User talk:Octane/Archive Aug 2008

For your next mass-AfD

Please consolidate all the episodes/characters/whatevers into a single nomination. Thanks! --EEMIV (talk) 21:21, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Silesian Navy article - Honorverse

What is the source of that statement concerning SN? SITS?: [...] mostly comprised of old junkers and foreign ships that were too old to be of any more service in their respective navies. Other ships are ex-pirate and -privateer vessels whose crews have changed sides in the interest of more money. For this reason, it is hard to pin down a collection of ship classes in use by the SCN.--Dotz Holiday (talk) 16:05, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nominations

It might make your nominations on AfD a bit more clear if, instead of writing things like "no meaningful content", you were to make a statement based on Wikipedia policy when possible. This way, nobody will accuse you of having no reason for deletion. You can find a page on deletion policy at WP:DELETE; a very commonly used one which you probably could have used in the recent debates on television episodes is WP:N. Thank you for finding these silly articles and taking the time to nominate them! --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 01:57, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

• As they were, each one was basically a stub, or perhaps a sub-stub. It's a lot better to state that something shouldn't be included by policy than it is to state that a stub is a blank page, in essence. If the material is duplicated elsewhere (as it was; some of it was cut and pasted!) this is good to cite in the AfD; I often see this and it definitely contributes, especially where the desired outcome is merge/redirect. Also, these might have been a good candidate for a multi-article AfD as they were almost exactly the same. --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 05:56, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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Addbot (talk) 20:45, 30 August 2008 (UTC)