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Dorothyelliott (talk) 21:54, 26 April 2014 (UTC)== Your submission at Articles for creation: User:Dorothyelliott/sandbox (April 26) ==[reply]

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Information icon Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to Category:Ambassadors of Ghana to Russia, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:31, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: User:Dorothyelliott/sandbox (May 6)

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j⚛e deckertalk 21:05, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at AfC John Banks Elliott was accepted

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Ask Jules Winnfield about speaking English

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I have reverted our edits at Category:Ambassadors of Ghana to Russia and I have nominated Category:Посольство Ганы в России for deletion. This is English-language Wikipedia and all articles, categories, and the like have to be in English. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:01, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Chris, I was trying to add a category to 'Ambassadors of Ghana to Russia' The page I wish to add is not on the English site, but on the Russian site. What do I do? Категория:Посольство Ганы в России Translation in English Category:Embassy of Ghana in Russia I would be grateful for your help. Thank you.81.204.38.26 (talk) 22:43, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Our categories are only meant to organize articles within this wiki. Neither articles nor categories in this wiki can be placed into categories in other wikis, like the Russian-language Wikipedia. They are two entirely separate constructions with differing guidelines. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:00, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for letting me know. Nevertheless, I think it would be a good idea to be able to link categories to other languages. Dorothyelliott (talk) 23:07, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Read our help article about inter-language links. When an article, template, or category has an equivalent in another language you can link to that equivalent on the far-right toolbar under "Languages." Some articles have this but many don't. In that way you could link the category here to the equivalent Russian category. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:17, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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File Copyright problem
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Thanks for uploading File:Ambassador John Banks Elliott 9 February 2011.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status and its source. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously.

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Please note that all files relating to this subject are my property and I do not expect them to be removed randomly. These files are on Wikimedia with all necessary details. These files are being worked on and I find it disturbing that you should repeatedly try to delete them. Dorothyelliott (talk) 21:55, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for bringing the Wikipedia: Public domain to my attention.

I have read it thoroughly and have visited the applicable links. I would like to bring your attention to the guidelines on Wikipedia: Public domain. Where it states that Wikipedia is primarily subject to U.S. Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain I will also suggest you see Wikipedia: Copyright situations by country. To all of you who deleted files with reference to Ambassador John Banks Elliott “Your apologies are accepted” now, please replace them so that I can edit them accordingly.Dorothyelliott (talk) 20:58, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with upload of File:Ambassador J. B. Elliott after presenting his credentials to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council Mr. Leonid Brezhnev Moscow July 1960.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Ambassador J. B. Elliott after presenting his credentials to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council Mr. Leonid Brezhnev Moscow July 1960.jpg. You don't seem to have said where the image came from, who created it, or what the copyright status is. We require this information to verify that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia, and because most image licenses require giving credit to the image's creator.

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I spoke to Ambassador Elliott and he told me that he has no idea who took the old photographs of him in the sixties, all he remembers is that all the photographs from that period were sent to his offices with complements from the Ministries in Moscow. He has a whole box full. What I did is scan what I needed or make copies with my blackberry. The other photos of him in Maidenhead I took myself with my blackberry and have been shoveling them from computer to computer. There are no copyright restrictions attached to any of these photos and they can be displayed at will.Dorothyelliott (talk) 21:25, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I spoke to Ambassador Elliott and he told me that he has no idea who took the old photographs of him in the sixties, all he remembers is that all the photographs he has from that period were sent to his offices with complements from the Ministries in Moscow. He has a whole box full. What I did is scan what I needed or make copies with my blackberry. The other photos of him in Maidenhead I took myself with my blackberry and have been shoveling them from computer to computer. There are no copyright restrictions attached to any of these photos and they can be displayed at will.Dorothyelliott (talk) 21:27, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for bringing the Wikipedia: Public domain to my attention.

I have read it thoroughly and have visited the applicable links. I would like to bring your attention to the guidelines on Wikipedia: Public domain. Where it states that Wikipedia is primarily subject to U.S. Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain I will also suggest you see Wikipedia: Copyright situations by country. To all of you who deleted files with reference to Ambassador John Banks Elliott “Your apologies are accepted” now, please replace them so that I can edit them accordingly.Dorothyelliott (talk) 20:56, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with upload of File:Ambassador John Banks Elliott after presentation of his credentials to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Mr. K.E. Voroshilov Moscow January 1960.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Ambassador John Banks Elliott after presentation of his credentials to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Mr. K.E. Voroshilov Moscow January 1960.jpg. You don't seem to have said where the image came from, who created it, or what the copyright status is. We require this information to verify that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia, and because most image licenses require giving credit to the image's creator.

