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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021
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 * There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (T275322).

Arbitration
 * By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXIX, March 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXX, April 2021
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I am not particularly active any more, unfortunately, but you are welcome to ask your question. Please ping me to make sure I get a notification. If it's related to this edit, I recommend to contact the editor in question and to ask if they are paid and aware of the disclosure requirements. Often enough paid editors are willing to comply with the requirements if they're explained to them in enough detail, and it's easy enough to get the details wrong without operating in bad faith. If they deny being paid and you have reason to still think that they are, it's time to present your evidence, but keep WP:OUTING in mind. If no private information is involved, WP:AN/I might be a good place; if private information is involved, I'd advise you to privately contact an admin or, if necessary, a CheckUser. Huon (talk) 22:01, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response. It is related to that, but with a few steps in between. You claimed to have private evidence that was an undisclosed paid editor. I was wondering whether you would be able to share any of that information with me, and if not, if you could give your opinion on whether any of that information might implicate . —Compassionate727 (T·C) 22:19, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * While GeoLen85 is clearly associated with Packshaw in some way (and there is information missing on Commons since the image of Packshaw is still tagged as GeoLen85's own work which it apparently is not), the information I have on Lucyprince27 does not help in any way except by making it very unlikely that the two accounts are run by the same person. Huon (talk) 22:55, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Good to know, thank you. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 17:25, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Shlomo Maital's Article
Thanks for the input on the article. I'll try to edit it according to your comments. I'm not sure what you mean by "This article contains paid contributions". I'm a paid editor and this is clearly stated on the talk page of the article. --Adig-pt (talk) 09:45, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delayed response! We conventionally put paid contributions at the top of articles that have other flaggable maintenance problems that are the result of contributions by paid editors; this is just a courtesy to our readers, informing them that the problems with the article are caused by someone who was more concerned about the subject of the article than Wikipedia, rather than someone who just didn't know what they were doing. (This hostility to paid editors is just part of our culture, and I personally think it is sometimes carried too far, unfortunately.) Anyway, once the other problems with the article are resolved, the paid contributions template goes away too. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 17:30, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the detailed answer. I'll work on improving the article. Appreciate your work and patience! --Adig-pt (talk) 07:37, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedian WikiGryphons


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Relisting RfDs
Hey, thanks for helping out with clerking at RfD, but some of the discussions that you relisted today could have been closed without further discussion. At a quick glance, the discussions for WWAFAWDWG?, George Fan, Next National Assembly for Wales election, and Next Welsh Assembly Election could have been closed as they were. Quorum standards for RfD are significantly lower than for AfD; a nomination of a redirect for deletion with no further participation is generally considered to be sufficient after a week has passed. signed,Rosguill talk 15:53, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oof. I had realized the standards were lower, but not that much lower. Well, if you want to action any of them now, I have no objections. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 15:58, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I came to complain about the same thing, but I'm glad to see someone beat me to it. I wanted to note that at WP:RGUIDE it says If a good-faith RfD nomination proposes to delete a redirect and has no discussion after at least 7 days, the default result is delete, which is important because PROD doesn't exist for redirects. In general, if you do not have sufficient experience at a given forum, it is not a good idea to dive right in and start clerking. It is usually much more appreciated to participate in discussions with well-thought out and researched !votes as it can go a long way to establish a consensus and make closing easier for those who do have the given experience. -- Tavix ( talk ) 16:50, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * My bad. I was active several years ago at RfD, but clearly, I either never understood things or have forgotten everything since then. Very sorry for all the inconvenience. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 17:06, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * No worries at all, it's not a big deal in the grand scene of things. I'm just glad to see you back active again, it's always good to have a fresh perspective on things from someone who has been here before. I remember your name, but it has to have been maybe five years? -- Tavix ( talk ) 17:22, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Something like that. My activity level waxes and wanes, and when I am here, I tend to jump around erratically between maintenance areas. But right now, RfD seems to have my attention. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 16:51, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

