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DYK for Joseph Norman

On 17 November 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joseph Norman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a young Joseph Norman watched artists when he was at amusement parks? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Norman. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Joseph Norman), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

Launchballer 00:03, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

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Interpreting close

Hi, could you clarify what you meant by this close here? I'm a bit confused since the article was deleted even though you closed the discussion as a soft redirect. (Should I recreate it as a soft redirect, or no?) – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 01:47, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Closed Limelike Curves: Hi there, what the close means is that I read the discussion as having no consensus between deletion or Wiktionary soft redirect for the Bnuuy page. Since there's very minimal support for keeping, our WP:NCRET guide section essentially advises closers to change the page to the prevailing non-deletion outcome, which in this case was the Wiktionary soft redirect. Yes, this title was previously deleted in a recent RfD, recreated by you, and then nominated for RfD by another editor, so it seemed to be fair game for other outcomes. A Wiktionary soft redirect works a little different than a normal redirect in that a reader has to click on the small blue button in the middle of the {{Wiktionary redirect}} template to reach the Wiktionary entry, that's how the soft redirect works. As to the question in parentheses, I do not know how it can be recreated as a soft redirect since it already is a soft redirect. If there's something missing here, please do clarify. Left guide (talk) 02:38, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Oh weird, for some reason I could've sworn the page had been deleted. (Maybe I made a typo while searching it?) Sorry about that! – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 19:29, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

@Closed Limelike Curves: No worries, glad that things are all sorted on your end. :) Left guide (talk) 20:27, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Deletion review for USAir Flight 499

An editor has asked for a deletion review of USAir Flight 499. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Zaptain United (talk) 03:28, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Uprights

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Draft Reviewal

Can you please review Draft:50-50 club and see if anything needs correction. Wishing you all the best and a happy Thanksgiving. Dafootballguy (talk) 03:36, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

@Dafootballguy: Hi, I'd suggest looking over WP:NOPAGE to decide if this material really needs to have a separate article or can simply be incorporated into Shohei Ohtani, and WP:GNG to see if it meets our notability guideline. I have my doubts about this topic, but if you still believe the article should be published, you are free to move it directly into mainspace yourself (after which it may be subject to a deletion discussion), submit the draft for an independent reviewer to decide using {{AfC submission}}, or discuss with baseball editors at WT:MLB. Left guide (talk) 04:23, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

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