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I spoke to Ambassador Elliott and he told me that he has no idea who took the old photographs of him in the sixties, all he remembers is that all the photographs he has from that period were sent to his offices with complements from the Ministries in Moscow. He has a whole box full. What I did is scan what I needed or make copies with my blackberry. The other photos of him in Maidenhead I took myself with my blackberry and have been shoveling them from computer to computer. There are no copyright restrictions attached to any of these photos and they can be displayed at willDorothyelliott (talk) 21:29, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Let me be blunt here: You have no idea whether what you say about the copyright for the Moscow photos is true or not. To my knowledge the Russian authorities have released some official images under free licenses (that's where we got this image of Kim Jong-il from), but I don't know whether they automatically do so for all images, or whether the Soviets already did so, and obviously neither do you. For the images you took yourself, you should add a note on the corresponding file pages (such as File:Ambassador John Banks Elliott 9 February 2011.jpg) that you created those yourself and explicitly release them under a free license that allows everybody to re-use and modify them for any purpose, including commercial purposes, for example by adding {{Self|cc-by-sa-3.0}} to the page. Huon (talk) 00:17, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I have to agree with Huon on the copyright issue here. You yourself have basically said as much. If you don't know who took the photographs and all you know is that they were sent from the Ministries in Moscow, there's no way you can know whether the photos remain copyrighted or if they do, if they've been released under a suitable licence. The statement "There are no copyright restrictions attached to any of these photos and they can be displayed at will", suggests to me you don't quite understand copyright. This is unfortunately a common problem, I suggest you read the various pages on copyright. I understand you're trying to help, but we take copyright seriously and it's important we get this right. Just because the photos were sent to the ambassador's office doesn't mean it was intended that there was any copyright assignment, or even that they we allowed to reproduce them in any manner and for any purpose. I'm not that familiar on the precise Russian law and policy relating to old government images such as these, you may want to look in to that and see if there's any hope there, unfortunately there's also a good chance the images remained copyrighted and are not released under a suitable licence. Nil Einne (talk) 13:07, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I just wanted to clarify one thing namely that it is ultimately only US copyright law that matters on the English wikipedia (unlike the Wikimedia Commons). I mentioned Russian law earlier for good reason, although only US law ultimately matters, for a work made outside the US and which may have never been published in the US, there's a good chance we will have to consider whether the work is copyrighted where it is made to consider it's status under US law. (Even for a work published in the US, foreign laws matter in some cases.) To get an idea of the complexity here, it may be helpful to read Wikipedia:Public domain. Perhaps that will help you understand why unless we know more details about the images not taken by you, there's a good chance we can't reliably conclude that they are usable under a suitable licence or otherwise in the public domain. Nil Einne (talk) 03:04, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for bringing the Wikipedia: Public domain to my attention. I have read it thoroughly and have visited the applicable links.

I would like to bring your attention to the guidelines on Wikipedia: Public domain. Where it states that Wikipedia is primarily subject to U.S. Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain I will also suggest you see Wikipedia: Copyright situations by country. To all of you who deleted files with reference to Ambassador John Banks Elliott “Your apologies are accepted” now, please replace them so that I can edit them accordingly.Dorothyelliott (talk) 20:54, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

