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Per the blocking policy and block appeals guidelines, unless exceptional or expedient circumstances apply, administrators should not unblock a user without prior discussion with the blocking admin. Unless it's me. If I believe you should consult me before undoing a block (or other admin action), I will make it clear. If I don't, I would appreciate a note, but if you believe I have made a mistake, just undo it. If I believe that undoing it was exceptionaly stupid, I reserve the right to slap you with a trout.

Igor Stagljar

Hello, I am contacting you regarding Igor Stagljar wiki article which you have deleted. I have deleted copyright text after I was informed that the text is under the copyright but you deleted Igor Stagljar wiki artivle anyway because I did not inform anyone that I have deleted it. So I will write it again without the copyright text. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petarmrtnc (talk • contribs) 04:26, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

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Thomas Eisfeld

I see that you deleted the recently created Thomas Eisfeld per a previous discussion. It appears that the original article was deleted mainly due to the fact that he failed WP:FOOTBALL. Since the discussion, it looks like he has made his professional debut and has received some modicum of coverage for it. I am no football expert, but it looks like he might now pass WP:FOOTBALL and might be worthy of inclusion at this point. Topher385 (talk) 11:44, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Nah, I did the original discussion closure and deletion. The speedy was done by User:GiantSnowman. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 12:45, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Oops! Thanks. Topher385 (talk) 13:36, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

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WP:CNR question

About Template:Index to isotope pages (by periodic table). I understand there was this issue after my move over namespaces. Is there a mistake I made, or just a WP:CNR policy edit needed, or do we rely on a bot, next time? -DePiep (talk) 12:23, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

The 'problem' is the loads of articles linking to Index to isotope pages (by periodic table). One could do this manually, but being lazy, I'd rather force a double redirect, and have some botrun clean it up. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 12:26, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

I get it. Next time doing a CNR I'll do a check for this, but it does not prohibit it I understand. -DePiep (talk) 12:30, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Martijn Hoekstra, you messed it up. The links were not resolved nicely, the redirect was deleted, and now it has collapsed. It looks like you were too simply removing a Redirect, based on an essay, using speedy? What solution did you have in mind for the links & transclusions then? What did you ask the bot? -DePiep (talk) 23:47, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Wait, what did I delete now? As far as I know I didn't delete anything. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 07:56, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

What did you do then, and that includes bot stimulating? "deletion" is not the key word, "messed up" is. -DePiep (talk) 12:23, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

I moved the redirect at Index to isotope pages (by periodic table) to my userspace preserving the redirect. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 12:39, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

And then? (btw you just gave a red link. Again). -DePiep (talk) 14:02, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Then I started answering your questions. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 14:14, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Just the easy ones. Didn't you notice you gave a red link to argue that you didn't delete anything? -DePiep (talk) 14:46, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

To tell you the truth, no, I didn't. I also didn't delete the page. Also, what are the hard questions that I didn't answer? I'll be happy to answer those now, but I can't see them now. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 18:51, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

So User:Nyttend deleted the redirect, as you noted at last. The same editor who complained: Now I'm simply confused. I am able to apologise at some point, but why did you need a dozen of edits to say that? -DePiep (talk) 22:10, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Index to isotope pages

I don't see the reason; "Index to isotope pages" seems a reasonable article topic to me, given our many "Index of ___" or "Index to ___" pages, so per WP:REDDEAL I'd prefer to leave them as is. Nyttend (talk) 14:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

The move (ten days ago) is not the issue. The deletion of the redirect is (today by this Martijn Hoekstra). . Note to Martijn Hoekstra: the redirect you deleted has redlinked many reidirects in article space. Deletion was not aa good idea. Seems like you misssed dozens of article links to that redirect. Now they became red, as some users. -DePiep (talk) 14:58, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Now I'm simply confused — after Double Sharp moved it back to mainspace, are there any outstanding issues? And if so, what are they? Do you mean pages that could be deleted under G8, redirects to deleted pages? Your first comment made me think that you were referring to links from mainspace that had gone from blue to red, but now I'm not sure. Nyttend (talk) 18:47, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Eh, is this for me? Well, the issue is that the page is not an article, and today it got messed up because MH deleted a redirect, appearently without checking links & transclusions, and then someone moved it. The motivation, WP:CNR, is not policy or guideline, but a non-conclusive essay. That a base for speedy? I am confused too. -DePiep (talk) 23:44, 2 August 2012 (UTC)