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Just declining an article without pointing out specific issues is not appropriate.
References have been added to verify statements made in the article. You have to explicitly mention the issues.
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User:Nathan121212, User:Gbawden, User:BoonDock, User:HelenOnline, User:Darren Olivier, User:htonl - I have just moved South African Defence Review 2012 to mainspace - please feel free to improve it - it's still a bit rough in places.Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:16, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Dodger67 - Could I request a re-review of the article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ranveer_Brar? Reason I ask is the page has started appearing on Facebook search as well and almost everyone is starting to read the pending and declined submission bits :( It's...well, getting a bit embarassing warding off questions. If appropriate, I request a re-review by you since you have already gone through the updations last month. Please let me know. Coolkrc (talk) 16:15, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi User:Dodger67, Thanks for the notification. I have added the Lonrho Takeover. This time I used several online newspaper sources and not the copyrighted material. Hope that is much better. Zotezangu (talk) 01:19, December 6, 2014 (UTC+3)
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Dear Dodger67! Thank you very much for taking the time to review my draft article on bpv LEGAL. I have not seen any particular reason why you think it is an ad (maybe I just missed it because I am relatively new to Wikipedia), so I would really appreciate if you could help me see this clear. I made sure that the text is neutral and it contains only the basic facts and references to independent, third party sources proving that for someone who is actively involved in the world of the law firms, this alliance is a notable one. Your reply and help is highly appreciated! Thank you!
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Re Draft:Shripati Nirmal - you tagged it U5 which was fine as it was in user space, but then you moved it to Draft and declined it but leaving the U5 on. Can't do that... I've retagged it G11 as the best I can think of in Draft space. Peridon (talk) 17:49, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Dodger67 thanks for reviewing my article on Firefighter Fitness. Can i ask for some more details as to why this is not suitable for publishing? Im not disagreeing but I am struggling a bit with the scale of the what wiki is not aspect and relevence to my piece. I am totally open to your observations and would appreciate your guidance.
Much obliged UUJ2015
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Hi Dodger67, thanks for reviewing my article on Forma Lms. I added some links to external indipendent articles, studies and listings about or including Forma Lms, are those enought to support the article approval? Thanks!
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Hi, I was wondering if you can help me. This is my first article for Wikipedia. It is about a rather new item called Cardio First Angel. The reason for my article is that this is a rather new gadget with the name, which doesn’t reveal much to a man not familiar with medical terms. In the article I have described the purpose and the function of this gadget. I believe that it can help to save many lives. They’re very few sources on the internet. Originally it is in German, then, English, Czech, Spanish, but all these information seem to me were derived from the original German (I don’t speak German) . The product was co-invented by the cardiologist Prof. Dr. Christian Hagl, who works at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Medical Centre in Germany. This seems to me reliable source. (Wikipedia asks for at least one source). My article is written in a neutral, non-personal tone describing the function as well as how it can help logically to overcome fears the lay rescuer may have. I have personally been a witness in the past of the similar situation, where people were scared to touch the person on the ground, because they didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want purposely it list these fears and benefits as the bullet points, because I didn’t want to sound it as an advertisement. But the simplicity of the function of the Cardio First Angel is the main reason how to help inexperienced person to overcome these fears and act to save another person in need. If the benefits and functions of the Cardio First Angel are not described, there is no reason to write the article in the first place. So, I hope that you can help me in a way that it would be acceptable to you and Wikipedia. Thank you Animall
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The draft submission for the Ontario Mining Cup page is ready for re-review. Independent, reliable sources have been referenced and the user Ontariominingcup is no longer editing the document. Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frontenac303 (talk • contribs) 17:00, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank so much for your comments on the "Christian Study Centers" article. I have added and edited the sources, keeping in mind your comments as well as Wikipedia's standards for reliable and verifiable sources. The article should be ready for another review.
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This is not meant to be an advertisement as the Fondation doesn't sell anything. It is purely to inform the world about the awards' existence should they wish to find out more, such as if they hear that "Lord Foster has been awarded the Gold Medal of La Fondation" (see: http://www.fosterandpartners.com/news/archive/2014/05/lord-foster-awarded-medaille-d%E2%80%99or-of-la-fondation-du-m%C3%A9rite-europ%C3%A9en/), they can look it up on Wiki for that information. It is the European award scheme, like the Order of the British Empire or the Légion d'Honneur (well, we like to think so). All I did was to translate, from the statutes of the formation of the foundation, the object of the establishment so that it lacked any bias. My original offering, made several months ago, was made to look like one of those two entries, but all my offerings were constantly being deleted as the Fondation was missing links to it from somewhere (probably for many other reasons as well). With Jacques Santer and the "Président d'Honneur" being the Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy, Monsieur Xavier Bettel, should we add to these dignitaries' CVs their involvement with the Fondation? Then there would be a link to the page. The Grand Duke of Luxembourg holds the Grand Collier on behalf of all the people of his country, so maybe we could put something on the Grand Duke's page as well. Please advise as I am lost when trying to use the help pages.
