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Proposed deletion for Nisabdham

Hai Mr.Mendaliv

I am Michael arun from India, working as film director... Its glad to meet you through wiki...

Sir, I am doing my first film "Nisabdham" and created a page for it in wikipedia... But, it comes under deletion process...

Sir, I read the terms in wikipedia... But its my first directorial film... Each technicians i feed are on their debuts... Now only film get finished and we are processing in publicity campaign... Sure in future i will update every reliable sources come from any type of media publicity for the film by linking it all in the page...

Sir, please reconsider your decision and help me to construct a gud page about a social cause film for the people...

Thanking you for making me to learn...

Please re consider Majkr (talk) 03:58, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

@Majkr: I'm sorry, Michael, but from everything I've seen there just isn't enough material out there to satisfy our requirements. The particular rule for unreleased films is quite harsh, but the Wikipedia community decided that it was necessary because of the sheer number of planned but unreleased films that have received virtually no attention in the media. I will, however, tell you what you would need to find to satisfy the requirement. You need two or three—preferably more—long news articles about your project. Those two or three articles should be in different publications, written by different authors, and discussing the film in different aspects. They should just be interview articles, and they have to be significant publications, like major regional or national newspapers or magazines, or trade publications. These can be non-English publications. Having that much material would make it very easy to keep the article.

With all due respect, sir, if you are the filmmaker, you would be better served in your PR and marketing tasks by actively seeking the interest of the media, rather than creating a Wikipedia article. It will not put food on your technicians' tables, nor will it help the credibility of your project. If there are such sources that already exist about your project, then I would be happy to help... but we have made every best effort to locate such sources and found none. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 03:01, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

@Mendaliv...

Greetings to you... Yes, I understood... But its new production house producing its first film... Its under final works to finish... Then only we will start the PR work as like you said, then i had the requirements you asked... Sure will do everything possible to contribute the needs of wiki...

Thanking u — Preceding unsigned comment added by Majkr (talk • contribs) 03:39, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Best of luck, sir. When the film does release and gets press, then it will probably meet the guidelines for inclusion—and once it's released the burden won't be nearly as high. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 06:20, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

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Nisabdham

Hai... Once again my page Nisabdham tagged for speedy deletion... What else needed for authentication... If this is the way wiki works... Please go ahead and delete the page and we leave wiki Also...

Thanking you Majkr (talk) 12:12, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

@Majkr: Like I said last time around, Majkr, you need to give evidence that some reliable sources (by Wikipedia's standards) have given significant coverage to Nisabdham. What you've created this time around doesn't do that. I saw that User:JamesBWatson was kind enough to restore the article in the draft namespace as Draft:Nisabdham, which is fine by me, and allows you a chance to work on it and try to conform to our standards without having to deal with deletion. But by going and pushing that content back out into the main namespace, the article must conform to the full standards that were applied at the time it's created. This is doubly so for an article that has been previously deleted via an AfD discussion, as happened at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nisabdham.

Please don't misunderstand. It is not my intent to chase you off Wikipedia. However, our policies and guidelines dictate the standards for each type of page on Wikipedia. Drafts go in the draft space (and begin with "Draft:"), and full, "ready for the public" articles may be published in the article space. I hope that explains things better. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 14:47, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

• I don't think the article qualifies for speedy deletion under criterion G4, as the deletion was essentially due to lack of references, and there are now many references. However, I don't think that those references establish notability, so I have declined the speedy deletion, and taken it to a new deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nisabdham (2nd nomination). The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:10, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

@Mendaliv and @JamesBWatson Thanku both for the kind responses... But thanku so much... In India our processing about the film started with like this with references from our country sources... Maybe its not upto the standards of your policies... Thanku if possible will meet up with the standards expected from wiki... Thanku — Preceding unsigned comment added by Majkr (talk • contribs) 03:14, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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Case in point

Regarding your WT:MfD post, this is the sort of thing I was talking about in my reply. The ossification and polarization at MfD is the result of behavioral issues, and I am concerned that any attempt at improving MfD that doesn't acknowledge that is going to be futile. VQuakr (talk) 21:28, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

