User talk:Newspaper98

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[edit] AfDs

Are you planning on contributing to Wikipedia, or are you only here to nominate artcles for deletion? PT (s-s-s-s) 22:42, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] High Schools

Please stop tagging high schools for speedy deletion. They almost always survive Afd, so you are just wasting everyone's time. --Usgnus 00:02, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletions

While you are making some good catches, I think you want to be a little more careful with the Speedy Delete tags. (I did the same thing when I was first starting on Wikipedia.) Look at the speedy criteria carefully. Nonnotability is not a speedy criterion -- it's failure to assert notability, and that only for people, groups of people, or musical groups. Thanks, NawlinWiki 00:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Prod

You may like to use {{prod}} tags instead of marking every article for speedy delete and then listing them on AFDs when the speedy tag is removed. It will be far more effective use of your and everybody else's time, as you will only have to list them if the prod is removed without a acceptable reason. Yomangani 00:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alternatives to AFD

I don't want to discourage you from listing articles for deletion when necessary, but you might want to suggest merges to other appropriate articles with {{merge}},{{mergeto}}, and {{mergefrom}} or add {{cleanup}} tags and give the editors a chance to rectify the problem(s). Also, discussing what you see as problems on the talk page may help. I don't believe you are acting in bad faith in putting forward the deletion candidates (I've seen you've cleaned up at least one article and you aren't putting forward any obvious keeps), but it seems some people are resentful. Yomangani 00:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Somari

I noticed a few months ago you proposed to delete Somari with the rationale:

"Another Pirate/ROM hack with nothing but graphic changes. These kinds of games do not deserve their own article, because any one over the age of 4 could do this."

This is absolutely incorrect. It is not "nothing but graphics changes", because Somari is a Genesis game running on NES hardware. There's a lot more involved there than mere "graphics changes", especially because how the original game worked was not nearly as well-understood back then as it is now. It's not something "any one over the age of 4" could do, or anything close to it; it's one of the most impressive hacks ever done. Please be more careful when nominating things for deletion. I have put the article up for deletion review. - furrykef (Talk at me) 21:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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