Thanks. Giles
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Dodger67, please do not re-add incorrect information that you know to be incorrect. If you have any doubt please read the relevant references regarding Harrison. The reason I've deleted the full sentence is that this is already mentioned elsewhere on the article. If you wish so add this sentence with the correct target then please delete the other main reference to this which is in the more appropriate history section so this is not duplicated. Regards - Galloglass 21:38, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
On 19 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article South African Defence Review 2012, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that publication of the final edition of the South African Defence Review 2012 was delayed for so long that it was retitled "South African Defence Review 2014"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/South African Defence Review 2012. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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Roger, thank you for reviewing my draft for said article. It is a translation of the original German article, which is also linked. I have worked for this organization in the past so I know a lot about it. What concerns do you have with the article? I am currently reviewing, updating and creating articles that deal with NATO and its bodies and its organization. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seabas57 (talk • contribs) 07:46, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Looks like you're right, yes. But I won't be blocking the user(s) right out of hand. It's near my bedtime now, I'll take a look in the morning if they have made any further offensive comments. If it turns out to be so, a range block of at least one week is in order. JIP | Talk 21:57, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Dodger67, Please remove the redirect from my sandbox as you have offered. This was my first created article, I am reasonably new to Wikipedia, and I have no idea what is going on!! Also, the trinomial authority for Canis lupus variabilis - are extinct canids published in Animal Species of the World or similar? I am not sure where to look. Regards, William Harris • talk • 19:41, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Dodger67, I asked about the trinomial authority for Canis lupus variabilis on the WikiProject:Mammals page and got the reply that I just edited - very helpful over there. Regarding my sandbox, something strange is going on. What is there in edit does not match what is seen after pressing save - most of it does not appear on the screen! Is that something you can work some background magic on, please? William Harris • talk • 11:32, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Dodger67, somehow on an administration page called Category:Talk header templates, under the letter W, I have managed to create a template called User:William Harris. Please use your magical powers and remove it if possible, please. Regards, William Harris • talk • 11:18, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Already covered by collaporative Aviation =y in the milhist banner--Petebutt (talk) 05:26, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
I am still fighting for TRE in wp, please see my latest posting at AfC submission. Now it is up to you guys. PS: And yes, I am enthousiastic about TRE!--Heebi (talk) 11:29, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Dodger 67, Regarding the DMD Wiki page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchenne_muscular_dystrophy - I feel that a link to the page of a charity which is spending lots trying to solve the disease would be 100% relevant. The link I inserted under external links was: http://www.action.org.uk/appeal/duchenne-muscular-dystrophy%20 We have a more detailed page on it here: http://www.action.org.uk/our-research/duchenne-muscular-dystrophy-developing-badly-needed-new-treatment-boys-devastating-cond I consider these to be entirely appropriate, so may I ask why you don't? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Woodie19838 (talk • contribs) 12:18, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
I could see how you'd think that on the first link, but this one? http://www.action.org.uk/our-research/duchenne-muscular-dystrophy-developing-badly-needed-new-treatment-boys-devastating-cond In it we hear from leading doctors things like: "We’ve known for many years that boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy have too much calcium in their muscles,” he explains. “We’ve identified a possible new medicine that might reduce this calcium overload and we are testing it in the laboratory.” A medicine targeting calcium overload isn't mentioned once in the article, so that's to the advantage of the reader. Or do you object to that as well?
Appreciate your response Roger. Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Woodie19838 (talk • contribs) 14:12, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you Roger, for looking over and editing my Hollow Fiber Bioreactors draft on Wiki. It's my first draft ever to this platform, so I was a bit confused on how to complete it successfully. I think I took care of all the issues with the article. HalinaZakowicz (talk) 17:18, 24 February 2015 (UTC) |
Those assertions were well reverted. The article content seems a long way from its title. -- Unbuttered parsnip (talk) mytime= Thu 22:40, wikitime= 14:40, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Dear Dodger,
Thank you for commenting. "Cfr." (also "Cf.") is short for "Confer" and common in English (liberal arts) literature, contrary to "See" it indicates a sort of summarized reference and no direct quotation. By the way: The German equivalent (cfr. the German-Wiki entry for "Kim Yusob") is "Vgl." (short for "Vergleiche" = "compare/confer").
