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Professor HewittWhat Michael Knowles wrote was misleading because Professor Kowalski’s contribution to the ALP newsletter did not complain about Professor Hewitt nor does the contribution by Professor Pereira. In fact, Professor Hewitt was not even mentioned. During his brief time editing, Professor Hewitt made valuable suggestions for improving articles. 50.0.72.102 (talk) 23:44, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
Some amateurs here got on the wrong side of highly technical arguments with computer science professionals. Replay of the Global Warming fiasco? 76.102.7.120 (talk) 19:34, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
Professionals are primarily motivated by the following:
Unfortunately for them, the Wikipedia website is currently a defacto monopoly. Nevertheless, because of insults and harassment, almost no professionals contribute to Wikipedia. Being referenced in Wikipedia does not enhance the reputation of top-ranked professionals. Instead, their reputations are determined by other elite professionals who already know precisely who contributed what and certainly don’t need Wikipedia to tell them. BTW, the comment above is correct that Professors Kowalski and Pereira did not criticize Professor Hewitt in the newsletter. 50.242.68.99 (talk) 23:11, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
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YGMAs per the section header. —Cryptic 20:25, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
WP:USO comes aliveI see that you noticed WP:USO (User:Herostratus/Understanding SCHOOLOUTCOMES) and approved. The first draft is kind of finished, at any rate it hangs together and there no half-sentences and so forth. It is very long, and I don't expect anyone to read the whole thing; it's more my notes as I went through the February RfC outcome and considered the issue generally. But there's a very short overview (accessible via WP:NOTTHISAGAIN) which presents the basic arguments. I intend to soon deploy this in rolling back the edits made on the basis of the February RfC. I don't have a point. Since probably only you and I even know about this page, I'm just mentioning that it's about to go public -- not today, but within a few days. Obviously any suggestions for improvements would be welcome, but I don't expect you or anyone to actually wade through all that. What will follow that I don't know. Maybe nothing, maybe a shitstorm. But I believe I have to right to roll back wrong edits made on the basis of, essentially, an RfC decided by supervote. Herostratus (talk) 17:51, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Aaron Bastani / Novara MediaHello, Thanks for the advice on the Deletion review page. Please see the references I added, especially the Guardian article. Is that the type of thing required? Novara media is also a verified account on Twitter with over 28,000 followers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrickbettington (talk • contribs) 16:31, 13 June 2017 (UTC) B4 clarification![]() A clarification to WP:UP/RFC2016 § B4 has been proposed. You participated in that discussion; your input is welcome at Wikipedia:User pages/RfC for stale drafts policy restructuring/B4 clarification. Thanks, — Godsy (TALKCONT) 15:59, 23 June 2017 (UTC) Adminship?Would you mind if I nominated you to be an admin? Based on your participation in WP:DRV, you seem eminently qualified. We need more good editors to step up and help with admin tasks. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:31, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Urban Extreme listed at Redirects for discussion![]() An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Urban Extreme. Since you had some involvement with the Urban Extreme redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Lordtobi (✉) 08:15, 20 August 2017 (UTC) News articles as primary sourcesFor the most part, news reports on current events (at the time the report was written) are primary sources. WP:USEPRIMARY is a fairly detailed explanation with clear examples as a supplement to WP:NOR. The section 'Examples of news reports as primary sources' shows why almost all of the sources (I didn't check them all) at the recent AFD are primary not secondary. They were either interviews, minor human interest fluff or bare event reporting. The idea that newspaper articles are primary not secondary is not a 'silly' idea, its how they are classified in reliable sources, academia etc, and how Wikipedia itself classes them. The idea that they are *not* primary is actually the minority view here. WP:GNG is very clear that secondary not primary sources are required, and our (and in general outside Wikipedia) definition of primary classes most current event news reporting as primary. That many editors make this common mistake is a lack of understanding of primary & secondary sourcing. Ideally this would be spelled out in a higher level policy page like NOR etc. Only in death does duty end (talk) 09:52, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
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ArbCom 2017 election voter messageHello, Hobit. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC) Merry Christmas!![]() BOZ (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow! Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message. I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. If you don't like Christmas or just don't celebrate it in any of its forms, then please accept a generic "Happy Holidays". If you celebrate no holidays at this time of year, then hopefully you will be satisfied with an even more generic "Season's Greetings". :) BOZ (talk) 01:00, 23 December 2017 (UTC) I am not sure that you would be willing to accept this draft at AfC. However, I would appreciate your input on this page. What can I do to improve it? ShadesHeroGurly (talk) 18:47, 20 March 2018 (UTC) User:Medwriter77/sandbox/Rome Criteria and Rome ProcessI'm confused about this edit of yours. Sounds like you're talking about an AfD, but this was a CSD. Did you put this under the wrong discussion? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:44, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
