User:Rossami

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Awarded for your creativity and thoughtfulness when wading through VfD discussions. Feb 28, 2005

Someday, I need to post something about myself instead of just using this as a personal reference page...

My Sandbox

1 Current projects
2 Articles I want to start someday soon
3 Articles to edit
4 My accounts on other Wikiprojects
5 Reference pages that I want to keep track of but don't keep on the "watchlist"
6 Templates
7 How to merge histories (better than cut-and-paste)
8 Reference list of "surprising" VfD discussions

[edit] Current projects

[edit] Articles I want to start someday soon

urban beekeeping
gastrophysics
firemark
food desert

[edit] Articles to edit

add to motherese
add to honey or beekeeping based on [[1]]
tone down the enthusiasm in safety engineering
fix overwatch
copyedits to maniple for readability
copyedits to Revaluation of fixed assets
move Demographics of terrorism to terrorist profile and then fix

[edit] My accounts on other Wikiprojects

[edit] Reference pages that I want to keep track of but don't keep on the "watchlist"

[edit] Templates

{{vip|user=username}} which returns Example (talk • contribs)

[edit] When untranscluding an exceptionally long debate

===[[pagename]]===
This discussion has become very long, and is no longer being shown directly on this page in order to improve performance. Please click this link to view or participate in the discussion. ~~~~<br> [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/pagename]]

This discussion thread has become very long and extremely difficult to sort out. In an effort to assist the admin who must eventually make this decision, I propose the use of a recap table. In addition to your vote and explanation below, please record your name in the table. Comment: For this to work, please keep all comments below. I've taken my best guess at the current opinions of the discussion participants. If I've listed anyone's vote incorrectly, please move it. ~~~~

Keep votes
Keep	Redirect	Delete	Abstain or Ambiguous vote

[edit] For threads with lots of anonymous votes

*Comment: New users should be aware that votes by anonymous and very new accounts are generally very steeply discounted during these discussions. We have had significant problems in the past with abuse of the voting process and attempts to bias the outcome by users creating [[Wikipedia:sockpuppet|]]s. Hard facts which add to the discussion are appreciated. Opinions and qualitative judgments are likely to be ignored. ~~~~

[edit] For vandalism watch on an anon user's Talk page

==Vandalism Watch==
A user (or users) from this IP address has been committing repeated vandalism against Wikipedia. Contributions made by users of this IP address should be scrutinized periodically. As an aid to future editors, please note here when you have reviewed the contribution history.

''If you are a well-intentioned user frustrated by the comments appearing here, you can avoid them by [[Special:Userlogin|creating an account for yourself]].''

The following contributions have been reviewed and the inappropriate edits have been reversed.
* from <copy here> thru <copy here> - ~~~~

From	Thru	Results	Reviewer & date
<first edit reviewed>	<last edit reviewed>	<your analysis here>	<sign>

See also User:Rossami/Vandalism watch and {{Repeat vandal}} and {{Vandalism watch}}

[edit] How to merge histories (better than cut-and-paste)

Delete page A (the page whose title will be kept)
Move page B to page A's title
Delete page A once more
Undelete page A, including ALL of the history, which should be both
Delete redirect to page A
Done

[edit] Reference list of "surprising" VfD discussions

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Karafuto Prefecture - initially tagged as 1) patent nonsense then 2) fancruft but turned out to be historically real (though obscure)
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Treaty of Finkenstein - initially tagged as a hoax.
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Kaleidoscope Entertainment - initially tagged as a speedy. Moved to VfD where the response was a clear "keep"
Terrax and Nina Kulagina - initially tagged as speedy but one was a valid topic from fiction, one was a real person whose disputed claims were thought to be fiction. (These two articles were subsequently found to be copyvios.)
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/United Cracking Force - initially tagged as speedy. Moved to VfD where the response was a clear "keep"
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Diadem (physics) - an article which was around for a long time and sucked in a surprising number of people who tried to wikify and copyedit what was ultimately uncovered as a hoax.
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Climate theory - initially thought to be a hoax and/or patent nonsense but turned out to be a real (though now discredited) theory of Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Religious persecution by Jews - initially a "no consensus" with a strong "delete" majority. Controversy raged over the closing admin's decision. (See here, here and here.) Re-vfd' only a few weeks later here where it received near unanimous "keep" votes.
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Like cola - initially tagged as a hoax
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Pseudowallerian degeneration - initially tagged as a hoax but later verified
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pseudowallerian degeneration (2nd nomination) - deleted as unverified phenomenon mentioned nowhere but in one scientific paper
- Re-created as a "harmless redirect" [2]
- Back at RfD as of May 28, 2006 [3]

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