User Talk: IdiotSavant

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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 4 § Sub-categories of Category:People from Tahiti ↗

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:Category:People from Taha'a ↗ has been nominated for merging

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:Category:Marsters family of the Cook Islands ↗ has been nominated for renaming

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Neil Adsett ↗

If you disagree with my assessment, then I will roll back my assessment of a Stat class on the article's talk page. Is that what you want? Ping me. Bearian (talk) 09:10, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

:I already have. I've made this sort of assessment error in the past too, and it was explained to me then that a start class article is more than just a couple of sentences and an infobox, and that the boundary is around 1500 bytes of readable prose. Which is why I class this article as "stub" when I wrote it a couple of years ago, despite the decent references.
:I've taken a quick look to see if there's anything that can be added to expand the article; unfortunately Mr Adsett doesn't seem to have been newsworthy since his resignation.-- IdiotSavant (talk) 12:04, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 March 25 § Years of the 20th century in French Polynesia ↗

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Proposed deletion ↗ of :Tavake Barron Afeaki ↗

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The article :Tavake Barron Afeaki ↗ has been proposed for deletion ↗ because of the following concern:
<blockquote>'''Afeaki appears to be a BLP1E, there's very little coverage of him, all of which is related to the controversial appointment, and none of which is lasting ↗.'''</blockquote>

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Nomination of :Aotearoa NZ Youth Party ↗ for deletion

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:Category:West Coast Gold Rush in fiction ↗ has been nominated for merging

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Nomination of :KapCon ↗ for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.</div> ―<span style="font-family:Poppins, Helvetica, Sans-serif;">Panamitsu</span> (talk) ↗ 05:17, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

The World Destubathon ↗

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Nomination of :May 2021 Samoan general election ↗ for deletion

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You might be interested

I can't remember if it was you or someone else, but there was a Wikipedian interested in politics who posted on social media the other month about the Independent Together ↗ Wikipedia article being edited by a person who is in the article, and then getting indefinitely blocked.

It has happened again, on another article, so I thought you might be interested in it, I don't know.

Basically what's happened is on the article 2025 Tasman District Council election ↗, the IP editor 222.155.189.2 and the user Gated444 have tried to add information to the candidates Julian Hall and Rodney Ward. In {{diff2|1305483608|one edit}}, after I had reverted their addition, the IP editor told me in the edit summary that "You have been reported to the Electoral Commission", claiming that I was interfering with an election. After TheLoyalOrder brought it to ANI ↗, the IP was blocked for 60 hours for making legal threats. The IP then admitted on his talk page that he is Julian Hall, one of the candidates in the article, meaning that he had been editing the text about himself. I pointed out at ANI that both the IP and Gated444 had been trying to add the same text, meaning that they were probably the same person. Later on, Gated444 {{diff2|1305650279|claimed that he had reported me to the Electoral Commission}} on his talk page. And as a result, Gated444 was indefinitely blocked for making legal threats or taking legal action.

In short: a candidate writes about himself on Wikipedia to make him look good for an election. When it gets reverted, he claims to have reported an editor to the Electoral Commission. He gets indefinitely blocked as a result.

Not sure if you are interested in sharing it or not, but at least it was an enjoyable show. ―<span style="font-family:Poppins, Helvetica, Sans-serif;">Panamitsu</span> (talk) ↗ 07:22, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

:It was, but I recall some of the admins who were involved did not like it and thought it verged on off-wiki harassment. So I'm not sure if I want to go there again, even if it is newsworthy. (so is the apparent Samoan Deputy PM, but the edit there was far less controversal. IdiotSavant (talk) 10:16, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

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Good article reassessment for International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ↗

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Idiot Savant

why are you entering the Matters Of Fiji myob in MZ and Check the official Fiji Government page my edit was 100% correct ~2026-33175-8 ↗ (talk) 07:15, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

:Material on wikipedia must be sourced. That applies particularly to large changes such as who is Prime Minister. I have since found a source and made appropriate dits to both pages. Note that when someone is merely acting as PM, we do not change their infobox or the page for the office, as the incumbent is still legally PM. IdiotSavant (talk) 08:31, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

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Page Jean-Paul Houssiaux

Bonjour ! Merci d'avoir créé la page dédiée à Jean-Paul Houssiaux... Qui est mon grand-père. L'avez-vous connu ? ~2026-11237-62 ↗ (talk) 16:54, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

:Category:Knight Commanders of the Order of Queen Sālote Tupou III ↗ has been nominated for renaming

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