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GA Thanks
On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to thank you for your editorial contributions to Bobby Lowe, which has recently become a GA. --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:52, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hello, dear Wizardman, many thanks for your work on my Wikipedia article "Ulrich Vogt, German book author". As a German who wrote this article I think I am right you did not accept my submission. You said that my submission "is not adequately supported by reliable sources", which can be verified. In this case everything can be verified because I myself am ULRICH VOGT, the German author!! The same text I've sent to you, translated by an American friend, has already been published in German Wikipedia in German language under "Ulrich Vogt, Buchautor". There you can see that everything is okay. You can also have a look to my private website "www.ulrichvogt.de",where you can see all the books I wrote in the last 16 years. Even in the "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek"-"Catalogue of the German National Library" (find a Link to it) you'll get information of my published books. My Wiki-name is "paderulli", Ulli is a German short name for "Ulrich". My e-mail address is "ulrichvogt@gmx.de". Here you see again that I am really the right person who wrote this special article in which every informations are really correct. Many thanks in advance Ulrich Vogt, book author — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.199.213.26 (talk) 23:28, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
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Jim Thome
Wizardman, back in October, you commented at the first PR of Jim Thome briefly...I really didn't know what I was doing at that time and requested a PR prior to GAN and in any case, well, it's now a GA and I'm looking to take it to FA, but wanted a legitimate PR prior to doing so. Do you have any suggestions as to who I might ask to review it (or would you like to)? Thanks in advance. Go  Phightins  !  04:41, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

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Willard Hershberger
I've begun the GA review for Willard Hershberger. Only a few small points need to be clarified. Thanks for your work on this excellent article. -- Khazar2 (talk) 15:13, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you
 Hello Wizardman, Viriditas has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thanks for taking the time to review Lahaina Banyan Court Park. Viriditas (talk) 01:35, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

CCI
Thanks for your note. At the moment, I'm up to my eyeballs in OTRS work, where the backlog seems to be growing. I may find some time this weekend.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  14:38, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Feller
I think it depends on what the other sources say. If they make something of it, and if it was a big deal in a wider sense, include it. But I think my instinct would be to leave it out unless it was massive (and not just because Feller thought it was massive). Sarastro1 (talk) 21:35, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Revising the nominations process at Today's article for improvement
I'm seeking wider input on a proposed redesign of the nomination process over at TAFI. The current method could benefit from some streamlining and usability tweaks. If you feel so inclined, I'd like to hear your opinion on the matter. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 23:01, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 January newsletter
Signups are now closed; we have our final 127 contestants for this year's competition. 64 contestants will make it to the next round at the end of February, but we're already seeing strong scoring compared to previous years. currently leads, with 358 points. At this stage in 2012, the leader had 342 points, while in 2011, the leader had 228 points. We also have a large number of scorers when compared with this stage in previous years. was the first competitor to score this year, as he was last year, with a detailed good article review. Some other firsts:
 * was also the first to score for an article, with the good article Hurricane Gordon (2000). Again, this is a repeat of last year!
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 * was the first to score for a featured list, with list of Billboard Social 50 number-one artists.
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 * has the highest overall bonus points, as well as the highest scoring article, thanks to his work on Enrico Fermi, now a good article. The biography of such a significant figure to the history of science warrants nearly five times the normal score.
 * claimed bonus points for René Vautier and Nicolas de Fer, articles that did not exist on the English Wikipedia at the start of the year; a first for the WikiCup. The articles were eligible for bonus points because of fact they were both covered on a number of other Wikipedias.

Also, a quick mention of, who may well have already written the oddest article of the WikiCup this year: did you know that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery? The gauntlet has been thrown down; can anyone beat it?