Buddhist conceptThe thread has been closed, and what I really want to address is hardly related to Andrew anyway, so writing this here. I didn't click your links yesterday because mobile device, slow internet, so didn't address them in the original response. The ABC source is interesting, and I've spent quite some time wondering why someone with scholarly credentials in a relevant field would write those things, but the fact that he explicitly got some of his information from a Wikimedia Commons information page means we probably don't have to treat it like something the same author might have submitted to the Journal of Japanese Studies. As for the NPR source, it clearly either got its information from Guedes, who got it here, or the NPR author directly consulted us. "ancient" is anachronistic as the word is first attested in the middle ages, but our crappy article already called it ancient in April 2011 when the NPR article was published;[1] maybe "ancient Japanese" could be a layman's term for "Old Japanese" or perhaps "Old Japanese to Early Middle Japanese" (the Heian period in which the latter was used is often called "ancient"), but mottai nashi is first attested in Late Middle Japanese -- I've hardly ever seen the fourteenth century referred to as "ancient", but an author who didn't know what a "Muromachi" was might be aware that it means "fourteenth century", and their using the same word as Wikipedia, makes it pretty obvious. It's still a laughable error whether Andrew got it directly from some popular media source who made the laughable error, or he wanted to uphold the Wikipedia status quo and went looking for sources that might kinda-sorta support it, and this would be true even if I hadn't already refuted it before he first made it, let alone continuing to double down on the article talk page weeks later. He doesn't like deletion/redirecting, and will knowingly cite erroneous popular sources to support his view, and this really is not acceptable. All that said, the article itself is fine now (still looks like NOTDICT to my eyes, but it doesn't push any fringe historical/linguistic theories), and I'd be happy waiting however long it takes for the community to forget that debacle before attempting a more carefully filed discussion on the topic. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 21:54, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
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D&D monstersHey man, thanks again for finding those sources. Unfortunately, by eliminating all of my merge targets, they have effectively throttled most of my AFD participation (which may have been their goal). Oh well, with a small army of deletionists having a big ol' party and little support on my side, this is just how it's going to go for now. :) Anyway, the closer on the 1E AD&D monster list redirected the list page to Monsters in Dungeons & Dragons, which is where I am thinking of starting over on a much smaller scale. If you've looked at a few of the list AFDs, you will see several spots where even the deleters concede that a single list including anything with at least one RS would be OK, so that will be my eventual goal. Hopefully, I can get to starting on this before the end of the month. BOZ (talk) 11:52, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
I put a start into rebuilding at Monsters in Dungeons & Dragons#Notable monsters based on the existence of independent reliable sources, and will add more as I find them. BOZ (talk) 15:54, 17 October 2019 (UTC) A survey to improve the community consultation outreach processHello! The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking to improve the community consultation outreach process for Foundation policies, and we are interested in why you didn't participate in a recent consultation that followed a community discussion you’ve been part of. Please fill out this short survey to help us improve our community consultation process for the future. It should only take about three minutes. The privacy policy for this survey is here. This survey is a one-off request from us related to this unique topic. Thank you for your participation, Kbrown (WMF) 10:44, 13 November 2019 (UTC) ArbCom 2019 election voter messageTry to always agree on alternative viewpoints[2]. Of course, we don’t have to always agree, but we usually do, and when we don’t I’d like to understand your differing view. I’d like to know what, specifically, you agree and disagree with. I realise I am stretching to Endorse a difficult and messy AfD rough consensus call, and am possibly over-influenced by how I would have !voted. I am particularly interested in whether you disagree with my reading of policies, as opposed to my reading of the AfD and it’s close, which is admittedly messy. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:15, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Double DRVLast double DRV I can recall being involved with was Jack Wilshere - who may have set a record where there was no hoax and it was all in good faith, with 3 Prods and 2 DRVs (both endorsing deletion) within weeks. It was also speedy deleted 3 times, with a total of 5 deletions and 3 more technical deletions log. Wrong in so many ways, being prodded thrice (with the second one accepted for deletion) followed by an AFD where NFooty was felt to weigh more than the tons of GNG references - but all done by the book. I still shake my head at that one, a decade later. It probably wouldn't have been quite as messy if I hadn't been on vacation for the entire AFD ... Typically a second DRV is probably not a great idea. Better to recreate and improve the article, and do an new AFD. Nfitz (talk) 00:10, 11 December 2019 (UTC) Happy Holidays
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Finding sourcesNo worries about that, I have been busy. ;) BOZ (talk) 17:03, 4 February 2020 (UTC) It's time to follow up on your statement "I'd love to fix it up. ..." This is not going to be deleted. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:39, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
A Dobos torte for you!
