User talk:Cryptic

Thanks!

I would like to second Daniel's closing statement at this DRV. I found your commentary very helpful and well-argued and I hope it will give guidance to many others as to how the G4 criterion should be interpreted. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:47, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BTW - logs

Perhaps I've forgotten how to find prior deletions, but this article that you just moved to Draft, and it's prior deletion is not showing a reason in our Curation tools. That's why I created the TP - to allow some discussion about what is happening. Atsme 💬 📧 14:51, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They should show up if you go to the page where it was actually deleted, 2024 FIBA 3x3 U23 World Cup – Men's tournament. (And if not, they're definitely here.)

Anyway, I followed up on the talk page of the user who pasted it there, as it wasn't their first cut and paste move. —Cryptic 15:00, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see what happened now. I was looking for a deleted article (AfD) when it was actually moved to Draft. Thank you! Atsme 💬 📧 16:16, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the laugh

here and apologies if my first template set the bot off to begin with. I wish our robot overlords ate problem editors! Star Mississippi 02:34, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was me moving the templates around that set it off. Not entirely surprising, but since it's also an AnomieBot that splatters the irritating redundant {{pp}}'s all over pages that get protected, I was hoping for some lenience. —Cryptic 02:53, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge of The Peel Club into Glasgow University Conservative Association

Hi. Closer of The Peel Club DRV declined to output atrribution history as text--said to talk to original deleter--and so did the original deleter--said that I should have done it while the page was still up and now they don't want to mess with it; said that I might find someone else to do it. It makes sense to say that I should have done it anticipating the page's re-deletion. But I first envisioned a redirect with history kept. User:SmokeyJoe also recommended that, noting that the page has been irreversibly merged. You noted that an alternative method is available (presumably a talk subpage with the history as text). Would you ehhm do the needful? —Alalch E. 09:21, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A list of authors is sufficient - WP:attribution does not require blame; WP:Copying within Wikipedia#Repairing insufficient attribution. You could get a full list of editors from the api even as a nonadmin (like so; sandbox), but I'll pare that down a bit by removing non-content edits: Hellenistic accountant, Cylinder8837 and Paul W up to the afd; DowryOfMary, Paul W, Hellenistic accountant and Alalch E. for the recreation over the {{tempundelete}} during DRV. The two versions appear textually unrelated at a glance, but it wouldn't be burdensome to attribute Cylinder8837 too. —Cryptic 13:52, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I did this: Special:Diff/1246261416. Do I need to put this text anywhere else? (e: put it directly on the talk page too) —Alalch E. 22:00, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Usually it's put in an edit summary in the merged-to page. —Cryptic 12:41, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]