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Finger slips :P
Just realised. Sorry, and yes, it was an accidental finger slip. Gah, the consequences of editing Wikipedia late a night... Or early morning. Thanks for AGF. Cheers, Bonkers The Clown  (Nonsensical Babble) 07:39, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of HX DOS Extender article
Hi, I just saw on my watchlist that you deleted the HX DOS Extender article for G12 (copyright infringement). The last time I looked at this page (probably some months ago) the article left a lot to be desired and was a mere stub but I did not spot any copyright problems. However, I remember that there has been an editor (working as IP and under at least two user names) who tried to get this and many other DOS related pages deleted several times for notability issues, which I questioned, as the HX DOS extender is an important component in DOS software development up to the present. In at least one other article this editor demonstrated that he does not have any expertise in this field and seems to disregard anything even remotely DOS related, even if is high quality content. Therefore, a sudden deletion of this article for G12 looks a bit "fishy" too me. Can you provide the recent edit history of this article, or even better, can you revise the deletion and/or userfy the article for me? While I did not plan to work on that topic originally, for someone with a background in the OS industry, it is obvious that we need an article on this notable topic. While I cannot work on it immediately, I would at least check the article for possible copyvios myself immediately. Thanks and greetings. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 23:29, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Can you use your magic
Retired from non-article writing. Does this include reviewing? I hope not, you are one of the most prolific and competent ones GA has and the project seems to have lost quite a few of these recently. Anyway if you are still using your tools could you delete this so it will appear back in the queue properly (i.e with start review instead of discuss review). I would tag it myself, but last time I had to do a bit of explaining before the admin would and since you understand the process I though this would be easier. It should be uncontroversial (discussion at WT:GAN). AIR corn (talk) 07:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Angelou list
Hey Wiz, List of honors received by Maya Angelou is now in FLC and is  in need of just one more review before the nom closes. Would you mind taking a look? I'd appreciate it, since it's the last step in the creation of a Maya Angelou FT, which is a long-standing WP goal for me. Thanks. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 23:48, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You did not ask a stupid question on my talk page at all. For some reason, there were two copies of the FLC made; I'm sure the folks over there will resolve it at some point.  Go to archive 1; that's where most of the comments reside.  Thanks again! Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:39, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi, friend
While your "No Moar Dramahz" declaration is commendable, here's something:

Not sure if you've been following the latest chapter in the Richard A. Norton saga, but I've got a proposed remedy up at his talk page — User_talk:Richard_Arthur_Norton_(1958-_). Since you've been so closely involved in the work on his CCI case, I was hoping you'd chime in as to whether it satisfies your concerns moving forward. Best regards, —Tim //// Carrite (talk) 19:56, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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Yay! It's finished :D If you have any other CCI where you may need help, you can request my help :) — ΛΧΣ  21  04:27, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I specialize myself in music articles and video games. Those are my preferred areas of work :) — ΛΧΣ  21  04:36, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I see. I will help at Derek R Bullamore's. Also, I think I will dedicate myself to Richard Arthur Norton's CCI, since I have expertise in image copyright and I enjoy working with files. — ΛΧΣ  21  04:41, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

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RAN case at ArbCom
Hi again. A brief heads-up that I've dropped your name in my evidence article in the Richard Arthur Norton case at ArbCom. While this document is not yet final, I expect it will remain. LINK. Thank you for your work on the case. best, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 21:34, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

CCI update
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You asked if I can help with Contributor copyright investigations/Hydeblake, on the grounds that I have access to DNB/ODNB. I'd like to help but I cannot tell exactly how I can. I live in the US, so I have no online access to ODNB, while anyone in the UK with a library card has online access to ODNB. I have online access to the original DNB, but so does everyone, because it is now all at Wikisource. I do have physical access to the US Library of Congress, since a live less than an hour away from it, but so far the DNB project at Wikisource has not needed for me to actually go copy a page, as we have found other workarounds. Other than that, how can I help? -Arch dude (talk) 19:45, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes. The trick here is that DNB was published prior to 1923 in the US and is therefore now Public Domain. Copying even of complete articles is not a Copyvio, and is not plagiarism if proper attribution is included: we have hundreds of WP articles that started out just this way. However, ODNB is still in copyright. But many ODNB articles are updated versions of the articles in the older work, so a copy from DNB may match an ODNB article and trigger a copyvio investigation. One must then go look at the old DNB article to determine if it's DNB plagiarism rather than an ODNB copyvio, and that's what Moonriddengirl has apparently been doing. -Arch dude (talk) 19:59, 8 February 2013 (UTC)


