Userbox 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 Why Assume good faith and assume again I d been on alert for vandalism on Baiji and its talk page Talk Baiji for days ever since it went on the main page when I noticed this edit by User Dante Alighieri Dante Alighier