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the 'unusual' nature of the NH simulcast
Hello again, I think the 'unusual' aspect is worth noting. You removed the language here, because (I presume) there was no inline cite at the time. It did exist once, my original mainspace-draft provided a mid-sentence cite to here, which is a semi-about-self-source since they are an event co-sponsor, but the "unusual" nature of the collaboration was backed up by a quotation from some professor. “Cooperation by multiple media partners to host the upcoming Union Leader forum is very significant and unprecedented,” said Wayne Lesperance, professor of political science at New England College in Henniker. “Typically, media competes to host separate events like this forum. In this case, that they are cooperating is something new.” Anyways, if you can see a good way to work that in without calling it "unusual" that is fine by me, or if you think we should just state the facts of the simulcast (which I didn't realize is "a real word" nowadays :-) then I can probably also be convinced of that pathway. Thanks for your work, as always. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 19:39, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * See WP:EDITORIAL. I don't think that Wikipedia normally wants editors to comment on how "unusual" an event may be. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:30, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree we should not be using our own commentary. But I'm just condensing the "very significant" and the "unprecedented" and the "something new" quotations from the professor, into a summarized form of 'quite unusually'.  We can quote them directly if you would rather, or use some other forumulation besides 'quite unusual' if you have a better phrasing-suggestion, but I do think it's an important part of explaining who&why of the forum, and the Lesperance guy agrees with me.  75.108.94.227 (talk) 16:42, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I still don't think it's that interesting. It's not like Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC (media companies in direct competition with each other) cosponsored the forum; the sponsors were largely from different states and different types of media. Are any of the co-sponsors rivals of each other? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:52, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Heh heh... are you really saying WP:NOTINTERESTING can go up against the professor-quote? :-)      But yes, I catch your drift, and from what I can tell, there was indeed overlap in terms of the simulcast-partners (which is different from the "official co-sponsor" list I note) being rivals for the same media-markets.  The main collaborators were CSPAN, NBC, and ABC, plus a few CBS folks; they formed an alliance (temporarily -- whether it becomes permanent remains to be seen), to keep FOX and CNN from being given the lion's share of presidential-debate-coverage/revenues/marketshare/mindshare/cashflow.  It was also a warning-shot to the RNC-party-senate, from the early-state-activists, that they don't want polling-firms and national-teevee-networks to winnow the field of candidates, they want the early states to retain that function (via caucuses and primaries and early-state-media-events).


 * I count four teevee rivals in the NH market (WBIN/WMUR/NECN/CSPAN), three in IA market (KCRG/WYFF/CSPAN), and three in SC market (WLTX/KCCI/CSPAN). There were also multiple radio rivals in those same markets (again NH was most-collaboratively-competitive with three or four radio-rivals by my WP:OR counts), if that makes a difference to you, and of course, internet-live-streams from Hearst and C-SPAN and iHeart and a few other simulcast-partners are also visible in NH and the other states.
 * Besides those three states, there was also competition between Hearst and C-SPAN in another two dozen cities, allegedly (I believe 27 of the 31 Hearst stations broadcast in competitive-collaboration with C-SPAN). Although I don't know the exact stations, we can do a little WP:SYNTH here on usertalk and draw some conclusions:  of the two dozen other Hearst stations, 12 were ABC affiliates, and 9 were NBC affiliates, and the vast majority of those were simulcast partners (since 27 out of 31 leaves little wiggle room).
 * The most "interesting" WP:OR factoid is that zero FOX affialiates were involved, and no CNN/TNT either; using the fresh-off-the-presses-in-2012 change known as rule#12, the RNC "party-senate" has not merely cut the debate-schedule from 27 free-for-all events to 12 sanctioned-with-teeth events (and only half of those prior to super tuesday), the RNC has *also* given FOX and CNN primacy of place, and thereby shafted (relatively speaking) ABC and NBC and CBS and CSPAN. The forum in NH, which I note was originally scheduled for August 6th to directly compete with the FOX debate, and only later moved to August 3rd so it could be the zeroth debate-which-is-technically-not-a-debate, was nigh-entirely backed by competitors to FOX/CNN, and in particular, by CSPAN in an 'unusual' collaboration with ABC and NBC and a few CBS folks.
 * Of the financial-backers, AfP and LFoDA are definitely more tea-party-leaning groups, as opposed to estab-leaning-groups. I don't know about the Eversource Energy and the Eastern Bank folks, one way or the other, whether they are tea-and-grassroots-leaning, or more estab-types that still want to see more debates&forums rather than fewer (or perhaps just want to see more focus on early-caucus-n-primary states rather than on national-polling-data).
 * I further note, before leaving WP:OR behind, that the forum-questions were very softball in my interpretation, and for the most part, gave the candidates time to talk about exactly what they wanted to be talking about, with scrupulously-equal amounts of time (technical troubles related to satellites notwithstanding). The FOX debate is extremely unlikely to allocate airtime evenly amongst the candidates (even in the primetime debate-tier), and furthermore unlikely to have any softball-questions (except perhaps for candidates the FOX moderators prefer).  Thus, one might conjecture, the equal-time softball-question forum-format could be an attempt on the part of cspan/nbc/abc/cbs/newspapers/etc to entice the presidential candidates to consider engaging in further participation, should potential future "forums" be scheduled, which are technically not debates and only quasi-sanctioned by the RNC, but will give the candidates free nationwide airtime to spread their message, and get their names known, with relatively little risk to their campaigns.  The FOX/CNN debates are going to be high-threshold high-risk high-reward environment; the CSPAN/NBC/ABC/CBS forum was a low-to-no-threshold low-to-no-risk pretty-decent-reward environment.


