Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Ahmad Thomson

Dear Editors,

My apologies to GorgeCustersSabre for appearing to be bullish (my western star sign is Taurus). This is the first time that I have been involved in the Wikipedia deletion process, so I've been trying to learn how it works as I go along and inevitably I have made mistakes and could have handled things better. Please excuse my lack of knowledge and expertise.

I only nominated the Article for deletion because GorgeCustersSabre removed the proposed deletion tag from the page almost as soon as I had posted it, referencing COI, presumably his/hers – and of course once it had been removed, it could not be reinstated.

As I understand it, if the proposed deletion tag had been allowed to remain for 7 days, then the Article would have been deleted without any fuss, which is what I wanted.

In addition, I did not understand that having taken the next step by proposing the deletion of the Article, I am not permitted to take any further part in the discussion, so please excuse me for having done so.

I suggest this restriction could be made clearer in the online Wikipedia guidance – perhaps with a short section dealing with the need to balance the (at times conflicting) rights of the right to privacy and the right to freedom of speech within the context of what is fair comment and in the public interest.

I would also like to add that I would not dream of instituting legal proceedings against Kashmiri (which (s)he gives in the Talk section of the Article as his/her reason for concealing his/her true identity) for manifesting his/her NPOV in a subjective manner. We are all entitled to our own opinions, whether we be counsel for the prosecution or for the defence, or judge, or jury, or executioner – and we cannot help having them and expressing them – although as a wise man said, "Speech is silver. Silence is golden."

Ahmad Thomson 17:56, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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PS: As regards the Arabic Wikipedia – https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86

My name is spelt incorrectly in Arabic: أحمد ثومسون

As the 'h' in Thomson is silent, the correct phonetic spelling in Arabic is: احمد تومسون

Ahmad Thomson 18:33, 7 June 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmad Thomson (talk • contribs)