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 * American West Baseball League--your reason was "never took the field professionally, and no third-party sources)" which matches no speedy deletion criterion.  --I have no idea if it will be kept, but that;s for afd
 * Chun-Hsiu Chen. deleted as "not notable" which again matches no speedy criterion but is a reason for afd  DGG ( talk ) 00:16, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Since I consider it uncontroversial, I am undeleting them, unless you specifically object.  DGG ( talk ) 19:43, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll be AfD'ing them if they are restored, so it's basically just wasting time. Wizardman  23:42, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, I noticed you critically reviewed the use of images in "Peru national football team" shortly before it obtained FA-status. At this moment its Belgian counterpart is awaiting GA review. In my opinion, the article is GA-worthy, likely even FA according to the criteria. Any suggestion of yours could contribute towards FA, so I invite you to take a look. Regards, Kareldorado (talk) 15:39, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

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Re: GA nomination for João Sousa
Dear Wizardman,

I would like to apologize for not having participated in the reviewing process of the article I nominated for GA category. I was absent during that period due to personal and professional reasons, and only now I was able to return to Wikipedia.

I deeply thank your insights on the article. I will have them in consideration while I continue to develop and improve it. I hope sometime soon it will be ready for another review.

Best regards,

SOAD KoRn (talk) 02:26, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

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Fabio Martínez ‎
Might want to also delete Fabio Martinez and Fabio Martínez Mesa.--Yankees10 17:48, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Jesús Cota
Please check out my additions to the above linked discussion and the article in question. (Please answer here, if necessary, I'll watchlist it.) Kraxler (talk) 13:03, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * FYI - I mentioned your revert at Administrators' noticeboard/Archive271. Not a complaint, though. Kraxler (talk) 17:43, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I suggest that, after returning from your wikibreak, you read up a little policy, like the one that says that participants in an AfD discussion should not unclose NACs, see Deletion process. On the other side, I garnered some thanks for the info and refs added to the article after your revert, well, every cloud has a silver lining... Kraxler (talk) 00:16, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

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Template:WPMLB
Good evening Wizardman, you deleted Template:WPMLB without WP:RFD. Any reason for doing so? --Jax 0677 (talk) 02:28, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey. In short, having the extra templates actually causes problems should a task force or anything be added or removed to a template: each redirect has to be checked on top of the main one. Baseball's not too bad on this since there's only a couple extra, but with projects that have 2o+ it becomes a problem. Wizardman  21:23, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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Help with histmerge for Aubrey McClendon?
Hi Wizardman, it's been a while since I've reached out, but you were very helpful last year in reviewing and moving live a new draft I was proposing for Tucker Eskew's article. I'm hoping you might be able to help with a current project of mine, seeking to update and improve the article for Aubrey McClendon. Similar to Eskew, I'm working as a paid consultant to Mr. McClendon and will not make any edits to the live article myself, instead offering a new draft for review. Two editors (User:Wilipino and User:Bruin2) have already reviewed the draft, finding it to be an improvement on the current article version. After some discussion with Bruin2 and edits by both of us to my proposed draft—unfortunately Wilipino has not been online since his initial favorable response—I believe the draft is ready to go. Bruin2 wasn't sure how best to take the draft live, and I think what he had in mind is a histmerge. Knowing you've helped move my drafts into live article space before, including a histmerge on my behalf for Gary Loveman, I thought to ask you.

If you're able to help, my draft is here and the original request on the Talk page is here. Let me know if you have any feedback or if you're able to move the draft live in place of the existing version. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 16:42, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
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Potential new issues with an established CCI; requesting feedback
Hello, Wizardman. I know you're very busy, so sorry for bugging you, but if you could give feedback on whether you believe the CCI for User:Epeefleche should be expanded to include recent edits in light of concerns expressed at User_talk:Epeefleche, it would be appreciated. I do not know if these issues are widespread; I've seen plenty of valid paraphrase in his work, but did verify that the concerns have some merit, unfortunately. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:05, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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Moultrie, GA µSA
I stumbled upon the RfD discussion at Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 September 27 while creating an article, and noticed that you deleted Moultrie, GA µSA without a deletion rationale after the discussion closed as "Keep". Could you explain why this page was deleted? If the rationale was "implausible redirect", I'd like to request that you restore the page, given that there was consensus at the linked RfD discussion to keep the page despite those concerns. Thanks for taking a look, and sorry for bringing up an admin action from 2013. It just struck me as odd. ~ RobTalk 02:22, 25 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Wizardman and Rob – this redirect has been recreated as the result of a page rename. See User:Paine Ellsworth/mu to micron for more info. – <b style="font-size:85%;color:darkblue;font-family:Segoe Script">Paine</b>  10:48, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Tunisian Arabic
Dear User,

Tunisian Arabic has been nominated for Wikipedia GA Status. However, no one has reviewed it. So, please review it soon.

Yours Sincerely,

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