 * Anyways, I don't care if we call the NH forum simulcast-roster 'quite unusual[ref#55]' as I originally summarized the prof, or if we quote per WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV and say that "according to professor Wayne Lesperance the "cooperation by multiple media partners... is very significant and unprecedented"[ref#55] or whatever exact phrasing of the factoid we end up with, but I do think the factoid itself needs mentioning. Besides nominal media-competitors working together (nbc+abc+cbs+cspan&&grassroots banding together in an alliance of convenience versus fox+cnn&&rnc), the media-entities-from-multiple-states collaboration aspect was also 'unusual' to say the least; Iowa local-teevee-stations have never simulcast NH events before, that I am aware.  There are deeper undercurrents here, that the reader should be clued in about, if they care to perform some of their own WP:OR about this topic, by reading the sources we link unto, for themselves.  I'm pretty indifferent about how exactly we point the readership towards the sources which explain the 'unusual'-ness, but we do need to point it out as WP:NOTEWORTHY, per the prof-quote, or per a pointer to some other source which discusses the media-collab, if you prefer.  75.108.94.227 (talk) 14:59, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

table logistics
To slim down the width, you removed the non-primary sponsors from the debate-table. I agree we need to keep the table-width svelte. Potentially, going forward, we could slim down the table width even further... perhaps we could winnow the candidate-fields by selecting five recent polls of our choice and retaining only the top ten candidates in wikipedia? Alternatively, we could use the averages of all major live-interview polls since July, and pick the top ten (or the top eight in fewer than 15 make our cut), relegating the lesser candidates to a secondary article? Perhaps we should invite all the candidates to the main article, but remove their columns if they decline to be listed on wikipedia?

