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Rap music listed at Redirects for discussion

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

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Notability
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See also

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Your draft article, Draft:Brian Boxer Wachler

Hello, Everymorning. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Brian Boxer Wachler".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing.  » Shadowowl | talk 11:58, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Ira Brad Matetsky for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ira Brad Matetsky is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ira Brad Matetsky until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:42, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

When I addressed a message to you at Talk:Ira Brad Matetsky questioning the subject's notability, I expected you to explain your thinking. Instead, you chose to continue editing the article instead. For this reason, I have moved forward with getting that article deleted. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) Chris Troutman (talk) 21:46, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
I did see that message but I thought it was implied that I believed Matetsky to be notable, as otherwise I wouldn't have created the article about him. Now that you've AFDed it (as I expected someone would soon based on the talk page comments), we will see what the community thinks. I apologize for not explicitly responding to you. It does seem weird, however, to imply that Matetsky would be, or at least might be, notable only if he were dead. Every morning (there's a halo...) 21:49, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
Apology accepted. I try extra hard to AGF with established editors, in case you had a logic I wasn't seeing. "...notable only if he were dead." Perhaps you hadn't seen Chris Sherwin, Lucy Ozarin, Piotr Domaradzki, and Adrianne Wadewitz? Wikipedians love commemorating their dead editors and obituaries make for good source material. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:28, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
I am familiar with the Sherwin and Wadewitz articles (though not the other two). I know this does happen a lot, though it also happens with other people about whom no one created an article until a bunch of obituaries about them pop up. It makes creating articles and establishing notability a lot easier, certainly, when someone dies, but that's not to say that there can't be sufficient reliable sourcing even with living Wikipedians (e.g. Justin Knapp, James Heilman, etc.) for notability guidelines to be met. Every morning (there's a halo...) 22:36, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

DOB

WP:DOB says Wikipedia includes full names and dates of birth that have been widely published by reliable sources, or by sources linked to the subject such that it may reasonably be inferred that the subject does not object. Martindale-Hubbell is reliable, but it is not widely available in the same way that we normally expect for BLPs. It is likely provided by the subject, (Newyorkbrad), but publication in a law directory is somewhat different than an interview with 60 Minutes in which it is self-disclosed, and providing it there is not the same as it being in an infobox that will feed to Google. I'm pinging him in case he wants to comment as to whether or not he is fine with the full DOB being published, but we don't throw our privacy protections out the window simply because the subject is a high profile editor. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:38, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

  • Yes, I saw you removed the DOB (and then removed it again after I readded it w/Martindale source), and I don't want to violate BLP either. I suppose the key question is, how widely does a DOB have to be published in RSs (including Martindale) to qualify to meet the standard in WP:DOB? I can't find it in many other places (other than a page on Mylife.com and the Library of Congress, the latter of which just cites Martindale as a source [1]). Hopefully Newyorkbrad will weigh in himself and tweet out his DOB, as previous Wikipedians with articles like Emily Temple-Wood and Aaron Halfaker have done. Every morning (there's a halo...) 21:43, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
    • That's the point: you were able to find only one source for it. That doesn't meet the BLP policy. We have the luxury of being able to ask the subject, but it is entirely reasonable to assume he wouldn't mind it published in Martindale but would mind it feeding straight into Google (I don't know.) The point I'm trying to make is that you should be very cautious with adding personal information about living persons. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:55, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
      • Interestingly, there is another (potentially) reliable source in which the same DOB is included: this page for Matetsky on MyLife. I am unsure whether this website would be considered a reliable source or as linked to the subject to the extent required by WP:DOB, though. Every morning (there's a halo...) 05:07, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
        • An online background check service would not be considered a reliable source. TonyBallioni (talk) 11:09, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

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We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

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Minimum deaths

Hi Everymorning,

We finally have a definitive answer: The minimum deaths for posting an article is 9. Some stampede in Caracas was posted with 9 deaths, while many of it's supporters were opposed to the Miami bridge collapse which had only six deaths. Both items had reprints of wire stories in major global publications but failed to maintain global headlines. I think it's settled once and for all, 9 deaths is the minimum. Would you please update your essay?

Thanks --LaserLegs (talk) 00:54, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

WP:MINIMUMDEATHS listed at Redirects for discussion

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Wikipedia:BODYCOUNT listed at Redirects for discussion

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Question about updating a bio you created

Hi Everymorning! You created a bio for Dr. Josephine Briggs when she was Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. She retired from NCCIH and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Society of Nephrology as of Jan 1, 2018. Would you be able to update her bio?

