Please use edit summaries. If I messaged you on your talk page then it's easier if you reply there (I will have watchlisted it), rather than splitting the conversation between two pages.
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thanks for the thanks at RfD
You can close this if you want as {{nac}}
, it's a bit fiddly the first time but you use subst template {{rfd top}}
and {{rfd bottom}}
. I'm very very glad neither of us are coming in bad faith. I know or at least it seems that you are more of an inclusionist than me but believe me what I am trying to do is to think whether some redirects make it better or worse for readers to search, I am not just wandering around with a blunderbuss taking potshots at any old redirect. I can't always make the right call that is why I ask for WP:CONSENSUS. Some "Neelix redirects" are so obviously out of whack post-dreadnaughts for example that to waste people's time bringing them to RfD would be, er, a waste of their time. I'll help you out with the closure if you want. You've !voted I think but since it is withdrawn by me there's no problem with you closing it, it's not as if you are an interested party or anything. You also need to leave {{old rfd}}
on the talk page referring back to the discussion. It's a fiddle perhaps there is a tool to do it but I do it all longhand hence my many mistakes. Si Trew (talk) 23:13, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks Simon. I'll leave closing to someone else, I'm sure I'd faff it up. Best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 13:46, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
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Surnames
Thanks for your message. I guessed EOTD's behaviour would end up in a block sooner or later. I haven't had the time to deal with this beyond a couple of cleanups of his nonsense, but there are more surname-related edits in his contribution history, including wholesale plagiarizing from houseofnames.com (as if citing that garbage wasn't bad enough).
There is a larger problem with the culture surrounding all these name articles, including widespread acceptance of substandard sources. Houseofnames.com alone is linked more than 440 times from Wikipedia. There is a Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy, but it doesn't seem to have had a positive influence, possibly the opposite. --Hegvald (talk) 16:42, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
John Banks (activist)
Hi Duncan. I stumbled across this article. The main author hasn't been active for four years and you're second on the edit list. This chap doesn't appear to be notable - the cited references are all to literature he co-authored. Best I could find when Googling is a passing mention here, but I can't really see that propping the article up. Any thoughts? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 11:09, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
- I see no problem with regard to notability, bearing in mind his editorial positions. Certainly needs more and better references though. Will have a closer look when I can - won't be for a week or so though. DuncanHill (talk) 21:58, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
- Editorial positions would be good, if they're for notable publications, not (eg) vanity projects ignored by all and sundry. But I get your point. No rush. Drop me a line? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 07:17, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks, looks like I went and did that to all of them so far. This is Paul (talk) 21:03, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
- No problem - easily done. I had Alison Hernandez watchlisted before it was created. DuncanHill (talk) 21:04, 7 June 2016 (UTC)