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Proposed deletion of Xcos


The article Xcos has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Not notable: no reliable sources, no indication of notability.

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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 article 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. JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 05:56, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Liked your Talk contributions on the article Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)
It's always great to see people not just go on a rampage when their changes or contributions are reverted, but instead ask why and start from the benefit of the doubt that there's a good reason. That's one of the best parts of Wikipedia editing! Lawikitejana (talk) 04:04, 21 March 2014 (UTC)


 * It's annoying when people revert legitimate edits without an explanation, but more often than not, it's not for malicious reasons. Hence assuming good faith. :-) --Ixfd64 (talk) 05:27, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

You may be interested
In the discussion at Talk:National_heritage_site, since it concerns (among other things) an article you created. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:15, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Heritage site for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Heritage site 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/Heritage site 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. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:39, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

User privs
Why did you remove me as a confirmed user? I'm sure there's some policy I'm not aware of, but I'm not exactly sure what that would be. If you could help me out by explaining the group hierarchy, that would be great. Thanks! QueenFan (talk) 01:43, 16 May 2014 (UTC)


 * See User access levels. Your account is already auto-confirmed, so you no longer need the "confirmed" user right to do most things. --Ixfd64 (talk) 02:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks for the barnstar! --Ixfd64 (talk) 23:20, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

(no subject)
why are you picking on mee just cause im blake and old ur a bully black* — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxbballpro (talk • contribs)


 * Nobody here is picking on you. I merely reverted your edits because they were not constructive. --Ixfd64 (talk) 00:24, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Evidence
What is your evidence that the water level drop in Boiling Lake in Dominica is in any way related to the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake? Just because two events occur one some time after the other does not mean they are related. Dominica is on the other side of the globe in a completely different fault line system. You would need solid scientific evidence to make the claim that the two events are related. Otherwise, please, remove the item. (Paaskynen (talk) 04:41, 27 May 2014 (UTC))


 * I didn't say the two events were related, only that one preceded the other. The earthquake may or may not have had anything to do with the water level of Boiling Lake. See: correlation does not imply causation. --Ixfd64 (talk) 04:50, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I am aware of correlation does not imply causation, in fact I teach the subject, which is why I asked you for evidence. You listed the Boiling Lake water level drop a precursor to the earthquake. That indicates there is a correlation. If you have no evidence of a correlation, then mentioning Boiling Lake in connection with the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami is not warranted. Many things happened all over the world in the days before the tsunami like the 2004 Christmas Eve snowstorm to mention just one. (Paaskynen (talk) 08:49, 27 May 2014 (UTC))


 * Fair enough. It seems another user has already removed that part. --Ixfd64 (talk) 16:44, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Pashto completion
Hi, Ixfd64. If there is no consensus for the language to be the primary topic for "Pashto", can you finish the closure by turning Pashto into a redirect to the correct primary topic, or moving the disambiguation page Pashto (disambiguation) to the base name? Thanks -- JHunterJ (talk) 19:07, 17 June 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ --Ixfd64 (talk) 20:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! -- JHunterJ (talk) 01:38, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Title Page "Nizari"
Hello Danny I suggest the Title of the Title Page "Nizari" should be further upgraded to read according to the proper usage of the term as used by historians i.e. "The Nizaris".

Best regards. Salim e-a ebrahim (talk) 05:58, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

168.10.180.48
You beat me to it. Carry on. :) Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:51, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

stop the harassment
stop harassing me, leave my edits alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.213.97.120 (talk) 16:48, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, there won't be anyone changing further edits from this IP for the next month... DMacks (talk) 17:44, 13 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking care of the matter. It's pretty funny when vandals make inappropriate edits and then accuse us of "harassing" them when we undo their handiwork. --Ixfd64 (talk) 21:41, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

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Templates used when patrolling
May I ask what software you use, if any, when patrolling recent changes? Looks like Huggle doesn't recognize it and will issue the same level warning... see here. &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 20:42, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I usually use Huggle 2 (the Huggle 3 interface is a little confusing for me) for patrolling, although I'm currently doing it manually as I haven't had the chance to install the required .NET Framework on this computer yet. Other than that, I use the pop-ups to preview edits as it's somewhat faster than loading the whole diff. --Ixfd64 (talk) 20:46, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I see. I'm guessing it goes off of edit summaries, then, to determine the last level warning issued. It is able to detect Twinkle warnings, if you'd prefer that over manually templating. What templates are you using? WP:WARNING are the standard ones. Cheers &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 22:20, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm not 100% familiar with how Huggle detects the warning level either, but I'm guessing it relies on the HTML comments that are left when the templates are substituted. As for your question, I usually use the original "test" templates instead of the standard ones:


 * test (standard, although I'll use uw-v1 if I'm sure the user is not experimenting)
 * test2 (adding nonsense) and test2a (removing content)
 * test3
 * test4 (last warning) and test4im (only warning)
 * test5 (block notice)


 * I think the original templates are more specific and do a better job of explaining to the user what they're doing wrong, although that's just my opinion. --Ixfd64 (talk) 23:13, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Got ya. I can look into why they aren't detected by the semi-automated tools. Other than that I've no problem with them, except test5. I'm in favour of WP:FRIENDLYBLOCKS that tell the user how to make an unblock request. Looks like a redirect to uw-block was proposed over a year ago, but no feedback came about. What are your thoughts? Thanks &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 15:40, 3 October 2014 (UTC)


 * It probably wouldn't hurt to merge test5 into uw-block. The discussion seems to have stalled; perhaps we could try to start it up again. --Ixfd64 (talk) 16:53, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Done at WT:UW. Cheers &mdash;  MusikAnimal talk 17:40, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Wolf Lake Provincial Recreation Area


The article Wolf Lake Provincial Recreation Area has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * This recreation area is a campground, not a park, as such fails WP:NGEO.

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Please refrain from making constructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Cattle feeding. Your edits constitute Self-righteousness and have been reverted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.128.117.172 (talk) 16:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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

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Nomination of Birch Lake State Recreation Site for deletion
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Acronym
Template:Acronym has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:16, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Bonnevilla page deletion
Hi, I am writing you regarding the deleted page Bonnevilla, I was wondering if you could take into consideration what happened with that page, the page had been reviewed and updated several times. In the Spanish wiki it was deleted, it was my first article and I was missing vital information, I tried fixing it but it was deleted again without being reviewed, this made it look like I was just creating spam information, I stopped attempting to work with it, on the mean time the article in English was much better and was fixed by several editors.

Then a user from the Spanish Wiki that thought that I was just spamming started attacking my page, using an IP address and not his username, he proposed it for deletion due to insufficient references, every time I would try to add more references he would undo the edit and after the 7 days the page was deleted, he insulted me using profanity when I would try to update the page, and kept spamming me on the page, I am here only to learn and develop myself as an editor, I have created 2 other pages Nach, and Akil Ammar, that have been reviewed positively, I would only like a fair chance to fix the Bonnevilla page, and if something can be done to prevent that IP user from continue harassing me, any recommendations from you would be great. Thank you very much for taking your time to assist me. Herrkhor (talk) 18:16, 26 October 2016 (UTC)


 * The article was deleted because its proposed deletion was unopposed. For articles deleted through this process, you can make a request for undeletion here. --Ixfd64 (talk) 18:20, 26 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your help I have submitted the request Herrkhor (talk) 18:56, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Enforcement for deletion
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
Hello,

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)