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Profound Decisions Ltd

You PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:53, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

As the editor who requested the undeletion, I can now see I'd confused myself; the deletion seemed legitimate. I'm not sure of the correct process here, but I wouldn't contest a second deletion request (although I would request userfication to give me chance to clean it up). I've been long intending to clean up this page and Maelstrom (live role playing game) anyway. —me_and 10:15, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
There is no set process, but if it's not improved in a week (and I remember), I'll put it up for deletion again. I'm looking independent sources that cover the company in reasonable depth. I don't really care about the content of the article, it's the sources you need to prove notability. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:48, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Let's see if I can find the time this week then :) —me_and 11:01, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #69

Abortion

Hey Stuart. I am wondering if some the info that you culled from the Voice for Life article may be useful for Abortion in New Zealand? Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 02:30, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

My stubby Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion needs work if you are interested. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 02:32, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

I am pondering a complete rewrite of Abortion in New Zealand. There's a walled-garden here of POV articles that need some serious work. I've just merged Status of the Unborn Child Bill into Doug Kidd.
A rewrite of Abortion in New Zealand is a good idea. I have been looking at it for a while thinking that it needed some serious attention. I don't know much about the Status of the Unborn Child Bill but if it attracted a lot of attention it may well deserve its own article - even thought it never became law. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 02:47, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
It had one very POV ref and due to the pre-digital date I couldn't dig anything else up. I'm happy for anyone with refs to revert and expand... Stuartyeates (talk) 02:49, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Fair enuf. I sometimes have problems getting dead tree format stuff down here in post-quake Christchurch. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 02:54, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: Hudson Bay toad

Hello Stuartyeates. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Hudson Bay toad, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: this is not nonsense; it is unreferenced, but a quick Google confirms that it is not a hoax, it is a valid article. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 10:22, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

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Centrepoint

You might like to read Talk:Centrepoint (commune) as the material under discussion was originally added by you.-gadfium 21:09, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Not sure how I didn't notice that on my watchlist. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:27, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

RE: DWNP and DYPE

Hi there, you know I've seen your proposed deletion of one of the articles created by Petermusngi. Before I jumped in the conclusion, I've made an investigation about those articles, and I've found out that these articles are clearly a hoax, so I believed that these articles should be deleted immediately.Hamham31Heke!KushKush! 05:53, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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Ostrea diluviana

Hello,

I added a reference to this article. is it OK ? Cordially. Christian COGNEAUX (talk) 14:33, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Generally speaking you should reference a reliable source, typically the paper that describes the speices. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:33, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #73

The Signpost: 28 August 2013

Russia (Ukraine)

 

A tag has been placed on Russia (Ukraine), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo, or other unlikely search term.

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Keep an eye on Goodreads?

Ergh... remember the revert war on the Goodreads article over the controversy section? There's some hints of that coming about again, as someone keeps removing the initial sentence, saying that it wasn't backed up by the CS Monitor source. I can't really tell what exactly it is about the source that isn't backing up the sentence and after pouring over the article I removed one brief phrase. The problem is that I really, really don't want another messy revert war like there was last time. That was particularly awful, especially since it was somewhat obvious that we had people editing with some COI. I know that you're taking a hiatus, but I thought I'd let you know just in case since you were involved with the initial edit war. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 12:35, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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Recording Industry Association of New Zealand

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Nomination of Coroners Act 2006 for deletion

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Coroners Act 2006 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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