In general, second relists aren't that common at RfD and most often the discussion can be closed by then. Just letting you know. — &thinsp;J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 20:48, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm used to AfDs going to three relists before closing as no consensus, but I understand why RfD would be different. I'll keep it in mind. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 21:14, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I was hoping to see you cut back on the amount of relisting after 's comment, but after seeing a bunch of third(!) relists from you recently, I thought I'd share a blurb of advice from WP:RELIST: Relisting debates repeatedly in the hope of getting sufficient participation is not recommended, and while having a deletion notice on a page is not harmful, its presence over several weeks can become disheartening for its editors. Therefore, in general, debates should not be relisted more than twice. Users relisting a debate for a third (or further) time, or relisting a debate with a substantial number of commenters, should write a short explanation either within the relist template, or in addition to it, on why they did not consider the debate sufficient. I would also really like to reiterate that clerking discussion areas should really only be done by experienced users. You've only recently reengaged with RfD, and the volume of complaint about your actions illustrates that you do not have a good enough grasp on how it works to be performing administrative tasks. At this point, I'd recommend you stop clerking RfD until you have more experience there. Thanks, -- Tavix ( talk ) 00:31, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't want to cause any more drama, so I'll heed your request and stop clerking at RfD. But it seems to me there is already a de facto consensus for discussion periods that are much longer than 14 days, in the form of people simply ignoring open RfDs for extended periods of time after they could make a close. Taking a look at a handful of recent discussions that I have not relisted, I see Opposition to trade unions (27 days and going), Filipino Traditional Food:Bagoong (33 days and going, Persian Sea (28 days and going), COVID-19 Hospital (50 days and still going!), and Gaza genocide (29 days and going). Jumping back a couple of months and looking over just the last week of March, I see a similar trend: 1234567890 (57 days), Cylindricity (31 days), Central Temple (26 days), Australasian relations (45 days), Capital equipment (40 days), ISO 3166-1 N3 Multiuse regional user templates (28 days), Elexa (30 days), WebView (45 days), and Big sad (28 days). That's more than one discussion per day that runs the equivalent of at least three relists. So honestly, I don't see how what I've been doing is substantially different than the way things are already done here, except that I've been making an effort to keep the old logs somewhat tidier. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 15:58, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Most of the time, discussions that are in the old logs are ready to be closed, they are just awaiting a closer. If you're relisting, that signals that more discussion is warranted (perhaps due to ongoing discussion, a late suggestion, or few participants so far but are deadlocked) and they are much less likely to be closed for at least another week. There is a big difference between the two, and from your examples it seems you may be conflating them. A lot of the examples you've mentioned are discussions where the active closers have participated so someone else needs to come by and close, so perhaps its time to list some of them at WP:CR. I do appreciate the research though, it does show you are (re)gaining an understanding of the forum. -- Tavix ( talk ) 16:23, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXI, May 2021
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Queer platonic RfD
Hi Compassionate727, would you consider reopening Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 May 17? Participants spoke to a need to have some explanation of the phrase to support the redirects, which I agree with. After your close, I sought out to add something, but I can't see it passing WP:NEO at this point, with most sources I could find being user-generated and unsuitable for citations. I could restore the unreferenced, one-sentence stub and send to AfD, but that seems overly bureaucratic. The status quo is detrimental to readers since the redirects suggest we have content that we don't. As a frequent RfD closer myself, I will usually leave such discussions open until the mention can be added somewhere, even if there's clear consensus not to delete. --BDD (talk) 18:27, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ —Compassionate727 (T·C) 20:15, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I'll explain the situation on today's RfD page. --BDD (talk) 20:50, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXV, September 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, November 2021
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I suppose it's academic as the article has been moved, but I would challenge you on the below.

Most linguists are pretty apathetic about what constitutes "correct" usage. Languages develop over time according to how they are actually used, rather than any set rules, and linguists are professionally interested in describing this rather than making judgments about what should be. My own take is that repurposing "Burkina Faso" as an adjective for the same noun is an entirely natural and expected development, seeing as the name itself consists of two words (a noun and an adjective) and both are from West African languages, meaning your average English speaker isn't going to have a clue how to derive an adjective from that name. But mostly I just think it's foolish to argue about this, because there will be redirects covering all the possibilities that the article doesn't sit at and everyone is going to be able to get where they need to. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 18:44, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

The major issue is that you speak for "most linguists". Who appointed you? Did you speak to 51% of them and confirm they are pretty apathetic? Even if you did it would be original research. Next, is your take on it relevant? Next, I wasn't arguing about it, I made a comment. Lastly, and I intimated it before, Wikipedia is run by majority rule. It is not always right. Genesis, like it or loathe it, IS a rock band, despite what Wikipedia mob rule has dictated. 2A02:C7F:769F:1700:207C:6B6F:9A24:FCB4 (talk) 21:06, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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You can't close a 2:1 discussion in the complete other direction unless there are seriously egregious bad faith, sockfarm, etc...shenanigans on one side. I advice you take a breath, rethink this, and undo that. Otherwise this will go up for review, pronto. Zaathras (talk) 03:28, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello Compassionate727,

I am completely new to wiki editing and am finding it very confusing. I made the user name BDP22 because I wanted to edit the BDP entry, I had no idea this would bring me in conflict with the rule regarding a conflict of interest.

