User talk:RoySmith/Archive 33

Your close of Eastern Rail Services DRV
I'm not going to challenge your draftification, but your closing statement in the DRV that no one had a fundamental objection to that is incorrect. I had an objection and said so in the DRV, but perhaps not strongly enough. That would certainly not have been unclear to Djm-leighpark, I stated that with force on my talk page when the request was first made. SpinningSpark 17:30, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , Well, you did write, I'm perfectly willing to put it in draft space if there is any kind of chance it can be brought to a passable standard. That's what I was trying to make clear when I noted that, "better sourcing will be required to meet WP:NCORP before this can be moved back into mainspace."  I think we're actually both on the same page here. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:01, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * No we're not on the same page. My position was that a new source had to be offered (or that an existing source had information that had been previously overlooked) before draftification took place.  If I was on the same page as you I would have draftified it myself when requested to do so.  In my opinion, it's likely that this will be tinkered with and chucked back into mainspace with no substantial improvement in sourcing. SpinningSpark 18:11, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , I don't think we can refuse to draftify or userfy a deleted page until the requestor supplies sources. If they don't add good sources, it won't (or at least, shouldn't) get accepted.  If they bypass review and move it back to mainspace themselves without improved sources, it can be moved back to draft.  If they persist, we can move onto salting the mainspace title, and after that we've got blocking available. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:20, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * As I see it, if they move it from draft to mainspace and bypass AfD, then that's the chance blown: it becomes G4 material. All the best! ——  Serial # 18:30, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , Yeah, that's certainly another possibility. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:08, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * As I said at the beginning, I'm not arguing with your draftification. What's done is done.  I'm taking exception to you not recognising that I opposed it. Telling me over and over that your decision was better than mine is not really relevant.  It might be better, but that's not the point.  The point is you stated in the close that there was no opposition to draftifying.  That's not true and I haven't changed my mind.  Your selective quote from me above is IDHT.  The bit you seem not to have heard is I declined to userfy this when requested because no new sources were offered...just rehashing the already rejected material seems pointless. SpinningSpark 20:56, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , To be honest, I'm not getting what you're concerned about, which I guess is why I'm having trouble addressing it.
 * I pointed out in my close that better sources would be required. That seemed to be your major concern.  By "no fundamental objection" (note: "fundamental"), I thought I was covering that.  I originally wrote it as "no objection", then realized that you had a qualified objection, and added the "fundamental" to cover that.  As far as I can tell, you were not absolutely opposed to draftification.  You were willing to consider it, but only under certain conditions, namely that sources were presented first.  Yes, it's true that I didn't enforce the "sources must be presented before restoration to draft space", but I really don't think I mis-represented your position.
 * Maybe I didn't make it clear in my closing statement how I differentiated "no objection" from "no fundamental objection" in my mind. If you would like to suggest some alternate wording, I'd be willing to consider amending my closing statement to more accurately present your stance. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Nah, I don't want to pointlessly beat anyone up any further. It wouldn't change anything.  Anyway, thanks for explaining that you considered it. SpinningSpark 22:03, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Maybe I didn't make it clear in my closing statement how I differentiated "no objection" from "no fundamental objection" in my mind. If you would like to suggest some alternate wording, I'd be willing to consider amending my closing statement to more accurately present your stance. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Nah, I don't want to pointlessly beat anyone up any further. It wouldn't change anything.  Anyway, thanks for explaining that you considered it. <b style="background:#FAFAD2;color:#C08000">Spinning</b><b style="color:#4840A0">Spark</b> 22:03, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

SPI request
Hello, I saw that you are an active SPI clerck. I have been included in a report at Sockpuppet investigations/Theedardanian. I would want the report to proceed as quickly as possible, so do you maybe have the time to assess it and approve checkuser request? I have made the same request to another active SPI clerk, Sir Sputnik.--Maleschreiber (talk) 01:07, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Unfortunately, SPI cases get handled as people find time. It's impossible to predict exactly when somebody will take a look at your case. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:43, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I did hope for a quick CU process, but it's okay, I understand that there's more to it than approving the case of the next phase and that it requires some time to provide a wider assessment.--Maleschreiber (talk) 02:14, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

