User talk:TheTechnician27
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Re: Big Boss[edit]
While I do agree an AfD is a better route there, one person can, in fact, decide to merge an article. It's covered under WP:BLAR and its encouraged in the event someone feels being bold is necessary. You can still disagree and counter but your approach was a bit heavy handed. Kung Fu Man (talk) 01:01, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- WP:BLAR links the following WP:BLANK: "Under normal circumstances, Wikipedia articles should not be blanked. If you think an article has no useful content, then either fix it, or else leave it in its present state and propose it for deletion. However, it is acceptable to blank an article for libel or privacy reasons as an emergency measure, as described in the policy on biographies of living persons. It is also sometimes necessary to blank an article which is a copyright violation in its entirety – for instructions, see Copyright problems." Maybe Big Boss is a real person and we were being too libelous about his ideology? What Pickle did was almost comically ridiculous and completely out of line, treating Wikipedia like their own little fiefdom. This article has absolutely no reason to be blanked outside of a decision made at an AfD – absolutely, categorically none. 3500 contributions made over 20 years about a clearly notable subject within a well-cited, reasonably well-structured article with seemingly no instances of copyvio (let alone ones so systemic it would warrant a blank). My approach was not heavy-handed; Pickle was subverting the AfD process using this backdoor approach with the full knowledge that their nonsense would absolutely not fly there. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 01:17, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- PS: They didn't "merge" anything; they turned the article into a redirect and then left everything in the 'Characters' article as it was. That's not a merge; that's a closet deletion. So even if this argument for their actions did somehow hold up to scrutiny, it doesn't accurately describe what they did. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 01:28, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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Tagging pages for speedy deletion[edit]
Hello, TheTechnician27,
None of the redirects you tagged were eligible for CSD R3. The tag specifically says This criterion does not apply to redirects created as a result of a page move, unless the moved page was also recently created. See CSD R3.
which was the case with all of these redirects. CSD R3 is generally for redirects that are created that are not the result of an article page move but just as a straight redirect. All I can advise is that you can take all of these to WP:RFD if you would like to see them deleted, I think you'll find agreement there. And be more careful with the article page moves so these mistakes don't happen. Happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 05:33, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- I really appreciate it, Liz. I was reading WoRMS while trying to get Decapoda articles up-to-date, and some wires got seriously crossed. Maybe I need some sleep. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 05:39, 25 April 2024 (UTC)