Makerowner

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AfD on Religious democracy

Hello, Makerowner. Since you're new to Wikipedia, I thought I'd help you out by pointing out some of the resources you may have missed when dealing with your complaints about the page Religious democracy.

1) Don't take the speedy close of your first nomination as a defeat. That wasn't a decision on your nomination, just on its form. Read a few days' worth of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and you can see how the standard form of a deletion nomination works. Each page needs to be nominated separately (people can merge a set of nominations if they feel they're related), and space must be indicated where people can comment on the proposed deletion. It's usually best for your complaints to be kept brief -- excessive arguments on AfD usually are taken as a sign of excessive zeal and inability to maintain a neutral point of view.

If you were trying to re-nominate it, you'll need to create a second nomination. Use the template {{subst:AfDx|second}} or {{subst:AfDx|2nd}} on the page, then re-list as a separate entry as per the instructions on WP:AFD. The first entry will not be revisited, but a second entry will be considered on its own merits.

2) In order to maintain the integrity of the AfD process, AfD discussions are not to be altered after their closure. Therefore, we'll have to delete your latest comment on the AfD. Again, this is NOT a sign of disagreement, just an out-of-process issue. If we let people after AfD discussions, we'd have no accurate historical record.

3) Before trying to delete the page, did you try complaining about the content at Talk:Religious democracy? Quite often articles that have a biased point of view can be improved rather than deleted. In fact, that's the preferred way to deal with unbalanced articles. Indeed, we encourage you to be bold and make the changes you feel are necessary -- but be aware that others can do the same!

4) If you feel you can't get along with others editing the pages you're working on -- especially if you get into an edit war -- there are courts of appeal on Wikipedia. Requests for comment is an opportunity to allow third parties to step in and cool matters down; Requests for arbitration allows you to have a arbitrator manage the disagreement; and in extreme cases, Arbitration Committee acts as a judicial court of final review, empowered to hear evidence and administer penalties. (However, they won't hear cases that haven't been through the lower systems first.)

5) Be sure to keep cool when making your complaints. On Wikipedia, we assume good faith on the part of others until proven otherwise. We believe citizenship is important... but so is making sure the Wikipedia is fair and accurate! So please do continue your fight for accuracy... just use the tools we've worked out after many man-hours of experience to do so.

Good luck! Alba 15:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Dear Makerowner, Would you add some sections about relations of Christianity and democracy as well as Judaism and democracy to the religious democracy article? I read your discussions and made some modifications to main article. Best. Farhoudk 13:59, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Serial comma userbox

Hey, just a quick note to say that I've changed the location of the serial comma userbox. It is now under User:Twas Now/Userbox/serial_comma:usually

Not a big difference, just complying with a suggested convention and it still shows up on your page.

(You can delete this message after reading it.)

FYI

Abdolkarim Soroush is a well-known Islamist who calls for "democracy" and believes Iran needs more Islam. He thinks there is insufficient Islam in Iran.

He is against suicide attacks, but [Shiites believe that all Muslims should be ready to sacrifice themselves, and not willing to do so is considered as a sin. The mastermind of this plan was Dr. Abdol Karim Soroush who is today criticizing the Islamic Regime and realizing that his mistakes cost Iranian education a great deal.]

See also Islamic Cultural Revolution. --Patchouli 10:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

AAVE

I'm not too familiar with the actual phonemic inventory of AAVE but I'm under the impression that the major difference is the lack of dental fricatives. Does Well have a vowel chart or anything? Ƶ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]} 05:27, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

There are excellent reasons not to rename the article "Ebonics", and I have just now presented them in the wretched talk page of that messy article. -- Hoary 09:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for Mediation (African American Vernacular English)

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Thank you for agreeing to mediate.Wikidudeman ^(talk) 04:06, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Two months later, and another pursuer of truthiness arrives

Oh dear, some other Cosby-admiring ignoramus has arrived on the scene. Take a look. -- Hoary 14:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

NO PERSONAL ATTACKS! I request that Hoary be reprimanded for breaking wiki rules! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.149.23.119 (talk • contribs)

This mock outrage, from the author of: Ain't gunna agree. Dis be wack yo. Honkey. 24.149.23.119 14:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC) [1]. Pinkville 16:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		I'm awarding you this Original barnstar. Wikidudeman (talk) 05:03, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Possible AfD candidate?

Hi, I saw you nominated a moon conspiracy page for deletion. What do you think about the merits of this one? David_Sereda Nick mallory 06:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Your question

Hi. Your question at Talk:Family name has been answered. Gantuya eng (talk) 15:42, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedian Survey

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