Here's a reference: https://newswise.com/articles/josephine-p-briggs-md-to-lead-the-journal-of-american-society-of-nephrology-s-incoming-editorial-team. Here's another reference: https://www.kidneynews.org/kidneynews/9_8/16/16.pdf

Thanks for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.112.72.96 (talk) 21:05, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

  • Thanks for letting me know about this. I have updated Briggs' article to reflect this change. Everymorning talk to me 00:55, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
  • Thank you! So kind of you. Dr. Briggs is actually going to be editor for a 6-year term (see the Newswise article), so it would be more accurate to delete this: "a position she will hold for all of 2018." I see how the NCCIH page was ambiguous saying "In 2018, she will be...." Her appointment began in January 2018. Have a great weekend! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.231.234.33 (talk) 22:08, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Project Med Foundation listed at Redirects for discussion

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thank you for creating James Forman Jr.!Zigzig20s (talk) 06:02, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

July 2018

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Nomination of Behrooz Astaneh for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Behrooz Astaneh is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Behrooz Astaneh until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 11:51, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

International Public Conference on Vaccination listed at Redirects for discussion

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. (Purge)

Hello IntoThinAir, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

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Adopt a user

Hi I am looking to be adopted by a user. I've run into some trouble on AN/I where i made a bad judgement call in regards to COI advice I gave out. Maybe you can adopt me as a user out so that I don't repeat similar mistakes. Thank you. JC7V-constructive zone 08:02, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

OK, I'll adopt you. IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 18:25, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Questions

Hi thanks for adopting me. Just some specific questions:

  • 1) If an IP has been blocked in the past month and they vandalize again for the first time after the block is up, do I give them a Level 1 or Level 2 warning???
  • 2) If I see an account with a promotional username creating a draft about a company that matches their username (but have no non mainspace edits), do I leave a warning message?? or do I report them to UAA?? I've heard conflicting things about this. I even heard one admin tell a user to take it straight to COI. It seems to me that there is a very thin line between the 3 actions.
  • 3) When is the most ideal time to give a user a welcome-vandal message??
  • 4) What's the best way to decide between tagging an article as 'topic of article may not meet Wikipedia's Notability guidelines' and PRODing it?? It seems to me that in some situations it's a thin line.

thank you JC7V-constructive zone 15:55, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Your revert of my edit/reply

You're absolutely correct! There was no reason for me to. Thanks for the heads up. Stalking issue. Extremely sorry for inconvenience. Changing password (yet again!). AnonNep (talk) 13:19, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

  • To add some detail, I've posted at Helpdesk for more based on an ongoing offline situation [2]. As I said in the Helpdesk post this removing posts/comments wholesale doesn't reflect my (years long) edit history. Again, very sorry. Passwords changed & pursuing the issue. AnonNep (talk) 14:06, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the Bugzy Malone edit would you help me to cite sources KING 81 (talk) 22:20, 4 August 2018 (UTC) KING 81

Nomination of Steven Goddard for deletion

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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Goddard until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Wiknic 2018

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About Jaiden

Look, I don't know which is a reliable source, today. All I know is, it has the information about said person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.175.89.40 (talk) 22:33, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

The fact is, though, you can't include content on any article, least of all a BLP, if it is not supported by a reliable source. IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 22:36, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Heritability

Actually, it would be undefined, because it would be a ratio of 0 divided by 0... (genetic variance=phenotypic variance=0) Of course you have to write what the source says :-) --Randykitty (talk) 07:33, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, the "two eyes" example is in a couple other sources besides the Maccoby article (e.g. The Gene Illusion by Jay Joseph). Honestly I was largely thinking the Maccoby paper was a good source for critical perspectives and wanted to work it in the article somehow. The source does in fact say "A human characteristic such as being born with two eyes is entirely genetic, yet its heritability would be computed as zero in a twin or adoption study since it is a characteristic that does not vary within the population studied". IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 14:06, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Well, if I would want to be completely pedantic, I would point out that the heritability of having two eyes actually is 1, because there is variation (albeit very little, see Cyclopia) and it is purely genetic... ;-) The way heritability is calculated in twin studies, heritability would indeed come out as zero because both the MZ and the DZ correlations would be 1, so the difference is 0. (Assuming that cyclopa doesn't occur in twins or only so rarely that you never would have it in any ordinary sample). I should look up that Maccoby paper when I have a moment. --Randykitty (talk) 14:30, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
I just found it by searching Google Scholar for articles with "behavioral genetics" in the title. IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 22:37, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Phil Mason for deletion

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DYK for International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

On 30 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the entire editorial board of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health resigned in protest in November 2017 over disputes involving the new editor-in-chief? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Ritchie333 00:01, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Removal of Feuerstein edits