More seriously, though, I was planning on adding a footnote-scheme, where for instance with the list of co-sponsors for the C-SPAN event, it would say "C-SPAN, et al[33]" and when the reader mouse-hovered over #33 it would display the full listing of co-sponsors. Does that sound reasonable? In particular, many of the simulcast partners at the C-SPAN thing were not officially co-sponsors, so I think the list of co-sponsors and the list of re-broadcasters is distinct. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 11:57, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I admit, I don't know exactly who counts as a co-sponsor and who counts as a re-broadcaster, but I do know (a) that non-broadcasters (universities, magazines, foundations, etc.) are not broadcasters, and (b) that there is plenty of room to list any sponsors and all broadcasters in the prose descriptions of the debates, and trying to fit them into the table is very awkward. Even adding footnotes to the table should be avoided because of the space they take up. So, no, I do not think it sounds reasonable to put the sponsors in a footnote in the table. Please put that information in the prose section instead. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:27, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, we agree they belong in the prose, not spelled out in the table. That said, I don't think adding a hover-over-me-footnote-superscript to the sponsor-column will severely impact the table-width, though I do agree that space is tight and we need to cut where we can.  On a somewhat-related formatting issue, I think that we should not be worried about having one or two immediately-attached footnotes for the absentee-reasons, because those footnote-superscripts do NOT change the table-width... the "Gilmore" in the table-header is the determiner of the column-width, and the "O[29]" in the first row is always going to require fewer pixels, unless we really go overboard and have "O[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]".  But the debate-sponsor-footnotes arguably *will* increase the total table-width, if only relatively slightly.  We could always have some embedded (br/) tags, to try and keep the sponsor-column-width reasonable.  Are you able to test the table-width in some actual small-screen devices, smartphones and tablets and such?  Most of the screens I have readily available are, umm, not very small.  Is the table as it is now, already scrolling on 7" tablet screens?  Or on ~4" smartphone screens?  Or are you just being extra-careful because you know -- and I would agree with you -- that we are almost certainly pushing the screen-real-estate-limits of such devices?  75.108.94.227 (talk) 16:54, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I tried viewing the article on a smartphone, but the results were inconclusive. The table cut off after the Jeb Bush column on the smartphone screen and left the right half of the screen blank. (Democratic Party presidential debates, 2016 worked differently; the table there did scroll on the smartphone.) I don't really know what to say about this, except that we need to conserve as much space as we can. The prose sections are there for a reason; anything that needs citation should have its citations in the prose sections, not the table, because there is no room in the table. We're pushing the screen real estate limits on desktop computers. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:44, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I later tried it again on a smartphone, and this time the whole table displayed, although it took up about two and a half screen widths; that is, only about 40% of the table could be displayed without scrolling. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:33, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I also tried to slim the width down, but was reverted. I will put back in the letter-key-linebreak, and see if that bit is permitted to stand.  I also suggest we change from 4em to 3em, since although the columns will be differing widths rather than uniform widths, it will still cut the table-width by ~20% or thereabouts.  Here is a direct-link to 4em.  Here is a direct-link to 3em with 100%tablesize.  Here is overly-wide-explanatory-key-cellspan at 4em.  I suggest that we probably want 90%tablesize and 3em col-widths, rather than 90%tablesize with 4em col-widths, since on my desktop-screen that makes the table-width 10.5" instead of 12.0" wide aka 270mm versus 305mm.  Huckabee and Santorum have the longest lastnames, so they will have extra-wide columns at 3em, but short of hyphenating their names that cannot be helped.
 * More drastically, I would also suggest that we eliminate the "place" and the "host" columns entirely, since they seem to be a constant source of good-faith-corrections, and replace them with a "state" column that merely says NH/OH/CA/CO/WI/NV/etc, and then hyperlinks to the appropriate prose-subsection so that people can read about the "St.Anselm&Goffstown & CSPAN&Hearst&manyMore / QuickenLoans&Cleveland & FOX&Facebook&manymore / etc" type of details. That change would cut the width to 9.0" aka 225mm on my big screen, which is a 15% width-savings versus 10.5" and a 25% width-savings versus 12.0" that we have now.  75.108.94.227 (talk) 15:42, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
 * (p.s. I looked at the dem-table, I could see no HTML-related technical-reason it would scroll and the repub table would not.  Do you see the same no-scrolling-behavior, with all the permalinked variants above?  If so we should call for tech-help, at the village pump or similar.  In related matters, I also could see that KCCI and WMUR were listed as dem-debate-co-sponsors... those were two of the repub-forum-simulcasters ... and that FOX was not listed as a dem-debate-sponsor anywheres although CNN was... per our conversation above, there are deeper currents here, not just one prof's take on the media-collaboration-thing.)  75.108.94.227 (talk) 16:00, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

I see no problem with the way this is right now. Maybe the boxes could be slimmed slightly for candidates inclusion, but other than that the table is well organized, and I don't have problems on my iPhone 6. If you beging removed entire categories, like host or location, the table loses purpose.  Spartan 7W  §  13:32, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

underscores
Thanks for fixing up my stuff, it is much appreciated. However, you can leave out the underscore-fixing-portion of the effort, if you wish to, because there is a bot which does that specific fix, Yobot-via-AWB.  If you take requests, can you reword the tortured sentence that starts like this:  "Historically, there is a correlation..." I had trouble making it plain, yet properly explaining what it meant. No problem if you don't want to mess with that, o'course. Talk to you later, 75.108.94.227 (talk) 16:34, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

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Marianna Zorba AFD (2nd nomination)
Thanks for fixing the nom. I knew it was malformatted but could not figure out how to fix it. Yours, Quis separabit?  11:56, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

