Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bilateral relations

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A possible bot is avialable, as per: WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Visual_arts Ikip (talk) 17:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Category:Articles for deletion
Category:Articles for deletion lists all current deletions. Ikip (talk) 00:33, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Article copy and pasting
An editor has been coping and pasting the same comments in over a hundred AfDs. In one case the editor copied and pasted the same comment in 15 AFDs in 3 minutes, once 6 in one minute, (highlighted sections).

Although I am not suggesting this in this case, an editor was blocked today for posting multiple times on AfDs Ani.

Can I get some help from members of this wikiproject in posting to the open AfDs about this situation? I have finished up to number 15.

Ikip (talk) 09:22, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, right, you're not suggesting he be blocked, you're just encouraging he be blocked.


 * These AFDs were all for strings of extremely similar articles in which the voting rationale is going to be exactly the same. Copying and pasting the same vote makes sense. It should not be described as disruption just to try to wikilawyer to try to get results you want. That's disgustingly calculated behavior. DreamGuy (talk) 12:11, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Same thing, different day--copying and pasting is not unreasonable. What's so different between the Estonia--NZ and Estonia--Uruguay articles? An AfD comment is not meant to be more than a brief comment and rationale. JJL (talk) 13:36, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * DreamGuy, If I want to know what I am thinking, now I know who to go too. I would ask you to strike "That's disgustingly calculated behavior" the entire tone is incredibly nasty. Go ahead and shoot the messenger.
 * JJL and Dreamguy, How can anyone reasonably argue that this editor looked at the 16 AFDs he voted to delete, in the space of 3 minutes? The editor had 6 delete !votes in one minute. In comparison, in one minute, the editor who was blocked had 8 votes for delete. Ikip (talk) 14:10, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Once you've looked at the first one and then see the names of the rest, it's a fast copy and paste for all of them because the same arguments applies to all of them. The AFDs should have been combined into one. And you've got a lot of nerve to complain about tone and so forth with the ridiculous accusations you made and the hint that you think he should be blocked. That's clearly calculated. The person who was blocked got blocked for completely unrelated AFDs where you'd have to read them all separately to get what they were about. Huge difference. DreamGuy (talk) 16:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello... I'm the editor behind whose back everyone is talking. I do look at every article before I put a cut-and-paste deletion argument into the AfD. Because the articles are all uniformly brief, it does not take me long to do so. In this way I am certain that the argument I copy-and-paste into the AfD's is in fact legitimate (you will note that in some cases I alter it slightly as individual articles warrant). I stand by my reasoning, however identically worded, in each and every AfD discussion I have posted a position on. -- Blue Squadron  Raven  14:44, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * This should close the matter. And by the way, what happened to WP:AGF? - Biruitorul Talk 15:02, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I have one further question: Why was a mention of this discussion posted in two other places around wikipedia? Specifically here and here, especially given the not terribly subtle request that I be banned? -- Blue Squadron  Raven  16:23, 5 May 2009 (UTC)