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Taxi Dancers of Ceroc Might Do Well With a New Sub-Section

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Happy new year to you. Regarding this edit, I believe that "3 NZBLC 102,000" constitutes a legal citation. A separate issue is that User:Kiwisheriff appears to know their way around the legal system. So this is thus a courtesy note that I have removed both tags. Schwede66 05:59, 12 January 2014 (UTC) thanks for that... it was the correct legal citation — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kiwisheriff (talkcontribs) 10:56, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

I know little to nothing about the law or legal citations, but we have the apparently excellent Template:Cite court, which would be how the "correct legal citation" would be formatted on wikipedia. I'm also not sure who a citation such as this can be used to support the claim that it's 'widely cited', but that's another question. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:31, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Martin Leo Zöllner for deletion

 

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Proposed deletion of Min entropy

I would like to argue that the page on Min entropy not be deleted. I have elaborated on the talk page for the article.

Ashwin Nayak 02:27, 18 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nayak ashwin (talkcontribs)

I intend to AfD this at some point in the future. I suggest that you make 'eventually' sooner rather than later. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:18, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

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Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations

Oy vey, this is likely to be a controversial deletion. So, I removed your Prod. Take it to WP:AfD, if you must. Bearian (talk) 23:22, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Done. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:52, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

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User:JimmyCrocus I have been trying to figure out how to redirect a page title. Can you help me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JimmyCrocus (talkcontribs) 02:49, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

There are instructions at Help:Redirect. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:17, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

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Hello, Stuartyeates. Just thought I should let you know that I made a tiny little edit at this comment of yours. I did that because otherwise, that discussion page would be categorized as a page with no categories, when it is indeed supposed to have no categories at all. Cheers, Victão Lopes Fala! 18:05, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Hi @Jatosado:. Expanding it is irrelevant; if it doesn't get sources it will be deleted. All articles need sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 05:20, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of events named pogrom ‎

Stuart, since you are an outsider to the above debate (as opposed to many other editors there), your perspective is very valuable.

You are the only "outsider" editor to view the article as "Pointy" and a "Fork".

Could you kindly explain either here or on the AfD what you think the "point" is and how it is a fork? I am the creator of this and have been racking my brains as to what the "point" that the nom sees in this actually is, so an outside view would be really good.

Oncenawhile (talk) 08:58, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

AfD discussion should be conducted at the AfD, not here. I have it on my watchlist. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:02, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Ok thank you. I posted there. Oncenawhile (talk) 09:54, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for replying there. It shows just how complex this question is, as your rationale was not what I expected at all (although I'm not sure what I expected). The way you described the word is exactly the kind of thing that the AFD nominator has been blocking at Talk:Pogrom for more than a year, and is one of the topics covered (and well sourced) at [1] - a previous article that I began and the current nom fought successfully to delete. So your interpretation of "point" here is definitely not the nom's view (although I still don't know what that is).... Anyway, i'll respond properly at the AFD. Oncenawhile (talk) 07:34, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

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Hello, I am editing the article Jason Martell and I wanted to discuss your edit which you placed the 3rd Party sources tag. Mr. Martell is a published author http://www.amazon.com/Jason-Martell/e/B00DUWIXWW and has been featured in 39 episodes of the TV Series Ancient Aliens http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1643266/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1 among other things. Can you point me in the correct direction of what I should do next. Thank you! Kenleyb (talk) 20:49, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

what is needed is in depth coverage in sources independent of the subject that show evidence of real research on the subject, Stuartyeates (talk) 01:49, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

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Ann Lovell

Hi Stuart - are you able to add any further snippets of information to the article? My scratchings are fairly limited. NealeFamily (talk) 21:35, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

both copies of the book are accessible only in by-appointment closed stak facilities, meaning that they're essentially impossible to access, sorry. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:40, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Which libraries hold them? NealeFamily (talk) 00:19, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
@NealeFamily: I looked at this page, which only gave me a two hits before but now gives me a whole lot more. WorldCat is great for finding copies of obscure books. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:34, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks - I'll try to get to the National Library NealeFamily (talk) 21:58, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

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