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Welcome to my talk page. If you wish to contact me, feel free to leave me a message here. Though I have Wiki e-mail enabled, it is simply a way to contact me when I am offline. I will respond to your messages either here or on your talk page. Please place your message at the bottom of this page. Thanks. —ERcheck

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Speedy deletion of Roen McCullough

Hi ERcheck - you recently A7'd the article Roen McCullough - I would like to know if it could be moved to draftspace or WP:REFUND as I have not had sufficient time to contest the A7 (it was only a few hours since I created the page and no tab was present either nor opportunity for me to improve the article. Thanks! InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 03:39, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@InvadingInvader: Can you let me know what you would say in contesting an A7 deletion? I'm willing to hear your reasons for not deleting.

FYI: While I did not delete based on WP:Notability (a higher standard), I did not find that significance was established from being:

A back up college football player who never played in a game for his college team
A scholar athlete
High school youth athlete

As far as starting with a draft, it doesn't seem that McCullough would pass notability for a youth athlete, nor college athlete. With respect to his arrest, without a conviction and significant coverage, given WP:BLP and notability for criminal acts, that portion of his life does not give significance and likely should not be included for a biography.

NOTE: Pages deleted under A7 are not eligible for WP:REFUND.

— ERcheck (talk) 20:36, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response - McCullough's involvement with Townhall and Mandrake (Ethos Hospitality Group) has been the subject of a major planned protest already covered by Axios. Admittedly my writing was a little bit too soon - I wrote the article based primarily on that the coverage already in the article was sufficient per the GNG. I think that as a former player, one of the two subjects of the protest, and the pending charges, but particular weight placed on the second of these three points, McCullough meets at least the GNG. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 15:24, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@InvadingInvader - Protests based on the pending charges. As you mention, WP:TOOSOON. — ERcheck (talk) 17:50, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Page removal

Hi, I was going to edit my page today but it seems you have already deleted all of my work from yesterday! I spent a few hours putting that together. How do I get it back to edit it? This seems very unfair. The page was for Kingfish Bay. KarynBell (talk) 15:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@KarynBell - Responded on your talk page. — ERcheck (talk) 17:47, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wish I had an opportunity to edit or copy it. This was a complete waste of 2 hours of my day which I now must recreate KarynBell (talk) 18:05, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@KarynBell: I recommend that you do not recreate as it as. In order to make it encyclopedia, it would take a "fundamental re-write". Please review

Wikipedia:Article development
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
as well as the notes left on your user talk page. (my reply and the speedy delete notification)

Other helpful pages:

Wikipedia:Article_wizard
Category:Planned communities in the United States for ideas on writing from a neutral point-of-view.

— ERcheck (talk) 18:23, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I rewrote it and re did the sources. Hopefully this will work! KarynBell (talk) 19:16, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 2025

@ERcheck remember to sign your name on your vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Daniel J. Richardson III. You have not. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 23:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. BTW - speedy deleted it. Hoax/vandalism/etc. — ERcheck (talk) 23:51, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ERcheck thank you too. I appreciate it. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 23:52, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Rafael - It seems the user is bent on putting an article out on Daniel J. Richardson III. He now has it on his user page! — ERcheck (talk) 23:54, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah it's bizarre. Just marked two of their drafts as G3's too. I genuinely can't tell if it's like... malicious, or just deeply misguided. File:Dr. Daniel J. Richardson III - Noble Peace Prize Laureate.png is especially interesting. Perryprog (talk) 23:59, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is absolutely a hoax!!! Is this a sleeper vandal? — ERcheck (talk) 00:34, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this is a sock if that's what you mean. I'm more leading towards simply them being a misguided editor. A bit late, but one line that stood out to me was in the lede of one of the drafts that seemingly no-one took notice of (this draft had four declines!): American technology executive, consciousness computation researcher, retired U.S. Army officer, and cybersecurity specialist created for the discovery of Pi constant Pi = 3.159. using P = NP. Perryprog (talk) 00:55, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Perryprog - No. I mean that the editor has been creating these articles for quite some time and not getting noticed. Continually creating versions of pages on the same named person. Uploading fake documents goes beyond misguided. Clearly not here to build an encyclopedia. — ERcheck (talk) 00:58, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! Honestly I have no idea. I'm honestly a little miffed that this wasn't noticed (and then investigated) in AfC. This isn't entirely the first time I've seen... attempts at getting this "genre" of pseudoscience added in various places (many years ago, pre LLMs), but this is probably the highest volume instance of it. I do suspect the "yes, anding"-ness of LLMs is partly to blame in that respect, which is really unfortunate. Like—I genuinely don't think they were acting in bad faith, at all, really. Perryprog (talk) 01:03, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Perryprog and @ERcheck, I even draftified an article that they made. ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 02:12, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Serbocracy

