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Hi Mark viking, I am confused by your edit summary. There is no such thing as "Lucumi people", it is not a content dispute. Therefore the page has to go. What am I not getting? Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 02:29, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi

WP:GNG notability. An alternative to deletion for verifiable material might be to merge the article into Lucumí language because they are speakers of this language, or Santería, as people who practice the associated religion. Of course, if you believe that the content is in fact not verifiable (I could be wrong) and the article should be deleted, you are welcome to take it to AfD. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk

} 03:49, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Mark viking. I have had a look at the sources that you provided; the first one is about Lucumi, the language, the second and fourth use "Lucumi people" to refer to the people who follow the Lucumi religion (Santería), much like a book here uses "Mormon people" and here several references are are made to "Amish people", to refer to followers, with hundreds of thousands of sources on Google following the same logi; the third is set in the time of slavery, explaining how the term came to be a synonym for Yoruba (cf the Olukumi people).

The article was created as a one-liner, with a source about Santería, that says nothing about Lucumi as a people. The articles Cubans, Afro-Cubans and Demographics of Cuba say nothing about "Lucumi people", except as a parenthesis on the geographical origin of people of African origin, with "Lucumi" in brackets after Yoruba. See above reference to "Lucumi" as synonyn for "Yoruba".

All things considered, I believe that the right thing to do would be to redirect to Afro-Cubans. What do you think?

For my own edification, I would like to understand the different modes of deletion — you suggested that I "take it to AfD". So — barring the misunderstanding that I created by lack of clarity on "they are not an ethnic group" vs "they did not exist" —, was WP:PROD the wrong method?

Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 22:07, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

I see that you have already converted the article to a redirect. I won't contest that; let's see what other editors think. The prod process is for uncontroversial deletions. The presence of the Lucumi people being mentioned in the literature suggested to me that there was possibly verifiable content. For verifiable content, alternatives to deletion are preferred per our policy

WP:ATD. At that point, I considered deletion controversial because a merge seemed likely a better alternative. Generally, use a prod when you think that deletion a slam-dunk and no one is likely to object, and also that there is no verifiable material worth merging, and also the term itself does not merit a redirect. AfD, Articles for Deletion, is the best venue when there may be some controversy and a discussion among editors is likely warranted. Given that, I don't think you did anything wrong--one cannot always anticipate editors' possible objections. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk

} 00:16, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Mark viking. Re "I see that you have already converted the article to a redirect", it is not that I just went ahead without waiting for further input - I know the area and can tell you that it will not attract much attention (barring a suspected sock that might put in an appearance soon), so the only one that I needed to hear from was you, hence, "What do you think?" above. Then I checked your contributions and saw that you are still not fully active and feared it might be some time before you responded and I wanted to do it while everything was still fresh in my mind. Then you appeared roughly 20 minutes later and put in a long slog. ;-) My apologies, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 08:58, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Rui Gabriel Correia--it is true that I'm not on WP all the time these days. No worries about the bold edit. Thanks and good luck with your editing. Cheers, --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 10:02, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip Mark, I will try to make the article less promotional, if this promotional editing business persists, should I open up an ANI thread for semi-protection? 96.230.240.122 (talk) 01:21, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Sure thing, I am sorry I had to deprod. If you think it should be deleted (e.g., perhaps it fails notability), there is still the possibility of bringing it to AfD. If you want to do that while remaining an IP user, I think you can do this by starting the AfD at the article and requesting someone complete your AfD at the AfD talk page at

WP:AFDHOWTO. Otherwise, I agree removing promotional content is a reasonable alternative. If their promotional editing persists and the editor just won't stop or discuss their problematic edits, ANI might be the next step. Good luck with your editing! --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk

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Hi, you undid my recent edits saying that they were "unexplained", so allow me to explain it.

