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[edit]There is no "you're welcome" button so: you're welcome :P Jackninja5 (talk) 14:49, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Deletion discussion about List of controversial celebrity baby names
[edit]Hello, FordDixon,
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Thanks, Jayakumar RG (talk) 06:07, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Colton Tran
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- Does not yet seem to be notable, no major roles, his "biggest" being a "supporting role" in a cable TV kids movie.
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Now there may be a case for notability, but I'm not seeing it, and as a BLP, I don't want him getting vandalized.Milowent • hasspoken 17:07, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Claudius Gele
[edit]That creation, for whatever reason, is truly inspired. I salute you. As you may know, Joachim von Sandrart is the sole source for Lorrain's youthful pastry work, though I'd love to know when and where the 1645 pastry puff invention idea came from. In the mid-19th century many got balled up over the fact that the Latin translation of Sandrart's work somehow translated the german "Pasteten-Becken" into "pictori cuidam artocreatum" (painter of pies, which is confusing to say the least).--Milowent • hasspoken 19:00, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
September 2014
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Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Alex Anthopoulos. Thank you. Trut-h-urts man (T • C) 19:57, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of 11 Things You Did Not and Will Not Learn in School
[edit]Hello FordDixon,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 11 Things You Did Not and Will Not Learn in School for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.
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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. -Fimatic (talk | contribs) 15:56, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
November 2014
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Speedy deletion nomination of Top 10 Heisman Trophy winners in the NFL
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Hey, just thought I'd explain why so many of your pages are getting deleted since I don't see where anyone has tried to explain why this is happening. The problem is that in some instances, as in the case of the Top 10 Heisman Trophy winners in the NFL article, it was because the page was ultimately a re-write of a post/article on the NFL site and even if we ignore the whole WP:COPYVIO thing, the page would still fail overall notability guidelines because it's ultimately an WP:INDISCRIMINATE list. Even if I'd chosen to not delete it as a very closely paraphrased article, it still would have been deleted at WP:AfD. Now when it comes to the article 11 Things You Did Not and Will Not Learn in School, that was deleted as promotion because it came across as a promotional article for Bill Gates. The statement "If you agree, pass it on. If you can read this - Thank a teacher!" especially came across as promotional. The NFL article had the same issue to a certain extent. The Gates article had the same issue to where even if the deleting administrator chose to decline the speedy deletion, it still would have been deleted at AfD because of the same reason. The only time something can really pass through the whole "indiscriminate list" or "random thing someone said once" type of barrier is if the list is especially well covered in reliable sources like newspapers, TV shows, books, and the like. I don't see where either of these lists meet notability guidelines.
Both articles were written in such a casual manner that they came across (at worst) as a promotional article or (at best) like something a fan would write on their blog. Wikipedia isn't really a place for random thoughts or articles written on a blog post or random speech unless those things have received a LOT of coverage in reliable sources. You've posted other articles that fall under the same guidelines: they're ultimately just lists or fairly random information that has some link to someone or something famous, but still fall under what Wikipedia is WP:NOT. These are the types of articles that would be fine on a personal blog, but not so much on Wikipedia. I think that your heart is in the right place, but I would recommend reading over the page at WP:NOT pretty thoroughly. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:20, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
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2014-15 F1 Financial Crisis
[edit]Hi FordDixon. I've started a discussion over the article you recently created, 2014-15 F1 Financial Crisis, over at the Formula One WikiProject talk page. You are welcome to contribute over at the discussion page. Thanks. QueenCake (talk) 22:44, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Nomination of F1 Financial Crisis for deletion
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Your submission at Articles for creation: F1 Financial Crisis has been accepted
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Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:41, 9 March 2015 (UTC)- Hi. For the reasons discussed previously, this has been moved back to a draft: Draft:F1_financial_crisis. I would encourage you to work with the people at WP:Wikiproject Formula One to bring this to a satisfactory conclusion. Cheers, --LukeSurl t c 10:50, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
- Yes you can see the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation#Recreation_of_a_deleted_article where I was asked to put it back as a draft. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:22, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of File:GerardLopez.png
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Your draft article, Draft:F1 financial crisis
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 01:20, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Nomination of Dallas Lewallen for deletion
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