With kind regards AntonioRusconi (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 09:28, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for taking the time to review my article! As I am new to using Wikipedia, I decided to try it out by writing about a company. However there were not many sources pertaining to this company, may I ask how do I go about overcoming this problem in giving more credible sources? I did try to deliver a neutral point of view by giving facts about the company, could you tell where did I go off point if any? I really appreciate your help in this matter, since I do not have any experience in using Wikipedia. Thank you once again.
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Hi Roger (Dodger67). Many thanks for approving Streptomyces verticillus. It's my first attempt at an article and I'm very happy. I have a couple of questions though. In the "View history" section of the article, it has info on every edit I've ever made to my sandbox. Is that normal? The only relevant edits (i.e. edits pertaining to Streptomyces verticillus are two on 5th March and two on 7th March. My second question is how do I get my sandbox back? Every time I click on my sandbox, I get redirected to the Streptomyces verticillus article. Sorry if these are stupid questions. Like I said, I something of a newbie here. Thanks for any advice you can offer. Cheers, tH0r (talk contribs) 07:41, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Roger (Dodger67). That worked a treat!! Many thanks for all your help and advice. Much appreciated. Cheers. tH0r (talk contribs) 08:59, 8 March 2015 (UTC) |
Hi, Im so sorry, I simply copied and pasted from the IFB site initially, to create the wiki IFB page. I'm new to this. I've now completely altered it. I'm standing for election in Bristol West constituency and we at IFB were informed that it wasn't possible to add the Party name on the constituency/candidates' page until a wiki page was created. And without me belonging to a political party even though it's a facilitator and not a policy driven party, it loses IFB's identity.
I'm now going to resubmit please, having entirely stripped this down. Also, I don't know how to link things on here.
DawnParry (talk) 18:28, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
I received the note that this article was declined for notability issues. Can I ask why that was? I see other articles about consulting organizations with similarly notable information in the articles, and I'm confused why this is not being considered notable. For example, can you explain why this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novantas is considered notable while the article I submitted is not?
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glcmedia (talk • contribs) 19:29, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I have read the guidelines and that's why I asked the question. My submission includes links to three editorially independent sources, which serve as the basis for the article's content. I take it that is not enough, and that is why I asked about other articles, that seem to have been reviewed and accepted without issues, that have fewer sources than this article. I will add more sources to the article and resubmit.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glcmedia (talk • contribs) 20:56, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
I would like to point out that R-Linux is a Linux program. Linux software, unfortunately, doesn't attract much attention, especially when comparing with their Windows counterparts. And I believe that a review on http://www.softpedia.com (a review, not a promo), is quite a reliable source.
DriveMaster128 (talk) 20:18, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
DriveMaster128 (talk) 20:18, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Dodger67,
I would like to know what I must do to ensure that the article in question is sufficiently "verifiable". I have added 9 references, 8 eight of which are completely independent and impartial. I built my article based on other banks which have Wikipedia entries and some only have 2 or 3 references, so I am at a bit of a loss of what more I should increase. I added this entry because there are articles which refer to Nemea Bank, such as List of banks in Malta, so the article is notable and worthy of inclusion in the encyclopaedia. I would appreciate your advice on this matter.
Thank you,
David Herrera 1985 (talk) 19:47, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear Dodger67, Thanks for your feedback. I will definitely work on your advice and update the article. As a pan-European bank, we also have a number of online reviews in other languages, including Spanish, French and Finnish reviews by several major aggregate sites and newspapers. Can these be added to this Wikipedia page, or must all references be cited in the English language? Thanks again, David (David Herrera 1985) (talk) 21:45, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
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I have changed B2 to South Africa. Even if Pakistan scores 243/0 in 0.0 overs, their NRR will be lower than South Africa.Sujith (talk) 07:43, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
I wasn't the person who edited earlier, I too waited till the end of the Ireland innings.Sujith (talk) 08:04, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Nadia Eliseeva (talk) 21:48, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Good day, You have declined my self-scanning page while according to you there is already a self-checkout page. Please allow me to explain that self-checkout and self-scanning are different systems and the shopping trip is also completely different.
Self-checkout; customers walk into the store, add their products into their basket and at the end of the shopping trip all the products are scanned in one time through the self-checkout machine after which the customer can pay. During the shopping trip the customer has no clue about pricing and will not be informed about advertisements.
Self-scanning; customers walk into the store, sign up to a scanning device (usually attached to a customer loyalty card) or login with their smartphone. They can download a shopping list already created at home. During the shopping trip the customers scans each product, the customer is completely aware of the total costs and receives personalized advertisements directly on the scanning device. It is even possible for customers to add allergies or diets to their profile. When they scan an article which matches the allergy of diet the customer will be alerted.
Also the software for both solutions is completely different. For self-checkout the software is only needed in the machine that scans the products at the end of the shopping trip, there is no connection with the specific customer. For self-scanning the customers needs a personal profile and the customers is connected with the supermarket at all times.
