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Speedy deletion of OpenConcept Consulting Inc.
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Butler Elementary School (Arlington, Texas)
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Speedy deletion of Open web
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 * [[Image:Information.svg|25px]] Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from pages you have created yourself. Please use the template on the page instead if you disagree with the deletion.
 * If you attempt to re-instate this article you will need to provide plenty of references to show that the term has any sort of notability. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 17:53, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * You can contact RHaworth by clicking on the talk tag in his signature, but since it's been so long, there's no point; it was a routine deletion of an expired deletion proposal. Another admin has restored the article for the time being so you might be able to add references.   Acroterion  (talk)  03:13, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Repost of Michael McKay (astronaut)
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Speedy deletion of Functional Accessibility Evaluator
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Proposed deletion of Web Accessibility Patterns


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Speedy deletion nomination of Web Accessibility Patterns
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Speedy deletion nomination of George Lakey


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User:Mgifford/Open web
I have put your article in your userspace you you can develop it further before putting it back into the main article space. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask me. Lady of  Shalott  03:14, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

I have also userfied another article for you at User:Mgifford/George Lakey. Lady of  Shalott  03:28, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Caroline Balderston Parry for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Truth Legal


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Proposed deletion of Ann Darbyshire


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Speedy deletion nomination of Ann Darbyshire


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 * As reviewing administrator, I did not delete the article.   She might be notable, but  it needs sources, references providing substantial coverage from third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or mere announcements to show that she meets the conditions of WP:CREATIVE. I suggest you add them immediately,because the article is likely to be very soon listed for deletion by our regular process, AfD.  DGG ( talk ) 02:26, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ann Darbyshire


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Science Based Targets moved to draftspace
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AB 434: State Web accessibility moved to draftspace
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Chief Accessibility Officer moved to draftspace
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Chief Accessibility Officer (July 11)
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Digital Accessibility Edlering Project
Please don't use random categories for collating your thoughts about a topic. I've moved the contents of to your sandbox so you can work on it without disturbance, it didn't belong as a category. Best wishes. Le Deluge (talk) 14:49, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Le Deluge I really don't "get" wikipedia beyond the main content pages. Sorry if I am getting the Talk pages wrong. This isn't something that was just my 'sandbox' but something I was hoping that others who I am working with would join in on. This is part of a group that is trying to highlight people who have influenced advancements in digital accessibility.  It would be beneficial if this page could be moved back at least until we move this group from using Word documents to create lists to actually working with Wikipedia. Mgifford (talk) 14:56, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * That's understandable, it can be pretty confusing at first. But categories are solely for organising existing articles, they're not the basis for the kind of collaboration you seem to be talking about. It's OK to invite others to use your own sandbox as a sketchpad for this kind of stuff - most importantly you can do whatever you like (within reason) on your own user pages, so you won't be disturbed too much for "doing it wrong". But you might want to consider taking it over to somewhere like WikiProject Disability and setting it up as a taskforce there or of WikiProject Computing - the WikiProjects are the main venue for talking about stuff and organising on Wikipedia. HTH Le Deluge (talk) 15:03, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Ok can we compromise and put the list of names into my sandbox (as you've done), leave the category there so that we can have folks who have been identified as elders, and maybe even put a link to my sandbox so we can help move people from an external w3c wiki have some place to discuss them within Wikipedia: https://www.w3.org/community/wai-engage/wiki/Digital_Accessibility_Updates_for_Wikipedia

I'm fine dropping the link once we have folks moved over. Mgifford (talk) 15:16, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I had moved the page to another title in your user space, and came here to tel you. However, having now read the discussion above, and seen  that you are willing to accept the copy in your sandbox, there's no point in having two copies in your user space,  so I'll delete the one I moved. However, articles, for readers of the encyclopaedia, should not be in administrative categories, for editing purposes. JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 00:11, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused JBW What I thought I was proposing was to keep the Category:Digital Accessibility Edlering Project with the lists of users who have been identified as elders for digital accessibility. But more the sandbox list of proposed elders "people" to my sandbox for building on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mgifford/sandbox is that not doable? I'm not sure why the category I've proposed isn't good as it isn't just playing an editing function by any means. Mgifford (talk) 16:52, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll try to answer, but I may not give the right information, because I don't fully understand all of what you have said; for example, I don't know what you mean by "elders". So if I have misunderstood something please let me know. However, the situation is substantially as follows.