7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:43, 1 March 2020 (UTC) Deleted history of List of Major League Baseball players investigated for domestic violenceAs per your request, this is the deleted history of List of Major League Baseball players investigated for domestic violence. I suppose a histmerge would be the most correct form of attribution, but I'm not familiar with how they work. Sandstein 21:07, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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HiHi, really sorry to disturb you but i need your help in reviewing Draft:Tolu' A Akinyemi the article was deleted without relist even after the discussion at DRV I further recreated the article at AFC but surprisingly nominated for speedy by the same nominator. Please kindly help review. It really doesn't have enough reliable sources or SNG? Because those are the only information i could get others are blogspot posts and sources that are not in english. I also noticed some of the comments disappeared and could only been seen in the history logs--Olatunde Brain (talk) 18:42, 6 June 2020 (UTC) CommentPer your comment here, I didn’t mention anything about sourcing. What I did say was per the AFD & the DRV a consensus to delete the article was established. I cannot accept an article in which the consensus of the community is to delete. Furthermore, no, the subject of the article doesn’t pass GNG, the sources presented in the article discuss his works & not the subject per se. Celestina007 (talk) 20:16, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
You've got it backwards......check the sequence of edits again. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:19, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Approving Draft:League of Legends championHi, thanks for being willing to help with them content. I’ve just asked for the deleted content to be approved per DRV procedure. Once this is done you should be able to see that it shouldn’t qualify for WP:G4 since it’s entirely different from the past article.-—Prisencolin (talk) 20:03, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
New RfC about governance description of a few U.S. universitiesA few months ago, you participated in an RfC asking how we should describe the governance of the University of Pittsburgh. That RfC was closed as "no consensus." Another editor has opened a new RfC asking a similar question for this and a few other universities; your participation would be welcome. ElKevbo (talk) 00:49, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Your tag at the top of your user pageI love your tag at the top of your user page! I wish there was a way to address that cultural issue more broadly. I'm still learning. Right cite (talk) 22:53, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
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ArbCom 2020 Elections voter messageMerry Christmas!![]() BOZ (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow! Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message. I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ (talk) 05:08, 23 December 2020 (UTC) Merry Christmas
You said "Endose" in your edit summary but not in your post[3] Dream Focus 16:14, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
Seconded. I'm glad we have a conclusion, especially one that is so convincing, well reasoned and thoughtful. Thank you, PinkPanda272 (talk/contribs) 21:47, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
RPG resurrectionIt's an ambitious project that I've barely started and it's already huge, but if you spot anything that stands out as potentially salvageable at User:BOZ/Games deletions, just let me know and I will draft it. :) BOZ (talk) 10:32, 17 June 2021 (UTC) Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive![]() Hello Hobit: WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive! Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive. Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:53, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list. Great wordingYour statement here that "if you gave a dozen highly-knowledgeable people the ability to write this article, there could be a dozen very different articles that could reach the FA bar" is a concept that's been on my mind, but I have been unable to put it into words as you have. Might nick it, or a close variation, in the future. CMD (talk) 14:28, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
ThanksWith respect to this comment, I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your comment (well, everything after the first sentence). Off-point, personalized comments like Lightburst's are a huge reason for the poisonous atmosphere around some deletion discussions; if more people who shared the same substantive position would point out bad behavior on "their side" (to put it crudely) and encourage a better kind of engagement (choice of venue, civility), the world would be a better place. Obviously I am not a good messenger for that -- perhaps you could try to be. --JBL (talk) 15:32, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
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Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC) Arbitration case openedYou recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conduct_in_deletion-related_editing. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conduct_in_deletion-related_editing/Evidence. Please add your evidence by July 9, 2022, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conduct_in_deletion-related_editing/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, firefly ( t · c ) 11:21, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
Topics where NCORP appears unsuitedOn a different note. You appear to be much better versed and are more involved in procedures surrounding wiki administration and stuff, perhaps you can give an opinion or help. Over time, I've seen some topics come up at AfD that fall under NCORP and which, in my opinion, probably shouldn't. One example is record labels who may have a notable list of artists and have produced/marketed notable albums. Something like NMUSIC might be a better yardstick. Similarly, video game producers. How do you think this should be tackled at AfD? HighKing++ 15:27, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Lana Rhoades (October 25)![]() Deleted by community consensus so often that you need to show with precision that she is notable in a Wikipedia sense and that this draft is substantially different from any prior version that was deleted.