(Sir) Syed Sani Syed Ali Shah Bukhari
there's a standard procedure for dealing with requested page moves and name disputes-- see Requested moves. I've deleted the duplicated article--that's not how we do it.  DGG ( talk ) 05:22, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

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Angela Walker
Hi there, I just started Angela Walker. I noticed that you started the article on her running mate, Mimi Soltysik, and thought that you may be interested in expanding her article as well. I am too busy at the moment to give the article too much time. Happy editing!--TM 01:30, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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List of real and fictional people with the surname White ‎
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You deleted List of real and fictional people with the surname White and I will concede that the primary article White (surname) may have handled the long list of names. Would you be so kind to allow me access to the List of real and fictional names so they can be added to the article along with the info box and organization that was also deleted? Jrcrin001 (talk) 14:47, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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Presidential Candidate Scott Copeland

 * I've noticed that you have created a couple of articles on minor candidates in the 2016 US Presidential election, and I've been hoping to potentially add others, specifically those that are Republican, Democratic, or running within the major Third Parties. Now I've tried my hand at creating articles before but I don't consider my skills up to snuff; I'm one of those users who is good at transcribing, editing in facts, creating tables, that sort of thing. If you have the time, I'm wondering if you could write an article in my stead, provided there is enough information to merit an article. The candidate in question, Scott Copeland, has a number of hits on local news networks, blogs and elsewhere. Not as many as Rocky De La Fuente, but maybe enough to clear a minimum. The links to those pages are below:


 * The Town Talk - Constitution Party meets possible presidential nominee
 * MagicValley.com | Blog | Constitution Party Prez Candidate Swings Through Idaho
 * KALB | Video Included | Cenla receives campaign visit from presidential candidate
 * Lewiston Tribune | Third-party candidate brings message to Lewiston | Unfortunately Behind Paywall (Other than Abstract)
 * CDAPress.com | Fearmongering, a tactic long-seen in U.S. politics
 * Thanks. --Ariostos (talk) 08:30, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

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Mojoflo deleted page
Hello,

You recently deleted the page for the band Mojoflo. The argument was made that they failed to meet WP:Band.

I believe they do meet #7: Has become one of the most prominent representatives of a notable style or the most prominent of the local scene of a city. They've been named Best Local Band by two separate publications: 614 Magazine and Columbus Monthly

Would you mind reviewing this deletion at your convenience.

COI full disclosure - I'm their manager.

Thanks,

Lostasil (talk) 02:15, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. The reason I deleted Mojoflo is that the article failed the articles for deletion discussion with nobody recommending that it be kept. If you want the article to be brought back, the procedure to go through is Deletion review. I can get that set up for you, but once it is set up, you will have to be the one to provide the explanation for why the band is notable and the article should be brought back. Let me know if you want me to do that. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:29, 24 July 2016 (UTC)


 * That would be great - thanks for your help! I'll look out for the deletion review and respond. Lostasil (talk) 12:10, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Deletion review for Mojoflo
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Mojoflo. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Being literal-minded, I'm notifying myself of this DRV. Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:36, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

aiv
Wp:aiv is dangerously overfull and I need you to jump on it immediately. 66.87.77.160 (talk) 03:16, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Really? It doesn't look that bad to me. How many entries is usually considered overfull at WP:AIV? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:19, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Either way, many of those vandals are still vandalizing and I need you to stop them I know you dont usualllly block people but I need you this time. 66.87.78.203 (talk) 03:22, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hi admin, I created an article on Dec4th (article name - Selva RK) for an Indian film editor with all the proofs and references, but it was deleted. May I know the reason for deletion? And what could be done to avoid deletion in future? Please guide me!

Thanks Anitha

AnithaNair90 (talk)Anitha AnithaNair90 (talk) 18:26, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I deleted the article Selva RK based on the discussion at Articles for deletion/Selva RK. In that discussion, over two weeks, three people supported deleting the article, but nobody supported keeping it. There were references that established that Selva is a film editor, but that is really all they said; there was no indication that he was a particularly acclaimed film editor, nor that he had won or been nominated for editing awards. If Selva becomes more famous and acclaimed in his occupation as a film editor, you or someone else can try again in the future to re-create this article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:40, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