@VQuakr: Yeah, I get it. I figured I'd take a shot on the hope that everyone was as tired of the bickering as I am, and that we could all try reason rather than blind persistence. I don't agree that behavior is the root cause, rather than a secondary effect of passion. I'd rather not see the result of this dispute be determined by last man standing, you know? The fact of the matter is that both sides of the dispute have arguments with footings in policy (though both suffer from a lack of firm policy covering drafts and MfDs), and as a result this isn't a dispute that's just going to be ended by jurisprudential extensions of policy already in place. My hope was to get both sides working together to discuss the basic issues and agree on something reasonable, and not have the continuation of things at MfD interrupting that. Oh well. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 17:51, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

I agree with everything you say here. You might be right that behavior isn't the true root cause. VQuakr (talk) 18:36, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

I don't think...

...that you did anything more than express your honest assessment and opinion of the situation, and I don't assume in any way that you approve of my behavior or attitude (for all I know you may think that Wikipedia would be better off without me), but, nevertheless, I thank you for your straight-forward analysis of the situation in the "The Cloisters" imbroglio. I hope to be able to live up to your analysis. BMK (talk)

Not a problem. I just calls em like I sees em. :) —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 19:45, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Regarding this

[1] Please don't patronisingly finger-wag at people who bring cases of editor misbehaviour to the administrators' noticeboards. And please don't agitate for discussion of serious misbehaviour to be shut down before it's really begun. It is perfectly appropriate to discuss content-rooted matters there when the "matters" being discussed include misrepresenting sources, plagiarism and copyright violations. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 15:27, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Interesting advice. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 17:00, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

If I may, you note, in striking out your comment, that 'wrongdoing has since been clearly demonstrated'. Did you mean that expressing concern is OK only if the wrongdoing is clearly demonstrated? Is it in the public interest to discourage such expressions of concern or doubt or worry, for fear that clear demonstration is difficult? This is why whistleblowing legislation requires the whistleblower merely to have a 'reasonable suspicion' of wrongdoing, rather than 'clear demonstration'. Peter Damian (talk) 08:13, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

I'd actually gone back and forth in my mind over the scope of the strikeout, though not exactly on the same terms you express here. I don't have a problem with expressing concern as such. Without making excuses for my post, I will say that there's a difference between expressing concern generally and doing it on ANI. At any rate, I'll go strike the rest of it since you make a reasonable argument. It doesn't matter so much to me. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 08:23, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

OTRS

“In light of the confidential information at OTRS, which appears intended to prove the lecturer claim”. As I pointed out elsewhere, the OTRS information is not intended to prove the lecturer claim. He has already admitted he made his employment as a lecturer up. The 'occupation' relates to his claim that he is currently employed as a biochemist. He has also submitted evidence of his BSc, but that was never in dispute. Peter Damian (talk) 07:21, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Fair point. I'll just pull that clause out. I'm at 499/500 words anyway. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 07:25, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hi I was talking about removal of my comments. Please make your comment here.Arman ad60 (talk) 19:10, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Replied over there. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 19:19, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

OK I dont want to remove my comments. But can you please correct my English a bit? These are the articles I have commented on: Achaemenid empire, Sasanian Empire, Parthian empire.Arman ad60 (talk) 14:53, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

I don't see any serious grammar errors in what you wrote. You really should not be making serious edits to comments you've made after other editors have replied. See WP:REDACT. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 14:56, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

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There are hundreds of articles referencing Weber being one of only the two non reporters seeing the files prior to publication of the panama papers. Google for yourself. In addition, as a professor, it is a very big deal to be quoted in research or investigative journalism, and his own school wrote an entire item on it published yesterday. You can see it here: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/panama-papers-reveal-global-network-secret-accounts

In addition, you can take a look at his bio page, which is now referencing the very "peripheral" items that you think are not a big deal. They are. http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/programs/executive-education/who-does-it/meet-our-facilitators/david-weber JackinMD (talk) 16:19, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Read WP:UNDUE. Of course Weber's own employer is going to excitedly brag that he got quoted. It's not Wikipedia material. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 16:21, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Jimmy John's