Please see

Hi Zxcvbnm, thanks for reaching out. The exception I was thinking of was

Barghest (Dungeons & Dragons); let me know if there are others I have missed. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk

} 20:14, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Mark viking, I took this to AfD where it's languishing for lack of attention... sometimes I feel we're editing in a vast echoing aircraft hangar under lockdown with all the people missing ... All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:28, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Much disruption in RL has affected my WP editing, too. I will take a look at the AfD, thanks. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 17:33, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello Mark viking. Thank you for your contribution to this AfD discussion. I am relieved to hear from a senior editor that the article deserves a chance in AfC. --Cosmonought (talk) 16:22, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

I was happy to make the recommendation. Good luck with the article! --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 18:15, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I see you removed the

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Hi Mark, With regards to the transwiki of Character Encodings (EBCDIC) that you first !voted for I am having issues and being streesed with admin JackPotte. Can you please remove the speedy from B:Building Haycocks as while it is not directly releated to B:Character Encodings (probable book title) I am using it to pre hone techniques in a smaller project. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 17:43, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Djm-leighpark - that's great that you are making a try for building a book of encodings. I have no experience at Wikibooks, but it looks like they have user sandboxes. "Draftifying" the haycock book by taking it to your sandbox would seem a good solution, as you could experiment without oversight or 7-day time limits. And please, take care of yourself. Wikipedia editing can be a stress-inducing activity and it is good to be able to walk away from it and go on a refreshing walk, to de-stress and put WP challenges in perspective. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 20:45, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks fpr reply but useless and that wont sandbox. Suggest you avoid !Transwiki !votes in future! Djm-leighpark (talk) 23:55, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi,

Could you add your comment on the talk page for Mirror symmetry conjecture to the wikiproject page? I'd like to stop a potential edit war before it happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Fixing_page_redirect Wundzer (talk) 21:58, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Avoiding an edit war is good. I'll put in my two cents. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 22:01, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

hello, just wanted to hit you up directly about the deprod. I stated that it could be merged with the main article Firewall (Computing), but here is the problem. that entire article is does have a source or doesn't talk about the topic of the article... with that, im a little confused that you would undo it without reaching out to me first. i posted in the talk page about it already, but you didn't say anything there. also, what could possible be said about a "stateful firewall" that cannot be said about a general firewall? all firewalls have been stateful since the late 90s, and the ability to track connections does not need an entire article to cover. with that i will be going to afd, but thought id give you an opportunity to explain your reasoning in more detail before i do. as a side note, i work on enterprise firewalls for a living (cisco, fortinet, palo alto, sophos, etc.), so this isn't coming from a place of ignorance. edit: i will say that a redirect could be usefull, but tbh anyone who searched for "stateful firewall" shouldn't be going to wikipedia to read about it as they are already somewhat knowledgeable of the topic. StayFree76 ^talk 05:10, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Stayfree76--Thanks for reaching out. Proposed deletion is for uncontroversial deletions, deletions that no reasonable editor would have any objection to. In this case, a topic that is central to modern firewall operation, is widely verified in RS and ubiquitous, and has more than enough sourcing out there with which to build an article or a section in an article. Our policy

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notability guideline, then we can build a standalone article. I think it is reasonable to discuss whether this topic is better treated as an article or a section in the firewall article, but neither of those is deletion. Deletion was pretty clearly the wrong choice, so I deprodded and stated my reasons.

Since then you've done a good bit of work on the article and nicely improved it--awesome! It looks like a reasonable start class article with much better sourcing than before you started. As you've noted, there isn't a single stateful algorithm and there are interesting things to talk about--UDP, IDS, DDOS, how it relates to application layer, etc. Historical development would also be encyclopedic; stateful wasn't always dominant. I think it could work as a standalone article. Of course, if you think a merge is the better course or even AfD, you are welcome to start those discussions. But I would still argue against outright deletion. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 23:00, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

yea, and if you noticed, i gutted 80-90% of the article because most of it was not even correct or covered elsewhere and i was not ok with letting people read false information when trying to learn. simply, i did it to stop the spread of nonsense, not because i think the article deserves its own. think about this. how does an article go 17 years, but doesn't even have 1 source?. i literally had to rewrite the entire thing and i dont think there is anything that can be added to that article since it is all covered elsewhere. there is already a page called Firewall (Computing), Application firewall, and Web application firewall. i could literally cut and paste all the stuff i wrote into the stateful firewall article and put it right into the main one. whats even more interesting, is the sources that i added are not even sources about firewalls, but but are about the protocols used in firewalls. notice how everything in that article has a redirect to somewhere else. that's because its just information about the fundamentals of networking with how they relate to firewalls peppered in (but not sourced). but seriously stateful firewalling has been the underlying mechanism in firewall since the late 90s. even IPS/IDS, or next-gen firewall, are stateful... they just choose to disregard state for certain inspection functions. StayFree76 ^talk 23:17, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

You removed the PROD tag I put on Sharing with a note that indicates that your previous note explains it, but it does not. There is also an active discussion on Talk:Sharing where you can explain. Thanks. Lagringa (talk) 22:37, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree--what was unclear to you in my explanation? --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 01:35, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

I think you made a blank edit - so the explanation isn't in the page history. I also agree that PROD isn't the right solution here.

