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Black Kite Hi, I'm an administrator here, and have been since 2007. I'll try to answer any questions here as soon as I can, though I do have periods where I'm not available. For admins: if you think I've done something really f***ing stupid and I don't respond to a question about it, please feel free to reverse it ... we can work it out later on.

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Miss Grand pageant article

I have just deleted and salted Miss Grand as an attempt to recreate a deleted article (via a redirect) per Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Miss Grand International (3rd nomination). Should I also salt the talk page? There may still be "Miss Grand <year>" or "Miss Grand <country>" articles lurking about that need scrutiny. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:47, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

The baffling inappropriateness of this action has been raised at Dodger67's talk page. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:37, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

I have restored the page Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:31, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Paul_012 Dodger67 To be fair the page has caused far more problems that it's been worth since it was reintroduced, since it was only restored on the basis that it should be about the franchise, not the pageant itself, which was indeed held to be non-notable per the AfD. Multiple editors are trying to turn it back into what it was, and I have had to delete a number of sub-articles. I suspect a number of the articles on models that are only "notable" for placing in this pageant are nonnotable, too. Black Kite (talk) 22:46, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

In case you haven't noticed, a DRV on that discussion has since concluded with the result that the full creation-protection of the page be downgraded and re-creation allowed. Salting everything related to a topic based on a four-year-old AfD that was quite poorly argued is rather overzealous and not really supported by policy, IMO. (There does seem though to be a lack of adequate, more appropriate policies for dealing with cases of users trying to push problematic subject areas.) --Paul_012 (talk) 23:41, 30 July 2021 (UTC), updated 23:53, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi Black Kite. Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2021 July 17#Miss Grand International was closed as "Reduce protection to ECP", which RoySmith (talk · contribs) implemented here. Would you reverse the full protection you applied and restore the extended confirmed protection? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 08:53, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Excellent. Lots and lots of non-notable subarticles coming up from the usual suspects. Used to be an encyclopedia, this. Black Kite (talk) 09:16, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Terry Cooper (footballer, born 1944)

On 2 August 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Terry Cooper (footballer, born 1944), which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer 05:02, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

August 2021

Hello Black Kite, there's an ongoing talk to reach consensus about peacocky terms used by an user reported for ownership/edit warring. just an invitation if you want to participate. Cornerstonepicker (talk) 17:26, 2 August 2021 (UTC)