So let me get this straight. Feuerstein actually doing the things on his page that were in my edits is not a viable source? It doesn't get more viable than that. The Justice Seeker (talk) 23:28, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

  • Other editors have already explained the problems with your edits. I will add that you need to make sure that you do not word your edits in a way that departs significantly from what the original source says, as per WP:OR. Your edits to Feuerstein's page contained lots of accusations about him doing things that it could not be verified that he had done in the sources you provided. You need reliable and independent sources to back up claims about living people, and you can't just link to the original videos or whatever and present that as proof of malfeasance, which it is not. IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 03:51, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Conflicts of interest in academic publishing

Thanks for adding that section to Conflicts of interest in academic publishing. I should really have thought of discussing effects as well as causes! Funding bias has a name and an article, which I have now linked to. HLHJ (talk) 18:20, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of TheOdd1sOut for deletion

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September 2018

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Thanks for signing my comment on Jimbo's talkpage (I guess I missed it 'cause I was in a rush), and for your concern about my paid edits. However, to my knowledge, I am not violating any COI policies because I have declared all pages I have edited for pay on my userpage. IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 17:28, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello IntoThinAir, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
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Moving to Draft and Page Mover
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  • User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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Category:HIV/AIDS denialists has been nominated for discussion

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Disambiguation link notification for September 24

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Let you be right m listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Let you be right m. Since you had some involvement with the Let you be right m redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Thryduulf (talk) 18:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Sapiosexual

Hello, IntoThinAir. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Sapiosexual".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Nomination of YouScience for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article YouScience is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Journal of Ethics page

Hi there,

I work for the AMA, and we are interested in correcting a few factual inaccuracies in the AMA Journal of Ethics page. Since we're aware of the guidelines to not edit pages about yourself or your company, we were hoping that you could serve as an impartial intermediary to screen potential edits for neutralness and tone.

Please let me know if this is something we can pursue or if you know a better way to go about fixing these inaccuracies.

Best, AMA Journal of Ethics Journalofethics (talk) 21:12, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

As per WP:COIEDIT, you should either go to the article's talk page (Talk:AMA Journal of Ethics) or post a request for an edit to be made at WP:COIN. Best, IntoThinAir (talk) 21:25, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Review and problem-solving sought

Greetings Into Thin Air.

I have just completed my first article. I am hoping you can review it for potential publication and also help me figure out how to do a couple more things to get it in tip top shape! [[3]]

Thank you,

PaulThePony (talk) 22:06, 9 October 2018 (UTC)Paul

Well first of all, you should consider whether the subject meets WP:ARTIST, as well as remove in-text external links from the body of the article per WP:EL. IntoThinAir (talk) 22:42, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Wikimedian of the Year for deletion

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello IntoThinAir, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal
Project updates
  • ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
  • There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
New scripts

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Nomination of Tamara Ralph for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. DGG ( talk ) 01:59, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

BTW...

You might find {{JAH}} usefull. It's designed to be used in preview mode mostly.

For instance, if you have{{JAH|Journal of Fake Things}}, it produces

You can then click what type of link this is (e.g. {{R from former name}} that redirects to the current name of the journal, {{R with possibilities}} if it's a redirect to a publisher...) to pre-populate a redirect creation.

And if you search for the ISO 4 abbreviation (or some other abbreviation), you can put it back in the template (previewing again), to have

And then click on both ISO 4 / dotless to create it as a {{R from ISO 4 abbreviation}}, or similar. This is useful for old journal names and their redirects (e.g. Yakhteh Med. J.). Cheers. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:29, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Judy Wood

Hello, IntoThinAir. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Judy Wood".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Congratulations

100000 Edits
Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 524 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!

-- Dolotta (talk) 01:49, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello IntoThinAir,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
  • Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Karima Moyer-Nocchi

A tag has been placed on Karima Moyer-Nocchi requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 13:29, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Alphabetical order in categories

Hi--

You placed Rick Mehta in a couple categories. Thanks for that. But you put the article under 'R' instead of 'M'. Could you correct that? Or give me a hint of how to do it. Simply clicking the edit tab on the categorys' pages didn't seem to let me do it. Thanks.CountMacula (talk) 00:41, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

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Invite to help edit

Hello IntoThinAir, saw you editing Stop and frisk in New York City and wanted to invite you to help out with Terry stop. Also plan on working on the following: Consent search, Traffic stop, Terry v. Ohio and Whren v. United States. But, Terry stop is where most of the work has been so far. Thanks! Seahawk01 (talk) 08:16, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Jake Orlowitz listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Jake Orlowitz. Since you had some involvement with the Jake Orlowitz redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:14, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Logo.jpeg

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