I might have achieved that for you by a WP:IAR acceptance followed by an immediate WP:AFD. That would solve the issue (0.9 probability). At present I have chosen not to do so Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
Ableist tropes cont.#1. Consider the BBC article that Kudpung provided which references a source that describes deluded / delusional as an ableist term:
#2. As I said previously,
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Battle of ByshekHello, did you ask me for 3 reliable sources for this article? Keremmaarda (talk) 21:39, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Impulse-based turn systems AfD
Well, I exist, so it's not a set of one. Jclemens (talk) 01:10, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Refideas editnoticeLetting you know that the edit notice is now live - if you edit any article with refideas listed on the talk page, you will get the notification. :) You can click "edit" on Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) to see it in action, if you have not already seen it. :) BOZ (talk) 20:55, 25 November 2023 (UTC) ArbCom 2023 Elections voter messageHello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add
Merry Christmas!![]() BOZ (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow! Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message. I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ (talk) 00:18, 23 December 2023 (UTC) I believe this was premature. While there was currently a strong preference for Option 1 by vote count, consensus is not determined by counting votes, and indeed some of the arguments were problematic. It is also worth noting that some of the editors !voting option 1 did so by presenting arguments opposite to what they had recently presented in other RSN discussions. The discussion has only been running for three days; I think it is appropriate to let it continue. As such, I ask that you reopen it. BilledMammal (talk) 14:15, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
Reform UKSorry about what I think are minor errors, just needed fixing, not reverting.. It took me forever to edit that, I kept getting edit conflicts with myself, odd messages about discarding or keeping changes, etc. I finally switched to Firefox. Doug Weller talk 08:14, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
Help. Sandstein has closed Shebaa map discussion.First of all, thank you for your contributions (that have all been undone just now). We have a clearly proper map that has been around for many years. (ShebaaFarms.jpg) There was never ANY FFD deletion. FFD was discussed and dismissed in the "speedy deletion" process. But how can you speedily delete a map with no discussion that has been around for years? It went through "speedy deletion" by one editor on the grounds that the new map I created of the same map was "redundant" (I only created new copy because it wouldn't let me repost old copy.) And Sandstein just decides he doesn't like it so both maps are gone forever? How can this happen? How can one editor destroy a map that is clearly proper? Can you undo it? If not, please tell me how to seek formal arbitration. GreekParadise (talk) 14:51, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
ArbCom 2024 Elections voter messageHello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add Merry Christmas!![]() BOZ (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow! Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message. I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ (talk) 18:17, 23 December 2024 (UTC) RFC NoticeHello, this notice is for everyone who took part in the 2018 RfC on lists of airline destinations. I have started a new RfC on the subject. If you would like to participate please follow this link: Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not § RfC on WP:NOT and British Airways destinations. Sunnya343 (talk) 00:39, 8 January 2025 (UTC) Thank youThank you for starting the Abrego Garcia page. I tried to add some more context to the article. You could put this up for a DYK if you wanted. Remember (talk) 23:34, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Deportation of Kilmar Abrego GarciaOn 8 May 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kilmer Armado Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador in March 2025 due to an "administrative error" by the U.S. government? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Abrego Garcia. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. —Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2025 Traverse City stabbing attackHello Hobit. You recommended relisting or endorsing in the DRV for this AfD, but the AfD had been open at that time, because OwenX had already relisted it. It seems that you were not aware of this. This means that your !vote in the DRV didn't have any effect. But as it appears that you have an opinion about the matter brought up at AfD, you might want to comment in the AfD instead, so I am simply notifying you of this. Regards —Alalch E. 15:39, 28 August 2025 (UTC) |