John Banks Elliott

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I haave left a detailled explanation of the problems with your recent expansion of the article at Talk:John Banks Elliott. Please do not restore the content without addressing those issues. Huon (talk) 21:10, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Dorothyelliot - Thanks for your hard work in attempting to improve Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the way things work around here sometimes takes a while to get used to. A number of editors have responded to your posting on the WP:ANI board with good advice, and I thought I would take a minute to go over some of the things they said.
  • First and foremost, information on Wikipedia needs to be supported by citations from reliable sources, things such as books, magazines etc. This is because we are not an encyclopedia written by experts on their subjects, but instead put together by everyday Internat users -- so, to insure that the facts we preset are accurate, we require that they be back up by reliable sources. Unfortunately, your personal interviews with Ambassador Elliot do not qualify as "reliable", because other editors have no way to check on them, since they are unpublished, and have not been vetted by a reliable news service. Even if you were to publish the full text of your interviews on a blog, we wouldn't be able to accept them as a source because of our restriction on self-published sources such a blogs and vanity press books.
  • Another thing you should be aware of. Because Wikipedia is edited by many people, and anyone can edit any article at any time, we have a rule against editors "owning" an article. A number of times you referred to the John Banks Elliott article was "my article". Believe me, I know exactly how you feel: after putting in a lot of work crafting it, it's hard to let of an article and let others contribute to it, but that is, I'm afraid, the nature of the beast here. You can stop others from editing the article, you have to engage them in discussion on the article's talk page and try to work out your differences. We call this reaching a consensus, and its fundamental to how things work. You can certainly feel a sense of stewardship towards the article, which will always make it special to you, but you can't "own" it.
  • From your user name, it appears that you might be a relative of Ambassador Elliott. If that is the case, you should take a look at our page onediting with a conflict of interest, since it's possible that having a personal connection with the subject of the article may make it more difficult to write it from a neutral point of view, which is a basic requirement for all Wikipedia articles. Having a personal connection doesn't necessarily disqualify you from editing the article, but it does mean that you should take ever greater pains to make sure that everything you write is supported by neutral, third party reliable sources.
  • That being said, even though you can't use the information in your interviews directly, it does give you an advantage, in that you are privy to information about Ambassador Elliott which may not be generally known, and that gives you a leg up in researching his biography. You should know more specifically than others what search terms to use in looking for reliable sources which report the information you know of from your interviews.
I hope that the complexity of working here doesn't discourage you from continuing to work on the article, but you must keep in mind that if you don't follow the rules I and other editors have pointed out to you, your additions to the article are likely to be removed once again, and you yourself could potentially be blocked from editing for disrupting the project. That would be a shame, so I urge you instead to do your best to edit within our policies. Best, BMK (talk) 01:58, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I did not mention the copyright issue, but, unfortunately, what Huon and Nil Einne wrote above is correct. Wikipedia's legal position is that, barring extremely rare circumstances, we cannot assume that an image is free of encumbrances simply because we are not aware of any, rather, the reverse is true, we mist have positive knowledge that an image is in the public domain or has been released under a license which is compatible with our own before it can be uploaded to Wikipedia or to Wikimedia Commons. BMK (talk) 02:42, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
One more suggestion. If you're not happy about the volume of emails you're receiving for pages on your watchlist, you can turn these off. When logged in to your account, click on "preferences" in the menu at the top right (probably between "sandbox" and "beta"). Alternatively, visit this link while logged in Special:Preferences. On the preferences page, scroll down to the bottom. You should see a heading "Email options". Under this there is an option "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" which is probably selected/ticked for you. Deselect it and click on the save button at the bottom left. This will stop emails from page changes on your watch list. Alternatively, remove these pages from your watch list. There's no way Huon, or anyone else can control the emails you're receiving relating to your watchlist, other than by not editing. In fact, we don't even know what you have watchlisted, or whether you have the option selected to receive emails. And people can't not edit simply because you're receiving emails. Nil Einne (talk) 15:23, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for bringing the Wikipedia: Public domain to my attention. I have read it thoroughly and have visited the applicable links.

I would like to bring your attention to the guidelines on Wikipedia: Public domain. Where it states that Wikipedia is primarily subject to U.S. Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain I will also suggest you see Wikipedia: Copyright situations by country. To all of you who deleted files with reference to Ambassador John Banks Elliott “Your apologies are accepted” now, please replace them so that I can edit them accordingly.Dorothyelliott (talk) 20:52, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm still dealing with a great deal of real-life stuff (remember that I'm a volunteer at Wikipedia, not an employee, despite my fancy titles.) But I would like to help get the problem of the images settled. As near as I can tell, this breaks down into two parts.

  1. The easier one is the image that (I'm told that you said) you took yourself, the 2011 portrait. That one is going to be easy to restore, if you will simply send an email to the address given in Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, basically identifying yourself as the author, and that you've placed the portrait you took into the public domain, they should be able to undelete that image. With that step, that particular image is easily fixed, but you must do the email and identify, or I can do nothing.
  2. The harder issue is the question of the images which were likely taken by either government officials of, or state media officials of, the USSR. From the discussions I gather than you believe that these images are also considered now to be in the public domain. I am not sure that I understand, however, why you believe that to be the case. I have read the "copyright situations by country" page you've listed and a few other things, and this is not my area of expertise, but if you can tell me why you believe those images are free from US legal copyright restrictions, that might help me make progress here.
Copyright issues are very frustrating, I know. I look forward to your response.
Best regards, --j⚛e deckertalk 23:41, 18 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Joe Decker, thank you for directing me. As you would have noticed I am absolutely useless at these things. I will follow the instructions to the latter and prey I do it correctly. I will inform you as soon as I have sent the email.