TC
User:RoySmith HamiltonProject is sabotaging the Teachers College page now after warring on the CU page... him and the shady admin he has befriended Yamla already tried to delete a message I sent to you btw... his convictions about TC are inaccurate and severely negatively biased by his obvious conflict of interest to objectively edit (ie doesn’t think TC has anything to do with CU, or that all TC grads don’t get CU degrees, even if it’s in the legal name of the college and they know what the Charters and Statutes say, and worse) can you please protect the page from more harm? He has already done shady edits trying to eliminate citations and has extensively debated and come to agreements which he disowns and then doesn’t edit the wiki to be more accurate... but instead creates straw men to win over administrators and get users blocked. HamiltonProject has proven they are not to be trusted to edit accurately and without bias... 2603:9000:6504:12BD:4D49:6E1A:227A:E7E6 (talk) 08:44, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

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I agree
I agree with your suggestion. I made a typo when filing the report.VR talk  02:48, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Brockhold?
Is Bethesda=Terrible another sock of Brockhold, llke Citadel2811? Beyond My Ken (talk) 13:22, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Could you open a SPI, please? -- RoySmith (talk) 13:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Beyond My Ken (talk) 13:52, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Sorry to be a pest about this, but it really helps if you link to things so I can find them. Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:00, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, what is it you want linked? I hvgave you the contribs of both, pointed out the common articles, the commonality in their editing.  It's basically the same information that Grayfell provided on the previous SPI.  This is a pretty obvious DUCK sock.  Should I take it directly to a CU? Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:42, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , I was referring to linking to the SPI you created, so I could find it. I ended up scanning your contribution history before I found Sockpuppet investigations/Brockhold. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:56, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry to misunderstand. The sock is currently editing to German Völkisch Freedom Party. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:02, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3


Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:


 * The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
 * More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
 * Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
 * The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
 * Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode.  You can enable it in your preferences.
 * On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
 * In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

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201.17.77.83
Hello. Could you please block the IP address again? The previous block has expired and the user is editing the same articles and files again, in particular (re)adding images that are most likely copyright violations. Sorry for contacting you directly, but I'm sure you know that dealing with IP addresses at SPI is very problematic, and the comments on the SPI page confirm that (and requesting image deletion is even more hopeless, as Wikimedia Commons is gravely understaffed, virtually unmaintained—they don't even do routine, automatic tasks anymore). The user is obviously determined to do this forever, so I really think this IP address needs a long-term block (after all, it's a globally blocked user and a sock puppet with a history of chronic, incorrigible cross-wiki abuse, and the IP address is only used by this user, so there should be no collateral damage). Plus IP addresses can be blocked for months, years or even indefinitely when needed (it is not only allowed, but it does happen quite frequently). Thanks.—J. M. (talk) 12:53, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Could I ask that you record all that at SPI. That gets it into the record for future reference.  Ping me when you've done that and I'll take a look.  Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:55, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I took a look and re-blocked for a month. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:31, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Again, I apologize for bypassing the SPI—I very rarely, if ever, contact admins directly. But after many years of experience with the standard practice at SPI, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But if the disruptive editing resumes, I will take it to the SPI page.—J. M. (talk) 13:56, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Yeah, I hear you. No problem with asking me directly, especially if it's a case of ongoing and immediate damage like it was here.  But, maintaining a long-term history of cases in SPI also has value for spotting trends and helping with future investigations. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:03, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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Your comments on the Z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) article
Hi Roy,

Thanks for your reply at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Z/OS_Encryption_Readiness_Technology_(zERT) I think the references provide signification coverage in secondary sources, especially in this downloadable whitepaper (https://www.intellimagic.com/resources/whitepaper/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-ibms-zert-for-tracking-mainframe-network-traffic/). The whitepaper (15-page PDF) addresses zERT directly (in the title and across the main topic). It is also the author's own evaluation and analysis of how to get the most out of zERT when tracking mainframe network traffic. Please let me know what you'd think. Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erin Zhang YiChen (talk • contribs) 06:05, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , This is the third time you have posted this to my talk page over the past two months. I have already provided an answer in my comments on the draft.  Please stop posting the same question repeatedly. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:46, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

