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AGB Investigative Services, Inc. Deletion

Slakr,

I'm confused as to why the page AGB Investigative Services, Inc. was deleted. As far as I could tell, there were no violations of Misplaced Pages's policies. Please give me a detailed explanation of the deletion.

Adverse effects of fluoroquinolones Merge

Hi,

I nominated Adverse Effects of Fluroquinolines for deletion, and the decision was made to merge. In my opinion, they are already merged, as I have taken some effort to make sure that all the salvagable material (properly sourced) was included in the Quinolones article. This was done before and during the deletion debate.

I don't know what I need to do next to close out the procedure. Please advise. Many thanks Formerly 98 (talk) 23:21, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

You can just turn it into a redirect. The idea there is that the page history will be preserved and any incoming links will forward to the right place. No worries if you think the content's already merged; you can still just turn the old page into a redirect, and if later someone thinks "wait, didn't we have that bit about (whatever)?" they can still retrieve it if needed. Cheers =) --slakr 23:30, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Brooklyn Weaver Page Deleted

Hi Slakr,

I believe the deletion for the page Brooklyn_Weaver was done in error. There seems to have been a deletion discussion regarding the page, but I made edits to the page that should have tamed that discussion. I was surprised, actually, to come across Brooklyn's page and notice it was under warning, which is why I decided to make the edits I did.

Is there a way to recreate the page or reopen the discussion, as the cause for debate was completely negated by the proper edits?

Cklr (talk) 21:12, 17 March 2014 (UTC)cklr

Due to the low turnout on the AfD, if you believe it can be improved to meet our policies and guidelines (most specifically, notability for people or the general notability guidelines), then I have no problem with it being userfied. --slakr 05:25, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Carbone Smolan Agency)

Porterwritewiki writing you. I am working with DGG to address the concerns that led to the deletion of the article mentioned above (Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Carbone Smolan Agency). I looked in the deletion log but I could not go back to the Feb 23, the date it was delete. I am new to this process. I cannot find the original annotated version anywhere. Can please you tell me if I can retrieve that document and put it back in my Sandbox to work on? After getting advice from editor DGG I will repost in Article for Creation and see what happens. I have the text on my computer. It was the citation formatting I do not wish to recreate. Please, help if you can. Porterwritewiki (talk) 16:21, 21 March 2014 (UTC)PortewritewikiPorterwritewiki (talk) 16:21, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Based on the realistic comment from the editor on my talk p., I have moved the deleted article to User:Porterwritewiki/Carbone Smolan Agency for improvement. (I moved it there, not back to AfC, to avoid confusion.) I will give the editor some further advice. DGG ( talk ) 02:38, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Talk:John Lennon

see this . Dynamic IP, like we know now. OccultZone (Talk) 15:01, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

INVEA-TECH

Hi Slakr, could I ask you why have you deleted INVEA-TECH page when the discussion was clearly not finished and I was waiting for others to responde? Thank you. Idavac (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 08:02, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Request for undeletion /Natalia Babi

Dear Kurt,

I would like to send the request for undeletion of the article about Ukrainian-American artist Natalia Babi. I examined the reasoning for the deletion, but information that your representatives may not have been aware of how popular this artist is in several countries of former Soviet Union and US and how many people search for information about this artist. And it would be helpful to have information about her in Misplaced Pages. According to words of your representatives, yes, she maybe doesn’t have tons of publicity in the Internet like a superstar, but for several years she has had publicity in paper editions in three languages Russian, Ukrainian and English and she has had some Internet publicity in English as well and many in the Russian language, several videos which posted in YouTube, one of them (interview with artist) was shown on the Russian- American TV, and two others exist in two languages - Russian and English, and has shown on Ukrainian national TV - One is the biographical video and another is about well-known “Rosy Portrait” of queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty personally thanked the artist for that work. Recently her art piece "China Girl" was sold on eBay auction by Oz collectors for record price more then $100,000 and became the most expensive Item in the world sold on eBay by April 2013, is a clear proof of the artist's notability. Also, the National Museum of American History  for the Oz exhibition of 2014 requested “China Girl” from the owner-collector. And there is more publicity about her major art project- “Wondrous Women of Fantasy and Reality”, portraits of legendary people and etc. Also your representatives accused the artist of self-publishing and self-promotion, which is not true. Being a big fan of this artist's talent, I posted this article a few years ago and yes, it is true that I used some excerpts from her personal site… Dear administrator, I am asking you for the possibility of returning the article about Natalia Babi and I will do my best to correct and rewrite it for a proper Misplaced Pages language. Thank you very much for the opportunity, and for your helpful site.

Sincerely Paul Fitz

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Natalia_Babi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.162.182.110 (talk) 04:25, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Too quick!!

Editing WP is not always easy (lack of 'WYSIWYG'). Where I forget to sign, realise it and try to correct all too often SignBot is acting far too quickly and creating an 'edit conflict' and often signing only one of my edits. A short delay (seconds are enough) before SignBot operates would be very useful, it would nice if we could correct our own errors and do it better :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leopardtail (talk • contribs) 13:33, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

With your hard work running two bots and contributions to Misplaced Pages, you deserve to take a break and have a cup of tea TheQ Editor (talk) 20:52, 25 March 2014 (UTC)