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Hello Lee, happy "time of the year" to you, and I hope you're well. There's (yet) another discussion over Wikicup and FAC going on at the above, and one of your review comments has been brought up as an example. I don't believe you've been pinged and I think the ping I added probably won't work, so I thought I'd just let you know, so that you can correct any fallacious assertions being made about you or your approach or (once again) the Wikicup in general. Cheers, take care. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!&#33;!&#33;) 08:50, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know, I'd have not seen it otherwise. Happy to change my wording or come up with a compremise to my message, but it's a bit odd not being messaged about it.Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:19, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Well yes, and the fact that your approach was mis-represented at the outset of that discussion wasn't really suitable either. Bad form.  Glad you opined.  The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!&#33;!&#33;) 12:21, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The irony is that I didn't actually have a message to this effect until I had to denote my participation in the cup. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:51, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * That's a LOL moment. Cheers, and happy new year! The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!&#33;!&#33;) 14:08, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I just want to make it clear that my participation in that discussion is not aimed at anybody in particular, but is just the result of my minority belief that the review request is better on a talk page. And yes, I think I do remember breaking that once.  No offense intended from anything said there. Hog Farm Bacon 23:55, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Lee, that "discussion" has at last been closed down. I can't imagine it will be the last time it's brought up and I just hope next time the picture is painted fairly. I'm sorry that you were falsely accused of demanding a review before you would give one, it just shows how out of touch some people are. My advice, for what it's worth, just drop the phrase QPQ as that seems to have been the touch point for some people. Otherwise, good luck with your nominations, I look forward to reviewing them (with absolutely NO requirement for you to review mine, unless you feel like it!!) Cheers, and happy new year. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!&#33;!&#33;) 09:31, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I did change my boiler plate the moment someone told me it was an issue - it's at user:Lee Vilenski/FA Template. I don't really see how having a link to your nominated articles is any worse on the nomination page than a ping or talk page message. If there is more on that message that needs tuning, let me know. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 09:55, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I think the issue at hand is the incorrect interpretation of the literal requirements of a QPQ. Because of DYK's use of it, whereby an article must be reviewed as part of the promotion process, that's how some individual's are choosing to interpret it in the FAC context, despite your previous clear wording.  The whole discussion is completely muddled and without focus: Ceoil tried to get things back on track and that was sadly and summarily de-railed once again.  What is clear is that any issue with your approach is coming from a minuscule minority so I'd just carry on carrying on.  Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!&#33;!&#33;) 10:32, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the support. I will leave some comments for anyone who is active on FAC, that I make no attempt to do anything against the rules, and more than willingly have my contributions strutinised. I would rather have someone send me something (a diff or general topic) to my talk so I can figure out what the issues actually are, and change my setup in a corresponding way. I will reach out to anyone who may or may not have an issue with my current approach, as I would rather not have any more topics about this - unless it is to gain a consensus on if leaving a link to my nominations page is unsuitable. I don't want the aggro, I do want the process to work smoothly. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 13:57, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

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Marco Fu
Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Marco Fu has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I wouldn't have described it as "poorly worded". I did try to vary repetitive phrasing and added a couple of clarifications. I was also able to fix the broken citation.

Stay safe! Regards,

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CSD
Hey! I was wondering if you could delete this to make way for a page move? Thanks, Andrew nyr  talk  contribs  02:46, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, all done. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:52, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

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Happy New Year! Lee Vilenski, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Orphan article
Hello, I have linked Pixel Game Maker MV to other pages such as Playism, Side-scrolling video games, Nintendo Switch games nad others. Can the orphan tag be removed? Rrobotto (talk) 14:03, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Orphans are for other articles to link to this article. Currently only Playism links there, so might be worth creating links some more places that talk about this software. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 15:49, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

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Hi Lee Vilenski, I came to notice that the EC protection on this talk page has expired and all IPs are again attacking the page. Can you please have a look at it? Thank you. -- Ashley yoursmile!  10:37, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