 * There are two parts to this: (1) an article category, and (2) a list of names, apparently of people you think should be subjects of articles. (Some already are, some aren't.)
 * Apart from a few special exceptional situations, an article category is part of the public face of the encyclopaedia, i.e. it is there to provide readers of the encyclopaedia with links to real life information related to the real life topics which are subjects of articles, not to information about editing the encyclopaedia. For example, the article Peter the Great belongs to Category:Russian tsars. Being a Russian tsar is a characteristic of real life people in the real world, and readers of the article are normally looking for information of that kind. By contrast, the page Blocking policy belongs to Category:Wikipedia policies, which is about information related only to the internal workings of Wikipedia, for the use of people who edit and administer Wikipedia, not for people who are just reading the encyclopaedia. As far as I can see, "Digital Accessibility Edlering Project" appears to be a project created by Wikipedia editors for the purpose of coordinating creation of articles in a particular topic area. Initially I just assumed that was what the "Digital Accessibility Edlering Project" was, but to make sure I later searched online for information about "Digital Accessibility Edlering Project", and I found nothing at all that was not on Wikipedia, so my initial impression seems to have been correct. It conveys information relating to creating and editing Wikipedia articles, and should not be in articles.
 * However, even if I have misunderstood, and the "Digital Accessibility Edlering Project" is a project out in the real world, unrelated to Wikipedia, then my total failure to find any mention of it anywhere except Wikipedia makes it clear that it is not notable or significant enough to be mentioned in Wikipedia articles about people connected to it. Therefore, whether my understanding that teh "project" is purely part of Wikipedia is correct or incorrect, there is no justification for placing articles in a category of that name.
 * I also searched for just "Edlering Project", and for just "Digital Accessibility Edlering", with the same result, which tends to confirm that either there is no real world (not Wikipedia) project of that name or that it is not significant enough for inclusion in articles.
 * The list of names, apparently of people who may have articles written about them, likewise exists for use in relation to editing Wikipedia, and is for editors, not for readers, so readers should not be taken to it by clicking on an article category, just as readers of Peter the Great who click on "Russian tsars" in the list of categories should be taken to a list of pages about Russian tsars, not to a list of pages about creating Wikipedia articles about Russian tsars. The list of names is likely to be useful, and there is no problem with keeping it, but it certainly does not belong on an article category page.
 * As I said above, if I have misunderstood some details of the situation, please let me know, but if what I have said here is accurate then I can't see any justification for having the article category, and even more certainly tehre can be no justification for ahving the category and including information about the process of editing Wikipedia in the corresponding category page. JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 21:09, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

The purpose of the category isn't for the sake of organizing the editing effort, but rather to highlight those people who have been recognized by the accessibility community as being leaders. Is there another category for digital accessibility leaders? I am not aware of one. Mgifford (talk) 23:24, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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Ok, I fixed that. Although just for the record there are some errors in the links to "check to confirm" & "notify fix with Dab solver" Mgifford (talk) 14:44, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Joseph Karr O’Connor moved to draftspace
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Ok, I'm not sure what to do now. I probably should have started this in Draft. Anyways, there are more links/resources there now. Please let me know if it meets the requirements. Celestina007 Mgifford (talk) 02:16, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * it isn’t proper to move undersourced BLP’s or BLP’s not sourced at all to Mainspace. You need to include at least three reliable sources to the article before moving submitting it through an AFC.Celestina007 (talk) 02:22, 9 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm not a wikipedia expert. I don't know what BLP’s are. I admit I screwed up in not editing this a bit more in Draft before moving it over to publish.  Sorry I screwed up and ended up on your alert page.  I am confident that the Joseph Karr O’Connor page now has more than 3 reliable sources.  Hope you are happy that this meets the minimum requirements now. Mgifford (talk) 02:50, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

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Ok Celestina007 I'm a bit confused now. I would like to know what policies & guidelines are of concern here. Yes, I screwed up by not starting this in Draft. I continued to edit the article I started & didn't notice that you had flagged concerns. The article is now much better and has been supported by a few other Wikipedia users. I am unclear why there still is concern. I will try to improve my process in the future and leverage Draft articles until they are of sufficient quality.

