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Nomination of Rückschlag for deletion

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Fram (talk) 15:31, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

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Nomination of Gwendoline Taylor for deletion

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Devonian Wombat (talk) 11:06, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. FDW777 (talk) 21:09, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

• Wow I haven't been mentioned at ANI in many years, thanks for including me.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 21:13, 10 September 2025 (UTC)
• I shoulda just spruced up my prior creation Birds Aren't Real or something more fun today. oh well.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 21:46, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

I have to admit this got a chuckle out of me :) Well done! Beatings all around. --Hammersoft (talk) 22:18, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

• Haha, thanks. Good admins step in to defuse situations and try to keep an even keel, which I appreciate.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 13:18, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

September 2025

I have collapsed your pseudo-summary of the RfC at Talk:Killing of Iryna Zarutska because it was absolutely inappropriate for an involved party to make a summary like that during an open RfC. Please avoid such commentary in the future - those sorts of statements should be left to a closer. Please also remember that an RfC is not a vote and if 75% of the respondents to an RfC don't understand BLP policy their numerical superiority is irrelevant. Simonm223 (talk) 12:30, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

• Eek, thank for letting me know Simonm223. I'll bow out completely of the discussion then. I've been here for something like 18 years but will never pretend to know all the rules. I know wikipedia is on no deadline but i am frankly shocked at wikipedia's failure to be the best source on a major topical news event in this matter. Seems like a case of "we're the experts in this niche" failing to properly evaluate the evidence in this case; its happened before and will happen again, our strength is that we have a robust group of editors who really care about these issues on both sides.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 12:46, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
  • Ya know, looking at what you did Simonm223, i have no objection to you completely removing my comment (or saying i can) if you prefer. Your collapsing may only get more people far more interested in what i thought was relevant to say but was apparently not appropriate.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 12:49, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

    If you want to delete I have no objection. Thanks for being cool about this. Simonm223 (talk) 12:51, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

• Simonm223, I've deleted it, nobody is a dictator here, and i cannot convince everyone i am always right.  :) --Milowent • ^hasspoken 12:56, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

WNS Global Services

I missed your ping before Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WNS Global Services closed. As it is, reading the article now, I still get an overall feeling of "so what" - there's very little that describes what the company is and what it does, but then again I'm the sort of person who reads things like "..promotes the adoption of a process approach when developing, implementing and improving the effectiveness of a quality management system, to enhance customer satisfaction by meeting customer requirements." (from Business process management) and my eyes start to glaze over while I reach for a cup of coffee. Anyway, as it is, I think your cleanup helped somewhat, and think that "no consensus" is probably the right outcome. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:50, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi Milowent, just stopping by to thank you for your work on the article and also to let you know the article is now semi-protected for a year so hopefully that will tamp down on the socking and UPE. S0091 (talk) 18:15, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

• Thanks, S0091! And thanks for letting me know about the protection status. I had otherwise resolved to check it every few days, since I already rollbacked one IP editor.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 18:47, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

  Sorry for replying to a discussion this old, having missed this, I'd also like to say thanks. Your comment here at the time, I think I was taken aback by. Reading that AfD back now, the whole thing could have resolved before the second relist had somebody just completed the TNT. Reading it now genuinely made me laugh. Definitely need to keep our editorial swords polished! 11WB (talk) 20:07, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

• Thanks, 11WB! I certainly didn't mean to offend you when i wrote the comment, I was more in one of my inclusionist "tilting at windmills" phases which come over me from time to time. I'm glad it caused delayed laughter.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 20:53, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of List of Playboy Playmates of 2019

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A tag has been placed on List of Playboy Playmates of 2019 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Playboy Playmates of 2019. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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Birthdate Nikki Benz

Hi @Milowent so what is to be done? Frankly I find the discussion going on over at the talk page so absurdist, I question whether this is Monty Python. Do you think there is a way to resolve all this? ~2025-39885-95 (talk) 16:35, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

• Just closing the loop here, the actual birthdate is now on the article and seems to be sticking, though somehow the relied-upon source is now a social media post (the original boogeyman) and NOT the actual Ukrainian news source i found. so it goes here on the greatest compendium of knowledge in history.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 18:54, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

Annual Report

I've already pinged you before, but please, can you possibly write anything in the 2025 Report? (so many unclaimed entries, maybe something can interest you) igordebraga ≠ 05:04, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

• igordebraga, i saw the signpost and applaud the work done on the annual report. Sorry that i couldn't contribute; i took a look at the unfinished entries at one point and just said to myself "I cannot write something about (x person) without rage filling me." But these annual reports are such a good documenting of the year both for recent reflection, and for future reference. I want my future descendants to be able to assail someone who says the 6-7 meme is "from the 1900s" and prove them wrong!--Milowent • ^hasspoken 20:23, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

  I figured the entries kept unclaimed because no one wants to discuss current politics (even had to spell it out in the Hegseth one "I wouldn't be writing this if it wasn't needed to finish this article!"). Thanks for the kind words, you're always welcome to contribute to the Top 25 (specially as the last few were finished only on saturday because people aren't helping me) igordebraga ≠ 20:56, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

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Your comment at AfD

I subscribe to the full meal deal at Newspapers.com, so if there's ever an article you need for an AfD defense, drop me a line and I'd be happy to send it to you. My email is MutantPop@aol.com Best regards, —tim //// Carrite (talk) 03:43, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

• Carrite, thanks so much for your note!--Milowent • ^hasspoken 21:03, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

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Enough please!

