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Sorry, forgot to post this. Yes, I have proposed a review of your closure, which I believe to be in error. Thanks, Cryptic. Wikieditor19920 (talk) 21:10, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Proposed DRV for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southern Pacific 9010

Good morning, may I ask as to what led you to close the above as keep? All of the keep votes are nothing other than WP:ILIKEIT. Care to elaborate, please? Did you evaluate the sourcing prior to closure? Nightfury 09:41, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Good morning! Among the participants in the discussion, consensus was pretty clearly keep. For me to override this, there needs to be a pretty clear case that this "local consensus" goes against a broader community consensus (since obviously a handful of people cannot overthrow our core policies). Since noone questioned your characterization that there are two or maybe three marginally reliable sources I accepted that. With the existence of two or three sources it is not obvious that the subject fails our notability standards, and so I did not find it appropriate to override the consensus in the AfD. Best/ Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 10:05, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your response, I will take to DRV for further analysis, I appreciate your input re this, this isn't your fault but I believe the contributors may have been biased on this one. Thanks. Nightfury 11:27, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for reaching out so civilly! Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 12:07, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

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Need the source code

Hi, a blocked editor has nominated my articles for deletions. Can you please provide me the deleted content of National Association of Building Contractors ? Thanks in advance. Altutmir (talk) 21:03, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Sure! It is now available at Draft:National Association of Building Contractors. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 21:12, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Drafts for how article drafts work, in case you want to keep working on it there. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 21:16, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Associated Students of Pomona College

Greetings. And apologies for bothering you, as I rarely do this. But I just wanted to understand your rationale for closing as no consensus. Especially since another sysop relisted it once. When it was relisted I wasn't sure why, since there was a 5-1 ratio to either delete/redirect the article, the additional keep !vote doesn't use a valid rationale. My thought was the relisting was due to the 5 votes being split between merge/delete/redirect, and that editor relisted it to gain consensus as to which one it should be. But since they didn't state a reason for the relisting, that's pure supposition on my part. Is that why you gave it a no-consensus? Not criticizing the decision, just trying to understand the thinking behind it. Thanks for your time.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:41, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Greetings, and no worries for reaching out, that's what talk pages are for! I agree with your assessment that the additional !vote by Concertmusic did not add anything useful to the discussion, and neither (I would add) did the earlier comments by KidAd. The core of the issue is, in my opinion, the question of The Story of Pomona College and The History of Pomona College, 1887–1969. Sdkb made a credible argument that they should be considered (being published by scholarly independent trade publishers), despite being written by people associated with the college. The only person to address Sdkb's argument was Adamant1 who did not agree (Eddie891 thought the 1-page coverage in Sumner was too short, but didn't seem to question their reliability). The replies to the post on the reliable source noticeboard were not super clear, but did not rule the books out. With this core issue unresolved and a re-listing unlikely to improve the debate (since the last re-listing did so little), I found no consensus the most appropriate close. I appreciate you reaching out so civilly, and if you don't find my line of thinking convincing I encourage you to take the AfD to Wikipedia:Deletion review. Best wishes/ Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 14:54, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the very well-thought out response, and yes I understand your thinking on the issue. I don't think in all the AfD's I've done, I've ever taken anything to deletion review, and this certainly wouldn't qualify for my first time! Onel5969 ^{TT me} 17:57, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality

In your close, you did not address JPxG's suggestion to merge to Rational Software. This seems like a reasonable WP:ATD. Jcarlosmartins says this is not allowed but that's new to me. You are critical that I did not provide sources associated with my keep !vote. A delete !vote with "softcore ad" rational is similarly weak. ~Kvng (talk) 16:39, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi! Noone was able to show coverage that meets WP:GNG and that's the only reason I closed as delete, you are absolutely right that the "softcore ad" rational is no reason for deletion. The reason I didn't close as merge was because I saw no referenced content to merge. If you would like to look through the article for content to merge I would be happy to move it to draft space for you (I have also never heard of the principle Jcarlosmartins was talking about). Best/ Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 16:56, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Are you saying that if no one proves notability, deletion is the default? I don't see any strong arguments either way in this one. I was expecting redirect or no consensus.

Regardless, I would like to see what's in there that could be included in Rational Software. I have a question though: If you restore Draft:Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality space and I copy some stuff out of it into Rational Software and create a new redirect, I think we have an WP:ATTREQ problem once Draft:Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality is WP:G13 deleted. Wouldn't it be better to restore Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality to mainspace and WP:REDIRECT it and let me pull any useful stuff out of its history? ~Kvng (talk) 14:41, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

If no one proves notability it cannot have its own article. It does not always mean deletion in the technical sense, if there is usable content it can be merged and if a redirect is likely to be helpful that can be used. In this case I did not see any content to merge (since nothing in the article is referenced) and I did not think a redirect would get much usage. But I'm happy to restore it as a redirect so you can look and do what you think is best. Happy editing! Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 16:57, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, please do restore it as a redirect. ~Kvng (talk) 15:05, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Already done! Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 09:16, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

I've created Rational_Software#Products to summarize information from these articles at risk of deletion. Would you be able to put copies of the other deleted articles in my userspace so I could do the same there?

1. Rational Application Developer
2. Rational Asset Manager
3. Rational ClearQuest
4. Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
5. Rational Functional Tester ~Kvng (talk) 16:01, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Kvng, sorry for the late response! I've restored the ones that were expired PRODs, but for Rational Asset Manager I suggest you go through WP:UNDELETE since it had an AfD. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 15:23, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Unfortunately this project has been stalled by an edit war. ~Kvng (talk) 22:50, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Tom Rowsell

Hello, I noticed that you did not address that one of the few accounts to vote for the deletion was likely the subject of the article itself ([1]). In any case, there was no clearly consensus to delete this. Why then did you arbitrarily decide to delete the article despite a lack of consensus? Please reverse your deletion and place a vote instead. :bloodofox: (talk) 17:25, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi! I agree that he seems likely to be closely associated with the subject, but that is not an argument to keep the article. Closing is not only about the AfD discussion itself, but also about making sure the outcome conforms to Wikipedia policies and practices as widely accepted by the community. The article subject is currently so far from meeting our notability guidelines that closing the discussion as anything else than delete would be a violation of a very strong general consensus that we need multiple reliable sources to write an encyclopedic article (especially about a living person). As I explained in my close there was only one reliable source presented and it contained barely more than a mention. You can always take the AfD to Wikipedia:Deletion review. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 17:57, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

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