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Grateful Dead (cocktail) moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Grateful Dead (cocktail), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Jalen D. Folf (talk) 18:15, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Your contributed article, List of cocktails (alphabetical)

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, List of cocktails (alphabetical). First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – List of cocktails. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at List of cocktails. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

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Where is the button?

Mr. Ollie,

There is no button on my page to object to the speedy deletion of my List of Cocktails (alphabetical)

Please put that button on my page so I can fairly object.

Alex Miller xandermiller

There is no button because there is no longer a speedy deletion tag on the article.

Any discussion about the future of the article should go to Talk:List of cocktails (alphabetical). —C.Fred (talk) 21:15, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

C.Fred is correct. Please look at this page, which shows you what the page looked like when it was up for speedy deletion. Once the big huge box was removed (by me), it was no longer up for speedy deletion, so there was no need to object to anything. Also, I agree with your reasoning for creating this list, since an alphabetical sort is better if you know the name of a cocktail but don't know what's in it. Ultimately, I think the best route is to merge the two lists and have a big sortable table (so one can sort by ingredient or by name), but until that happens, it's definitely a good idea to have a separate alphabetical list. Nyttend (talk) 00:34, 18 September 2019 (UTC)