Not sure why you deleted my entry about the boycott against Jimmy John's. It was/is a boycott against the company itself, not the owner of the company. Your contention that the entry should be deleted because it deals with the owner instead of the company is inaccurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taquim (talk • contribs) 06:33, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

This discussion belongs on Talk:Jimmy John's. Per WP:BRD, the material should stay out until there is a consensus to insert it. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 06:38, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Prada gender discrimination case

Saw your note, will do.--WatchingContent (talk) 22:53, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I'll keep my eye open. I'm honestly not sure if a delete or a redirect to Rina Bovrisse is the right outcome. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 00:01, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks again. The problem is that these entries and attacks on the other entries were all a part of the same efforts (the IPs and handles used show that), plus these were all developed after the case was lost. My serious contention, that I think all editors that care about Wikipedia should consider, is if Rina Bovrisse won the case and the companies and persons who were on the losing end of the trial created similar entries with their version of how things went, it would have been shut down immediately. If we allow this practice of abusing Wikipedia to develop multiple entries attacking others, we allow for the individuals to be the victims of such attacks by companies in the future. This is WP:BLP1E and these people should be encouraged take this practice elsewhere WP:ALTOUT. In my humble opinion.--WatchingContent (talk) 21:29, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Regarding Clash Royale

I noticed you wrote here Wikipedia isn't a game guide, but some articles have actual gaming guides on them, and the admins don't do anything to them. Iamthemostwanted2015 (talk) 22:32, 23 April 2016 (UTC)Iamthemostwanted2015

They shouldn't have gaming guides. Like the page I linked you says, Wikipedia isn't for such intricately detailed content. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 23:22, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

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Wow!!!

Hi @Mendaliv: Wow!!! The expansive, diligent and concise comments you’ve written regarding the Robert Buntine article have blown me away and (I believe) should serve as an example for every Afd! Thanks. Picomtn (talk) 12:13, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! It's always nice to get good feedback on AfD remarks. :) —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 12:49, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Mendaliv: You are MORE than welcome, and as a stark contrast to your fantastic Afd discussion I've referenced here with you, please note the Krista Franklin one that is the most complex and contentious (and in my opinion borderline racist) ones I've been involved with during my very short time span here. Thanks. Picomtn (talk) 13:27, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

What does this mean?

Hello Mendaliv, I came across this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Category_handler/blacklist

Please, what does it mean? I can't wrap my head around it. Thanks in advance Claudia 20201 (talk) 18:25, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

@Claudia 20201: See Help:Module for information on what module pages do. To my understanding it's a Lua script. I don't know what it does, but usually these scripts take care of things in the background to make certain convenience tools work better. Some templates use Lua modules to make them more efficient, more robust, or to make the template's syntax simpler. I would say unless there's a reason you need to understand what that specific page does, you can safely ignore it. :) —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 23:31, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for helping out. I think I'll just ignore it :) Claudia 20201 (Talk) 23:32, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Ross Medical Education Center's Promotional Content

Hi @Mendaliv. Can you provide me with some more specific feedback on what exactly wrong with the Ross Medical Education Center page that is getting flagged for promotional content? I am trying to provide generic information about our company and am not sure what is "promotional" language... Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JeffPemberton (talk • contribs) 03:36, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Clash Royale Arenas

Hey @Mendaliv! I would be happy to reference the arenas section, but I don't fully understand how that is a how-to guide? Thanks for the link to the video game guidelines, but arenas are a significant part of the game, so I think that they should be included. I've rolled back the changes and referenced the information. Feel free to talk with me about it.

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TWA Flight 800 questions

Hi,

You may have missed my reply or not had the time to respond yet, so I'm copying it below for your consideration. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Would like to hear your thoughts before I enter my significant corrections for consideration on the TWA Flight 800 Talk page.

--- Hi Mendaliv, thanks for looking back at my past effort. Was "getting the truth out" my language? If so, I can see how it could be misread. My goal then, as it is now, was to make that page accurate and maintain a NPOV. I'll take your advice by expressing my concerns on the Talk page, and I definitely will not insert any "fringe" material. I hope you may be willing to monitor my efforts on that page to help ensure no such material is inserted, and if possible, it would be helpful if you could provide any example of fringe material that you believe I have pointed out, so that I can specifically avoid that/those areas. ---

Thank you,

Stalcup (talk) 18:12, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi again,

Just writing to let you know that my proposed changes to the TWA Flight 800 article have been submitted that article's talk page, if you are interested.