My apologies. I am just re-posting the explanation to your previous reply left on 19 June. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erin Zhang YiChen (talk • contribs) 03:50, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Chris Dyson (architect)
Hi RoySmith Thanks for reviewing this page I proposed on Chris Dyson Architect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Chris_Dyson_(architect) I have made changes responding to your comments, changing syntax, editing info and adding /fixing refs to news items. Do you have any other advice before I formally resubmit the page? thank you Wordsandbuildings (talk) 20:56, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , I am assuming you have some relationship to the subject. Is that correct? -- RoySmith (talk) 21:26, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for responding - I have no relationship to Chris Dyson. I'm interested in architecture and architects and like the understatement of what he is doing. I am finding my way around Wikipedia and he seemed a worthy subject. Wordsandbuildings (talk) 20:30, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , OK, well looking over the draft again, and my original comment, I said it was too promotional. That's a bit of a subjective call, but the way it's written, it sounds like a resume or autobiography.
 * My personal opinion is that an article about a professional doesn't need to say anything about their family (married with two children...). To be fair, I'm sure you will find many reviewers who disagree with me on that.
 * I'm also not a big fan of listing all the minor awards they've won. That's really what makes it sound like an advertisement, and why I assumed you had a relationship with the subject.  What WP:ANYBIO says is, The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor.  Of course, people argue about what qualifies as "well-known and significant".  One typical (but not definitive) test is whether we have an article about the award.  I don't know what a RIBA award is, but I'm assuming it's not "well-known and significant". -- RoySmith (talk) 21:03, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm also not a big fan of listing all the minor awards they've won. That's really what makes it sound like an advertisement, and why I assumed you had a relationship with the subject.  What WP:ANYBIO says is, The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor.  Of course, people argue about what qualifies as "well-known and significant".  One typical (but not definitive) test is whether we have an article about the award.  I don't know what a RIBA award is, but I'm assuming it's not "well-known and significant". -- RoySmith (talk) 21:03, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm also not a big fan of listing all the minor awards they've won. That's really what makes it sound like an advertisement, and why I assumed you had a relationship with the subject.  What WP:ANYBIO says is, The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor.  Of course, people argue about what qualifies as "well-known and significant".  One typical (but not definitive) test is whether we have an article about the award.  I don't know what a RIBA award is, but I'm assuming it's not "well-known and significant". -- RoySmith (talk) 21:03, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

New Brockhold sock
Duck sock of Brockhold, SPI is at. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:13, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Ponyo got him. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:27, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , OK, thanks for the heads up. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:37, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Review Clarification
Hi RoySmith - Thanks for your review. I made some changes to the page to address your suggestion that it reads like an advertisement, including removal of one external link and vetting that all of the citations listed point to primary literature publications. Would you mind taking another look? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Cultrex_BME

FYI - my article is similarly formatted to another existing page for which I cross reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrigel

Thanks - Scott
 * Thanks for your note. Unfortunately, this still sounds like you're trying to sell the product, which I assume you are.  Please read WP:COI and WP:UPE and make any appropriate disclosures.  I also see you originally posted your query at The Teahouse and then changed your mind.  That was actually a good place to get advice.  My suggestion is that you restore your post there an see what people can tell you.  -- RoySmith (talk) 16:35, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Portable hole
Thanks for cleaning up Portable hole, is there anything like that you can do for Bag of holding? (Just don't put one inside of the other, though!) 2601:249:8B80:4050:D503:FB4F:B425:C6D (talk) 23:09, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Sigh. There's pretty much an endless supply of those kinds of articles, isn't there?  At this point, I'm just happy Portable hole made its saving throw vs deletion, and I'll have to pass on working on Bag of holding for now. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:49, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Fair enough! There once was an endless supply of those kinds of articles, but there are far fewer now. I'm glad you were able to help save one, and I do appreciate that. 2601:240:10F:4F35:D503:FB4F:B425:C6D (talk) 04:13, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29
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DYK nomination of Rattlesnake Creek (Bronx)
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DYK nomination of Lynching of Wilbur Little
Hiya I made a review at Template:Did you know nominations/Lynching of Wilbur Little. There's just one issue about sourcing then it's good to go. Mujinga (talk) 22:11, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Rattlesnake Creek (Bronx)
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Tech News: 2020-31
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DYK for Seton Falls Park
— Maile (talk) 12:03, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
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Tech News: 2020-32
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 * All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period.
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Mr Little
I imagine you are watching the article about Mr Little's lynching carefully with a DYK pending, so you will have noted my reversion a few minutes ago and the discussion I have started on the talk page. What you are unlikely to have noticed is this discussion on my talk page.