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I'm not going to start GA reviews ever again because of the Jenson Button mishap. <b style="background:#006A4D; padding:2px"> NASCARfan0548  ↗ </b> 22:23, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * How am I going to do better on those? <b style="background:#006A4D; padding:2px"> NASCARfan0548  ↗ </b> 22:23, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Kapadia FAC
Hi there, Lee Vilenski,

First, I appreciate your comments on the Dimple Kapadia FAC. I think I've addressed all of them now, but it looks like you were midway through the reviewing process and probably got busy doing things. I thought I'd remind you of the FAC anyway. If you are, indeed, kept occupied with other activities and not currently available to continue your review, I'll understand. Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  13:50, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * It's on the to-do list. Don't worry. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 13:56, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Mass deletion of IDOSI journals.
These were not G8-elibigle (see see discussion), please restore these redirects. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 07:19, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I saw the thread on AN btw. No need to reply to this message. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 07:30, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Aye, sorry. I'm working on it. Just trying to see if there is even a semi-automated way of doing it before I sit down and restore them l manually. Apologies. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 09:27, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah no worries, thanks for restoring. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:18, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Once again apologies for this - let me know if this isn't complete btw. Is it worth us having a better discussion about the merits/fixes for retaining these categories? I worry that others may view these as empty categories like I did. I did see that there was a deletion consensus, but it currently doesn't link at Category:International Digital Organization for Scientific Information academic journals or the other items on the list. I thought there was quite a few requests for these to become hidden categories, which makes sense to me. Is it worth me opening another MfD, or adding some sort of link to the prior consensus to each of these categories to make it a bit more visable? Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski  (talk • contribs) 14:01, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The CFD was closed with "overwhelming consensus" to keep, so I'm not sure where you're getting that there was a consensus for deletion. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 03:18, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, no I thought there was a decent argument to hide the categories, but the AN discussion did have further people talking about it. Happy to do whatever with these. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 15:13, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah, I don't much care either way there. If you want to mark those as hidden, that's fine by me. Not sure what others think though. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 15:23, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

- Yeah, I wouldn't want to do it without consensus. I'm not sure CfD is the best place for that discussion; but it's the only real forum for category chats. I'm a bit tied down to start a suitable discussion, so I'll leave as is for now. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 15:30, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

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Snooker peer review
Hey Lee, how's it going? I noticed you put the Snooker article up for peer review. I've started having a closer look at it to help get it ready for FA nom, but I'm probably not the best person to do a peer review as I'm a bit too closely involved in the snooker project. In fact, I'm not sure I know exactly what peer review means! Is it a formal review process like a GA review? Or would you expect several editors to contribute in a less formal manner? If you like, I can just carry on doing some general copyediting? I've got a bunch of questions/suggestions, which maybe could go into the review before you put it up for FA nom. Cheers, Rodney Baggins (talk) 15:33, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The peer review is a sounding board to make the article up to FA quality. There are some general fixes that I've seen that you've done, but any help working on it would be appreciated. I don't plan to nominate until later this year, but I know it isn't quite there yet! Thanks for taking a look, and anything you can do to improve the article would be grand. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 15:37, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, so you want me to put some stuff on the peer review page for you? It might take me a while to go through it but I guess I can just add a few comments as I go along, and then maybe a few more, etc. etc. Rodney Baggins (talk) 17:23, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would be fantastic if possible. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 17:31, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Righteo, my absolute pleasure! Rodney Baggins (talk) 17:52, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Just a thought... It's occurred to me that Rules of snooker should probably be peer reviewed next because it's linked from the main Snooker article and should therefore be brought up to the same standard. Rodney Baggins (talk) 09:33, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Did I do this right?
I recently performed a username block of User talk:Joe Biden slept with Bernie Sanders, for obvious reasons. You've had the admin bit a little longer than I have, and are more experienced with the admin stuff. Did I execute the block setting correctly? Hog Farm Talk 01:41, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, looks good! Obviously twinkle is your best friend with blocks. Just remember to watchlist in case of having to revoke TPA. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 13:57, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 2021 Masters (snooker)
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Thanks once again for your comments. What do you think?--Hildeoc (talk) 05:33, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:2017 in cue sports


Hello, Lee Vilenski. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "2017 in cue sports".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 20:33, 27 January 2021 (UTC)