Tom

Stalcup (talk) 07:55, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I'll try to take a look, but I can't promise anything since it's a busy time and the proposed changes are, at first glance, rather lengthy. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 17:00, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Desk: revert

I removed the post because it was by an IP of an evading banned editor (Vote X). I don't value any posts or edit by such editors. PS - I'll leave it with you, to decide. GoodDay (talk) 14:14, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Just a note in the edit summary that it was a banned user would've been helpful. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 18:17, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

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	Long overdue thanks for being the most prolific regular contributor to the now almost defunct WP:EAR. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:43, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Aw, thanks Kudpung. It's always good to get appreciated. Though I will note that you're way past me in terms of raw number of contribs to EAR. (That said we're both past SineBot, and with a page like EAR that means something!) Sad to see it in decline, but maybe it can be "reoriented" to serve a similar task at some point (I've always kind of seen it working best as an ad hoc place to resolve content disputes, kind of like the opposite of ANI). —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 20:51, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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I believe you were involved with this discussion in the pas: [2]. Montanabw^(talk) 21:49, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

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Re: RFA

Dear Mendaliv,

I hope you're enjoying 4th of July (it looks like it will rain where I am, sadly). As suggested to me by Dweller, I wanted to reach out to you as a community member who believed I was not yet ready last year for adminship.

I clerk for SPI, and the tools would greatly assist my work there - being able to block socks, view deleted pages, and merge casepages would cut down on bureaucracy, considering I currently have to flag cases for admin attention (where they often remain for days). after further prodding from colleagues, I am preparing for another run.

Since last year, I've gotten involved in AFD nominations and discussions, and have maintained a CSD log detailing my work. Among my content work, I have written 1995 CIA disinformation controversy and gotten it to GA, gotten Operation Infinite Reach to GA and then FA, and heavily expanded Carré d'As IV incident to GA status (plus DYKs for all three). I've also conducted copyediting for the WP:GOCE. My SPI work includes nearly 200 cases filed for registered users alone; examples of cases I've clerked/filed are: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ashishchopra778, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/OfficialPankajPatidar, and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Motivação. Some more details on my preparations may be found on my talkpage.

I appreciate your feedback and thoughts.

All the best,

GAB^gab 21:26, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

The fact that you're reaching out like this goes a long way in my book. I'll be happy to take a closer look. I'll say preliminarily that your SPI work would be a major factor for me, especially given you seem to be focusing on the clear logic of needing the tools to do SPI. Also, I took a quick look at your new CSD log and was pleased to see heavy lifting, high accuracy, improvement over the course of the log, and a willingness to try working in CSD areas you might not normally. That CSD log would carry a lot of weight with me, though if I were to be nitpicky I'd suggest looking at what I've done with my CSD log, which I mostly did when I was contemplating RfA myself a couple years ago—where the speedy was declined, or the link is blue, I put a notation as to why, and where applicable a link to a subsequent AfD. It'd be a boatload of work for your log, but I think it could help assuage certain worries with your log. For instance, that a number of early CSD tags were removed by the page creator and not subsequently re-added. I'm not criticizing on that ground, just saying that it might annoy some voters; in that instance on my CSD log I'd probably add a notation that, though the CSD tag was removed, subsequent development pushed the article past A7 (or whatever) in my view, and as such re-tagging wasn't warranted.

