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psychotronics

Thought you might find this interesting. Someone who calls themselves "Ministry of Forbidden Knowledge" complaining about censorship from Wikipedia editors who "are almost certainly agents of one government or another". They were trying to solicit votes at the AfD for psychotronic weapons, which could explain all the strange new accounts that showed up there. - LuckyLouie (talk) 00:01, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Looks like the same person, or at least the same text as the reddit canvasser...damned conspiracy theorists, I bet they're all government agents trying to suppress the actual truth by making people think that the truth isn't actually the truth!   Ansh666 01:57, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
All I know is if I am going to be a secret agent of some government, I want government pay and government benefits! - LuckyLouie (talk) 02:42, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New-adult fiction and SPA tags

Yeah, understand the first bit.

On the second bit - I couldn't care less and the hysterical vote-spam does more damage to their cause than they seem to realise. Canvassing the Article Rescue Squad to secure more vote-spam says it all. I'm done and I've said so. Enjoy your trip! Stalwart111 11:19, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

It isn't canvassing to seek the help of the article rescue squad. Malke 2010 (talk) 21:23, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
  Facepalm. Someone nominated your article for deletion and you immediately asked how you could contact the ARS, then posted a note on their talk page seeking help rescuing it and posting a link to the AfD. The point of ARS is to improve articles through editing, not to solicit keep votes for an AfD (in fact the note above yours makes that point). Then you left messages with links to the AfD on various user talk pages of people. Canvassing 101. Almost too funny. But hey, whatever, seen it a million times before. Oh, and sorry for clogging your talk page, Ansh. Stalwart111 22:16, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting my edit. I started using Dictionary of Numbers bookmarklet and it was screwing up each edit I made. Sorry for the trouble. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:53, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome, and good luck with your tools!   Ansh666 21:03, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Your comment on Seralini Affair deletion nomination

You wrote, "Nom is a SPA on a WP:SOAPBOX." What is a "SPA"? Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 19:45, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your answer! Had never heard that acronym.Jytdog (talk) 17:18, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

ANI

There is a discussion here [1] regarding you. Malke 2010 (talk) 17:52, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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446   Personal finance (talk)       Add sources
45   Incubation: Time Is Running Out (talk)           Add sources
1,412   Cupping therapy (talk)     Add sources
73   Casualties of the Libyan civil war (talk) Add sources
20   Battle of Wazzin (talk)     Add sources
12   Timeline of the Libyan civil war and military intervention (19 March – May) (talk)     Cleanup
780   Children's literature (talk) Cleanup
27   Timeline of the Libyan civil war before military intervention (talk) Cleanup
72   Foreign relations of Libya (talk) Expand
1,401   First Indochina War (talk) Expand
4   Michel Marie Claparède (talk)         Expand
33   Foreign relations of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi (talk) Unencyclopaedic
12,430   Syrian civil war (talk) Unencyclopaedic
84   Human rights in Libya (talk) Unencyclopaedic
55   Toubou people (talk)         Merge
57   Karabela (talk)         Merge
162   Aftermath of the Libyan civil war (talk) Merge
849   United States special operations forces (talk)   Wikify
4   The Liberation of Theology (talk)         Wikify
395   Agorism (talk)       Wikify
9   Beth Kelly (talk)           Orphan
34   Overview of the Arab Spring (talk)   Orphan
16   Keith Zettlemoyer (talk)           Orphan
118   Purchasing process (talk)           Stub
4   Al Wigh (talk)         Stub
8   Basic Instructions (comics) (talk)         Stub
3   Fashloom (talk)           Stub
1   Szczytt (talk)           Stub
10   Hilda Lewis (talk)           Stub

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Prods of gun articles

Though you have found someone who cares a bit. I disagree with their thinking.

Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Reasons_for_deletion Reasons for deletion include:

  • "7.Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed"
  • "8.Articles whose subjects fail to meet the relevant notability guideline (WP:N, WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:CORP and so forth)"

You could either argue more strongly on the next article you Prod eg quoting the guideline, or go AfD. GraemeLeggett (talk) 13:23, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Oh well...I'll do both, then, since de-PRODded articles can't go through that process again. Those two points were exactly what I was thinking about, though. Thanks, Ansh666 18:07, 14 June 2013 (UTC) (another PROD of mine from yesterday was removed since someone didn't read another guideline carefully enough before citing it...)