So please review the article again. By the way, on the French wikipedia page there is also a self-scanning page, which has less quality, but which is also approved.
Thank you for your time and I am looking forware to your reaction!
Thank you for your answer to my query re: a category for Salmagundi Club
Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 13:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
For this month's issue...
Making sense of a lot of data.
Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.
We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.
We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.
Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.
As a couple of asides...
That's all for now. Thank you for subscribing! If you have any questions or comments, please share them with us.
Harej (talk) 01:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
First of all, thanks for the review. You were right about the lack of sources so I edited the article and added more references. I would appreciate it if you could find the time to look at it again and tell me whether the article is fit for publication now. I'm new at Wikipedia but I would like to do a lot of good work here.
Rapunzalia (talk) 14:10, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Dodger67,
Thank you for taking the time to review the page I created. I agree completely about the excessive references. In my zeal to make sure I had enough references, I went a bit overboard. I will condense/remove some of them.
I just have a few questions about how to best address the necessary changes before resubmitting it. I am very, very open to suggestions, which is why I'm here. The last paragraph of Writing career mentions that the author has works that appear in pop culture anthologies, which is one of the places where it has too many references. My thought is to just create a single reference that lists the different works in the same reference, but that might also look clunky at the bottom. I could leave off the reference entirely, but my concern then becomes will someone note it as needing one? What would you suggest as the best way to handle that particular spot?
This might sound a tad dense, but when reviewers say 2, maybe 3 references, I want to make sure I understand, you mean in a single sentence, or overall in a paragraph?
The other places I'd love some suggestions for is the lack of references in the first paragraphs of Early life and Personal life There are several things that are linked to but have no references in Early life Since it's for high school/college, what should have references here? On a message board, that question may come across as a bit snarky, but it's not at all meant to be. For me, I feel like I've gone cross-eyed looking at it and I can't see what I'm missing there. Truly need the extra set of eyes here. Same for the first paragraph of Personal life. I didn't link to Peace Corps or Guatemala because that's already done earlier. Should the reference come there, rather than earlier? I'm not otherwise sure what type of reference should be there, since it is for first marriage and children, so any suggestion would be very helpful. I can see that I could make a reference for the last sentence that says much of her work is published under (her former married name). But since that's mostly the pop anthology and her first book, Elena (which is listed in the info box), what would be the preferred way to reference it simply? I would love suggestions for that paragraph, as well.
Once I've made the requested changes, I will resubmit.
Thank you again for the feedback, it is greatly appreciated.
Respectfully, Elemonier
Elemonier (talk) 18:03, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi
You recently rejected my article and stated that you wanted more reliable sources. I thought I had done this correctly as I cited major publishing houses and award sites. I am totally willing to provide more references but could you kindly guide me as to which parts of the article you are referring to and what exactly you are looking for. Thank you kindly.
I hope I am doing this correctly as it is my first time. My apologies for any errors.
Edit: having looked at how this appears after submission, I realize even the Talk page submission is a mess. I am not sure how to fix it though ::sigh::. Again, my apologies.
CapnBlaze (talk) 23:57, 29 March 2015 (UTC) CapnBlaze 3/29/15
Hello Rodger,
My draft for DaVinciTek was recently rejected due to an advertorial tone. I was wondering if you could pinpoint the sections you found to reflect this tone as I do not find the whole piece to read like an advertisement. More than happy to make adjustments, just want to ensure you're not forced to review yet again in the future. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ITtech1000 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Aenfinger (talk) 02:59, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Dear reviewer. Thank you for taking the time to review the draft on biofrequency chip. Can you please provide specific reasons why the draft was rejected. The biofrequency chip is a product and dosage form that is commercially available. There are companies developing prescription products from the technology, but I didn't include that information because it may be perceived as promotional. Again specific information you are looking for is helpful.
Thank you
Does this article say anything which is not said in the main Disability article? Is it worth preserving?Rathfelder (talk) 19:14, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
I have modified my article as per the feedback given by you and maintained the Wikipedia quality guidelines. Kindly, review my article again.
Abhyudaya Tripathi (talk) 14:51, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Abhyudaya Tripathi (talk) 14:51, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
I really do not understand what you require from me. Could You please note exact requirements for the page to be published! Hexenkind410 (talk) 18:00, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello Dodger67. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:ELECTROHOMEOPATHY/sandbox, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 18:58, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Unbelievably, the draft has been resubmitted with almost no work done. It is so tempting to accept it and AfD it in one move, but only because the author seems unwilling to listen to you, to me, and to others. She also seems incapable of the common courtesy of interacting with those offering her some help, something that does not bode well for her employability. ~sighs~ Fiddle Faddle 10:04, 9 April 2015 (UTC)