user and talk pages and their subpages and other nonarticle pages that no others have substantively contributed to and whose existence does not impact the project may be courtesy blanked or deleted But with users who have been substantial contributors that doesnt seem to apply as  others HAVE substantially contributed to the pages  it may well have impact on the project The only justification for this deletion would be IAR in exceptional circumstances of reallife privacy violation or harassment If it isnt that then there is utterly no basis in policy or consensus The discussion on AN which I link above bears that out Courtesy blanking is better in such cases g   Its only four talk pages Theres absolutely no need for crazy statements like Your deletion is improper We can get to the bottom of why the Mercury left and why he requested deletion and deal with undeletion and courtesy blanking as soon as we know the full reasons behind the request     Ive tried to contact Mercury but for the moment Ive undeleted the pages courtesy blanked them and protected them from further edits I cant see anything which would cause any problems for Mercury but if he does request their full deletion again and cites privacy concerns Ill look favorably on such a request     ecSorry I probably over reacted Im fighting a larger war on routine deletions of talk pages and archives  and a general misunderstanding of the rtv and what it allows I believe that the deletion of usertalk pages of established users is only justified in exceptional circumstances of causing offwiki difficulties and in such cases IAR can be validly invoked If you are satisfied that in this case there are such circumstances then I wont question your judgement or ask for details However you might perhaps consider whether selective deletionoversight of offending posts or courtesy deletion might be better Having said that I leave it with you  Ill say no more and Ill not contest whatever you finally decide Im going to take up the wider issue as a policy discussion without naming you or this particular case Ive posted in generalities to the mailing list Again sorry for my toneg    Sonja McCaskie   Hi I noticed that you semiprotected Sonja McCaskie several months ago due to vandalism and BLP concerns Since things have likely calmed down since July would you mind if I unprotected the page Cheers    Yeah feel free Theres some deleted edits to the article which should be fairly self explanatory regarding the need to delete the article and create a new article but it looks like the editor responsible has simply given up     Thanks done Ill keep a watch and make sure that no one has been lying in wait which would be a bit strange since they could have created an account that could have edited the page by now Cheers    WikipediaRequests for adminshipElonka  Thank you for your support in my RfA It was definitely a dramatic debate I paid close attention to everything that was said and where possible I will try to incorporate the constructive criticism towards being a better administrator Im taking things slowly for now partially because its the holiday season and there are plenty of offwiki distractions  Im also working my way through the WikipediaNew admin school and doublechecking the relevant policies and will gradually phase into the use of the new tools My main goals are to help out with various backlogs but I also fully intend to keep on writing articles as there are several more that I definitely want to get to WPFA status Thanks again     Merry Christmas        WikBack account created   Someone perhaps you recently created an account at the WikBack  If the account was created by an imposter please let me know as soon as possible so that it can be disabled  Otherwise welcome   Co    Decembe