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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article December 2017 Melbourne car attack is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article December 2017 Melbourne car attack is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/December 2017 Melbourne car attack (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Have a Merry Christmas --ChocolateRabbit 22:26, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
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Dear (Redacted),
I have noticed your input on the Wikipedia page I created recently for the Ukrainian poet Dmytro Kremin.
I certainly support your efforts to review new Wikipedia articles, especially those related to Ukrainian matters! I'm writing to you about the qualifier you've placed on my particular article.
This entry is very definitely not a "rough translation" and, of course, not any sort of computer generated English text. In fact, it is my English language entry for Dmytro Kremin created at Kremin's request.
I based my English language entry on the Ukrainian language entry I co-authored with Kremin's son, Taras Kremin.
If you'd care to look me up on the internet, my name is Svetlana Ischenko. I am a Ukrainian-Canadian, and have lived in Canada for twenty years. I return to Ukraine on a regular basis. I am the translator along with the Canadian poet Russell Thornton of Dmytro Kremin's selected poems in English, Poems from the Scythian Wild Field: A Selection of the Poetry of Dmytro Kremin.
I see that you quote from Robert Frost on your Wikipedia User Page -- so you respect poetry! My Wikipedia entry for Kremin is meant to promote this well-known Ukrainian poet in the English language literary world. This is important work that I'm sure you can appreciate. Kremin is one of the very small handful of contemporary Ukrainian poets who have a chance to be nominated for the Nobel Prize.
As I say, I support your efforts to clear away the morass of flagrantly appropriated and mistranslated entries on Wikipedia -- but my entry for Dmytro Kremin is altogether another sort of entry.
I would be grateful if you would remove your qualifier.
Very sincerely,
Svetlana Ischenko — Preceding unsigned comment added by Svetlana Ischenko (talk • contribs) 23:53, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hi. Why did you template a user for edit-warring, when that user had not only ceased EWing (thirty days ago) but hasn't edited anything in 27 days? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:02, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, regarding this revert - I'm pretty sure that I was adding back scientific theories, reverting an edit from a YEC, though I may have missed something. Could you please review your revert? I won't revert it, I just want to make sure it wasn't a mistake. Thanks. :) BytEfLUSh Talk 05:17, 31 December 2017 (UTC)