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Deletion of Aberdeen Pride
In 2006, you deleted Pride in Aberdeen after a deletion discussion that was not entirely unanimous. Some editors considered it non-notable, others thought it was notable. Today, at least fifteen UK cities have articles on their pride parades. For the Aberdeen article, six people motivated their reasons to delete; five motivated a keep, two deletions were unmotivated or invalid. Although somewhat more people preferred deletion than keeping the article, I personally would not call it a consensus. Do you think it would be reasonable to allow the community to reassess the deletion? --Gerrit 17:24, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
- Gerrit - given the no. of years that was passed between the deletion I would suggest you start a new article and see where that ends up (instead of reverting the deletion), as a lot of information back in the 2006 version would have been out of date. -WinHunter 07:30, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).
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- The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.
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Catalogue of One Thousand Named Galaxies
Hi, discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Astronomy#CMG - "Catalogue of One Thousand Named Galaxies" decided not to include Catalogue of One Thousand Named Galaxies. So we have been removing these entries. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:19, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
- That being so, would you consider reverting your recent edits and reviewing the block you placed on an IP who removed multiple mentions of it?--Anthony Bradbury 17:23, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).
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Your false claim of vandalism on 29 July
There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.25.45.251 (talk) 21:23, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
- Seriously, you need to address that ANI discussion pretty quickly before people seriously contemplate trying to remove your administrator rights. Please do it ASAP. Ritchie333 10:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)