User talk:Stochastic

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Thanks for the welcome and the helpful links.

sorry, forgot to sign Stochastic 23:19, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Blanking pages when tagging them for deletion

Please don't blank pages when you tag them for deletion, as you did with Vikram Yoga. Blanking them doesn't prevent the author from restoring it. With the exception of attack pages against living people, there is no reason to blank the pages when tagging them. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:08, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry; I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that. However, while the article wasn't quite on the level of an 'attack page', it was against a person who is very much alive... Stochastic (talk) 07:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Stochastic! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 5 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Hushang Ansary - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 21:38, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Hushang Ansary

The article Hushang Ansary has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No references for nearly a year, seems unremarkable.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Beeshoney (talk) 21:54, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]