I had not noticed until after I reverted the change that a DYK was imminent, and I have no horse in this race. I was simply the reviewer who approved the AFC draft. The reason I am showing this to you is because I imagine y9u ay wish to enter into the discussions (on the article talk page, my talk page seems like the wrong venue). I have no desire to take further part in them, having no horse in this race. I think the editor made the wrong edit for the right reasons. Fiddle  Faddle  23:07, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Hmm, actually, no, I hadn't been watching it very closely. So, thanks for alerting me.  Also, pinging  who deserves most of the credit as the original author.  -- RoySmith (talk) 23:46, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

I have clipped three images of the April 5, 1919, edition of the Chicago Defender, showing the story and its placement on PG1. I do not own the copyright and cannot figure out how to present the images to satisfy the request of Gulbenk. BTV55 (talk) 09:47, 4 August 2020 (UTC) BTV55

Newest Brockhold sock
Ad Victoriam2077, SPI filed. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:40, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

"8232" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect 8232. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 5 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Eumat114 (Message) 10:18, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the alert, but by the time I logged in this morning, the XfD had already been speedy closed. I would have argued to keep.  Given that I had already objected to the previous CSD, it might have been nice to have given me a chance to state my objection.  Not going to make a big deal over it, but... -- RoySmith (talk) 14:53, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Out of curiosity, why are you opposed? I can self-refund and relist the discussion if there's a compelling reason to continue the discussion. Primefac (talk) 18:26, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , It just seemed like the kind of thing I might type into a search box, and WP:CHEAP. I'll leave it to you to decide if that's compelling or not.  It's not a big deal either way. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:32, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Elise Matthesen
She just won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist. Good "Keep" on that one! -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  23:52, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I close 'em like I see 'em :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 00:45, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Citation style
I am intrigued by your comment here at the discussion about Deprecate parenthetical citations.

I recently made my own proposal in that discussion. I contemplated incorporating support for your notion but I wanted to make my proposal as clean as possible. However, on the very low chance that the reason support for my proposal, if we do adopt a house style, I think that choice should incorporate your observation and more.

I accept that there are good reasons for wanting to sort the references by author, but there are equally good reasons for wanting to sort the references by the order in which they appear in the article. I think I'm summarizing your point to say that we don't have to choose — we can pick one option (in my opinion, order that they appear) and also make it easy to see a different option. I'll go a little further. I'm working on doing some referencing and occasionally I'd like to see the oldest reference in an article, so let me expand on your suggestion and say that our house style should also incorporate the ability to  search on a number of key variables. Order in which it appears is one obvious choice, name of author is the one you talked about, dated of the reference is the one I just added, but others might make sense as well. What if someone wonders if a particular publishing house appears more often than another one? Sorting by publisher would help make it easy to see, at least in a particular article, which publisher is more common. I don't need to dream up rationales for all variables, but as soon as you implement a feature that allows you to sort on two variables, it is only a modest extension to allow the reader to sort on just about any variable.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  18:33, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thanks for your note. The real gist of my suggestion is that the data and the presentation are two different things.  This is not a new concept.  HTML vs. CSS.  Wikitext vs. skins.  Etc.  By adopting a house style and requiring that people use that style, we're right back to conflating the two.  What we want to do is capture the raw data, which means using the standard  templates, and tags to make them machine identifiable.
 * Some of the arguments people are making are logical. For example, some people have said that in some fields, it's very important who wrote something, and when you see (Smith 2020), that gives you immediate information without having to go look up the citation details.  I imagine that's particularly important in highly specialized fields where most of the researchers know each other's work (i.e. "are familiar with the literature").  But that's a presentation issue.  Once you've got the data in a machine-readable form, you can present it any way you want via software.
 * Somebody also made the astute point that wikipedia is mostly read on-line (where "mostly" should be read as "virtually always"). We already have mouse-overs; hover over a numeric citation and it shows you the details.  If you preferred to see those mouse-overs in a different style, just load some different CSS and/or javascript.
 * I'm also sympathetic to the idea that we should be as inviting as possible to newcomers. We don't want the requirement to format your citations in any specific way to be blocker.  If you want to enter your citations in some weird style, that shouldn't be a reason to decline a draft at AfC.  Somebody (or some bot) can always reformat them after it's accepted. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:11, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Somebody also made the astute point that wikipedia is mostly read on-line (where "mostly" should be read as "virtually always"). We already have mouse-overs; hover over a numeric citation and it shows you the details.  If you preferred to see those mouse-overs in a different style, just load some different CSS and/or javascript.
 * I'm also sympathetic to the idea that we should be as inviting as possible to newcomers. We don't want the requirement to format your citations in any specific way to be blocker.  If you want to enter your citations in some weird style, that shouldn't be a reason to decline a draft at AfC.  Somebody (or some bot) can always reformat them after it's accepted. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:11, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm also sympathetic to the idea that we should be as inviting as possible to newcomers. We don't want the requirement to format your citations in any specific way to be blocker.  If you want to enter your citations in some weird style, that shouldn't be a reason to decline a draft at AfC.  Somebody (or some bot) can always reformat them after it's accepted. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:11, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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Could you please perform a CSD?
Hi, I've completed Draft:Hotel Australia and have CSD'd the redirect Hotel Australia - would you mind completing the CSD and moving the draft into mainspace? Thanks! SportingFlyer  T · C  06:59, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Looks like it's gone already. -- RoySmith (talk) 11:38, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Horacio Vara
Hi RoySmith,

