User talk:Durandus~enwiki

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October 2012
Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion pages, as you did with Dave Armstrong (Catholic apologist). Doing so won't stop the discussion from taking place. You are, however, welcome to comment about the proposed deletion on the appropriate page. Thank you. red dog six (talk) 16:54, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Your first ever edit was to a comparatively obscure area of Wikipedia, displayed a knowledge of a quite specific guideline and used relatively advanced wiki-markup. Whilst not absolutely unheard of, this is a highly unusual way for someone to begin their wiki-career. Have you ever edited Wikipedia before, under another account or as an unregistered (IP) editor? If not, could you explain how you came to the deletion discussion? If unblocked, what areas of Wikipedia do you intend to work in? Do you recognise that your edits might have prompted suspicion amongst other editors, resulting in the SPI investigation, and that it was therefore opened in good faith? Answering these questions doesn't guarantee an unblock, but I might be willing to take it up with the blocking administrator depending on your replies. Regards. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 07:54, 16 October 2012 (UTC) --- Dear Yunshui: to answer your questions: 1) I contribute mainly on Christian architecture, which is my specialized field, and do so very occasionally from 2007. I am not sure why you think this is a comparatively obscure area of Wikipedia. I have no other account, but before I registered in 2007 I did edit under those unregistered guidelines.  I am not sure why this is relevant. 2) Since I have edited before, this question is not germane. I am not particularly proficient in the Wiki standard of "wiki-marup" but research to try to get it correct on the rare occasions that I do contribute. As for "meatpuppetry", thank you for drawing my attention to this. This was not the least bit intentional. In any specialized community people will likely know each other (as I do professionally with Armstrong) and seek to correct what seem to be unwarranted attacks (as reddogsix may appear to have been doing with Armstrong). I will certainly be more circumspect about this. 3) I intend to work in what areas I believe I can make valid contributions -- specifically Christian architecture and Catholic theology and secular architecture. But like most of us, we have wide ranging interests. 4) I simply edited Armstrong to attempt to satisfy the wiki-standard of peer review and third party publication -- which I did to the best of my ability. I can appreciate that AKG acted in good faith, although it seems AKG should have first investigated the history and would have seen the edits that I made which seem entirely in conformance with the wiki-standard and show good faith on my part. I actually attempted to intervene directly with reddogsix who had flagged Armstrong. Please read the talk page on Dave Armstrong (Catholic apologist) -- I also personally contacted reddogsix to discuss this "in good faith" on reddogsix talk page ("Flagging Dave Armstrong for deletion"). Durandus (talk) 21:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

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Hello,

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