I am concerned as I have no idea what the present problem is with the content, nor how to be involved in the discussion around it. Mgifford (talk) 15:38, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Ok, I think I found it and responded. I wanted to add a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Joseph_Karr_O%E2%80%99Connor#Joseph_Karr_O%E2%80%99Connor Mgifford (talk) 15:57, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Celestina007 Not sure if you'll see the feedback or the additions to the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Joseph_Karr_O%E2%80%99Connor#Joseph_Karr_O%E2%80%99Connor wanting to point it out here. Mgifford (talk) 04:50, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Joseph Karr O'Connor
Yes, your big mistake here was in recreating an article after you were told it had been moved to draft space. I would suggest you agree to move it back before it gets deleted altogether (don't do it yourself, just say you want to do it) - because, once a deletion discussion has come to the conclusion that it should be deleted, it will be much harder for you to get it undeleted. In terms of a COI, this is a problem that often comes up, because a lot of new users don't realise that they are not supposed to write about a topic - usually a person or a company - where they may have a vested interest. And the guideline didn't always exist. In fact, if you only met this man once and didn't correspond with him or have any other dealings with him, you probably don't have a COI, but you need to be aware of the dangers of making it appear that you do. (Don't use first names in such circumstances in the future; that advice will get you a long way.) Look for some better references, and stay away from those external links! :-) Deb (talk) 10:49, 12 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I thought that might be the case, but that isn't what I did. I didn't start the article in Draft, but I practice the "save early, save often" approach to writing. I just hit save, then continued editing. Between 02:20 & 02:25 I hit save 3 times. It was moved to draft while I was editing the piece somewhere in the first 5 minutes. I should have started in Draft: as I've now said many times. But there was no moving of content from Draft, I was just continuing to edit the work I had started. MediaWiki is a very primitive editing tool.
 * Ok, good to know. I didn't realize that the appearance of COI might be a problem. Yes, there is no COI. I definitely will be less informal in the future. I will also work to see if I can find more references. With the external links, there is one there to what was his personal blog that I left. I assume that is ok, but maybe that should be somewhere else. External links seem like a common section to many if not most pages on Wikipedia. Have I been misunderstanding this? How should they be used?
 * Thanks for your time and this explanation. Mgifford (talk) 13:25, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
 * External links are okay in a section, but not in the main text. Deb (talk) 13:58, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, I misunderstood. I just removed the two that were there. I thought it was a reasonable way to describe in the article, but understand that this is not a good pattern. Thanks. Mgifford (talk) 14:40, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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Hello, I am not an expert of Drupal, WordPress or categorization. But I have seen that you added many articles into and. I think that many of your categorizations do not follow Categorization, or Defining. (or ) should contain only articles closely related to Drupal (or WordPress). For instance, I think that your categorizations of MySQL, Online rich-text editor, Tumblr, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and Panama Papers are wrong.

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 * Sorry NicoScribe - I'll take a look at that and be more careful in the future. The categories do not seem to be well used in many tech products. Thanks for your message and suggestions. Mgifford (talk) 23:51, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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I'm a bit confused here. there are nearly 20 references. There is an official site listed in his Wikidata site https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81461259

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Mgifford (talk) 13:00, 21 July 2020 (UTC) Thanks! I will work to improve it.

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 * There are 7 awards that she has received over two decades. How is this not sufficient for notability?
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Your draft article, Draft:Lainey Feingold


Hello, Mgifford. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Lainey Feingold".

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. When 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. ✗ plicit  00:27, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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

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 * It is disappointing that people who have built up notoriety in important digital communities can be deleted so easily. Not everything can be compared to Taylor Swift. Mgifford (talk) 20:37, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lainey Feingold (July 7)
<div style="border: solid 1px #FCC; background-color: #F8EEBC; padding: 0.5em 1em; color: #000; margin: 1.5em; width: 90%;"> Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by SafariScribe were:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.


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Safari Scribe <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Edits! Talk! 13:56, 7 July 2024 (UTC)