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RfA: thank you for your support
Wizardman, thank you for your support during my RfA, and then sticking with me during the late drama. I hope to earn your confidence in my future editing. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:42, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

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Protocol question
I've started looking at the Racepacket CCI. The first couple were clean, so I thought I might be able to breeze through a few. The next two, not so good. In the most recent one. some copy paste text was added in 2006

The ultimate solution would be to rewrite it, but I fear if I rewrite everyone one with a problem, I'll get bogged down. I did rewrite the Robert Bacher problem, but when I got to Carol Stream, Illinois, it wasn't as obvious how to do it without running into a paraphrase problem. My solution was to remove, and note the removal on the talk page. I have the impression that workhorse MRG would rewrite, and if that is SOP, I'll try, but I wanted to see if removal with notice is acceptable.

As a related question, I often revdel intervening versions, but I'm not inclined to revdel all the way back to 2006 for a couple sentences. How do you feel about this?-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  17:13, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Wiz.
I recently !voted a "keep" on some NASCAR pictures that you put up for deletion (Feb. 8). Now, being fully aware that there is a "fanboy" aspect to my thoughts, and more to the point, I know that you are much more versed in the copyvio/FU issues than I am - I wanted to say that I am fully open to being educated. If you'd like to lecture/talk/explain things to me, then I am completely open to learning. Cheers. — Ched : ?  19:31, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Precious again
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Thank you for reviewing in the Contributor copyright investigations/PumpkinSky! Paraphrasing (I hope not too closely): If everybody who reads this looked at one more article it could be over today. - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (17 October 2008, 5 February 2009)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 20 February 2012 (UTC) A year ago, you were the 35th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style (hope you don't mind). I miss the photographer, again, and you, making "Letting go of the past" the top of my talk, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:04, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

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Quack
I saw your edit summary about undos at 2012 Chicago White Sox season. I'm pretty sure we have a WP:DUCK with the latest undo. See Sockpuppet_investigations/Carthage44/Archive. Hopefully you can come out of your self-imposed retirement from drama and save me an SPI report.—Bagumba (talk) 07:21, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Addie Joss/GA1
I reviewed the article, I placed it on hold as there is some concerns. Thanks Secret account 21:03, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

List of counties in Ohio
Hello Wizardman, I wanted to ask if you have any interest in getting the List of counties in Ohio to FL? YES, I know it did not make it initially, BUT I would be willing to help. I am helping in an overall effort to get county lists to the point of a featured or good category. PLEASE do let me know if you want to help, a hell no would be fine as well, all I ask is that someone can help me with Ohio, and since I just got WV Counties to FL status, I can assist in what is expected currently for a FL...Many thanksCoal town guy (talk) 16:50, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I took a look and then compared noted with the WV County list which went to FL a few days ago. Here is what I know will be expected 1)all of the origin counties, or formed from, will need to be linked 2)birth and death dates for all of the people who have a county named after them, 3)their titles, President of the United States as an exmple, need to be linked and capped, and 4)the list would need to be WP:DATE compliant. I can do the WP:DATE thing, NO problem. As far as refs, THAT can be an issue, do you know if there are books that contain the data besiders, the area and population?? IF so, I can help with that as well. You had mentioned the intro, go for it. Let me know what you thinkCoal town guy (talk) 17:27, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It is now WP:DATE compliant. Now, before any more content, all of the origin counties need to be wiki linked and all of the times people served as a President, or Senator or Governor etc etc need to be included.Coal town guy (talk) 20:35, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Question. What is a non county area vs a non county territory? If they are the same, use the same language and what is it? Curious, and they will want to knowCoal town guy (talk) 20:37, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Another questions. Laning is a ref, I get that, but which ref? There are 2 at the ref list. if I know which onme, I can get these fixed. Also, see my above original question, GOOD work so far.Coal town guy (talk) 03:36, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed Refs. Hey I managed to fix the refs in the list so that they are in a proper format. Would you be able to exlain or get a ref for non county area vs a non county territoryCoal town guy (talk) 18:26, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

