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Proposed deletion of Jack Dean

The article Jack Dean has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. jlwoodwa (talk) 20:58, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Frederick Dunlap (American football)

The article Frederick Dunlap (American football) has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. jlwoodwa (talk) 21:02, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Matt Franzen

The article Matt Franzen has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. jlwoodwa (talk) 21:11, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Marty Heaton

The article Marty Heaton has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. jlwoodwa (talk) 21:25, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jerry Ippoliti

The article Jerry Ippoliti has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. jlwoodwa (talk) 21:29, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Joe Johnson (American football coach)

The article Joe Johnson (American football coach) has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. jlwoodwa (talk) 21:33, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jim Marshall (coach)

The article Jim Marshall (coach) has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. jlwoodwa (talk) 22:03, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of James Redd

The article James Redd has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. jlwoodwa (talk) 22:32, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Tom Rethman

The article Tom Rethman has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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Proposed deletion of Vern Thomsen

The article Vern Thomsen has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. jlwoodwa (talk) 22:53, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikimedia US Mountain West online meeting 08/08/2023

Wikimedia US Mountain West

Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West will hold an online meeting from 8:00 to 9:00 PM MDT, Tuesday evening, August 8, 2023, at meet.google.com/kfu-topq-zkd. Anyone interested in articles, history, geography, maps, or photographs of the Mountain West or the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement is encouraged to attend. We may try to organize one or more Wiknics. Guests are welcome. Please see our meeting page for details.

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Nomination of Alyssa George for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Alyssa George is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alyssa George until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Clarityfiend (talk) 10:57, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

Help please

There is a message on my talk page which I don't understand. I am concerned that my account has been hacked. I wanted to check the page history, but I can't because the page has been deleted.
Can you help me please? Pdfpdf (talk) 06:52, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Herbert C. Reed

The article Herbert C. Reed has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Notability not established with multiple substantive sources

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Reywas92^Talk 21:05, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Your speedy deletions

Hello, Paul. Thank you for your work with speedy deletions, but I have noticed and that you seem to have unfortunately deleted pages without checking the page history first. As it says at WP:CSD, "A page is eligible for speedy deletion only if all of its history is also eligible." Recent examples I have seen are Silk Route (A1) and Deadlink (G1). Both were valid redirects that were overwritten by someone else, which led to it being tagged and deleted. Instead of deleting them, the pages should have been reverted to their redirects.

Moreover, even if there was no valid history at Silk Route, it was not a valid A1, as [i]f any information in the title or on the page, including links, allows an editor, possibly with the aid of a web search, to find further information on the subject in an attempt to expand or edit it, A1 is not appropriate. Searching for the name with "Boondein" (in the article's contents) would have shown that it is an album's name.

Another example of a bad speedy deletion that comes to mind is Aliyaa, which you deleted for not showing importance/significance. As the article stated before it was deleted, it was on the Michelin Guide, which is one of the best claims to significance there is for a restaurant – I am baffled as to why it was deleted.

I am pointing these out not because I want to embarrass you, but in hopes that you can be more careful. The community has entrusted us with these tools, so we should use them with caution. I will be restoring these pages; please let me know if you have any questions. Sdrqaz (talk) 21:27, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Good call and nice catch, I've never claimed to operate without making mistakes. Do you have suggestions or guidance on these particluar articles at this point? It looks like those articles have been restored.--Paul McDonald (talk) 21:45, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

I've restored them, yes. Aliyaa is by no means perfect, so could use some help – I've spent some time making it a bit more presentable, but more work is needed there. Not much else can be done for the others, thank you . Sdrqaz (talk) 22:08, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Ottawa Braves

Hey Paul, as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/The Perfect Season, I've created a couple Ottawa season articles: 1960 Ottawa Braves football team and 1961 Ottawa Braves football team. There are a couple more yet to go: 1938 Ottawa Braves football team and 1965 Ottawa Braves football team. Do you have any additional sources that might help develop these Kansas-related articles? Other ideas on improving them? Cbl62 (talk) 01:21, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

I'll look and see what I can find. Good catch, good idea!--Paul McDonald (talk) 01:26, 14 October 2023 (UTC)