User:Rossami

Someday, I need to post something about myself instead of just using this as a personal reference page...

My Sandbox

Current projects

 * Wikt:Appendix:Military slang
 * Wikt:Appendix:Architectural glossary
 * Category:Date of birth missing
 * Transwiki list
 * User:Rossami/Analysis of undeletions

Articles I want to start someday soon

 * urban beekeeping
 * gastrophysics
 * firemark

Articles to edit

 * add to motherese
 * fix overwatch
 * copyedits to maniple for readability
 * copyedits to Revaluation of fixed assets

My accounts on other Wikiprojects

 * Wikibooks
 * Wiktionary
 * Wikiquotes
 * Meta
 * Wikinews

Reference pages that I want to keep track of but don't keep on the "watchlist"

 * replies (was "What Our Critics Say About Us")
 * Reading level
 * How does one edit a page
 * Disambiguation pages with links
 * Peer review
 * Cleanup
 * MediaWiki custom messages
 * Template messages
 * List of Wikipedians by number of edits
 * Vandalism in progress
 * Proposed new structure for VfD
 * WP
 * Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
 * User:Rossami/monobook.css
 * User:Rossami/Admin vote
 * Log file of admin actions taken
 * Edit count analyzer
 * User:Korath/autovfd.js
 * Tools
 * Template messages/User talk namespace
 * TestTemplates
 * Meta:Help:Interwiki linking
 * page usage stats
 * {{subst:uw-lang}}

Thoughts on redirects

 * User:Rossami/On redirects‎
 * log bookmark

Templates
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Link rot and RfDs
Redirects for discussion/Log/2008 August 19

When nominators "vote"
** Comment: Nominators generally should not add a "delete" opinion in the bulleted section of these discussions. Your opinion is clear from the nomination. Adding a bullet gives the impression that you're trying to have your opinion double-counted. It creates potential confusion for the admin who eventually has to close the discussion. Thanks. ~

For threads with lots of anonymous votes
*Comment: New users should be aware that votes by anonymous and very new accounts are generally very steeply discounted during these discussions. We have had significant problems in the past with abuse of the voting process and attempts to bias the outcome by users creating sockpuppets. Hard facts which add to the discussion are appreciated. Opinions and qualitative judgments are likely to be ignored. ~

When untranscluding an exceptionally long debate
===pagename=== This discussion has become very long, and is no longer being shown directly on this page in order to improve performance. Please click this link to view or participate in the discussion. ~ Votes for deletion/pagename

This discussion thread has become very long and extremely difficult to sort out. In an effort to assist the admin who must eventually make this decision, I propose the use of a recap table. In addition to your vote and explanation below, please record your name in the table. Comment: For this to work, please keep all comments below. I've taken my best guess at the current opinions of the discussion participants. If I've listed anyone's vote incorrectly, please move it. ~

User:Rossami/Vandalism watch and Repeat vandal and Vandalism watch

Reference list of "surprising" VfD discussions

 * Votes for deletion/Karafuto Prefecture - initially tagged as 1) patent nonsense then 2) fancruft but turned out to be historically real (though obscure)
 * Votes for deletion/Treaty of Finkenstein - initially tagged as a hoax.
 * Votes for deletion/Kaleidoscope Entertainment - initially tagged as a speedy. Moved to VfD where the response was a clear "keep"
 * Terrax and Nina Kulagina - initially tagged as speedy but one was a valid topic from fiction, one was a real person whose disputed claims were thought to be fiction. (These two articles were subsequently found to be copyvios.)
 * Votes for deletion/United Cracking Force - initially tagged as speedy. Moved to VfD where the response was a clear "keep"
 * Votes for deletion/Diadem (physics) - an article which was around for a long time and sucked in a surprising number of people who tried to wikify and copyedit what was ultimately uncovered as a hoax.
 * Votes for deletion/Climate theory - initially thought to be a hoax and/or patent nonsense but turned out to be a real (though now discredited) theory of Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
 * Votes for deletion/Religious persecution by Jews - initially a "no consensus" with a strong "delete" majority. Controversy raged over the closing admin's decision.  (See here, here and here.)  Re-vfd' only a few weeks later here where it received near unanimous "keep" votes.
 * Votes for deletion/Like cola - initially tagged as a hoax
 * Votes for deletion/Pseudowallerian degeneration - initially tagged as a hoax but later verified
 * Articles for deletion/Pseudowallerian degeneration (2nd nomination) - deleted as unverified phenomenon mentioned nowhere but in one scientific paper
 * Re-created as a "harmless redirect"
 * Back at RfD as of May 28, 2006