RAN ArbCom
Thanks for moving my proposals, I hadn't looked very carefully and hadn't noticed that every proposer gets his own subheader (unlike with the questions section). I didn't mean to imply that my proposals were made by you (or I wouldn't have signed them), but it did give that impression nonetheless. Fram (talk) 09:18, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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National Hispanic Leadership Agenda
Could you please restore National Hispanic Leadership Agenda? I'd like a chance to look at it and see if I can fix the copyvio problem. Thanks. --evrik (talk) 14:42, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know if there was a copyvio problem or not. I'd like to article restored for a few hours so I can examine it myself. I see the report at Suspected copyright violations/2013-02-14, but if I remember correctly, the only thing that overlapped was the dates and the list of names. --evrik (talk) 16:49, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I had not seen the LULAC site until the bot flagged it. The article was a stub, but I have reworded the draft at User:Evrik/sandbox. Can you please restore the article and copy in the replacement text. Thanks. --evrik (talk) 20:07, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter
Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:
 * , primarily for an array of warship GAs.
 * , primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
 * , due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with, this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:
 * , whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
 * , whose Mycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
 * and, who both claimed points for articles in the Major League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
 * , who claimed for the first full good topic with the Casting Crowns studio albums topic.

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by : did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 00:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Another CCI completion section
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regarding your editing work in David Horsburgh article
dear Wizardman, thank you for your contribution in the article David Horsburgh. I have noticed that you have made most of the earlier contribution invalid on the basis of copyviolation from the blog http://gps-pudupalayam.blogspot.in/2010/12/activity-based-learning-methodology.html i would like to draw your attention that most of the content in this blog is copied from wikipedia own page Activity-based learning in India which I added earlier. I am aware about the limitations of David Horsburgh article because there is least data/references available and I am in the way to finding it and making the article enriched according to wiki norms. In the meantime I request you to find my claim and to deal with it, which encourage us to make this article updated and enriched. --Anticipator (talk) 06:56, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Request to re-instate article
Hello, I am contacting you as you are listed as the deleting administrator of the Erika Tymrak article. This player has recently been signed to the new American professional soccer league, NWSL and I would like to work on updating the article that was deleted in 2010 with current content and citations including, , ,. Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 02:11, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Copyvio Revert
Hello, I am contacting you as you are removed copyvio material from the Tulika_Ganguly article. However, whilst doing so you removed a great detail of certain information. As a lawyer myself, I have personally contacted and received licence to use materials from her website before creating the page. It would have served you well had you tried to contact me before taking such an extreme step.

The problem is that the present article is not reflecting the true attributes. If you are happy with your action, I'd request you to take a further step and delete the article itself so that it can be re-created. But as far as I know, the advice to me would be coming in the form of 'try to modify the article'.

undefinedDebashisM Talk 15:06, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
Thanks! Thankfully due to the bot SCV is that much easier to tackle than other copyright areas. Wizardman 20:07, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

RFC-withdrawal closure
Could you close my RFC at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation. I seem to have defined the wrong scope of the issue and posted it at the wrong page, according to the feedback I am getting. I would like to withdraw my RFC nomination.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:08, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks like that's been taken care of already. Wizardman  17:45, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

