seems to always be "Software Design Engineer". Looking now, it seems that you're right. FJM (talk) 20:07, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sigma DP

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A tag has been placed on Sigma DP, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because

• it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. You gave no references at all, which is worrying when you are writing about products.
• it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: high-end... Sigma claimed this (comparatively large) sensor size would result in DSLR quality images (Sigma is not an independent source) compact, yet capable. — basically, your text is just repeating company claims
• Reviews of these cameras— what reviews? If you are going to talk about reviews, you need to supply links so we can see that they are credible independent third-party sources, not just random websites
• There is nothing to indicate the sources for your table, which without proper sources is just WP:OR
• If you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it. That's not an accusation, just a standard pointer.

I'm not prepared to restore as is, but I've seen much worse so I'll move it to a sandbox if you wish. You will need to provide proper references as defined above and write factual NPOV text. If you wish to proceed, just let me know Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:05, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Foma Bohemia

Hello FJM,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Foma Bohemia for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

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Proposed deletion of Foma Bohemia

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