User talk:Cubguy83

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NAHID 20:14, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

March 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Geraldine Ferraro appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you.

Skokie, Illinois

Hi Cubguy! The revert you did on Skokie, Illinois was understandable, however the merge of Kehilat Chovevei Tzion - Church Street Synagogue was the result of this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kehilat Chovevei Tzion - Church Street Synagogue - the reasoning and guidelines, etc, etc, can all be found in the discussion, and the closing admin's statement. Regards SilkTork *^YES! 19:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. The wording in the close was "The result was no consensus, noting an inclusionist trend as to places and buildings, suggest an editorial merge nonetheless." (my bold). There were three keeps, two deletes and three merges in the AfD discussion. The guidelines refered to in the discussion are: Wikipedia:Places of local interest, Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities/Guideline#Demographics. These guidelines indicate where to place information on religious communities, and that is in the Demographics section of an article on a place or city. Wikipedia is a complex place and I don't think there is a single person who is aware of all the guidelines for each individual case, so it's no reflection on you. Also consensus changes so you can challenge any current practise. In this case if you are not happy with the decision of the AfD then you can open a Deletion Review, and if you are not happy with religious communities being discussed in the Demographics section you can discuss that with Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities. If you are not sure how to present your case I'll be happy to help. Regards SilkTork *^YES! 09:01, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are right that there are a number of synagogues, so I have adjusted the article to reflect that. Thanks! SilkTork *^YES! 09:16, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And I understand your feelings. The situation was that a stand alone article had been created on this synagogue. The article was disputed. There was a discussion about it. The consensus was the merge. I agree with you that we shouldn't have articles on every building. However it would be inappropriate for me to allow the merge to be deleted because the consensus of that debate was not to delete, but to keep/merge. So either the stand alone article on the synagogue remains (which would be against the direction of the AfD and the suggestion of the closing admin) or the merge stands. We can't have a sly delete! Even if I agree with it! ;-) SilkTork *^YES! 09:22, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]