YGM

 * A quick poke&mdash;if you replied, it didn't go through. :-) Regards, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:36, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

William Monteith
Hello Wizardman. The article on William Monteith was deleted as "unambiguous copyright infringement" because "ODNB is not in the public domain", but the text was entirely based on the homonymous entry from the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, which is definitely in the public domain and is available through Wikisource. Please also see WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography. Any thought on this? --KoberTalk 21:20, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying that. Best, --KoberTalk 04:19, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

RE: GAN
Thanks for fixing my self-review self-nom :) Muscle memory is still trained on old GANs I guess--can't get used to the new-fangled automation. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 14:19, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

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could you temporarily restore this so a bot can orphan it? thank you. Frietjes (talk) 21:10, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * okay, it's now orphaned, you can delete it again. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 23:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

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Leg before wicket request
The above article is at PR here. If you get the chance, I'd appreciate it if you could have a quick look. I've asked a few people, but I need as many non-cricketers as possible to see if it makes sense to those unfamiliar with the rules and terminology. Not a problem if you haven't the time. Sarastro1 (talk) 20:28, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Liao Dynasty article
Hey there. I noticed that you removed the close paraphrasing template on the article recently. As the person who rebuilt the article from scratch, I'm not sure if that's a good idea. The only section I haven't gotten to, "Law and administration", might still need it. That section wasn't the worst violator, and I intend on fixing it soon, but I was wondering if there was a waring that could be applied just to that section instead? If not, no worries. Cheers,  S ven M anguard   Wha?  21:10, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Admin? Hell No!
While I suppose it's a complement that people suggest me as a possibility for admin status, I have absolutely no interest in putting myself forwards for such a role. Owing to current workload I couldn't sensibly dedicate enough time to justify the mop. What time I do spend on wiki I would rather spend on regular editing. I also have no desire to expose myself to the targeted and vicious attacks and unpleasantness that seems to be the norm for anyone running for admin or attempting to carry out any sort of action that raises one's head above the parapet. As I do have strong opinions on appropriate behavioral standards for editors, I am sure that even if I did run for admin, I would never pass an RFA, or if I did, would be forced out quickly (either by formal means or by harrasment by the sort of nonsense that goes on at ANI or ARBCOM).Nigel Ish (talk) 18:02, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Collingwood26
In regards to this post by Collingwood concerning my deletion of his article, it's not the case that he asked for it to be deleted. My rationale for the deletion is here, and he actually objected to the deletion (I'm posting here rather than on their talk page as they've launched personal attacks on me in the past and I don't need the grief; though I am considering starting an ANI thread in relation to their endless Australian nationalism-motivated edit warring and extreme posts). Nick-D (talk) 00:57, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * FYI only, I've started the ANI post about this. Nick-D (talk) 01:29, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Re: Admin
Thanks for the offer. I have been approached re: adminship probably half a dozen times over the past few years. I know I could be trusted with the tools, but I am not sure how often I would use them. I like to think that my contributions to Wikipedia and conduct would mean I could relax during the RfA process, but without a solid answer for the question "What administrative work do you intend to take part in?", I feel I'd be doomed from the start...! :) -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:44, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

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Bureaucrat
Hi Wizardman. I'm probably not the best person to be asking you this, since I don't think we have interacted much (I could be wrong though), but I was wondering how much thought you have given to running for cratship? It appears to me that you are one of the more respected editors (let alone admins) on this project, and although I believe you have been keeping away from some of the admin areas lately, you would still be one of the best admins that could submit an RfB. I've been trying to find good candidates to encourage to run and I guess I have nothing to lose by asking you, as I'm certain you would a very good job.  Automatic  Strikeout   ( T  •  C ) 01:42, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd second ASO's comments. I would really love to support you at RfB. You are one of the best candidates for cratship out there, to be honest. — ΛΧΣ  21  04:52, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment
Hey Wizardman; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:00, 13 March 2013 (UTC)