User:Rossami

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Awarded for your creativity and thoughtfulness when wading through VfD discussions. Feb 28, 2005
Awarded for your creativity and thoughtfulness when wading through VfD discussions. Feb 28, 2005

Someday, I need to post something about myself instead of just using this as a personal reference page...

My Sandbox

Contents

[edit] Current projects

[edit] Articles I want to start someday soon

  • urban beekeeping
  • gastrophysics
  • firemark

[edit] Articles to edit

[edit] My accounts on other Wikiprojects

Committed identity: 08CDA2BD5D493D3151E386AA6E525220A059305F6C509189624A520E51D299B2E8812A8C3BF6B6008CD1D6D082F708EAC26C984A92D8373BD66F3A04847F5761 is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

[edit] Reference pages that I want to keep track of but don't keep on the "watchlist"

[edit] Thoughts on redirects

[edit] Templates

{{vip|user=username}} which returns Example (talk · contribs)

[edit] When nominators "vote"

** Comment: Nominators generally should not add a "delete" opinion in the bulleted section of these discussions. Your opinion is clear from the nomination. Adding a bullet gives the impression that you're trying to have your opinion double-counted. It creates potential confusion for the admin who eventually has to close the discussion. Thanks. ~~~~

[edit] For threads with lots of anonymous votes

*Comment: New users should be aware that votes by anonymous and very new accounts are generally very steeply discounted during these discussions. We have had significant problems in the past with abuse of the voting process and attempts to bias the outcome by users creating [[Wikipedia:sockpuppet|]]s. Hard facts which add to the discussion are appreciated. Opinions and qualitative judgments are likely to be ignored. ~~~~

[edit] When untranscluding an exceptionally long debate

===[[pagename]]===
This discussion has become very long, and is no longer being shown directly on this page in order to improve performance. Please click this link to view or participate in the discussion. ~~~~<br> [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/pagename]]

This discussion thread has become very long and extremely difficult to sort out. In an effort to assist the admin who must eventually make this decision, I propose the use of a recap table. In addition to your vote and explanation below, please record your name in the table. Comment: For this to work, please keep all comments below. I've taken my best guess at the current opinions of the discussion participants. If I've listed anyone's vote incorrectly, please move it. ~~~~

Keep votes  
Keep Redirect Delete Abstain or Ambiguous vote

[edit] For vandalism watch on an anon user's Talk page

==Vandalism Watch==
A user (or users) from this IP address has been committing repeated vandalism against Wikipedia. Contributions made by users of this IP address should be scrutinized periodically. As an aid to future editors, please note here when you have reviewed the contribution history.

''If you are a well-intentioned user frustrated by the comments appearing here, you can avoid them by [[Special:Userlogin|creating an account for yourself]].''

The following contributions have been reviewed and the inappropriate edits have been reversed.
* from <copy here> thru <copy here> - ~~~~

From Thru Results Reviewer & date
<first edit reviewed> <last edit reviewed> <your analysis here> <sign>


See also User:Rossami/Vandalism watch and {{Repeat vandal}} and {{Vandalism watch}}

[edit] How to merge histories (better than cut-and-paste)

  1. Delete page A (the page whose title will be kept)
  2. Move page B to page A's title
  3. Delete page A once more
  4. Undelete page A, including ALL of the history, which should be both
  5. Delete redirect to page A
  6. Done

[edit] Reference list of "surprising" VfD discussions

[edit] A What Wikipedia is not Barnstar

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
As the top contributor to What Wikipedia is not, you deserve this barnstar. Thank you! Jreferee (Talk) 05:43, 23 August 2007 (UTC)