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 * Thanks. But are you aware of the things which are going on the nom's page.. - The Herald (here I am) 14:22, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:College flag.jpg


A tag has been placed on File:College flag.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

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 * ..How can you explain this? I didn't understood the meaning of it? Why am I receiving this? - The Herald (here I am) 11:54, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You created a local file information page for this file on Commons containing the text #REDIRECT [[File:St Anthonys College Kandy Flag.jpg]], and this local file information page was nominated for speedy deletion. --Stefan2 (talk) 14:28, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Huh!! Thats fine.. - The Herald (here I am) 14:32, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

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Old Love (story)‎;
If you can find anything add it to the article of course, but I think that you shouls have done so before changing the redirect back to a (non) article. I will take this to AfD if nothing convincing appears. TheLongTone (talk) 15:47, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Now that's good.. - The Herald (here I am) 15:51, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I did look at the target, and none of the other stories have articles. And imo the shorter the plot summary of something by Archer the better!TheLongTone (talk) 15:58, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm. So by cutting down the plot a bit will work. But I still need more refs, right? - The Herald (here I am) 16:15, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think you need to establish why this particular story merits a stand-lone article. I think difficult since Archer gets no serious critical attentionTheLongTone (talk) 16:36, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

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Featured picture candidates/The Headless One Throwing his head out...again

 * ..So done at last.. - The Herald (here I am) 12:21, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of George F. Robinson
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Doomsday
I didn't support your recent ITN nomination and one reason was that we didn't seem to have an article about US nuclear rearmament. Having looked into what is going on, I have started a stub, which may help explain this: Renovation of the nuclear weapon arsenal of the USA. If you want to see this on the main page, I suggest you help expand it to DYK level. Also, I can't help feeling that this must have something to do with the new Terminator movie but that's probably just me. :) Andrew D. (talk) 11:36, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I am fine with the nomination of ITN. I can make it up to DyK, but not without your help. - The Herald (here I am) 11:41, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Be careful what you wish for :) I have reverted your additions as the sources seemed too weak.  A difficulty with the topic is that it is somewhat controversial and speculative.   We should therefore prefer high quality sources such as the NYT and James Martin analyses, as they are likely to stand up to hostile critique better.  To show willing, I have added a breakdown of the headline trillion figure so that it's clearer where the money is likely to go. Andrew D. (talk) 15:13, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ..But are Rt and Washington posts strong enough? - The Herald (here I am) 15:22, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I didn't much like the RT but am not sure what it is exactly.  The Washington Post article was quite good - lots of detail and not especially partisan, so far I can tell.  I have put the post source back as support for a sentence about the dilapidated date of the arsenal, which is the main point of that source.  It is early days for the topic and, as we bring such good sources, we can expect to rework the content around them.  As other editors may be joining us, I suggest that further discussion take place on the article's talk page, ok? Andrew D. (talk) 15:40, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Alright.. - The Herald (here I am) 15:44, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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ITN credit
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WikiCup 2015 FP nomination
Hi there, just to let you know that I'm checking with the bot owner to clarify why you didn't get the bonus points for the image you submitted appearing on five or more Wikis as of 31st December 2014. From my count it was on exactly five, and now it's on six - once the bot is updated, it should pick it up straight away. Miyagawa (talk) 20:14, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Why are you still up? :-)
I accidentally sliced a substantial chunk off my index finger tonight while peeling carrots for a salad. Luckily I found it sitting on top of the carrot peelings before it got mixed in with the lettuce & tomatoes. Not my idea of finger food. I now have to type with 9 fingers....slowly. Atsme  &#9775; Consult  06:45, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh dear me!! That's not good. BTW, I just had my breakfast now (not finger food).. - The Herald (here I am) 07:07, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Old Love
I've nominated this for deletion at Articles for deletion/Old Love (story). I don't think being liked by one filmaker cuts any mustard.TheLongTone (talk) 15:56, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

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20:08:50, 30 January 2015 review of submission by SandorSchwartz
Post was completely re-written with citations and from a NPOV. Submitted 23 days ago, please review.

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ITN
I don't normally do this, and anyone can do it for you, even yourself, but here you go.

The Rambling Man (talk) 15:37, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for nominating him! You beat me to it ;) Zwerg Nase (talk) 16:19, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

ITN Credit
- The Herald (here I am) 04:30, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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ITN for Carl Djerassi
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Non-admin closures
Hi there, in line with WP:DPR I have vacated your closure of Articles for deletion/Smokingroove and amended the decision to delete. My reasoning for doing so has been set out on that page. Please remember that non-admin closures of AFDs are limited to very obvious cases. Stifle (talk) 09:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * @Stifle, thanks. I should have checked it.. - The Herald (here I am) 15:20, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

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Mentor, oh mentor!!?? AfD question
I was trying out TW on some AfDs that are just do-nothing stubs and stumbled across George Edward Smith It's been a stub since October 2009 - nothing done to it - but I noticed a wikilink P.O.W.:_Two_Years_with_the_Vietcong in the two sentence article, and an outside ref link  are both promoting this guy's book which appears the only reason for the articles. I put a SD tag on it, but it was removed with a message that the article didn't meet the criteria for SD, but it might be an AfD candidate because of questionable notability. Your thoughts? Atsme  &#9775; Consult  03:38, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, as I can see, its a stub and its not necessary to have a stub to be deleted. Those two cites are definitely giving the article a mighty stand in AfD and you may fail. The stub have the rotten wikilink, still I think its stable. Plus, never try CSD for these old stubs as they may ignore your request. Notability is the point, but anybody can go here and find some good cites and AfD may fail. If you are interested, you can improve the article as I have done to George F. Robinson. BTW, will you join my birthday party today -- - The Herald (here I am) 03:57, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!!! <span style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.1em 0.1em 0.4em,#F2CEF2 -0.4em -0.4em 0.6em,#90EE90 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#E6FFFF">Atsme  &#9775; Consult  05:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)