User talk:Rsjaffe/Archives/2022/June

What are Mordvans? (Mokshas article)
It was Russian Census 1926 when Mokshas number last time was calculated separately. I didn't write about Mordvans. You removed the first official mention of Mokshas given by Minorsky (1959) and replaced 21th c sources to 1960s. What is the problem with young girls in Moksha clothes 2021 photo replaced to archaic Russian colonial ethnography B/W one? It's a colonial time photo. Bad memories, you know? Numulunj pilgae (talk) 21:08, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

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Thankyou for nominating an article on an Olympic competitor for deletion
I would like to thank you for nominating an article on an Olympic competitor for deletion. Wikipedia has way too many such articles and it is nice to see people starting the move to remove them. We have well over 100,000 stub articles on Olympains, the vast majority of which do not meet our current inclusion criteria. This is truly a daunting problem.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:36, 25 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the thank you. This is  daunting. I'm getting lots of dislike from users regarding nominating athletes for deletion. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:39, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Just to give you a taste of the amount of stuff going on here, there's nearly 2,000 Olympic athlete stubs from the Games between 1900 to 2000 involving athletes that didn't receive a medal that are less than 1kB. If you take that number up to 2kB, you start to get over 7,500. Most of the people who added these articles were probably itching to pad their article creation statistics.  ~XyNq tc 21:49, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of American Polarity Therapy Association for deletion
Hi Rsjaffe. Hope you are doing well. Thanks for your time and effort in reviewing this article. However it is the only Organisation globally certifying members as therapists in Polarity and hence I feel the nomination for deletion for this article is not correct. I request this article could stay for public interest and making Wikipedia a good informational platform. Kindly suggest. Thanks. Gardenkur (talk) 02:24, 27 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I appreciate your concern. But Wikipedia has rules for what is appropriate for an article. Wikipedia is not intended to be a comprehensive listing, rather a collection of articles about things that meet the notability requirements. Read WP:GNG for more information. The nomination means that deletion will be discussed pro/con, then an uninvolved expert will determine the concensus and act accordingly. So the nomination is a request that others review the evidence and inform the final decision. Thank you. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 02:31, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Tic Taw Videos to Draft
Thank You, I wanted it as a draft, but could not figure out how to move it. 68.148.136.66 (talk) 01:06, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Formatting of AFD page
Thanks heaps for adding Derick Hall to the AFD log for May 24. Somehow doing so turned the entire page blue. Any ideas on how to remedy? Template use seems proper. Not sure why this happened, but if I deleted it from the log and preview changes, the error goes away. MaxnaCarter (talk) 03:25, 31 May 2022 (UTC)


 * All good, further closures saw the issue resolve. Thanks anyway! MaxnaCarter (talk) 03:31, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * No problem. Weird things happen some times. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 03:39, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Roger Jacobs
Thankyou for nominating for deletion the article on Roger Jacobs.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:08, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Cliff effect (economics)
I didn't write the article, I just moved it from Cliff effect to a separate article. Algotr (talk) 21:25, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Draft: Kishore Mahato
What makes you think that the stub article of Kishore Mahato can't be on mainspace? He is ODI national cricket player of Nepal and has already played multiple games against test certified nation. If you can enlist some problem let me fix that? I also know the basic criteria which article can be or can't be on mainspace. DIVINE  📪  15:32, 15 June 2022 (UTC)


 * See WP:NCRIC. The article was moved to draft so that you would have an opportunity to insert sources showing notability. See WP:SPORTCRIT for information on notability sources and what can and cannot be used to prove notability. Without notability, the article could be deleted. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 15:48, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Tagging of Leba Chand Tudu
I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Leba Chand Tudu. I do not think that Leba Chand Tudu fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because '''The created version by Sudip Karmakar23 (Jun 13, 2022) is different from the deleted version. The older deleted versions were showing up in the page history, but they have been redacted now.'''. If you wish, you may try using the simple proposed deletion (PROD) process, or the full articles for deletion (AfD) process, instead, if this was an article, or another process such as MfD or XfD as appropriate. Jay (talk) 02:43, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

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Thiqah Company
Hi,

Thiqah Company is a Saudi government company, Thiqah Company is present in 20 countries, Thiqah Company is a member as an official observer in the Digital Cooperation Organization, "Why would you nominate it for quick deletion?". Note for you I am Administrator at Ar Wiki. --بندر (talk) 12:16, 23 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Rsjaffe, I've replied on my talk page Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:51, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
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At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
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