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Talk page:Salvus Water
You deleted Talk page:Salvus Water, perhaps without reading it. I objected to the SD deletion, almost at the same time that it was deleted. Is that the end for me, or is there any remedy, or can you provide the article on my sandbox? This is a learning objective request, whatever the merits of the article may be.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 14:58, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * To be clear, I only deleted Talk:Salvus Water, not the main article about the water at Salvus Water. However, I have restored the article to your userspace at User:Dthomsen8/Salvus Water, and the talk page at User talk:Dthomsen8/Salvus Water, so you will have a chance to work on the article some more. Once it is in good condition to be moved back to the mainspace, you can move it back. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:07, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

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Admin review
I've gone ahead and archived your admin review page, and closed down that process. It seems clear that the community has decided to quit supporting it. You'll just have to go by how often you get dragged to ANI as your best gauge of your admin performance. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:27, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Roskamp Reaction
Hi, you noted, closing the AfD, that Roskamp Reaction had already been speedily deleted by User:Fastily. However User:True L (re)created the article at 08:08 this morning so it's now there (again, I presume). I ran Earwig's copyvio check but that's fine, so I can't see how to speedy it myself nor why it was deleted, I suppose by a user under a topic ban or something. Anyway it seems to need attention. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:22, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The speedy deletion was actually done at the request of User:True L themself, as the then-creator of the article, pursuant to Criteria for speedy deletion. I don't know anything about the topic so I can't really assess the article myself. But the earlier deletion should not cause suspicion to fall on the article now; it should be judged on its own merits. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:09, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Talk Page: Coalition
Hi, I'm a first time Wikipedia editor for a school project. The coalition page suggested splitting coalition in mathematics since it doesn't fully pertain to the essence of the term. Was there a specific reason why you deleted my suggestion from the talk page?Mujju2288 (talk) 17:20, 26 April 2017 (UTC)mujju2288
 * The problem was that your suggestion was on a page titled Talk:Coalition (mathematics), which would normally be expected to correspond to an article titled Coalition (mathematics). At the time, there was no regular article titled Coalition (mathematics), and in fact there never has been an article by that title. As indicated at Criteria for speedy deletion, any talk page for an article where the corresponding article doesn't exist is supposed to be speedily deleted. If you want to try creating Coalition (mathematics), you can try to do that. I'm not taking a position yet as to whether such an article would be desirable or undesirable; it would have to be judged on its own merits. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:33, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
 * Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
 * There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
 * Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous
 * Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
 * Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
 * An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news
 * Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

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Deleting Peoples Page
Can you mind your own business and leave my pages alone PLEASE — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yanlakers (talk • contribs) 20:51, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Please let me know what specific action you are asking me to take, if any. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:23, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Recently I made a Wikipedia page about Tyawesome- youtube god, I intentionally made the page empty because I do not know what im doing when making a page so I made it like that and sent it to a friend to edit it but before he got to do anything it was deleted, can you please un delete this page, it will have content on it that fits the standard in a matter of days, thank you. - Mattrix204, Tyawesomes biggest fan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattrix204 (talk • contribs) 01:08, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I am going to decline the request to undelete Tyawesome - Youtube god because it was only one sentence long and looked more like a joke than an article. You and/or your friend can try again to re-create the article, but if you do, please make it into a better, more serious looking article. It would take you and your friend less time to re-create the article than it would to appeal my decision at Deletion review. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:23, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Your user name and my user name resemble existing films question
Another editor has contacted me on my Talk page to indicate that the resemblance of a user name with an existing film must be suspected for conflict of interest and paid advocacy. I assured them that this was not the case and that a number of other editors have user names which resemble existing films. That editor then replied with the statement that it is fine for administrators to have user names which resemble existing films but not for other editors. That sounds a little odd to me. My main interest at this time is in improving the biography article for Akira Kurosawa and some of his films. Could you glance at the comments left by that editor on my Talk page. JohnWickTwo (talk) 00:43, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't see where User:Ahecht said that it was okay for administrators to have usernames that resemble film titles but not other users. Rather, he said that (a) my username, User:TommyBoy's, and User:After Midnight's are not unambiguously film titles, and (b) TommyBoy registered his username before the current policy on promotional usernames was adopted and would have been allowed to keep it anyway if it was promotional (see Username policy). The latter would hold true for me, too, since I've had this same username since 2005 and the promotional username policy didn't exist then. That said, I will respond further on your talk page to discuss whether you might be allowed to keep your username. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:02, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Happyme22 • Dragons flight
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Zad68

Guideline and policy news
 * The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news
 * Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
 * A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous
 * A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
 * A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
 * Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

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