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Hi,

Strangely, someone deleted a userbox of yours as T1, even though it was userfied.  I assume this was a simple mistake on the part of the deleter, so I've restored it for you.  Best wishes,  

Actually, I was unaware the thing was already at DRV when I undeleted.  Technically, one probably should wait to undelete until the DRV is over, so I unintentionally goofed a bit.  Still, the deletion was clearly a mistake (in process and content, which is quite mild.)  Looking at the RfC and DRV, I don't see that Dmcdevit has defended it at all, so I'll continue to assume he was simply confused.

Although I understand your unhappiness, your RfC is a little bit premature  one speedy deletion can be a simple mistake (which everybody makes.)  A pattern of bad choices, and an unwillingness to reconsider them, would be required to initiate an RfC, really.  Dmcdevit is a very nice person - even if he wasn't mistaken in the deletion, and genuinely had a problem with the userbox, he isn't the type to object to taking the debate to MfD (the proper forum), at the very least.

Thanks for the kind words.  I've been off-wiki for a bit, but I'll be getting around to my old ""beat"" soon, which includes DRV normally, so, should you have other problems, I'll be happy to help.  Best wishes,  

On looking at the DRV again, I do notice Dmcdevit there, and he isn't arguing a sound position, although he is being civil.  Surprising, I must say.  Anyway, I hope he's just having bad day... I've probably been grumpy myself lately, what with the flu, the snow, the relatives, etc. )  

 last word in 

The first question you need to ask yourself is, ""do I have a history (perhaps as yet unadmitted) of being overly critical of myself?"" If the answer to this might be yes, then you can't always trust your own tendency to self-criticize, because your subconscious motivation is not self-improvement but self-denigration; don't pay that too much heed then. If, however, the answer is no, then if you notice a behavior of yours that bothers you, listen to the notice, and decide cognitively how much it really bothers you or should bother you. Sometimes we only notice what bugs us about ourselves by trying to observe ourselves objectively. You might be doing that, and you might do well to listen, but it's hard for me to weigh this. As for my own opinion, looking at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 December 11#Abortion, you haven't added anything that was redundant, so I wouldn't say it's an issue. If the discussion gets long and people keep bringing up things that you've already answered, remember that the closing admin is going to read everything and they should notice if you've already answered a repeated objection. Then it's a question of how much faith you have in the admins (I know, I'm treading on very thin ice now). For instance, I made sure to answer everything at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Faith Freedom International because I wanted to be absolutely certain that if the article did get deleted, I couldn't blame myself for not trying everything. I'm likely to do the same thing at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2006 December 5#Ali Sina if anyone opposes the citations I've dug up. But my motivation here is dedication to freedom of speech and for less critical articles I leave my comments for the admin and let it go. A rule of thumb that you should know is that if an article is up for deletion and 80% of the votes are keep, it will probably be kept (even though it's ""not a vote""). If it's less than 80%, then the keepers will have to put forward a pretty solid argument to keep. As you can see at the Faith Freedom AfD, keepers had about 66% and we just barely came through with ""no consensus"". I suspect that the factors that weighed most heavily for the admin were TruthSpreader's and my arguements, as almost no one else seriously argued the merits of the citations and notability guidelines.

Hope all that helps. —  talk — 

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