User talk:Geo Swan/archive/2014-09

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September 2014

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I responded on the discussion page, and requested the nominator to make a greater effort to leave meaningful explanations for their nominations. Geo Swan (talk) 02:05, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Terse nominations (for xfd)

Geo,

I agree with you there, I saw your message on Champ's talk page. That editor does sterling service to Wikipedia, but writing e.g. on RfD "Not especially Arabic" does not help me when I think well is it especially Aramaic or ancient Egyptian or Finnish or what? Which requires a lot of looking up that you already have in your hand before you listed it. I tend to ramble, I know, but I try to provide as much information to other editors so that they don't have to do the homework I have already done.

But when I suggested to another editor, do your homework, I got banned by an admin. Oh that editor was an admin. I assure you Championman1234 has done sterling work at RfD, but I agree occasionally it would be better if the nominations were not as terse. Causes me a lot of homework.

Perhaps we could make a WP:ESSAY over this? Sometimes they end up being policy...

Best to you. Si Trew (talk) 08:58, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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