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) 04:38, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! I think you are exactly right--with my flub, nothing was changed in the article, so my edit with the explanation in the summary didn't register in the history. Lagringa, apologies for not realizing this. I will engage on the Talk page. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 08:55, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

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Mark, you have written support, but you are supporting the negative of the question asked. I feel that could cause confusion in subsequent contributions. SpinningSpark 11:20, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, your RfC ill-worded, with the question positive and the main assertion in your evidence para immediately following as negative of the question asked. I think my assertion, which parrots yours, is clear enough. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 20:15, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Seems everyone is following your lead so all good. SpinningSpark 20:49, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

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Yes, I do kind of realise it now. I think that editing could help it not be essay / neutral like written. However, it seems to already be like this for a long way (As far as I know, it was like this since the creation of the article). That is why I am worried that it might be essay like for a long time and I can't edit it since I am not an expert at archaeology. I came across this article with random article and immediately saw the problems. About the sources, ALL of them are books or something like that and I think it would be better if at least a couple of sources would be via a website. Because not everyone is going to go to the local library. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigeshjen (talk • contribs) 19:22, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Bigeshjen - I understand your concerns; it is a bit essay like and I could believe all points of view are not neutrally presented. But WP is OK with articles in a poor state that may take a while to improve, as long as there are reliable sources out there with which to write an article. See

WP:TNT and deserves to be blown up, you are welcome to take it to AfD. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk

} 20:24, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

The article is heavily outdated. Let me go through the index:

- ECMAScript version support : the current version is 13, the table in the article goes up to 6

- Standard library: there is a lot more stuff in the standard library and all browser implement the same basic standard functions. Comparing them is pointless. Listing all the standard functions is too much for an encyclopedic article

That's it. That is all the article is. That's why I proposed it for deletion. If you want to make the article good then you'd still have to rewrite it from scratch and compare js engines which are under active development (not MS HTML, Presto or KHTML) or if you think the history is so important, then rename it to History of Javascript engines. But as it is now, I think it is useless to anyone who wants to know about differences between Javascript engines. Performance comparisons (without measuring the DOM) would be useful.

Further I think the article ignores that Javascript is also used outside the web heavily. There are plenty of JS engines that don't run in browser like the Duktape or JerryScript.

— Updatepedia (talk) 23:35, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Updatepedia - Welcome to Wikipedia! I understand your concerns; the article is in poor shape and quite out of date. WP is OK with articles in a poor state that are improvable, as long as there are reliable sources out there with which to write an article. See

WP:TNT and deserves to be blown up, you are welcome to take it to Articles for Deletion (AfD) so that editors can discuss its prospects. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk

} 00:36, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I'm not trying to reason with the world but with you who disagrees (which is fine with me). It's a technology article that hasn't been significantly improved since 2007 when it was created (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_JavaScript_engines&diff=151547395&oldid=149512033). If I want to know, what JS function works in what browser, I just go to https://caniuse.com/ . And if it's a trivial function like tan() or a trivial object like String then the answer is always "all of them support it". It's not educative. All these functions and objects are from before ECMAScript (2009) and any JS engine, that implements ECMAScript (all that are being used are ECMAScript engines), implements all of them.

I can see that one might recreate the article to write a new comparison of engines that are actually being used. So if you want to do that, go ahead. — Updatepedia (talk) 13:36, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

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Hey, thanks so much for your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big ball of mud. It's really rare for someone to actually be specific about what should be moved to the target article, and what should be left behind. This really makes life easier for the editor who completes the merge. Joyous! | Talk 18:23, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

My pleasure. I think bringing the article to AfD was a good call. Cheers, --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 21:20, 20 November 2022 (UTC)