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Nomination for deletion of Template:Latest stable software release/Darwin

Template:Latest stable software release/Darwin has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

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22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Jayda Fransen

There seems to be a lot of disruption on this page, probably because of local elections in the four nations. I made a request at WP:RfPP, but hadn't noticed that you are a sysop. Checking the logs, I saw that Saxa alba temporarily semi-protected the page a year ago. Possibly that will happen again. Mathsci (talk) 12:35, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi. The page has been semi-protected for 1 week by Malcolmx15. I'm still waiting to see the election results where I am. Cheers, Mathsci (talk) 12:50, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tradeston Flour Mills explosion

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Your GA nomination of Tradeston Flour Mills explosion

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Your GA nomination of Tradeston Flour Mills explosion

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DYK for Tradeston Flour Mills explosion

On 10 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tradeston Flour Mills explosion, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1872 Tradeston Flour Mills explosion that killed 18 people was caused by a fire after the feed of grain to a pair of millstones was halted? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tradeston Flour Mills explosion. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tradeston Flour Mills explosion), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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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Proposed deletion of Panelbase

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Nomination of Panelbase for deletion

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Happy Seventeenth Adminship Anniversary!

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LGBT politicians UK page

Hi,

I saw that you said the sources for Lord Moylan didn’t say he was gay so removed him from the LGBT uk politicians article.

I found some that did and so was wondering if you might re-add him please.

1) https://policymogul.com/stakeholders/15838/lord-moylan

2) https://www.building.co.uk/focus/daniel-moylan-in-his-element/5042798.article

3) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1369148118815407

Thank you. 2A04:4A43:484F:E154:E903:AEA4:B079:AA3B (talk) 15:24, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

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MV Pentalina

Actually I couldn't tell if your edit summary here [[1]] was a factual statement or a very amusing tongue-firmly-in-cheek joke - either way the edit itself seems entirely appropriate. Thanks, and I wish you a very happy Christmas, if that is your thing. Springnuts (talk) 11:33, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, AlistairMcMillan!

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Hello! I have openend an ANI a few days ago, and no admin seems to want to have a look at it. Therefore, could you review this ANI case of mine? Thanks in advance. Veverve (talk) 15:12, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Glasgow Central railway station

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