Thanks again, Dorothy81.204.38.26 (talk) 00:38, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, the online ticket folks (at the email address in that link I gave) should be able to at least handle your 2011 portrait. Separately, do let me know about the USSR photos and your thinking there. --j⚛e deckertalk 02:07, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Joe Decker,

I have sent an email to Wikipedia: permissions-commons_ wikimedia.org (for the images) I really hope this will be accepted.

With reference to the photographs taken in Moscow, I do not know if this letter will be of any help in restoring Ambassador Elliot’s photographs. I already had copies of these same photographs given to me by Ambassador Elliott, which I had placed on his Wikipedia page and Wikimedia file. Please see the attached letter, which I received by post from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia (MIDR) dated 30 October 2014.

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File:Private Letter by post from MID Moscow to dorothyelliott

I can't seem to find how I can attach the letter without making it open. I used embedded file but I know its wrong, it did not come through for me to attach. Please let me know how to attach or load the letter for your perusal, I scanned it jpg (Below is the unofficial translation of the letter)

Dear dorothyelliott, As requested, we hereby send you copies of Ambassador John Banks Elliott’s letters of Accreditation of 28 January and 1 July 1960 as well as photos of presentation of his credentials to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Mr. K.E. Voroshilov, 22.03.1960. These documents are kept at the internal Archives of the Russian Federation. Enclosed: copies of documents and CD (for the addressed) (signed) Head of Archives Internal Politics Russian Federation

Thank you for your help. Kind regards, Dorothy81.204.38.26 (talk) 02:58, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of John Banks Elliott for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article John Banks Elliott 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/John Banks Elliott 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. Huon (talk) 00:28, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This article is of historical importance: pray @Houn to tell us why, when everyone is busy with a seasonal celebration of good will to mankind, he is spending his time scouting Wikipedia deleting people’s articles and files and putting forward for deletion the article on Ambassador John Banks Elliott, which for the record is of historical importance. What @Houn is doing I consider shameful.

Is this some sort of a personal vendetta against the subject, the topic or just the writer of the article? He has continually disrupted the progress of Ambassador Elliott’s page. The author, just like many others, is qualified to place articles on any subject that is relevant and of interest to the general public visiting Wikipedia. There are no reasons for @Houn’s haphazard behaviour, it has gone beyond decency. If @Houn has a personal problem, then he should let us know, perhaps we can help sort it, so that the article can go forward without disruption. This article is of historical importance and it will be unfair to have it deleted. Dorothyelliott (talk) 16:19, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

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Information icon Hello, Dorothyelliott. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article John Banks Elliott, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. NeilN talk to me 21:40, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NeilN, It is kind of you to take interest. In relating to the article, it has sometime ago been reviewed and no editing is required from outside sources as it is a continuation and closure of what has already been discussed and agreed with. Thank you again for your interest.Dorothyelliott (talk) 22:02, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

July 2015

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Your recent editing history at John Banks Elliott shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Dear NeilN, This is not an edit war as referred to by you. I am the rightful owner of this article. I do not understand your reasons. Please leave the extended text as it is until I have had time to discuss your actions with @joe decker talk. Thank you for cooperating.Dorothyelliott (talk) 22:35, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly suggest you read WP:OWN. "All Wikipedia content − articles, categories, templates, and other types of pages − is edited collaboratively. No one, no matter how skilled, or of how high standing in the community, has the right to act as though they are the owner of a particular page. Also, a person or an organisation which is the subject of an article does not own the article, and has no right to dictate what the article may say." --NeilN talk to me 00:02, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

NeilN, as I mentioned above, This is not an edit war so please be a little more patient with your comments. I have rearticulated some of your concerns in the article. I agree there is still some work to be done. With reference to name familiarities, I am sure you will agree that one would find and sometimes meet people with same or similar surnames. It does not necessary mean that they all stem from the same roots. Kind regards,Dorothyelliott (talk) 15:14, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

July 2018

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Information icon Hello, I'm Stwalkerster. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on John Banks Elliott, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! stwalkerster (talk) 14:25, 21 July 2018 (UTC) = = I found the revert to be a bit hasty. I am waiting on the reference link from the family.Dorothyelliott (talk) 15:39, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Sefwi Bekwai

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Template:Sefwi Bekwai has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:08, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Abuabu Cross

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The article Abuabu Cross has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I looked for a good 10 minutes for a reliable source, I couldnt find anything that mentioned this cross. Any help is appreciated.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. `~HelpingWorld~` (👽🛸) 21:12, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello! Dorothyelliott, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Liz Read! Talk! 22:20, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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