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Speedy deletion of Daedric Princes
A tag has been placed on Daedric Princes requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. The Islander 19:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Please see the discussion at Articles for deletion/Daedric Princes regarding this. You may request a review of this at Deletion review.  Until the deletion is reviewed, recreated articles with this title will be deleted. SkierRMH  ( talk ) 06:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Sunshine
Welcome to Wikipedia! I am glad to see you are interested in discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages are for discussion related to improving the article, not general discussion about the topic. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. — Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Usually, if discussion has been on the talk page for a while, most editors don't "clean up" belatedly. However, if the existing general discussion encourages further general discussion in the present, reverts and heads-up messages will take place.  Besides, even if it was OK to answer these questions, those who asked the questions are likely to be long gone. — Erik  (talk • contrib) - 15:29, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Warnings
Re your message: An editor or anonymous IP should receive a final warning (aka, fourth level warning) before you report them to WP:AIV. How they get to the fourth level varies. If appropriate, you can jump straight to uw-vandalism4im. Sometimes you go from level 1 to 3 and then 4. It's a judgment call depending upon how severe the vandalism is. After awhile, you will begin to get a feel for when editors are here to cause trouble and won't stop versus the ones where one warning will make them stop.

There are some exceptions of course. If the vandalism was so bad, you can report them immediately without warning. Generally, it's got to be real bad.

As for the group of editors doing the Saharia, I was probably a bit too lenient with them at first. I let slide because  vandalized the same article days ago and I give editors a little slack when they're just piling on to vandalize something that's been vandalized for awhile. first appeared with a simple test-like edit, but that was my first indication that this might be a group of kids playing around at the same time. Blacksweater123 eventually got blocked. With, I went straight to uw-vandalism4im because it was obvious he was tag team editing and not here to make useful contributions. Saharia is an obscure article to target for vandalism, so I probably should have started at level 2 warnings. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * On a side note, I moved your question to a new section at the bottom of my talk page as I wanted to separate your question from a vandal complaining about the warnings I had issued them. I didn't think you wanted to be associated with that. =)  If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me.  -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

EVE Wiki
Is this what you were looking for? http://eve-wiki.net/. -- Richard Slater  (About) / (Talk) 19:22, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

New True Blood section
I just need one link to get more information about what you added. User:The no erz

Alan Keyes
Actually, it's the inclusion of material in Wikipedia that needs to be justified. The removal of unsourced material in biographies of living persons certainly does not. I agree that Alan Keyes is a nutcase, but that is already clear from the sourced material that is included in the article. Dlabtot (talk) 01:48, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Legacy section
A legacy section is different form reception. A legacy section is a section that shows other media saying they were inspired by that one subject.Bread Ninja (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

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Nomination of The Dragon Factory for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Dragon Factory is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/The Dragon Factory until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Dmol (talk) 07:38, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Dragon Factory
Articles for deletion/The Dragon Factory has been updated with new sources since your !vote. czar  &middot;   &middot;  16:19, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

March GOCE copyedit drive
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Needing some help with Beyond: Two Souls edits
Hi Brin, I came across your user page after reading the message you sent to CFCF regarding the blatant edit-warring involved for Beyond: Two Souls. I remember reading that you were willing to provide citations for the game. Apparently, just recently, CFCF is back to the usual M.O. again, reverting the summaries back to the more developer-focused summaries. I am just one man, and can't keep an eye on the article 24/7, especially when it comes to making sure the citations are working properly. Just figured I'd give you a heads-up about this. I restored the plot summary with some trimming to the best of my ability. If there's anything in the plot summary you can condense better than me, go for it. Thanks in advance. Dibol (talk) 00:14, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Star Wars Junior Jedi Knights
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Magellan (film) is a mess – please clean up yourself
Hello Brinlong,

I want to re-acquaint you to an "orphan" of yours: Back in January 2018, you created the page Magellan (film) – as a "place-holder", as you wrote. Unfortunately you didn't do this on a subpage of your user, as would have been advisable, but in the main namespace. Two days later you copied the framework from the movie Interstellar, including leaving in place (amongst other Interstellar-remnants) the editor of that film, Lee Smith. Then for some reason you abandoned any attempt at making an article out of it.

On February 4, 2018, came along, saw that this was obviously not even a valid stub, and decided to place a redirect to... Lee Smith, wo isn't the editor of Magellan (2017) (and even if he were, this redirect of a sandbox-quality framework to an article about an editor would always be a bad idea). Now the article-sandbox was hidden out of sight and out of mind, slumbering until I moved the page  to   today. I was about to request a delete for the nonsensical redirect (which has already led to an equally nonsensical link to another Magellan film from 2007 in the article L'est Films Group) – when I looked at the article history.

So I want to give you the opportunity to rescue anything from the old framework you feel is worth salvaging (I personally don't think there is anything worthwhile there), and place it on a subpage of yours, before you (or Bovineboy2008) request a delete of the page "Magellan (film)". Because if ever an article were to be created about any film called Magellan, it should be named Magellan (2007 film), Magellan (2017 film), etc. (I've found even more films of the same title.) There is no reason for "Magellan (film)" to exist. Instead, a couple of entries in Magellan (disambiguation) would be useful.

Greetings from --Sprachraum (talk) 10:05, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, Brinlong hasn't been active since February 3, but you have been, so I assume you saw my post here. How do you suggest we proceed? Do you agree that there is nothing worth saving in the history of Magellan (film), and that it should be deleted, because it wouldn't be the right title for any future page, and may in fact lead to incorrect linking, as shown above? I would appreciate your involvement, because I work mostly on the German Wikipedia, although I have started doing a lot here in 2021. But so far, any attempt of mine to get a relink (even really ridiculous ones) quick-deleted, has been thwarted with a "does not meet criteria for quick delete" message – while the exact same cases would have been quick-deleted within minutes in the German Wikipedia. So perhaps, if you are in agreement, you could show me the way to submit a proper delete request that actually succeeds. Because from what I've read so far, that process seems cumbersome, but may not appear so to someone more versed in local procedures. Greetings from --Sprachraum (talk) 19:48, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * . Deletion would probably be best. I would open an RFD if speedy deletion has been declined. BOVINEBOY 2008 20:04, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks . In this case I haven't tried to request a speedy delete yet – because of my frustrations in other cases (see here), I wasn't eager to try anymore. I would ask you to go ahead with whatever method is likely to succeed, and I will be watching how you go about it for the learning effect. --Sprachraum (talk) 20:14, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Since I did not want to wait anymore, I've put in a proposed deletion, see below:

Proposed deletion of Magellan (film)


The article Magellan (film) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "For three years, this has been a nonsensical relink to the page of a film editor who had nothing to do with any film named 'Magellan'. As can be seen in the history, the root cause is that User:Brinlong created an article draft for the film Magellan (2017) in the main article space instead on his user subpage – then copied the Infobox film from Interstellar, left part of those details in the box, including Interstellar editor Lee Smith, and abandoned the 'article' in a state not even close to a legitimate stub. Along came User:Bovineboy2008, placed a relink to Lee (not-the-editor-of Magellan) Smith. Which also caused a 2007 film of the same name to link to Lee Smith in the article L'est Films Group! Since there are even more films named Magellan, this page should be deleted completely, because any future article creations should be titled Magellan (2007 film), Magellan (2017 film), etc."

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Sprachraum (talk) 06:52, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

"Magellan (film)" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Magellan (film). The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 24 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:25, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

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