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Follow up and request to removal of deletion templates

Dear Fei,

Thanks for kind assistance and reply regards to issue between me as you must have seen all his edits were against me thus can you please remove the invalid request and keep the articles which he has requested for deletion and warm him please edit with responsibility and as per policy and do read articles. I would like to kindly request in removal of deletion templates for Faysal Aziz Khan and Ovais Mangalwala. Faizan Munawar Varya ^chat _{contributions} 20:32, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello Faizanalivarya, I'd like to wait for the result of the deletion discussions. Each tag will be removed after a week or two, when the discussion is closed. And if none of the deletion nominations actually leads to a deletion, that would be a pretty strong sign that Saqib is overreacting. We'll see. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:16, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Recusal, redux

ToBeFree, in a now archived discussion here, you said on 25 March that you would not recuse from the COI case. But it appears that on 6 March you recused when you created the Proposed decision page and its talk. Did you change your mind? Yngvadottir (talk) 21:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello Yngvadottir, yes, I changed my mind about this. The #Thank you section above is practically an update to the archived discussion. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:36, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Ooooh Yngvadottir, you're looking at a template, and you're actually looking for Special:Diff/1216076674. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:37, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Ah, that explains the date peculiarity! Thank you very much for clarifying. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:36, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for asking; I could have made this more explicit and less confusing with an announcement in the discussion at the evidence talk page, but I wanted to stay out of it completely instead. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:11, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Permission Review

Hey, I noticed the comment you made and corrected my requesy. However, I was @ for @Rydex64 review, was that by accident or for something else? Reaper1945 (talk) 23:41, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Reaper1945, thanks for the notification!

(For the record, this was fixed and replied through the edit summary of [1].) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 04:22, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Request new article

Ramkripalyadvg Can you create a page and add it to Wikipedia You can get the material from here Draft:Ramkripalyadavge Muskang375 (talk) 03:59, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello Muskang375, please don't use Wikipedia for promotion. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 04:23, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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BLP issue at Joe Shield

Not sure what's going on here but there is at least a WP:COI issue, if Wisc1999's claim of editing on behalf of Joe's family is true.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 17:23, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Skywatcher68, thanks! I'm not sure about the removals and whether they should perhaps better have been discussed rather than rollbacked (courtesy ping Taking Out The Trash). However, Special:Diff/1216730076 may have introduced a factual error and at very least fails verification. Perhaps Gonzo fan2007 has an idea about what's going on; Wisc1999 appeared a few days after their major editing of the article, apparently unhappy with the changes.

Anyway: Semi-protected for 2 weeks, after which semi-protection will have lost its meaning in the current situation anyway. I have now informed Wisc1999 about the policies and guidelines around biographies, edit warring and COI. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:41, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I reverted merely due to the unexplained removal of sourced content. I agree that in some situations sourced content should be removed, but in every case like that an edit summary must be provided. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 17:45, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I should also note the misleading edit summaries of "made minor edit" when removing large swaths of sourced content. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 17:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi 'Taking Out The Trash'- I am 'living person' in this case, and can attest to the the sourced content error. Financial Services / Health care was the career direction. Wisc1999 (talk) 17:51, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello Wisc1999, thanks for joining the discussion and welcome to Wikipedia, but please let's move the article content discussion to Talk:Joe Shield. Noone has created a section there yet, sadly. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:53, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I've updated the article with a reliable source so further discussion at the article's talk page should not be necessary.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 18:16, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Still: Wisc1999, if there's something you'd like to change, please propose the change at Talk:Joe Shield, using {{edit COI}}. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:32, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

[Message moved to Talk:Joe Shield] ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:55, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

I personally would avoid making an unexplained action in response to an unexplained action, at least if the only reason for doing so is the lack of an explanation. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:52, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that. :) I've reinstated the previous passage to be in line with the reference provided.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 17:46, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Recusal

I appreciate this post. But I don't understand why you found it necessary, or appropriate, to recuse from the arbitration case. Because Thinker wrote an irritating post to you in 2022? Really? Bishonen | tålk 17:38, 1 April 2024 (UTC).

Hi Bishonen, thanks for asking. It's a good question.

I may have been influenced by CaptainEek's recusal and the recent discussion about whether to recuse or not to recuse from the running COI case ("Recusal, redux" above).

When I had a look at Thinker78's contributions, I noticed that I'd prefer to directly address the behavior described in Special:Diff/1216639582/1216721627, and perhaps to take the matter to ANI if the behavior persists after this. I didn't want to do so while I still had the ability to accept or decline the case request, as this obviously matters a lot to the user and it could have made the impression of threatening arbitrator action dependent on how they react to my talk page message. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

OK, I see. Thanks for explaining. Bishonen | tålk 17:58, 1 April 2024 (UTC).

Regarding your arbitrary request

I have responded to your seemingly arbitrary request/command in my talk page. Thanks. Thinker78 (talk) 19:18, 1 April 2024 (UTC)