User talk:Benjifriedman

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Happy editing! Uyvsdi (talk) 05:34, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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-Uyvsdi (talk) 05:34, 23 May 2012 (UTC)Uyvsdi[reply]

Dealing with vandalism

Hello, sorry to bombard you with messages, but if you find vandalism, like you did at Arabian Peninsula, the correct way to deal with it is to go to the page history and revert it. You might have to go quite far back in some cases, like you would have at the Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians article. Speaking of reversion, I'm just letting you know that some of your edits have been reverted due to overlinking (though some of the links were helpful). See the Manual of Style on linking. Also, deleting comments from your own talk page is OK per the guidelines but not encouraged. Graham87 01:35, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. However, you're lucky that I noticed your message because you wrote it on my user page rather than the correct place, my user talk page. When you write a message on Wikipedia, remember to sign it with four tildes like this: "~~~~". Graham87 05:49, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Caffe Strada (June 22)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Mori Calliope fan was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Sourced only to their own website.

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Mori Calliope fan talk 21:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Benjifriedman! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Mori Calliope fan talk 21:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Caffe Strada

Hello, Benjifriedman. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Caffe Strada, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:02, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Caffe Strada

Hello, Benjifriedman. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Caffe Strada".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:37, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of fictional deities

Hello, Benjifriedman! Thanks for your edits at List of fictional deities. I have reverted the Magic: The Gathering one, because previous discussions here and here recommended to limit the list to notable entries. Otherwise there's the risk of deletion of the list alltogether based on being WP:INDISCRIMINATE. As far as I could see, this would have limited the Magic: The Gathering entries to Avacyn only. I am not really familiar with that, but in a quick search I have always seen Avacyn called an archangel or something comparable, but not a deity. If you think she should count as one, I invite you to restore Avacyn, but provide a source for the status as a deity. Otherwise it would could as WP:Original research. Thanks! Daranios (talk) 11:03, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Daranios, it's kind of tricky, I'm ok with it either way and someone might have a stronger opinion. Avacyn fulfills a lot of the qualities of a deity (there is "The Church of Avacyn") but is ultimately "just" an (arch)angel. But then again on the plane of Innistrad there are no "gods" exactly, so she represents "ultimate good", but also, was created by a vampire, which doesn't sound god-like. Benji (talk) 18:28, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Participants in the discussion were pretty insistent that they "don't want the list to be made up of entries so disparate in nature that the term "deity" essentially becomes an equivocation." Based on that, as "deity" in fiction is not very clearly defined, I think we as editor should not make a decision. I think we should only add cases where a primary or secondary source can be found which calls the entity in question a deity, goddess, god. That's my take on that at least. Daranios (talk) 11:42, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For sure. I limited it to entities I definitely thought could be considered deities but can see / agree that Avacyn is kind of a gray area. There are many more "gods" in Magic the Gathering also! I just came across the page and saw the whole game was missing so wanted to add it to some extent. Benji (talk) 16:08, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]