However, I think that, at least, the redirection can remain, unlike the one specified in the Template. What do you think? Bagyblazha (talk) 06:59, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bagyblazha - Can you provide a reliable source that shows that "serbocracy" is a word in common usage and not a neologism? — ERcheck (talk) 10:51, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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TenSecondsNow and U5

Hi ERcheck. I came across your tagging of TenSecondsNow's userpage with U5. That criterion doesn't apply to userspace drafts that could plausibly be developed into an article, so I have removed the tag. If you were taking issue with how the draft was on the base userpage, it's better to move it to a subpage (or draftspace) and replace the redirect with {{draftified userpage}}. jlwoodwa (talk) 03:40, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

Draft:TWOG has been recreated by an IP editor. I was going to tag for CSD but since you just deleted it a few minutes ago I thought you'd like to be informed. Take care --tony 03:43, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TonySt - Thanks. Feel free to let me know if it happens again. — ERcheck (talk) 03:47, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for September 23

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Johnny K. Davis, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Chief of Staff of the Army and Operation New Dawn.

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Draft:Comrade Azhar Jatoi

You just deleted Draft:Comrade Azhar Jatoi. I wasn't the creator of the draft, but I was trying to salvage the article when another editor tagged it for speedy deletion. I agree that the article couldn't be published in its current state, but I would like to continue working on it. Could you please restore it, perhaps to my user space? Eastmain (talk • contribs) 01:30, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Eastmain - it looks like it was recreated @ 01:36, 24 September 2025 by User:39.50.251.125. Is this the version that you were last working on? — ERcheck (talk) 01:57, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New message from 1F616EMO

Hello, ERcheck. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple.
Message added 01:56, 24 September 2025 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

There exists a G11 speedy deletion request on their draft, Draft:DC SNIPER (Recording Artist), implying possible advertising behaviors. I'd prefer having that handled (and if applicable, sanctions be imposed) before deciding what to do with the renaming. 1F616EMO (talk) 01:56, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@1F616EMO - Do you recommend a {{uw-spamublock}} to give the user the opportunity to demonstrate that they understand the issues? — ERcheck (talk) 02:05, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocks are preventative; therefore, I don't think "giving the user the opportunity to demonstrate" justifies a block, especially since they paused editing on the draft. Per this reply, it seems like they do not understand that being employed counts as paid editing, and I'd prefer explaining that first. If they continued adding inappropriate content despite the talk page messages, or otherwise acted disruptively, then a {{uw-soablock}} can be given. ({{uw-spamublock}} would be confusing, as now their username have nothing to do with a company.) 1F616EMO (talk) 02:37, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

U2 after renaming

Hello ERcheck. I saw that you deleted User:Lambda scorpii gmd (and also User talk:Lambda scorpii gmd) under WP:U2, and I wanted to let you know that U2 does not apply to redirects created due to a user being renamed (as these ones were). jlwoodwa (talk) 18:22, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jlwoodwa It looks like U1 would have been the correct choice, as the renamed user nominated it. Seems something was amiss as the page was left after the rename, but reading logs, it was supposed to have been moved to the userpage for the renamed user — ERcheck (talk) 18:28, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see – yes, U1 would apply to the userpage (but not the talk page). I don't see anything amiss about the rename: the pages were moved to the new username and redirects were left behind at the old username. jlwoodwa (talk) 18:33, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on Johnny K. Davis

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Johnny K. Davis, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

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Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 01:36, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. — ERcheck (talk) 09:49, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of draft: SM1 Capital and Security Limited

Hello ERcheck, I have reviewed my article for all of the possible reasons for rejection and have the following observations - not written by LLM (but used chat got to guide me on the submission process/wiki text coding) - no promotional elements - no essay like writing - not vague/generic/speculative, lots of citations - no hallucinations - references all exist BUT - some of the news articles are not established news outlets, more industry press, perhaps that is the issue? Please could you guide me. I have spent a long time crafting this piece and really thought it had been written correctly. Your guidance would be HUGELY appreciated. AltFinDG (talk) 08:45, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply][reply]

Reply on user's talk page. — ERcheck (talk) 12:29, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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CS1 error on Jared Isaacman

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Fixed. — ERcheck (talk) 09:50, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the CSD notification in my stead

I was distracted and forgot and came back and knew I'd forgotten to do it so I went to do it real quick... only to see it done! Thank you. - Purplewowies (talk) 01:26, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. :-) — ERcheck (talk) 09:50, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your deletion of User talk:47.23.180.90

I think it be a good idea to redact the initial creation log entry summary too. ~delta ^{(talk • cont)} 02:06, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@~delta - thanks — ERcheck (talk) 02:29, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]