User:Iamunknown/afd

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This is an attempt to explain the mess I made with all these afds included in this mass nomination. It is not a justification. I feel miserably for making a mess of things. But I need to explain what happened in a central place where I can link to from each individual nomination.

I came across one of the articles in the list and noticed that it had an AFD tag on it, but a redlink to the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/<ArticleName> sub-page. (I do not remember which page it was.) (In retrospect, they had not been linked here with [{subst:afd1}}.) I looked in the history to see when it was tagged; it had been awhile. Then I went to the nominator's contribution history to see if there might be other odd things happening, where I noticed that there were many lists that had red-linked afd tags. (Again in retrospect, it was every list except List of fictional actors.) Unfortunately, I didn't look at them all, and I did not do enough investigation. Thus I did not come to this sub-page and thus did not see that they were all meant to point there. At any rate, before I found that out, I had already created subpages for every page that had been tagged. So it was I who created an indiscriminate number of AFD nominations, thinking that I was creating the subpages and thus completing them, when in reality they were already completed at this sub-page.

If you have any questions, please ask me on this talk page.

Iamunknown 05:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)