I have brought this concern here because I do not wish to flood Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frenship Memorial High School with further counterproductive discussion that has moved well beyond a reasonable discourse about policy.

Can you please clarify how your comment regarding regional media outlets that cover this area of Texas, a US state with a population higher than umm all of Australia is in any way relevant to the discussion? I certainly hope that you were not implying that my opinion, as an Australian, is somehow less relevant or that non-Americans don't understand how policy applies? Combined with your suggestion that I am engaging in bad faith behaviour to punish a new editor, that could be taken at best as pushing the limits of civil behaviour.

I choose to assume good faith. Rather than deliberate personal attacks, I think you are just very emotionally invested and choosing your words poorly. For the record, I have travelled all around Texas including cities like Lubbock and Abilene and I am somewhat familiar with the relative scale of their media markets both in the context of the USA and compared to regional Australia. In any case, notablility is an objective measure that does not change based on where the subject of an article is located.

Schools are not inherently notable, so a school having an article would generally be an exception - most of them unfortunately are not notable. My own high school produced a Senator, a Tour de France winner, an Olympic Gold medallist and numerous professional footballers. It was also a temporary evacuation centre for over 5000 people that received prime time national news coverage during a major natural disaster in addition to routine mentions in the major daily newspaper for the state... there was consensus it still wasn't notable on its own and it got deleted. I didnt agree with that, but it happens. I fail to see how some run of the mill coverage in regional media outlets demonstrate this school is any more notable just because it is in Texas.

I have a great deal of respect for editors who like yourself, work to improve articles rather than delete them where they are notable (and sometimes passionately advocate this myself). I have genuinely considered the sources in the article and those which were readily available to me online. I put forward an opinion based on my assessment of how policy applies to those sources in this case. That is the same privilege afforded to any editor on wikipedia. You are free to have an alternative view and make that case. I would suggest that if the article subject is as notable as you claim, then other editors will be following the discussion and either working to improve it or quickly arrive at the same conclusion as yourself and the article will be kept. Thats how the process works. I am sure you know that already.

As experienced editors, can we please set an example for the new editor who created the page? Encouraging further responses from them attempting to discredit my !vote could be considered WP:BLUDGEONing the AfD. Please just agree to disagree and respect the process. I am always open and available to have polite and constructive discussions on my talk page about broader issues or specific procedural concerns, but i will not be changing my !vote based on the article as it currently stands. Dfadden (talk) 06:55, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

• Dfadden, I have zero ill will against you, i just disagree with your opinion on this AFD. In fact, not having an article on Frenship Memorial would be an exception in my opinion, based on 15 years of experience in high school AfDs (what have i done with my life, really? don't put this accomplishment on my tombstone). I have been to Canberra and found it lovely and would probably find your high school notable as well. I do think you were a little harsh with Art to nominate Cisco -- but I also know that lots of diligent Wikipedia editors approach human interactions different than I and I take no offense to that. I do have a tendency to get a bit ridiculous at times, though i feel i've mellowed over time. I'll try to keep it very calm in that Afd if any further discussion ensues, but I hear that you won't be changing your opinion.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 13:59, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

  Thank you for the reply. To use your words, We can all get a bit ridiculous at times when we care about a subject, so I accept that there is no ill intent. Actually, I went to school in Katherine, Northern Territory a long way from where I am now. Sadly its gone downhill since those days, but that is another story entirely! School articles are something I have mixed feelings about. Sometimes kids with good intentions but zero understanding of Wikipedia standards like to create them or add unsourced or unencyclopedic content. Others have been targets for vandalism, or "pranks" and I've even found edits with references to sources that were made up entirely before. I've come across cases before where editors have been blocked for recreating deleted articles on schools, only to appeal and argue that they were asked to do so as part of a school assignment etc, so I am particularly vigilant in this area. Maybe that means I fall back on more rigid interpretations and a higher bar than yourself regarding when they should have articles? But as far as I am concerned, you and I are all good. Dfadden (talk) 21:55, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Jana Winter

Hi, I hate to bother you, but ... You created stub this many years ago, and it's still not sourced to any thing about her. I'm hesitant to edit her article substantively, or to send her to WP: AfD, because she's a friend of a friend. Bearian (talk) 21:10, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

• Bother me anytime, friend! Hmm, what was i thinking 13 years ago when i created this? My note to myself says "Seemed to cross into notability over last month." I'll take a closer look.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 21:22, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

  Thanks. Bearian (talk) 21:22, 11 June 2026 (UTC)