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Welcome and thank you for your contributions to templates and template discussions. Alakzi (talk) 22:30, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

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Please stop

Please stop nominating pages for deletion within minutes of their creation unless they're obvious attack pages, and please stop nominating things for speedy deletion as non-notable that contain an assertion of notability. This sort of biting the newcomers puts off potential new contributors, and is itself disruptive. The criteria for speedy deletion only apply in very specific circumstances, and aren't a general "I don't think this sounds important" category. – iridescent 18:38, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

  • @Iridescent Do you have a specific example of this happening you could provide? I've only been nominating things that I believe do not have any sort of credible claim of significance under A7, and I observed what other people do in the new pages queue prior to jumping in myself. I would assume copyright infringement and advertising also warrant fast deletion, not just blatant attack pages. Whenever it is obvious that someone has acted in good faith, I have tried to clearly explain my rationale for what I've done on their talk page or the article's talk page, along with providing a welcome template and thanking them for their contributions. BU Rob13 (talk) 19:14, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
  • Actually, it doesn't matter. I can't seem to figure out these policies. When I'm lenient and try to post cleanup tags and explain how the article can be improved or help with it myself, someone sweeps in and places speedy delete tags within 10 minutes and tells me I should have placed them. When I follow the posted policies more to the letter, you tell me that I'm being disruptive. Maybe there's a balance in there somewhere, but I certainly can't find it, and I somewhat doubt it exists because it seems the subjective views of different administrators and editors will always have wide disparities between them. I'll leave the editing to those who are doing a better job at finding such a balance than I am. BU Rob13 (talk) 19:20, 13 June 2015 (UTC)