Did I file this SPI correctly: Sockpuppet investigations/Horacio Vara? It was my first. I was a little confused. Was I supposed to use uw-login before filing an SPI? Did I accidentally reveal the user's private information? Thanks, P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 19:29, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Everything you did was fine. You had reasonable suspicions and reported what you knew.  No problem there.  There's no worry about revealing private information; you don't have access to anything that anybody else doesn't also have access to, if they wished to go digging.  As for uw-login, you could have issued that warning yourself, but there's no reason you needed to.  It's not unusual for an SPI report to result in just issuing a warning with action beyond that.  In short: no worries. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:45, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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Redirect please
from IPhone 9 to IPhone naming per Deletion review/Log/2020 August 3.—<b style="font-family: Verdana; color: Maroon;">S Marshall</b> T/C 12:42, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've unsalted IPhone 9. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:41, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Could you please userfy the deleted Miss Supranational article for me?
You closed Articles for deletion/Miss Supranational (2nd nomination) back in 2014 and presumably deleted the page. Meanwhile, the contest has gone on, and gotten more coverage, and I think the article about it would meet our standards with a bit of work after recreation. Would you be so good as to restore the article, with history, to my userspace, so I can prove it? --GRuban (talk) 14:33, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , Done. Now at User:GRuban/Miss Supranational.  Note that the mainspace title is salted, so you'll need to get somebody to unprotect it for you.  Given the history, you might want to go through WP:AfC to get some third-party review before moving it back to mainspace. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:12, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ! There's more there than I thought there would be, including twodifferent "final" versions. I'll massage them together, add more stuff, and will hopefully eventually have something worthy of mainspacing. I'm actually pretty experienced (see my user page) so would rather not do AfC because that sometimes takes a long time, but since you're so responsive, when I think it's ready, would you like me to ping you so you can give it a once-over? In any case, thank you again! --GRuban (talk) 15:33, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , There's no obligation to do AfC. I just routinely offer that as a suggestion anytime I see somebody looking to work on any article with a questionable history.  I should warn you, I'm pretty much of a deletionist.  If, given that, you would still like me to take a look, I'll be happy to respond to your ping. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:37, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the offer, and the warning! I'll look upon it as a friendly challenge. I like "saving" articles with questionable histories, I've done it a few times before, they're listed on my user page. --GRuban (talk) 16:55, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * This topic and all its progeny have been deemed not notable on more than one occasion at AFD. The SALT should stand and if it is ever removed and the article re-created, I will send it back to AFD again if not nominate it for speedy deletion. The page is on my watchlist and that is how I learned about discussion....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 15:41, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'm aware of the history, having closed the most recent AfD. But, that was 6 years ago.  If  believes he can now find sufficient sources to meet WP:N, he has the right to try.  It's premature to make proclamations about what he can find until he's had a chance to do the research. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:47, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the caution! Would you be willing to make a friendly bet? When I'm ready to push this live (in a few days to a few weeks, I'm not the fastest writer, which is why I asked for it to go to my userspace), and you still believe it not notable, you may nominate it for AfD. If it's deleted, I will write, or noticeably improve, one article of your choice, on any subject. (Or, if you prefer, try to find three images; I do that too upon occasion.) If, instead you agree that it is notable, or it passes AfD, you will write or noticeably improve one article of my choice. The encyclopedia wins either way! Do we have a bet? --GRuban (talk) 16:46, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, Roy! I pinged William and a subject-knowledgeable user on my draft article talk, but they didn't say anything, and have both edited Wikipedia since that ping, and it's been several days, so it looks like they're not going to say anything. Since your comment didn't seem to object, other than the red links, which I drastically reduced, I moved the page to mainspace, at Miss and Mister Supranational. Would you be so good as to make Miss Supranational into a redirect there? There are many, many existing Wikipedia articles that already refer to it and will link there once that's done. --GRuban (talk) 13:57, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Also Miss supranational; looks like that one was salted separately, so probably will need to be unsalted separately. Thank you! --GRuban (talk) 14:36, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've unsalted Miss supranational. As far as I can see, Miss Supranational is not currently protected. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:40, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ! --GRuban (talk) 17:50, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

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