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A tag has been placed on Draft:Looksmaxxing, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Caddebostan
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A tag has been placed on Draft:Caddebostan, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Looksmaxxing (January 18)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Caddebostan (January 19)
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- I moved the page because Caddebostan already exists but as a redirect but it redirects to Kadıköy (the district which Caddebostan is in).
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- You also moved the talk to the article. If it is accepted, which is not likely until you fix the issues, AfC reviewers will handle the naming. Star Mississippi 14:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
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Nomination of Caddebostan, Kadıköy for deletion
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- Youprayteas, thanks again for the note on my talk page the other day. I see you are from Turkey and have an interest in public art / visual arts. I visited Istanbul recently and had a marvelous time! I've created many new Wikipedia entries based on my visit, which hopefully other editors will be able to improve. Also, if you ever do translation work, it'd be cool to see
the entry about me translated into Turkish! Thanks again, and happy editing! ---
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- I didn't know you had a Wikipedia page, that's nice! I would love to translate it to Turkish in an appropriate time for me. Happy editing to you too! Youprayteas ( t • c) 18:53, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello @ Youprayteas yes I am legally Turkish and live in Turkey, but my Turkish writing is hopeless and I have pretty much given up on Turkish Wikipedia as other editors there keep putting back stuff I delete.
Have only seen your river once but hope to visit Kemaliye again one day.
I mostly write about environmental things in Turkey - if you don’t fancy the bot suggestions above I have plenty. Chidgk1 ( talk) 18:03, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
- Ironically, I don't think I have ever seen the Euphrates - I only use it because my name is Fırat (Euphrates in english. Secondly, yes, I need editing suggestions. I specifically have an interest in subdivisions so if possible expandable neighborhoods, districts, towns etc. would be nice.
Youprayteas (
t •
c) 18:10, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
- I don’t have any subdivisions to suggest but as you can see Forest in Turkey has been tagged as ‘rough translation’. Perhaps you could check it for my mistakes in translating from sources - for example the statistic on ‘dikili damga’ I listed as the quantity of brushwood but I am a bit confused as I understand a ‘dikili damga’ is a timber mark. Chidgk1 ( talk) 08:29, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
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