I made the first edit which I found to have been undone so I made a second edit. Only after the second edit did I see your message explaining the situation.

My second edit was to change the website address to that of the new one and to add the election result of 2019 which can be found here: https://bradford.moderngov.co.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=558&RPID=17542740

I am sorry for the confusion and not following protocol.

I hope the edits I have done can remain and would ask if I can further edit the website address on the external links section to the new address britishdems.co.uk as I had not changed this.

Regards, BDP22BDP22 (talk) 23:55, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries and welcome! Regarding the conflicts of interest policy, you only have a conflict of interest if you are in some way affiliated with the BDP. People are not prohibited from editing articles concerning topics with which they have a conflict of interest; we only ask that you disclose your conflict of interest as a courtesy to us and be mindful not to violate our policies on neutrality in articles. (Note that if they are paying you, disclosing that relationship is not optional.) The reason this came up is that sometimes we see employees of an organization create an account under a username connecting them to that organization, and we weren't sure if you might be one of them, so I decided to leave you a welcome message that included a note about that issue. You're not in trouble or anything like that.
 * I believe your first edit back on the 22nd was reverted because it was viewed as scrubbing the article of relevant information solely because it portrays the BDP in a bad light. Note that on Wikipedia, we believe that content should not be removed solely because some people may find it offensive, and we generally revert such removals quickly. If you believe there are other reasons why that paragraph should be removed, I am happy to discuss them with you. Regarding your most recent edit, note that all Wikipedia content must be cited to reliable sources. You of course linked to one here, so I have added that citation to the article. In the future, you'll want to do so yourself when you add content to make sure nobody reverts it.
 * Again, welcome to Wikipedia. We are glad to have you here helping us. If you ever have any questions, feel free to ask them here on my talk page or at the Teahouse. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 01:04, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

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Hi, I am VickKiang. I apologise for the trouble my erroneous RfC induced, especially the poor adherence of NPOV in the OP, and would definitely improve it next time. Thanks for your participation in this RfC again. VickKiang (talk) 21:02, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
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Seeking adoption
Hi, I saw on the Adopt-a-user page that you are currently accepting adoptees. So I am looking for an adopter who can help me in understanding all policies and content guidelines and help me in becoming a pro in Wikipedia. Thanks. Jamalahmadpk (talk) 19:48, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks for closing the review
Hello, thanks for closing this good article review, and based on your tone of the closure, I just want to let you know that I don't have any bad faith on any of the reviewers. I've tried to addressed these issues, in one instance, I have tried to find sources that criticize the program but to no avail. To be honest, it has been a really stressful experience for me. Anyways, thanks for your elegant the community reassessment closure, and I'll try to tackle all of these problems at the talk page. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 17:11, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Believe me, I understand the feeling; there are some topics I simply cannot edit because I feel too passionately about them. I don't think you are editing in bad faith, nor do I think you are making that assumption of others. Rather, many of us have topics that we feel so strongly about that we lose sight of the bigger picture, and our desire to improve Wikipedia's coverage of them actually has the opposite effect; when that happens, editors often are blocked from editing in those areas despite the fact that they're sincerely trying. I am concerned that SpaceX's rockets may be one of those topics for you, given the messes you have introduced to the article's sourcing in your attempts to simplify it. Personally, I learned the hard way that when a particular thing on Wikipedia becomes a source of stress, it is usually time to find something else to edit for a little while. You may find when you return to the topic that you have a better perspective on everything, or you may find that it simply isn't worth becoming stressed over. Try not to stress yourself out; Wikipedia usually isn't worth it. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 00:29, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Precious
You are recipient no. 2716 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:38, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
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Incorrect assessment on the Capture of the Tuapse
Good morning, These international maritime law cases occurred in 1950s while thousands of Taiwanese, Hakka, indigenous people and Chinese refugees were either executed or imprisoned by the Chinese Nationalist Party's martial law ruling, which simply cannot allow a new party, a magazine or any public gathering without permission in advance. Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly overrulled court sentences for more severe penalties on political dissidents, sometimes issued the direct orders: "" (Death penalty is good!) - his handwritings have been declassified and displayed in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall now. Almost every Taiwanese family has some relatives fallen in the victims of the White Terror (1947-1987). You have been confused between the "Republic of China" and Taiwan, the "Chinese Nationalist Party" (KMT) and Taiwanese democracy movement, the source of zh-CN (Simplified Chinese, China), zh-TW (Traditional Chinese, Taiwan), zh-HK (Cantonese, Hong Kong), and the timing gaps among 1954, 1987 and 2022.

