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Smelling pistakes

In addition to bone-deep burn scars on my left hand I now also have C7 radiculopathy, so my typing is particularly erratic right now. I have a spellcheck plugin but it can't handle larger text blocks. You're welcome to fix spelling errors without pinging me, but please don't change British to American spelling or indeed vice-versa.

Merry Christmas!![edit]

Hey Guy, thanks for all you do on Wikipedia, and for all your help at BLPN. My you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. (and if you don't celebrate Christmas please feel free to take that as a Happy Hanukkah, a great Dhanu Sankranti, a blessed Hatsumode, or whatever holiday you want to insert there.) Zaereth (talk) 08:55, 25 December 2019 (UTC

DRV Followup[edit]

At the [[1]] for Tiff's Treats you endorsed but qualified that you had slight reservations. Could you explain more what your reservations were? It seems like you were saying I super voted but then say I wasn't and so I didn't quite understand what your reservations were. Thanks and best, Barkeep49 (talk) 05:42, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Barkeep49, it was a defensible action but it had a distinct whiff of supervote. The challenge was not insane but imo the result should be delete. Guy (help!) 10:07, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Thoughts about how the close should have been worded so as to avoid a whiff of supervote? Thanks and best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:48, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Barkeep49, sorry for the delay. I'd have noted that the balance of arguments to delete were stronger based on policy and I'd have explicitly mentioned HighKing's well argued demonstration that many of the sources are trivial and look like press releases, not intellectually independent coverage. In other words, show your working a bit more, so that it doesn't look like your own judgment of the article but demonstrates that it's a thorough analysis of the deletion debate itself. I am sure that is what you did, so all you need to do in close calls like this is to explain the closing rationale a little more clearly. Guy (help!) 10:06, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I've generally avoided trying to call out editors by name in AfD closes and so yes I was referencing HK's work in that close. I'll rethink this practice. Thanks and best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:56, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Barkeep49, you keep on being you, my friend. All I am saying is that if it';s contentious, more rationale in the close is always helpful. Guy (help!) 23:00, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:ACR bottom[edit]

Template:ACR bottom has been nominated for merging with Template:Cem bottom. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:20, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Jesus Permuy[edit]

Greetings! In August 2018 you moved "Jesus Permuy" to draft due to its poor sourcing. I have been pecking away at it, and I think it is now suitable for mainspace, albeit with room for further improvement. Let me know what you think. Cheers! BD2412 T 23:27, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

BD2412, looks good to me. I am concerned about the promotional tone of the original editor's contributions but yours are fine of course. Guy (help!) 10:01, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I agree. I'll move it back and peck through the remaining issues in mainspace. BD2412 T 13:19, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Ping[edit]

Would you please take a look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles/RFC on pharmaceutical drug prices and tell me (on MEDMOS's talk page, or ping me) whether you think that you/other experienced editors are likely to be able to provide some sort of constructive response to the question? If it's seriously screwed up, I want to know ASAP. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:55, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing, I think it will end up at ArbCom. They are not interested in focusing on a resolvable scope. Guy (help!) 23:57, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Theoretically, none of that should prevent me from writing a decent RFC question. Do you think this will confuse people too much? WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:29, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing, I think they will derail it, but please do have a go. Guy (help!) 09:59, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the sanity check. I appreciate it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:54, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Ping on maintenance templates on article Juan Pavón[edit]

Hi, on December 21 I pointed out here (in this archived Talk page) some maintenance templates you had inserted in that article, and that now I attempted to fix. Since I received no reply and the talk page is now archived, I bring it up again, hope it's ok. Please let me know if this is not the appropriate procedure, or if you can point me out to another experienced editor who could handle this issue. Thanks a lot. Samer.hc (talk) 18:30, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

spamlisting literally fake news sites[edit]

I showed this edit to the loved one and she did a thumbs up - David Gerard (talk) 23:30, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

David Gerard, I approve this message. Guy (help!) 23:33, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Brian MArtin[edit]

Yes we should advise new users how to act, on their talk page yes, but it strikes me as a tad self defeating to clutter up a talk page with lectures about not cluttering up talk pages. We are hardly going to convince users behavior is wrong if we our selves engage in it.Slatersteven (talk) 10:39, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Slatersteven, he! Yuo're not wrong. But it is annoying: chinese water torture with pings. Guy (help!) 10:47, 5 January 2020 (UTC)