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Non-Admin Closures

Reminder: WP:NAC is not policy, it is only an essay. My closures follow WP:NACD (actual policy), thank you.

Please place your complaints here. It appears that no matter how an AfD is closed, it will offend SOMEBODY, therefore please place your complaints below. I will read them all, but I will not respond to them if they are rude. I am also likely to ignore your threats helpful comments and advice if your own closures are regularly up for deletion review... I do not take a simple head count of the !votes, I consider consensus and Misplaced Pages policy. I close Afds that are WP:SNOW keeps. Or if they are hopelessly locked, with three or more relistings, as WP:NOCONSENSUS. If they have less than three listings, I relist. If I closed a 20 day old hopelessly deadlocked discussion as "no consensus", please do not accuse me of doing a NAC on a "controversial" thread, as obviously there was no consensus, and it was wasting everyone's time, and needed to be closed. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 18:50, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

I have undone your NAC as it met none of the criteria listed in the appropriate conditions for a NAC. Please review WP:NAC and restrict yourself to appropriate cases where appropriate. Hasteur (talk) 04:23, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

• You are free to do so of course, but I think it's a big waste of time. There is no chance of it being deleted. I closed it as "no consensus" because there isn't a consensus, nor will relisting likely result in a consensus, as it has already been relisted... In the interests of saving a lot of people a lot of time, I hope you will reconsider, but if not, it will most likely be closed as "No Consensus" anyway. Be well. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 04:30, 5 January 2013

You were wrong sue. The article was closed by an admin as a Keep. PortlandOregon97217 (talk) 01:23, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

• There is no right or wrong. No need for drama. "No Consensus" defaults to "Keep", so there is no real difference in how the article was closed, just a (very slight) difference of opinion between the closing admin and myself. Since the nominator was angry at my closure for not DELETING it, I am sure the backlash would have been considerably more had I closed it as a Keep, rather than "No Consensus". Either way, the article still stands. It was not deleted. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 01:34, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Let me say this another way: You were unable to see the consensus that was right in front of you. PortlandOregon97217 (talk) 01:56, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

• Let me say THIS another way... I don't like drama. I try to be very friendly to everyone that I meet on Misplaced Pages. The last thing I want to do is quibble with somebody, on my own talk page, the difference between a "No Consensus" and "Keep". It is the tiniest of judgment calls. The absolute tiniest. Other than what you are doing here, you seem like a very nice and rational person, so I am willing to discuss this trivial matter with you, but I will not muddy up my own talk page with it. This discussion must continue on your talk page, thank you. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 02:03, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

No Thanks.I have made my point PortlandOregon97217 (talk) 02:10, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

• Very well then, I appreciate your input. Happy editing! --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 02:20, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Windows 8

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Please comment on Talk:Sustainability

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Please comment on an RfC about Living members of deposed royal families and the titles attributed to them on WP

I have opened an RfC on articles about living members of families whose ancestors were deposed as monarchs of various countries and the titles and "styles" attributed to these living people, often in a misleading way and inaccurate way in my opinion. Please join in the discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Biographies "Use of royal "Titles and styles" and honorific prefixes in articles and templates referring to pretenders to abolished royal titles and their families".Smeat75 (talk) 05:03, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done (but probably not in the manner that you had hoped.) --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 19:05, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Li (surname)

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Infoboxes vs navboxes

Hi. I just saw your addition of Category:Music infobox templates to Template:Stereolab, and was wondering if you might re-consider some of your recent edits.

The WP:Navboxes are totally different things from WP:Infoboxes, and should be kept in separate categories. Only "infoboxes" (the meta-templates that are shared across many unrelated topics) should be in the music-infobox-category. The "navboxes" (such as the Stereolab navbox) should all be in subcategories of Category:Music infobox templates (in the case of Stereolab, it was already in Category:Indie rock group navigational boxes).

Hope that helps. –Quiddity (talk) 01:39, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

I have no idea how that template got onto my edit list. I was careful to add the Category:Music infobox templates only to infoboxes. My apologies for the error. Thank you for the correction. I will go through and double check my work. Be well. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 19:45, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi. No worries. As someone said to me years ago, "You're not a real Wikipedian until you've made, and learned from, at least 50 mistakes", and I'm still racking them up! Just to narrow it down, it looks like these 128 edits are the ones that need reverting (a few of them already have been). Sorry, and Thanks! :) –Quiddity (talk) 07:29, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

What a mess. Thanks for bringing this to me. I think it's all cleared up now. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 21:24, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Protected templates

About this - which were the templates that you wanted to add categories to, but couldn't because they were protected? These all need to be converted to use {{documentation}}, but despite my remarkable clairvoyant abilities I think I might need your help to find them. :) If you could give me a list of them or something, that would be very helpful. Best — Mr. Stradivarius 12:52, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Of course! But I was intending to go through my list and make the requests as you suggested, so I could meet the quota requirement. Won't that mess me up now? I would like to eventually have the responsibility so I don't have to bug admins to do these minor edits all the time. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 21:57, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, it's more of a guideline than a quota. :) I would personally give the same weight to it whether you made edit requests for all of them separately or whether you gave me a list, but I can't speak for other admins of course. If you gave me a list it would take me less time to answer, but then I suppose making the requests separately might give you some practice in using sandboxes and the {{edit protected}} template. It's six of one and half a dozen of the other, really, so just choose whichever one suits you best. Hope this helps. — Mr. Stradivarius 09:44, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