The facts of detaining, torturing and killing some British, European or any other country' subjects were not a concern in the mind of dictator and that foreign regime (fleeing from China to Taiwan) to gather resources for his returning war of Chinese Re-unification, which went too far beyond the CIA's original strategic plan requiring the release of the ship crew. It is the reason why Prime Minister Churchill advocated removing the KMT to mandate Taiwan to United Nations Trusteeship Council, and why President Eisenhower continuously demanded Chang release these ships' crew. Power is a conceit revealing our limitations, while a real man shall remain accountable to the end beyond the extent of his power.

This article is only half completed, and there are more historical data pending to be compiled into the Wikipedian format. I don't have much time to spare for the English Wiki, due to the daily schedule as a full-time worker in real life, therefore can only take it slow, nevertheless justice is served in the long run, regardless how time passes. Please feel free to check our work in the Taiwanese Wiki to observe the full picture; better yet, welcome to visit Taiwan in person, and talk with the real Taiwanese by yourself, particularly the younger generation, to know how they think, instead of those Chinese Nationalists with the hidden agenda continuing to lie for another 75 years...... Thanks for your attention, and have a great day. Mickie-Mickie (talk) 00:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022
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WikiProject Tropical Storms arbitration case opened
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wp:ARBWPTC
On the evidence talk page I left some evidence, mind copying over? Thanks.--69.116.96.17 (talk) 15:21, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It's not clear to me what evidence you want copied over; I see an accusation of stonewalling, but no diffs or anything like that supporting the accusation. At any rate, I would not be able to do that: only clerks and arbitrators can copy evidence for others. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 16:51, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, April 2022
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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Rick Roll Land


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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
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Just wanted to say hi...
... After our interactions in eswiki. Please feel free to ask me directly in the future, if you feel like it. Greets! --Metalpotato - &#9993; 04:31, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
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At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
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Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

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MTU Carnival
Thanks for your work on tagging/moving those articles. I haven't formed an opinion on what to do with the list. But I had been involved in chaperoning CynMTU through the VRT/licensing process. Please don't take my dePROD as any predudice against filing an AFD right away if you think it doesn't merit its own article. DMacks (talk) 15:48, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

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Please get back to me asap about my page
My page was wrongfully deleted by you and I want it restored. It is no different than other pages in the same category that you have no problem with. Awaiting to hear back from you. Holy Order of Yodh page. Luckeeone (talk) 12:09, 16 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Just another user passing by, but from what I can find out there, this "Holy Order of Yodh" is some fringe and definitely non-notable promoter of, um, cooking via telepathy. I highly doubt you're ever going to get an article on this thing, as there are literally no sources outside of a few book reviews that discuss this. This user, Compassionate727, did not actually delete the article, though. If you had clicked on the link in the notification where it says "please contact the deleting administrator", it would have brought you to this this deletion log. Admin Bbb23 is the one who actually performed the deletion.
 * , you're not an admin so WP:ADMINACCT does not compel you to reply, but this person has been asking for 2 weeks about their article that you tagged for deletion. You've been busily editing away in other areas since July 3rd, so "I didn't notice" doesn't fly. If you are going to engage with users with tagging their contributions for deletion, then the common courtesy would be to respond. Zaathras (talk) 13:39, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll admit I don't normally pay close attention to the talk pages of users I have posted deletion notifications to because people don't usually respond there, so this is the first I've seen of this. I should probably amend the instructions at the top of this page to reflect that.
 * You should read Notability for our policy on what topics deserve articles on Wikipedia. The gist of it is that you need multiple reliable sources that are independent of the topic and discuss it in some depth. Like Zaathras, I doubt you will be able to find that. Additionally, the article was deleted as unambiguous advertising or promotion, which means that the article would have needed to be fundamentally rewritten to comply with out policy on neutral point of view. In particular, pay attention to the stipulation to avoid stating seriously contested assertions as facts: the page I tagged for deletion spoke of telepathy and other things as if they were the most obvious facts in the world, which isn't acceptable around here. I see that between the time Zathraas replied and I did, another admin,, declined to restore the article. If you want to recreate it, you will first need to find acceptable sourcing and then start from scratch. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 16:22, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I need to have the source of the page so I can fix the problem. So you can at least send me that. Thank you. Luckeeone (talk) 23:14, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

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