So, I'll say that preliminarily, I don't see any reason that I'd oppose. But I'll definitely take a closer look when I have more time and let you know. Again, good call on reaching out. In law, the phrase grasp the nettle gets used to refer to this kind of problem solving, where you boldly and directly seek to address the problems in your case. Sadly, I can't remember what judge or justice popularized the phrase, but I think it applies quite well to what you're doing here. Well done! —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 19:05, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt response, kind words, and advice. It's much appreciated. GAB^gab 00:42, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

RfA

Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. ) Cullen328 Let's discuss it 23:50, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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Hope you don't mind

I just re-ordered the replies on the ANI so I'm not responding to statements in a disordered fashion, I moved yours into a block. Boundarylayer (talk) 03:40, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

I don't really mind, just that where you moved my original response kind of messed up the flow of how the thread originally evolved; my first response was a response to Deacon Vorbis, not to you, and came before you wrote anything. So I moved that first response back where it belongs. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 03:48, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

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User:CESchreyer absolutely butchered your AFD by inserting their comments randomly throughout it. I've done the best I can do undo the damage but you might want to take a look at your initial statement to make sure nothing got lost. Sorry about this. --Tarage (talk) 05:56, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Ffs, thanks for the catch Tarage. Looks like you fixed it. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 06:44, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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ANI notice: improper COI tagging

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Improper_COI_tagging. The discussion is about the topic Language Creation Society. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saizai (talk • contribs) 18:26, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

I've responded at ANI. It's Christmas Eve. I don't have time for this. Your organization shouldn't be editing the article, and the people at the ongoing AfD seem to agree that there are problems. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 18:36, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

LCS

Hello Mendaliv, thank you for reviewing those three sources, I appreciate that a lot. I was writing a reply to you in the AfD discussion, but then got into an edit conflict with the closing admin. Still, because you at least deserve a decent answer for your efforts (and also not to let my own efforts go to waste), I'll put it here, with your permission.

I have to agree with you about one thing: the coverage in those three sources is indeed not very much in-depth. They do provide quite some info, but what they lack is an analysis of the subject. Even so, I've carefully read the policy links you provided, and still do not entirely agree with your interpretation. First of all, unless there is a difference between "non-trivial" and "significant", coverage in these sources can definitely not be called trivial. The publishers (a university and two scientific periodicals) are undeniably reliable, and the authors are independent from the subject: Věra Barandovská-Frank is an internationally acclaimed scholar in the field of interlinguistics (unconnected to the LCS), and although I don't know anything about Mrs. Shuvalova, she seems to have rather respectable credentials as a scientist as well. I'd say that these examples of non-trivial coverage, in combination with some of the newspaper articles etc., should be just enough to tipple the balance when it comes to WP:SIGCOV, although admittedly it would still be a borderline case.

The problem with our debate is that the issue of notability got completely mixed up with the (rather deplorable) state of the article itself. Therefore, the outcome is not surprising, although at this point I think merge-and-redirect would have been a better solution than keeping or deleting. I genuinely believe a better article would have been possible, and I have even considered drafting an alternative version myself. Because you see, even though I may not be neutral myself, I'm still able to write a fairly decent, neutral article. But don't worry, I won't even try! I rarely write articles here anyway, since my English is not good enough for that. And please note, my participation in the discussion (or in any other deletion discussion I've ever participated in) was not because of personal involvement, but merely out of a feeling of responsibility for the conlang section as a whole, which is what I've been doing here for over 13 years now. Hope I'm not sounding too apologetic now!

At last, let me apologise for being too harsh in my judgment of your actions. I know I've taken a few things too personally when this whole thing started, which kinda got me going (that's just my weak point: if there is one thing I can't stand, it's when people question my integrity), and I've said a few things I shouldn't have. Sorry for that! Best regards, —IJzeren Jan _Uszkiełtu? 21:51, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words. I really don't take it personally; one of the things I've had to learn in my career is how to argue passionately one day and work together the next. Nonetheless, it's always a good feeling to be able to shake hands after a dispute, and I appreciate you reaching out like this. As to your points, I think there's a lot of grey area between what's trivial and what's significant, and that's part of where discussants at AfD are allowed to reach a consensus. If it were all black-and-white, we wouldn't need much of a discussion to evaluate notability issues. As I said at the AfD, I really don't enjoy writing about organizations because the coverage is often difficult to assemble into a coherent, neutral narrative. At least for me, anyway. Anyhow, thanks again for your message! —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 22:24, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

New year's greetings

Hi Mendaliv! Just wanted to say I always find your input at AN/I helpful, if even I disagree with them sometimes. Wishing you a happy new year. Alex Shih (talk) 13:30, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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