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 Done --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 21:58, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

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 Done --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 21:12, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Infobox album

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 Done --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 21:55, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your support. Cheers. Kraxler (talk) 12:17, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

You are most welcome! --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 19:35, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Edit counter opt-in

Hi Sue. :) Would you be willing to opt in to X!'s Edit Counter? People at RfA usually like to look at the extended stats that you can only get access to from opting in. I'm no exception - I was just about to post them on the RfA talk page when I noticed that you hadn't opted in yet. Best of luck, by the way! — Mr. Stradivarius 10:14, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Hmmmmmmm. Thought I had already done that a long time ago. Must be my aging brains. I will get right on it. :) --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 19:59, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. Just a note that you still haven't opted in. I hope you do so soon, as you clearly plan on running the RFA gauntlet again and that's pretty essential stuff for doing that... Best regards, — Tim /// Carrite (talk) 02:34, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

I don't think that not opting in was the reason for the piling on, but I'll definitely have it done before next time, if there is a next time, so nobody has any excuses. Thanks for the reminder, be well. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 19:51, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

Many thanks, you too! GiantSnowman 08:43, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Ditto. Thanks very much and all the best for 2014! -- Trevj (talk · contribs) 17:42, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

You've got mail!

John F. Lewis (talk) 23:45, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done

Hello back!

Hi Sue, no worries and thank you for being so forthright. I'm a firm believer in common sense and wish that much of arguing that's been happening had more "common sense" injected into it... :) I'm also a gun control advocate, but my definition of "gun control" includes allowing any and all law abiding people to have them while keeping them from people who are not or that shouldn't have them for mental or similar problems. It also includes not making those same law abiding people into criminals because they chose to exercise this right. I have to say that I respect and appreciate your contributions and I hope that we can all be more dispassionate about the subject matter. Best regards, --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 00:44, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Blog

I'm not saying that THIS is a reliable source, but it does suggest that the anti-Heller view is not quite so fringy. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 20:04, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

THANKS! I really appreciate it!! --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 20:10, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

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Feel free to delete it. If you don't want a picture of the guy on his own article that's fine with me. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 20:43, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

It's not about wanting, it's about our rules on non-free media. We don't use non-free headshots. Hipocrite (talk) 20:46, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

I think the photo is well within Misplaced Pages policy, but if you disagree go ahead and remove it. Just let's not make a big hairy deal about it. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 20:49, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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• result was No violation

...per WP:SNOW, I should think, considering how fast they threw the complaint out. Please, for the love of Pete, stop wasting everyone's time, and learn how Misplaced Pages works, how to work collaboratively, and particularly what a revert is. Thanx. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 22:35, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Notice of a discussion that may be of interest to you

There is a Split proposal discussion on the Gun politics in the U.S. talk page that may be of interest to you. Lightbreather (talk) 04:35, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Please stop interacting with Lightbreather

I am asking you to stop interacting with User:Lightbreather and editing articles in the topic of gun control where she has been editing. She is maturing as an editor and there are enough editors in this controversial area to watch over these articles. Your following her to articles interferes with this process.

On Jan 25 Lightbreather created Global gun cultures and began to add contents, some copied some over from Gun cultures in the USA. She gave the reasons for this (also on Jan 25) at Talk:Gun cultures in the USA#In support of Gun cultures as uniquely notable WP:N topics. Rather than waiting for the article to develop, you nominated the page for deletion at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Global gun cultures on Jan 26.

I had asked Lightbreather to ask for explanations when material she adds is removed as part of edit, revert, discuss. On Jan 26 after removing sourced material she added to Gun cultures in the USA, you refused to discuss your removal. Instead, at Talk:Gun cultures in the USA#How does removing Spitzer citation and material improve the article you of harassing you.

Please stop doing this and work instead in other areas. Thank you. StarryGrandma (talk) 20:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

StarryGrandma, I have been editing Misplaced Pages for a very long time. Over that time I have been trusted with responsibilities for a lot of duties, including handling personal information. I do not have a history of fighting constantly with other editors, as Lightbreather has. Lightbreather has been in a constant state of combat since she re-appeared and began disrupting the Assault Weapons Ban article. (It has been stable since she left it after her ANI boomerang) You are Lightbreather's mentor. If she has a problem with my edits (or anyone else's), I suggest that SHE move to other areas and edit something besides Gun Control. I personally see no need, as yet, for a step like that, but if she really has anger/frustration issues, she is the one that needs to be proactive. If she is maturing as an editor, as you say, she needs to learn how to back off when things get frustrating. That is what mature editors do, they take wikibreaks or edit other areas of wikipedia, they don't demand that other editors move in their stead. I will also point out that at least ten other editors have expressed concerns about Lightbreather's editing behavior, and have called for topic bans fairly recently. Rather than suggest that I am the problem, why not mentor her? --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 02:02, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Notice per WP:DISCUSSAFD

Reasons given in your AFD nomination of Global gun cultures have been addressed. The nomination should be withdrawn now. Would you please do so, so that the deletion discussion will be closed by an admin? I imagine you've just been too busy to follow-up on this. Thanks. Lightbreather (talk) 04:36, 7 February 2014 (UTC)