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Proposed deletion of Dublin Core Meta Toolkit

The article Dublin Core Meta Toolkit has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

A search for references failed to find significant coverage in reliable sources to comply with notability requirements. This included web searches for news coverage, books, and journals, which can be seen from the following links:
Dublin Core Meta Toolkit – news, books, scholar
Consequently, this article is about a subject that appears to lack sufficient notability.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Abductive (reasoning) 15:43, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Notification: Proposed 'Motion to Close' at Wikipedia:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC re: a 'Motion to close', which would dissolve Cda as a proposal. The motion includes an !vote. You have previously commented at this page. Jusdafax 04:37, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Community de-Adminship - finalization poll for the CDA proposal

After tolling up the votes in the revision proposals, it emerged that 5.4 had the most support, but elements of that support remained unclear, and various comments throughout the polls needed consideration.

A finalisation poll (intended, if possible, to be one last poll before finalising the CDA proposal) has been run to;

• gather opinion on the 'consensus margin' (what percentages, if any, have the most support) and

• ascertain whether there is support for a 'two-phase' poll at the eventual RfC (not far off now), where CDA will finally be put to the community. Matt Lewis (talk) 01:03, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Ironic

This is right, but not quite. [1]. It was done out of frustration, it was not done to do "what we damn well please". The point is that there was always a consensus that something should be done - but the community was unwilling/unable to do anything. The actions we took were taken because there was nothing else to do. I can't speak for the other admins, but I would and do prefer a agreed process to deal with the issue, rather than direct action. But how to get a process happening?

Speedy deletions is a greatly inferior solution to any agreed process, however doing nothing and letting the problem stand is inferior to speedy deletion. Thus the speedies started. The stopped immedietly that it became clear that there was some appetite from the community to try and find a solution. They will not restart as long as that hope remains. But one way or another this problem needs adressed. I hope we can agree a way of doing that, and I remain open minded as to how.

To those that say "this problem needed adressed, but the admins went about it thewrong way", I ask "tell me what the right way was?". As you not, had we done nothing, nothing would be done. We can't be accused of failing to try discussion - believe me I've done nothing but for three years! I tried prod, but the prods were removed without the article being referenced, as people said "sounds notable". AfD is not a tool to for 60,000 articles. So what to do?

Anyway I hope we can agree that the best thing now is for a realistic process to be agreed, and then everyone go back to normal. I hope no more direct action will be neccessary, but the status-quo is clearly not an option.--Scott Mac (Doc) 11:48, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Community de-adminship/RfC

Please see my comment here - you really do need to provide evidence that many of the people opposing are sock puppets of administrators, or redact the comment right away. It's an extremely serious allegation you're making. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 12:50, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Final discussion for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

1. Proposal to Close This RfC
2. Alternate proposal to close this RFC: we don't need a whole new layer of bureaucracy

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:04, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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