SPI Signature

The one thing I never want to forget to do here is sign a comment. Thanks for the heads up! Taroaldo 07:56, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Timeline of food

Can you have a look at how the article is being refactored? Thanks. --Cyclopiatalk 17:15, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

That's quite a bit better than before. There would have to be very strict guidelines as to what could be in the list or not, though, or else it will probably regress back to the way it was originally except ten times bigger in a year or two. (This is exactly why List of unusual deaths is at AfD too.) Ansh666 17:31, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
As for most lists and list-like articles, inclusion criteria are matter of consensus between editors for each article. Their existence or status however has no bearing on decisions on the existence of the article. --Cyclopiatalk 17:33, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Well, yes, I understand that, but others might not agree, eh? Hence the AfDs. I think the main concern at both is that no matter what criteria are agreed upon, new or ignorant editors will keep adding stuff that isn't acceptable - at unusual deaths that's fine, since a lot of editors work on it, but very few are on here currently. Hopefully that'll change. Thanks for fixing it up, by the way: on stuff like this I usually go delete if I don't think someone is going to volunteer to make it better, but you proved me wrong. Cheers, Ansh666 17:40, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Conceptual answer about AfD NACs

Hi mate! Sorry I didn't get to respond in time to be useful, but that's actually part of my answer. I tend to NAC plenty of things because I'm Australian which means I edit in a timezone completely different to most of the Americans and Brits that make up the vast majority of editors. It means I'm often looking at the log when nobody else is (or, at least, when very few other people confident with NACs are).

As a general rule, I don't NAC anything I've "participated" in, in any way. But occasionally I'll go through the log and format people's comments for ease-of-reading or clarity or because they've accidentally mis-formatted something or because there are templates missing and that generally wouldn't stop me from later NAC'ing. Yours would probably be borderline for me because you appear in the discussion but for something procedural. Had it been me, I probably would have waited for someone else, like you did. But I know plenty of non-admins would have just closed it. Stalwart111 22:26, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

About deletion

Thank for the help...If I were to add the following sentence to my comments:

"The main source of information on the internet for this firearm seems to be Wikipedia itself or a Wiki mirror."

Would that be acceptable? RAF910 (talk) 17:49, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Again, Thank you. I have added the above sentence to my commentsRAF910 (talk) 18:15, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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201   American cheetah (talk)         Add sources
22   Timeline of the Libyan civil war before military intervention (talk) Cleanup
452   Personal finance (talk)       Cleanup
23   Type 80 (pistol) (talk)         Cleanup
66   AO-62 assault rifle (talk)       Expand
51   Safir T-17 (talk)       Expand
481   Sinhalese people (talk) Expand
65   Human rights in Libya (talk) Unencyclopaedic
127   Thenmozhi Rajaratnam (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
61   Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
612   Shogi (talk)   Merge
19   Domestic responses to the Libyan civil war (talk) Merge
3   Kynoch machine gun (talk)           Merge
873   United States special operations forces (talk)   Wikify
15   Rivnens'kiy Nature Zapovednik (talk)         Wikify
339   Agorism (talk)       Wikify
3   Yamakov (talk)         Orphan
9   Calico M960A (talk)           Orphan
4   LAPA CM-02 (talk)           Orphan
59   Hyouge Mono (talk)         Stub
112   Fragmentation grenade (talk)         Stub
13   KB-P 790 (talk)           Stub
189   Implied consent (talk)         Stub
50   TKB-517 (talk)           Stub
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Dear Ansh666 - I have tried to improve this article you wanted to delete and have added some text indicating some notability for this event, done some formatting and added a couple of supporing refs. I hope this addresses some of your worries and would you mind having another look. No worries if you are busy and best wishes (Msrasnw (talk) 01:38, 27 June 2013 (UTC))