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I would have appreciated a discussion preceding your edits. Aghore (talk) 11:33, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Referring to this, I thought it was uncontroversial. I can't see how a separate article for that short list of books is justified. What would you have discussed exactly? ----Pontificalibus 11:40, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:Michael Keall

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Stop!

	Scammer
	I do not appreciate you taking down my factual edits. There is nothing wrong with what I am editing and how I am helping better the Wikipedia pages. Frankly you should find something else better to do with your time and do your own research. Thank you! Aliadawns (talk) 08:43, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming you're referring to this, I am sorry but datingcelebs.com doesn't satisfy our criteria for reliable sources, and your edits therefore don't comply with our biographies of living persons policy. ----Pontificalibus 08:56, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging of College Swim Team Rankings by College Swimming

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Stormfront (website)

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A kitten for you!

I realized it just now that the article "List of Finance Companies in Jaipur" clearly violates WP:NOTDIR, therefore should be deleted. I was ignorant while editing the article, I aimlessly focused on finding and adding some credible citations, my mind didn't go - as to why this article/list even needs to be on Wikipedia. Thanks :)

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Pontificalibus,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

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Kernowite

Article would probably benefit from an infobox, similar to that used in the Liroconite article. Mjroots (talk) 13:40, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Broad concept articles?

Hi, I saw your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Z Street. I think the resolution is okay, but I do see the discussion wasn't entirely satisfactory.

During that, I myself couldn't recall or find the term wp:Broad concept article, but I think that is sort of what I was looking for. A kind of "dead end" was needed, I said in the AFD, which wouldn't exactly be a disambiguation page when that is defined narrowly. Maybe a wp:SIA, i said. Now, finally finding my way to "broad concept article", maybe that is what I should have been saying was needed. That is, an article on the "broad concept" of what "Z Street" and "Y Street" etc. mean, what those as names mean and accomplish (i.e. part of an orderly system of street naming, etc.). Might that have addressed your point of view, I wonder? --Doncram (talk) 17:08, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see where you're coming from, I'm just not convinced there are enough sources to have on article on letter streets. I see Numbered street mentions lettered street names in the lead section, so there might be scope for an actual section in there somewhere.----Pontificalibus 15:27, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2020s classical album stubs

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List of previous 7de Laan cast members

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List of previous 7de Laan characters

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Lockdown Economy

Please can you kindly help me understand me why you nominated the article for deletion.I will like to hear from you to improve it. Thank you. Ruby D-Brown (talk) 22:43, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Articles that can be improved aren't generally deleted. In the case of Lockdown Economy I don't believe the subject of the article meets the notability guidelines because it hasn't received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Unless such sources can be found I don't believe the topic of the article is a suitable one for Wikipedia. ----Pontificalibus 07:39, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pontificalinbus the article has been improved and I believe this article should be considered and not deleted.thank you Ruby D-Brown (talk) 22:11, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of built up areas

I've noticed you've deleted the Grimsby built up area and are proposing deletion of the Norwich and Ipswich built up areas. If they fail these WP links you mention. How about the Aldershot built up area and Dorset conurbation with Poole Christchurch and Bournemouth? Which covers pretty much the unitary authority? Maybe they should be merged or deleted too. RailwayJG (talk) 10:50, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@RailwayJG: I didn't delete Grimsby built-up area but merged the contents into Grimsby. I'll deal with each one on a case-by-case basis. Generally built-up areas consisting of only one town should be merged to that town, provided there is something worth merging beyond a copy of the ONS stats. Built-up areas with more than one town etc might sometimes be more complicated. ----Pontificalibus 10:55, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you would like to partake in a discussion on WikiGeography I recently opened. I can't remember link but it's on my contributions list. And okay but I thought given Cleethorpes is also a town it might have been in good stead to warrant it's own. RailwayJG (talk) 10:59, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

RailwayJG and built up areas

I saw South Normanton village being turned into a town and then found a virtually unsourced article which I've taken to AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alfreton/South Normanton Built-up area. I don't understand what's going on here. I don't want to upset him but South Normanton being a town is news to me, although it's certainly large and growing. Doug Weller talk 20:21, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Some people seem to be quite enthusiastic in squeezing new articles out of some auto-generated polygons that the Office for National Statistics produced one day.--Pontificalibus 20:45, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You won't upset be my discussion and questioning I have no issues with that. I only get 'upset?' if I am being attacked or misinterpreted and accused of having a so called gripe. I happily am open to discussing authenticity. I just like for things not to be directed at me like Joe Roe did for example RailwayJG (talk) 21:10, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Built-up area article deletion

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

Hi, Not sure this is the proper way to contact you. I stopped contributing to Wikipedia, because I wrote an article a couple of years ago. The you merged it with the article about one of the protagonists I wrote about. A very famous one, a billionaire. I was at pains to write as sober headed, neutral, as little loaeded as possible about a chain of events which unfortunately involved a controversy (among a lot of other things.) Once merged there were a couple of logins by temporary users. And nothing of my article is left. Depite its meaning, the duality of my writing (events in Germany where the topic filled the papers, yet all sources were in English or French. And of quality publications.) Somebody simply did not like any of this being mentioned at all. That is a loss. Can't you just undo the merger. It was on 27 January 2020‎ and the two articles were <The "Rugbystreit" in German Rugby > and <Hans-Peter Wild> Maybe do a link main article – sub article instead? Then I could extend my contribution. Here and elsewhere, Where I, as a rugby journalist see a need to fill gaps or provide updates. Please.

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Old Prebendalians Revert

Thanks for reverting. I didn’t go the extra level down to check if they were referenced in their own article. Equine-man (talk) 09:38, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Bamburgh Castle Lifeboat Station

Just wanted to say thankyou for your contribution, much appreciated.

Assuming you would like the page to remain, maybe you would tag it with a

keep

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