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Wimborne Minster Folk Festival
A tag has been placed on Wimborne Minster Folk Festival, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to a nonexistent page, or a redirect loop.

If you can fix this redirect to point to an existing Wikipedia page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you also fix the redirect. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. - Camyoung54   talk  15:48, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello Camyoung54,
 * Another user, User:Thejemanator, had removed all the content from Wimborne Folk Festival and turned it into a redirect. I have resolved this problem for now and will contact the user about his/her intent.   Gold   Standard  16:15, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, great. - Camyoung54   talk  19:29, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

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AfC
Unsourced BLPs submitted to AfC should be declined as unsourced, not as BLP violations, unless what is asserted in the article is derogatory or controversial. Declining them as BLP violations lists them for speedy deletion, but we do not speedy delete BLPs unless they meet the general provisions at WP:CSD -- normally, vandalism or promotion or attack pages. Even in mainspace we do not speedy delete unsourced BLPs for just being unsourced --  we delete them by BLP PROD if nobody sources them. I therefore removed the speedy deletion tag placed at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Michael Carney and for Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Mihai Grunfeld

This is not your fault, actually: the instructions and wordings of the tags are unclear, confusing, and even to some degree contradictory, but the deletion of AfCs are governed by our actual policy, WP:Deletion policy

Now, as a matter of fact, Grunfield might or might not be notable under WP:Author or WP:Academic, but it would depend on the details of the importance of his work. Probably not, because the Vassar Web site shows he is only an Associate Professor, and his autobiographical novel is essentially self-published. I will review it accordingly.  DGG ( talk ) 22:07, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Got it! Will take this into account in the future.  Happy Easter!  Gold   Standard  23:09, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Happy Easter!!!
So a print encyclopedia, a strawberry shortcake, and a sycamore walk into a bar - wait, have you heard this one? (talk) 23:35, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * You too!!! Gold   Standard  23:42, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/The_Armorial_Register_Limited

 * Dear Gold Standard,
 * I was wondering if you could have another look at The Armorial Register Limited. I thought that I had covered its notability in the first paragraph.  It is, what was, the publishing arm of Burkes' Peerage. Burkes could not make it pay and the creditors forced it to be sold off. The current editors were already doing the job for Burkes, so they took it over.  If Burkes itself is notable, surely the inheritors of the intellectual property would also be notable.
 * Should that not be enough, I have added various references from English Wikipedia, Italian, Hungarian and French Wikipedia and external sources.
 * I would also point out this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Heraldic_Registry which has had a page since 2006, but has not got 1 single reference. The United States Heraldic Registry, nominally did the same job as The Armorial Register except that it did not publish any physical books, which The Armorial Register does.  The US Heraldic Register is now defunct and has been for some time. No one seems to know whether Mr Swanson, the man who ran the site is in fact still alive.
 * Thank you for any assistance you can give. Kiltpin (talk) 18:36, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for contacting me! Firstly, no organization or company is inherently notable.  If the individual organization has received no or very little notice from independent sources, then it is not notable.  See CORP for more.  Also, with regards to the United States Heraldic Registry page, please read WP:OSE.  I have marked the United States Heraldic Registry page as not demonstrating notability and it will be deleted if notability cannot be established using reliable sources.  I see that you have added more references, so I will look at your AFC again.  Also, although proper formatting is not a requirement for AFC acceptance, I urge you to read WP:FN for help on properly using references and creating inline citations.  It makes the page look cleaner and helps verify information more specifically.  Thanks,   Gold   Standard  20:48, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello again,
 * Unfortunately, the references you provided do not establish notability. For one, referencing Wikipedia itself is not allowed.  See WP:CIRCULAR for more.  Secondly, the external references do not demonstrate significant coverage of the article.  They contain little more than a passing mention of the subject of the article or do not mention the subject of the article at all.  Read WP:GNG to find out more about what you need to do to demonstrate that the subject of this article is notable.  Thanks,  Gold   Standard  06:40, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Ann Rivers
Hey there- I saw your recent change (and undo) on Ann Rivers concerning the image used in the article. I would just ask that you clarify that your edits are justified before doing anything to the image or article. I had explained on the page why it was not under copyright. I am planning on adding images from the same source to as many WA State Senators and Representatives as I have time for. Thank you for keeping the state senators' pages on your mind. PrairieKid (talk) 00:45, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello, please look again at the edit I made and undid, as it had nothing to do with the photo. The text content that you added was very nearly copied directly from the source, and I still encourage you to make it more in your own words, but it seems to be barely acceptable.  Also, on a second note, I at one point tried to copy photos from the State Senate and State Legislature websites, as you are doing, but was met with strong resistance.  I had just completed creating about 100 stubs for missing State Rep and State Senator pages, and they desperately needed photos.  I was told that I needed to have a representative from the websites send an email to OTRS, because the Secretary of State declaration of public domain for the Secretary of State website did not necessarily apply to the State Senate and State Legislature pages.  I contacted a representative and they said they would get back to me but never did.  Thanks for your work!  Gold   Standard  01:04, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Proposal to merge Thermal history of the earth into Geological history of Earth
Gold Standard, if you're going to propose a merger, you need to provide a forum in which to discuss it. I have created one here with a space for your rationale. RockMagnetist (talk) 18:46, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * My apologies, I seem to have forgotten this.  Gold   Standard  18:47, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * That's o.k. I'm sure that you mean well by your merger proposal, but it is based on a bad judgement by Safiel. The PROD will be almost certainly rejected, after which you might want to consider withdrawing your merge proposal. RockMagnetist (talk) 22:14, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I meant to save the article contents via a merge. In all likelihood I will remove my merge proposal when and if the CSD is rejected.   Gold   Standard  22:58, 5 April 2013 (UTC)