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Hi. Saw your 2 proposed merges. They looks non-controversial, so you can do them yourself. Put all relevant material into the correct spelling, turn the wrong spelling into a REDIRECT page. Good luck! Let me know if this is helpful. Thanks. HG | Talk 08:36, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi HG, since I do not feel too comfortable writing in English, I'd like a native speaker to do this. --Ephraim33 12:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation
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German bio articles

 * Further reading: Village pump (policy), Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive558, Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive559, Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive553, Articles for deletion/Claus Peter Poppe, Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Claus Peter Poppe

Any end in sight to these German bio bad boys, or is this the first effort to tackle all 2700+? Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:44, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, someone has to start. As long as the speedy deletion requests are fullfilled so fast, I will continue (at least for a while). Or do you need a break? --Ephraim33 (talk) 08:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I can do some more, though I have to leave soon. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:09, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I would like to ask you to stop adding them to CAT:CSD. It floods the category with unneeded amount of pages. Rather, they should be listed on a seperate page and maybe handled in a semi-automatic way. Regards  So Why  08:22, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I did not want to "flood" the category. I thought every day some speedy deletion requests would be the fastest way and in fact the only way I knew. What do you mean by seperate page (in what namespace) and who will take care of it? --Ephraim33 (talk) 08:42, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Are they causing some sort of problem at CAT:SD? What exactly does "flooding" that category mean? I suppose you could just list them in your own namespace and then ask an admin to process them, but I see little downside to listing them at CAT:SD, where admins can process them as they encounter them. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The point is that it's unnecessary work. Those pages are all very familiar: They were created by the same user, have no references and no other editors beside that user. So someone with a little scripting skills can easily write a bot that checks for those conditions and deletes everything on such a list that meets those requirements. That would spare admins the work of having to delete all those mroe than 2500+ articles, freeing them to handle the normal requests. There is no pressing need to get rid of those pages asap so we can well wait a few days until someone could set up such a system. In the end, it would mean a bit of work for one person instead of huge amount for many. Regards  So Why  09:32, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, a list like User:Amalthea/Sandbox, maybe. You could then notify editors who took care of the originally discussed list, like Jennavecia, Ched Davis, Juliancolton, or myself. (See also User talk:Jennavecia/Archive 53)  Amalthea  09:43, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, Ephraim, I personally don't mind doing them. Time you get around to finding someone who can script and convince them to write it up for you, they could be done. Good Ol’factory (talk) 09:39, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Point is, in the time you need to delete those, you could work on the other 100 requests instead. CAT:CSD is mostly under-worked by admins and as such, we should not span our work capacity more than we have to. If there is a huge number of deletions that need to be done but can be done using semi-automated ways, we should not do them manually. Regards  So Why  09:50, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm old enough to decide how to spend my time, so you needn't panic. Though I always do find the concept of tasks within WP being classified as a poor use of time as compared to other WP tasks to be the ultimate delight of "in-world-ism". Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:05, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Of course you are and if you want to spend your time doing the job a bot could do, who's to stop you? But that does not mean I cannot make suggestions on how to do things more easily, does it? Regards  So Why  10:37, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I'll have to get my wife onto this one. She'd like this conversation. ... Good Ol’factory (talk) 11:21, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

@SoWhy: Of course it would be a good idea to let a bot run through the Dr. Blofeld and Ser Amantio di Nicolao articles, to find the unreferenced ones. The question is: Will someone write the code? (Do you know anyone who could possibly do this in the next days or weeks?) And another question: Is it possible to find all of them? Most of the articles from the original list of the 2798 articles were already deleted. But there are still some hundred (or more?) of these articles around, which were not on the list. --Ephraim33 (talk) 11:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC) PS: Here is my first version of a list of "articles" to delete, still compiled by hand. --Ephraim33 (talk) 11:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * As I thought might be the case, it was much faster to just delete these than try to find someone who could script a bot to do them. As far as I can tell, the job is done. No disrespect to User:SoWhy, who I think had valid points about how to best go about this—but we do sometimes spend an awful lot of time talking about how to accomplish something when often it might be more productive to just actually do it. So I did. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If that was the whole list then sure, it was easier to do it manually. But doing them in one concerted pass, from a list, by one admin, is still easier than feeding them into CAT:CSD one by where many admins have to familiarized themselves with the situation, look at the criteria the AfD specified, and check nd delete one article. By the way, if you don't mind, I'm going to undelete a couple that people have worked on, and that have been intentionally omitted from the initial deletion, and will add a source to them. Amalthea  07:00, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It's fine with me. I just deleted ones that were unreferenced, but I did notice that there were a couple that were longer than usual (but still unreferenced). I imagine it's those you have in mind. Good Ol’factory (talk) 08:40, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Sigurd Hofmann
Hello Ephraim33, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Sigurd Hofmann - a page you tagged - because: Is a plausible, useful redirect or is not a redirect at all. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. Coffee //  have a cup  //  ark  // 16:04, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Undo Changes to Trainees of Bert Vogelstein
Greetings Ephraim33, thank you for your work in monitoring changes to Dr. Vogelstein's Wikipedia page. My colleagues and I agree that it is extremely beneficial to include his former students in his encyclopedia entry. Many of them have played an important role in clarifying the genetic causes behind a numerous malignancies and are distinguished faculty all over the world.

If we want to rework this section, I suggest highlighting a handful of Dr. Vogelstein's students who have likewise done well-known work in molecular biology as opposed to deleting this section. Please contact me with any questions on this matter. bjarneb1990 //  Bjarne Bartlett  // 1:24, 09 July 2013 EST

I don't think it is useful to mention all his students or co-authors. I can't remember any Wikipedia entry with such a list. I suggest to add only former students who have an own Wikipedia article or a professorship somewhere in the world or won some notable prize for their work. So I suggest to mention only the handful of Vogelstein's students you want to highlight and don't refer to the other ones. --Ephraim33 (talk) 19:14, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

October 2013
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You have noticed my mistake, but why you don't correct it? --Ephraim33 (talk) 15:23, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Draft:Richard M. Osgood, Jr.
Richard M. Osgood, Jr. does meet the notability requirement for academics. However, the submission still needs inline sources in many places and independent sources for its extraordinary claims. Once these issues are resolved, the submission is good to go. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 21:45, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Please stop edit warring and misuse of commons tools
You recently tagged twice a, and twice removed an artist depiction of Planet Nine, please read WP:3RR, use article talk page before causing further disruptions. I ask you to revert your second deletion request. Thanks. prokaryotes (talk) 15:53, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

I tagged the File:Planet-Nine-at-perihelion.jpg for speedy deletion only once, not twice. After you removed the speedy deletion request, I started a deletion request cause it doesn't make any sense to modify an image of Neptune to visualize Planet Nine. We neither use Pluto's image for all Kuiper belt objects of the same size. --Ephraim33 (talk) 16:12, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * For further discussion use this talk page discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Planet_Nine#Image, Thanks. prokaryotes (talk) 16:18, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Should the current artist's impression be removed from the Planet Nine infobox?
Regards,  nagual  design   15:01, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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